Cane River collection, 1827. - Cane River collection, 1827.

Louis Metoyer was a former enslaved person and propertied slaveholder born about 1770 to Marie Thérèze Coincoin (1742-1816?), a former enslaved person and property owner, and Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer (1744-1815), a white plantation owner and businessman. In 1802, he married Marie Thérèze LeComte, a half-Native American, former enslaved person born into the LeCourt household. The couple's children were Jean Baptiste Louis, Catiche, Rose, Thérèze, and Antoine.</br></br> Nicolas Augustin (1768-1856) was one of ten children born to Marie Thérèze Coincoin (1742-1816?), a former enslaved person, slave owner, and property owner, and Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer (1744-1815), a French-born, white plantation owner and businessman. He married Marie Agnes Poissot, a half-French, former enslaved person, who was born into the household of Pierre Derbanne. Their children were Marie Modeste, Marie Louise, J. B. Maxille, Auguste Augustin, J. B. Augustin, Marie Pompose, Joseph Augustin, François Gassion, and Marie Suzanne. Marie Thérèze Coincoin and Nicolas Augustin Metoyer are credited with founding the Cane River community, originally known as Isle Brevelle, in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.</br></br>Marie Françoise (died 1864) was a half-French, former enslaved person and the placée of Jean Baptiste Barthelemy Rachal (born 1784), a white planter. Three of their six children married the offspring of Dominique Metoyer (1776-1839), a free man of color, who was the son of Marie Thérèze Coincoin (1742-1816?) and Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer (1744-1815): Jean Baptiste Espallier Rachal married Susanne Metoyer; Pierre Rachal married Marie Perine, and Adélaïde Rachal married J. B. Dominique.