Display Patriot - P-340798 - Pierre/Pedro Santiago BERTRAND
Pierre/Pedro Santiago BERTRAND
SAR Patriot #:
P-340798
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State of Service: ESP
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: abt 1734 Death:
Qualifying Service Description:
Spanish Soldier, Second Company, Louisana Militia, Galvez Expedition
Additional References:
“BERNARDO de GALVEZ SERVICES TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION,” by Charles Robert Churchill, LASSAR, 4 May 1925
There was no entry found at Find-a-Grave as of June 2020
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Author: Allen John Mollere III
Pierre Bertrand
(A soldier in the Army of Gálvez)
Pierre Bertrand was born about 5 March 1734, likely at Pobomcoup, the oldest Acadian village of Nova Scotia. His family was deported and exiled to France in 1758 during the British expulsion of Acadians. A seaman, Pierre married Catherine Bourg about 28 February 1764 at Cherbourg, France, prior to his family arriving at Louisiana.
At the Spanish Louisiana Territory, Pierre was a farmer and appeared in the military census as an artilleryman of the Second Company of the New Orleans Militia Regiment. As such, he would have participated with the diverse Gálvez army at least in the battles of Fort Bute at Manchac, Louisiana, 6 September 1779, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 21 September 1779.
Pierre died about 1797 at Lafourche, Assumption Parish, Louisiana, aged about 63 years.
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