16. Pierre Antoine, Jr. Bienvenu was born 2 Oct 1761 in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana and was christened 12 Nov 1761 in Chalmette. He died 25 Oct 1841 in New Orleans Orleans Parish, Louisania and was buried 26 Oct 1841 in Section 2, Bienvenu tomb, L. Moni, Curé , St Louis Cemetery #2, New Orleans, LA. Pierre married Marie Charlotte Pascalis de la Barre on 30 Dec 1784.
Pierre was enumerated in the Federal Census for 1830 for St. Bernard Parish Louisiana. [Parents]
Birth and Christening data: Arch. of New Orleans Sacr. Rec. book Text: p21
'Bienvenu, Pierre Antoine (Antoine and Marie Marthe DeVince), b . Nov 12, 1761, bn. Oct 2, 1761, s. Pierre René de laGautrais
[d elaGauteris], Chevalier of the Royal and Military Order of St Louis, and Marie Louise Dutisne Grondel [Dutisnet Grondel].'--------------------------------
St. Louis Cemetery #2
320 North Claiborne Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70112
504-596-3050New Orleans Cemeteries: St. Louis #1 best, but can be very dangerous, don't go alone!! A good time is when "Haunted New Orleans" runs a tour group by, so there are lots of people around. Watch out for gangs of pre-teens checking out your hardware. St. Louis #2 is considered too dangerous to visit even in groups without an armed guard, I know one local photographer who only visits this one with an armed rent a cop!. I don't want to sound too paranoid, but this is a very bad part of town. I am also a big fan of St. Roch's, Lafayette #1 (where the vampire Lestat is buried), Metairie, Odd Fellows and Holt (the paupers cemetery), all of these are safe enough in even small groups. The Archdiocese is still a little sensitive about making commercial photos in their cemeteries after the Acid Trip scene in Easy Rider, (no fooling, they still mention it to me), so be sure to say that you are not a professional and there is no commercial value in your work and you are but a simple tourist. (Stan)
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1830 census United States St. Bernard Parish Louisiana
Antoine Bienvenu 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
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On 8 January 1815 the Battle of New Orleans
The rugged, ill-equipped army of 5,000 against the pride of the British Army numbering 10,000. The battle of raged on lands of Ignace de Lino De Chalmette, Antoine Bienvenu and Denis de la Ronde. British camps on lands of Jacques Philippe Villere and Pierre Lacoste; hospital on Jumonville de Villiers. Jackson Defense Line on the Edmond Macarty place.
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The Chalmette Plantations
Scene of the Battle of New Orleans December 1814 - January 1815. Battle raged on lands of Ignace de Lino De Chalmette, Antoine Bienvenue and Denis de la Ronde. British camps on lands of Jacques de Villere and Pierre Lacoste; hospital on Jumonville de Villiers. Jackson Defense Line on Edmond Macarty place. Located in Chalmette, District 2, Hwy 39, St. Bernard Parish.
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17. Marie Charlotte Pascalis de la Barre was born 5 Jul 1763 in New Orleans, LA and was christened 28 Jul 1763. She died 21 Dec 1825 in Plaquemines Parish. [Parents]
alt birth: 14 Feb 1766
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Gladys Stovall ArmstrongSuccession of Charlotte La BARRE, wife of Antoine Bienvenne SEVIOR ( filed 15 August 1831)
Petitioner, Delphine VILLERIE of the parish of Plaquemines, planter, acting as tutor to Philip VILLERE, his minor son, humbly showeth that Philip VIllerie, minor, is heir of the late Charlotte LA BARRE, the deceased wife of Antoine BIENVENU SENIOR ( SEVIOR) Planter, of this parish of ST. Bernard, by representation of Delphine BIENVENU, his deceased Mother.
That, besides Philip VILLERE and the two minor children of Louis HARDY De BORSBLANE, named Adele and Armand from his marriage with the late Adile BIENVENU. There are 9 other children of age: daughters and sons of the late Charlotte LA BARRE and Antoine BIENVENU.
18. Antoine Dufouchard DeGruy was born 1794. He married Joséphine Guerin.
19. Joséphine Guerin was born about 1790.
22. Jumonville de Villiers died 2 Mar 1831. [Parents]
Name of Deceased ( Jumonville De Villiers )
Date of Death 1831-03-02
Sex M
Paper Date Page/Section/Column Lang.
LOUISIANA COURIER 1831-03-02 Pg 1 Col. 2
LOUISIANA COURIER 1831-03-02 Pg 2 Col. 2 French
----------------------------------------------------Name of Deceased ( F A Devilliers )
Date of Death 1857-07-18
Age 35 yrs
Sex M
Paper Date Page/Section/Column Lang.
LOUISIANA COURIER 1857-07-19 Pg 2 Col. 5 French
issue?:Name of Deceased ( V O Devilliers )
Date of Death 1922-07-19
Age 79 yrs
Sex F
Paper Date Page/Section/Column Lang.
TIMES-PICAYUNE 1922-07-21 Pg 2 Col. 7
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Jumonville de Villiers, was the French Commander in 1754 to which Lt. Col. George Washington was sent summoning the French to withdraw from Ohio. His great uncle was killed in battle.http://www.muzzleblasts.com/vol5no2/articles/mbo52-4.html
By the middle of June, Fort Duquesne had the look of a significant outpost. Indians from Canada, Detroit, and the Ohio country had gathered at that place rallying under the aegis of the fleur de lis.
[Indian tribes called the] Abnakis, Algonquins, Hurons, Nipissings, Ottawa, Potawatomies, Chippewas, Mississaugi, Wyandot, Shawnee, Delaware, and even some of the Mingo now supported the French. The Delaware and Mingo contingent that a few days earlier treated with Washington returned and reported the condition of the provincial forces. In the meantime, Captain Contrecoeur's considerable force of Troupes de la Marine, coureurs de bois, and [the] Indians at Fort Duquesne was augmented on June 27 with reinforcements from Montreal under the command of Captain Coulon de Villiers. Contrecoeur had already issued orders to strike the provincials the next day with 500 auxiliaries under the command of Chevalier Le Mercier, but de Villiers' seniority and the fact that the "martyred" M. Jumonville was his brother, Contrecoeur gave the command to him.On June 28th de Villier's legion of 600 Troupes de la Marine and coureurs de bois supplemented by a hundred Indians representing nine nations pushed off the shore line in large canoes and paddled swiftly up the Monongahela River, reaching Redstone Station two days later.
The French commander immediately dispatched his Indian scouts to the southwest. Quickly they returned, reporting the news that the English were entrenching at Gist's Station. Villiers piled his supplies nearby and ordered the advance; he would fight the English at Gist's.
Not until July 2nd did the French make Gist's Station; but they found the post almost abandoned, managing to capture a young lady named Elizabeth Williams and three traders: Andrew McBriar, John Kennedy, and Nehemiah Stevens18.
Villiers determined to continue the pursuit, spurred on by a report from a traitor named John Ramsey, who voluntarily detailed the deteriorated condition of young Colonel Washington's command. The French contingent swiftly filed through the cut in the Laurel Mountain in a dismal rain as scouts came in reporting the good news that the English were entrenching at the Great Meadows a few miles southeast.
Villers ordered a halt and allowed his men a brief respite while he and a small party journeyed to the ravine a few miles away, where his kin de Jumonville and his men had been ambushed. M. Villiers noted in his report "Here I saw some bodies still remaining19."
At Fort Necessity Tanaghrisson and Queen Allaquippa, disheartened by the inept preparations being made to meet the enemy, abandoned their allies.
No sooner had daylight begun to break on July 3rd than a scouting party came in carrying a wounded sentinel. The alarm was sounded as the various companies abandoned their work on what was now dubbed "Fort Necessity," fell in, and prepared to meet the French.
Villiers moved his command southwest of the fort, debouched the wooded hillside in three columns, kicked out a skirmish line, and advanced at regular time across the open field. Washington and Mackey moved the majority of their 284 effectives out of the works, dressed their ranks, and awaited the pleasure of their enemy. But Villiers saw no reason to uselessly expose "... the lives of the King's subjects20."
The Provincials and Captain Mackey's regulars held formation in the face of the French advance, waiting patiently for the order to fire. To their rear Major Stephen ordered several of the swivel guns rammed with shot and fired across the open meadow. But the effect was limited, though the French halted two hundred yards from the fort and with admirable precision fired a volley toward the English. The distance was too great to do any damage, and following the dictums of the musket drill they reloaded, advanced, and fired again with similar ineffectual results21.
Washington and Mackey then ordered their soldiers to retire onto the entrenchments. The French closed smartly to within sixty yards of the English line, then swung about to the southeast and two hillocks that commanded the fort and lay within easy musket range.
The French had the advantage of concealment in the woods and were able first, to knock down the cattle and horses, and second, to deliver a steady "galling" fire on the trenches, palisades, and cabin. It was as Washington later reported, "an unequal fight." Any return fire on the part of the English, was at an unseen enemy.
Then, to complicate matters it rained profusely. The trenches began to fill, the already soft earth quickly turned to mud, and the soldiers sank in. The rain fouled their muskets, and the regiment had only two mechanical screw-rods to clear the damp charges. By late afternoon, a paucity of powder and ball forced the English to slacken their fire.
But action was not lacking in all this. Col. Muse committed some indiscretion - the allegation was cowardice - that has not come down to us fully explained. Then a goodly number of the regiment broke into the rum supply in the cabin and got blindly inebriated, no doubt placing young Col. Washington in a state of high dudgeon22.
Just after dark, following a sharp increase in musketry, the French called for a parley. Captain Villiers later wrote, "As we had been wet all day by the rain, as the soldiers were very tired, as the savages said that they would leave us the next morning, as there was a report that drums and the firing of cannon had been heard in the distance, I proposed to M. Le Mercier to offer the English a conference23."
Villiers signaled the fort that he wished to discuss terms, but Washington, worried that it might be a French artifice, declined. For a time there were shouts across the line from both sides until a compromise had been reached: the French would treat with an English officer at their position and they would guarantee his safety.
Because of their bilingual skills, the colonel sent Captain Jacob Van Braam and Chevalier de Peyrouny, an ensign, who was "dangerously wounded24." After receiving the colonel's instructions, they slogged across the muddy field to treat with Captain Villiers and his second M. LeMercier.
In a short time the two returned to Fort Necessity with Villiers's verbal offer: the French would show mercy and allow the English to retire with the honors of war, leaving only their cannon - less one piece, signifying a tribute to the courage of the enemy. However, if they offered any "obstinate resistance" he could very easily lose control of his Indian allies and a massacre might ensue.
Col. Washington's command was in dire straits; over a hundred soldiers were sick, and casualties had been significant. His only hope lay in a frontal assault on the fort by the enemy, and M. Villiers was much too smart for that. The terms provided must have elated the provincial colonel, and he sent Van Braam back to the French requesting that the conditions of surrender be written. It took a great deal of time for this to transpire in the rain, and when the Dutchman came back to the fort he read aloud to the officers the smeared, somewhat indiscernible document25.
Captain Van Braam's reading of the surrender document has come under some scrutiny and appears as a blot on his reputation. When he came to the sentence, in the opening paragraph of the document, which referenced the demise of the unfortunate Jumonville party, the word Villiers used was assassin. However, either through haste, a singular lack of knowledge of the written word, or guile, Van Braam mistranslated, using a less offensive etymon26.
His reading of the remaining conditions was flawless, though there was some question concerning the final point when the French required that "they...must give their word of honor that they will not work on any establishment either in the surrounding country or beyond the mountains during one year beginning from this day." This final condition and the situation regarding Van Braam's mistranslation would cause Col. Washington no little embarrassment in the near future27.
Villiers provided munificent terms; the English would surrender all but one cannon and be allowed to leave the fort with their colors uncased and their drums beating. Washington, however, balked at the requirement of delivering up his munitions of war; without ball and powder they would be easy prey for the Indians. Van Braam went slogging across the field to see the French commander, who quickly deleted the offending term, thus permitting the English to leave armed.
Villiers did require that two hostages be turned over to him until such time as the English released the prisoners taken at Jumonville's Glen. Since Captain Van Braam was without familial obligations and spoke some French, he and Captain Stobo, who was also unmarried, were chosen (volunteered?). They gathered up some personal belongings and walked together across the muddy field to their captors.
As the sun rose the next morning, July 4, 1754, the Virginia Regiment and Independent Company were engaged in the morbid duty of burying the dead; thirty souls entrusted to their Savior, properly prayed over, with their courage recounted ever so briefly. Baggage was quickly packed, and a heap piled with the debris of battle. They took what care they could of their seventy wounded, preparing them for the journey. The Indians broke into the cabin at the fort, plundered a large medicine chest, and then demanded their right to pillage and captives. Villiers refused, according to the terms of capitulation, and released a number of Virginians the Indians had taken.
The sun was well up by the time the remnant of the Virginia Regiment and the Independent Company marched out of the Great Meadows. They made three miles the first day, pestered and pressed hard by the Indians. The next day they left the seriously wounded under guard, sent two men ahead to bring back wagons for them, then continued to Wills Creek.
Captain Villiers ordered Fort Necessity burnt, the guns spiked, and everything that couldn't be carried destroyed. He then ordered his command back to Fort Duquesne. The French stopped at Gist's Station, destroyed the entrenchments, and burned the buildings; then they ministered in the same manner to the Ohio Company's cabin at Redstone Station. They arrived victorious at Fort Duquesne on July 7th. In the engagement they lost three killed and 17 wounded.
Washington's defeat at the Great Meadows would have profound repercussions in the colonies. No English establishment now existed west of the Alleghenies; the French had unfettered control of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers from Canada to Louisiana; and most importantly, the Ohio Nations - the Delaware, Shawnee, Miami, Wyandot, and even some Mingo - were eventually to understand that the covenant chain with the English was nearly broken. For the time being they adhered to the dictums of the Six Nations at Onondaga and remained neutral, though the French had already begun to cajole them with black wampum.
Tanaghrisson and Scarouady, the Mingo headmen at Loggs Town, traveled to George Croghan's station at Aughwick, and there they made their town. In September, 1754, three months after the unpleasantness at the Great Meadows King Beaver27 and other distinguished Ohio country headmen came to seek the Tanaghrisson's counsel. "We have hitherto," King Beaver said, "followed your directions and lived very easy under your Protection, and no high Wind did blow to make Us uneasy; but now Things seem to take another turn, and a high Wind is rising...(28)."
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