Succession of Hudson Tabor, Lafourche Parish, La.
Submitted by: Nancy Wright
Source: Lafourche Parish Civil Records
9 Aug 2004
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Lafourche Parish Louisiana Successions Year 1827
Succession of Hudson TABOR
State of Louisiana
Interior Parish of Lafourche
Know all men by these presents that on Monday morning the thirty
first day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and
twenty seven
Agreeably to a petition of Perrine MILLS, widow of the late Hudson
TABOR, in his life time a sugar planter of the Interior parish of
Lafourche, praying for an inventory and appraisement of all the property
real and personal belonging to the succession of the said TABOR
deceased and to the community that lately existed between him and the
said petitioner his surviving wife---
And pursuant to a decree of the court of probates acting in and for the
aforesaid parish, rendered on said petition, and ordaining among other
things, that the said inventory be this day taken by me the subscribing
parish judge of said parish in presence of all the persons interested---
I Pierre DASPIT parish judge of the Interior parish of Lafourche, and
ex officio notary public in and for said parish, accompanied by John
WHITE a house carpenter and Henry F. KNOBLOCK a scrivener,
both domiciled in said parish, and competent witnesses went to the abode
of the said Hudson TABOR deceased, on his plantation, left bank of bayou
Lafourche, at about one mile below Thibodauxville, and there we found ---
1 The said Perrine MILLS, widow of the said TABOR, acting as well
in her own behalf, on account of the property and money she has brought
in marriage, and of the community that lately existed between her and her
said husband deceased, as also for and in be[half] of the following minors
beneath the age of puberty of whom she is the natural tutrix, to wt: Anne,
Mary, John Hammond, Julia, Martha and Hudson, issue of the legitimate
marriage between the said Hudson TABOR deceased and the said Perrine,
his surviving wife---
2 John MILLS, a farmer of said parish maternal uncle and undertutor of
the six above named minors.
3 The said minors Ann TABOR, born the first of March eighteen hundred
and seventeen; Mary TABOR, born the tenth of February eighteen hundred
and nineteen; John Hammond TABOR, born the second of May eighteen
hundred and twenty one; Julia TABOR, born the fourteenth of January eighteen
hundred and twenty three; Martha TABOR, born the twenty second of February
eighteen hundred and twenty five; and Hudson TABOR born the tenth of February
eighteen hundred and twenty seven----
She the said Perrine TABOR being entitled to the property and sums by her
brought in marriage to the said Hudson TABOR her husband deceased and
also to hone half of the acquits and gains of the community that lately existed
between her and her said husband, which said community she reserves to herself
to accept or to renounce, as she may hereafter think most advisable, hereby
protesting against any intention of accepting the same unconditionally---
And they the said Ann, Mary, John Hammond, Julia, Martha and Hudson,
being entitled to the whole of the succession of the said Hudson TABOR,
their father deceased and to the other half, of said acquits and gains.
And pursuant to the said petition and decree, in presence of the persons
above named, and for the conservation of the rights of all those whom it may
concern, I the said judge have proceeded to a true and faithful inventory of all
the property real and personal, money, titles, papers and information belonging
to or touching the succession of the said Hudson TABOR, deceased or the
community that lately existed between him and the said Perrine, his surviving
wife, and to be found in the several places here below described which are
parts of the plantation occupied by the said TABOR and on which he died
on the eighteenth of October last----
The said inventory is made upon the declaration of the said Perrine TABOR,
who has promised on oath, to produce and declare all and whatever to the
best of her knowledge does or may belong to or concern the said succession
and community---
The appraisement of the property subject thereto, is made by William FIELDS
and Benjamin CROSS, both farmers of said parish, to whom I had administered
the oath prescribed by law to make said appraisement, according to the best of
their knowledge and understanding, impartially and in conformity with the prices
of the present times---
Said inventory is as follows:
In the parlour fronting on the road, we have found
1 A cloth press, appraised at eighteen dollars
2 2a desk and drawers, appraised at fifteen dollars
3 A new England clock, appraised at forty dollars
4 Two water jars, appraised at ten dollars
5 A pair of brass and a pair of cast andirons appraised at five dollars
6 Eighteen chairs appraised at thirteen dollars and fifty cents
In a room adjoining the parlour and opening upon the front gallery we found
7 A gun, hunting bag and powder horn, appraised at fifteen dollars
8 A cypress writing desk, appraised at five dollars
9 A lady's work table, appraised at four dollars
10 A lot of about twenty books, appraised at fifteen dollars
11 Two matresses, appraised at six dollars
12 A cradle appraised at two dollars
13 Four counterpanes appraised at twelve dollars
14 Nine sheets, appraised at nine dollars
15 Three counterpanes, appraised at eighteen dollars
16 Four muschites bars, appraised at fifteen dollars
17 A feather bed and two pillow, appraised at fifteen dollars
18 A shaving glass, appraised at one dollars and a half
19 Three brass candlesticks, appraised at one dollar and a half
In a room behind the parlour we found
20 Fifty yards of cotton yard, appraised at eighteen dollars and seventy five sents
21 Seven pair of blankets, appraised at fifteen dollars
In a little room on the left of the former we found
22 An old table appraised at one dollar
23 Two tables, appraised at two dollars
24 A lot of hoop iron and of window glass, appraised at six dollars
25 Two pair of smoothing irons, appraised at four dollars
26 Six yards of cotton bagging, appraised at one dollars and fifty cents
27 A lot of dishes, plates, bowls, cups, saucers and other earthen ware,
appraised at twenty dollars
28 A small cypress table, appraised at fifty cents
29 Nine small jars and three demi johns, appraised at twelve dollars
30 Two dozen of spoons, appraised at two dollars
31 A dozen knives and a dozen of forks, appraised at two dollars and a half
32 Two table cloths and two dozen of napkins, appraised at eight dollars
33 A pair of scales and some weight, appraised at one dollar and a half
34 Pots, kettles and other kitchen furniture appraised at thirty dollars
35 Sixteen buckets and tubs, appraised at eight dollars
36 A loom and four spindles wheels, appraised at forth dollars
37 Two cots, appraised at two dollars
In the yard we found
38 Thirty head of cattle of all description, appraised at four hundred and five dollars
39 Twenty three hides, appraised at thirty four dollars
In the sugar house we found
40 Two carts, appraised at fifty dollars
41 Seven spades, appraised at seven dollars
42 Two saws, appraised at sixteen dollars
43 Five ploughs, appraised at twenty five dollars
44 Ten hoes, appraised at six dollars
45 Three coupling chains appraised at nine dollars
46 One diable chain, appraised at eight dollars
47 Two briar scythes, appraised at two dollars
48 Tour iron bands, appraised at three dollars
49 Six single trees, appraised at nine dollars
50 One double tree, appraised at one dollar and fifty cents
51 Four pair of trace chains, appraised at three dollars
52 Two horse carts and queens, appraised at sixteen dollars
53 One grind stone appraised at three dollars
54 Four augers, appraised at two dollars
55 One pair of blocks appraised at two dollars
56 Three chopping axes, appraised at six dollars
57 Four briar hooks, appraised at six dollars
58 Two hand axes appraised at four dollars
59 One broad axe, appraised at one dollar and fifty cents
60 Two food adds, appraised at two dollars
61 Three ox yokes appraised at four dollars and fifty cents
62 Two froes appraised and (sic) two dollars and fifty cents
63 One irish shovel appraised atone dollar
64 One drawing knife, apprised at one dollar
65 Five mules, appraised at one hundred and eighty dollars
66 A bay mare, appraised at forty five dollars
67 A black horse appraised at seventeen dollars
68 Two ploughs appraised at nine dollars
69 Six steel traps appraised at eighteen dollars
70 One hundred and eighty barrels of corn appraised at one hundred and
twelve dollars and fifty cents
71 Forty three hogsheads of sugar appraised at tow thousand one hundred
and fifty dollars
72 Twelve hundred and ninety gallons of molasses appraised at two hundred
and six dollars and forty cents
73 A Negro woman named Charlotte, aged about thirty five years appraised
at four hundred and fifty dollars
74 A Negro woman names Milly, ages about fifty years appraised at three
hundred dollars
75 A set of blacksmith's tools appraised at seventy dollars
76 Eight sheep appraised at twelve dollars
77 A plantation measuring three arpents more or less front by forty in depth,
situate on the left bank of Lafourche at about one mile below Thibodauxville
bounded above by the lands of Eugene BOYER below by those of Desire
BOYER, with an old dwelling house and fences, appraised at two thousand
four hundred dollars
78 A plantation measuring four arpents and three fourths of an arpent more or
less front, by forty arpents in depth, situate on the left bank of Lafourche, at
about one bile below Thibodauxville, bounded above by the lands of John MILLS,
below by those of Joachim (?) POCHE with a dwelling house, a kitchen corn house,
____ house, a sugar house and sugar works a gin house and machinery, stable, with
about ten arpents of ______corn and also ten arpents of _____ and the appraisers
not being able to agree on the price, John C. BROWN, also of said parish was called
in and sworn as an umpire and he the said BROWN together with Benjamin CROSS
one of the appraisers, the appraised the said plantation together with its improvements
and appurtenances at twelve thousand dollars.
Total amount $18,990.65
Of the estimation, eighteen thousand and nine hundred and ninety dollars and sixty five cents
After which the said Perrine TABOR declared that she is not now able to produce the titles
and papers left by the said Hudson TABOR, the same being in various places and hands,
but that she will use her best exertions to procure them shortly that they may be detailed on
a supplement of the present inventory-
The time employed in taking this inventory is from ten o'clock until four o'clock in the
afternoon---
Wherefore the persons named in this inventory except the minors, have signed the same
having been first read to the parties---
Approved the word fourteen erased in the sixth line of this page and the word twelve
inserted.
/S/ Wm. FIELD /S/ Parene TABOR
/S/ Benjamin CROSS /S/ John MILLS
/S/ John C. BROWN /S/ J. DASPT, Judge
/S/ John WHITE
/S/ Henry F. KNOBLOCK
On Friday afternoon the eleventh day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred
and twenty eight-
At the request of Perrine MILLS, widow of the late Hudson TABOR, I Pierre DASPIT
parish judge of the Interior parish of Lafourche, accompanied and assisted by John C.
BROWN a farmer and Henry F. KNOBLOCK a scrivener both of the aforesaid parish,
went to the abode of the said Hudson TABOR, deceased, and there in presence of the
parties and appraisers present at the ______ ___ inventory ___ proceed to continue the
same, which was done on the declarations under oath of the said Perine MILLS as follows---
79 A creole horse appraised at fifty dollars
80 An American Negro woman named Rachel, aged about twenty one years, with her
son named Nathan aged about eight months appraised at five hundred dollars
81 A Negro boy named Montgomery or Gom, aged between nine and ten years, appraised
at three hundred dollars
[There is a numbering error in the succession; the next item is again numbered 81. It will be
corrected for the purpose of this typescript]
82 A Negro boy named Allan, aged about fourteen years, appraised at four hundred dollars
83 A Negro boy named Ellick, aged about seventeen years, nearly blind appraised at two
84 hundred and fifty dollars
Amount of the property appraise $1500.00 on this supplemental inventory fifteen hundred
dollars.
Here personally comes and appears William TABOR senior who says that the above named
and described slaves Rachel, Nathan, Allen, Gom and Ellick are his property, that they ought
not be comprised on this inventory, and that he does solemnly protest against their being
inventoried and appraised as it just now has been done
In testimony whereof he has ______ set his hand
/S/ William TABOR
The app_______ wishing to withdraw here been discharged and ______ ______ their
signatures
/S/ Wm. FIELD /S/ Benjamin CROSS
Then we proceeded to take an inventory of the papers as follows:
_____ subscribed ____ John Louis HEBERT, his note of thirty dollars, with _____
interest from March 1826 until paid, payable on demand, marked and paraphed number
one.
A not subscribed by Joseph Paul BOURGEOIS for ten dollars with ten per cent interest
thereon from the first day of April 1823, until paid, payable on demand marked and
paraphed number two
A note subscribed by Antoine DEJEAN and Pierre MOLAISON, jointly and severally,
for fifty dollars and forty eight cents payable in the month of March next-marked and
paraphed number three
A note subscribed by John B. BOUDREAUX for the sum of fifteen dollars 12 1/2 cents
with ten per cent interest from the first of March 1824 until paid, payable on demand, marked
and paraphed number four
A note _____ _____ _____ for five dollars, marked and paraphed number five
A note subscribed by John F. NEWELL, for sixteen dollars and fifty cents payable on
demand, marked and paraphed number six
A due bill of I. I. DOZIER for eight dollars and fifty five cents, marked and paraphed
number seven
A due bill of Vasin (?) BERGERON for one dollar and fifty cents, marked and parpahed
number eight
A note subscribed by Aaron HAINS for forth dollars and fifty cents, with interest at ten
per cent from the first day of April 1823, payable on demand, which note is to be credited
with twelve dollars amount of a draft on said HAINS in favor of one J. H. TOARTELOTTE,
marked and paraphed number nine
A note subscribed by J. B. BERGERON of bayou Terrebonne, for ten dollars with ten percent
interest form March 1821 payable on demand, marked and paraphed number ten
A note of Joseph DARCE for forth dollars with ten per cent interest from March 1822 until
paid, payable ____ _____ ______ as a bad debt marked and paraphed number eleven
A draft of Pierre DASPIT, judge, on the parish treasury of the Interior Parish of Lafourche,
for one hundred and twenty nine dollars and seven and a half cents marked and paraphed
number twelve.
An acknowledgement of Henry KEAN (?) to owe twenty two dollars and twenty five cents,
marked and paraphed number thirteen considered as a bad debt
A note subscribed by Dorsey P. SWINDLER, dated at New Orleans 20th April 1822, for four
hundred and fifty dollars, with a credit thereon of three hundred and thirty dollars paid on the 7th
of April 1824, marked and paraphed number four
Total amount of active title four hundred and twenty four dollars and seventy three cents,
exclusion of the bad debts amounting to sixty two dollars and twenty five cents.
Papers
A sale under private signature passed by William TABOR in favor of John TABOR and
Hudson TABOR, of four slaves named Dinah, Rachel, Ellick and Allen, some horses, cattle
and other personal property dated the sixteenth of September 1814, marked an
d paraphed
number fifteen.
A plot of the plantation occupied by the late Hudson TABOR, rendered (?) by Joseph
NICHOLAS, parish surveyor, dated the sixth of July eighteen hundred and twenty one,
marked and paraphed number sixteen.
Bundle A. containing eight sundry receipts, the bundles marked and paraphed A.
A bundle of papers relative to the justice of the peace's office, marked and paraphed littera B
A bundle of papers relative to the sheriffs office under Louis A. TALBOT, marked and
paraphed littera C
A bundle of receipts and settled accounts, one hundred and six in number, marked and
paraphed litter D
A bundle containing one hundred and thirty four sundry receipts and settled accounts,
marked and paraphed littera E
Two bundles of indifferent papers, marked and paraphed littera F & G
A bundle containing sixty one sundry letters, marked and paraphed littera H
A bundle containing sixty three sundry letters, marked and paraphed littera I
Declarations
Due by the state treasurer for twenty days employed by the late Hudson TABOR in
assessing the state taxes on Lafourche Interior, for the year 1827, forty dollars
Amount of the declarations $40.00 forty dollars
Recapitulation
Amount of the property appraised on the inventory $18,990.65
Amount of the property appraised on this supplemental inventory $ 1500.00
Good active titles $ 424.73
Bad active titles $62.25
Declarations $40.00
Total amount $21,017.63 Twenty one thousand and seventeen dollars and sixty
three cents all errors and omission accepted.
And the said Perrine TABOR not being aware of any thing that ought be further
comprised on the present inventory, she declares the same to be just and true to
the best of her knowledge and belief.
All the property and papers hereby described or enumerated, have with the consent
of John MILLS, the under tutor, been delivered to the said Perrine TABOR, who
has taken charge of the same, and who promises to produce them in good order to
the person and in the manner prescribed by law
The time employed in taking this supplemental inventory is from three o'clock until
seven o'clock P. M.
Whereupon the parties have signed with the above named witnesses and me the
said judge/
/S/ Perene TABOR
/S/ John C. BROWN /S/ John MILLS
/S/ Henry H. KNOBLOCK /S/ P. DASPIT, Judge
Abstracted by Nancy L. Wright, P O Box 1041, Gray, LA 70359 (c) 2001