Before Notary Public William Christy in New Orleans, J.B. Sullivan declared that in 1832 and 1836 he had mortgaged his plantation in Rapides Parish to the Bank of Louisiana to secure loans that were now due. As additional security he, by the present act, gave the bank a mortgage on certain tracts of land adjacent to the plantation, along with all buildings, equipment, and livestock thereon. The mortgage also included forty-eight slaves, whose names and ages were given. Sullivan further agreed that if he failed to pay his obligation to the bank, it could secure a court order to seize the mortgaged property and sell it.
