Jacque Antoine LeBorne was born 15 May 1697 at Notre Dame, Valenciennes, France, and died Bef. 1784 in Louisiana.
Wife Genevieve Bettemont was born Abt. 1706 in France and died 25 November 1784 in St. Charles, LA. They were married Abt. 1725 in Louisiana.
Their children were:
1- Jean Baptiste LeBorne b: Abt. 1726 Louisiana; d: 27 April 1749 St. Charles, LA
+Francoise Lavergne m: 13 July 1745 St. Charles, LA [Louis/Elizabeth Thomelain]
2- child LeBorne b: Abt. 1728
3- unknown LeBorne b: Abt. 1730
4- Genevieve LeBorne b: 30 March 1735 Louisiana; d: Abt. 17 March 1785 St. Charles, LA
+Francois Castan m: 8 October 1754 St. Charles, LA
5- Jacque Antoine Borne b: 22 June 1737 St. Charles, LA; d: 11 May 1809 Edgard, St. John, LA
+Marianne Haydel b: 22 July 1742 St. Charles, LA; m: Abt. 1760 German Coast, LA [Ambros Heidel/Anne Marguerite Schaaf]; d: 12 February 1810 Edgard, St. John, LA
6- Jean Francois LeBorne b: 22 January 1740 St. Charles, LA; d: 2 May 1749 St. Charles, LA
7- Genevieve Marguerite LeBorne b: 13 January 1743 St. Charles, LA
+Joseph Verret
8- George LeBorne b: Abt. 1747; d: Bet. 1778 - 1784
9- Claude Francois LeBorne b: 10 January 1751 New Orleans, LA; d: Abt. 11 October 1784 St. Charles, LA
+Rosalie Bossier m: 14 February 1774 St. John, Edgard, LA; d: Abt. 11 October 1784 St. Charles, LA
Notes for Jacque Antoine LeBorne:
- Jacque Antoine LeBorne was a member of the 99-person DeMeuves Concession, which later became the German Coast.
They sailed from La Rochelle on La Marie on 23 May 1718. The ship arrived in
Louisiana on 25 August 1718. The Concession contingent settled about 30 miles above New Orleans.
Jacque settled across the river between Cannes Bruslee (Kenner) and Anse ou Outardes (Norco).
From an October 1726 list of persons requesting slaves from the Company, Jacque was a resident at the Bayougoulas.
- 1 July 1727: census (right bank ascending): Antoine LeBorne, his wife and one child (between Francois Cheval and Rene Dorvain).
- 1731 census: Bornes, wife and 3 children were residing at Anse aux Outardes
- 1731 Landowners: east bank Miss. R. ascending, 10 arpents by possession.
- After the Choctaw Indians raided the habitations on the east bank (1748-9), and at least one of his neighbors Francois Cheval was murdered, Jacque moved to the west bank and acquired land grants on the lower end of what was to have been the original Concession above present day Hahnville.
Notes for Genevieve Bettemont:
- Genevieve Bettemont arrived in 1719 on La Mutine in the passenger list of "girls from Paris sent by order of the King".
Extract from American Historical Review on Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast (author Joan DeJean). The establishment of French Louisiana, so the story goes, was a disreputable affair. The first European residents, "the convicts, vagabonds, ne’er-do-wells, misfits, and prostitutes," the dregs of early eighteenth-century French society, made little contribution to the colony and left no lasting impact. Contemporaries particularly dismissed founding women as ugly, ungovernable, dissolute, and unmarriageable, while historians have subsequently concluded that most failed to marry or have children, so simply faded from the historical record, leaving no lasting impact. Joan DeJean’s engaging narrative history Mutinous Women transforms this widely accepted account by placing these women at the center of this founding story and offering a detailed account of their lives. In 1719, two ships left France, bound for the wilds of Louisiana: Les Deux Frères and La Mutine, which together forcibly transported nearly 140 women. Condemned as libertines and prostitutes on trumped-up charges and through aborted legal processes, French officials packed them off to the new colony of Louisiana without provisions, a plan, or thought for what role they would play. For many, their odyssey began in the infamous Parisian prison La Salpêtrière, incarcerated for crimes ranging from murder, to theft and smuggling, to the apparently fabricated charge of "divine lèse-majesté" for stealing and eating consecrated communion bread. The vast majority of them, however, were interred for debauchery and, increasingly, prostitution. THANKS go to a correspondent, Stephen Dubret, who referred me to this book. I have not yet read it but he says that Genevieve later successfully sued to get her annuity an aunt had given her reinstated. Apparently, her Mother may have allowed her to be taken away in order to steal her money.
Parents of Jacque Antoine LeBorne
Parents of Genevieve Bettemont
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