Cane River collection, 1831. - Cane River collection, 1831.

Jean Baptiste Dominique Metoyer (known as Dominique) was a businessman and free man of color born to Dominique Metoyer, a former enslaved person, and Marie Marguerite LeComte, a free woman of color. Dominique Metoyer (1776-1839) was the son of Marie Thérèse 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. J. B. Dominique Metoyer was a principal in the mercantile firm, Dupré, Metoyer & Company, which included his cousin, Emanuel Dupré, a free man of color, and two white businessmen, Nicolas Gracia and Charles F. Benoist. In 1807, he married Emanuel Dupré's sister, Marie Louise Doralise Dupré (born 1807), the daughter of Joseph Dupré and Marie Adelaïde Mariotte (born approximately 1780-1783). Marie Adelaïde's grandmother was Marie Thérèse Coincoin. In 1816, he married Adelaïde Rachal, a free woman of color (described as a quadroon). Together the couple had at least one child, a daughter named Athanase Vienne Metoyer (1813-1833).</br></br>Jean Baptiste Espallier ""Paliere"" Rachal (1797?-1847?) was a propertied slave owner, gin operator, billiard hall owner, and free man of color from Isle Brevelle in Natchitoches Parish. He was born to Marie Françoise Rachal (died 1864), a half-French, former enslaved person, and Jean Baptiste Barthelemy Rachal (born 1784), a white planter. He married Susanne Metoyer (born 1802), the daughter of Dominique Metoyer (1776-1839), a creole founder of the Cane River settlement, and Marie Marguerite LeComte, a free woman of color (born 1780). The couple had a daughter named Marie Celina Rachal (born 1820).</br></br>Pierre Mission Rachal was a free man of color born about 1802 to Jean Baptiste Barthelemy Rachal (born 1784), a white planter, and his half-French, freed slave, Marie Francoise LeCompte (died 1864). Pierre married Marie Perine Metoyer, the daughter of Dominique Metoyer (1776-1839), a former enslaved person, and Marie Marguerite LeComte, a free woman of color.</br></br>Manuel Llorens (born 1797?) was a Creole and a free man of color born in New Orleans to François Llorens and his placée, François Nivette. The family settled in Natchitoches before 1810. Manuel married Marie Arsense Anty, the quadroon daughter of Jean Baptiste Anty, a white planter, and Marie Suzanne Metoyer (1768-1838), a free woman of color. Marie Suzanne Metoyer was the daughter of Marie Thérèse Coincoin (1742-1816?) and Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer (1744-1815).