Before Notary Public Amedée Damas, Malhoit declared that he had drawn two promissory notes in the amount of $8,120 and $7,560, payable in favor of Jean Baptiste Aucoin and his wife Azelie Boudreau. To secure payment Malhoit gave Aucoin a mortgage on a sugar plantation, situated on Bayou Lafourche fourteen miles below Napoleonville, and the forty slaves (names and ages given) on the property.
