| 1799 May 23 |
The Baron de Bastrop sells the "grant" to Col. Abraham Morehouse before Gabriel J. Johnson a Kentucky Justice of the Peace. Morehouse was originally from Montgomery County New York, claimed to be a Colonel in the New York Militia, and had abandoned a wife and two young sons there before he began speculation on land in Kentucky, Virginia and Louisiana. |
| 1799 September |
Colonel Abraham Morehouse arrives at Ouachita in association
with Baron
de Bastrop. Abraham Morehouse marries Eleanor Hook a ward of Chevalier D'Anemours and orphaned daughter of Joseph and Sophie Hook of Baltimore. before Commandant Don Juan Filhiol. Morehouse had established a plantation near Bayou de Siard, but soon relocated to Prairie Mer Rouge. |
| 1799 December 11 |
Morehouse presents to new ad interim governor Casa Calvo a petition requesting the rights and privileges from the Baron's grant. The next day Casa Calvo recommends to Morales that they be granted. |
| 1800 September 13 |
Morehouse deeds the grant back to Baron de Bastrop, since he cannot profit from his purchase. Soon after he and his new wife moved to Kentucky until the cession of La. to the U. S. |
| 1804 January 25 |
Baron de Bastrop deeds to Morehouse an undivided 2/3s interest in the whole "grant" before Pedro Pedesclaux in N. O. On the same day he passes the other third to Edward Livingston. |
| 1805 May 18 |
Settlement between Baron
de Bastrop, Morehouse and Col. Charles Lynch which further complicates
the land. Bastrop then moves to Texas. About this time Morehouse builds a house near Mer Rouge which he calls Belle Grove. |
| 1807 |
At this time Morehouse owns 4/10ths interest in the remaining Bastrop land and Edward Livingston owns 6/10ths. |
| 1807 September 15 |
Morehouse sells a tract to Captain Josiah Davenport. |
| 1809 |
Andrew Young Morehouse arrives in Ouachita and Abraham's young wife, after bearing five children finds out that his first wife is still alive in New York. |
| 1812 December 14 |
Morehouse files his claim for his part of the Bastrop "grant" with the Board of Land Commissioners for the Western District of Orleans Territory. |
| 1813 |
Abraham Morehouse dies at Selzertown a small hamlet on the Natchez Trace at the house of his brother Reuben. He has made almost 100 sales from his portion of the land, to people who actually settled on the land at Prairie Mer Rouge and Prairie Jefferson now called Oak Ridge. and at Point Pleasant on Bayou Bartholomew, on the road from Mer Rouge to Fort Miro and in the other direction the old town of Ouachita City on the River in Union Parish. |
| 1831 August 16 |
Charles F. Morehouse sells his house to Elijah W. Brown. |
| 1844 March 25 |
A new parish is carved from the northern and northeastern section of the County and Parish of Ouachita. It is called Morehouse and its seat is called Bastrop. |