Display Patriot - P-234620 - Jean Pierre LEDOUX

Jean Pierre LEDOUX

SAR Patriot #: P-234620

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: LA Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service

DAR #: A068401

Birth: 23 Jun 1753 / Pointe Coupee / LA
Death: bef 1810 / Pointe Coupee / LA

Qualifying Service Description:

Sgt., LA, 12 February 1770, Fort Bute on the Bayou Manchak, Baton Rouge, 1779, Fort Rosalie, Natchez, 1781
Member of Royal Mixed Legion of the Mississippi
Also, Ens of Grenadiers, Spanish Military, 1792

Additional References:

DeVille, LA Soldiers in the American Rev, pg 34
Schmidt, LA Patriots, 1776-1783. NSDAR, pg 2
Holmes, Honor and Fidelity—The LA Infantry Regts and the LA Militia Companies, 1776–1821., pg 201
Churchill, Bernardo de Galvez: Services to the Amer Rev” LA Society, SAR, 1925, pg 331
1770 Militia Rosters for the Acadian Coast and Pointe Coupee, Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, edición 141, legajo 161A, folio 13
Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain; Hough, Granville W. & N.C. Hough. “ Spain’s LA Patriots in its 1779-1783 War with England during the Amer Rev” Pt. 6, 2000. Laguna Hills, CA: GW & NC Hough, pg 115
Espana, Secretaria de Estado y del Despacho de Guerra. “Hojas de Servicios Militares de America: Cuba, 1765 - 1809.” Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, Legajo 7291:V:39; Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain

Spouse: Marguerite Baron
Children: Joseph; Zenon;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child
1987-12-17	LA	224128	La Verne Pike Thomas III (130324)	Zenon
1991-10-23	TX	215715	David Lacey Garrison Jr (137094)	Joseph
1994-08-25	TX	212571	James Gardiner Garrison (139524)	Joseph
1999-03-18	LA	3342	Maurice Jaquelin Pecquet (151639)	Joseph
2017-05-19	TX	73444	David Lee Peavy (194635)	Joseph

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 #:

167606632

Marker Type:

SAR / DAR

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

29 Oct 2011

Comments:

On 29 October 2011, the Enenomd Meullion (Cenla) NSSAR Chapter dedicated a plaque at the St. Paul the Apostle cemetery in Mansura, Avoyelles, LA. The plaque is a memorial to those soldiers who served in the militias of Pointe Coupee, Attakapas, Natchitoches, New Orleans, Mobile, and the German Coast. Jean Pierre LeDoux is listed as on the memorial plaque as a member of the Pointe Coupee militia. The marker is located at: St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Cemetery, Little Cemetery Rd., Mansura, LA 71350
The Pointe Coupee NSDAR chapter held a ceremony on 16 May 1976, honoring the some of the Pointe Coupee militiamen. A plaque was hung in the Pointe Coupee courthouse listing the soldiers, including LeDoux
Photos displayed courtesy of David L. Peavy, TXSSAR

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

In 1739, the original St. Francis Church of Pointe Coupee was dedicated along the Mississippi River. It was later destroyed during a storm. The second St. Francis church was built in 1760. Attached to the church was the cemetery. Over the course of more than a hundred years, the Mississippi River slowly eroded the cemetery. After the 1890 great flood, the cemetery and the church site were located on the bed of the Mississippi River. The second church was dismantled in 1891 and construction on the third church was begun in 1894

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Author: David Lee Peavy

Jean Pierre LeDoux was born on 23 June 1753, in Pointe Coupee, to Pierre LeDoux and Cecile Rondot. Jean Pierre's father was a Canadian voyageur who arrived in Pointe Coupee by 1745. By 1747 he had married into a wealthy family and became a planter.

Jean Pierre's elegant signature in extant documents suggests that he received a good education. He was 15 years of age when both of his parents died in 1768. He lived with the Jacques Deshotels family thereafter, as Jacques was his appointed guardian. (Jacques' granddaughter - Heloise DuFour - would later marry Jean Pierre's grandson - Joseph LeDoux - in 1807.)

At the age of 16, Jean Pierre signed a pledge of allegiance to Spain on 10 September 1769. The following year, he joined the militia on 12 February 1770. The next year, he was legally emancipated on 9 January 1771 at the age of 17 years. Later that same year, on 3 October 1771, Jean Pierre married Marguerite Baron (b. 4 Jan 1757, in Pointe Coupee), the daughter of the second-in-command of the militia for Pointe Coupee. We know of the following seven children they had: Jean Pierre, Jr. (b. 1772), Francoise (b. 1774), Zenon (b. 1776), Antoine (b. 1778), Louis (b. 1778), Joseph (b. 1781), and Valerien (b. 1783). Of these seven, only three survived to adulthood and later married with issue.

Like his father, Jean Pierre settled in Pointe Coupee as a planter. Over the course of the years, he acquired land and slaves to further his investment in the settlement. He also continued his service in the militia.

According to Spanish documents, after his enlistment with the militia, he gradually rose in rank: corporal (12 Feb 1775), Sergeant second class (1 Jan 1779), sergeant first class (15 Mar 1781), and finally sub-lieutenant of the grenadiers (12 Feb 1792). He served over 22 years in the Louisiana militia and the Royal Mixed Legion of the Mississippi.

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 Bernardo de Galvez as governor. Jean Pierre participated in Galvez's campaigns between 1779-81.

After the war, Jean Pierre returned to the duties of a planter and as a prominent member of the community. In 1792, he was appointed the military second-in-command for the Pointe Coupee district. While a June 1792 document records that he was "robust," by February 1793 he was signing his last will and testament. An indication that he may have contracted a tropical disease which resulted in a protracted fatal illness. At the age of 39 years, he was buried on 18 March 1793. His wife, Marguerite, would remain a widow and died at the age of 83 years, on 18 February 1840 in Pointe Coupee.

(See: Thomas, LaVerne. "LeDoux: a pioneer Franco-American family : with detailed sketches of allied families." New Orleans, LA: Polyanthos, 1982)

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