Display Patriot - P-278273 - Victor RICHARD

Victor RICHARD

SAR Patriot #: P-278273

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State of Service: ESP      Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
DAR #: A095788

Birth: abt 1748 Acadia / / Canada
Death: 07 Sep 1808 Opelousas / St Landry / LA

Qualifying Service Description:

Revolutionary War service as a Private and/or Fusilier (rifleman) with a company of Colonial Troops, Louisiana (Patriots) assigned at Opelousas Post within the Luisiana militia regt under Spanish Governor Bernardo de Gálvez


Additional References:
  1. "Louisiana Soldiers of the American Revolution" by author, DeVille, pg 28;
  2. 1776-1783. Elizabeth Whitman Schmidt, compiler, NSDAR. c 1994,
  3. NSSAR Nat'l. No. 162547 approved on Dec 16, 2010
  4. “Bernardo de Gálvez: Services to the American Revolution,” by Charles Robert Churchill, Louisiana Society, Sons of the American Revolution, 1925 - Louisiana, pg 247

Spouse: Marie Magdeleine Brasseaux
Children: Magdeline; Joseph Victor; Jean Baptiste Victor; Marguerite;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1986-09-29 LA 226644 Alvin Young Bethard (128307) Jean   
1994-09-28 LA 207698 Brian Winford Amy MD MHA (143246) Jean   
1994-09-28 LA 207699 Marc Thomas Amy (143247) Jean   
1994-12-21 LA 207395 Van Rodney Reed (143777) Jean   
2010-12-16 TX 40605 Thomas Ashley Jackson (162547) Magdeline   
2018-05-04 TX 79417 William McNamara Startz (172183) Joseph   
2019-10-11 LA 87455 Terry Lynn Dupuy (200544) Joseph   
2024-07-19 LA 112380 Brad Eric Richard (230459)   
2024-11-15 TX 109775 Thomas Arthur Jackson (192259)   
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 #:
n/a
Marker Type:
Granite Cenotaph
SAR Grave Dedication Date:
13 Apr 2024

Comments:

No data was found in Find A Grave in Oct2024



Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Terry Dupuy

Victor Richard was born about 1747 and was the son of Alexandre Richard and Marie Madeleine Thibodeau.

He lived in probably Chignecto until moving in 1752 to Malpeque, Ile St.-Jean, Acadie. Victor and his older brother, Pierre, joined the Acadian Resistance with the Beausoleil Broussards after escaping the British roundup in 1758. Both brothers were imprisoned by the British in 1760. He arrived single in Louisiana with the Broussard party and settled on the Opelousas Bellevue Prairie in the Opelousas District instead of Bayou Teche, as did most of the others in the party. In the 1788 Opelousas census, he had 150 cattle, 29 horses, and 16 arpents of land on his front boundary. On 13 May 1796, Victor and Pierre purchased six arpents on the Vermillion River by what is now the Breaux Bridge area. 

Victor married Marie-Madeleine (Brasseur) Brasseaux before Nov 1775 in the Opelousas District.  Their known children were:

  • Baptiste Victor was born on 26 November 1775 and married Marie Anne Vasseur.
  •  Magdelaine was born on 10 May 1778 and married (1) Anacelet Cormier and (2)Ursin Bijot.
  • Marguerite was born on 23 May 1780 and married Pierre Thibodeaux.
  • Julie was born in November 1783 and married Vital Estilette.
  • Joseph Victor was born on 6 January 1785 and married Marie Dosithe Richard.
  • Alexandre was born on 21 January 1787 and died in 1807 unmarried.
  • Margaret was baptized on 23 May 1790 and died in 1795.

Victor 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 in Opelousas and was buried on 7 September 1808 at the St. Landry Catholic Church Cemetery, Opelousas, Louisiana. His name is included with others on a cemetery plaque commemorating their service in the Opelousas Militia.


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