Marguerite Le Kintrek

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

Marguerite married Claude Desbordes on 16 Mar 1747 in Allemands, St Charles, Louisiana, United States. Claude was born in in Auxerre, Yonne, Bourgogne, France; died before 1772. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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

1. Julitte Marguerite Desbordes was born on 23 Jan 1748 in Louisiana, USA; died before 30 Nov 1826; was buried in Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA.
2. Jacques Andre Desbordes was born on 13 Jun 1755 in Louisiana, USA; died on 17 Apr 1806 in Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA; was buried in St Landry Cemetery, Opelousas, Louisiana, USA.
3. Catherine Valentin Desbordes was born about 1756 in Louisiana, USA; died on 19 Sep 1819 in Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA.
4. Jean Desbordes was born on 6 May 1756 in Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, USA.
5. Marguerite Desbordes 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.

Marguerite married Captain Jacques Guillaume Courtableau on 4 May 1765 in Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, USA. Jacques (son of Living and Living) was born about 1721; died about 1772. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Zoe Courtableau was born in 1765 in St Landry, Louisiana, USA.

Notes:

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]