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Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Louisiana
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865 - 1869.
M1027 Roll 34 "Records Relating to Confiscated and Abandoned Lands"
Reports received from subordinate Staff Officers
Sept. - Nov. 1865 and Jan. 1867 - Feb. 1868
Monthly report of Lands which have come into the possession of Capt. C. E. Wilcox, Asst. Supt. Freedmen in charge of Bragg Home Colony near Thibodeaux, La. During the month of September 1865.
Name of Plantation: Greenwood.
Name of Former Owner: Braxton Bragg.
Location Parish: Lafourche three miles from Thibodeaux.
Boundaries: North: swamp; East: D. Jamison's plantation; South: Bayou Lafourche; West: L. Lasaigne's plantation.
How Held: Abandoned.
Number of Acres: cultivated: 220; cleared: 480; woodland: 940; total: 1,640 acres.
Buildings: dwellings: 2; sugar: 1; double cabins: 18; single cabins: 5; stables: 2; stores: 2; saw mill: 1; school: 1; blacksmith shop: 1; hospital: 1. Total: 35.
Name of Plantation: Theriot
Name of Former Owner: P. J. Theriot, Mrs. M. M. ?Thibodeaux, S. Leephin.
Location Parish: Lafourche three miles from R. R. Crossing.
Boundaries: North: swamp; East: Thibodeaux Plantation; South: Bayou Lafourche; West: L. ?Anbit's plantation.
How Held: Abandoned.
Number of Acres: cultivated: 450; cleared: 200; woodland: 1,720. Total: 2,370.
Buildings: dwellings - 3; sugar - 1; single cabins - 15; double cabins - 9; stables - 1; stores - 3; sawmill - 1; blacksmith shop - 1. Total: 34.
Remarks:
In making up this report the tax rolls of the Parish for 1860, 1861 and 1863 have been consulted.
Bragg Plantation:
2 dwelling houses, condition fair;
1 sugar house, condition bad;
10 cabins, condition fair;
13 cabins, condition bad;
2 stables, condition fair;
2 store houses, condition fair;
1 saw mill, condition bad;
1 school house, condition bad;
1 blacksmith shop, condition fair;
1 hospital, condition poor;
1 rest hospital, condition poor.
Theriot Plantation
3 dwelling houses, condition fair;
1 sugar house, condition very bad;
5 cabins, condition bad;
19 cabins, condition fair;
1 stable, condition fair;
3 store houses, condition fair;
1 saw mill attached to sugar house, condition fair;
1 blacksmith shop, condition fair.
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