Before Notary Public Théodore Seghers in New Orleans the widow ducros declared that, by an act passed on 1836 April 14, she received from Alonzo Morphy 190 shares of capital stock in the Citizens' Bank, the value of which was $19,000. She further acknowledged that she owed the amount to the bank, and to guarantee it she gave the bank a mortgage on a sugar plantation situated in Orleans Parish, five miles below New Orleans on the right bank of the Mississippi. the mortgage covered all buildings, equipment, tools, and livestock, as well as sixty-four slaves (names and ages given), who lived on the property. The document gives a history of previous liens on the plantation.
