Display Patriot - P-146390 - Pierre Joseph DE FAVROT

Pierre Joseph DE FAVROT

SAR Patriot #: P-146390

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State of Service: ESP      Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
DAR #: A031307

Birth: 16 Jul 1749 New Orleans / / LA
Death: 26 Jun 1824 / West Baton Rouge / LA

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Served in the Spanish Louisiana Infantry under Bernardo de Galvez in the capture of Fort Bute at Manchac, the Fort at Baton Rouge in 1779
  2. He was left in command of the Fort at Baton Rouge following its capture. Assisted in the capture of Ft. Charlotte in Mobile in 1780 and left as interim commandant

Additional References:
  1. Holmes, Jack D. L.Honor and Fidelity, The Louisiana Infantry Regiment and the Louisiana Militia Companies, 1766-1821, self-published, 1965, pg 116
  2. Schmidt, Elizabeth WhitmanLouisiana Patriots, 1776-1783, DAR
  3. Falcón, Guillermo NáñezThe Favrot Family Papers, 1690-1782, Vol 1, Howard Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, 1988, pg 288-291
  4. Carlton, Mark T.River Capital, An Illustrated History of Baton Rouge: Windsor Publications, Inc, 1981, pg 22

Spouse: Maria Francoise Gerard
Children: Louis; Henry Bouvier; Pierre Louis Estevan;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1960-12-08 LA Unassigned Richard Burke Reynaud (86669)   
1961-05-16 LA Unassigned Illegible Compatriot (86892)   
Burial:
Highland Cemetery (C-0376516)
Location:
Baton Rouge / East Baton Rouge Parish / LA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
777474
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
30.405023 / -91.172080
Find A Grave Memorial #:
7361666
Marker Type:
SAR Stake;
SAR Grave Dedication Date:
15 Oct 2011

Comments:
  • Upright V/A stone
  • Grave marking by General Philemon Thomas Chapter LASSAR, 15 October 2011


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Dr. Derrick Wayne Spell

This biography was edited and augmented by PRS staff

Pierre-Joseph (aka Don Pedro) de Favrot was born on 16 July 1749 in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of French native Claude Joseph de Favrot. 

He served as an officer in the infantry under Spanish Governor Bernardo de Galvez. He marched with the Galvez Expedition in 1779, that captured Fort Bute on Bayou Manchac and the Fort at Baton Rouge. He served as Commandant of the Spanish Fort at Baton Rouge from 1779-1781. He later served at other posts, including the Fort at Mobile.

After the Revolution, Pierre returned to Baton Rouge and married in 1783 to Marie Francoise Gerard. As a Spanish Officer, he needed the permission of the King of Spain. In her statement to the King, Francoise presented evidence to prove her “purity of blood and good character.”  She declared that “I, and my aforementioned parents and grandparents, paternal and maternal, are true Christians, free of all evil and free of the blood of any newly converted race, of Moors, Jews, mulattoes, or Indians, and have never been tried for any infamous crimes, but, on the contrary, have enjoyed those honorable employments with which are distinguished persons of quality and good habits.” They had several known children together; only five or six lived to adulthood.  

  • Victoire Stephanie was born on 10 August 1784 and died young.
  • Marie Josephine was born on 31 October 1785 and never married.
  • Marie Louise was born on 9 March 1789 and died young.
  • Joseph Philogene was born on 4 May 1791 and died in 1822 in a duel.
  • Celeste was born on 22 October 1792 and died young.
  • Augustine Octavine was born on 4 September 1795 and never married.
  • Henri Bouvier was born on 11 April 1799 and married Aurore Villars.
  • Eulalie Pulcherie was born on 13 September 1803 and was unmarried.
  • Pierre Louis Estevan was born on 13 April 1788 and married Augustine Eulalie Duplantier.

Pierre was a planter and served briefly in an early Louisiana legislature in 1814.

The Patriot died in Baton Rouge on 26 June 1824 and is interred at the Highland Cemetery near the south gate of the Louisiana State University Campus.

Sources:

  1. Falcón, Guillermo Náñez, The Favrot Family Papers, 1690-1782, Vol. 1, Howard Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, 1988, pages 288-291
  2. Carlton, Mark T., River Capital, An Illustrated History of Baton Rouge: Windsor Publications, Inc., 1981, page 22

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