Land patents under Presidents Lincoln and Grant for land sold to my ancestor Cyprien Duhon! These are the family treasures for my very first Treasure Chest Thursday post. I spend a lot of research time following online links that lead nowhere, so I felt like I had won the lottery when I discovered copies of these two documents online.
Land patents are the legal documents that transferred land ownership from the U.S. Government to individuals. Both of these patents were for land in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
Cyprien Duhon (1803-1878)
Prien Lake in Lake Charles, Lousiana, was named after my ggg-grandfather Cyprien Duhon. I’ll write about him in future posts. Until then, visit his page on WeRelate.com, if you want to learn more about his life and family.
1861 Land Patent Under Abraham Lincoln
Cyprien Duhon Land Patent
Land Patent
1877 Land Patent Under Ulysses S. Grant
Cyprien Duhon Land Title
Land Patent
For more information about Land Patents, visit the National Archives.
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This is so interesting! Those are real treasures, indeed!
If this document is real Cyprien Duon was my father’s Great Grand Father, he changed his last name to Duhon after the silver war!
Todd, Thanks for commenting. After looking at this again, I am not sure who actually signed the documents. However, the documents are real and they are from the U.S. General Land Office Records. Looks like we are related!
Did Cyprien own slaves? I ask because my father did some research on his father, and so on and he traced it back to the Prien lake area. My father was born in Lake Charles, and his father was born just south of it. Im just trying to trace my folks, thanx!
Of course he did ! He owned 11 slaves in the 1850 census, all of them listed as mulattoes. I’m french and i have done a lot of genealogical search on the atakapas indians who lived near prien lake. The former slaves of cyprien duhon lived in their neighborhood and one of them (cyprien or prien)had children with an indian woman. I have a lot of documents on these people (joseph duhon and lise, their sons, alexandre, cyprien and his wife victorine, Lucien and his wife catherine foreman, théodule and his wife, catherine Lebleu, Norbert, joseph, Celise and their numerous children).
I will be glad to share with you all these informations !
Yann – I’d love to know more about the Duhon side of my family! Thank you for posting a comment. Just email me at annette@aberksan.com!
Best regards, Annette