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Title
Cane River collection, 1848.
Biographical Information
Marie Marguerite LeComte was a half-French, former enslaved person born around 1781 to Marie, an enslaved woman of the LeComte household in Natchitoches Parish. In 1795, she married Dominique Metoyer, a free man of color born to Marie Thérèze Coincoin (1742-1816?), a former enslaved person, slave owner, and founder of the Cane River settlement, and Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer (1744-1815), a French-born, white plantation owner, and businessman. 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>Émile Colson (active 1836-1849) was a free man of color, blacksmith, and surveyor of the Cane River community in Natchitoches Parish. In 1836, he married Marie Aglaé Metoyer, a free woman of color born to Jean Baptiste Dominique Metoyer (1797-1850) and Marie Louise Doralise Dupre (born 1807). Marie Aglaé was also the widow of Louis Porter.
Date Created
1848
Description
Primarily notarized documents including financial records, land sales, and a slave bill of sale signed in 1848 by the Natchitoches Parish notary public. Papers relating to free people of color include a land sale by Marie Marguerite LeComte to Emile Colson and a slave bill of sale conducted by Joseph and Dorotee Lavigne, a married couple who were both Creoles and free people of color. The bulk of the documents are in French.
Type of Resource
text
Size
26 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 19, Folders 1007-1032
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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