Before Notary Public Michel de Armas in New Orleans, Daingerfield and the Thurstons sold to Ignace Delino de Chalmet for 65,000 piastres a plantation situated 1 1/2 leagues below New Orleans on the left bank of the Mississippi River. The vendors had acquired the land from the United States government the same year for 44,000 piastres. An explanation of the schedule of payments and mortgages follows. Addenda are copies of documents by which Anne Thurston had granted power of attorney to Nathan Morse to represent her in the transaction.
