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Act of Payment by Marie Claire of $200.00 to the Derreas and Receipt, 1809 July 30
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
Manuscript act of payment to Mr. G. Derrea and wife, Constance Tisserand (sister of Jean Tisserand), passed before P. S. F. Godefroy, N.P., along with a manuscript receipt for payment of the act signed by Godefroy. The Derreas were both free persons of color who owned Manon, the enslaved daughter of the deceased Jacques Tisserand, to whom Marie Claire was entrusted to leave money. This act recites the refusal to permit Manon to inherit and the remittal of the legacy to Mrs. Derrea (Constance Tisserand).
- Arrangement
Limongi's account is followed by papers of Marie Claire Chabert arranged chronologically. Tax receipts are filed together at the end of the chronological run.
Collection History
- Custodial History
Mr. Gest acquired the collection from Felix Limongi. Limongi acquired many of the papers from the offices of the New Orleans law firm Durant & Hornor, though he may have added some material from other sources. A note left by Limongi states that he came across the Marie Claire Chabert records sometime before March 1926 while collecting postage stamps, though it is unclear from available documentation if he also acquired them via Durant & Hornor.
- Appraisal
No materials were separated from the collection during 2018 reprocessing.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Karla J. Vecchia in 2004. Finding aid written by Karla J. Vecchia in 2004.
This collection was reprocessed and the description was enhanced by Kelly Bolding in October 2018. A biographical note about Marie Claire Chabert was added at this time.
Access & Use
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Collection is open for research use.
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- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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- Credit this material:
Act of Payment by Marie Claire of $200.00 to the Derreas and Receipt; Felix Limongi Collection of Louisiana Slavery and Civil War Materials, C0033, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
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- Bibliography
The following sources were consulted during preparation of the finding aid and biographical note for Marie Claire Chabert: Inventories of Estates, C Surnames, Cabouret, 1846 - Cornu, 1849. Louisiana, Orleans Parish Estate Files. New Orleans (Louisiana) City Archives. Sharafi, Mitra. "The Slaves and Slavery of Marie Claire Chabert: Familial Black Slaveholding in Antebellum Louisiana." Journal of Civil Law Studies 4.1 (2011): 187-215.
- Names:
- Durant & Hornor
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) (1818-1893)
Chabert, Marie Claire (1769-1847)
Durant, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson) (1817-1882)
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) (1822-1885)
Hornor, Charles West (1813-1905)
Tisserand, Jacques (1808)