The land now operated by the Charlow Creek Hunting Club, is thought to have been the last home place of Charlot Roi, his son Louis, and oldest son Auguste Roi and his wife Mahala Piles Roi and their children Sarah, Hannah, Charles, James, Susan, William and Frank who was my great grandfather. The Rois who were known as the Charlots in their life times and Shilohs by later generations were a free black family with long roots on the Ouachita. Charlot, who was born near where the courthouse in Monroe, La. now stands, circa 1783, was the son of Auguste Roi I, who came to the area with Don Juan Filhiol to establish the Ouachita Poste and a yet unidentified black mother. We have resorted to dna to prove Charlot's wife, called Dorcas is two early records, was in fact Hannah McMurtry who was born on February 9, 1786 in Burke County, North Carolina to Anne McMurtry a young white woman who married Hezekiah Hargrave scant  weeks before her daughter's birth. Hannah was the result of a relationship Ann had with a yet unknown black man. Hannah was set out as an indentured servant (to serve a term of 31 years) by her mother's husband shortly after her birth. She was first placed with William England, who released her to John Burney who relinquished his possession of Hannah to his father William Burney Sr. With William and his wife, Hannah migrated first to Kentucky for a number of years before the group finally joined the Baron de Bastrop migration party and settled at the Ouachita Poste in the spring of 1797.