In New Orleans, Casimir Lacoste appeared before Notary Public Gustave Le Gardeur to declare that, in accordance with a court order, on April 21 he had sold at public auction to Hortense Lacoste, widow of Antonio Ducros, for $30,000, the community property belonging to him and his deceased wife, Marie Nanette De La Ronde. The property consisted of an undivided half interest in a sugar plantation, situated in Orleans Parish about five leagues below New Orleans on the right bank of the Mississippi. The sale included his half share of the dwelling, sugar mill, other buildings, tools, equipment, and livestock, as well as thirty-nine slaves (names and ages given) who lived on the property. For an additional $6,000 Lacoste sold to the widow sixteen other slaves (names, ages, and individual prices given), whom he owned outright.
