Captain Jean Francois Daspit de St. Amand

1690 - 1729  (39 years)

• Name	Jean Francois Daspit de St. Amand  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  	Also Daspe.
  Title	Captain
  Born	1690	Toulouse, France   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	France   [3]
  Died	Nov 1729	Vidalia, Concordia, Louisiana, USA   [1, 5]
  Person ID	I892	Hollier & Dufilho
  Last Modified	29 May 2022

  
  

  Father	Jacques Daspit de St. Amand,   b. 1662, France ,   d. 1732  (Age 70 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Living
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F454	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marie Francoise Dubuisson,   b. 6 Sep 1700,   d. 1738, Louisiana, USA  (Age 37 years)
  Married	13 Apr 1722	New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA   [2, 6]
  Children	1. Jacques Daspit de St. Amand,   d. 24 Nov 1727, Louisiana, USA  [natural] + 2. Dominique Daspit St. Amand,   b. 1728, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA ,   d. 16 Nov 1781, St Charles, Louisiana, USA  (Age 53 years)  [natural] + 3. Pierre Daspit St. Amand, Sr.,   b. Abt 1729, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA ,   d. Abt 6 Oct 1784, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA  (Age 55 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	29 May 2022
  Family ID	F289	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1690 - Toulouse, France Residence - - France Married - 13 Apr 1722 - New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA Died - Nov 1729 - Vidalia, Concordia, Louisiana, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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  Jean Francois Daspit de St Amand, native of Toulouse, France was born in 1690, the son of Jacques Daspit de Saint-Amand and Dominique Bordeliere. He went to live in Paris and consolidate is fortune, but after a sequence of adventures and some unfortunate duels he had to leave France. In 1719 he departed for Louisianna provided with a commission of miliatary Captain, which was purchased for him by his father. After arriving in Louisianna Jean Francois married demoiselle Marie Francoise du Buisson, native of Dunkirk, daughter of Leon du Buisson and Marie Anne Carrep on April 13, 1722. There is no mention of when she arrived in America. The marriage is recorded in Reg. 1 - 1720-1730, Folio 49, entry #119. Children: Pierre Daspit St. Amand - born 1723 or 1724 Dominique Daspit St. Amand - born 1728 Jean Francois was made commandant of the upper part of the Louisianna province and was assigned to Fort Rosalie near the present site of Natchez. In the "History of Louisiana", Charles Gayarre tells of the circumstances surrounding Jean Francois' death. Marie Francoise later married Antoine Muillion. Source: Daspit, Patrick, Coteau de France (Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, August 1999), www.fluckers.com/family/daspit/

  
  

• Sources

  [S351] Coteau de France, Daspit, Patrick, (Location: Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin; Date: August 1999;). [S351] Coteau de France, Daspit, Patrick, (Location: Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin; Date: August 1999;), "Jean Francoise Daspit de St. Amand - Present". [S625] Armorial général de France, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), BnF - No: 111467. Record for Daspe [S302] Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, Gale Research, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Place: New Orleans, Louisiana; Year: 1727; Page Number: 43. Record for Jean Francois St. Amant. Name: Jean Francois St. Amant Arrival Year: 1727 Arrival Place: New Orleans, Louisiana Family Members: Wife & 2 children Source Publication Code: 1290.2 Primary Immigrant: St Amant, Jean Francois Annotation: Date and place of census or listing of landowners. Only those names whose immigration was implied were indexed, those who were probably born in the New World or who were serving limited terms were not. Mainly French and German immigrants. Port and date of Source Bibliography: CONRAD, GLENN R. The First Families of Louisiana. Baton Rouge, LA: Claitor's Publishing Division, 1970. Vol. 2. 239p. Page: 43 [S796] Curry, Thomas, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana, Volume 10, 61-68. [S796] Curry, Thomas, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana, Volume 10, 64. No. 119, fol. 40. Jean François de St. Amand, with Marie Françoise Dubuisson. In the year 1722, 13th April, I, the undersigned, curate of New Orleans, have received the mutual consent of marriage of Jean François St. Amand Daspic [sic], son of Jacques Daspic, and of Dominique Bordelière, his father and mother, and of Marie Françooise Dubuisson, daughter of Leon Dubuisson of of Mariane Canop, her father and mother, in presence of Pierre Dreux, of Martharine Dreux, of Pierre Alexis Desjardins, of François Quasido, and of Claude Pierre Hyronée, who have signed; with me also signed St. Amand, Dreux, M. Dreux, and J. Richard, curate.