Display Patriot - P-278271 - Pierre RICHARD

Pierre RICHARD

SAR Patriot #: P-278271

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State of Service: ESP      Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
DAR #: A095778

Birth: 1729 / Acadia / Canada
Death: 03 May 1806 Opelousas / St Landry / LA

Qualifying Service Description:

Fusillier in the Opelousas Louisiana Militia under Bernardo de Galvez and his expedition, Opelousas Militia, 1776-77


Additional References:
  1. Churchill, Spanish Records, pg 247
  2. Winston De Ville, Louisiana Patriots in the American Revolution, pg 27-31
  3. SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004

Spouse: Marguerite Dugas
Children: Fabien; Louis; Philippe; Pierre;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1980-03-03 TX Unassigned William Edward Richard (116714) Phillippe   
1991-03-28 CA 215971 Melvin Anthony Delgado (136754) Fabian   
1997-07-17 LA 201200 Joseph Eddie Richard (148630) Pierre   
2003-04-28 TX 16048 Gordon Charles LaGrange (160291) Fabien   
2014-11-03 CA 54149 Edward Lee Chesson (192643) Louis   
2019-10-11 LA 87456 Terry Lynn Dupuy (200544) Louis   
Burial:
Saint Landry Church (aka Saint Landry) Cemetery (C-0372572)
Location:
Opelousas / St. Landry Parish / LA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
1924120
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
30.542592 / -92.079197
Find A Grave Memorial #:
153298803
Marker Type:
Granite Cenotaph
SAR Grave Dedication Date:
13 Apr 2024

Comments:

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Terry Dupuy

Pierre Richard was born about 1729, probably in Chignecto, Acadie, the son of Alexandre Richard and Marie Madeleine Thibodeau.

He lived there until moving to Malpeque, Ile St.-Jean, where he married Marguerite Dugas about 1752. Pierre and his younger brother, Victor, joined the Acadian Resistance with the Beausoleil Broussards in 1758 after escaping the British roundup. Both were imprisoned by the British in 1760. He arrived in Louisiana with the Broussard party but settled on the Bellevue Prairie in the Opelousas District instead of Bayou Teche, as did most of the others in the party. The 1788 Opelousas Census notes him with 36 arpents of land, 140 cattle and ten horses. On 13 May 1796, Pierre and Victor purchased 6x40 arpents on the Vermillion River by what is now the Breaux Bridge area.

On 22 August 1797, Pierre married his second wife, Elizabeth Aucoin, in Opelousas. They did not have children. His known children from his first wife were:

  • Fabien was born about 1752 and married Francoise Thibodeaux.
  • Louis was born about 1760 and married (1) Marie Victorie Dugas and (2) Marguerite Dugas.
  • Pierre was born about 1763 and married Marie Josephe Dugas.
  • Marguerite was born in Acadie, unknown date and married Jean Bourg in Louisiana.
  • Phillipe was born about 1771 and married Eugenie La Vergne.
  • Francois was born May 1779  and married (1) Helene Brasseaux and (2) Marguerite Brasseaux.
  • Olivier was born in the early 1780s and married Theotiste Janis.

Pierre assisted in establishing American Independence as a Fusilier in the Opelousas Militia under Bernardo de Galvez. He participated in the capture of the British at Fort Bute at Manchac and the fort at Baton Rouge.

The Patriot died at Opelousas and was buried on 3 May 1806 at St. Landry Catholic Church Cemetery, Opelousas, Louisiana. His name is included with others on a plaque at the cemetery in commemoration of their service in the Opelousas Militia.


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