Auguste Brunet

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• Baptism: 22 Apr 1792, Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA

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Birth:
St. Landry Catholic Church

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• Probate: 23 Jan 1793, Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA

Jean married Marguerite Desbordes. Marguerite (daughter of Claude Desbordes and Marguerite Le Kintrek) was born about 1763 in Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA; died on 28 Nov 1822 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; was buried in St Louis Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1777, Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA

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Residence:
Jean Deborde, bachelor, 21. [No economic statistics shown.] Marguerite Deborde, orphan, 15.

Claude married Marguerite Le Kintrek on 16 Mar 1747 in Allemands, St Charles, Louisiana, United States. Marguerite (daughter of Sieur Jean Joseph Le Kintrec and Anne Marie Le Bouef) was born about 1728 in Louisiana, USA; died in 1789 in Allemands, St Charles, Louisiana, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
She is listed as the "wife of Jacques Courtableau", age 43 years, in the Opelousas Post Census of 1771.

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Married:
March 16, 1747

CLAUDE DESBORDES, son of CLAUDE DESBORDES and of Julie native of Parish of St Martial
with
MARGUERITTE Le KINTREK, minor daughter of JOSEPH Le KINTREK called DUPONT and of ANNE MARIE BOLFF her father and mother, native of this Province, of the German Parish

Signed in the presence of Mr de VAUDREUIL, Chevalier of the Royal and Military Order of St Louis, Governor of this Province, Sieur Augustin CHANTALON and MARIN LeNORMAND on this sixteenth day of March of this year of seventeen hundred and forty-seven.

Signing -
CLAUDE DESBORDES, MARGUERITE LeKINTREK, LeKINTREK, AUFRERE, CHANTANLON, LENORMAND, BLANPAIN, JAHAN, CHEVALIER, HENRY, Notary

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Joseph LeKintrec and his partner Joseph Blanpain were the Frenchmen who opened southwest Louisiana to trade and may have been the first coureurs de bois at the Opelousas post.

Port Barre, at the point where Bayou Courtableau flows into Bayou Teche, was the site of a French trading post 250 years ago. It was here that Jean Joseph LeKintreck traded whiskey for furs brought to him by Indians of the countryside.

LeKintreck was one of the coureurs de bois who were among the first Europeans to come to Acadiana in search of trade. His practices -- especially that of trading whiskey to the Indians -- did not always sit well with the government authorities in New Orleans, but they had neither the mind nor the muscle to do much about it.

LeKintreck was born in Brittany in 1689 and arrived in Louisiana sometime before 1716. By the time he ventured into the Opelousas territory, he had been involved in exploration, trapping, and trading expeditions in Louisiana for some 20 years. He'd claimed land on the Mississippi River above New Orleans, married Anne Marie Baftz, and had fathered several children. He had also managed to acquire the title Sieur and the alias "Dupont".

Jean married Anne Marie Le Bouef about 1715 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Anne was born about 1692 in Germany; died about 1723. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]