LAND GRANTS
In 1816 the United States Land Office sent representatives to Natchitoches, although previously representatives had been in Natchitoches in 1806 to register land claims within the Neutral Strip area. Proof was demanded of people settling land in the Neutral Strip, referring to either French or Spanish grants.
In 1730 Zavallez, then Governor of Los Adais, granted three square leagues of land to Manuel Sanchez on Los Pedro Creek (Bayou Pierre), the grant was listed as La Nana de Los Rio Pedro. (Note: The wife of St. Denis was a Sanchez, her mother being Maria Esperrillo Sanchez before her marriage to Don Diago Ramone). The Sanchez Grant is also referred to as Los Tres Llanos (Three Plains) was approved again in 1742 by Governor Larros in the name of Governor Winthusin. The son of Manuel Sanchez was eighty two years of age when in 1832 a clear title was issued by the United States Land Office. The Sanchez family had lived on the land 102 years before they obtained a clear title to it.
Juan de Mora was granted one league square of land on Bayou Dupont at Los Adais by Zavallez which is the land located in an area known today as “Fish Pond Bottom.”
Testimony of Gregoria Mora before the land office officials shows: “This is a receipt of tithes I collected on land west of the Calcasieu River, West of Bayou Kisachey and west of Arroyo Hondo. Also west of Bayou Pedro (Bayou Pierre) dated in Nacogdoches, Feb. 27, 1797, and signed by Jose Maria Guadiana (Rubric)
| Owner of Land | Location |
|---|---|
| Pablo Lifita | Los Pedros Creek (Bayou Pierre) |
| Andres Balentine | ″ |
| Jose Lavina | Los Cebellas Prairie |
| Pedro Dolet | Los Adais Creek (Winn Creek) |
| Antonio Dubois | ″ |
| Francisco Prudhomme | In village of Adais Indians, one mile north of Robeline near site of the Presidio de Los Adais. |
| Francisco Morban (Der Bonne) | Dorango Creek (west of the village of Allen and three miles northwest of the village of Shamrock) |
| Widdow of Tontin Bisson | On Topolcot Creek at Allen site, near Leroy Anderson Plantation |
| Manuel Prudhomme | On Lago Ocosa Near Cypress, Louisiana |
| Marfil | On Lago de Los Adais (Spanish Lake) |
| Francois Rouquier | West of Lago Tierre Noir (Sibley Lake) |
| Santiago Wallace (Englishman) | On San Juan Creek (Bay St. John in the Lake Charles area) |
| Jose Piernas | At Santo Maria Adelaide (vicinity of Zwolle, Louisiana) |