The documents relate to the settlement of the estate of the deceased Grégoire Melançon. At the request of Marie Christine Landry, Melançon's widow and tutor to their eight minor children, an inventory and evaluation of the estate were made on 1813 May 17. Included in the inventory were a plantation with five arpents frontage on the Mississippi, tools, household goods, livestock, and a male slave Jack, age about twenty. There were also debts. On 1813 May 18, at a family meeting, the heirs decided to sell part of the land and the slave. At public auction held on June 21, Marie Christine Landry bought a section of two arpents frontage, and Joseph T. Rils purchased Jack for $695. At a subsequent sale on September 25, Melançon's widow bought the remainder of the land. There is a final statement of accounts at the end.
