Nicolas Lauve

Other Events:

• Baptism: 2 May 1731, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; St. Louis Cathedral
• Residence: Jan 1732, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Census of the Inhabitants and Property Owners of New Orleans
• Residence: 19 Jul 1780, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Purchased a 30-year-old slave named Luis from Francisca Petit de Coulange for $700.
• Residence: 30 Jun 1795, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Purchased a 22-year-old slave named Rosette from a "free negress," Maria Baudaille, for $500. Baudaille originally purchased Rosette from Jayme Jorda in 1788.
• Residence: 1805, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; The 1805 New Orleans Census lists his address as 22 Levee Street.

Nicolas married Catherine Pierre Couilleret on 7 Jun 1763 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Catherine was born on 29 Nov 1749 in Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, USA; died about 1818 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
St. Louis Cathedral

Marriage Contract:
Contract of Marriage (6 Jun 1763)

By notarial act Sieur Nicolas LAUVE, shoemaker living in this town, son of the late Antoine Lauve and the late Marie Francoise Joumart his father and mother, widower in first nuptials of Elizabeth RACHAL, and a native of the town of New Orleans.
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Demoiselle Catherine Pierre COUILLERET, minor daughter of deceased Pierre COUILLERET and of Catherine Laurandine, her father and mother, native of this town. The said Laurandine, her mother is here present and consents to the clauses and conditions set forth below.

Relatives and friends here present are: On the part of Sieur LAUVE: Sieur Jean HISWARD, Captain of the Navy and merchant in this town, his brother-in-law, and Sieur Nicolas Lambert, merchant in this town, his friend. On the part of the Demoiselle Catherine Couilleret: Sieur Henry ROCHE, shoemaker in this town, her step-father and Sieur Antoine Catoire, merchant, her brother-in-law.

Conditions:

- Marriage to be solemnized in the Holy Roman Catholic Church.
- Community of acquets and gains according to the custom of Paris.
- Each responsible for debts contrated before marriage
- Future wife brings to marriage the sum of 1,000 livres and what she may receive from the succession of her father and mother, of which 1/3 is to go to the community and the remaining 2/3 is to go to her children.
- Future husband gives to future wife the sum of 500 livres as prefix dower secured by a mortgage on all his property, present and future.
- Preciput - 250 livres
- Option of wife to accept or renounce community.
- Contracting parties make a deed of gift to the survivor.

[Signatures, etc.]

The original Lauve-Couilleret Marriage Contract is located at the Louisiana State Museum, Doc. 8397, P.69284-85-86-87.

1. Nicolas Henri Lauve was born on 11 Feb 1767 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; died on 30 Mar 1826 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; was buried in St Louis Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA.