(Note: 1. Where (parenthesis are shown thus), these are the thoughts of the transcriber.

2. Where a word is underlined the transcriber is unsure of the spelling.

3. Transcriber has added punctuation occasionally for easier reading.)

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Ch. Mulhollan

A Memorandum

Book June 2^nd 1840

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Bayou Boeuf Nov 13^th 1839

A memorandum for my Executors to aid them in the Settlement of my Estate—

Philip O Neal owes to Mr. John Compton & myself an note for upward of five hundred Dollars which we paid for him as his Endorser. Mr Compton has taken an note on Mr Littleton Bailey for the same one half of said Debt in mine. Mr. John Compton owes me three hundred Dollars for half of my Stud horse Marylander + one hundred + Twenty Six Dollars for Mes….. Seed ….. paid for him in New Orleans. Mr Compton is an honest + correct man you will have no Trouble with him. I owe Mr. Compton for forty Bushel of oat and Seed. I also owe him for some time of his Black Smith at my Shop~

Make Mennis Lynch of Will have to account for a Bale of Goods which was Shipped to them. They have the Steam Boat Receipt + they ought to have made the Steam Boat out for it Long since. Mr. M. Wesh understands this matter very well.

Thompson Lawer who died in Opelousas a year or two ago had some Land papers of mine. Mr Daniels + Linton was to attend to them Before Congress. I have a tract of Land in the Avoyeles at the Lower End of Lake Pearl on the East side containing six hundred + ten acres. This original is in the name of James Canty from Canty to Daniel Clark

(written in the opposite direction of his writing and on top of his previous writing, starting where it says, “Mr. John Compton owes me three hundred Dollars for half of my Stud ……” he writes:)

Mr. Compton has paid his note of this date for 355 Dollars which is in full of all claims up to the date Jan 16^th 1840.

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(No page 2 is shown and maybe he mis-numbered the pages?)

Winn to attend to it. Send Doc. Prashears Note to Maunsel White ….. for Collection. Doc Prashear is a member of the Legislature + it can be collected of him early in the month of January. The payment for the Purchase of Negroes at Brays Sale fall Due on the 28 of March Next. The notes are in the Louisiana Bank. You will in the Louisiana Bank find Mr John Compton note in my favor for Twenty-five hundred Dollars. I make this note Because I have no Bank Book Entry of it. you will Bringe Suit x x x x immediately Against Doctor Matt L Debney who is in possession of a Tract of Land of mine. This original grant is in the name of Antoine Deshotelle, Father of Julian Deshotelle, who will be a Necessary witness for you to have. This Tract has five arpens frunt with But Little Back Land Being cut off by the Chattan Claim which is now mine. This tract is immediately opposite the ..aden Lapoint house or where the house was at the division of the Estate of Antwine Deshotelle This Tract of Land was conveyed to Middleton W. Kimball. I do not Reallut at the moment who Kimball sold to But think it was to Samuel Elkins, who sold to John M. Martin + myself. These sales were for Both Sides of the Bayou Boeuf. I sold all my Claim + Tittle to John M Martin, at the probate sale of John M Martins Estate. The Land

….. ssion was sold by me as Syndic of John M Martin + James Brewster Became the Purchaser who some five or so years after Sold to me. Brewster will to an necessary witness for Mr Cureton wanted to purchase this Land of him, when Cureton was the owner of the above + below, therefore had no Claim to the Land in question. Bring Suit immediately for the Land. Mott + Dubny has no Right in Justice + Equity to the Land. The Tract of Land which I purchased of John B. Seall + Wife has Ten arpens frunt it is immediately oposit the old Ginn of Mr Linton + joines the Tract of Land on which Old Harry Lives on. Get Mr Phelps to Survey all my Land on that side of the Bayou as Soon as he can. He has promised to do so shorty- Mr. Winn has the x x x x Marcott Tittle, in the suit of M...

have agreed to give him one thousand For the Ensuing year. His wages for the …. the present year is Nine Hundred Dolls which you well pay him on the first of January next. I do not wish my Negroes worked Too hard. I wish them well Fed + well Clothed, + well attend to when sick.

John B Scott + Wife hold a note of mine for five hundred Dollars which is to go in Liquidation of an Note which I hold on them for the same amt $500—Mr Chew has the note with the above remark” ---------“When you make the payment to the Estate of Bray for the negroes purchased of this Estate Have the Mortgage released in the parish Judges office. The Note on Mr E J Miller + George Cary’s Note which is in the hand of Mr Miller I intend it for the Benefit of Charlotte. It will pay for her

Board Tuition + Clothes If for some time + saves you the trouble of remitting money to Cincinnati, I wish Charlotte to remain with the family George Cary where she now is until the month of May or June 1842. Then Sent on to Philadelphia to complete her Education there, Mr Cary with home she is at present is a very Respectable Black Man a man of Good Character + he has promised me that him + his wife will go on with her to Philadelphia + place her in one of the Best institution there. Mr Cary is a good man + a well educated man. he was Educated in Philadelphia + is well acquainted there. I will write to Mr E Jelcileer + place her under his Guardianship while she remains in Cincinnati. I request of you to write to her often Giving her good advise. I’L

Beg of you + Request of you by all our Former friendship Not to Neglect My poor Charlotte. Her future well fare you have in your hands. Write to her often also write to Mr E Jelliller requesting of him to be so good as to see that she is doing well + that she is well treated by the family of Cary While she remains in Cincinnati. My Wish is that a private Teacher be employed for her. Theretofore I have found no difficulty in procureing a good female Teacher at Twenty Dollars a month. I am paying fifteen Dollars a month to George Cary for her Board Working + Tuition. I have put up till the first of April Next + has his Receipt, the Money in the hands of Mr. Miller will be very convienient + he can pay it over to those who may have the proper Claim for Board Working Tuition Cloathing. If When you to her address the Letters to Charlotte Mulhollan care of George Cary Cincinnati.

I wish to have a house Built for Viney a free woman of Collour which has lived with me for a number of years have It Built on the oposit side of the Bayou at the upper side of the Turnit Patch

She can have a good Garden + Turnit patch. Give her a cow or Two to milk, also give her some sow + Pigs + let her be furnished with meat + meal from the plantation. Viney is a Good harmless woman, + it is my wish that she will be Kindly Treated By her three eldest Children will continue to work on the plantation + Receive such wages as you may think proper, - I have intended to Give Adam (the eldest, for the present year Seventy five Dollars + Castleneigh fifty – you will observe These Boys were raised by me from their Infancy. Independed of their wages you will give them Cloathing such as my Negroes git.

Permit me Mr Winn to Suggest an Idea to you, in Bringing Suit Against Matt + Debney for the Lapoint Plantation. Supposed you were to Bring Suit for the Establishing of the Lines. Would not this in some degree prevent the plea of preoerption. But Matt has not been Ten years in possession Brewster Cultivated + Lived on it in 1833 + was the owner of it this you can establish by Brewster + Doc Weems ------

Mr. Brewster made a purchase from Mr Cureton of the Land now owned by Matt + Debney for the price of fifteen hundred Dollars + moved onto it. Some time after he ….. called on Mr. Cureton for a conveyance Mr Cureton put him off from time to time + finally refused the price of Lands were looking up. while Brewster thought himself the owner of the Land purchased from Cureton. He made the purchase of the Lapoint Place. Mr. Cureton proposes

to purchase from Brewster the Lapoint plantation + I never pretend to have any claim to it as well appear by his making no opposition to the probate sale of it. Col Fulton when he was the owner of Matt + Debney Land often proposed to Julian Desholelle + Kimball to purchase this Land as it Divided his Tract. This Tract of mine was never claimed by any person owning the Fulton Tract until Matt refused some time since to pay me rent for it ~~~

as wilnissy call upon Julian Desholelle, James Brewster + Mr. John Compton + any others of the old Setlers. Franswa Melong (Alias Francois Ebare) this man lives in Bayou Chico ~ my claim on the west side of Bayou Boeuf adjoining William C Martin. This tract was acquired of the Choctow Tribe of Indians by purchase by John Maguire which purchase Reaeured the Sanction of this the Spanish Government. I ought to be considered a valid Settlr by our Government. The commissioners of the Land office for

western district in Opelousas Refused to confirm this claim owing to its conflicting with several claims on the East side of Bayou Boeuf + on the Bayou Lamourie. Suits were Instituted + much opposition made which was In a measure the cause that the Claim was not confirmed. The Claim is a Good one + will be considered so by congress when acted on. ---

The Claim of Tittle is as follows, the Choctow Tribe of Indians to John Maguire, John Maguire to Daniel Callaghan who sold Sold to Hugh Mulhollan who Sold to John M Martin + Charles Mulhollan + Charles Mulhollan sold his interest to John M Martin. John M. Martin Sold to Robert Martin. this Tract was Sold at Sheriff sale as the property of Robert Martin + was purchased By me this present owner. This Tract was Surveyed under an order of Survey from the Spanish Government in the year 1798 or 1799. my uncle lived on, cultivated, + held feasible possession of it for upwards of Twenty three years + Died on, you will Abserve that I elude To the uper part of the Maguire Tract which

was purchased by Hugh Mulhollan from John Maguire under this Claim of Maguire I was intitled to three thousand arpens all on the pine wood side. I have Two thousand arpens adjoining this tract, a complete, Tittle. This tract Runs up the Bayou Cleas + its ufois Line is very near to Mr Barrys Saw Mill. Mr. Thomas Neal helped to carry the claim for Keneth M Crummen who surveyed it ------

Mr Crummen Resurveyed it. It was Surveyed under the Spanish Government by “Don Hugh Coyle”, as the platt will Show.-----------

The Marcott Claim on the South Side of Bayou Boeuf including the Pecan Trees above the Negros quarters was originally granted to Gidean Walker. John Martott purchased from Walker by an Exchange of Land in the Parish of Avoyelles, at the Death of John said John Marcott, Francis Marcott the eldest son of John Marcott Became displeased with his Brothers + Sisters Left the State of Louisiana + took with him the Grant of Requite (request to occupy) for the Land.

John Lacomb, Son in Law of John Marcott was appointed Curator of the Estate of John Marcott.

At the Probate Kemper or Rison purchased the the Land. John M Martin purchased of Kemper

or Rison + John M Martin to Charles Mulhollan the present owner. – This Tract is six arpens frunt. It was mortgaged by John Marcott to Julian Poydross of Point Couppe forty or Forty five years ago which Mortgage is of Record in the Parish Judges office Alexandria; When John M Was the owner he made an entry of this Land In the Land office at Opelousas + since I Became the owner I have not been able to get a Certificate for it, owning entirely. To a deranged State of the Land Office in Opelousas, this proof was made at the time of the Entry by Martin, so that nothing is wanting but the action of the proper officer. This Tract of Land has been possessed + cultivated by me + those under whome I Claim for upwards of fifty years------------

So that the Tittle must be considered valid then is not dispute or confliction of Tittle to this Land- I made Back entries to Secure the Back Land if there should be any between my Claims + that of William C L C Martin (the Indian purchase) you will find in my

papers the Receipt of the Receiver for the payment of the Back Entry – the Entries were made Back of the Calvit. While Thawmere + the Marcott 7 Tracts. I do not believe there is much if any utule But I thought it best to make the Entry as I had sold alilha Land adjoining the Indian Claim to Mr Carnal. Bring Suit against Mott + Daleny immediately, in the Chair of Tittle. You will find that Middleton W. Kimball sold to Samuel Elkins – Mott has Brought suit against me for the Marcott Land on the opposite side of the Bayou Boeuf from my house. This Land I have a complete Tittle for + has had it in possession + part of it in cultivation for upward of Twenty years without interruption – His Object in Bringing suit against me was to force or induce me to purchase his whole Tract + nothing Else. He well knows my aversion to Law Suits-

Ch. Mulhollan

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INDEX of names, places and references; the number represents the page number where first shown.

Adam 8

Alexandria 13

Avoyelles 1

Bailey, Littleton 1

Barrys Saw Mill 12

Bayou Boeuf 3

Bayou Chico 10

Bayou Cleas 12

Bayou Lamourie 11

Brays 3

Brewster, James 4

Callaghan, Daniel 11

Calvit 14

Canty, James 1

Carnal, Mr 14

Cary, George 5

Charlotte 5

Chattan 3

Chew, Mr 5

Choctaw Tribe of Indians 10

Cincinnati

Clark, Daniel 1

Compton, John 1

Congress 1

Coyle, Don Hugh 12

Crummen, Kenneth M 12

Cureton, Mr 4

Daleny 14

Daniels, Mr 1

Debney 9

Debney, Doctor Matt L 3

Desholelle, Julian 10

Deshotelle, Antoine 3

Deshotelle, Antwine 3

Deshotelle, Julian 3

Dubny 4

Elbare, Francois 10

Elkins, Samuel 3

Fulton, Col 10

Ginn 4

Harry 4

Indian Claim 14

Indian Purchase 13

Jelcileer, Mr E 6

Jelliller, Mr E 7

Kemper 12

Kimball, Middleton W 3

Lacomb, John 12

Lake Pearl 1

Lapoint, ….aden 3

Lapoint Place 9

Lapoint Plantation 9

Lawer, Thompson 1

Legislature 3

Linton, Mr 1

Louisiana Bank 3

Lynch, Mennis 1

Maguire, John 10

Maguire Tract 11

Martin, John M 3

Martin, Robert 11

Martin, William C 10

Martin, William C C 13

Marylander 1

Marcott 4

Marcott Claim 12

Marcott, Francis 12

Marcott, John 12

Martott, John 12

Melong, Franswa 10

Miller, Mr. E. J. 5

Miller, Mr 7

Matt 9

Mott 4

Mulhollan, Ch. 14

Mulhollan, Charles 11

Mulhollan, Charlotte 7

Mulhollan, Hugh 11

Neal, Mr. Thomas 12

Negroes 3

New Orleans 1

O Neal, Philip 1

Opelousas 1

Pecan Trees 12

Phelps, Mr 4

Philadephia 6

Plantation 8

Point Couppe

Poydross, Julian 13

Prashears, Doc 3

Rison 12

Scott, John B 5

Seall, John B 4

Spanish Government 10

Thawmere

Viney 8

Walker, Gidean 12

Weems, Doc 9

Wesh 1

White, Maunsel 3

Will 1

Winn 3

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Transcribed by: Henry LeRoy “Hank” Johns III February 28, 2006

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Transcriber notes, thoughts and comments ……………

Charles Mulhollan was a very educated man in his day. He could write exceptionally

well for the year 1839 in Louisiana. Where did he get his education? He refers to

Philadelphia when he wishes Charlotte to be educated there. Is this a clue? He also

referred to Cincinatti? What is the connection there? I do know that Charles Mulhollan’s

sister, Sarah Mulhollan, was born in Pennsylvania, about 1789.

I do not believe Charles Mulhollan was married, as he does not mention anyone in this memorandum that would lead me to believe he was married, as a matter of fact, he references two separate women of collour. One, he wants to educate, by the name of “Charlotte”, and the other “Viney” who he wants a house built for across the bayou from his plantation. He wanted Charlotte to be referred to as, Charlotte Mulhollan.

Charles Mulhollan was apparently a wealthy man in Rapides Parish, Louisiana in 1840 when he wrote this document. He is listed on the 1810, 1820, 1830 and 1840 census records in Rapides Parish, Louisiana and does not show any females living in his household for any of these years; however he has a large number of slaves listed and a lot of property holdings according to this document. His house faced Bayou Boeuf according to this document. He also may have property holdings in Avoyelles Parish and possibly West Feliciana Parish, LA.

Charles Mulhollan may have been ill at the time he wrote this “Memorandum” for his Executor, for he does not die until 6 years later in 1846. Why else would he go into the immediate details of his land holdings, education and care for some of his Collour people? Another possibility could be, that he was named in a lawsuit for some of his land holdings in Rapides Parish, LA. The original lawsuit was filed in 1838 and was taken to the U.S. Supreme Court (Flower v. Foreman, 64 U.S. 132 (1859). Context of this lawsuit can be viewed on the Internet at: http://www.justia.us/us/64/132/

There is reference to a Hugh Mulhollan. What relation he is to Charles Mulhollan still remains a question as of this transcription. It is believed that Hugh may be an uncle of Charles Mulhollan?

Research I have done on Charles Mulhollan indicates, according to the census records, that he must have been born about 1780. His place of birth may have been Pennsylvania, for his sister, Sarah Mulhollan, was born in Pennsylvania about 1789 according to the 1850 West Feliciana Parish, LA census. She married James Flower on Nov 28, 1825 in West Feliciana Parish, LA and she is listed with him in 1850 there is West Feliciana Parish. Her marriage license is documented at the West Feliciana Parish, LA courthouse. The death date of 1846 for Charles Mulhollan is documented in the U.S. Supreme Court lawsuit listed in note 4 above. The Executor of his Estate was Thomas O. Moore. His Will was probated July 11, 1846; however it does not state what Parish it was probated? The burial place for Charles Mulhollan is located on the Ashton Plantation in Lecompte, Rapides
Parish, Louisiana. It is located behind Mr. Muldher's house and is on private property. The stone reads, Sacred to the Memory of Charles Mulhollan who died on the 7th July 1846, age 67.

When did Charles Mulhollan or his parents come to reside in Louisiana? One clue may be offered on page 13 above. Charles states: “This Tract of Land has been possessed + cultivated by me + those under whome I Claim for upwards of fifty years------------“, so subtracting the year this document was written (1839) – (50 years) = 1789! Now obviously if Charles was born about 1780 he was not cultivating the land but the Mulhollan family was here by about this year of 1789. This year is also the approximate year that his sister Sarah was born. It would appear that shortly after she was born, this Mulhollan family moved to Louisiana from Pennsylvania and most probably resided in West Feliciana or Rapides Parishes. The first U.S. census was not taken until 1790 and only for the 13 original states. Louisiana at this time was under Spanish control and no census that I am aware of is available for study. The next census was taken in 1800. Present day Louisiana was still under Spanish control so no census record is available for study here either. The first U.S. census records for this area of Louisiana first appear on the 1810 U.S. census where Charles Mulhollan is first shown in Rapides Parish.

Anyone wishing to know more about the connection between Charles MULHOLLAN and the FLOWER family of Rapides Parish, LA, may contact me at the above e-mail or mailing address.