The treaty-era fortune: the grants totalled, the cash stated at its record

1826–1835 · THE TREATY SCHEDULE AND CHAPMAN AT THE PAGE

The first fortune on this ground was paid in land, and the land can be totalled exactly. The Treaty of 16 October 1826 (7 Stat. 299) granted quarter-sections to the Carey Mission's scholars, and the people file counts fifty-eight such grants in this township — fifty-eight quarter-sections, 160 acres each under the mission law's terms, some 9,280 acres of the township granted by name to named pupils before a white settler bought an acre. The Bourissa family's share stands in the schedule: five quarter-sections (Joseph, Mark, Jude, Achan and Lazarus Bourissa), 800 acres, of which Lazarus's northeast quarter of Section 34 became the townsite, bought from the founder's account by Richard Carlisle from the Bourissa children in 1835. Chapman, at page 765, tells the transfer in his own spelling: the land "was first owned by Bursaw, a Frenchman, whose wife was an Indian; after his death the property descended to his children, and it was from them that it was bought by Mr. Carlisle." The cash side of the treaty fortune prints at its record's size: the treaty schedule pays in land, the children's sale price to Carlisle stands in no source reached, and the death-year cash holding the checklist asks for does not exist in this record — no probate account of a Bourissa estate stands in the sources read, and the two-conflicting-accounts pattern therefore has no accounts to carry: the leg prints the absence rather than staging a disagreement. Totalled: 800 acres to one family, 9,280 across the scholar grants, and the town itself as the fortune's residue — the one asset from the treaty era still on the ground.

Sources:

1. Notable People, nc-ppl-bourissa — the 58 scholar grants, the five Bourissa quarter-sections, the 1835 sale; the treaty schedule (7 Stat. 299) and the mission law's 160-acre term (Chapman, p. 764).
2. Chapman (1880), p. 765 — the descent and the sale, verbatim; read at the page for this section.
3. The probate absence: the searches of this section and the banked passes — no Bourissa estate account in the record reached; settler the county deed and probate record.