St. James Parish. Civil Records, 1782-1819
Scope and Contents
This collection contains civil records from St. James Parish from the 18th and 19th centuries. Series include Original Acts, 1782-1787 and 1810-1819, and Conveyance Records, 1808-1810. There are two copies of reels 1 and 2. Reel 3 also contains Ascension Parish Original Acts Book A: Inventories and Sales (Judice Records), 1770-1787, and Book B. Inventories and Sales (Judice Records), 1788- ?, pp. 1-500.
The records were filmed by the Center for Louisiana Studies in 1971, as an extension of the Colonial Louisiana Records Collection. That collection was transferred to the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection in 2013.
Dates
- 1782-1819
Extent
5 Reels (5 reels of materials on 35 mm microfilm)
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- St. James Parish Civil Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Zack Stein
- Date
- 12/10/2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection Repository
Edith Garland Dupré Library
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
400 East St. Mary Blvd.
Lafayette LA 70503 United States
337-482-6031
speccoll@louisiana.edu