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Texas City Ancestry Searchers

More Than ChurchMore Than ChurchRecords: ColonialRecords: Colonial

Midwest, Mississippi Midwest, Mississippi Valley, and Gulf Coast,Valley, and Gulf Coast,

1681–18211681–1821


The Problem

The traditional genealogical source materials for the French and Spanish Provinces of Louisiana, and the British Floridas are (translated) church records, marriage contracts, conveyances, and successions.

These traditional genealogical source materials tend to have increasingly more and larger gaps as one goes backwards in time, if the records are still extant. This does not include the problems of faded ink and torn or rodent eaten pages.


The Solution

What follows will assume that proposed documents have some sort of relevance of information and adequacy to answer the research question. All research is the [attempted] answering of questions or testing/verification of hypotheses by collection and examination of data or evidence.

• Consider all documents in the context of who made them and for what purpose were the documents being made.

• Study the nature of available documents at all layers of government at the point in time being researched, not just the traditional sources.

• Identify source material groups by priority and ease (including cost) of acquisition before proceeding.


The Solution

• Identify scholarly writings (on relevant topics) by catalogue and database searches, e.g., OCLC WorldCat, History Abstracts, and OCLC FirstSearch for scholarly articles (just like historians).

• Follow the footnotes to their ultimate primary source material that the historians used in these scholarly journals and works. Use the bibliographies for additional searching.

• Reference all source material in finding aids and reference guides by the archive that holds the material in question. This includes special collections at a university or public library all the way to national archives.

• Always verify!


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Colonial North America, 1600–1762

1. Understanding the Nature of the Available Records

2. Understanding the Governmental Structures

3. The French colonists were not English colonists who spoke a different language

• How and when did they get here?

1. Ship passenger lists, Colonies F 5 B, and Colonies G 1 464.

2. Admiralty Records (in France).


French Colonial Louisiana to 1763


French Archival Designations

Breaking the Code

ANC, C 13 A 27, fol. 38 vo. ANC = A(rchives) N(ationales) C(olonies). There is also a wide number of ministerial

sources, including the Navy (Marine) and Foreign Ministries (AE or Affaires Étrangères). Actually, since 1994, this designation has been incorrect since all Colonies documents were moved to the Archives d’Outre-mer in Aix-en-Provence. Now, correct to use (see Elizabeth Mills):[Document], [Date of document], Archives d’Outre-mer, Colonies C 13 A 27, fol. 38 vo.

C 13 A = sous série (subseries) for “Correspondence from colonies;” Louisiana is 13. 27 = registre (bound volume). Sometimes this will refer to a carton (box), e.g., for

maps and plans or loose papers. Folio paging — numbered sequentially only on the right hand pages. All left hand

pages are the verso of the “right side” folio page. fol. (or fo.) 38 v (or vo. for verso) = the reverse side of folio page 38. Page numbering — sides numbered sequentially starting from first right hand “side.”


French Archival Designations

Major French Archival Letters and Numbers for Colonies

A = Acts of the Monarch D 2 A = Enlisted EnrollmentsB = Correspondence to D 2 C = Payrolls, Fitnesses, etc. Colonies D 2 D = Pensions, etc.C = Correspondence from E = Service dossiers Colonies F 1 A = Treasury Records

C 7 = Guadeloupe F 3 = Moreau de St-MéryC 8 = Martinique, WW. F 5 B = Ship passenger listsC 9 = St-Domingue G 1 = États-civils, census, etc.C 10 = Lesser Antilles G 2 = GreffesC 11 = Canada, Acadia G 5 = St-Domingue refugeesC 13 = Louisiana Dépôt des Papiers Publics


French Colonial Government

King (Absolute)

Naval Minister

Governor Ordonnateur/Intendant/Commissaire

Superior Council(incl. Gov. & Ord.)Civil Disputes &Civilian Criminal

Responsible forCorps de plume

Treasurer(Civil Records)

Écrivains andGardes du magasin

All military and civil,& property of the King,

Corps d’épée

The 3 Departments

Bursar



The 3 Departments

Lieutenant du Roi

Major(Military Commander)

Aide-Major(Adjutant)

Treasurer(Civil Records)

Écrivains andGardes du magasin

The Post & Company Commanders (Captains)

To Ordonnateur


Department of New Orleans, 1760

Pearl River

Mississippi RiverRed River

West Florida

Neutral Strip

SabineRiver

Ouachita

Nat

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Natchez

Biloxi

Rap

ides

Avo

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Baton Rouge

Pte

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Ope

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as

St. M

artin

ville New

Orleans

Pascagoula

Caddodoches

Les Tunicas (St. Francisville)

Les Yazous (Vicksburg)

Los Adaës


Department of Illinois, 1760

Ft. Cavignol

Ft. d’OrléansLes Missouris

ArkansasPost

Ft. Vincennes orFt. Ouiatenon

Ft. Cherokee(Ft. Tcheroqui)

Cape Girardeau

Ste. Geneviève

Ft. Chartres

Peoria

Ft. Tombigbee

Ft. Toulouse

Mobile (Ft. de St. Louis

Dauphine Isle

Pensacola


Department of Mobile, 1760

San Marcos (St. Martin)

Where is

Tanchÿrsahon?



Naval Infantry Company RanksOfficiers (Officers) Sous Officiers (NCOs)Capitaine—Captain Premier Sergent—First SergeantCapitaine Reformé Sergent—SergeantLieutenant en pied—1st Lt. Caporal—CorporalLieutenant Reformé Tambour—DrummerLieutenant en seconde—2nd Lt. Anpassade—Lance CorporalEnseigne en pied—1st Ensign Fusilier—Rifleman or PrivateEnseigne en seconde—2nd Ensign

Officer CadetsCadet à l’aguilette

Cadet soldat


Colonies F 5 B 56, n.p., 1753 Ship’s list

Name of Soldiers Name of father And of mother Place of birth professionclaude Lassaigne dead antoine anne pointer grenoble, dauphiné masonjean raffiné jacques marion porte montauban serge tailorbernard rozière françois jeanne Le fort Limoges, Limousin lathe man

March Detachment of 40 men from the troops of the1752 new levies of Monsieur Gignoux, Embarked

21 March 1752 on the navire Le Rhinocerosfor Louisiana.


Colonies F 5 B 56, n.p., 1750 Ship’s list


Colonies G 1 464, n.p., 1719 Ship’s list

Monsieur de Villardeau DirectorGeneral of the Louisiana Colony.

Sieur Marlot, bookkeeperof Monsieur Villardeau

Jean Bard of Paris, valet ofMonsieur Villardeau


Colonies G 1 464, n.p.

Names and surnames Place of birth Trade Women KidsJean Charles Tierce Baker from CharleroiMichel Lion Joiner from Grand RiauxEtienne Renesse from Mauberge machine operator



• What did they do here?

3. French civilian personnel, naval infantry, and Swiss soldiers

1. Colonies D 2 A 1–34,2. Colonies D 2 C 2, 3, 4, 16–19, 41, 43–5, 50–2, 54, 59,

& 222,3. Colonies D 2 D 1, 10, & 13–5.4. Colonies E, (Service Dossiers!)5. Marine C 2,6. Marine C 7, and7. Marine C 8.


Colonies D 2 A 3, n.p., Enlisted Men Enrollment Records from the Île de Ré

Michel Maigret dit L’amoureux (called the lover), nativeof Nantes en Brittany, aged 21 years, height[5 feet, 5.544 inches], chestnut hair, fatoval face, blue eyes, house buildingcarpenter by profession, Hired Jan. 27, 1725./.

Uniforms and arms and advance pay, id 22.10.—


Colonies D 2 C 51, fo. 88, 1732 Officers’ Fitness Reports from Governor Perier

Report of the infantry officers thatOught to command the eight companiesof Infantry held in Louisianaand of the reformed officers who servefollowing the said companies.

Notes in the margin in thehand of Monsieur Perier


Colonies D 2 C 51, fo. 88, 1732 Officers’ Fitness Reports from Governor Perrier

Served perfectly wellin the taking ofNatchez

Served very well in theGuarding of the provisional fortThat was made in NatchezI have sent him to commandIn the Balize


Colonies D 2 C 222, n.p., “Alphabet” Lafillard, officer service briefs or rélévés


Colonies D 2 D 13, fo. 139, 1777 Colonial Officers, Officials, and Widows Pensions

{Widow Louis Doussin, former{Master cannoneer in Louisiana{for the same for the same… 150. .

12 July 1777 paid {Demoiselle Aubry, niece of SieurTo her 6 for {Chevalier Aubry, here before us commander1777. {in Louisiana for the same for the same..1200


Colonies D 2 D 14, fo. 115, 1770 Colonial Officers, Officials, and Widows Pensions


Colonies E, Dossier Borda, Antoine

To Sieur Borda, surgeon in the post ofTombigbee for his appointment on theeighth last day of November until the last dayof December 1763at the rate of 600 livres per year, The Sumof Sixty-three livres, six sols, eight deniershere… 63. 6. 8.

• Local Records

4. French Superior Council Records.

5. Randolph and St. Clair County (Illinois) Collections.

6. Ste. Genevieve County (Missouri) Records.

7. Natchitoches, Pointe Coupée, and St. Charles Parish Records.




Index to French Superior Council, WPA,FHL # 1,276,247: de Aamelin—Doza


French Superior Council, WPA

French DocNo. 98801766


French Superior Council, # 1762030602, 6 March 1762 Déclaration of C. Horn



• Government Records (incl. Company of the Indies)

8. Colonies A 22–3, Colonies F 1 A 4–58, Colonies F 3 24, 25, and 44, Colonies G 1 412, 464, and 465

• Government Correspondence

9. Béxar County Archives and Spanish Missions.

10. Vaudreuil Papers.

11. The three “indexed” sources, Colonies B, Colonies C 11, and Colonies C 13.

Colonies G 1 412, fol. 104 vo., 1729 État-civil for New Orleans, Baptisms


29 December 1729, I baptized Estienne Dalcour son of

Sieur Estienne Dalcour and Marie Josephe Trudeau

1 June 1729, there was a solemn baptism of a negro slave

Louis Théodore belonging to Sieur de Bienville


Colonies F 1 A 31, fo. 83 vo., 1733 Mobile

To Sieur Dartaguiette Diron, Lieutenant du Roy,For his appointment as the said, given the sum of… 2000 livres

To Sieur Beauchamp another major for his appointment taking3 months 23 days since 8 September untilthe last day of December at 1200 livres per year… 376.13.4


Colonies C 13 A 6, fo. 159, 1721 Workers

Wagonneers

Cobblers

Barrel Maker


Colonies C 13 A 9, fo. 83, 1725 Yazous


“Signalement Des Soldats Cy Desus Mentionnez,” 6 Sep. 1752, 2 pp., Vaudreuil Papers, Loudoun Collection, Huntington Library and Art Museum, San Marino, Calif.

The Named Nicolas Allain Dit La feulliade, Soldier of Moncharveaux’sCompany, Native Of faubourg St. Antoine of Paris, parish of St. Marguerite,son of Nicolas Albain And of Marie Françoise Le Cour, Hisfather And Mother, age thirty years, height is Five feet 3.9 inches,Chestnut Hair And Eyebrows, Long Face, blue eyes,Serving in the rank of Soldier In the Colony since The year[1737]. made at Kaskaskia, September 6,[1752]://:

What’s This?

Let’s See


Colonies C 13 A 9, fo. 83, 1725 Yazous“Signalement Des Soldats Cy Desus Mentionnez,” 6 Sep. 1752, 2 pp., Vaudreuil Papers, Loudoun Collection, Huntington Library and Art Museum, San Marino, Calif.

The Here Attached NamedWishing to settle HimselfWas Conceded a piece of landat Ste. Genevieve where He has been workingFor One year And Alreadyhas several animals.


British Colonial Florida, 1763–1783

Arkansas PostCharleston

Savannah

St. AugustineFt. Toulouse

Ft. Tombigbee

New Orleans

PointeCoupée Baton

Rouge

NatchezMobile

Pensacola

Apalachicola Riverwas the boundary line betw. E. & W.



Crown Colonies to 1785 Proprietary Colonies to 1785

Board of Trade Board of Trade

ColonyColony

Parliament ParliamentMonarch Monarch

Archdiocese ofCanterbury

Archdiocese ofCanterbury

Required to obey Contractual& voluntary


A. Understanding the Nature of the Available Records B. Understanding the Governmental Structures C. These are English colonists!

West Florida, 1763–1781

1. CO 5/574–581, Correspondence, Original - Board of Trade, 1763–1782. 2. CO 5/582–598, Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State, 1712–1783. 3. CO 5/599–622, Entry Books of Letters, Commissions, Instructions, Warrants, etc., 1763–1781. 4. CO 5/623–624, Acts, 1766–1783. 5. CO 5/625–635, Sessional Papers, 1764–1780.




East Florida, 1763–1783

1. CO 5/540–547, Correspondence, Original - Board of Trade, 1763–1783.

2. CO 5/548–562, Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State, 1746–1789.

3. CO 5/563–569, Entry Books of Letters, Commissions, Instructions, Warrants, etc., 1763–1783.

4. CO 5/570–572, Sessional Papers, 1764–1781.

5. CO 5/573, Shipping Returns, 1765–1769.


Entry Books of Letters, Grants, Warrants, Instructions, etc.CO 5/599 Commissions, Instructions, etc., A, 1763–1769CO 5/600 Commissions, Instructions, etc., B, 1769–1782CO 5/601 Grants of Land, Mortgages, Conveyances, etc., 1764–1768CO 5/602 Grants of Land, Mortgages, Conveyances, etc.,1765–1767CO 5/603 Grants of Land, Instructions to Surveyors, Certificates, 1765–1768CO 5/604 Grants of Land, Instructions to Surveyors, Certificates, 1765–1768CO 5/605 Grants of Land; Mortgages, Conveyances, etc., 1768–1772CO 5/606 Grants of Land (Printed), 1769–1770CO 5/607 Grants of Land, 1772–1778CO 5/608 Grants of Land (Printed), 1772–1780CO 5/609 Index to Vol, 608CO 5/610 Grants of Land, Town–lots, 1777–1779CO 5/611 Grants of Land, Town–lots, 1778–1780CO 5/612 Mortgages, 1770–1779CO 5/613 Powers of Attorney, Bills of Sale, etc., 1771–1779CO 5/614 Conveyances, 1772–1773CO 5/615 Conveyances, 1773–1774CO 5/616 Conveyances, 1776–1781CO 5/617 Conveyances, 1777–1780


CO 5/601, Index to Grants, 1764–1768


CO 5/601, p. 96, Carminida Grant


CO 5/608, Index to CO 5/609, ‘K’ [detail]


CO 5/608, Kearny & Kirk Grants


Spanish Luisiana, 1763–1820

EASTFLORIDA

UK-1763–1783

WEST FLORIDAUK-1763–1781

TÉJAS

NEW SPAIN

LUISIANA

BRITISH NORTH AMERICA

UNITEDSTATES


Spanish Colonial Government

A. Understanding the Nature of the Available Records B. Understanding the Governmental Structures and History C. More than Church Records, Marriage Contracts, and Translations: The Spanish colonists were neither English nor French colonists who spoke a different language.

• How and when did they get here? A. Spanish ship passenger lists (Archivo general de Indias) and French ship passenger lists. • What did they do here? (Archivo general de Simancas) B. Military Service Records (Hojas de Servicio), 2:L:7291–2. C Military Records online, legajos 2:XL:6912–32. URL for PARES (Portal de archivos españoles):

http://www.pares.mcu.es



King (absolute)

Minister of IndiesCouncil of Indies (to 1790) Committees

VICEROYAudiencia de

Santo Domingo(Appeals/Admiralty)

Captain-Generalof CubaGovernor

IntendantPost Commanders Judicial Council

(New Orleans) (member)

Other Treasury Officials& Warehouse Guards

Military Units

Complicated isn’t it?


Legajo 7992, C 1, Captain Olivier, Pedro



• Local Records

D. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, and Illinois.E. Spanish Judicial Council records and Cabildo records.

F. Sebastien Vincente Pintado & Juan Morales papers.

G. East Florida Archives.

H. Archives of the Spanish Government of West Florida.

I. Natchez Trace Collection.

J. Panton, Leslie & Co., other trade houses.

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Pintado Papers, Baton Rouge Survey


Pintado Papers, Bogue Chitto Survey



• Federal Records

K. American State Papers, Public Lands (often refer to Spanish claims).L. Territorial Papers of the United States.

M. American State Papers, Public Claims, the largest constituency until 1832!

• French, British, Spanish, and United States

N. St-Domingue (Haiti) refugees: letters and claims



• Spanish Government Records

O. Papeles procedentes de Cuba or the “Cuban” Papers.

P. Audiencia de Santo Domingo, Audiencia de Méjico, & Audiencia de Guadalajara.

Q. “Texas” Records— what’s the difference?• Béxar and Nacogdoches County Archives.

• Béxar, Laredo, and Nacogdoches Archives.

• University Special Collections

R. LSU, Tulane University, University of Michigan, University

of Florida.


Legajo 2363, 1793 New Madrid Census


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