32. Major Pierre Antoine Bienvenu Sr. was born Mar 1702/1703 in Lorient, Brittany, France. He died 13 Nov 1771 in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. Pierre married Marie Marthe DeVince on 5 Jun 1754 in St Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisania.
Pierre was a Catholic, attending St Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisania. He was employed Major, French Militia in Lower MS River & Fort De Chartres, IL. He was employed Kenilworth Plantation in St Bernard Parish, Louisiana. He immigrated 23 May 1718 to Ship: Victoire to Quebec, Canada. He resided 1718 - 1725 in Quebec, Canada. He resided 1726 in Fort de Chartres, Kaskaskia, IL. He resided 1739 - 1766 in New Orleans Orleans Parish, Louisania. He was employed Lawyer at 1st session of Spanish Cabildo Dec 1769 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana. [Parents]
According to Ms. Wood:
Perpetuel and Receiver of Fines, New Orleans, LA. Sold this post to Daniel François Fagot d e la Garcinière. Had largest plantation in St Bernard Parish, Louisiana.Lorient, Bretagne, France (1703) ; On schooner, Victoire, with father en route to Quebec, Canada (May 23, 1718) ; Quebec, Canada (1725) ; Fort de Chartres, Kaskaskia, IL (1726) ; New Orleans , LA (1739) ; 3rd District, New Orleans, LA (1760-1766)
Text: p121 [1766 census]
On the ship Le Profond are listed for May 20, 1720 the following children: Jean Baptiste Bienvenue, Jeanne Gillaume Bienvenue , Daniel Bienvenue, François Bienvenu.
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Annual elections for a syndic were held in Kaskaskia, as was the custom in the northern provinces of France where his duty was to represent the village in all lawsuits against it. But in the Illinois country he seems to have taken on somewhat the character of a magistrate. Joseph Aubuchon, who succeeded Antoine Bienvenu on April 13, 1739, was elected syndic of the village, in charge of the fence around the commons.[Natalia Maree Belting, "Kaskaskia Under the French Regime", University of Illinois Press, pg 21]
33. Marie Marthe DeVince was born 8 Jan 1735 in Fort Condé, Mobile, Alabama. She died 28 Aug 1802 in New Orleans, Orleans Co., Louisiana and was buried 28 Aug 1802 in 2nd Nave, St Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisania. [Parents]
Maria Bienvenu (Alexandro and Maria Chauvin), native of Mobile , widow of Antonio Bienvenu, 66 yr., i. Aug 28, 1802, in St Louis Cathedral in the nave (second section) of the chapel of the Most Holy Virgin.
34. Capt Franciso Sales Pascalis de la Barre was born about 1745. He married Carlota Charlotte Volant.
Franciso was employed Councilman 1803 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana.
Series: M252 Roll: 10 Page: 246
DELABARRE PASCALIS LA ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS 18101810 census:
1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1
35. Carlota Charlotte Volant was born 22 Jun 1738 in Fort Condé, Mobile, Alabama and was christened in Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Mobile, Alabama. She died 8 Jan 1802 and was buried 8 Jan 1802 in St Louis Cathedral. [Parents]
Witness: Marriage of Antoine Bienvenu and Charlotte Volant de la Barre. Dec 30, 1784.
44. Captain Louis Coulon de Villiers de Villiers "Coulon" was born 10 Aug 1710 in Quebec, Canada. He died 2 Nov 1757 from smallpox and was buried in Cathedral at Quebec. Coulon was married Dec 1753 in Montreal. [Parents]
The St. Joseph Baptismal Register
Par, Rev. George and Quaife, Milo M., eds. in:
The Mississippi Valley Historical Review,20 Louis Coulon de Villiers was born August 10, 1710. In later life he was known as "Le Grand Villiers." He was with his father at Fort St. Joseph, as the present entry shows, and was probably, although not certainly, with him at Green Bay in 1733. He accompanied Longeuil on the Chickasaw expedition in 1739, and was with his brother, Nicolas Antoine, on the Acadian expedition of 1746-47. From 1750-53 he was commandant at Fort Miami. He returned to Montreal, where he married in December, 1753, and the next year was on the upper Ohio, where he "avenged" the death of his brother, Joseph, at the hands of George Washington by forcing that officer to surrender Fort Necessity. He commanded Fort Niagara in 1755, and distinguished himself in the capture of Oswego in 1756 and the campaign of Fort William Henry in 1757. He died of smallpox, Nov. 2, 1757, and was buried in the Cathedral at Quebec. See Gosselin, op. cit.
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Just after day break on May 28, 1754, Washington received information from the Indian Tanacharison, known as the Half-King, that the French were encamped at the present site of Jumonville Glen, a few miles from Washington's location. Fearing they were there to attack him, Washington decided to launch a first strike against them. On the lead of the Indian chief, Washington spent several hours moving to the site of the French encampment, which was located at the base of some huge rocks! Not the best location from which to fight! There, Washington successfully ambushed the French company of over 30 soldiers under the command of Ensign Coulon de Jumonville de Villiers. After a 15-minute battle several French were dead including Jumonville, several were captured and one escaped. Horace Walpole, a prominent British statesman, later wrote that this encounter was "the volley fired by a young Virginian in the backwoods of America that set the world on fire." Some historians have called what two years later would be declared the French and Indian War, the real "first world war."
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From The Golden Dog, by William Kirby (e-text)Talking gayly with De Beaujeu were two gallant-looking young men of a Canadian family which, out of seven brothers, lost six slain in
the service of their King--Jumonville de Villiers, who was afterwards, in defiance of a flag of truce, shot down by order of
Colonel Washington, in the far-off forests of the Alleghenies, and his brother, Coulon de Villiers, who received the sword of
Washington when he surrendered himself and garrison prisoners of war, at Fort Necessity, in 1754.Coulon de Villiers imposed ignominious conditions of surrender upon Washington, but scorned to take other revenge for the death of his
brother. He spared the life of Washington, who lived to become the leader and idol of his nation, which, but for the magnanimity of the
noble Canadian, might have never struggled into independence.La Corne always brushed aside compliments to himself: "Tut, my Lady!it was more Pierre's good-nature than mine--he out of kindness let
the women rejoin their husbands; on my part it was policy and stratagem, of war. Hear the sequel! The wives spoiled the
husbands, as I guessed they would do, taught them to be too late at reveille, too early at tattoo. They neglected guards and pickets,
and when the long nights of winter set in, the men hugged their wives by the firesides instead of their muskets by their watch-
fires. Then came destruction upon them! In a blinding storm, amid snow-drifts and darkness, Coulon de Villiers, with his troops on
snow-shoes, marched into the New England camp, and made widows of the most of the poor wives, who fell into our hands the second time.
Poor creatures! I saw that day how hard it was to be a soldier's wife." La Corne's shaggy eyelash twinkled with moisture. "But it
was the fortune of war!--the fortune of war, and a cruel fortune it s at the best!"But all these events lay as yet darkly in the womb of the future.
The gallant Jumonville who fell, and his brother Coulon who took his "noble revenge" upon Washington by sparing his life, were to-day the
gayest of the gay throng who had assembled to do honor to Pierre Philibert.
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Indian forces
July 3, 1754: Surrounded by 500 French and 400 Indian forces under Sieur Coulon de Villiers, [the English troops under] George Washington has only 400 soldiers at his Fort Necessity, near modern Farmington, in southwestern Pennsylvania. After his artillery is put out of action, and with half of his men as casualties, Washington accepts de Villiers offer of surrender. Washington leads his troops back to Virginia. De Villiers is the brother
of Jumonville de Villiers, Washington's counterpart in the battle not far from here on May 28th. Jumonville is killed in that battle.
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Ambush and Revenge:
George Washington's Adversaries in 1754
Ensign Joseph Coulon de Jumonville and Captain Louis Coulon de Villiers
by Dr. Joseph L. Peyser.
"One month after Jumonville’s "murder", Jumonville’s older brother requested and received orders to lead a strong detachment… assembled to pursue Washington’s forces to avenge "their foul behavior"…"
Fort Duquesne, June 28,1754
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