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Hector, the slave of I.E. Trask, 1811 Territory of Orleansb>.
Jessamin, the slave of Noel Destrehan, 1811 Territory of Orleansb>.
County Court (Orleansb>) Keene, Richard Raynal, 1779-1839 1805-07-23 Indictment, set forth in the Territory of Orleansb>, County Court, of Charles Fasand for assault of Henrietta Gallop on June 23, 1805.

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The Marshals Monitor - September/October/November 2003

Established by an act of Congress in March 1804, the office of the U.S. marshal was created in the Territory of Orleansb> to solidify the recent Louisiana Purchase.
It was a wildly successful wholesale trade, and many of the people of New Orleansb> were enamored by him and very grateful for his commerce.
The Battle of New Orleansb>, pitting the Americans against the invading British forces on Jan. 8, 1815, was awash in subplots and celebrated historical figures, including the territorial governor's feud with famed pirate Jean Lafitte.

http://www.usmarshals.gov/monitor/sep2003/sep03c.htm (2676 words)



Louisiana Purchase - Open Encyclopedia

Effective on October 1, 1804, the purchased territory was organized into the Orleansb> Territory (most of which became the state of Louisiana) and the District of Louisiana, which was temporarily under the control of the Indiana Territory.
Napoléon added the money from the sale of the Louisiana territory to his massive war chest and began his plans to control the European continent.
The city of New Orleansb> controlled the Mississippi River, which was already important for shipping goods to and from the parts of the USA west of the Appalachian Mountains.

http://open-encyclopedia.com/Louisiana_Purchase (1667 words)



00480032.txt

The highest court of judicature, called the Superior Court of the territory of Orleansb>, was composed of three judges, of which one constituted a quorum, and was invested with original and appellate jurisdiction in criminal and civil causes.
These gentlemen, having finished the task imposed on them in 1808, reported " a Digest of the civil laws now in force in the Territory of Orleansb>, with alterations and amendments, adapted to the present form of government,'' which was adopted by the Legislature, and constitutes what, is at present called the old Civil Code.
In relation to the civil jurisprudence of the country, the necessity was immediately felt of reducing it to some sort of order, to enable those who had been appointed to govern, as well as to judge, to know what it was, a fact of which, at the time of their appointment, they were profoundly ignorant.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/rbc/rbfr/0008/00480032.txt (374 words)



The Remonstrance from Louisiana

Residents in the Territory of Orleansb> composed a similar document, and a three-man delegation from New Orleansb> delivered these documents to Washington in the winter of 1804-1805.
The Territory of Orleansb> was roughly the same size as the current State of Louisiana.
Congress passed a governance plan for Louisiana in March 1803 that divided the territory into two pieces: the Territory of Orleansb> and the District of Louisiana.

http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~landc/html/2075.html (260 words)



Orleansb>. 1890. History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts

The enactments of the latter governed the present territory of Orleansb>, from which a large proportion of the officers were chosen.
THE territory embraced within the present town of Orleansb> was chiefly included in that valuable tract known first to the Puritans as Nauset, and was therefore included in the first grant of 1640, as noticed in the history of Eastham, and for 154 years after its settlement was a part of that ancient town.
He has always acted in politics with the democratic party, and was among the first to put pen to paper in 1825 for the call of a meeting to organize the Universalist society of Orleansb>, which fact indicates his religious views.

http://capecodhistory.us/Deyo/Orleans-Deyo.htm (16687 words)



Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2: Sere v. Pitot

The present inquiry is limited to a suit brought by or against a citizen of the territory, in the district court of Orleansb>.
Whether the citizens of the territory of Orleansb> are to be considered as the citizens of a state, within the meaning of the constitution, is a question of some difficulty which would be decided, should one of them sue in any of the circuit courts of the United States.
This suit was brought in the court of the United States for the Orleansb> territory, by the plaintiffs, who are aliens, and syndics or assignees of a trading company composed of citizens of that territory, who have become insolvent.

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a4_3_2s4.html (547 words)



Destrehan Plantation

For some years after the U.S. purchase of Louisiana, the Creoles were far from contended with their new form of government, believing that the Territory of Orleansb> should be admitted into the union as a State.
But a majority in Congress declared that a people who had long been accustomed to the despotic rule of Spain must serve an apprenticeship before they could be regarded as ready to adopt the free institutions of the United States.
In addition, the Territorial council was responsible for sub-dividing the political landscape into Parishes, as opposed to counties, as in the rest of the country.

http://www.destrehanplantation.org/jefftext.htm (415 words)



Arkansas Post National Memorial - Arkansas Post Timeline: Territorial Years – 1804-1821

The Territory of Orleansb> becomes the State of Louisiana, to avoid confusion, the Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory.
November 30 The first lodge of Masons in the new territory was organized at Arkansas Post.
The county then included most of the present-day state of Arkansas and was still governed by Missouri Territory.

http://www.nps.gov/arpo/timeline/timeline_03.htm (865 words)



LOUISIANA PURCHASE - LoveToKnow Article on LOUISIANA PURCHASE

In November 181] a convention met at New Orleansb> and framed a constitution under which, on the 3oth of April 1812, the Territory of Orleansb> became the state of Louisiana.
At other times New Orleansb> has been the capital, and here too have always been various state offices which in other states ordinarily are in the state capital.
One historic clash in New Orleansb> (on the 14th of September 1874) between the White League (White Mans Party) and the Republican police is commemorated by a monument, and the day is regarded by Louisianans as a sort of state independenceday.

http://97.1911encyclopedia.org/L/LO/LOUISIANA_PURCHASE.htm (2061 words)



It's a parish, not a county, for a good reason - By BUDDY STALL

The Legislature of the Orleansb> territory declared there would be 45 representatives – all from the original 12 counties and not from the 19 parishes.
The population of the Territory of Orleansb> was small and scattered.
The lower part, composed of approximately the present State of Louisiana, was called the Territory of Orleansb> and was governed by a legislative council.

http://clarionherald.org/20020731/stall.htm (671 words)



The Louisiana Almanac- Louisiana History

In 1812 the Territory of Orleansb> and a small part of West Florida, still claimed by Spain, were admitted to the Union as Louisiana, the 18th state.
In 1804 the region was divided into two sections- the District of Louisiana (later Missouri Territory), north of the 33rd parallel; and the Territory of Orleansb>, south of the parallel.
In January 1815, the British attacked New Orleansb>, unaware that a peace treaty to end the War of 1812 had been signed two weeks earlier.

http://louisianahistory.ourfamily.com/history.html (596 words)



Territory Timeline

The Territory of Orleansb> has a total population of 77,000 people.
Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indian leaders agree to move to reservations in Dakota Territory; the U.S. government agrees to abandon roads and forts in the Powder River region, and permit the Indians to retain use of the old hunting grounds east of the Bighorn Mountains in southern Montana Territory.
New Orleansb> and all of Louisiana west of the Mississippi goes to Spain.

http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=332 (1431 words)



Florida Territory Becomes Our 27th State

After years of border arguments, Spain finally agreed to cede the Florida Territory to the U.S. in 1819 by signing the Adams-Onis Treaty, signed by Spanish minister Luis de Onis and U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams.
With numerous boundary disputes, Spain's claim to Florida grew shaky.
West Florida and the "territory of OrlÃ©ans," 1806

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/reform/florida_3 (91 words)



Territory

1804 Territory of Orleansb> organizes in Louisiana Purchase
1977 Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1949 Administration of territory of Manipur taken over by Indian government

http://www.brainyhistory.com/topics/t/territory.html (596 words)



GACHGS.COM St. John the Baptist Parish

The Territory of Orleansb> along with the West Florida Republic became the state of Louisiana in 1812.
On March 31, 1807 the Legislative Council of the Territory of Orleansb> redivided the original twelve counties into nineteen parishes, based on the ecclesiastical boundaries of the period of Spanish government.
Our state was known as the Territory of Orleansb> and it's governing body, the Legislative Council, divided the territory into twelve counties: Acadia, Attakapas, Concordia, German Coast, Iberville, Lafourche, Natchitoches, Opelousas, Orleansb>, Ouachita, Pointe-Coupée, and Rapides.

http://www.gachgs.com/st_john.htm (422 words)



Orleansb> Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Orleansb> Territory was a historic, organized territory of the United States formed out of the first subdivision of the Louisiana Purchase.
All of the Louisiana Purchase south of the 33rd parallel became the Territory of Orleansb>, and the remainder became the District of Louisiana.
On April 10, 1805, the Territorial Legislature organized 12 counties(starting from the southeast corner moving west and north): Orleansb> County, LaFourche County, German Coast, Acadia County, Iberville County, Attakapas County, Pointe Coupée County, Opelousas County, Rapides County, Concordia County, Natchitoches County and Ouachita County.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territory_of_Orleans (256 words)



Article 3, Section 2, Clause 2: Durousseau v. United States

This is the first of several writs of error to sundry judgments rendered by the court of the United States for the territory of Orleansb>.
It would be found difficult to maintain the proposition, that investing the judge of the territory of Orleansb> with the same jurisdiction and powers which were exercised by the judge of Kentucky, imposed upon that jurisdiction the same restrictions arising from the power of a superior court, as were imposed on the court of Kentucky.
The act erecting Louisiana into two territories establishes a district court in the territory of Orleansb>, consisting of one judge who "shall, in all things, have and exercise the same jurisdiction and powers which are, by law, given to, or may be exercised by, the judge of Kentucky district."

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a3_2_2s9.html (1690 words)



FRANCOIS XAVIER MARTIN - LoveToKnow Article on FRANCOIS XAVIER MARTIN

Martin published in 1811 and 1813 reports of cases decided by the superior court of the territory of Orleansb>.
In 18o9 be was commissioned a judge of the superior court of the territory of Mississippi, and in March 1810 became judge of the superior court of the territory of Orleansb>.
Martins eyesight had begun to fail when he was seventy, and after 1836 he could no longer write opinions with his own hand.1 He died in New Orleansb> on the xith of December 1846.

http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/M/MA/MARTIN_FRANCOIS_XAVIER.htm (396 words)



Louisiana Timeline: Year 1804

The United States establishes the Territory of Orleansb> by the act of March 26, 1804 in that area that now forms most of the state.
The population of the area to become the Territory of Orleansb> is 45,000 and greater New Orleansb> about 10,000.
The city of New Orleansb> petitions Congress for rights to public buildings and properties including land under the old fortifications.

http://www.enlou.com/time/year1804.htm (1610 words)



Louisiana County Record Descriptions

Third, surveyors were to go to the territory of Orleansb> to establish a system of subdividing the vacant public lands.
The territory of Louisiana consisted of that area above the 33rd degree latitude, and the territory of Orleansb> covered that part below the 33rd latitude, or what is now basically the state of Louisiana.
Congress appointed district land registers and opened the United Stated District Land Office in New Orleansb> for the eastern division of the territory of Orleansb> and a land office at Opelousas for the western division of the territory of Orleansb>.

http://www.mylouisianagenealogy.com/la_records/land.htm (681 words)



Claiborne, William Charles Coles. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05

However, when the Territory of Orleansb> was admitted to the Union in 1812 as the state of Louisiana, Claiborne was elected governor and served until 1816.
In 1803, Claiborne was one of the commissioners appointed to receive Louisiana from France after the Louisiana Purchase, and he was governor (1804–12) of the newly organized Territory of Orleansb>.
American government was not well received by the Creoles, and Claiborne had many quarrels with legislators and others.

http://www.bartleby.com/65/cl/ClaibornWC.html (215 words)



Albert Gallatin Van Pradelles: Cotton Merchant of Wallisville, Texas

During the New Orleansb> period, there were some lawsuits involving Cassandra Van Pradelles and her heirs, which should be mentioned.
At some time after the 1811 New Orleansb> city directory was published, Cassandra took her children to Maryland and left them in the custody of her sister Frances.
Van Pradelles was born in New Orleansb> on Oct. 29, 1808, and his father, being an admirer of President Jeffersons Secretary of Treasury, named him Albert Gallatin.

http://www.wtblock.com/wtblockjr/pradelles.htm (4978 words)



Welcome to the Best of New Orleansb>!

Poydras was, in 1811, the Territory of Orleansb>’ delegate to Congress where he proposed statehood.
It was he, Poydras claimed, who suggested to Bertrand Gravier that he divide up his lands in 1788 to form New Orleansb>’ first suburb, Faubourg St. Marie.
CORRECTION: Thanks to the good people at the Jackson Barracks Military Library, I was reminded that, in my account of presidents who had visited New Orleansb>, I stated that Ulysses S. Grant had visited here in 1863 and 1880, but omitted the fact that he had also spent time at Jackson Barracks in 1846.

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/archives/2001/0213/feat-blak.html (837 words)



The 19th century (from Louisiana) -- Encyclopædia Britannica

In 1810 the Territory of Orleansb> consisted of 77,000 people, and statehood proposals were beginning to be heard.
Louisiana was subsequently divided into the Territory of Orleansb>, which consisted essentially of the state within its present boundaries, and the Territory of Louisiana, which included all the vast area drained by the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
Louisiana Creole, which is closely related to Haitian Creole, should not be confused with either Louisiana provincial standard French, spoken by the descendants of the French upper classes in and around New Orleansb>, nor with the language of the Cajuns; both of the latter are dialects of...

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-78466?tocId=78466 (918 words)



New Orleansb> History

Louisiana became the 18th state on Apr. 12, 1812, comprising the territory south of 33 deg North latitude, which had been the Territory of Orleansb>.
During the Civil War, the importance of the port of New Orleansb> and Louisiana's strategic position on the Mississippi made it an early Union target; the state's economy was devastated.
The battle ended 15 days after the Treaty of Ghent was signed, ending the war.

http://www.gatewayno.com/history/Histroy.html (999 words)



Hotel Maison de Ville - New Orleansb> Local Guide

As capital of the Louisiana Territory, New Orleansb> was intended to extend France’s dominion along the Gulf of Mexico past the established, but poorly managed, colonies of Mobile and Biloxi.
Colonists were lured to New Orleansb> and the city soon became the major settlement in the New World, bustling with industry and bristling with political importance.
New Orleansb> was established in 1718 by Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, on a site that for centuries had been an Indian portage between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River.

http://www.maisondeville.com/location (265 words)



Louisiana History

Claiborne is appointed governor of the Territory of Orleansb>
In 1763, Spain ceded to Great Britain, the territory East of the Mississippi River and North of the Isle of Orleansb>, including the Florida parishes (see map) that were regained by Governor Galvez in 1779.
Thirteen states or parts of states have been carved from The Louisiana Purchase Territory.

http://www.thecajuns.com/lahist.htm (601 words)



louisiana-purchase.org

On April 30th, 1803 the United States contracted to pay France $11.25 million plus a cancellation of debts for $3.75 million or $15 million for 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River known as the Louisiana Territory.
Thirteen states were carved from the Louisiana Territory.
The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States, making it one of the largest nations in the world.

http://www.jamesmonroe.net/louisiana-purchase.org (1561 words)



Romance Comes with the Territory in New Orleansb>

New Orleansb> has an aura of romance unlike any other city I have visited.
Most major airlines fly into the New Orleansb> Airport, which is some distance from the downtown area.
New Orleansb> is a tantalizing place for lovers, and a favorite place for honeymooners.

http://www.lovetripper.com/ARTICLES/a.us.la.neworleans.GW.html (1372 words)

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