Francois Ursin Trepagnier

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• Baptism: 12 Apr 1783, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; St. Louis Cathedral

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Pierre Trepagnier was a milita officer in Louisiana and served under Governor Bernardo de galvez in his campaigns against the English during the American Revolution. He was a wealthy planter in St. Charles parish. He disappeared one morning in a mysterious manner from his plantation, leaving his family at the breakfast table and driving off with an unknown individual, never to be seen alive again.

Source: Stanley Clisby Arthur, George Campbell Huchet de Kernion, Old Families of Louisiana (, 1931), page 287.

Pierre constructed a home now known as the "Ormond Plantation" sometime before 1790 near Destrehan, La., along the East River Road. The land was received as a reward by the Spanish Governor Brenardo de Galvez for his valorous activities against the English around Natches. Pierre, who became for a while a very successful planter of indigo and sugar cane, was involved in a tragic and mysterious end. In 1798 after a hasty whispered conversation with a stranger who refused to give his name to the butler. Pierre went off in a carriage and never returned home. Another account described Pierre disappearing one night with a man dressed as a Spanish official. After a year of agonized waiting, Pierre's widow left the house and sold it to the Butler family. Col. Richard Butler after the end of the War of 1812 settled here and named the house after the Ormond Castle in Ireland.

(TRENTE)
RENAUD- Elizabeth, M. Pierre TREPAGNIER (@TREPANIER), Mar. 2, 1777 (SLC, M3, 5) Archdiocese of New Orleans _ VOL 3

Pierre, M. Elizabeth TRENAU (REYNAUD) , Mar. 2, 1777, w. Wiltz, Antoine Boudousquie, Leonardo
Mazange (sister husband) these were their witness (SLC, M3, 5) VOL. 3 Birth VOL. I SCB, BI, 65
Ysabel Emelia ( Pedro and Elisabeth Avignon), B. March 6, 1782,B. Aug 9, 1779, sponsor-
Antonio
Boudeut and Elisabeth Trepanier(SLC, B9, 275)

Vol. 3 -- Franciso Ursino (Pedro and Isabel Abinon), B. April 12, 1783, bn. AUG. 8, 1782 S.
Lorenzo Mudusquie and Susana Trepane (SLC, B9, 285)

More About Pierre Francois Trepagnier and Elizabeth Isabelle Renaud:
Marriage: March 2, 1777, New Orleans, La..

Pierre married Elizabeth Isabelle Renaud on 2 Mar 1777 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Elizabeth was born in 1762; died about 1813. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Published in:
Louisiana Courier
January 13, 1813

PUBLIC SALE

By Andre Latour, judge of the Parish of St. Charles

ON the 25th of January 1813, will be sold at public auction on the spot. A valuable Sugar Plantation, situated in the said parish on the left bank of the river, ten leagues above New Orleans measuring 15 arpents fronting the Mississippi by the ordinary depth of double concession for six arpents only out of the said 15, the upper boundary of which is contiguous to the plantation of Mr. Louis Blanchard and Madam widow Glapion and the lower to that of Mr. Francois Delhomer. The plantation offered for sale belongs to the heirs of the late Madam widow Trepagnier and is too advantageously know to require a more minute description and will be sold such as it stands with all its dependencies, right, usages, thralldoms, & slaves, cattle, and husbandry implements.

The heirs retain for themselves the enjoyment of the cisterns and purgerie during two months from the time which the purchaser will take possession of the said plantation.

Conditions: one third on the 1st of March 1814, the second third on the 1st of March 1815, and the last third on the 1st of March 1816, in approved notes satisfactorily endorsed with special mortgage on the premises until final payment.

On the said plantation stands a dwelling house which privately belongs to one of the heirs and it is expressly agreed between them that the purchaser shall be bound to pay him the amount of its value which has been brought accordingly to the inventory to a sum of 950 dollars, the amount of which will be deducted from the price of the said plantation.

The purchaser will find on the said plantation a sufficient quantity of plants of sugar canes to plant at least one hundred arpents. The slaves will be sold at one and two years credit in approved endorsed notes with special mortgage. The cattle such as oxen, horses, cows, 60 sheep and the husbandry implements will be sold at one year credit in approved and endorsed notes.

Probate:
Louisiana Courier
January 13, 1813

PUBLIC SALE

By Andre Latour, judge of the Parish of St. Charles

ON the 25th of January 1813, will be sold at public auction on the spot. A valuable Sugar Plantation, situated in the said parish on the left bank of the river, ten leagues above New Orleans measuring 15 arpents fronting the Mississippi by the ordinary depth of double concession for six arpents only out of the said 15, the upper boundary of which is contiguous to the plantation of Mr. Louis Blanchard and Madam widow Glapion and the lower to that of Mr. Francois Delhomer. The plantation offered for sale belongs to the heirs of the late Madam widow Trepagnier and is too advantageously know to require a more minute description and will be sold such as it stands with all its dependencies, right, usages, thralldoms, & slaves, cattle, and husbandry implements.
The heirs retain for themselves the enjoyment of the cisterns and purgerie during two months from the time which the purchaser will take possession of the said plantation.
Conditions: one third on the 1st of March 1814, the second third on the 1st of March 1815, and the last third on the 1st of March 1816, in approved notes satisfactorily endorsed with special mortgage on the premises until final payment.
On the said plantation stands a dwelling house which privately belongs to one of the heirs and it is expressly agreed between them that the purchaser shall be bound to pay him the amount of its value which has been brought accordingly to the inventory to a sum of 950 dollars, the amount of which will be deducted from the price of the said plantation.
The purchaser will find on the said plantation a sufficient quantity of plants of sugar canes to plant at least one hundred arpents. The slaves will be sold at one and two years credit in approved endorsed notes with special mortgage. The cattle such as oxen, horses, cows, 60 sheep and the husbandry implements will be sold at one year credit in approved and endorsed notes.

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Married:
St. Louis Cathedral

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François was the sixth child of Claude Trepagnier and Genevieve Burel. He was an officer in the Louisiana colonial militia.

Source: Stanley Clisby Arthur, George Campbell Huchet de Kernion, Old Families of Louisiana (, 1931), page 287.

1st FAMILY OF LA. VOL II GLENN CONRAD PG 29 - 30
M. Bienville,s other Farm, about 5 miles below N. O. on the west bank - descending the west
bank on the river towards the mouth. Trepagnier, widow - 5 children - 17 slaves - 180 arpents

Pg 52 - After 1731, landowners along the Mississippi River from the mouth, the German
villages with the amt. of land each owns, fronting on the river:
Trepagnier, Ignace - 10 arpents by grant
Trepagnier Francois - 10 arpents by grant

Birth:
Mobile Post

François married Marie Jeanne Bar on 18 Jul 1740 in German Coast, Louisiana, USA. Marie (daughter of Living and Living) was born in 1719 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; died on 19 Sep 1812 in St Charles, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Côte des Allemands

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• Baptism: 13 Apr 1671, Chateau Richer, La Côte-de-Beaupré, Quebec, Canada; Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré
• Residence: 1699, Biloxi, Harrison, Mississippi, USA; Fort Maurepas (Old Biloxi)

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Claude Trepagnier was one of the first Canadians to arrive in Fort Maurepas (Old Biloxi) in 1699. He and his wife, Genevieve Burel (or Burelle), were also established at the Mobile Post at the time of its foundation. Their names are often met in the old records from 1708 to 1710 in which they are designated as traders or merchants.

Source: Stanley Clisby Arthur, George Campbell Huchet de Kernion, Old Families of Louisiana (, 1931), pages 284-288.

Immigration: 1699, Arrived aboard "Le Renomme" from Rochfort, France with his brother Jean.
Occupation: 26 September 1721, Census lists him as a Trader or Merchant.

Claude de Trépagny (or Trepagnier) is the first American in our heritage of the Louisiana Trepagniers. He came to the New World with Iberville and Bienville on the Renommee along with his younger brother Jean Baptist. Jean died aboard the ship between Cuba and Maurepas Fort in December 1699. Claude helped to establish forts along the Mississippi River and Mobile which became the first Capitol of Louisiana Territory. In 1704,the ship "Le Pelican" arrived at Mobile in August and among the passenger was Genevieve Burelle who became Claude wife several weeks later. Due to the many deaths aboard the ship and after their arrivals of Yellow Fever. Claude and Genevieve had three children at Fort Louis and four children at Fort Conde, which was located 26 miles down the Mobile bay. Claude and the family moved in 1719 to New Orleans where he had a trading post. Their home was located on the corner of Charters and St. Ann St. He assisted his friend Bienville in the city of New Orleans with trade and exchanging of food with the Indians around the city. Claude died in 1724 and his estate was value at 27,104 livers.

Claude married Genevieve Burel in Aug 1704 in Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, USA. Genevieve died in 1729. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: USA

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Name:
Also BURELLE

Living married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]