Pierre Dargaray

1693-1736 · Rennes, Brittany

Born 1693, Rennes, Brittany

Died 1736

Children include Michel

Pierre Dargaray was a native of Rennes in Brittany. In January 1720 he was twenty seven and employed at the concession of Mr. de Rolli at the Chapitoulas, a plantation tract above New Orleans. On 29 January 1720 a Capuchin priest at New Orleans drew up his marriage contract with Gilette Gautier, also of Rennes, the widow of a Mr. Felot. He recognized that 2,000 livres in goods and furniture were owed to her two children, Joseph and Thérèse Felot, to be paid them when they came of age.

He later became the porter, or keeper, of the prison of New Orleans. Three children were born to him and Gilette: Michel, baptised in February 1728, Pierre, baptised in September 1733, and Françoise Gabrielle.

On 17 March 1736 the Superior Council was told he had died. The judge's deputy, Louis Joseph Bizoton, went to the house and found him dead on a cot. The inventory listed a cypress armoire with two doors that locked, worth 10 livres, and an old bed frame. Then it listed what belonged to the King: twenty pairs of prison clothes, a large red copper boiler, a pair of pistols, a signal light, and an iron seal.

Children

Michel Gargare b. 1728

Sources

Marriage contract of Pierre D'Argaray and Gilette Gautier, New Orleans, 29 January 1720, Louisiana State Museum records; baptism of Michel Jacques Dargare, New Orleans, 12 February 1728, in the list of infants baptised at New Orleans in 1728, certified 24 April 1729; baptism of Pierre Dargaray, New Orleans, 8 September 1733; inventory at the death of Pierre Dargarey, Superior Council of Louisiana, 17 March 1736; all in English translation as quoted in Brother Jerome Lepré, "A Lady Undaunted: Marie Martha Paquet", New Orleans Genesis, vol. 21, no. 83 (July 1982), pages 263 to 270, reproduced in the Pacquet Family File, Pascagoula Public Library, Local History and Genealogical Department (now the Singing River Genealogy and Local History Library), archive.org item Pacquet.

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