Family:Jose Gonzales and Maria Dias (1)

No. 84 - Maria Dias claims a tract of land, situate in the county of Iberville, about three miles above the fort at Galveztown, and on the right bank of the river Iberville, containing eight hundred superficial arpents, bounded on the west by land of Marcos Coullon Devilliers, and on the remaining sides by vacant land.

It appearing, from the certificate of Charles Laveau Trudeau, Esq., late Surveyor General of the province of Louisiana, that said land was granted to one Joseph Cabo, late husband of the claimant, by Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, whilst Governor of the province of Louisiana, and that afterwards, viz, on the 10th day of February, 1802, the Intendant General of said province ordered a survey of the said land to be made in favor of the claimant, the Board do hereby confirm the claimant in her said claim.

1. ↑ Sacramental Records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. (New Orleans, Louisiana: Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1987-)
   Vol. 3 (1772-1783), p. 145.

   Is this them? They were described as man & wife at emigration the previous year. . . .
   
   Joseph Gonzales, native of [missing] on the island of Tenerife, soldier of the stationary Louisiana Regiment, marr. Maria de la Encarnacion [no surname given], 26 Dec 1779. Witnesses: Francisco Xavier Cabos, sergeant of the grenadiers & Felipe Crespo. Citing SLC, M4, 63.
   
   [Page deteriorated and information missing.]

2. ↑ Din, Gilbert C. The Canary Islanders of Louisiana. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988)
   p. 209, Passenger List.
3.   First Settlers of the Louisiana Territory: Orleans Territory Grants from American State Papers, Class VIII, Public Lands. 2v. (Nacogdoches, Texas: Ericson Books, c1983-)
   vol. 1, pg. 125.
4.   Sacramental Records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. (New Orleans, Louisiana: Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1987-)
   Vol. 3 (1772-1783), p. 145.