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State of Service: ESP
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Antoine Acosta was a native of Aquines in the Spanish Canary Islands born about 1734. He married Damiana Pereira about 1759 in the Canaries. In 1778 he was recruited by the Spanish for the "Regimiento de Infant. (Infantry) de la Luisiana" to serve under Spanish Governor Bernardo de Gálvez.
Antonio, his wife, Damiana Pereira, and six children, ages 8-18, boarded the polacre (a three-single masts ship) "La Victoria" at Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the 22 of October 1778 for Louisiana. The ship arrived in New Orleans January 14, 1779. Galvez realized that there were too many soldiers with families being sent and that the families could not be supported on a soldier's pay. The families were assigned to undeveloped lands in an area known as "Lafourche des Chetimachas", presently Bayou Lafourche. The bayou was a distributary stream of the Mississippi River that carried waters in flood season to the Gulf of Mexico and joined the river at present day Donaldsonville, Louisiana. The settlement area was known as Valenzuela.
As a condition of the land grant, Antonio was required to be member of the local Lafourche militia. Shortly after settling in September of 1779 Galvez recruited the Lafourche militia to join him in the capture of British Fort Bute on September 8 and later in the capture of the British fort at Baton Rouge on September 21.
Antonio died 16 Jan 1802 and was buried at the Assumption Catholic Church of Plattenville, Assumption Parish, La. His grave has not been located. Records indicate that his wife died before he died.
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