Marie Lisbild

Notes:

Died:
Perished on the ship "La Garonne" after departure from Brest, France between the 10th and the 27th of February 1721.

Marie married Hans Peter Schaf in 1680 in Friedrichsort, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Hans was born in 1660 in Germany; died in 1721. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Emigration: 24 Jan 1721; On the pest ship "La Garonne"

Notes:

The Schaaf family, made up of the parents and six children left for Louisiana in December 1720 aboard the ship La Garonne. By January 1721, the ship's passengers were showing signs of an epidemic and docked at Brest, France to take refuge. The ship left Brest on February 27, 1721 and arrived at Saint Domingue (where the ships normally stopped enroute to Louisiana to pick up trade goods bound for Louisiana) where it was captured on April 30, 1731 by a pirate ship called La Gaillarde. The ship's passengers were rescued by the governor of Saint Dominque and brought to Cap Francois on July 19, 1721. During the journey, the German immigrants had experienced the effects of one of the worst epidemics in recorded history (300 Germans were sick), and after the attack by pirates, there were only 50 survivors. When the Schaaf family disembarked in Louisiana, the Schaaf parents had died, the survivors found that the Company of the Indies had gone bankrupt so that they had no land to settle, and they were literally stranded. Although the German population had little influence on the culture of Louisiana, many inhabitants of St Charles Parish still carry gallicized version of the original German surnames, such as Schexnaydre, Folse, and Oubre. The Schaaf family would be known as Chauff and, on one occasion, Mouton. One town name, "Des Allemands", is a modern reminder of the town's origin.

Name:
Sometimes Chauff, Cuave, Cheauf, Chof, Chofe, Choff, Chaaf, Soff, Shoff, Skoff, Shaw, Chaaf, and now Chauffe.

Family/Spouse: Anna Maria Foltzlouer. Anna (daughter of Jacob Foltzlouer) was born in 1685 in Germany; died about 1724 in Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

May 31, 1774, sold a farm to Louis Girard Pellerin (Les Voyagers XVI, 1995," 117)

Anna married Ambros Heidel before 1720 in Germany. Ambros (son of Johann Adam Heidel and Eva Anna Schnarberg) was born on 15 Nov 1702 in Neunkirchen, Mayence, Germany; died before 31 May 1774 in St John the Baptist, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Pierre Brou. Pierre was born about 1727; died on 13 Jan 1798; was buried in St Louis Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1784, German Coast, Louisiana, USA

Notes:

Evergreen Plantation

The important plantation houses on adjacent plantations in St. John the Baptist Parish now known as Evergreen and Whitney originally were identical houses built probably at the same time by two brothers, Christophe and Jean Jacques Haydel, sons of Ambroise Haydel. Their grandmother, the widow of Jean Adam Heidel, had, with two sons, arrived at Biloxi on the ship La Charente in 1721. One of these sons, Ambroise Haydel, had been born about 1702 in Newkirchen, and in 1724 was living on the Louisiana German Coast in the village of Hoffen.

The house that is now Whitney was probably built by Jean Jacques Haydel and Evergreen by his brother Chrisophe in the 1780s or '90s. Christophe's daughter Magdelaine, the widow of Pierre Antoine Becnel, acquired full ownership of the plantation in 1801 from her sister Françoise, wife of Pierre Marmillon. One of Magdelaine's sons, Drozin, and his wife both died of smallpox in 1804, leaving their son Pierre Clidamant Becnel in his grandmother's care. On her death in 1830, Pierre Clidamant gained full ownership of the plantation by purchasing the interest of the other of his grandmother's heirs.

Reference: Samuel Jr. Wilson, "The Building Contract for Evergreen Plantation, 1832", Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association Vol. 31, No. 4 (Winter, 1990): pages 399-406.

Residence:
Listed in 1784 census of the Second Coast of the Germans, with wife Charlote Ouvre, no children; living with Jorge Haydelle and Marguerite Bossie.

Jean married Charlotte Huber on 21 Feb 1751/52 in St Charles, Louisiana, USA. Charlotte (daughter of Jean Huber and Anne Reusch) was born about 1736 in Edgard, St John the Baptist, Louisiana, USA; died on 6 Jul 1800 in Edgard, St John the Baptist, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 2 Apr 1741, St John the Baptist, Louisiana, USA
• Residence: 1820, St John the Baptist, Louisiana, USA

Notes:

Jean Jacques built the Whitney main house around 1790 and expanded it around 1803. In 1820, he sold the property to his sons Jean Jacques, Jr., and Marcellin. Marcellin eventually gained total control of the rest of the family's land, and commissioned the 1836-1839 remodeling. The plantation remained in the family's hands until it was sold to a Northerner, Bradish Johnson, after the Civil War. It was Johnson who actually named the property Whitney in honor of his grandson, Harry Payne Whitney.

Listed in 1784 census of the Second Coast of the Germans with his wife, Magdelaine Marmilion, 1 boy and 3 girls under 13 (LC&ML, 77)
Sponsors were ---tz Materne and Christine Greber
From Les Votagers, Jun 1997
Louisiana Courier, Dec 1819
PARISH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, GERMAN, COUNTY, COURT OF PROBATES
On Thursday, the 13 January next, at 10 o'clock A.M. will be sold at auction by the parish judges, on the principle plantation of Jean Jacques Haydel pere, and on his application, the following property belonging to the communiyt of the said J.J. Haydel pere with the late Mary Madelain Bozonnier his deceased wife:
1st A sugar estate measuring 17 arpents front on a double depth, with a stately house and all its appurtenances, bounded above by the widow of Mathias Roussel and below by Jacques Haydel and brothers.
2d Another sugar estate measuring 11 arpens with 3.4 front, on the usual depth, with all its appurtenances bounded above by the widow of Alphonse Haydel and below by Andre Hymes (sic).
3d 36 slaves of both sexes.
4 Furniture, implements of husbandry, kitchen tackling, plate, table linen, 30 horses or mules, 8 couple of oxen, many milch cows and their young ones, etc.
CONDITIONS
The price of the two plantations payable a third in March 1821, a third in March 1822, and the last third in March 1823.
The slaves payable a third in March 1820, a third in March 1821, and the last third in March 1822.
All the moveables in general payable in March 1820.
Purchasers shall give their notes, endorsed to the satisfaction of J. J. Haydel pere, and payable at the clerk's ofice of the parish court.
The real property to remain mortgaged until final payment.
The instrument of sale and mortgage at the cost of the purchaser.
Parish of St. John the Baptist, December 9, 1819. T. LeBlanc, Judge

Jean married Magdelaine Bozonier Marmillion on 7 Feb 1774. Magdelaine (daughter of Antoine Julien Bozonier Marmillion and Laurence Delille Gauchette) was born on 2 Oct 1752 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; died in 1816 in Edgard, St John the Baptist, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]