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Title
Cane River collection, 1833.
Biographical Information
Auguste Augustin Metoyer (born 1800) was a merchant, planter, community leader, Creole, and free man of color of the Cane River settlement of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. His parents were Nicholas Augustin Metoyer and Marie Agnes Poissot, both free people of color. Auguste’s father, Nicholas 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. Marie Thérèze Coincoin and her son Nicholas Augustin Metoyer are credited with founding the Cane River community. Auguste Metoyer married his first cousin, Marie Thérèse Carmelite Anty, daughter of Dr. Joseph Conant and Marie Suzanne Metoyer (1768-1838), Nicolas Augustin's twin sister.</br></br>Joseph Ozemme Metoyer (1815-1833) was a free man of color born to Jean Baptiste Dominique Metoyer (1776-1839) and Marguerite Lecompte, both free people of color of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Dominique (1776-1839) was the son of Marie Thérèze Coincoin (1742-1816?), a former enslaved person, landowner, and founder of the Cane River settlement, and Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer (1744-1815), a white planter and businessman. Joseph married Catherine David, the oldest daughter of Magdeleine Grappe of Campti, a free woman of color.</br></br>Louis Balthazar (1807-1853) was the son of Balthazar Monet, a half-French, free man of color, and Marie Rose Metoyer (born 1792), the natural daughter of Louis Metoyer (1770-1832), a former enslaved person, and Marie Thérèze Lecomte, of full or partial Native American ancestry who was born an enslaved person into the LeCourt family. Balthazar died while his two children (including a daughter named Rose) were infants; they subsequently took the surname Balthazar and identified their father as Jean Baptiste Balthazar.
Date Created
1833
Description
Notarized documents including land sales, slave bills of sale, receipts, a marriage contract, and mortgages certified in 1833 by the Natchitoches Parish justice of the peace. Includes a land sale by Benoits Laurents and a mortgage by Etienne Lacaze both granted to Auguste Metoyer. Also present is a land sale by Pierre Lacour to Louis Balthazar and a land sale by Suzanne also known as ""Pinquette,"" a free woman of color, to Jean Joseph Emile Rast. Other documents include a marriage contract between Joseph Ozemme Metoyer and Catherine David. All but one document in French.
Type of Resource
text
Size
19 items.
Language
French
Language
English
Source
The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, La., http://www.hnoc.org/
Digital Collection
Revealing an Unknown Past: Free People of Color in Louisiana and the Lower Mississippi Valley
Repository Collection
Cane River Collection, MSS 182, Williams Research Center, The Historic New Orleans Collection.
Shelf Location
MSS 182, Box 7, Folders 355-373
Contact Information
To inquire about ordering copies of these images, email louisquery@hnoc.org.
Rights
Physical rights are retained by the Historic New Orleans Collection. Copyright of the original material is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. Permission to reproduce this image must be requested through the repository that holds the original.
Preferred Citation
Cane River Collection, MSS 182, Williams Research Center, The Historic New Orleans Collection.
Related Collections
Adeleda Metoyer Papers, Mss. 836, 837, LSU Libraries.; Louis Metoyer Document, Mss. 849, LSU Libraries.; Metoyer Family Papers, Mss. 837, 846, LSU Libraries.; Dupre and Metoyer and Company Account Book, Mss. 834, LSU Libraries.; Norbert Badin Papers, Mss. 825, LSU Libraries.; Auguste Metoyer Papers, Mss. 871, LSU Libraries.
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