DOCUMENTS IN SUPPORT OF THE RIGHT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, TO THE ALLUVION IN FRONT OF THE SUBURB ST. MARY, CONTESTED BY JEAN GRAVIER.
Washington: A. & G. Way, 1809. 53, [3 blanks] pp. Disbound, else Very Good. Jean Gravier, a major landowner in New Orleans, claimed title to a river bank, known as a batture. The Mississippi River covered it for three months of the year, but during the other nine months it..... More