Cane River collection, 1826. - Cane River collection, 1826.

Marie Agnes Poissot (1769-1839) was a half-French, former enslaved person, whose mother was, Françoise, the slave and cook of Pierre Derbanne. Marie was traded at the age of six to a neighboring planter, Athanase Poissot, whose father, Remy Poissot, subsequently freed her. She married Nicolas Augustin (1768-1856) a former enslaved person, slave owner, and property owner born to Marie Thérèze Coincoin (1742-1816?), a free woman of color, and Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer (1744-1815), a French-born, white plantation owner. The children of Marie Agnes and Nicolas Augustin were Marie Modeste, Marie Louise, J. B. Maxille, Auguste Augustin, J. B. Augustin, Marie Pompose, Joseph Augustin, Francois Gassion, and Marie Suzanne. Her sister, Marguerite LaFantasy, also a former enslaved person, was married François Metoyer (1784-1862), the brother of Nicolas Augustin.</br></br>Antoine Joseph Metoyer (1778-1838) was a former enslaved person, emancipated by his father as an infant, who became a landowner in the Red River area of Natchitoches Parish. He 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 Pelagie LeCourt with whom he had nine children: Marie Susanne, Marie Anasthasie, Marie Aspasy, Joseph, Jr., Marie Deneige, Marie Celina, Marie Elina, Joseph Zenes, and St. Cyr Hypolite. His mother and his brother, Nicholas Augustin Metoyer, are credited with founding the Cane River community, originally known as Isle Brevelle in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.</br></br>Dominique Metoyer (1776-1839) was a former enslaved person and one of ten children of Marie Thérèze Coincoin (1742-1816?), a former enslaved person and one of the founders of the Cane River settlement, and Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer (1744-1815), a white plantation owner and businessman. In 1795, he married Marie Marguerite LeComte, a half-French, former enslaved person born around 1781 to Marie, a slave in the LeComte household. Marie Marguerite and Dominique had at least 17 children: an unnamed infant, Jean Baptiste Dominique, Joseph Dominique, Marie Susanne, Marie Perine, Narcisse Dominique, Marie Silvie, Joseph Ozeme, Marie Louise Theotis, Marguerite Arthemise, Marie Cephalide, Marie Celine, Louis Dominique; Jean Baptiste Dominique, cadet; Marie Lise, Marie Marguerite, and Ambroise Chastain.</br></br>Pierre Mission Rachal was a free man of color born about 1802 to Jean Baptiste Rachal, a white planter, and Marie Francoise LeCompte, his half-French freed slave. He married Marie Perine Metoyer, the daughter of Dominique and Marie Marguerite LeCompte Metoyer.</br></br>Pierre Metoyer (1772-1833) was a former enslaved person and one of ten children of Marie Thérèze Coincoin (1742-1816?) and Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer (1744-1815). He married Marie Perine Lecomte in 1803, and their children were Marie Suzanne (Suzette), Athanase Vienne (Tanasitte), and Pierre, Jr. In 1817 he married Marie Henriette Dorothee. The couple's children were Marie Ozitte, Nerestan Pierre, Auguste Dorestan, and Marie Elise.