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LABATUT, Jean-Baptiste, attorney general, soldier. Born, Bayonne, France, April 25, 1752; son of Jean Labatut and Ana Echavarria. Immigrated to New Orleans in 1781. Married Marie Felicité St. Martin, daughter of Pierre B. and Charlotte Drillion St. Martin, in New Orleans, April 2, 1785. Children: Carlota Félicité, Isidore (q.v.), Jean-Pierre, Louise Eugénie, Marie Clélie, Adèle, and Jules. Was elected second-ward commissioner, January 1, 1793; elected attorney general of the cabildo under the Spanish regime and served from April 4, 1794, to December 19, 1794; petitioned the cabildo for loans for owners of houses burned in the fire of 1794; suggested houses be rebuilt with tile and solid ceramic construction. Appointed treasurer of the municipal council, November 30, 1803, when Louisiana was transferred to France; was brigadier general of the Corps of Veterans and Fire Engineers and an aide to Gen. Andrew Jackson (q.v.) during the Battle of New Orleans; was a director of the first bank in the Territory of Orleans in 1804; on the board of directors of Charity Hospital, 1836. Died, New Orleans, March 9, 1839; interred St. Louis Cemetery I. J.B.C. Sources: Marie Cruzat de Verges, comp., American Forces at Chalmette, Veterans and Descendants of Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815 (1966); Jack D. L. Holmes, "The 1794 New Orleans Fire: A Case Study of Spanish Noblesse Oblige," Louisiana Studies, XV (1976); New Orleans Cabildo Records and Deliberations, Vol. III, No. 3, pp. 38, 127, 179-182; Charles Gayarré, History of Louisiana, 4 vols. (reprint, 1971); St. Charles Parish Original Acts, No. 1073.
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