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Pt. Lot 120, First Ward, Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, Miss.
This parcel of land was originally part of Elmwood Plantation.
Jesse Cowand, the owner, died in 1052. June 28, 1853 it was ordered that a Writ of Dpwer issue to Elisabeth Cowand, widow of Jesse Cowandj allotting certain lands, the dwelling house, together with the offices and houses, out houses and buildings to the said Elizabeth, etc.
Feb. 7. 185? - Sale of personal property of Estate of Jesse Cowand which included slaves, live stock, household furnishings, etc. June \ 1855 - Final account filed in Admlnisatration of the Estate of Jesse Cowand in First District Court of New Orleans.
August 24, 1858, decree of confirmation in the partition of lands of Jesse Cowand among the ten heirs was ordered in the Town of Gainesville
Allottment and partition of lands among heirs July 30, 1875*
Lot 2, Front lots, drawn by heirs of Fary Elizabeth Liebrook:
Henry Leibrook, Charles Leibrook, Lucinda Leibrook and Timmins Leibrook.
Henry F. Leibrook & wife to Lucinda R. Leibrook and//.’illlam Tiirirlns Leibrook, minors, represented by their father Franc<ts Leibrook. Conveyance — dated August 5. 1872 Recorded Book F, page 132
Release and discharge and by these presents have granted, bargained, sold, aliened, remised, released, conveyed and confirm unto the said parties of the second part and to their heirs and assigns forever - all the estate, right, title and Interest, share, claim and demand of every nature and kind whatever which the said Henry Francis Leibrook owns, possessed or Is entitled to in and to the Estate of his mother, the late Mary Elizabeth Leibrook, deceased, wife of Francis Leibrook, so far as the same relates to and regards any real estate situate in the Counties of Harrison and Hancock and State of Mississippi. Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereto belonging or In anywise appertaining and the revision and revisions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof. Etc.
(Fary Elizabeth Leibrook was a daughter of Jesse Cowand. It is believed that the house built on Lot 120 was constructed curing the 1850s by Fary Elizabeth Leibrook and her husband Francis Leibrook and before her death in 1861.)


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