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State of Service: ESP
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
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Author: Derrick W. Spell
Thomas Hoffpauir was born at Alsace, Germany, July 12, 1735. He relocated to Canada before 1772. He was employed as a mercenary soldier. He married Marie Charlotte Perillard of Montreal, May 20, 1772. They had a daughter named Marie Charlotte in 1772, who died as a child a few years later.
Thomas moved to New Orleans in 1778. He was recruited in the summer of 1779 to serve in the New Orleans Militia under Don Bernardo de Galvez, the military governor of Louisiana. He was a member of the Fourth Company, Artillery. In this capacity, he fought with General Galvez in several expeditions along the lower Mississippi River, including the Battle of Baton Rouge.
After his military discharge, Thomas and his family moved from New Orleans to Saint Landry Parish, south central Louisiana. They had three more children, twins: Amelia and Francois born in 1781, and Thomas born in 1788. Thomas and his family stayed at Saint Landry Parish near the present-day town of Lewisburg until his death, July 2, 1812. His exact burial location is not known, however; a DAR Revolutionary War Grave Marker was placed alongside several Hoffpauir family members at the Indian Bayou Methodist Cemetery at Vermilion Parish.
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