Antoine Dubuclet, a free man of color, presents to the court that he is a brick mason and "kettle setter" by trade and seeks the court's assistance in recovering a $300 debt plus interest from two planters named Henry Tenant and John Navy, partners under the "firm & style" of Tenant & Navy. He claims that, in 1842, Henry Tenant and John Navy hired him to "set & put up five sugar kettles" and to erect a chimney at the firm's sugar house. On February 15, 1843 he presented an account of his work, which the two men acknowledged to be accurate. However, they now refuse to pay and so Dubuclet prays the court to order them to pay the debt. A related petition revealed that members of the Dubuclet family were descended from a white planter.
Result: Dismissed.
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Repository: Iberville Parish Courthouse, Plaquemine, Louisiana
