Laurence Chauvin de Léry

Laurence married Chevalier de St. Louis Charles de l'Homme in 1752 in Louisiana, USA. Charles (son of Living and Living) was born in in France; died on 24 Feb 1783. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living
2. Living
3. Edmé Joseph de l'Homme was born in 1754 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; died on 5 Feb 1803 in St Charles, Louisiana, USA.
4. Alexandre de l'Homme, I was born in 1757 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; died on 15 Apr 1820 in St Martinville, St Martin, Louisiana, USA; was buried in St Martinville, St Martin, Louisiana, USA.

Other Events:

• Baptism: Montréal, Quebec, Canada; Basilique Notre-Dame
• Residence: 1699, Biloxi, Harrison, Mississippi, USA; Fort Maurepas (Old Biloxi)
• Residence: 1719, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Tchoupitoulas district

Notes:

Joseph Chauvin was one of the first Canadians to arrive in Fort Maurepas (Old Biloxi) in 1699. He was a militia captain in the colony and a Choctaw Indian trader.

Joseph de Léry, Nicolas de la Frèniére, and Louis de Beaulieu left Biloxi on October 10, 1716, and taking with them 43,200 livres, they entered the state now called Texas, by way of Natchitoches. They traversed the state of Texas and reached Presidio del Norte on the Rio Grande in April, 1717. Upon arrival, the jealous and suspicious Spaniards rejected Bienville's well-intended plan for reciprocal trading rights, and seized the merchandise of his commercial envoys. The Chauvins returned to Biloxi in 1718 empty-handed.

The archives of French colonial Louisiana disclose that in March 1719, Joseph Chauvin de Léry, one of the six original pioneers, filed with the Superior Council an application for a concession of six arpents fron on the Mississippi, in the Tchoupitoulas district. At the same time three of his brothers, as well as one of his nephews, requested from the Council a similar conession in the same place. Being desirable settlers, their request was prompty granted and the four Chauvin brothers and their nephew became landed proprietors in Louisiana in 1719, a short wile after the foundation of New Orleans. The plantations of the Chauvin brothers stood next to the lands belonging to Governor Bienville.

Source: Stanley Clisby Arthur, George Campbell Huchet de Kernion, Old Families of Louisiana: (, 1931), Chauvin-de Lery-La Freniere Family, p.238-246.

CHAUVIN DELERY, Joseph, companion of the Le Moyne brothers, voyageur, concessionaire. Baptized, April 14, 1674; seventh child of Pierre Chauvin and Marthe Autreuil of the parish of Ville Marie, Montreal, Canada. Came to Louisiana with Iberville's second expedition; on roll of Canadians ordered to embark on the Renommée, at La Rochelle, October 17, 1699; listed in census of garrison at Bay of Biloxi, May, 1700; showed loyalty to Bienville (q.v.) during impeachment proceedings, 1708; adopted appellation of De Léry (also spelled Deléry). Married, 1708 or 1709, Hypolite Mercier, widow of Valentin Barreau, in Mobile. Children: Antoine Chauvin Deléry des Islets (in some records, Desilets Deléry), Nicolas Joseph Boisclair Deléry, both by Hypolite; and François, born of Joseph's second wife, Françoise Laurence LeBlanc, whom he married May 24 (or 27), 1726. Involved, 1716-1717, with two of his brothers, in the commercial company formed by Louis Juchereau de St-Denis (q.v.) when Antoine Crozat (q.v.) still held a monopoly on trade in Louisiana Province. In March, 1719, petitioned Superior Council for a concession of six arpents' frontage at The Chapitoulas, extending from Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain. Despite varied success with some crops, his and neighboring brothers' agricultural efforts earned praise of memorialist André Pénicaut (q.v.), and of perceptive traveller Pierre de Charlevoix, S. J. (q.v.). In 1724, Deléry had under cultivation 140 cleared arpents producing 500 to 600 measures of rice, 60 barrels of corn and 500 barrels of potatoes, in addition to 100 pounds of indigo. Additionally, with his brothers, owned slaves whose work in the cypress swamps netted 12,000 livres that year. Deléry's livestock inventory included 20 cows and 8 draft oxen-substantial numbers for those primitive days. Joseph pledged funds for establishment of first school for boys in New Orleans but kept only part of his agreement; case went to Louisiana Superior Council. Sent by Governor Perier to Choctaws for aid to colonists after Natchez Massacre of 1729. Died, 1732; interred parish church cemetery, New Orleans, August 20. H.C.B. Sources: Gary B. Mills, "The Chauvin Brothers: Early Colonists of Louisiana," Louisiana History, XV (1974); Henry C. Bezou, Metairie: A Tongue of Land to Pasture … (1973); Heidi LaForte, Chauvin de Charleville.

Source: Dictionary of Louisiana Biography (Louisiana Historical Association, 2008), www.lahistory.org, entry for CHAUVIN DELERY, Joseph, http://lahistory.org/site.php?pageID=20, accessed 10 Dec 2011.

Buried:
St. Peter Cemetery

Died:
He was not killed by Indians in 1729 at the Natchez Post. However, he was sent by Governor Perier to Choctaws for aid to colonists after Natchez Massacre of 1729.

Source: Dictionary of Louisiana Biography (Louisiana Historical Association, 2008), www.lahistory.org, entry for CHAUVIN DELERY, Joseph, http://lahistory.org/site.php?pageID=20, accessed 10 Dec 2011.

Joseph married Françoise Laurence Le Blanc on 27 May 1726 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Françoise (daughter of Living and Living) was born in in Brittany, France; died on 26 Jul 1763 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Françoise was a native of Saint Laaurant, in the diocese of St. Malo, Brittany, and was well connected in Louisiana, the Councillor Bruslé being her brother-in-law.

Name:
or Lorance

Birth:
Saint Laaurant, in the diocese of St. Malo, Brittany

Notes:

Married:
Joseph, native of Montreal in Canada, widower of Hypolite Mercier, dec. at La Rochelle, m. Francois Lorence (alternate form of name, Laurence) Le Blanc, May 27, 1726, witnesses: M. Brusle, Councillor at the Superior Council of this province and the bride's brother-in-law, M. Fleuriaux (alternate form of name, Fleuriau), procurator general at the same council, M. Fassinde [@Fazende], councillor, both cousins in the second degree by affinity through their respective wives. Madame Morieres, aunt of the bride. Witnesses: DeLery, Francoise Laurence Le Blanc, Brusle, Cecille Le Blanc, Fazende, Heleine des Morieres (Morieres), Pelagie des Morieres (Morieres) Fleuriau, Servanne Le Blanc, the Sieur de Latour, Dubreuil, Petit De Livilliers, de Latour, Rossard, Malbec, F. Duval.

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Other Events:

• Residence: 3 Mar 1653, Montréal, Quebec, Canada; Parish of Ville-Marie

Notes:

Pierre Chauvin, born in Ajnou, was the son of René Chauvin and Catherine Avard de Solesne. He died in Nouvelle France August 4, 1699. On March 3, 1643, he was established in the parish of Ville Marie, on the Isle of Montreal, and received a grand of land in Canada in 1654. His wife was Marthe Autreuil, daughter of René Autreuil and Françoise Lachaunerlin, from which union were born eight children, six sons and two daughters, six of whom became splendid pioneers in French colonial Louisiana.

Source: Stanley Clisby Arthur, George Campbell Huchet de Kernion, Old Families of Louisiana: (, 1931), Chauvin-de Lery-La Freniere Family, p.238.

Buried:
Montréal (Basilique Notre-Dame)

Pierre married Marthe Autreuil on 16 Sep 1658 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Marthe (daughter of Living and Living) was born in 1636 in Canada; died on 25 Feb 1713/14 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada; was buried in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
St-Françoise-de-l'Île-d'Jesus

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]