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Title
Cane River collection, 1835.
Biographical Information
Auguste Augustin Metoyer (born 1800) was a merchant, planter, community leader, landowner, 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 slave, 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>Jean Baptiste Louis Metoyer (1800-1838) was a free man of color and propertied slave owner born to Louis Metoyer (1770?-1832), a former enslaved person, and Marie Thérèze LeComte, a woman of full or partial Native American ancestry and a former enslaved person of the LeCourt household. The parents of Louis Metoyer were Marie Thérèze Coincoin (1742-1816?), a former enslaved person, property owner, and founder of the Cane River settlement, and Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer (1744-1815), a white plantation owner and businessman.</br></br>Marie Suzanne Metoyer (1768-1838) was a free woman of color and landowner born to Marie Thérèze Coincoin (1742-1816?), a former enslaved person, property owner, and founder of the Cane River settlement, and Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer (1744-1815), a French-born, white plantation owner and businessman. Around 1795, she entered into plaçage with Dr. Joseph Conant, and the couple had one son, Florentin Conant. Around 1798, she became the placée of Jean Baptiste Anty, a white planter. Together they had at least four daughters: Marie Susanne (also known as ""Suzette""), Marie Aspasie, Marie Thereze Carmelite, and Marie Arsene.
Date Created
1835
Description
Chiefly notarized documents including land sales, slave bills of sale, a procuration, and a mortgage signed in 1835 by the Natchitoches Parish justice of the peace. Papers relating to free people of color include a mortgage granted by Jacques Porter, a free man of color, to Jean Baptiste Louis Metoyer and a land sale conveying the property of Etienne Lacaze to Auguste Metoyer. Also present is a slave bill of sale in which an enslaved woman is sold by Suzanne Metoyer to Florentin Conant. All but four documents 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 8, Folders 395-413
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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