Papers include a copy of the act of manumission of Angelique by Louis Fort of Natchitoches Parish (1819). Financial papers document the sale of cotton and the purchase of land by Pierre Edmond and Louis Onsime, children of Angelique; the purchases of land, goods, and a slave by Joseph Perot and members of his family including Chrisostome and Marie Rosalie, Joseph's wife. The last will of Louis Fort (1840) is included. Financial papers include receipts for subsistence supplies of L. Martin Joson of the Joson Plantation (1868), a statement of account with the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands signed by Mary Athalie Joson (1873), receipts of Peter Chelette, the teamster license of Emanuel Chelette (1893), and tax receipts of Atala Chelette (1900-1919).
