TO, garic (nikki) barranger neal and lorraine pendleton +JUNGLE PLANTATIONS/RUINS+ new orleans/french west indies +MARCH 2009 EXPEDITION+ +HELLO NEAL, LORRAINE AND NIKKI+, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >marianne and i are looking forward to seeing you on march 13 at the >HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS C O L L E C T I O N ^^^^^^^^^^^ >john lawrence has just sent an e-mail inviting us to the HNOC that morn i hope at 9am, although they open at 10, am inquiring about that. >HE SHALL HAVE DAKIN DOCUMENTA (architect for the cavaroc house and the old state capitol, baton rouge) >AND CAVAROC DOCUMENTA. +(lets not forget charles cavaroc's leROY MOTHER RELATED TO deGRUYS AND ROY ALCIA- TORRE OF ANTOINE'S >R E S T A U R A N T<. >(they also figure in the invention of the sazerac and ramos gin fizz , famous n.o. drinks.) >I JUST RECIEVED AN E-MAIL FROM THE AMERICAN SUGAR REFINERY REGARDING CAVAROC HOUSE VIEWING THAT AFTERNOON. >they are considering my offer to trade the use of my very old photo of the house for the ability to view the interior. >IF POSSIBLE I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SEARCH FOR THE LOST deGRUY/ BACHEMIN KINGS LAND GRANT PLANTATION NEAR ENGLISH TURN ON THE EAST BANK. >NEAR THE CHOUACHAS CONCESSION >NEXT TO SAUCIER PLANTATION (the site should be documented >at tulane or at hnoc.) >SEE P 106,"ARCH. OF COLONIAL LA." BY SAMUEL WILSON. >this is the land grant that gilbert degruy worked so hard to regain in the 1950s +GARIC/SAUCIER/deGRUY/BACHEMIN+ the saga of the plaquemine parish deGRUY KING'S LAND GRANT +JUNGLE PLANTATION+. >please google the following to read messages that i wrote about this on october 15 and 16, 2007 >EUGENE RAY / DUCOTEAU SAUCIER< google this and you will find that... +A SYNCHRONISTIC STORY+ +ducoteau saucier was the king's surveyor who surveyed the king louis 15 land grant to the degruy family in 1746, >lost by degruy bachemin heirs in 1935 for non payment of taxes. >(lawyer a.j. weysham argued, without success that taxes not required on KINGS LAND GRANTS >(my uncle lloyd (degruy) ray was a n.o. real estate lawyer and probably knew about this) >what about this nikki ? >WHAT INTRIGUES THIS STORY IS THAT OUR GARIC AND deGRUY ANCESTORS WERE INVOLVED +AND LATER CHARLES CAVAROC+ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +CHALMETTE PLANTER+ >francois garic was married to armentine (GRANDSON OF J.B. GARIC, PIONEER N.O. NOTARY) >saucier daughter of ducateau saucier >FRANCOIS GARIC AND MY G. GRAND FATHER CHARLES CAVAROC WERE ASSOCIATED IN BUILDING THE MEXICAN GULF RAILROAD. >this pioneer railroad later known as the "shell beach road" ran through st. bernard parish where they both owned plantations. >ANOTHER BIT OF SYNCHRONICITY< is that my degruy g. grandfather +JAMES VELOIN deGRUY+ >died in the cavaroc plantation house of a heart attack while >WORKING AS AN OFFICER >OF THE AMERICAN SUGAR REFINERY ! >see you on march 13... ALL BEST gene