Jean Lafitte Historic Resource Study (Chalmette Unit)

1. P. Pedesclauf, June 12, 1806. New Orleans Notarial Archives (NONA), New Orleans, Louisiana; Samuel Wilson, Jr., Plantation Houses on the Battlefield of New Orleans (New Orleans: The Battle of New Orleans, 150th Anniversary Committee of Louisiana), pp. 18-19.

2. P. Pedesclaux, December 21, 1805, NONA.

3. Wilson, Plantation Houses, n. p.

4. P. Pedesclaux, March 28, 1807, NONA.

5. P. Pedesclaux, July 10, 1807, NONA.

6. P. Pedesclaux, June 23, 1808, NONA.

7. P. Pedesclaux, September 29, 1808, NONA.

8. J. Curtis Waldo, Illustrated Visitor's Guide to New Orleans (New Orleans: J. Curtis Waldo, 1879).

9. Ted Birkedal to the writer, 1984.

10. P. Pedesclaux, May 7, 1817, NONA.

11. Ibid.

12. F. Percy, April 25, 1849, NONA.

13. T. Guyol, February 18, 1855.

14.

15. Wilson, Plantation Houses, p. 35.

16. Benjamin Ory, May 24, 1907, NONA.

17. Wilson, Plantation Houses; Samuel Wilson, Jr., "The Rene Beauregard House: An Architectural Survey Report" (unpublished manuscript dated 1956, National Park Service Southwest Regional Office, Santa Fe).

18. Charles V. G. Maduel (comp.), Census Tables for the French Colony of Louisiana from 1699 through 1737 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1972), p. 142.

19. J. K. Voorhies (comp.), Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians: Census Records, 1758-1796 (Lafayette: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973), p. 221.

20. F. Rodriguez, July 13, 1794, NONA.

21. P. Pedesclaux, February 9, 1805, NONA.

22. Wilson, Plantation Houses.

23. Ibid.

24. William D. Reeves, De La Barre: Life of a French Creole Family in Louisiana (New Orleans: Polyanthos, 1980), p. 42.

25. Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, pp. 250-53.

26. Jack D. Holmes, "Indigo in Colonial Louisiana and the Floridas," Lousiana History, VIII (1967), p. 340.

27. Ibid., p. 344.

28. N. Broutin, February 16, 1798, NONA.

29. Holmes, "Indigo in Colonial Louisiana," pp. 346-48.

30. P. Pedesclaux, June 12, 1805, NONA.

31. P. Pedesclaux, March 21, 1808, NONA.

32. Walter Lowrie and Walter Franklin (eds.), American State Papers, Class VIII, Public Lands (Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1834), p. 281.

33. Governor W. C. C. Claiborne to Secretary of State Robert Smith, November 17, 1809, cited in Wilson, "Rene Beauregard House."

34. Claiborne to Smith, November 26, 1809, cited in Wilson, "Rene Beauregard House."

35. Claiborne to President Thomas Jefferson, January 12, 1810, in Wilson, "Rene Beauregard House."

36. M. de Armas, March 15, 1811, NONA.

37. Louisiana Courier, May 3, 1813.

38. M. de Armas, June 14, 1813, NONA.

39. Francis F. Wilshire, "The Rene Beauregard House" (An unpublished report dated 1952 in the library of Chalmette Unit, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park).

40. Wilson, "Rene Beauregard House," p. 7.

41. N. Broutin, October 24, 1814, NONA.

42. M. de Armas, April 28, 1817, NONA.

43. C. Pollock, May 8, 1832, NONA; Betsy Swanson, Historic Jefferson Parish from Shore to Shore (Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, 1975), p. 160.

44. David Connel Rankin," The Forgotten People: Free People of Color in New Orleans, 1850-1870" (unpublished doctoral dissertation dated 1976, Johns Hopkins University), pp. 40-41.

45. Ibid., p. 42.

46. Ibid., p. 160.

47. Mark Schmitz, Economic Analysis of Antebellum Sugar Plantations in Louisiana (New York: Arno Press, 1977), p. 108.

48. Joe Gray Taylor, Louisiana (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 9176), p. 67.

49. J. Carlyle Sitterson, Sugar Country: The Cane Sugar Industry in the South, 1753-1950 (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1953), p. 112.

50. Ibid., p. 92.

51. Ibid., p. 137.

52. Samuel Wilson, Jr., to the writer, 1983.

53. Sitterson, Sugar Country, p. 141.

54. T. B. Thorpe, "Sugar and the Sugar Region of Louisiana," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, VII (1853), p. 763.

55. Sitterson, Sugar Country, p. 143.

56. Thorpe, "Sugar and the Sugar Region," p. 763.

57. Sitterson, Sugar Country, p. 137.

58. M. de Armas, June 6, 1822, NONA.

59. See, for example, R. Christopher Goodwin and Jill-Karen Yakubik, "Data Recovery at the New Orleans General Hospital Site, 1 OR 69" (unpublished manuscript dated 1982 submitted to the Division of Archeology, Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism, State of Louisiana).

60. F. de Armas, June 3, 1824, NONA

61. F. de Armas, August 3, 1825, NONA.

62. C. Pollock, June 8, 1832, NONA.

63. C. Pollock, April 10, 1832, NONA.

64. C. Pollock, May 8, 1832, NONA.

65. C. Pollock, March 26, 1832, NONA.

66. C. Pollock, February 18, 1833, NONA.

67. Samuel Wilson, Jr., to the writer, 1984.

68. O. de Armas, November 28, 1834, NONA.

69. Louisiana Courier, March 7, 1832.

70. Harriet Martineau, Restrospect of Western Travel (2 vols.; London: Saunders and Otley, 1838), II, 155-57.

71. C.V. Toulon, December 13, 1841, NONA.

73. C. Pollock, April 10, 1832, NONA.

73. Conveyance Office Book (COB) 11, Folio 340, Orleans Parish.

74. T. Seghers, December 17, 1834, NONA.

75. F. Percy, April 25, 1849, NONA.

76. G. Le Gardeur, February 27, 1873, NONA.

77. G. Le Gardeur, April 13, 1875, NONA.

78. G. Le Gardeur, June 25, 1884, NONA.

79. P.A. Conrad, June 25, 1885, NONA.

80. E.A. Peyroux, September 24, 1888, NONA.

81. H.G. Dufour, November 28, 1904, NONA.

82. C. Pollock, April 10, 1832, NONA.

83. Ibid.

84. C. Boudousquie, December 30, 1846, NONA.

85. J. Strawbridge, June 26, 1868, NONA.

86. T. Seghers, March 16, 1835, NONA.

87. #23107, First Judicial District Court, Parish of Orleans.

88. Ibid.

89. A. Boudousquie, March 31, 1853, NONA.

90. "Note for the inventory of the Succession of the late Marie Josephine Cantrelle, spouse of Michel Martin Villavaso," in Samuel Wilson, Jr., to the writer, 1984.

91. J. Strawbridge, June 26, 1868, NONA.

92. Ibid.

93. O. Moral, January 28, 1871, NONA.

94. A. Hero, March 30, 1875, NONA.

95. See R. Christopher Goodwin, Jill-Karen Yakubik, and Peter A. Gendel, "Historic Archeology at Star and Bourbon Plantations" (unpublished manuscript dated 1983 submitted to the Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, Contract No. DACW29-83-M-0521).

96. A. Pitot, Jr., November 30, 1887, NONA.

97. J. Eustis, June 26, 1885, NONA.

98. COB 19, Folio 72, St. Bernard Parish.

99. G. Le Gardeur, June 23, 1899, NONA.

100. #601, Twenty-ninth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Bernard.

101. COB 20, Folio 241, St. Bernard Parish.

102. #601, Twenty-ninth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Bernard.

103. H.G. Dufour, December, 7, 1903, NONA.

104. COB 20, Folio 280, St. Bernard Parish.

105. C. Pollock, April 10, 1832, NONA.

106. O. de Armas, November 20, 1834, NONA.

107. C.V. Toulon, December 31, 1841, NONA.

108. #7849-7958, Second District Court, Orleans Parish.

109. COB 16, Folio 160, St. Bernard Parish.

110. COB 16, Folio 160, St. Bernard Parish.

111. F. Zengel, March 19, 1887, NONA.

112. C.J. Theard, October 16, 1888, NONA.

113. C.J. theard, January 11, 1894, NONA.

114. H.G. Dufour, December 16, 1904, NONA.

115. Ibid.

116. Ted Birkedal to the writer, 1984.

117. Papers relating to the acquisition of Fazendeville, in the files of the Chalmette Unit, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park.

118. C. Pollock, February 18, 1833, NONA.

119. C. Pollock, July 24, 1883, NONA.

120. A. Dreyfous, August 30, 1867, NONA.

121. Ibid.

122. A. Dreyfous, March 20, 1871, NONA.

123. A. Dreyfous, March 22, 1878, NONA.

124. J. Cohn, February 5, 1880, NONA.

125. A. Dreyfous, March 30, 1880, NONA.

126. F. Dreyfous, July 22, 1896, NONA.

127. Hunter C. Leake, September 21, 1896, NONA.

128. Ibid.

129. COB 20, Folio 209, St. Bernard Parish; COB 20, Folio 251, St. Bernard Parish.

130. C.V. Toulou, December 13, 1841, NONA.

131. J. Duvigneaud, December 10, 1896, NONA.

132. Ibid.

133. Succession of Marie Salvant, wife of Jean (Juan) Fernandez, #407, Twenty-Second Judicial District Court, St. Bernard Parish.

134. Succession of Juan Fernandez, #455, Twenty-second Judicial District Court, St. Bernard Parish.

135. J. Duvigneaud, December 12, 1896, NONA.

136. COB 20, Folio 233, St. Bernard Parish; COB 20, Folio 251, St. Bernard Parish.

137. C. Pollock, February 18, 1833, NONA.

138. C. E. Fortier, November 11, 1861, NONA.

139. Ted Birkedal to the writer, 1984.

140. Carl Gaines to the writer, 1984.

141. Ibid.

142. Watts K. Leverich, March 14, 1949, NONA.

143. P.M. Flanagan, November 28, 1949, NONA.

144. COB 57, Folio 283, St. Bernard Parish.

145. COB 85, Folio 435, St. Bernard Parish.

146. Ted Birkedal to the writer, 1983.

147. Goodwin and Yakubik, "Data Recovery at the New Orleans General Hospital Site, 16 OR 69."

148. Jill-Karen Yakubik, "Analysis of Historic Remains from Archeological Testing at the Site of the Rodriguez House, Chalmette National Historic Park" (unpublished report dated 1983, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park).

149. Ted Birkedal to the writer, 1984.