Before Julien Poydras, Commandant of the Pointe Coupée post, appeared Jacques Vignes, who sold to Jean Pierre Laurans [or, Laurant] for 2,100 piastres cash a residential lot in Pointe Coupée, bounded on two sides by land belonging to the widow Pierre Descoux. Laurans allowed Vignes free use of the house, gardens, and pasture lands on the property for two years.