At the request of Joseph Cloatre, resident of Saint James Parish, Côte de Cabahan-nocé, Lieutenant Michel Cantrelle, Civil and Military Commandant of the parish, conducted an inventory and evaluation of the community property of said Cloatre and his wife Marie Poirier, who had died interstate on 1800 March 15. The document was to enable Cloatre to give the four minor children of his marriage an accounting of the estate when they reached majority. Also attending the proceedings were Michel Poirer, the children's uncle and legal tutor, witnesses Daniel Blouin and François Croizet, and arbitrator Paul Ebert. The inventory is a detailed listing and evaluation of household goods, tools, livestock, slaves, immovable property, cash, and uncollected debts, all of which were worth a total of 3,807 piastres.