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INVENTORY OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES BOWIE, FREE MAN OF COLOR - 1832
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Note: This document has significant bleed-through damage and some parts are illegible as a result: State of Louisiana } Parish of Catahoula} Be it known to all whom it may concern know you that I Samuel Lightner Judge of the Parish of Catahoula aforesaid Did on this twelfth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two repair to the late Plantation of James Bowie deceased a Free man of Colour when and where I took an Inventory of said deceased to be appraised the property of the said deceased as follows 640 Acres of Land in the Bushley five hundred dollars 500.00 50 ditto ditto of the A[illegible] Tract fifty dollars 50.00 One Negro Man named Charlie six hundred dollars 600.00 One Negro Man named Thomas six hundred dollars 600.00 One Negro Woman named Salina four hundred fifty dolls 450.00 350 head of Cattle fourteen hundred dollars 1400.00 150 ditto Hogs three hundred dollars 300.00 13 ditto Horses four hundred & fifty five dollars 455.00 One Note [illegible] for Sixty dollars with 60.00 ten per cent Interest there abouts after date One ditto ditto for Seven dollars twenty five cents 7.25 One note or [illegible] in the Hands of Robert Fristo and Isaac Bowden payable to B. King for Seventy Eight dollars fifty six and one fourth 78.56 1/4 One note on James Doss for seven dollars 7.00 One Improvement for water rights fifty dollars 50.00 __________________ 4557.81 1/4
When he died sometime before the date of this document (October 12, 1832), James Bowie, free man of color left a wife and seven young children. He was probably in his mid to late thirties at the time of his death. The cause of his death may never be known. There were periodic cholera epidemics, dysentery outbreaks and many other diseases that are all but unknown in the today's United States but greatly contributed to the short life spans in the early years of the 19th century.
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