Bernard Marigny and Anna Mathilde Morales mortgage, 1836 July 5. - Bernard Marigny and Anna Mathilde Morales mortgage, 1836 July 5.

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Title
Bernard Marigny and Anna Mathilde Morales mortgage, 1836 July 5.
Contributor
Marigny, Bernard, 1785-1868.
Morales, Anne Mathilde, active 1810-1836.
Panis, Marie Louise, active 1836-1849.
Kuntz, Felix Herwig, 1890-1971.
Biographical Information
Marie Louise Panis (1769-1852) was a free woman of color, propertied slave owner, planter, and investor of New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish. She owned a sugar plantation in St. John the Baptist Parish, where she died. </br></br>Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville (1785-1868) was a planter, land developer, and politician of New Orleans. He was the son of Pierre Philippe Enguerrand de Marigny de Mandeville and Jeanne Marie d'Estréhan des Tours. In 1804, he married Mary Ann Jones (died 1808) and had two children, Gustave Adolph and Prosper François. In 1810, he married Anna Mathilde Morales (active 1810-1836), daughter of the former Spanish intendant, Juan Ventura Morales. The couple had four children: Jean Bernard Xavier, Marie Rosa (born 1813), Marie Angela (born 1817), Armand, and Mathilde (born 1820). He subdivided his plantation in New Orleans in 1806, creating the Faubourg Marigny. In 1834, he sold his lots to form the town of Mandeville. He died in New Orleans, February 3, 1868.</br></br>Felix Herwig Kuntz (1890-1971) was the son of Rosemonde Elizabeth and Emile Kuntz and the brother of Emile N. Kuntz. He was an avid collector of documents, paintings and furniture during and after the Great Depression. The documents in this collection were items that Kuntz collected for his own personal interest.
Date Created
1836-07-05
Subject
Free African Americans--Louisiana
African American women--Louisiana
Plantation owners--Louisiana
African American landowners--Louisiana
Slaveholders--Louisiana
Land titles--Registration and transfer--Louisiana--New Orleans
African American capitalists and financiers--Louisiana
Sugar plantations--Louisiana
Women landowners--Louisiana
African American slaveholders--Louisiana
Location
New Orleans (La.)
Occupation
Heirs
Executives
Financiers
Collectors
Description
Act of mortgage granted by Bernard Marigny and his wife, Anne Mathilde Morales, to the Citizens' Bank of Louisiana. Before Notary Public Théodore Seghers in New Orleans, Marigny and his wife declared that, by an act passed on 27 June 1836, Marigny had acquired from Marie Louise Panis, a free woman of color, 490 shares of capital stock in the Citizens' Bank. They acknowledged that they owed on a sugar plantation situated in Plaquemines Parish, nine leagues below New Orleans on the right bank of the Mississippi. Also mortgaged as part of the property were the house, the sugar mill and ancillary buildings, an infirmary, kitchens, slave cabins, a warehouse, tools, carts, and livestock, as well as seventy slaves (names and ages given), who lived there. Edmond Jean Forstall, President of the Citizens' Bank, accepted the mortgage. In French.
Type of Resource
text
Size
1 mortgage.
Language
French
Source
Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, La., http://larc.tulane.edu/
Digital Collection
Revealing an Unknown Past: Free People of Color in Louisiana and the Lower Mississippi Valley
Repository Collection
Rosemonde E. and Emile Kuntz Collection, Manuscripts Collection 600, Louisiana Research Collection, Tulane University.
Shelf Location
Manuscripts Number 600, Box 9, Folder 47
Contact Information
To inquire about ordering copies of these images, email larc@tulane.edu.
Rights
Physical rights are retained by the Louisiana Research Collection. Copyright of the original material is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. Permission to reproduce this image must be requested through the repository that holds the original.
Preferred Citation
Rosemonde E. and Emile Kuntz Collection, Manuscripts Number 600, Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118.
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