Display Patriot - P-117813 - Antoine BORDELON

Antoine BORDELON

SAR Patriot #: P-117813

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State of Service: ESP Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service

DAR #: A012256

Birth: 1733 New Orleans / Orleans / LA
Death: 25 Nov 1785 / Pointe Coupee / LA

Qualifying Service Description:

Sublieutenant and 2nd adjutant-major of the Pointe Coupee Parish Militia in 1781 serving under General Bernardo de Galvez

Additional References:

Diocese of Baton Rouge Church Records, Volume 1b, pg 23-24. (Marriage 1)
Robert C. Churchill, "S.A.R. Spanish-English War Record, 1779-1783 - General Bernardo de Gálvez," 1925, pg 330
Honor and Fidelity: The Louisiana Infantry Regiment and the Louisiana Militia Companies, 1766-1821, Jack D. L. Holmes, Birmingham, 1965, pg 6, 7 and 235
Diocese of Baton Rouge Church Records, Volume 2, pg 106.(Burial)

Spouse: (1) Marie Anne/Marianne Descuir/Decuir/Decuire Lemoine; (2) Marguerite Frederic
Children: Pierre; Augustin; Valerie; Lucille; Marie Ann; Zenos; Francois;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child
1983-09-07	LA	Unassigned	Daniel Joseph Couvillon (Ret.) (122680)	Valery
1983-11-14	LA	Unassigned	Clyde Matthew Neck (122943)	Valery
1987-09-11	LA	224620	Donald Richard McMath (129911)	Pierre
1988-12-28	LA	221409	Donald Charles Deville CPA (132208)	Pierre
1994-10-31	LA	207510	Rick Charles Normand (143486)	Pierre
1998-05-11	LA	1105	Ory Gerard Poret (150372)	Pierre
1999-06-18	LA	3941	Charles Howard Barre' (151199)	Valery
2000-10-04	LA	7653	Carlos Anthony Mayeux Jr (154608)	Pierre
2000-10-04	LA	7654	Daniel Edmond Michel (154607)	Valery
2000-10-04	LA	7655	Randy Paul DeCuir (154606)	Pierre
2001-05-18	LA	9550	Todd Patrick Howell (155855)	Pierre
2002-04-08	CA	11356	Maner Lawton Thorpe (137717)	Francois
2004-06-10	LA	17674	Edgar Burton Kemp III (162838)	Pierre
2005-08-17	LA	23410	Edgar Burton Kemp IV (165509)	Pierre
2008-11-05	LA	33392	Burton Clyde Saucier (172751)	Pierre
2008-12-19	CA	33725	David Harold Naumann II (173068)	Pierre
2009-10-30	CA	37818	Alexander David Naumann (175481)	Pierre
2012-07-30	LA	48944	Keith Timothy Dubea (184349)	Zenos
2012-07-30	LA	48945	Derek Joseph Dubea (184350)	Zenos
2012-07-30	LA	48946	Matthew Timothy Dubea (184351)	Zenos
2012-10-01	LA	50203	Harris Lionel Poret DDS (185023)	Pierre
2016-09-09	LA	71026	Jack Burton Colosky (199817)	Valery
2017-04-07	TX	72735	David Lee Peavy (194635)	Lucille/Lusilla
2018-01-12	LA	78905	Rudolph John Schroeder lV (205944)	Augustin
2018-03-07	WA	79793	Jerry Michael Bordelon (206717)	Augustin
2018-03-07	WA	79794	Jean Paul Bordelon (206718)	Augustin
2018-03-07	WA	79795	Zachary Dean Bordelon (206719)	Augustin
2018-10-19	LA	83359	Bobby Richard Bordelon (209248)	Valery
2020-05-15	LA	91266	John Henry Bordelon Jr. (215247)	Augustin
2020-05-15	LA	91267	Dale Patrick Bordelon (215248)	Augustin
2021-04-23	TX	94133	Mark Garland Morgan (209890)	Marianne
2021-12-17	DE	99943	Stephen Brian Bordelon (221142)	Valery
2022-04-29	LA	101414	Jared Scott Guillory (222302)	Augustine
2022-09-23	TX	103631	David Wayne Fautheree (223903)	Pierre
2022-10-21	WA	103126	Jerry Michael Bordelon (206717)	Pierre
2023-07-28	AL	108322	William Don Cobb Jr. (227249)	Zenon
2023-09-22	WA	107323	Jerry Michael Bordelon (206717)	Augustin
2023-12-01	WA	107770	Jerry Michael Bordelon (206717)	Marianne/Marie
2025-03-07	LA	115525	Andrew Alvin Navarre (232794)

Burial:

Saint Francis of Pointe Coupee Church (aka Saint Francis Catholic) Cemetery_(C-0373711)

Location:

Pointe Coupee / Pointe Coupee Parish / LA / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

2147785

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

n/a

Find A Grave Memorial #:

55030373

Marker Type:

SAR

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

29 Oct 2011

Comments:

Photo displayed courtesy of David L. Peavy, TXSSAR

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

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Author: David Lee Peavy

Antoine was born about 1732, a son of Gabriel Laurens Bordelon and Anne-Francoise Roland. Gabriel was employed by the La Compagnie des Indes (the Company of the Indies) and married Roland at New Orleans in 1729/1730. Antoine's father died before his birth in 1731 (he is not listed in the January 1732 census). After his birth, his mother moved the family to Pointe Coupee Post and married for the third time in 1737 to Jean Stephan dit Roquancourt. This is where, at the age of 12, Antoine is found in the 1745 census living with his mother and stepfather. On 2 April 1759, he entered into a marriage contract for Marie Anne Decuir, where he is identified as a major in the militia. The contract states that he gave his new wife 1,000 livres and the bride's dowry consisted of 2,511 livres, 5 sols including a sum of 1,247 livres, and 5 sols due her from the succession of her father, in addition to other financial considerations.

In the 1770 Militia Roll, Antoine is listed ad the "Sous Aide Major" for the Pointe Coupee Post. At the baptism of his son Francois, he is also listed as the Warden of the Parish church.

During the American Revolutionary War, Spain provided assistance to the Continental Army beginning in 1776 and by 1779 declared war on Britain. All of Louisiana's militias had been activated by 1777 with the arrival of Bernando Galvez as governor. In a 1781 Spanish document, it states that Antoine was "...an officer in the Baton Rouge campaign and since that Natchez," during the war.

Antoine's first wife - Anne Marie Decuir - died 22 December 1788. He had seven children with Decuir: Pierre (b. 1761), Marianne (b. 1764), Antoine, II (b. 1767), Augustin (b. 1768), Francois (b. 1771), Lucille (b. 1773), and Hilaire (b. 1777). He married Marguerite Frederic (her second marriage), 20 July 1779. With Frederic, he had an additional five children: Felicite ( b. 1780), Victoire (b. 1781), Valery (b. 1782), Zenon (b. 1782), and his twin, Charles (b. 1782). In total, Antoine had 12 children.

By the 1785 census, he had moved his family to the Avoyelles Post to live on a land grant given to him by the Spanish government for his service during the war (See Am. State Papers, v. 8, p. 165). At the age of 53 years, he died at Avoyelles, 24 November 1785. He was buried in the cemetery attached to the St. Francis church in Pointe Coupee, as there was no Catholic church in Avoyelles until 1796.

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