No Man's Land: A History of El Camino RealNardini, Louis Raphael
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No Man's Land: A History of El Camino Real
Nardini, Louis Raphael
El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail (Tex. and La.); Louisiana -- History
Pierre Dole (Pedro Dolet or Peter Dolet), Frenchman mentioned earlier
wed Dona Rose Duprez, Spanish woman, resided on Bayou Adais
(Winn Creek, west of Robeline, Louisiana).
Andria Valentine (Andria Balentine) Frenchman, wed Angela Molis,
French woman, resided on Bayou La Jeune (Youngs’ Bayou) near
Coldwater vicinity.
Elina Wales, widow, American, three sons, Jacob, Thomas and Benjamin,
resided on Bayou La Jeune.
Jacinto Gane (Jacinto Gannie, Gainnie, Gagnier), evidently a son of
Pierre Gainnie, resided on land grant mentioned before.
Bacitio Gane of the same family mentioned above, Frenchman, wed Marie
Lafita, Spanish woman.
Miguel Viciente, Spanish, mentioned before, wed Elena Roubeaux French
woman, is the same land grant sold to Isaac Crow, which was
being claimed by his son, Michel.
Pedro Roblo, Pierre Roubeaux, Frenchman, wed Magdelina Baptiste,
Spanish woman, resided on Durango Creek.
Francisco Moran, Frenchman, wed Anna Maria, an Apache mestizo, the
word mestizo in Spanish refers to a half-breed offspring of
Spanish and Indian parents. Moran was an Indian trader for
Anthanaze De Mezieres and operated along El Camino Real with a
certified passport. He was said to speak French, Spanish and
thirty-eight Indian dialects. He often accompanied DeMezieres
as an interpreter. He asked for and received three acres of
land on El Camino Real in the vicinity of Robeline, Louisiana.
In 1805 Moran was seventy-eight years old.
Santiago Christine, Frenchman wed Marie D’Ortigeaux, French woman,
resided on Bayou Pierre.
Antonio Rocquier, Frenchman, wed Marrianne, an English woman. This
grant by De Mezieres has already been mentioned as to
location.
Michel Crow, Englishman, wed Margarita La Fleur (LaFleur-Flores)
Spanish woman, resided, as before mentioned in the claim of
the firm, Murphy, Smith, Barr and Davenport.
In 1806 the following had applied for homesteads and received quarter
sections of land: William Eldridge, George Mac Tier, Manuel Flores, John
Cartez, Asa Becherson, Stephen Wallace and Seaborne Maillard.
Peter Belieu, who had been living on Bayou Pierre for fifty years,
declared squatters’ rights, as did Walter Weathersby, Francois Dubois,
David Chase, Jean Pierre Grappe, Joseph Teanriz, Mickel Chasneau,
Benjamin Boullett, William Cockerville, Denise Dies (Diez).
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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