You know about how our people and their lands were sold, cheap, to the United States, by Napoleon, and the US people came and began to teach our people to speak English. Well, further, an act was passed by pillars of democracy, founding fathers, in the US Congress in March 1804 to establish the Territory of Orleans, out of what had once been the French colony of Louisiana. The appointed Legislative Council for the Territory of Orleans met in May 1805, and divided the Territory of Orleans into 12 counties, the County of Lafourche being one of them, with some of the administrative boundary lines, with some exceptions, as they had existed during the French and Spanish colonial periods. In 1807, the Territorial Legislators, by then including some native born Louisianians, divided counties into parishes (the former administrative units based on church parishes), thereby keeping us different from the rest of the country. The County of Lafourche became the parishes of Assumption and Lafourche Interior, being divided equally by population into two parts. In 1812, the US Congress, effective April 30, 1812, approved to bring the Territory of Orleans as the State of Louisiana into the US, with parishes as existing, plus enlarged boundaries of the former Spanish West Florida parishes. Later, in 1822, the State Legislature, based on population increases on the lower bayous, created the boundaries of Terrebonne Parish and Lafourche Parish out of the former Lafourche Interior Parish. In short, the present Terrebonne area was in the French and Spanish colonial administrative units of Lafourche Des Chitamatches, then in the Territorial County of Lafourche, then the Territorial Parish of Lafourche Interior, then the State Parish of Lafourche Interior, then in 1822 as the Parish of Terrebonne, having quite recently gained ground by agreement with Lafourche, in the Grand Bois area. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alice Chauvin Brad shaw,SWAMPQUEEN;" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:57 PM Subject: Re: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] MISSISSIPPI: All Counties - Index ofWorldWar 1 REGISTRANTS > thank you very much. off hand do you recall when Terrebone parish came > into being. i know that it changed some parishes.. > alice > > http://members.tripod.com/~grambk11/bev1 > ALLONS EN LOUISIANE! > Swampqueen - Reine des Bayous! > LAISSEZ LES BON TEMPS ROULLER! > > CHER YOU GOT'A DANCE LIKE NOBODY'S WATCHIN' & LOVE LIKE IT AIN'T EVER > GONNA HURT! > > MOJO & The Bayou Gypsies' Official Website! > > http://www.redhotmojo.com/ > > > ==== ACADIAN-CAJUN Mailing List ==== > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/ACADIAN-CAJUN.html > This is the link to our archives. You may search or browse. Also, > subscribe or unsubscribe and contact admin. > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >