1801
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Paris, (France)
A short account of the life of Father Jean-Felix-Joseph Cayla, tenth Superior General of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians), who died in Rome on February 12, 1800.
IV-3-i Printed Leaflet (French) 8pp. 4to.
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1801 Jan. 2
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
Father Ramon Ignacio Palao, a native of Barcelona in Catalan, arrived in this city in 1794 with a license from the Bishop of Havana where he was living and went to New Spain in 1798. He has asked for an extension of time and Penalver attests to the Metropolitan, to the Bishops and in particular to the Bishop of Puebla de L'Angeles and to the Cabildos and Vicars General that Palao at his departure from New Orleans was under no censure or interdict. Father Isidro Quintero signs as secretary.
V-2-m A.D.S. (Spanish) 1p. 4to.
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1801 (Jan. 5)
Gaillard, P(ier)re
Dispensation asked by Pedro Gayard in order to marry Henrrieta Lowe. (For complete calendar see original of 6 cards).
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(1801) (Jan. 5)
Gaillard, P(ier)re
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to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Gayard, a native of Bourdeos, son of Domingo and Juana Lesplit wishes to marry Henrrieta, aged 16, daughter of Nicolas Lowe and Catalina Couluret. Some years ago he had a son by Eufrosina Loubi, Henrietta's sister, which has always been cared for by the grandparents. It was public knowledge but Eufrosina was married to Mr. Loubi who was then overseas and who is now dead, as is Eufrosina. Gaillard asks (Penalver) to receive the testimony of the witnesses that there are no other impediments, that he is single, that he came to this city 14 or 15 years ago.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jan. 5
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The testimony is to be heard. Father Isidro Quintero certifies as secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jan. 5
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Gayard swore that he was a native of France, son of Domingo Gayard and Juan Lesclyd, 32 years old (and to other information already given above).
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jan. 5
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, Louisiana
Pedro Fran(cis)co Roze swore (to information given above). Roze is 70 and signs.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jan. 5
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, Louisiana
Jacinto Bernard swore (to information already given and that) Eufrosina died about a year ago. Bernard is 47 and signs.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jan. 5
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
Penalver grants the dispensation under certain conditions of penance and prayer.
D.S. (Spanish)
V-2-m D.S. (Spanish) 10pp. 4to.
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1801 (Jan. 9)
Vaugeois, Father Juan Fran(cis)co
Dispensation asked by Francisco Alexandro to marry Isabel Nicolas.
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1800 Dec. 28
Vaugeois, Father Juan Fran(cis)co
Mobile, (Alabama)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans), Louisiana
Vaugeois sends the relationship of two of his parishioners who wish to marry. All here come from four or five families. He has heard that they have very little and live by their labors. If (Penalver) grants the dispensation, he asks that he be given permission to marry them in Lent as he may not be there when the dispensation arrives and there would not be enough time between his return and Lent; if he does arrive in time he asks a dispensation from the two banns as asked in his letter of December 10.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jan. 9
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop of
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
The letter and documents to which it refers are to be filed. Father Isidro Quintero acts as secretary.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Nov. 12
Vaugeois, Father Juan Fran(cis)co
Mobile, (Alabama)
Relationship of Francisco Alexandre and Isabel Nicolas, both of the parish of Our Lady of the Conception of Mobile: Francisco, son of Juan Bautista Alexandre, son of Fran(cis)ca Hypolita Baudin, daughter of Nicolas Baudin. Isabel, daughter of Francisco Baudin, daughter of Luis Baudin, son of Nicolas Baudin. Vaugeois as pastor certifies that this is a true table of the relationship of Fran(cis)co, a minor of 21, son of Juan Bautista Alexandre and the deceased Angelica Loisel, both natives of this parish and of Isabel, a minor of 16, daughter Antonio Nicolas, a native of New Orleans and Francisco Baudin of this parish. The family tree was taken in the presence of the witnesses signing below. Domingo Dolive makes his mark and Rafael Idalgo signs.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Dec. 17
Vaugeois, Father Juan Fran(cis)co
Mobile, (Alabama)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Francisco and Isabel presented themselves to Vaugeois to ask for the publishing of the banns for their marriage not knowing that they were related in a degree prohibited by the Church. They ask a dispensation. (Francisco signs as) Francois Alexandre, (his father signs as) Jan Batiste Alexandre. Isabel and her father make their mark. Vaugeois certifies the above.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jan. 9
Penalver y Cardenas, Luis, Bishop
New Orleans, Louisiana
Penalver grants the dispensation under certain condition of prayer and confession upon fulfillment of which the pastor of Mobile is to be notified to marry them. Quintero notes that he sent the above to the pastor of Mobile.
D.S. (Spanish)
V-2-m A.L.S., A.D.S., D.S. (Spanish) 8pp. 4to.
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1801 (Jan. 31)
Brousard, Simon
Dispensation asked by Simon Brousard to marry Magdalena Richard.
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(1801)
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( )
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Brousard of LaFourche wishes to marry Magdalena of Iberville. He asks that the witnesses be heard. He is the son of Magdalena Landry and Fermin Brousard, son of Juan Bautista Brousard and Ana Landry, daughter of Isabel Blanchard and Alexandro Landry, son of German Landry and Maria Melanson. Magdalena is the daughter of Simon Richard and Rosa Landry, daughter of Ana Babin and Juan Bautista Landry, son of the same German Landry and Maria Melanson. His fiancee is poor and her father has 7 children.
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1801 Jan. 31
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The testimony is to be heard. Father Isidro Quintero certifies as secretary.
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1801 Jan. 31
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Brousard swore (in addition to information given above) that he is 23 and single.
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1801 Jan. 31
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, Louisiana
Juan Bautista Dupuis, of Iberville, swore (in addition to information already given) that he did not know the ancestors through which the relationship came as they lived in Acadia or in North America; that Brousard is an honest man. Dupuis is 51 and signs as Jean B(aptis)te Dupuis.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jan. 31
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, Louisiana
Pablo Babin of Iberville swore (to information already given above). He is 50 and signs as Paul Babin.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jan. 31
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, Louisiana
Penalver grants the dispensation under certain conditions of prayer and penance.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
V-2-m D., D.S., A.D.S. (Spanish) 9pp. 4to.
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1801 Feb. 1(?)
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Father Patrick Lonergan, O.F.M.
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Thomas (Power) Pover handed over to (Penalver) one of Lonergan's letters written in Pittsburgh, undated, in which Lonergan wished to tell (Penalver) that he desired a parish in the Diocese of Louisiana. (Penalver) could not consider it if there were any damage to Bishop (John Carroll) of Baltimore, but since Pover added that Lonergan was about to leave the diocese, that he had asked for his dimission and that it was to be sent to him (Penalver) will admit him. (Penalver) sees that Lonergan was employed by Archbishop Antonio Cavallero y Gongora of Cordova whose memory is very laudable. (Penalver) is persuaded that Cavallero would never have made Lonergan synodal examiner without being sure of his talents nor would the Bishop of Baltimore have given him a parish unless convinced of his fitness.
V-2-m A. Draft S. (Spanish) 2pp. 8vo.
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1801 Feb. 5
Pavie, Father P(ierre)
Natchitoches, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
New Orleans, Louisiana
Enclosed is the census and note of the burials and marriages of 1800. In the 235 reales the marguilliers received as fees Pavie has included 200 reales from the treasury for the oblata in 1799 when he was in town. He has considered this sum as fees. He never received the fees for the burials which he sent last year; he does not know if they were given to someone to bring to him. (Penalver) will please let him know.
A.L.S. (French)
Enclosure:
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1801 Feb. 4
Census of Natchitoches for 1800. A total of 1724. The church has no fixed income. 158 reales .5 were collected. The inhabitants gave little satisfaction in their Easter duty.
A.D. (French)
V-2-m A.L.S., A.D. (French) 5pp. 8vo.
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1801 Feb. 7
(Carroll), Bishop John
Baltimore, (Maryland)
to (Bishop Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
(Carroll)'s last letter to (Penalver) was written more than a year ago and given to a captain sailing from Baltimore to (New Orleans). In it (Carroll) stated his anxiety to provide a priest for the Catholics at the mouth of the Mississippi and neighboring country, recently annexed to the United States of America out (of the territory) of the King of Spain. This letter is brought by Mr. Flechier, a Frenchman who fought under Louis XVI. He belongs to the family of Bishop (Esprit) Flechier of Nimes. All (Carroll)'s endeavors to provide for the faithful whom he mentioned have failed. The priest, after various delays, dared not undertake it and has transferred his efforts to another section. Therefore (Carroll) asks (Penalver) to furnish the churches nearest him in the diocese with priests. (Carroll) gives (Penalver) his powers and if he stations any priests in this work he may grant them the faculties customary in these parishes.
V-2-m A.L.S. (Latin) 3pp. 8vo.
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(1801) (Feb. 7)
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1800 Nov. 20
Lusson, Father L(eandre)
St. Charles, Missouri
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Lusson received (Penalver's) letter of last January 7. He sends the census of St. Charles and St. Ferdinand. St. Charles has a population of 709, an increase of 33; there are about 15 non-Catholic families. The marriages of non-Catholics are in a separate register for St. Charles, St. Ferdinand and St. Andre. All the non-Catholics come to St. Charles and St. Ferdinand to have their children baptized. St. Ferdinand has a population of 286; there are 50 non-Catholics. St. Andre, popularly called Riviere a Bonhomme has 6 Catholics and 50 or 60 non-Catholic families. The people of St. Ferdinand are working to build a church.
A.L.S. (French)
On the same paper:
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1801 Feb. 7
(Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Father Carlos Leandro Lus(s)on
(St. Charles, Missouri)
(Penalver received Lus(s)on's letter of November of last year. St. Andre where there are so many Protestants ... (handwriting undecipherable) especially the young who have received baptism(?)
A. Draft (Spanish)
V-2-m A.L.S. (French), A. Draft (Spanish) 3pp. 8vo.
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1801 (Feb. 25)
Ramis, Antonio
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
(Ms. is badly stained). Ramis, majordomo of St. Louis Cathedral presents his accounts.
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1800 Aug. 16
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The accounts are to be given to Nicolas Maria Vidal for his approval. Father Isidro Quintero acts as secretary.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 (Aug. 21?)
(Ms. stained but it seems to be a statement that) Ramis is to turn over the accounts to Antonio Morales and Father Luis de Quintanilla, (O.M.Cap.) is named attorney.
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(1800)
Quintanilla, Father Luis
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Quintanilla finds no errors in the accounts; the credits amount to 2901 pesos, 2 1/2 reales, the debits 2167 pesos, 6 1/2 reales leaving a balance of 733 pesos, 4 reales which together with 45 pesos owed by Mr. Livaudais, 68 by Isabel LaRoche and 33 by Maria Isabel De(s)trehan, payment of which was charged to Ramis because he failed to collect, which brings the amount to 879 pesos, 4 reales.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Sep. 9(?)
Penalver and Vidal order Ramis to deliver the 733 pesos.
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1800 Sep. 19
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Morales appeared and said he had just received from Ramis the 879 pesos, 4 reales. Morales signs.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
There follows a document signed by Vidal and Penalver which is too stained to read. Then follow Ramis' itemized account from January 1, 1800 to July 31, 1800, the names of those giving fees for dispensations for the same period, the names of those renting church lands and the amounts paid, those paying pew rent.
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1800 Apr. 1
Boutte, (Hilario)
Ramis, Antonio
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
A contact between Boutte and Ramis for the building of a house next to the church.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801
Morales, Antonio
Morales' accounts for the Cathedral for 1800.
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(1801)
Morales, Antonio
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
(Ms. stained). Morales presents the accounts from August 1 to December 31, 1800.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jan. 23
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Vidal is to be informed about the accounts. Quintero acts as secretary.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jan. 30(?)
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis and Nicolas M(ari)a Vidal
Father Ubaldo Delgado, (O.F.M.) is to be the attorney to examine the accounts.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801
Delgado, Father Ubaldo
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Delgado finds the accounts in order.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
(Ms. stained. It seems to be a) resume of the accounts signed by Vidal and Penalver.
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1801 Jan. 2
Morales, Antonio
New Orleans, Louisiana
An index of the accounts for the last five months of 1800.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
Here follow the accounts and receipts of Morales, treasurer of royal rents and majordomo of the Cathedral from August 1, 1800 when he took over, to December 31, 1800.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
V-2-m D.S., A.D.S. (Spanish) 136pp. 4to.
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1801 (Mar. 10)
Gonzales, Ramon
Proceedings about the marriage of Gonzales and Catalina Hiberni.
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1800 Nov. 17
Colman, Father Santiago
Pensacola, (Florida)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans), Louisiana
Colman obtained the proofs of Gonzales' celibacy and of the spurious engagement supposedly contracted in his native country and they clearly show the falsity of this engagement revealed to the governor as having been contracted in order to exempt himself from supplying the lime. As (Penalver) will see from the enclosed copy of the letter, the governor answered that the same causes still exist. A copy of this is also enclosed in order to acquaint (Penalver) with all that has happened.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Nov. 13
Colman, Father Santiago
Pensacola, (Florida)
to Vicente Folch and Juan
(Barrancas, Florida)
The bishop has commissioned Colman to hear the testimony. It has been proved plainly the falsity of the engagement which Gonzales incautiously revealed to Folch.
Copy (Spanish)
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1800 Nov. 14
Folch, Vicente
Barrancas, (Florida)
to Father Santiago Colman
Pensacola, (Florida)
Folch can only say in answer to yesterday's letter that having asked permission for Gonzales to marry Catalina, since they have no relatives in this province, Folch bears in mind that Gonzales had contracted an engagement in spain since he revealed it judicially.
A. Copy S. (Spanish)
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1800 Nov. 30
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, L(ouisiana)
to Father Santiago Colman
(Pensacola, Florida)
Because of the letter of November 17 and the documents about Gonzales, (Penalver) sends Colman a copy of the petition sent him.
A. Draft S. (Spanish)
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1800 Dec. 13
Colman, Father Santiago
Pensacola, (Florida)
to Bishop Luis Penalver y Cardenas
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Colman encloses the certified copy of Gonzales' brief, the decree and punishment.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jan. 2
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Father Santiago Colman
(Pensacola, Florida)
The arbitration taken, by the decree of October 1 and Gonzales proving his celibacy and the falsity of his engagement was not considered sufficient by his Acting-relative of Pensacola as stated in his letter of November 1. Colman is to investigate and send the results and (Penalver) will see what is just.
A. Draft S. (Spanish)
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1800 Jul. 27
Rodriguez, Gaspar
Pensacola, Florida
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans), Louisiana
Gonzales, a native of Galicia, coming to Pensacola about 15 years ago explains that having been engaged in his native country, about 21 years ago, since some time has passed, he wishes to marry Catalina, daughter of Jose (Hiberni), deceased, and Catalina Guerra. He asked for a license from the governor, who after the first banns, imposed the impediment of the obligation of the engagement and suspended the rest and so he would be obliged to fulfill the marriage. He begs that knowing Gonzales' freedom (Penalver) will commission the parish priest to perform the marriage.
Copy (Spanish)
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1800 Oct. 1
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
This party applied to Colman, pastor at Pensacola, to prove his celibacy and the falsity of his engagement. If this is proved and shown to his Vice-relative, the marriage is to be celebrated. Father Isidro Quintero acts as secretary.
Copy (Spanish)
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1800 Nov. 10
Colman, Father Sant(iag)o
Pensacola, (Florida)
On receipt of the above, Colman asked the assistance of Ant(oni)o (de) Castro, a pilot of the Royal Navy and Juan Marin (y Pizarro), an official of the auditor's office. They consented.
Copy (Spanish)
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1800 Nov. 10
Marin y Pizarro, Juan and Ant(oni)o de Castro
Pensacola, (Florida)
Gonzales appeared and corroborated his statement of July 27.
Copy (Spanish)
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1800 Nov. 11
Colman, Father Sant(iag)o
Pensacola, (Florida)
Gonzales appeared before Colman and swore that he was the son of Fran(cis)co (Gonzales) and Fran(cisc)a Torrente, of Lorenzana in Galica, that he was 31 and that he had become engaged to Catalina two years ago and that he was not engaged to anyone else. Asked whether he had not, in a petition to the governor of (Pensacola), when he wanted to get out of supplying the lime for fortifications at St. Charles of Barrancas, stated that he was prevented by his word of engagement in his country, he answered that to Fran(cis)co Navarro, guard at the storehouse for the artillery who made out a petition to get out of it, to add force to the petition. He offered as witnesses Fran(cis)co Duart and Francisco Somosa who declared they had nothing to add.
Copy (Spanish)
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1800 Nov. 11
Colman, Father Sant(iag)o
Pensacola, (Florida)
Fran(cis)co Xavier Navarro appeared and swore that having asked him to make out the petition, Gonzales added the pretext of the engagement to add force.
Copy (Spanish)
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1800 Nov. 11
Colman, Father Sant(iag)o
Pensacola, (Florida)
Somoza, a carpenter, appeared and swore that he had known Gonzales for twenty years, that he worked as a baker. He had never heard it said that Gonzales had been engaged to anyone else.
Copy (Spanish)
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1800 Nov. 11
Colman, Father Sant(iag)o
Pensacola, (Florida)
Fran(cis)co Tuard appeared and swore that he had known Gonzales for 16 years; that he had never heard that Gonzales had been engaged in Europe and that he had put the false engagement in his petition.
Copy (Spanish)
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1800 Dec. 13
Colman, Father Santiago
Pensacola, (Florida)
Colman, pastor of St. Michael's certifies that the above proceedings are true copies.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 7
Quintero, Father (Isidro)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Gonzales appeared and asked that the proceedings be turned over to him.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 7
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The proceedings are to be given him.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 6
Vidal, Nicolas Maria
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
As explained by Nicolas Forstall, mayor of this city, Gonzales has no relatives in this province who could give permission for him to marry. Vidal gives his consent. Gonzales is to be given a certified copy of the proceedings. Chavez Echavarry de Madrigal y Valdes, acting governor, issues this for Vidal. Pedro Pedesclaux acts as notary. (Estevan) Quinones informs Gonzales.
Copy (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 9
Quintero, Father (Isidro)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Gonzales appeared and stated that from the proceedings he was single in his fatherland. (He repeats the evidence of his witnesses). He asks that the license be sent to the pastor of Pensacola so that he may marry. Penalver signs this.
A.D. (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 10
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
The banns are to be published and if there are no impediments, the nuptial blessing is to be given.
D.S. (Spanish)
V-2-m A.L.S., Copies, Draft S. (Spanish) 24pp. folio
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1801 (Mar. 16)
Guillory, Luis
Dispensation asked by Guillory to marry Hortanza Soileau.
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1800 Jul. 10
Guillori, Luis
Opelousas, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans, Louisiana)
Luis, son of Luis Guillori and Maria Juana Fontenon wishes to marry Ortansa, widow of Josef Lemuen and daughter of Noel Soileau and Angela Fontenon. Since their mothers are first cousins he asks a dispensation.
D. (Spanish)
On the same paper:
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1800 Jul. 21
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, Louisiana
The pastor of St. Landry at Opelousas is to get the information necessary to investigate this relationship. Father Isidro Quintero acts as secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Jul. 10
Soileau, Noel
Opelousas, (Louisiana)
Soileau, a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Army, gives permission to his daughter Ortanza to marry Guillori.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Jul. 10
Guilliory, Louis
Opelousas, (Louisiana)
Guilloiry gives permission to his son Luis to marry Ortanza.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Aug. 16
Zamora, Father Pedro de
Opelousas, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans, Louisiana)
Zamora sends the proceedings of Guillory whose father asks him to tell him the fee.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Aug. 13
Zamora, Father Pedro de
Opelousas, (Louisiana)
Zamora gathers testimony. Juan Bautista Fontenot swore that Luis' paternal grandfather was Joseph Fontenaut and his maternal grandmother was Maria Juana Brignac; Hortensia's grandparents were Pedro Fontenaut and Luison Doucet, natives of Alibamanes in Mobile; they are related in the third degree which in Spanish is the same as first cousins. Fontenot is 76 and signs. Enrique Fontenot of the same family swore (to the same facts). He is 58. Maria Juana Brignac swore (to the same facts). She is 73. Luis appeared and testified that he wished to marry Hortensia and that he is 21.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Aug. 14
Zamora, Father Pedro de
Opelousas, (Louisiana)
On June 20, 1779, Father L.M. Grum(e)aux, pastor of Opelousas, baptised Hortensia, aged 3 months. The god parents signed as Le Chevalier Declouet and Mrs. (?) Soileau de la Morandiere.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Aug. 14
Zamora, Father Pedro de
Opelousas, (Louisiana)
On October 3, 1779 Grumeauz baptized Luis Guillory. The godparents were J(ose)ph Fontenaut and Clara Guillory.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Sep. 9
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The proceedings do not show the reasons so the petition is denied.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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(Guillori, Luis)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
to (Bishop Luis Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans, Louisiana)
Guillori appeared before (Penalver) and (restated his relationships). His fiancee is a widow with two children living with her father who has 13 children and is poor.
D. (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 16
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The information is to be taken and the witnesses heard.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 16
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Guillory appeared and swore that he is single and 22 years old.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 16
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Guillory presented as witness, Joaquin Ortega of Opelousas who swore (to facts already stated above). Ortega is 45 and signs.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 16
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Guillory presented as witness, Martin Camar of Opelousas who swore (to facts already stated above). Camar is 48.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 16
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
Penalver grants the dispensation.
D.S. (Spanish)
V-2-m D., D.S., A.L.S., A.D.S. (Spanish) 22pp. folio
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1801 (Mar. 30)
Lacourt, Pier
Dispensation asked by Pedro Lacourt to marry Sofia Federic.
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(1801) (Mar. 30)
Lacourt, Pier
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans, Louisiana
Lacourt of Pointe Coupee wishes to marry Sofia Federic. They are related in the second degree. Lacourt is the son of Juan Lacourt and Maria Leonard, daughter of Juan Leonard and Juana Drapeau. Sofia Federic, alias Leonard is the daughter of Elizabeth Chatelero and Juan Bautista Federic alias Leonard, son of Juana Drapau, born during her marriage to Juan Leonard. Her parents are very poor. Pedro's father is dead, his mother has given shelter to Sofia since she was small.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 30
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
The testimony is to be heard. Father Isidro Quintero signs as secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 30
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, Louisiana
Lacourt appears. He is 21 and single. He was not violent in the revolution.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 30
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, Louisiana
LeCourt presented Santiago Nicolas of New Orleans as a witness who swore to information given above and that Juan Bautista Federic, Sophia's father, has 10 children. Nicolas signs as Jacques Nicolas.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 30
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, Louisiana
LeCourt presented Fran(cis)co Adam who swore (to information already given). LeCourt's mother has 5 children. Adam is 46.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 30
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
Penalver grants the dispensation under conditions of confession, prayers and fasts.
D.S. (Spanish)
V-2-m D.S., A.D.S. (Spanish) 8pp. 4to.
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(1801) (Apr. 4)
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
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1800 Apr. 17
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
to The Magistrate of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana
(Penalver) has arranged that from the March equinox up to September Terce will begin at 9 in the morning and from September to March at 10 except the services of Holy Week. Services on Palm Sunday will begvin at 9, on Holy Thursday at 8:30, on Friday at 7:30 and on Sunday at dawn. Since the magistrates will attend some of the services (Penalver) gives them this information.
L.S. Copy (Spanish)
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1800 Apr. 21
Pedesclaux, Pedro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
On April 18, 1800, Nicolas Maria Vidal, Acting Governor and president of the Council; Manuel Perez, Lieutenant Colonel of the Royal Armies and Senior Judge; Juan Bautista Poeyfarre, Junior Judge; Pedro Denis de la Ronde, Lieutenant of the Louisiana Regiment and alderman, chief ensign; Pedro De La Roche, Captain of the Militia and alderman; Nicolas Forstall, alderman; Rodulfo Josef Ducros, alderman, trustee; Fran(cis)co de Riano, Captain of the Militia and alderman; Gilberto Andry, Captain of the Louisiana Regiment and alderman; Joseph Leblanc, Captain of the saime and alderman; Juan de Castanedo, Ensign of the Militia and alderman; and Pedro Dulcedo Barran, Attorney General, met to deal with matters relative to the public good. A letter of April 17 from the Bishop was read and considering that the hours set for Holy Thursday and Good Friday do not seem convenient for their assembly, they decided that the president come to an agreement with the Bishop about the hours. Pedeclaux as clerk certifies that this is a copy of the act passed by the council.
A.D.S. Copy (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 31
Vidal, Micolas M(ari)a
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop Luis de Penalver y Cardenas
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Being informed of Penalver's letter of April 17, 1800, the magistrates of this city decided the next day that Vidal make an agreement with Penalver as he will see from the enclosed document. But then Penalver left the city on his pastoral visit into the interior and later Vidal was pressed with duties. So now he informs Penalver that because of the cold weather it would be more convenient if the services began at 10 in the morning from October 15 to April 15 and in the remaining months began at 9. But since the Cabildo will not assist in a body at these services Penalver can do as he wishes. As for the Holy Week services, the Cabildo will arrive at the church on Thursday at 9 and on Friday at 8; that will be the time the services at the altar begin.
L.S. (Spanish)
On the same paper:
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1801 Apr. 4
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
The services of Holy Thursday will begin at 8:30 and end at 11:40; those on Friday at 7:30 and end at 10:25; those for today will begin early in the morning and the Alleluia will be sung at 8.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
V-2-m L.S. Copy, L.S., A.D.S. (Spanish) 12pp. 12mo. and 4to.
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(1801) (Apr. 9)
Gomez, Juan Nepomuceno
(St. Augustine, Florida)
Gomez, a native of Havana, Notary Public in St. Augustine and Master of the Royal Schools of reading and writing, appears and states that he wishes to embrace the ecclesiastical career as a secular cleric. He asks that the testimony of his three witnesses be heard and that two official witnesses be appointed, who will declare whether he is the son of Joseph Maria Gomez and Ines Francisca Mendez, the purity of his blood, his way of living and habits and frequenting of the Sacraments or any impediments to the priestly ministry. Since one of the witnesses is the Commandant of the battalion the aid of the governor of the place is to be asked.
Copy (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 4
O'Reilly, Father (Miguel)
St. Augustine, Florida
The witnesses are to be heard and two others named. Josef Antonio de Iguiniz and Fernando de la Maza Arredond certify that O'Reilly, vicar and ecclesiastical judge of St. Augustine signed the above decree.
Copy (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 4
White, (Enrique)
St. Augustine, (Florida)
Bartolome Morales, Colonel in the Royal Army and commandant of the 3rd Battalion of the Infantry of Cuba gives his testimony.
Copy (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 4
Iguiniz, Jose Antonio de
Arredond, Fernand de la Maza
St. Augustine, Florida
Francisco Xavier Sanchez appeared and swore that Gomez's paternal grandparents were Pedro Gomez and Gertrudis Rodriguez; the maternal grandparents were Catalina (Ruiz) del Canto and Pedro Mendez and (also gave his testimony on the other points required). Sanchez is 76.
Copy (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 9
Ortega, Josef de
St. Augustine, Florida
Ortega, lawyer of the Royal Council of the Indies, deputy governor, Judge Advocate, and assessor of St. Augustine, in deference to the letter from O'Reilly of the 7th, testifies that he has known Gomez since he arrived here in March, 1793, adn (answers the six questions about Gomez).
Copy (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 9
Iguiniz, Jose Antonio de
Arredond, Fernand de la Maza
St. Augustine, Florida
Gomez presented as a witness, Father Miguel Crosby, officially appointed, who testified that he had known Gomez since 1791 when he arrived. Crosby (gives his answers to the six questions about Gomez). Crosby is 35.
Copy (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 10
Iguiniz, Josef Antonio de
Arredond, Fernand de la Maza
St. Augustine, Florida
O'Reilly declares the testimony sufficient and orders Gomez's baptismal certificate and that of his parents and proof of their marriage to be collected and that announcements (about impediments) be made on three feast days.
Copy (Spanish)
( )
Gomez, Juan Nepomuceno
St. Augustine, (Florida)
Gomez's baptismal certificate, being from abroad, is not in the right form but there are those in the parish who know Father Fran(cis)co Fern(ande)z Quintana, of Guardian Angel Church of Havana who wrote it and will certify: Juan de los Remedios, Captain of the Artillery and commandant of the picket of this place, Gines de Oliva, Captain of the grenadiers, and Fern(an)d de la Fuente, First Lieutenant of the Third Battalion. Gomez asks that an order be given to carry this out.
Copy (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 5
White, (Enrique)
St. Augustine, (Florida)
It is to be done as petitioned.
Copy (Spanish)
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1787 Mar. 24
Quintana, Father Francisco Fernandez
Havana, (Cuba)
Quintana certifies that in the baptismal register there is the following: On June 4, 1777, Father Nicolas Ambrosio Mancebo y Vetancurt baptized a boy the first of the month and gave him the name of Juan Nepomuceno Epifaneo; the godmother was Nicolosa Gomez.
Copy (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 5
De los Remedios, Juan
Oliva, Gines de
De la Fuente, Fernand
St. Augustine, Florida
They certify that the above is in Quintana's hand.
Copy (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 7
Zubizarreta, Jose de
St. Augustine, Florida
Zubizarreta certifies that the signatures of Remedios, Oliva, and Puente are in their own hand.
Copy (Spanish)
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1799 Apr. 18
Herrera y Moya, Father Nicolas de
Havana, (Cuba)
Herrera of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Havana, certifies that in the baptismal records in St. Augustine there is the following entry: On August 20, 1744, Father Francisco Xavier Arturo, of St. Augustine, baptized a boy born on the 15th, son of Pedro Gomez, a native of the See of Seville and Maria Gertrudis Rodriguez, native of this city, and gave him the name of Jose Maria Nacinto; the godfather was Domingo Herrera.
Copy (Spanish)
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1799 Apr. 18
Herrera y Moya, Father Nicolas de
Havana, (Cuba)
Herrera certifies that in the baptismal register of St. Augustine there is the following; On January 26, 1753, Father Juan de Paredez of St. Augustine baptized Ines, born the 20th; the godfather was Nicolas Mendez.
Copy (Spanish)
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1799 May 30
Mancebo y Vetancurt, Father Nicolas Ambrosio
Havana, (Cuba)
Father Jose Domingo Sanchez y Fleites, of Guardian Angel Church, certifies that in the matrimonial register there is the following item: In Havana, on December 21, 1772, the banns having been published and with the license from the vicar general, Father Miguel de Castro Palomino married Jose Maria Gomez and Ines Mendez of Florida. The witnesses were Francisco Galvez and Ignacio Luna; the groomsmen, Luis Otero and Soledad Gomez. The enclosed was placed in the Church of the Holy spirit on September 11, 1773.
Copy (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 26
O'Reilly, Father Miguel de
St. Augustine, Florida
If anyone knows of any impediment, he is to let O'Reilly know. O'Reilly certifies that this proclamation having been read three times in the parish church, there were no impediments revealed. Therefore since it seems suitable and in consequence of the decree of the 10th, O'Reilly puts this in the proceedings which Gomez has executed.
Copy (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 31
Iguiniz, Jose Antonio de
V-2-m Copies (Spanish) 29pp. Folio
33
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1799 Oct. 31
Iguiniz, Jose Antonio de
Arrendondo, Fern(an)do de la Maza
St. Augustine, Florida
They testify that (the above) is a true copy of the original.
Copy (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 9
Zubizarreto, Jose de
St. Augustine, Florida
Zubuzarreta certifies that the signatures of Iguiniz and Arredondo are authentic; both are well known, the first as an official of the treasury and the second, a deputy in the postal service. They certify in fulfillment of the decree of Enrique White, Colonel of the Royal Army and governor of this city.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Apr. 4
White, (Enrique)
St. Augustine, Florida
Gomez, at the instance of many residents on September 30, 1797, and mainly because of information from O'Reilly on September 27, was appointed as schoolmaster with a salary of 30 pesos a month. In his absence his father will substitute for his son. Ortega acts as the lawyer. Gonzalo Zamorano certifies that this is a tru copy made April 5, 1799.
Copy (Spanish)
V-2-m Copies (Spanish) 29pp. folio
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1801 (Apr. 21)
(Becnel, Maximillien)
Dispensation asked by Maximiliano Becnel to marry Eracia Aidel.
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(1801)
Becnel, Maximillien
( )
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans, Louisiana)
Becnel, of St. John Baptist parish, wishes to marry Eracia but they are related in the second degree. Becnel is the son of Pedro Becnel and Magdalena Aidel, daughter of Carlota Oubri and Christoval Aidel, son of Ambrosio Aidel and Margarita Chofe. His fiancee of the same parish, is the daughter of Margarita Bosonier and Juan Aidel, son of the above Aidel and Margarita Chofe. Eracia is not poor but her father has six children.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 20
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The testimony is to be heard. Father Isidro Quintero acts as secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 20
Quintero, Father Isidro
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Becnel appeared and gave his testimony. He is a native of the Second German Coast, age 22, and single.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 20
Quintero, Father Isidro
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Juan Maria Enrique appeared as a witness. Henry is 42 and signs as J. M. Henry.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 20
Quintero, Father Isidro
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Pendro Henoc appeared as a witness. He is 30 and signs as Pierre Heno.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 21
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
Penalver, bishop of Louisiana and Florida and Archbishop-elect of Guatemala, grants the dispensation under certain conditions of prayer and penance. Notice will be sent to the pastor of St. Charles parish, since there is not a pastor in their own parish of St. John Baptist. Quintero adds in a note that he sent a letter to Father Geronimo Blace, pastor of St. Charles.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
V-2-m D.S., A.D.S. (Spanish) 9pp. 4to.
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1801 Apr. 27
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Bishop John Car(r)ol(l)
(Baltimore, Maryland)
Mr. Flechier has brought Carroll's letter of February 7 in which Carroll recommended to Penalver several parishes of the diocese next to Penalver's which lack pastors and could receive some help from Louisiana. The boundaries are Pointe Coupee, Baton Rouge, Mobile and Pensacola to whose pastors letters have been sent as of this date asking them to cooperate with Carroll's wishes and attend the faithful as much as their own obligations permit. In Upper Louisiana where Carroll has subjects not provided for, both sides of the Mississippi will be served and Penalver's vicar in the Illinois Country, Father (James Maxwell) Diego Maxivell residing in Ste. Genevieve is competent to discharge any commission placed in his care.
V-2-m L.S. Draft? (Spanish) 1p. 4to.
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1801 (Apr. 29)
Karquox, Jean Baptiste
Dispensation asked by Juan Bautista Karcoutt to marry Pelagia Marin.
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1801 Apr. 22
Karquox, Jean Baptiste
Cat Island
Because of the lack of opportunity and their poverty, Karcoux, son of Nicolas (Karcoux) and Catarina Ladner has lived for several months with his cousin Pelagia. He asks for a dispensation to marry her. Karqoux makes his mark.
D. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 22
Vaugeois, Father Juan Fran(cis)co
Cat Island
Vaugeois, pastor of Conception Church of Mobile certifies that what Karcoux says is true.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 22
Vaugeois, Father Juan Fran(cis)co
Cat Island
Vaugeois on a visitation to Cat Island found out that Catarina Ladner is the daughter of Maturino Ladner, son of Christian Ladner and Pelagia is the daughter of Luisa Ladner, daughter of Nicolas Ladner, son of Cristian Ladner. Both are natives of the parish of Mobile, one of Biloxi and the other of Cat Island. Auguste la Fontaine and F(ran)cois Sechere(?) make their marks as witnesses.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 29
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
Penalver grants the dispensation under certain conditions of prayer and penance. Father Isidro Quintero acts as secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
V-2-m D., A.D.S., D.S. (Spanish) 4pp. 4to.
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1801 Apr. 29
Ladener, Joseph
Cat Island (?)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans, Louisiana)
Because of the lack of priests and because of their poverty which prevents them from going to Mobile or the capital, Ladner, son of the deceased Nicolas Ladner and Mariana Paquet has lived for 2 1/2 years with his cousin Rosalia and they have a daughter. He asks for a dispensation to marry. Ladener makes his mark.
D. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 22
Vaugeois, Father Juan Fran(cis)co
Cat Island
Vaugeois, pastor of Conception Church in Mobile, certifies that what Ladner says is true.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 22
Vaugeois, Father Juan Fran(cis)co
Cat Island
Being on a visitation, Vaugeois found out that Nicolas Ladner is the son of Christian Ladner and that Rosalia is the daughter of Angelica Ladner, daughter of Maturino Ladner, son of Cristian Ladner. Jose Morin and F(ran)cois Sechere (?) sign as witnesses.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 29
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
Penalver grants the dispensation on certain conditions of prayer and penance. Father Isidro Quintero acts as secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
V-2-m D., A.D.S., D.S. (Spanish) 4pp. 4 to.
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1801 (Apr. 29)
Ladner, Juan Bautista
Dispensation asked by Ladner in order to marry Fran(cis)ca Lalancette.
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1801 Apr. 20
Ladner, Jan Bottis
Chucupulu, Bay St. Louis, (Mississippi)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana
Ladner, son of deceased Juan Bautista Ladner and Maria Luisa de Lorme, has lived for 16 years with his third degree cousin Francisca, daughter of deceased Pedro LaLancette and Maria Luisa Fayard and they have 7 children. He begs Penalver to grant them a dispensation to marry legally. Ladner makes his mark.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 21
Vaugeois, Father Juan Fran(cis)co
Chucupulu, Bay St. Louis, (Mississippi)
Vaugeois, pastor of the Church of the Conception of Mobile, certifies that yesterday on the Wolf River he found out that there is a third degree relationship between Ladner, a native of Pass Christian and Francisca of Biloxi and that all that Ladner said in his petition above, is true.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 28
(Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
The information is to be gathered. Father Isidro Quintero acts as secretary.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 20
Vaugeois, Father Juan Fran(cis)co
Wolf River, (Mississippi)
Vaugeois, being on a visit to Wolf River in the presence of Phillip Scallioz(?) and Andre Broy, witnesses, found out that Maria Luisa de Lorme is the daughter of Pedro de Lorme and the widow of Mr. Fizan whose name is unknown and that Maria Luisa Fayard is the daughter of Francisca Fizan, daughter of the first marriage of the wife of Pedro de Lorme. Signed at the home of Miguel Dragon.
L.S. (Spanish)
1801 Apr. 10
Fayar, Marie Louise
Choqoupoulou, (Mississippi)
She gives consent for Francoise Laleansete, her daughter, to marry. Baptiste Lardase and Etiene Perache make their marks as witnesses.
D.S. (French)
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1801 Apr. 10
DeLorme, Marie Luis
Choqoupoulou, (Mississippi)
She gives her consent to Baptis Ladner to marry. Signed for her by Andre Broy.
D.S. (French)
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1801 Apr. 28
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, Louisiana
Ladner appeared and swore (in addition to information given above) that he is 35 and that they had not known the degree of their relationship. He asks for a dispensation.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 29
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, Louisiana
Penalver, bishop of Louisiana and Florida, and archbishop-elect of Guatemala grants the dispensation.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
V-2-m D.S., A.D.S., A.L.S. (Spanish and French) 10pp. 4to.
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1801 May 4
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Andres Fernandes
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
On January 27 of this year Fernandes proposed to the governor the building of a house at the Charity Hospital on the ground next to M. Fabre's, the interpreter, in Dumas Street with a frontage of 60 feet and depth of 120 feet. Even if the frontage is 60 feet, only 36 would be used. There would be a width of 33 feet and 11 height. The walls of the front, back and sides would be one foot and those in between would be eight inch bricks. The building should be divided into 4 equal rooms. In front in the patio a gallery of 8 or 9 feet in width along the 36 feet length. The roof will be all of tile from Pensacola. If Fernandes carries out his generous offer the 2000 pesos from Jaime Fonda(?) will be turned over to him, the 200 which was received from Leonardo Masansa and (other materials toward the building).
V-2-m A. Draft S. (Spanish) 3pp. 4to.
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1801 May 18
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, Louisiana
Copy of a petition of Father Constantine (McKenna) MahKenna asking to be named as pastor of Bayou Sara and the decree in answer to his petition.
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1801 May 16
M'Kenna, Father Constantino
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans, Louisiana
Copy. On his leaving the parish at Mobile, McKenan became very ill and (Penalver) gave him permission to go to Baton rouge to convalesce. Having inspected Bayou Sara on this trip, he is persuaded that this climate is agreeable to him so he asks Penalver to give him that parish served now as best they can from Pointe Coupee and Baton Rouge, and which would be easy for him as nearly all the congregation speaks English.
D.S. Copy (Spanish)
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1801 May 18
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, Louisiana
(Penalver) consents to M'Kennan's request. He is to administer the sacraments; reduce the number of sectarians by his zeal; take a census of the parish; bless one or more cemeteries as those are insufficient which were established by Father Fran(cis)co Lennan, who served that parish; to celebrate Mass; take care of the altar, vestments, and sacred vessels in the care of Lennan who will turn them over together with the registry books; to help out when he can at Point Coupee until their pastor, Father Pablo de San Pedro, returns, and also the Catholics of Natchez who came to him, without excessive expense of his own obligations, exercising the same functions as for this diocese as requested by the Bishop of Baltimore, (John Carroll) in a letter of February 7, 1801; and give a report of all in opportune time.
D.S. Copies (Spanish)
V-2-m A.D.S. (Spanish) 3pp. 4to.
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1801 (May 19)
Babin, Joseph
Dispensation asked by Jose Babin to marry Marg(ari)ta Godin.
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(1801)
Babin, Joseph
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans, Louisiana)
Babin, of La Fourche, wishes to marry Margarita, also of La Fourche, but they are related in the fourth degree. He wants to present his evidence. He is the son of Carlos Babin and Magdalena Babin, daughter of Margarita Landry and Fermin Babin, son of N. Landry and Vicente Babin, son of Juan Bautista Babin and Maria Josefa Foret. His fiancee is the daughter of Carlos Godin and Maria Babin, daughter of Ursula Landry and Juan Babin, son of Juan Babin and Maria Josefa Foret. Margarita is very poor as all her father has are two old negroes and he has 7 daughters. Babin asks for a dispensation.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 19
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The information is to be taken and the witnesses heard. Father Isidro Quintero acts as secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 19
(Quintero, Father Isidro)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Babin appeared and swore (in addition to information already given) that he is 32 and single.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 19
(Quintero, Father Isidro)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Babin presented as a witness Antonio Guedry who swore (to facts already given above). Guedry is 49 and signs as Antoine Guedry.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 19
(Quintero, Father Isidro)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Babin presented as a witness Juan Bautista Pechoix who swore (to facts already given above). Pechoix is 50 and signs as J(ea)n B(aptis)te Pechoux.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 19
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, Louisiana
(Penalver) grants the dispensation upon fulfillment of the penances.
D.S. (Spanish)
V-2-m D.S., A.D.S. (Spanish) 9pp. folio
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1801 (May 19)
Dupre, Gilberto
Dispensation asked by Dupre to marry Francisca Godin.
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1801 May 19
(Dupre, Gilberto)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver of Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Dupre, of Chapitulas, wishes to marry Francisca of La Fourche. They are related in the third degree. He is the son of Alexandro Dupre and Mariana Godin, daughter of Ana Damboise and Alexandro Godin, son of Juan Bautista Godin and Anastacia Burk. Francisca is the daughter of Maria Josefa Babin and Carlos Godin, son of the above godin and Burk. Francisca's parents are very poor with 7 daughters and no son. Father (Isidro) Quintero (adds in the margin) that Dupre appeared before him but did not know how to sign.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 19
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The information is to be received and the witnesses heard.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 19
(Quintero, Father Isidro)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Dupre presented as a witness, Joseph Anastacio Landry who swore (to facts already stated above). He is 70 and signs as Joseph Anthanas(?) Landry.
D. (Spanish)
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1801 May 19
(Quintero, Father Isidro)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Dupre presented as a witness J(ose)ph Antonio Guedry who swore (to facts already stated above). Guedry is 49 and signs as Antoine Guedry.
D. (Spanish)
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1801 May 19
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
Penalver grants the dispensation upon fulfillment of the penances.
v-2-m D.S., D. (Spanish) 9pp. folio
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(1801) (May 22)
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1801 Apr. 16
Porcel, Antonio
Madrid, (Spain)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans), Louisiana
Porcel sends the attached royal dispatch of March 20 requesting (Penalver) to inform him about the pious foundation of the Count of Galvez.
L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 20
Charles IV, King of Spain
Aranjuez, Spain
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans), Louisiana
In a letter of May 31, 1799 the Acting Intendant of the Province brought to the attention of the king that he should assign the 7000 pesos of the pious foundation of the Count of Galvez to enable the Ursulines to pay the cost of the major part of the building to house their students, something they could never do because of their small income. The Intendant was convinced that the money which the nuns asked for should really belong to the royal funds since the little wooden houses built by Galvez no longer exist and the ground is occupied by those built by the king's royal patrimony which could bring a rental of 111 pesos a month, that it was wholly irregular for the governor to constitute himself administrator of this income. The king orders that he be informed through the undersigned secretary, Porcel.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 13
Aparici, Pedro
Madrid, (Spain)
To be registered in the Northern Department of the Treasury of the Indies.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 22
Porcel, Antonio
Madrid, (Spain)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans), Louisiana
Porcel sends in duplicate the attached royal dispatch of March 20.
L.S. (Spanish)
V-2-m L.S., D.S., A.D.S. (Spanish) 6pp. 4to.
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1801 (May 26)
Brunete, O.M.Cap., Father Mariano
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Father Jerome Blace, (O.F.M.) and
Father (Josef) Tirso Peleagonzalo, O.M.Cap.
Being greatly incapacitated by his health, and the bishop having given him an assistantship at the cathedral, he has decided not to return to his parish. Since he has two slaves, some animals and household furniture and provisions, he asks Blace and Peleagonzalo to sell them for him.
L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Feb. 15
Peleagonzalo, Father Tirso de and
Blace, Father Geron(im)o
In accordance with the letter from Brunete, in the presence of the Commandant, Captain Man(ue)l Landry and witnesses, they sold the goods as follows: (A list of the persons to whom sold and the amount paid).
A.D.S. (Spanish)
There follow a list of fees for burials (with the names of the dead) made up by Juan Baptisto Rodriguez, the marguillier in charge at the church of St. John Baptist (of the Second German Coast), a receipt showing that Rodriguez had received 99 pesos paying in full what was owed to the church by Brunete, other receipts, Peleangonzalo's belongings, a bill for doctor's calls and medicines.
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1801 Mar. 2
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, Louisiana
Father Juan de Dios Valdes is to have Brunete's slave, Agustin, for 100 pesos; 73 pesos are to be distributed for Masses for the souls in purgatory.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 26
Rodrigo testifies that he received the 100 pesos and the 25 pesos at which Brunete;s room furnishings(?) were valued. Witnesses sign. There follow statements signed on March 13, 1801 by Fathers Ubaldo Delgado, Thomas Hassett, Fran(cis)co Perez Guerrero, Sebastian Gili, Valdes, Flavian de Besancon, Patricio Walsh and Isidro Quintero that they have received alms for Masses for Brunete and for his intention.
V-2-m L.S., A.D.S. (Spanish) 25pp. 4to.
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1801 (May 27)
(Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis)
Examination of the will of Felipe Trevino; Carlota Facende, his wife, executrix.
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1796 Jun. 30
(Penalver y cardenas, Luis), Bishop of New Orleans, Louisiana
Carlota, executrix of Lt. Col. Trevino, is to be informed that there are to be 3 Masses for his soul, 100 more for his intention, 200 for the souls in Purgatory, 300 pesos for distribution among the poor and the obligatory bequests, according to the will of her husband on July 5, (17)89, according to the certification of the public secretary, Carlos Ximenez on October 5, (1795?). Father Isidro Quintero signs as secretary and states in a note that on July 1, 1796, he notified Carlota.
D.S. (Spanish)
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(1796) Fazende, Charlotte
( )
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Carlota has been informed of (Penalver's) decree in which he orders that she give the 604 pesos to fulfill her husband's pious bequests. This cannot be done until the debts are paid and if the estate is sufficient. It seems that there will not be sufficient for the legacies nor for her dowry. She begs to be excused from payment.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1796 Jul. 27
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The document is to be presented.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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(1796) ( )
Calvo, Manuel de Justis
( )
Manuel de Justis, attorney for Carlota Fazende petitions for a stay through the Commissioner of War and states that there are not sufficient funds to pay the outside creditors nor even to fulfill the widow's share.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1796 Jul. 11
Carondelet, Baron (Francisco Hector Luis) de
New Orleans, Louisiana
The petition is granted. Ximenez certifies that Carondelet, Field Marshal of the Royal Army and the governor general of the province signed together with the Auditor, and notified Justis of the decree.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1796 Jul. 14
Ximenez, Carlos
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Ximenez certifies that by the inventories made at the death of Tribino and those made because of doubt by the Lieutenant Colonel, Senior Sergeant of this place, Gilberto Gilmand, the fortune of Tribino consists as of now of 3,735 pesos and 1 reale and has been turned over to the widow Carlota Fazende in part payment of 3,900 pesos which she brought as a dowry through a document drawn up before Rafael Perdomo on May 29, 1786. Therefore, there is not only not enough to pay outside debts but not even enough to complete the dowry.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 27
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
Since Carlota has proof by means of the certificate shown, that the estate is not sufficient to cover her dowry, much less to pay the debts or the pious bequests amounting to 604 pesos, Penalver declares her free of these obligations. Quintero certifies this as secretary and notes that entry was made in the register.
D.S. (Spanish)
V-2-m D.S., A.L.S., A.D.S. (Spanish) 9pp. 4to.
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1801 (May 28)
Aidel, Nicolas
Dispensation asked by Aidel to marry Adelaida Troscler.
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1801 May 28
Quintero, Father (Isidro)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans, Louisiana)
Aidel, of St. John Baptist parish wishes to marry Adelaida of the same parish; they are related in the second degree. He is the son of Nicolas Aidel and Perina Louru, daughter of Antonio Louru and Maria Rouge. Adelida is the daughter of Santiago Troscler and Isabel Louru, daughter of Antonio Louru and Maria Rouge. He asks (Penalver) to have the most convenient priest make the arrangements as their parish is vacant through the death of Father Mariano Brunet.
A.L. (Spanish)
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1801 May 28
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The information is to be taken and the witnesses heard.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 28
(Quintero, Father Isidro)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Aydel appeared and swore that he was a native of St. Charles parish up to the age of one year; he is 38 and single. He asks for a dispensation.
A.D. (Spanish)
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1801 May 28
(Quintero, Father Isidro)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Aydel presented as a witness, Fran(cis)co Adam who swore that Aydel was from St. John Baptist, Second German Coast and (to other facts already stated above). Since Adam is not a resident of the coast he does not know how long Aydel has been going to Adelaida's house. Adam is 47 and signs.
A.D. (Spanish)
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1801 May 28
(Quintero, Father Isidro)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Aydel presented as a witness Juan Bery who swore (to facts already stated above). Bery is 37.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 28
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
Penalver grants the dispensation under conditions of penance and prayer; (one condition was to) do work in the church as directed by the majordomo Antonio Morales.
V-2-m A.L., A.D., A.D.S. (Spanish) 9pp. folio
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1801 (May 28)
Duralde, Martin
Demand of Martin Duraldy that Father Pedro Zamora pay him for the wood he took on his land.
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1801 May 19
Duralde, Martin
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Duralde, commandant of Opelousas, appears and explains that Zamora, pastor, felled quite a few oaks on Duralde's land and took away about 5000 poles to fence his field. Duralde demanded compensation as shown in the attached letter and received his attached reply that he could attack him whenever he liked. He confirmed (some points) with Juan Bentura Morales about the regulations. That part of his land has been occupied for around 30 years. He asks (Penalver) to request Zamora to pay him in the most equitable way.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 21
(Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
A certified copy is to be made of the documents. Father Isidro Quintero acts as secretary.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 18
Duralde, Martin
Opelousas, (Louisiana)
to Father Pedro Zamora
Opelousas, (Louisiana)
Being informed that Zamora caused considerable damage to trees on his land, Duralde asks compensation.
Copy (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 20
Zamora, Father Pedro de
Opelousas, (Louisiana)
to Martin Duralde
(Opelousas, Louisiana)
If Duralde had reflected on the rules for land Intendant Morales read publicly at the door of the church on August 15, 1788, and that the land on which Zamora cut the poles was not staked out nor marked before the 16th and 17th of this month, Duralde would not have threatened Zamora as he did in his letter of the 18th. Upon reflection if Duralde wishes to attack Zamora, he can whenever he likes.
Copy (Spanish)
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1801 May 22
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, Louisiana
(The above) are to be given to Assessor Manuel Serrano so that he can inform (Penalver) about the rules for lands.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 23
Serrano, Man(ue)l
New Orleans, Louisiana
Article 18 of the ordinances states that holders of land who do not have a formal title cannot be considered owners of that land. Therefore Duralde will not bring action against Zamora for the trees as they are judged as property of the king.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 27
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, Louisiana
The secretary is to make known this to the interested parties.
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1801 May 28
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Martin Duralde
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Duralde's letter of the 19th to the bishop, and the two letters were sent to Serrano. Here the decree of the 27th, (is to be inserted).
A.L.S. (Spanish)
V-2-m A.L.S., A.D.S., Copies, D.S. (Spanish) 7pp. folio
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(1801) (May 31)
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
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1801 May 30
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
On September 9, 1798, Penalver issued the following edict: One of his first obligations is to instruct in the duties of religion and raise his voice against public vices. (He addresses himself to the usurers and quotes the edict). What effect did this warning have? They have paid no attention to it. Men who claim to be Catholics have exacted these exorbitant interests and also women have engaged in this sordid business. Penalver warns that the guilty cannot hope for pardon without restitution. This decree is to be published tomorrow, Trinity Sunday, in the Cathedral and a copy posted. Father Isidro Quintero acts as secretary and adds that on May 31 the edict was published and posted.
V-2-m D.S. (Spanish) 6pp. folio
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1801 (Jun. 2)
Hebert, Francisco
Dispensation asked by Hebert in order to marry Celeste LeBlanc.
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(1801)
Hebert, Fran(cis)co
( )
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans, Louisiana)
Hebert, of Valenzuela, asks (Penalver) to receive his evidence. He is the son of Juan B(autis)ta Hebert and Magdalena Duga, daughter of Pablo Duga and Magdalena Boudraut, daughter of Juan Boudraut. Celeste is the daughter of Rosalia Teriot and Maturino LeBlanc, son of Pedro LeBlanc and Maria Boudraut, daughter of the above Juan Boudraut. Hebert is an orphan and has lived in his fiancee's house. Her father is very poor with 5 children and only one negro. Hebert helps with the work as the only son is small. He asks for a dispensation.
D. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 1
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The evidence is to be received. Father Isidro Quintero acts as secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 2
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Hebert appeared and swore (in addition to information already stated) that he is a resident of Assumption parish, is 20 and single.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 1
Quintero, Father Isidro
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Hebert presented as a witness, J(ose)ph Malbru who swore (in addition to information already given above) that Hebert's uncle's only son is 10 or 11 and that Malbru is 32.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 2
Quintero, Father Isidro
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Hebert presented as a witness, Juan Duga who swore (in addition to information given above) that he did not know the wife of Juan Boudreau as she had died. Duga is 26 and signs as Jan Dugas.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 2
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, Louisiana
Penalver grants the dispensation.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
V-3-a D., D.S., A.D.S. (Spanish) 9pp. folio
14
1801 (Jun. 2)
(Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
A decree declaring the completion of the bequests of Marcos Olivares, for whom Basilio Xim(ene)z and Geronimo Lachapelle were executors, except for one bequest of 500 pesos.
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1801 May 20
(Penalver y cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, Louisiana
Since Ximenez is absent from the city Lachapelle is to be notified to verify that the money for three masses has been paid, and the 100 more, the 500 given to Olivares' brother, Father Juan Albares, Augustinian of Ponferrada also for Masses, and 2000 pesos to be distributed to the poor by Father Fran(cis)co Caldes, (O.M.Cap.) as shown by the will prescribed before Pedro Pedesclaux on december 18, 1791. Father Isidro Quintero acts as secretary; he adds that he notified Lachapelle on May 23.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 1
Quintero, Father Isidro
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Geronimo Lachapella appeared before (Penalver) and showed a receipt for 8 reales from Father Juan de Dios Valdez for a bequest, others for the three Masses, for the 100 Masses, one from Caldes for 2000 pesos to be distributed to the poor. The 500 pesos to be given to Albarez were taken by Ximenez, shown to Father Teodoro Tirzo (H)Enriquez, Vicar of the province on August 21, 1792 and a draft was drawn on the Bishop of Havana, Felipe Trespalacios so that (Penalver) could send it to Galicia, but since the first executor did not return to this colony and lives in Havana it is not known if it was received safely since the receipt was not found in the papers and time is asked proportionate to the difficulty of communication because of the war. Lachapella signs as Geromo LaChiapella.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 2
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
The bequests are declared fulfilled except for the 500 pesos to be given to Albarez. Lachiapella is given 6 months to verify this.
D.S. (Spanish)
V-3-a D.S., A.D.S. (Spanish) 5pp. folio
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(1801) (Jun. 5)
Gomez, Juan Nepomoceno
Proceedings by Juan Nepomuceno Gomez for procuring papers necessary to be ordained a priest.
( )
Gomez, of Havana, a notary public in St. Augustine, Florida, and master of the royal schools of reading and writing, desires to be a priest. He asks that the testimony of his three witnesses be heard and that two officials be appointed to judge the information on the following points: whether he is the son of Josef M(ari)a (Jacinto) Gomez and Inez Fran(cis)ca Mendez, natives of St. Augustine, white, without any mixture of mulatto, negro, Jewish, or other blood forbidden by law; whether he frequents the sacraments; if he attends parties, or carries arms, if he is a gambler, Quarrelsome, or goes to suspicious houses, and whether he is inclined toward the Church; whether he was in any office in which he contracted any obligations; whether he had any spiritual or corporal defects, whether he had contracted any betrothal. P.S. If one of the witnesses is the Commandant of the Battalion the aid of the governor will have to be solicited.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 4
O'Reilly, Father (Miguel)
St. Augustine, Florida
The witnesses are to be heard and two others are to be named. Fern(an)do de la Maza Arredondo and Jose Antonio deIguiniz sign.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 4
White, (Enrique)
St. Augustine, (Florida)
The petition is to be granted. Signed also by (Josef de) Ortega (y Diaz) and certified by Jose de Zubizarreta as secretary to the governor.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 4
Morales, Bartolome
(St. Augustine), Florida
Morales gives his testimony as a witness.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 4
Gonzales Hernandez y Guevara, Ipolito
St. Augustine, Florida
Gonzales, in minor orders, gives his testimony. He is 57.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 4
Sanchez, Fran(cis)co Xavier
St. Augustine, Florida
Sanchez gives his testimony. Gomez's grandparents are Pedro Gomez and Getrudis Rodriguez and Catarina (Ruiz) del Canto and Pedro Mendez.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 9
Ortega y Diaz, Josef de
St. Augustine, (Florida)
Ortega, lieutenant governor, in reply to O'Reylly's invitation of the 7th, testifies that since arriving in St. Augustine at the beginning of March of '93 he has known Gomez. Ortega gives his testimony.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 9
Crosby, Father Miguel
St. Augustine, Florida
Crosby gives his testimony. He has know Gomez since 1791 when he arrived in St. Augustine. Crosby is 35.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 10
O'Reilly, Father Miguel
St. Augustine, Florida
O'Reilly approves all the testimony and orders that Gomez's baptismal certificate, that of his parents and their marriage certificate be presented.
D.S. (Spanish)
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(1799) (Oct. 5)
Gomez, Juan Nepom(uce)no
St. Augustine, Florida
The accompanying baptismal certificate is not certified as it should be but there are citizens here who know Father Fran(cis)co Fernandez Quintana of the Angel Guardian Church of Havana who signed the document. They are Captain Juan de los Remedios, and Captain Gines de Oliva and Lieutenant Fernando de la F(uen)te, both of the Third Cuban Battalion. Gomez asks that their certification of the signature be accepted because of the critical state of war and the urgency of the case.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
On the same paper:
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1799 Oct. 5
White, (Enrique)
St. Augustine, (Florida)
The petition is granted. Ortega also signs.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
1787(?) Mar. 24
Quintana, Father Fran(cis)co Fernandez
Havana, (Cuba)
Quintana certifies that the following entry is in the baptismal register for Spaniards: On June 4, 1977 Father Nicolas Ambrosio Mancebo y Vetancurt baptized the son of Josef Maria Gomez and Inez Fran(cis)co Mendez born on June 1, giving him the name of Juan Nepomuceno. His godmother was Nicolosa Gomez.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 5
Remedios, Juan de los
Oliba, Ginez de
Fuente, Fern(and)o de la
St. Augustine, Florida
They certify that the above is in Quintana's hand.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 7
Zubizarreta, Jose de
St. Augustine, Florida
Zubizarreta, royal secretary, certifies that the three above signatures are authentic.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Apr. 18
Herrera y Moya, Father Nicolas de
Havana, (Cuba)
Herrera of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception certifies that in the book of baptisms of Spaniards in St. Augustine, Florida, there is the following item: On August 20, 1744, Father Fran(cis)co Xav(i)er Arturo, pastor of St. Augustine, baptized the son of Pedro Gomez, native of Seville and of M(ari)a Getrudis Rodriguez of this city, born on August 15, giving him the name of Jose M(ari)a Jacinto. The godfather was Domingo Ferrera.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Apr. 18
Herrera y Moya, Father Nicolas de
Havana, (Cuba)
Herrera certifies that in the register of baptisms of Spaniards in St. Augustine there is the following item: On January 26, 1752, Father Juan de Paredes, pastor at St. Augustine, baptized Ines, born January 20, daughter of Pedro Mendez and Catarina Ruiz del Canto. The godfather was Nicolas Mendez.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 May 30
Sanchez y Fleytes, Father Josef Domingo
Havana, (Cuba)
Sanchez of the Church of the Guardian Angel certifies that in the matrimonial register for Spaniards there is the following item: In the city of Havana on December 21, 1772, with the permission of the Vicar General, Father Juan Mig(ue)l de Castro Palomino, Mancebo married Jose Maria Gomez and Inez Mendez. Witnesses were Fran(cis)co Galbes and Ign(ati)o Luna and the groomsmen Luis Otero and Soledad Gomez.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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(1799)
(O'Reilly, Father Miguel)
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(1799)
(O'Reilly, Father Miguel)
Gomez wishes to become a priest. If anyone knows of any impediment, let it be made known.
Draft(?) (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 26
O'Reilly, Father Miguel
St. Augustine, Florida
O'Reilly certifies that having read the proclamation on the reverse side on three festival days in the parish church under his charge, no impediment has been noted.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Oct. 31
Iguiniz, (Jose Antonio de)
Maza (Arredondo, Fernando de la)
St. Augustine, Florida
On this date testimony was taken from these proceedings for the witnesses and given to Gomez.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Apr. 1
O'Reilly, Father Miguel
St. Augustine, Florida
to (Bishop Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
(The ms. is water stained at the beginning; it seems to read): When on September 26, 1797, O'Reilly informed Penalver on the same subject as on the 3rd of last month, he preferred Zubizarreta whom Penalver appointed as schoolmaster. But Zubizarreta not being agreeable, O'Reilly judged Gomez more suitable than Felipe Aguirre and Juan Entralgo, not only because of his exemplary conduct but because of his knowledge of Latin. Only his age made O'Reilly consider him inferior to Zubizarreta. O'Reilly does not wish to overshadow with his praise of Gomez the merits of Aguirre and Entralgo. About the first O'Reilly must say what he did in his first report; the second cannot speak with the precision necessary.
D. (Copy) S. (Spanish)
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1799 May 22
Fernandez, Joseph
Puente, Fern(an)do de la
St. Augustine, Florida
They certify that they know Gomez, born June 1, 1777 and that at the age of 5 he received the Sacrament of Confirmation in the convent of Our Lady of Belen in this city. Fernandez was a sponsor and Puente assisted him with a boy named Manuel on the same day. Gonzalo Zamorano and Zubizarreta certify that the signatures of Fernandez and Puente are genuine.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Apr. 4
Zamorano, Gonzalo
St. Augustine, Florida
In accordance with the fitness of Gomez attested to by many on September 30, 1797, and principally by reports of O'Reilly on September 26 and the first of the month, Zamora appointed gomez as schoolmaster with a salary of 30 pesos a month. In regard to Gomez's temporary absence which his father spoke of in his letter of April 1, Gomez is not to receive his salary until his return. Signed by White and Ortega. This is a copy of the decree occasioned by the letter of Jose Gomez about the school for his son Juan Nepomocene.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Nov. 2
O'Reilly, Father Miguel
St. Augustine, Florida
to Bishop Luis Penalver y Cardenas
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
In obedience to Penalver's letter of July 2, O'Reilly assures Penalver that there is no exaggeration in the answers to the questionnaire (about Gomez). Gomez's application in college in Havana merited very satisfactory certificates.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 3
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
Having seen the preceding papers about Gomez sent by the Vicar General O'Reilly asking for papers necessary for Gomez's ordination by the Bishop of Havana, because of difficult access to this city because of the war, Penalver grants the petition and copies of this decree are to be made. Father (Isidro) Quintero signs as secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 5
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
Penalver sends the papers necessary for the ordination of Gomez in Havana.
D.S. (Spanish)
V-3-a A.L.S., A.D.S., D.S., and copy and draft (Spanish) 39pp.
4to.
39
1801 (Jun. 5)
(Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Proceedings for the placing of Father Luis Buhot in charge of the parish of Opel(o)usas and for Father Pedro de Zamora, (O.M.Cap.) to serve as an assistant at the Cathedral.
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1801 Jun. 5
Lopez y Angulo, Ramon de
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop Luis de Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Having registered the two patents of Buhot and Zamora in the royal treasury, the first as pastor of St. Landry at Opelousas and the second as assistant at the Cathedral, they send them back as requested in Penalver's letter of the first of this month. (A note in the bishop's hand) orders this kept with the case.
L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 23
Buhot, Father Luis
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans, Louisiana)
Buhot, assistant at the Cathedral of New Orleans, having suffered ill health during the last summers and knowing the climate is not agreeable, asks for a parish in the country.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 27
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, Louisiana
Zamora having asked to be transferred to the city, the petition is granted and a letter is to be sent to the vice Royal Patron. Father Isidro Quintero acts as secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 27
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, Louisiana
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1801 May 27
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Nicolas Maria Vidal
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Zamora of Opelousas is to occupy one of the assistantships and Buhot is to be transferred to that parish. To put an end to any controversy with the Commandant Martin Duralde, (Penalver) asks that a notice be sent. This is a copy of the letter sent.
A. Copy S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 29
Vidal, Nicolas M(ari)a
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop Luis de Penalver y Cardenas
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Vidal approves what Penalver informed him of in his letter of the 27th in order to cut short the arguments which frequently occur between Duralde and Zamora by giving him the assistantship in this city now served by Buhot, giving each what he wants. Therefore he gives his consent and Penalver can order the patents sent to the interested parties.
L.S. (Spanish)
On the same paper:
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1801 May 22
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, Louisiana
(The above) is to be added to the file and the appointments of Buhot and Zamora are to be sent; copies are to be sent with a letter to the Intendant.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 1
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
Since Buhot, because of bad health, wishes to continue his services in a rural parish; and since Zamora has repeatedly asked to come to the city, (Penalver) consented and proposed it in a letter of May 27 to Vidal who consented in his reply of the 29th. (Penalver) gives Buhot the necessary faculties according to the Instructions of December 21, 1795.
Copy (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 1
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
Since Zamora has repeatedly signified his wishes to be in this city, and Buhot wishes to serve in the country to mend his broken health, Penalver consented and proposed it in his letter of the 27th to Vidal who consented in his letter of the 29th. (Penalver) gives Zamora the necessary faculties according to the instruction of December 21, 1795.
Copy (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 1
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Ramon de Lopez y Angulo
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
(Penalver) sends the licenses of Buhot and Zamora to be registered and returned.
Copy (Spanish)
V-3-a L.S., A.L.S., D.S., A. Copy S. Copies (Spanish) 10pp. folio
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1801 Jun. 12
Gili, Father Sebastian
Concerning the wills of the officers of the Battalion of Mexico: Jose(?) Gutierres, Jose Corail, Jose Maria Bucheli. Mariano Barrios.
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1801 Jun. 2
Gili, Father Sebastian
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
New Orleans, Louisiana
Pursuant to (Penalver)'s letter of October 21, Gili asked the sergeant for the wills of those who had died. Most of them have been carried out except some overseas arrangements which were prevented by the war. In the enclosed report he lists three persons whose wills are not executed and the reasons. A great number died intestate whose legacies have been deposited in the treasury of the battalion for disposition by the sergeant, Sevastian Kindelan. He asks (Penalver) to use his influence so that Gili's suggestion be heeded by the Auditor of War of Cabahonoce, (Francisco Pasqual Cler(?) as also the royal order of July 20, 1779. The wills of those who died prior to June, 1795, are in the office of the sergeant of the First Battalion.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 12
(Gili, Father Sebastian?)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Diego Antonio Carrasco, or the heirs of Jose Corail
Jose Corail died in Nogales on October 16, 1797. He was born in CadiZ, son of Luis Corail and Josefa Blanco. A card written at Malaga June 10, `797, to Pedro Ferron of the Regiment of Mexico told that Josefa Blanco is dead and as he had no brothers and as there is a baptismal record of Jose Antonio Abad, born in Cadiz which mentions a son of Corail when he was adjutant of the regiment of Zamora(?), he believes that Abad, if living, or the immediate kin of the deceased would inherit the goods left intestate. This consists of money, jewelry, clothing, debts in his favor and the inheritance of most of the wealth of Captain Mig(ue)l Gutierres. (Gili?) is chaplain of the 2nd Mexican Battalion and he would like to induce those with a right to the legacy to appear and claim the fortune and leave something for Corail's soul. The heirs know no one here; the 2nd Battalion could be withdrawn any day and (Gili?) with them; it would be convenient to have the power given to an inhabitant. Antonio Ceulino(?), arsenal guard, Ant(oni)o Morales, treasurer of the custom-house, Juan Ventura Morales, auditor for the army, are from Malaga if the heirs wish to confide in them. He asked the bishop to certify that he is chaplain.
L. Copy(?) (Spanish)
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(1801) (Jun. 12)
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop of
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The writer of this letter is chaplain of the 2nd Battalion of Mexico.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 21
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Father Sebastian Gilli (Gili?)
( )
In regard to the Masses for Corail, and in like cases, he charges Gili that having done all he could and they are still not fulfilled, to have recourse to him as it remains (Penalver's) responsibility.
A.L.S. Draft (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. (?)
Gili, Father Sevast(ia)n
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Members of the Battalion whose wills have been executed: Miguel Gutierrez, Captain, died October 5, 1796. He made his will before Carlos Ximenes. His executor Jose Corail ordered 50 Masses for his soul. Jose Corail died at Nogales October 16, 1797 without a will; his goods are in the general depository. Lawyer Man(ue)l Serrano took charge of the inventory and auction because of the illness of the judge. Corail had not finished the execution of Gutierrez's will nor has Seranno since no one has advised him as they should as one-fourth of the Masses are his by parochial right. Jose Bucheli, captain, died intestate in Nogales on April(?) 24, 1797. Gili has not been given his parochial rights in this nor the preceding nor the Masses as of Article 4 of the Royal Order of July 20, 1799. Mariano Barrios died November 22, 1798. His will went to the judge. The wills of Jose Maldonado, Juan Ortiz, Juan Agosto and Ant(oni)o Leon have not been executed because no settlement of the estate has been made.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1796 Oct. 17
Ximenes, Carlos
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Ximenes certifies that on September 22 Miguel Gutierrez de la Higuera came before him to make his will. He is a native of Miera(?) in the mountains of Burgos, son of Miguel and Ana Gomes(?), deceased. He ordered that he be dressed in his military insignia and buried in the plot of the faithful, leaving his funeral at the disposition of his executor. Three Masses are to be said for his soul and 2 reales to be given for the obligatory bequest, leaving half his goods which remain after paying the costs of his funeral, illness and other debts to be given for Masses for his soul without detriment to the Bishop's fourth. He was never married. He names Corail as executor and makes him heir of half his estate. This is as the original was made and handed over to the chaplain, Father Josef Jil.
V-3-a A.D.S. 15pp. 8vo. and 4to.
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1801 (Jun. 17)
Ebert, Zacharie
Dispensation asked by Zacarias Hebert in order to marry Elena Dupuis.
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(1800)
Ebert, Zacharie
( )
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Hebert, a native of Iberville, wishes to marry Elena Dupuis of the same parish. They are related in the second degree. Hebert is the son of Maria Boudreau and Amand Hebert, son of Pablo Hebert and Maria Josefa Melanzon. Elena is the daughter of Jose Dupuis and Ana Hebert, daughter of Pablo Hebert and Maria Josefa Melanzon. Elena's father is dead, her mother is poor with only a house and several slaves and she has 8 children.
L.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Oct. 29
Penalver y Cardenas, Luis, Bishop of
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The testimony is to be heard. Father Isidro Quintero certifies as secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Oct. 29
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Hebert swore that he is from St. Gabriel's parish and single and 20 years old. He signs.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Oct. 29
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Hebert presented as a witness Renato Arnau who swore (in addition to information already given) that Elena's mother had 6 children from her first marriage and 2 from her second marriage and is ill. He signs as Rene Arnaud.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Oct. 29
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Antonio Guedry appeared as a witness and swore (in addition to information already given) that of the 8 children of Elena's mother, 4 are married and 4 single, one about 22 who runs the farm. The groom- to-be is the son of one of the most well-to-do along this coast, although not rich. Guedry is 48 and signs as Antoine Guedry.
D.S. (Spanish)
( )
Hebert, Amant
Iberville, (Louisiana)
to Bishop Luis Penalver et Cardenas
(New Orleans), Louisiana
For about three years Hebert's son Zacharie has sought in marriage Heleine Dupuy, his niece; about 8 months ago his son told him of his intention to marry his cousin. Hebert asks for the necessary dispensation. Because of unforeseen circumstances which might lead to disgrace he hopes it will be accorded.
L.S. (French)
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1801 May 16
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Zacarias Hever is to appear and be questioned.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 16
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Zacarias swore that he had read the above letter written by his father. Elena's pregnancy was known to both families but not to the rest of Iberville. Zacharie is 21.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 16
Penalver y Cardenas, Luis, Bishop of
(New Orleans), Louisiana
Zacarias is to make a general confession, say the rosary for a month and personally perform some work in the Cathedral church which the majordomo will certify. Elena is to be notified by a letter to the pastor of Iberville to make a general confession and perform some work such as washing the church linens. Quintero adds in notes that he notified Zacharias, the pastor of the Cathedral, Antonio Morales, the majordomo, and sent a letter to Father Pedro de S(an) Pablo in charge of the parish of Iberville.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 16
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop
New Orleans, Louisiana
Since Hebert has completed the penances and works assigned (Penalver) grants the dispensation. The pastor of Iberville is to be notified so that if Elena Dupuis has also completed them the marriage may take place.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 17
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
The pastor of St. Gabriel of Iberville is informed that Penalver has issued the following decree: (the decree of May 16, 1801 assigning the penances is quoted).
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 14
Saint Pierre, Father Paul de
Iberville, (Louisiana)
Helene Depuis began the penances on May 22 and will complete them June 21. Her exactitude deserves recommendation.
A.L.S. (French)
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1801 Jun. 17
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
To be filed (with the case).
V-3-a A.D.S. (Spanish) L.S., D.S., A.D.S., A.L.S. (Spanish and French)
18pp. 4to.
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1801 Jun. 24
Porcel, Antonio
Madrid, (Spain)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans), Louisiana
Pope Pius VII desiring that the encyclical letter concerning his elevation to the Papacy be sent to the hierarchy of the Indies, Porcel sends the enclosed.
L.S. (Spanish)
Enclosure:
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1800 May 15
Pius VII, Pope
Venice, (Italy)
The encyclical letter of Pius VII to all Catholic bishops. (The name
of) Cardinal R(omualdo) Braschi-Onesti (Is signed at the bottom of the
document).
D. Printed (Latin)
V-3-a L.S. (Spanish), D. Printed (Latin) 8pp. 4to.
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(1801) (Jul. 2)
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop
Proceedings concerning the flight of Father Buenaventura de Castro, (O.M.Cap.), pastor of Galvestown, from Iberville to Mexico by way of Nagodoches.
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1799 Sep. 12
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
On September 3 Father Felix Quintanar, (O.M.Cap.), pastor of Iberville, informed (Penalver) that his predecessor, de Castro, having sold everything he had, on August 29 had left in a pirogue with his negro for up the river to Plaquemine to continue his journey through Nacogdoches to Mexico which is what he had asked from (Penalver) and been refused so that this is a disobedience of orders and against the law as he has no passport. Instructions have been sent to Father Pedro Pavie, pastor of Natchitoches through which de Castro would pass to stop him there and send him back to New Orleans, asking civil aid if necessary. From Father Luis de Quintanilla, (O.M.Cap.) and Andres Fernandez), in charge of his affairs, (Penalver) learns that there are several interests here that would be jeopardized if he goes and what is owing him from his parish which is at (Penalver's) disposition, would go to his college in Havana. Father Isidro Quintero acts as his secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Sep. 16
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Quintero notified Quintanilla of the above decree. He said he was not in charge of any of de Castro's affairs but he knew that Fernandez, who acted as attorney for the Capuchins, was but Quintanilla did not know of any salary owing him from the treasury. Quintanilla signs.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Sep. 16
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Quintero notified Fernandez who said he had 309 pesos 12 1/2 reales belonging to de Castro and that his salary up to the last of August was in the treasury. Fernandez signs.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Sep. 3
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Father Pedro Pavie
(Natchitoches, Louisiana)
If de Castro presents himself in the district of Naquitoches Pavie is not to allow him to go further and is to send him back with the aid of civil authorities. This is a copy of the letter sent.
L.S. Copy (Spanish)
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1799 Sep. 3
Quintanar, Father Felix
Iberville, (Louisiana)
to Bishop Luis Penalver y Cardenas
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
On August 17 de Castro arrived in this parish of St. Gabriel and Quintanar notified him of Penalver's orders which he refused to carry out. While waiting for Penalver's reply Quintanar went to Galveston on August 25 partly to gather up what was there and partly because he had been advised that there were several infants to be baptized and many who wished to go to Confession. It was the 29th when he left for his parish at which he arrived at 5 in the afternoon. He found that de Castro had left that morning after selling all he had to two inhabitants and had left with his negro for Plaquemines in order to get to Anakodose and from there to Mexico.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Nov. 18
Pavie, Father P(ierre)
Natchitoche(s), (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
On October 14, Pavie received (Penalver's letter of September 12. (De
Castro) came to Natchitoches in the first days of September and stayed
two days. He told Pavie that he was going to Nacotdoche for his
health. He is there now at the home of Father Balleyo and they say he
intends to stay there a while. (Penalver makes a notation on this
letter on) December 17 that it is to be attached and sent to the
Commandant of Natkitoches.
A.L.S. (French)
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1799 Dec. 17
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Felix Trudeaux(?)
(Nagodoches, Texas)
Having sent a letter to Father Pabi to send de Castro back, Pabi replied that on November 18 de Castro was in Nagodoches. He is a fugitive. If he stays there, Trudeaux is to issue the necessary papers to hold him and send him back to New Orleans as he has no passport.
A. Draft S. (Spanish)
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1799 Nov. 30
Quintanar, Father Felix de
Iberville, (Louisiana)
to Bishop Luis de Penalver y Cardenas
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
On November 29 Quintanar received Penalver's letter of October 5 requesting him to send the letter which Penalver had sent for Father Bentura. He received a letter from Father Bentura dated October 13 from Nacodoche saying that he had already gone to Mexico and asking Quintanar to send him some books. Quintanar replied that he could not. Bentura and Quintanar had written to their Father-General in Madrid asking him to consent to their return to their convent. On February 23 (1799) he had replied that he was without means to do this as His Majesty had given over these faculties to the Council of the Indies and he exhorted them to conform. (Penalver adds a note) December 17 that this be added.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1799 Dec. 17
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis) Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Father Felix Quintanar
(Iberville, Louisiana)
Having received Quintanar's letter of November 30, he is to send nothing to Father Buenaventura.
A. Draft S. (Spanish)
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1800 Oct. 8
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis) Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Father Bernardino Vallejo
(San Antonio, Texas?)
(Penalver) thought de Castro would turn back discouraged but he is stubborn. (Penalver) has been informed that he went from Iberville to Nacgodoches and from there to San Antonio where he stayed. (Penalver) asks Vallejo to counsel him to turn back, that he will be treated with charity.
L.S. Copy (Spanish)
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1800 Oct. 7
(Penalver y Cardenas). Luis, Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Juan Bautista Equezaval
( )
De Castro has gone from Nachitoches to San Antonio. He came to the Colony to serve one of the parishes and took the strange way of leaving by flight. He has no license from the government or from (Penalver). (Penalver) wishes to turn him back for his own good and to avoid scandal. He asks Equezaval not to permit him to go further.
L.S. Copy (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 2
(Penalver y Cardenas), Luis, Bishop
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Father Bernardino Ballejo
(San Antonio, Texas)
(Penalver) has had no answer from Ballejo or Equezaval but from what de Castro has written here he insists on maintaining his flight. The results will not be favorable for him unless he presents himself and acknowledges his transgression.
L.S. Copy (Spanish)
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1801 Jul 2
(Penalver y Cardenas), Luis, Bishop
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Acting Governor of the Vacant See of Nuevo Leon
( )
De Castro fled from Iberville to Nacgodoches from where he went to S(an) Antonio. He carried no license and he persisted in his apostasy although it was suggested through a third party that he would be treated kindly. (Penalver) is persuaded that the governor does not know this and that with this information he will take measures to have this priest return.
L.S. Copy (Spanish)
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1801 Jul 2
(Penalver y Cardenas), Luis, Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Pedro de Nava Albarez de Asturias
( )
On October 7 (Penalver) wrote to Lieutenant Colonel Elquezaval, governor of San Antonio (the letter is copied here). Since he has received no reply he makes the same request of de Nava as head of the interior provinces as he made to the Vacant See of Leon.
L.S. Copy (Spanish)
V-3-a D.S., A.D.S., A.L.S. and Drafts and Copies (Spanish and French)
19pp. 4to. and 8vo.
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1801 (Jul. 2)
Vives, Antonio Maria
Dispensation asked by Antonio Maria Vives in order to marry Celeste Landry.
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(1801) (Jun. 30)
Vives, Antonio
( )
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Vives of Valenzuela wishes to marry Celeste of La Fourche to whom he is related in the second degree. He is the son of Juan Vives and Margarita Bichot, daughter of Ana LeBlanc and Jose Bichot. Celeste is the daughter of (Jose Landry and Ana Bichot, daughter of Jose Bichot and Ana LeBlanc. Although Celeste's father is well-to-do he has 11 children, 1 by his first marriage and 10 by the second.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 30
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
The testimony is to be heard. Father Isidro Quintero certifies as secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 30
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Vives swore (in addition to information given above) that he is 21 and single.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 30
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Juan Jones of New Orleans swore (to information already given above) and that Jose Landry's house and slaves would be valued at 20 or 25,000 pesos. Jones is 20 and signs.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 30
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Firmino Aucoin swears (to information already given above) and the J(ose)ph Landry has a good house in which he has a retail sugar shop and about 20 slaves. Aucoin is 22.
A.D. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 1
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
Vives is to appear and state the reasons for asking the dispensation.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 1
(Quintero, Father Isidro)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Vives appeared and stated that although the reasons are humiliating he will relieve his conscience by revealing that Celeste contracted a disease from him. Her family does not know about it and she would rather die than be treated by a physician. To ease his conscience, to cure her and to restore her honor, he begs for a dispensation.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 2
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
Penalver grants the dispensation upon fulfillment of penances to be carried out before and after the marriage.
D.S. (Spanish)
V-3-a D.S., A.D.S., (Spanish) 12pp. 4to.
11
1801 Jul. 25
Porcel, Antonio
Madrid, (Spain)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans), Louisiana
Pope Pius VII, desiring that his encyclical sent on the occasion of his being raised to the pontificate be sent also to the Indies, Porcel sends (Penalver) the attached duplicate (no enclosure).
V-3-a L.S. (Spanish) 1p. 4to.
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1801 (Jul. 29)
Denesse, Jose
Dispensation asked by Jose Denesse in order to marry Fran(cis)ca Martin.
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(1801) (Jun. 22)
Denesse, Jose
( )
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Denesse, a native of St. Luis Parish residing down the river, wishes to marry Fran(cis)ca Martin also of this parish. They are related in the second degree. Denesse belongs to the parish 14 leagues down the river; he is the son of Maria Josefa Sauvagin and Juan Denesse son of Guillelmo Denesse and Margarita Guillome. His fiancee is the daughter of Fran(cis)co Martin and Margarita Denesse, daughter of Guillelmo Denesse and Margarita Guillome. Her father is old and infirm with 11 children with only a poor house, an old slave and one other boy. Denesse asks the bishop for a dispensation and that he instruct the pastor of "The Turn" to marry them.
D. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 22
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The testimony is to be heard. Father Isidro Quintero acts as secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 22
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Denesse appeared and swore that he is an inhabitant of Costa del Rio, 14 leagues away and is 26 years old and single. He does not know how to sign.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 22
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Denesse presented as a witness, Pedro Goyier, a native of the French Crevasse who swore (in addition to information already given) that he did not know Denesse's and Fran(cis)ca's grandparents as they were in Europe. Fran(cis)ca's father is about 70. Goyier is 40 and signs as Pier Goyier.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 22
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Juan Bautisto Moncla, native of Havre de Grace in France swore (in addition to information already given above) that he is 29 and does not know how to sign.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 29
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
Penalver grants the dispensation under conditions of confession and fasts and prayers upon fulfillment of which the pastor of St. Bernard of New Galvez is to marry them.
D.S. (Spanish)
V-3-a D., A.D.S., D.S (Spanish) 10pp. 4to.
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1801 (Jul. 29)
(Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis)
Examination of the will of Angel Ros; Miguel Trigoyen, executor.
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1801 Jun. 15
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
Testimony is to proceed in the certification of Pedro Pedesclaux concerning the pious bequests of Angel Rosi and Trigoyen is to be informed that they have been fulfilled. Father Isidro Quintero signs as secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 15
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, Louisiana
Angel Ross on February 7, 1791, ordered that 3 Masses be said for him, that 2 reales be given for each obligatory bequest, that 20 other Masses be said and 10 pesos be given. He left to the Charity Hospital for the poor, the third part of the net profit from his estate and named as his heir his mother Fran(cis)ca Moras, resident of Obanas in the diocese of Pamplona in Navarre. This conforms to the original in the register of wills made by Pedesclaux April 1, 1796, and sent to Quintero.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 15
Quintero, Father (Isidro)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Quintero notified Trigoyen of the above decree and statement. Trigoyen stated that Angel Ross died in the Charity Hospital. Trigoyen had been named executor but without any official papers.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 6
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Trigoyen will bring witnesses to prove that the estate left by Angel Ross was taken by Andres Almonaster, patron of the hospital.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 7
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Jose Capetillo swore that Ross died in 1795 and his possessions consisted of a large chest of small wares, his clothes and other small things Almonaster took over and which were valued at 300 pesos. Capetillo acted as secretary but left a few days later for duty in the customhouse. He is 49 years old and signs as Jose Garcia Capetillo.
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1801 Jul. 27
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Manuel Cams swore that Ros who died in 1795 left a trunk of small wares, a few clothes and nothing more. Manuel, the Gallician, bought the wares; there was no one in the province to whom Almonaster could sell them for 100 pesos. (?) Cams is 38 and signs.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
In the book of charges of the Hospital, Almonaster received amounts dated March, 1795, and April, August and December, 1796, totaling 120 pesos for the sale of goods belonging to Ros. 10 pesos were paid to N. Lastia for treatment and coffin. With an alms of 23 pesos the hospital gave an offering for 23 Masses and 8 reales for the legal bequests.
D. (Spanish)
Ros in his will examined July 29, 1801, left a third of his goods to the Charity Hospital and named as his heir his mother Fran(cis)ca de Moras and Trigoyen as executor. (Notations in Penalver's writing of amounts paid).
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1801 Jul. 24
Leiva, Fran(cis)co de
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Leiva, adjutant of the battalion, certified that in February, 1795, Ros died in the hospital where Leiva is now administrator, leaving a trunk of goods taken over by Andres de Almonaster y Roxas. By petition of Trigoyen Leiva presents this.
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1801 Jul. 29
Valdes, Father Juan de Dios
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Valdes received 8 reales for legal bequests.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 29
Delgado, Father Ubaldo
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
12 pesos have been applied for 12 Masses for the soul of Angel ros.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 29
Gili, Father Sebastian
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
11 pesos have been applied for 11 Masses for the soul of Angel Ros.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 29
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
Since the three Masses and 20 more have been said and the legal bequests fulfilled as ordered in the will of Angel ros drawn up before Pedesclaux April 7, 1791, an alms being used for this purpose; the hospital being the inheritor of one third of the goods, (Penalver) orders that it be noted in the register that Trigoyen be notified and that the Hospital inherits only one third of the goods. Quintero certifies as secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
V-3-a D.S., A.D.S., D. (Spanish) 9pp. 4to. and 8vo.
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(1801) (Aug. 1)
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1801 Jul. 27
Escobar, Jose (Benito)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Escobar of the Mexican Dragoons under the command of Jose(f) Rufiniaco has the obligation to marry Fran(cis)ca Antonio Diaz, native of the Canary Islands. His former captain Joaquin Romo gave his permission. Escobar asks (Penalver's) mediation with Rufiniaco.
L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 29
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Jose Rufiniaco
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
(Penalver) encloses the petition of Escoval. (Penalver) does not know who is to give the permission; he asks Rufiniaco to inform him so that he may take measures in Escoval's behalf.
A.L.S. Draft (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 1
Rufiniaco, Josef
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans), Louisiana
In the two months Rufiniaco has been in command, Escobar has told him that he was engaged to Fran(cis)ca. The faculty of giving him permission is reserved to the colonel. Rufiniaco ordered Escobar to send a petition by the schooner Ardilla but since he did not do so until after the departure of the boat which was to take the Marquis to Veracruz, Rufiniaco is forced to believe that it is a mask he uses to hide his evil life which merits reprimand and punishment which Rufiniaco is going to use as a means of avoiding the continuation of this scandal until the colonel replies.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 17
Barriere, Father Mig(ue)l Bern(ar)do
At(t)akapas, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
There are about 405 families in Barriere's parish but to get the exact number of persons would be very difficult because of the distance. He wanted to use the help of the syndics but they do not do this willingly or do it badly. As for the negroes it is impossible to know the number as their owners do not want to give it.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 4
Barriere, Father Mig(ue)l Bern(ar)do
At(t)akapas, Louisiana
Census of St. Martin's church for 1801, a total of 1892 souls, an increase of 73 men and 98 women of the whites and 32 men and 48 women of the slaves. 50 men and 107 women have made their Easter duty. The income was 15 pesos for rent of land and 148 pesos 2 reales for pew rent. There are 30 Protestant families and 20 or 30 Indian families, a total of about 150 Indians.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 20
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Father Miguel Bernardo Barriere
(Attakapas, Louisiana)
It is lamentable that out of 1892 only 157 have made their Easter duty. Barriere could read Penalver's letter to inspire in them a consciousness of the tepidity.
A. Draft S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 12
Colman, Father Sant(iag)o
Pensacola, (Florida)
to Bishop Luis Penalver y Cardenas
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Colman encloses the census of the Church of St. Miguel and the list of those who have not made their Easter duty.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 12
Colman, Father Sant(iag)o
Pensacola, (Florida)
Census of St. Miguel of Pensacola for 1801. A total of 732 souls including Protestants, 19 less than last year. The fixed income is 50 pesos, the incidental fees were 9 pesos 4 reales. John Forbes and his 85 dependents are included in the Protestants. They are Englishmen allowed by the king for trade with the Indians.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 12
Colman, Father Sant(iag)o
Pensacola, (Florida)
A list of those who did not make their Easter duty in 1801.
A.D. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 18
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Father Santiago Colman
(Pensacola, Florida)
(Penalver) encloses a paper to be posted in the church. This is in reply to Colman's letter of June 12.
A. Draft (Spanish)
Enclosure:
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1801 Jul. 18
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop
New Orleans, Louisiana
(Penalver) has the list of those who have not made their Easter duty in Pensacola and he admonishes them to do so. He orders this to be posted in the church.
A. Draft (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 28
Maguire, Father Juan
(Fourche de Chetinachas, Louisiana)
to Bishop Luis Penalver y Cardenas
(New Orleans), Louisiana
In compliance with Penalver's letter of April 7, Maguire sends the census for Ascension parish in his charge.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 28
Maguire, Father Juan
Fourche de Chetimachas, Louisiana
Census of Ascension parish at la Fourche des Chetimachas for 1801: A total of 996 souls, an increase of 100 from the time Maguire took over the parish. About 250 have not made their Easter duty. The church has no income; the fabrique has 127 pesos. The church is rotted underneath; the house needs windows, doors, etc.
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1801 Aug. 6
Peleagonzalo, (O.M.Cap.), Father Tirso de
S(a)n Bernardo del Torno, Louisiana
Census of St. Bernard's parish for 1801: A total of 618 souls, an increase of 76 since 1797. All are Catholics. The following have not made their Easter duty: (28 names are listed). Of the slaves belonging to the French, they gave not even been to Mass except 12 belonging to Josef Solis who come to Mass and have made their Easter duty. The church has no fixed income except 24 pesos given by His Majesty and occasional fees under 20 pesos a year. The neighboring islanders make an effort with their alms for candles and oil for the Blessed Sacrament. the church is so small that it cannot hold half the people for Mass and the foundation and roof are rotted.
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1801 Aug. 7
Peleagonzalo, Father Tirso
New Galvez, Louisiana
(This census is the same as above of August 6 except for some variations in spelling, the omission and addition of a few names to the list of those who have not made their Easter duty.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 25
Bonanomi, Hercules Maria
Milan, (Italy)
Bonanomi, vicar-general, attests that these are particles of the crown of Christ and of bones of the apostles Peter and Paul, canonically attested and approved and granted to Josepho Longhi for the purpose of retaining them himself, giving them to another, or placing them for public veneration in any church.
V-3-a D.S. (Latin) 1p. folio
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(1801) (Aug. 29)
D'Anemours, Charles Francois Adrien
Le Paulmier
Proceedings in the clandestine marriage in Ovachita [Ouachita] of D'Anemours and Lucila Withe (Lucille White).
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1800 May 16
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, Louisiana
A copy of the letter sent to Father John Brady, (O.Carm.) on April 19 in which he speaks of the marriage, the originals from Brady of April 21 and 22 and of May 7, the proceedings enclosed, the certification from the archives of Ovachita [Ouachita] given by Filhioll, the Commandant, both documents in French and Denamour's statement, are to be given to the interpreter Derbigni for translation. Father Isidro Quintero acts as secretary.
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1800 Apr. 19
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
to Father John Brady
(Ouachita, Louisiana)
Brady asks if he should separate Denemour from the marriage which Brady was informed was contracted before the commandant, as his wife is living in Baltimore. Since all marriages not before a priest are null in the king's dominion and since one of the items in (Penalver's) instruction of August 22, 1798 states that such a marriage must be validated if there are no impediments, (Penalver) believes this marriage will have to be validated. Brady is to ask Filhiol if such a contract has come before him and if so a copy is to be certified from the register. Then Brady is to see if D'Anamour wishes to confirm or deny this and to let the commandant know so that he may work with him. This is a copy made on May 16, 1800.
L. Copy (Spanish)
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1800 Apr. 21
Brady, Father Juan
Washitau, (Louisiana)
to Bishop Luis de Penalver y cardenas
(New Orleans), Louisiana
On April 12 Lucia White with her mother, Catalina Olivo, came complaining that her husband, D'Anemour, had confessed that he had left his legitimate wife in Baltimore. She asked Brady to separate them and to place her in safe-keeping while the evidence was taken. As Brady had had previous knowledge of which he told Penalver in a letter of the 6th, Brady felt obliged to give her safe-keeping at the home of Luis Badins. Brady also was informed that Father Luis (de Quintanilla, O.M.Cap.?) had married, baptized, heard confessions and given Communion without requiring anything and upon Father Luis' leaving the commandant made them pay. Such was the case of Luis Fran(cis)co who paid 26 pesos. Domingo Boligni having to leave in 2 or 3 days for the capital, Brady sends the proceedings from the D'Anemour complaint.
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1800 Apr. 26
Brady, Father Juan
Washitaw, (Louisiana)
to Bishop Luis de Penalver y Cardenas
(New Orleans), Louisiana
Herewith Brady sends the statement made by Lucia White. Brady has worked with all possible prudence but it is a public scandal. Brady has separated them until Penalver makes a decision. Brady has heard that Jacobo Larche paid the commandant 17 pesos for Communion and the baptism of six children.
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1800 May 7
Brady, Father Juan
Washitaw, (Louisiana)
to Bishop Luis de Penalver y Cardenas
(New Orleans), Louisiana
Brady asks Penalver to obtain information from Badins as an eye witness and one who has had a bar room for some years. Brady asks Penalver to send some vestments as the ones they have are very worn. Several days after Boligni left the commandant gave his resignation to (Josef) Labaume who acts in the interim.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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Bouligny, Dom(ing)o
(Ovachita [Ouachita], Louisiana)
Brady, pastor of Our Lady of Carmel at Ouachita, certifies that on April 12, 1800 Catherin Olivo, widow of Louis White, that is, LeBlanc, wife of Etienne Repone, and Lucille White, her daughter, declared before Brady and Bouligni, an officer of the Louisiana regiment and Prosper Prieur and Badins, that public opinion denounced Danemours for bigamy. His wife had recourse to authority to be separated. She gave back the jewelry he had given her. Mrs. Etienne Repone signs with her mark as Catherine Olivo and Lucille White makes her mark.
D.S. (French)
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1800 Apr. 12
Filhiol, Jean
(Ovachita [Ouachita], Louisiana)
Extracts from the records of Ouachita: On March 22, 1800, before Captain Filhiol were present Charles F(ran)cois Adrien Le Paulmier Ch(evali)er D'Anemour, formerly lieutenant on a frigate of the French Marines and since Consul-General of France in the United States, a member of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, son of the deceased Pierre Le Paulmier, Sir D'Anemours, French officer of Montivilliers in Normandy and of the deceased Maria Jeanne Adrienne Desmares du Tournay, testifying on the one part and Catherine Olivas testifying with Lucille White on the other part. On the part of D'Anemours, Jean Louis Alexandre Breard and Louis Michel J(ea)n F(ran)cois Lamy and on the part of Lucille White, Etienne Repone and Michel LeVillain, voluntarily acknowledged that they had made an agreement about the marriage, as follows: Mr. and Mrs. Repon had promised to give Lucille in marriage to D'Anemours before the Commandant, for lack of a priest, the ceremony to be renewed in the Church as soon as the opportunity arose. (The property settlement is also given in detail). Filhiol certifies that this is a copy of the original made at Fort Miro, April 12, 1800.
D.S. (French)
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1800 Apr. 14
D'Anemours
Ouachita, (Louisiana)
to Bishop Louis de Penalver y Cardenas
(New Orleans), Louisiana
Filhiol has communicated the mandate of April 12 from Brady
separating him from the young person he married March 22. In 1782
D'Anemours sought to marry Miss Racourt (Julia Rocourt). He
could not marry without permission from the king; seven or eight months
must elapse before he might receive it. He proposed that they pretend
a private ceremony had united them, promising to write immediately to
France. After six months (Rocourt) went to the West Indies and then to
Paris. After seven years she returned to Baltimore and proposed that
he retake her. He rejected her and she sailed for the Cape in
Hispaniola. The death of Lewis XVI brought D'Anemours' displacement.
He became an American citizen. Miss Racourt, who retained the name of
D'Anemours, not being able to prove any religious ceremony, gave up the
suit, and in March, 1796 married a Mr. Nau from the West Indies.
She has since lived with him in the same town where she pretended to be
married to D'Anemours. D'Anemours had raised from infancy a young
person whom he gave in marriage last fall to an American. Finding
himself alone he looked around for a consort and found (Lucille). On
the twentieth day she gathered all she could carry and crossed to the
opposite shore of the river. He hopes Penalver will send Braddy a
decree of noli prosequi.
A.L.S. (English)
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(1800)
Derbigny, Pedro
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Derbigny has translated the documents as follows: Brady's certification of the statements of Lucille on April 12, the excerpt from the archives of Ouachita and D'Anemours' petition.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 May 24
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
A certified copy is to be made of the paragraph of Brady's letter of April 6 in which he names the witnesses in this city.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 May 24
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
"The following in New Orleans can testify: Letourneau, Pompono, the saddler Pradine and the watchmaker Racine." This is a copy of the paragraph.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 May 24
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
Manuel Pradines and Daniel Razine are to appear. Also Luis Giovellina, Juan Lantois, Santiago Francisco Pitot, Alexandro Lesassiere, Fran(cis)co Deschamps, and Mrs. Roscourt.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 May 24
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Pradine testified that in June 1795 he left Baltimore. He knew there was a law suit pending about D'Anemours' wife wishing to go back to him. She was a French woman known as Mrs. Denamour. The declarant's wife, now dead, knew her. D'Anemours has lived in Ovachita [Ouachita] since with a mulatto he brought from Baltimore. Pradine is 35 and signs as Noel Pradine.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 May. 24
Quintero, Father Isidro
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Razinni testified that he had not known D'enamour nor his wife but he had heard that he had obtained a divorce and so she had stayed in Baltimore. Razinni is 73 and signs as Daniel Racine.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 May. 24
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Dr. Luis Giovellina testified that at the end of 1783 he arrived in Baltimore as a surgeon on a French frigate to pick up men from the French army who had served under Count de Rochambo. Giovellina saw much of Denamour. His wife was having quarrels with him. The origin of these quarrels were discussed frequently by Madame D'enamour with Mr. Goys to whom D'enamour objected. In May 1784 she went to Burdeos and then to Paris to confer with her mother. Giovellina met her and her mother in the Ministry of War office and an official, Mr. de San Pablo, asked if he knew her. He answered yes and San Pablo said that she never talked of not being his wife. This was at the end of 1784. When Giovellina was in Nantes he learned that she was there but he did not see her. She had no right to ask for his salary in the Ministry of War office; she would have had to have her marriage license. Giovellina signs as Louis Giovellina.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 May 26
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Juan Lanthois appeared and testified that D'Anemours had been asked by D'Rocourt for freedom to marry another as she later did. In 1793 and 4 she had asked for a pension from D'Anemours but this was never granted. In that year D'Anemours was married in Ovachita [Ouachita] but lived with his wife only a few days. Lanthois did not know Miss D'Rocourt until 1792 and did not know if she called herself Mrs. D'Anemours. Lanthois is 33 and signs.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 May 26
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Santiago Fran(cis)co Pitot testified that he knew D'Anmours was not married in Baltimore because a Miss D'Rocourt in '93 demanded a pension, assuming that he was her husband but it could not be proved. In '95 or '94 he knew a Mrs. Nau, the same D'Rocourt. D'Anemours was from Normandy as was Pitot and he knew him and his family well. Pitot is 38 and signs as Jacques Pitot.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 May 26
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Alexandro LeSasier testified that he heard much about the divorce and of her marriage to Nau in 1796 or 8 and that she was now living in Kingston, Jamaica. American laws permit divorce and the French law did also. Mrs. D'Rocourt, now living in Havana said her daughter obtained a written repudiation which she presented to the French representatives in Baltimore. LeSasier is 44 and signs as A. LeSassier.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 May 26
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Fran(cis)co de Champs testified that he had not seen D'Anemours for six years, that he was a friend of de Champs' father. In '94 they did not live together and after '99 he met her in Kingstown and she said she had married Mr. Nau that day, having obtained a divorce. When de Champs left Kingstown in March she was still living there with Nau who was a baker. DeChamps is 28 and signs as F(ranc)ois(?)
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 May 27
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
There is evidence of the basis of the rumor of a marriage between D'Anemours and Rocourt in 1782 or 3. His attempt to marry Lucila White was clandestine and null which made their separation legal. Notice is to be sent to Filhiol at Ovachita [Ouachita] to have a certified copy made from the register of the marriage contracts authorized by the commandant. The same commandant is to be notified that in no case is he to relapse into authorizing such marriages. This warning and decree is to be sent to Brady so that it can be returned with all the results, using the aid of Nicholas M(ari)a Vidal and to be passed on to Father Juan de Dios Valdes, named Attorney-General.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 May 28
Valdes, Father Juan de Dios
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Valdes has examined the proceedings and found that D'Anemours calls himself a citizen of the United States at the same time that it appears he was a resident of Ovachita [Ouachita]. (Penalver) should write to the Military Governor to ascertain whether D'Anemours took the oath taken by new settlers and when.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1800 May 28
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The letter is to be sent, a copy added to the proceedings and the results to be given to the Attorney-General.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 May 29
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop Luis
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
to Marquis de Casa Calvo
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
D'Anemours says in a letter of April 14 that he "took the oath of naturalization in the United States ... and up to now has not changed." But the Attorney-General showed that he was established in Ovachita [Ouachita] with land and slaves and worked them -- something not allowed to those who are not Spanish subjects. (Penalver) asks Casa Calvo to tell him whether D'Anemour has taken this oath and to send a certified copy of it.
Copy (Spanish)
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1800 Jun. 26
With, Lucile
Ouachita, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Outraged innocence asks for (Penalver's) protection. She, the innocent victim of the scandalous life of D'Anemours, consumed by a shameful illness, looks to (Penalver) for help.
A.L. (French)
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1800 Jul. 25
With, Lucile
Ouachita, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
She has been here for 3 or 4 months without justice being done. Her representative could not obtain (an order) from the commandant for D'anemours to go to the capital. Her mother's husband left his wife and four children while he made a journey of 200 leagues which will ruin him because of the expense. It is he who brings this letter.
A.L. (French)
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1800 May 27
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
Brady, pastor of Rio Colorado and Ovachita [Ouachita] is to be informed of the proceedings. (A copy of the decree, calendared above, follows). Vidal adds on the same paper that he has complied with the bishop's decree.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Jul. 1
Brady, Father Juan
(Ovachita [Ouachita], Louisiana)
Penalver's decree was made known to Lucilda White in the presence of Carlos Frederico Racine and Thomas Losada who sign.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Jul. 1
Brady, Father Juan
(Ovachita [Ouachita], Louisiana)
Penalver's decree was made known to Danemour before Juan Villard and Losada who sign.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Jul. 2
Brady, Father Juan
(Ovachita [Ouachita], Louisiana)
Penalver's decree was made known to Josef La Baume, acting commandant.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Aug. 7
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
The proceedings are to be sent to the attorney-general.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Feb. 25
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Marquis de Casa Calvo
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
On May 29, 1800 (Penalver) wrote for a copy of the oath D'Anemours would have taken. Since he has arrived from Ovachita [Ouachita] (Penalver) asks for a copy.
A.D.S. Copy (Spanish)
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1801 Feb. 25
Casa Calvo, Marq(ui)s de
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
D'Anemours' oath must be in Ovachita [Ouachita] but there has been no answer. Since it seems that he was included in the family of the Marquis de Maissonrouge there appears to be no doubt that he took the oath.
L.S. (Spanish)
( )
Prieur, Prospero
( )
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Prieur is to have the proceedings on presentation of his credentials.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
( )
Fejeiro, Vicente Fernandez
(Ovachita [Ouachita], Louisiana)
Lucia White empowers Prieur to represent her. The letter is dated October 6, 1800. The commandant certifies that he knows the maker of the deed who made her mark with her mother.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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(1801)
Prieur, Prospero
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Prieur presents his case. (Some new facts are): When the mulatto died her funeral was that of a wife, attended by four white women and presided over by Filhiol. D'Anemours' advanced age inspired disgust in Lucila, only 15. Filhiol was his friend and did not refuse to make up a contract on March 28, 1800. This was in a burlesque style. D'Anemours said he took Lucila without dowry but she brought eight cows as a dowry. When D'Anemours confessed his first marriage it was like a ray of hope to Lucila. Prieur asks that Penalver sentence Danemours to pay for the cows and clothes of her dowry, to pay Badins 30 pesos a month for Lucila's stay at his house, to pay the expenses of her illness, for her necessary clothes, 400 pesos for Repon's trip and 6000 pesos to Lucila.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Mar. 20
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The (above) is to be given to D'Anemours.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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Prieur, Prospero
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans, Louisiana)
Since Danemour has had the material without affirming anything for many days Prieur asks (Penalver) to prosecute him by default and to order the proceedings taken from him.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 10
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
(The above) is to be answered at the first hearing and the proceedings are to be taken.
D.S. (Spanish)
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(1801)
D'Anemours, Carlos Fran(cis)co LePaulmier
( )
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans, Louisiana)
D'Anemours asks (Penalver) to declare that he has not committed a clandestine marriage, that he is free from the punishments imposed and if Lucila wishes to pursue her demand he will prove the reason for it. The charges her attorney made are all founded on false assumptions. Filhiol assured him that the marriage was legitimate.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 11
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
(The above) is to be taken care of by the Attorney-General.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 18
Valdes, Father Juan de Dios
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans, Louisiana)
Filhiol usurped his faculties, the marriage is null. Where was the certificate of singleness required in order to marry? (Valdes cites the testimony of) Pradines, Racines, Giovellina, Lanthois, Lesasier and Deschamps which leads him to believe that D'Anemours was and is married to Rocourt. The process of divorce would be begun only between a married couple. (Penalver) should declare that Lucila is innocent and should be aided in marrying some one else and that D'Anemours is not able to marry anyone. A just punishment should be imposed for clandestinity. D'Anemours is to pay the costs.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 18
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
Penalver approves the above. (Quintero calls Penalver) Bishop-elect of Guatemala.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
( )
D'Anemours, Carlos Francisco Adriano
( )
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans, Louisiana)
D'Anemours asks (Penalver) to hear the testimony of Mariana Ami Dieu, the widow Deschamps and Maria Couturier since they knew Rocourt in Jamaica when she was married to Nau. Julia died in 1800.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 23
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
They are to appear and Father Luis Bu(h)ot is appointed as interpreter. (Buhot accepts).
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 24
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Mariana Amidieu, swore that she knew Rocourt, married to Naud, in Kingston and that Rocourt was buried in the Catholic cemetery in May or June, 1800. She knew the same Rocourt in Baltimore in '93 or '94 as Mrs. D'Anemours. Rocourt had no children in her first marriage; of the second, Rocourt's mother is now in Havana and could declare. Couturier, who arrived in New Orleans the first of the month would know of Rocourt's death. Amidieu is 48 and signs as Amidieu Deschamps.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 24
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Maria Couturier swore that she knew a baker married to Rocourt, who had secured a divorce from D'Anemours on the grounds of incompatibility. Couturier left Jamaica March 8 with Mrs. Deschamps and they arrived in New Orleans April 1. Mrs. Deschamps gave the news of Rocourt's death from Kingston to her son Fran(cis)co Deschamps. Couturier is 36 and signs as M(aria) Couturie.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 24
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The (above) are to be turned over to the Attorney-General.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 28
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
D'Anemours has showed Quintero a letter written in Jamaica by Mrs. Des Champs to her son giving the news of Rocourt's death. The letter is dated September 16, 1800.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 28
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
M. Dejans and her son are to appear.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1800 Sep. 17
Deschamps, Amidieu
(Kingston, Jamaica)
to Mrs. Deschamps
St. Thomas
(A letter to Amidieu's daughter-in-law in which she recounts family news). P.S. Madame Naux is dead. (News of other families follows).
A.L.S. (French)
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1801 Apr. 29
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Mrs. Deschamps appeared and swore that the above letter was written by her to her son Carlos Philipe Deschamps. She added that Father Despuig(?) was the one who buried Mrs. Nau.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 29
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Carlos Deschamps swore that he received the letter in November or October of 1800 and that it was from his mother, that he had given the letter to Lantois who had evidently given it to D'Anemours. Deschamps is 28 and signs as F.(?) Deschamps.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
( )
Prieur, Prospero
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to (Bishop Luis Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans, Louisiana)
(Penalver) is asked to order Luis Duval to testify whether he knew Danemour in North America.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Apr. 28
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The petition is granted.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 5
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Duval swore that in May 1783 he knew D'Anemours in Baltimore living with a woman known as Mrs. D'Anemours, who had her mother with her; that it was said that they had trouble because of the mother-in-law. Duval is 42 and signs.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 7
Valdes, Father Juan de Dios
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
After Valdes' conclusion of April 18, D'Anemours produced the testimony of Mariana Amidieu and Maria Couturie to prove the death of Julia Rocourt. Valdes repeats his statement of the 18th except that part in which he asks that D'Anemours be prohibited from any other marriage.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 7
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
(The above) is official. On May 9 Penalver orders it given to Lucila's attorney.
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(1801)
Prieur, Prospero
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Prieur (sums up the case citing) D'Anemours' statements especially the famous document in favor of Zedoc Armand, a free mulatto against the Marques de Maison-Rouge, a writing full of injuries. This document should be produced again to show D'Anemours' way of thought. Prieur (also cites) the testimony of Pradene, Racine, Lantoit and Pitot, Lesassier, Mr. Deschamps, and Julia de Rocourt. Prieur asks that (Penalver) sentence D'Anemours to pay the costs.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 27
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
This is official.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 May 29
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
So that Lucila White may be questioned personally, a letter is to be sent to Fejeiro, that she may be sent to (New Orleans). (Quintero records a copy of the letter sent).
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 1
Fejeiro, Vic(en)te Fern(ande)z
Oauchita, (Louisiana)
to Bishop Luis de Penalver y Cardenas
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Lucia White left today with her stepfather for the capitol.
L.S. (Spanish)
On the above letter:
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1801 Jul. 15
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, Louisiana
Lucilla is to be housed at the Convent of the Ursulines.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 30
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Lucila White appeared and gave her testimony. She does not wish to have her marriage validated. She will live with her mother. She is 17.
A.D.S (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 31
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
(The above) is to be given to Lucila's attorney.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 31
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Quintero showed the decree to Prieur who said he had nothing more to say.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 31
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
(Prieur's) reply is to be shown to d'Anemour.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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(1801)
Prieur, Prospero
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Since Danemour has had the proceedings without replying Prieur asks that they be taken from him.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 12
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
D'Anemours is to reply and they are to go after the proceedings.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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(1801)
D'Anemours, Carlos Francisco Paulmier
( )
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans, Louisiana)
(D'Anemours gives his refutation of the Attorney-General's statements against him). He hopes the attorney-general will change his idea. Also the (Penalver) will make Lucila's attorney moderate his expressions.
D,S, (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 13
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop
(New Orleans), Louisiana
This is to be taken care of by the attorney-general.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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(1801)
Prieur, Prospero
( )
Lucila White arrived in (New Orleans) on July 12 and having testified as ordered, she asks to be allowed to return to Ouachita.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 14
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
This is to be put with the proceedings.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 14
Valdes, Father Juan de Dios
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas
New Orleans, Louisiana)
Although D'Anemours has given excuses, he is guilty of a clandestine marriage. The case is to be terminated.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 14
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
It is a decree.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 17
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The trial is to be ended in nine days; Lucila is given permission to return to Ouachitas in the custody of her step-father.
D.S. (Spanish)
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(1801)
D'Anemours
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Since D'Anemours must return home, having been absent many months for this trial, he gives power of attorney to Santiago Pitot. He asks (Penalver) not to forbid his going.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 19
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans,), Louisiana
Upon presentation, the power is to be given over to Lucila.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 18
Pedesclaux, Pedro
( )
D'Anemours gives to Santiago Pitot power to represent him in all actions, (which he enumerates), in all places, (which he enumerates) and names Francisco Nicolas Ficchard as his agent(?). He has also made arrangements with Lanthois, Pitot and Company. The date of this letter is May 21, 1801. Pedesclaux confirms that D'Anemours signed it before the witnesses, Jacinto de Ayala, Fern(an)do Percy and Celestino Lavergne. On August 18 Pedesclaux affirms that the above is a copy of the original.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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(1801)
Prieur, Prospero and D'Anemours
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
D'Anemours and Prieur, in the name of Lucila, wish to end the trial. They submit to the decision and renounce their evidence.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 21
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
(The above) is to be given to the Attorney-General.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 21
Quintero, Father Isidro
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The secretary is to certify whether anything further has come up since the decree of the 17th.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 22
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
None of the three parties has brought up any evidence.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 26
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
Having seen the proceedings Penalver declares the contract between D'Anemours and Lucila null and void; Lucila is free to do as she wishes and is free of all penalty of clandestinity; D'Anemours is relieved of any interdict because of the death of Julia Rocourt; for the clandestinity certain penances are to be imposed. The witnesses are free but given a warning so that they may not fall into a like error. The decision against Filhiol is suspended(?). Since Lucila's claims against D'Anemours seem to be settled, a letter enclosing this decree is to be sent to Father Brady. (D'Anemours) is to be advised of the charges made up by Fran(cis)co Bermudes.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 29
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Quintero sent the letter to Brady.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 27
Bermudes, Fran(cis)co
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
A list of charges for the trial.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
V-3-a A.D.S., Copies, A.L.S., D.S., A.L., L.S., (Spanish, French, and
English) 307pp. folio
53
(1801) (Aug. 31)
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(1801)
Broutin, Fran(cis)co
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Broutin, appointed archivist and notary by the bishop on July 11, 1797, can no longer fulfill his office because of his advanced age of 75 and his nearsightedness. He asks that another be appointed in his place.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 21
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
(Penalver) relieves Broutin of his duties as of this date. The archives are to be given over to the bishop's secretary to be given to the person (Penalver) will name. Father Isidro Quintero signs as secretary.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 22
Quintero, Father (Isidro)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Quintero notified Broutin of the above decree.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 29
Penalver y Cardenas, Luis, Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
Penalver names Fran(cis)co Bermudes and orders the secretary to bring out the archives for inventory and Bermudes to appear and take the oath of office.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 29
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Bermudes appeared before (Penalver) and took the oath of office. He signed with the bishop. Quintero adds in a note that these are copies of the originals.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 29
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
The inventory by Broutin has some errors in entries but is correct in substance. The secretary will divide them into two classes; investigations of celibacy and proceedings of lawsuits.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 31
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
A list of the investigations of celibacy from 1773 which is the oldest to be found. (A list of 434 cases is given with the names of the two persons applying for marriage).
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 31
Bermudes, Fran(cis)co
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
The above matrimonial petitions have been turned over to Bermudes.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 31
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
A list of the proceedings of lawsuits from 1773 which is the oldest to be found. (99 cases are listed with the names of the parties involved).
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 31
Bermudes, Fran(cis)co
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
The above list of proceedings has been turned over to Bermudes.
A.D.S. and Copies (Spanish)
3
1801 (Sep. 4)
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
Proceedings for the inspection of the will of Zenon Falladas; Benito Alon and Salvador Molas, executors.
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1801 Jun. 12
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop
New Orleans, Louisiana
In the will of Falladas, made before Pedro Pedesclaux on June 28, 1790, it was stipulated that three masses be said for him, that 2 reales be given to each of the legal bequests, 1000 pesos to the parish of Arenas del Mar named Santa Maria en Cataluna for a mass every week and if there was anything remaining it was to be divided between the same parish and the Capuchin Convent of that place for Masses. Also 1000 pesos for Masses for the souls of his parents, naming as executors Alon and Molas, and as heirs, his brothers and sister, Fran(cis)co, Manuel and Getrudis Falladas, and his nieces and nephews. Father Isidro Quintero signs as secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 26
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
Alom is to be informed that Falladas' pious bequests are to be carried out.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 27
Alom, Benito
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Alom appeared and swore that Falladas died in the province, leaving the city, ill, in a pirogue for up the river, that he could not give the exact day nor the parish but that when he received notice of his death, Alom had had a Mass said and this would be found in the book of fees on July 16, 1790. He did not draw up papers because when Falladas left he told Alom, if he died, to see the grocery store and add it to the money which made a total of 2500 pesos. Those who went up with him in the pirogue told of his death. Alom knew them by sight but now after more than 10 years he could not remember them. Alom turned the 2500 pesos over to Mariano Ton to be sent to Jose Pruna(?) y Culler. Alom lost Pruna's reply upon receiving the will but he had no receipt for the money. Ton had not written and Alom does not know if he turned the money over to Cullere but he is convinced that he carried out the will. Ton arrived here by boat from Cadiz but Alom does not know if he reached Cataluna. When Ton received the money he wrote that he explained to a brother here named Ramon (Font) that he had received it. Molas left this city more than 5 years ago and one of his sons said he had died since. Molas concurred in the sale of Falladas' assets but Alom has no documents of this except that they called in two appraisers who verbally gave a value to the goods of the grocery store. Although Alom knew one he could not remember who it was. Alom is 44.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 30
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The testimony is to be given over to the prosecutor general; Father Juan de Dios Valdes is appointed. Quintero adds in a note that he accepted and signed.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 2
Valdes, Father Juan de
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
The lack of information about Falladas' death and lack of inventories indicate a malicious obscurity. The legal bequests, the three Masses, the paper of the 27th and that of January 17, 1792, in which Mariano Ton received from Benito 2500 pesos to be turned over in Arenas to Jose Pruna y Cuellar is another cloud as confusing as the first. The pious works do not seem to have been fulfilled nor the heirs to have their share. This last concerns the Royal Judge, the first (Penalver). It seems to Valdes that the pastor of the Cathedral should certify whether he buried Falladas and if necessary the same should be done in other parishes with any news they can ascertain about his death. The notary Pedesclaux should certify also and the aid of the Royal Judge is enlisted.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 3
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The pastor of the cathedral and Pedesclaux are to testify; royal aid is to be asked.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 6
Caiserquer
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
It is to be done as the Bishop requests.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 6
Sedella, (O.M.Cap.), Father Antonio de
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Sedella, pastor of the Cathedral, certifies that he did not bury Falladas nor do the registers show his burial in the parish.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 6
Pedesclaux, Pedro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Falladas, a resident of this city, son of Fran(cis)co Falladas and Tejtrudis(?) Mauiri, both dead, being ill, of sound mind makes his will as follows: He is to be buried in the parish and place chosen by his executor. Three Masses are to be said for his soul. 2 reales are to be given for each legal bequest. He is single. In the church of Arenas del Mar, an anniversary Mass is to be said every week. If the amount necessary for this does not reach 1000 pesos the amount left over shall be equally divided between the Capuchin Convent and the parish named. He gives to the same parish of Santa Maria an equal amount of 1000 pesos for the souls of his father and mother. If there are any debts, his executor is to pay them. His executors are to collect various debts for him. He has about 2,200 pesos in money and several small businesses with a store situated opposite the levee beside the New Exchange(?) and a house in Arena del Mar in Cataluna. To the negress, Maria Francisca, slave of Juan Bautista Mersier he gives 250 pesos for many services; 50 of this to be used as she wishes, the 200 to be given to someone she trusts so that together with the interest she may purchase her freedom. He names as executors Alom and Molas to whom he extends the time of one year or longer. He names as heirs his brothers and sister, Francisco, Manuel and Tertrudis Falladas and all his nieces and nephews in equal parts. All other wills are void except this one made in New Orleans on June 28, 1790. He signs before the witnesses, Pedro Gonz(ale)s de la Galea y Villas-amil, Isidro Illa, and Santiago Lemayre. Signed Seno(n) Falladas, Pedro Gonz(ale)s de la Galea y Villas-amil, Isidro Illa, and J(ames) Lemaire before Pedro Pedesclaus. This conforms with the original.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jul. 28
Pedesclaux, Pedro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Pedesclaux certifies that in the archives in his charge there are no documents on the death of Falladas neither is it clear that Alom and Molas carried out the orders of the will.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 12
Valdes, Father Juan de Dios
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Valdes has examined the testimony in Falladas' will and (Sedella's) certification. The date, parish and ones who saw him die are not known and yet Alon took over his property, sold it, and disposed of the proceeds. Valdes thinks a circular order should be sent to the pastors of St. Charles, St. John, Santiago, Valenzuela and Iberville which are those on the river, and to those adjoining for certifying whether from June 28, 1790 to July 16, 1801 Falladas had died in their district or whether there were any entries in their books or knowledge of him. Alon should be ready to prove whether Mariano Font, who it seems signed the receipt on January 11, 1792 that he had collected 2500 pesos to deliver in Arenas del Mar to Pruna Culler, really did so, if Culler did so with 1000 pesos to be given to the acting pastor of the parish of St. Mary of Arenas to fulfill the memento of Masses, and another 1000 for Masses for the souls of his parents, all with certified documents. Since this executor by his informal proceedings and negligence has created suspicion, for safeguard of the pious works, a mortgage should be placed on his goods at St. Bernard of New Galvez. An order should be given to the commandant so that the aid of the governor may be asked until Alon proves himself.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 13
Penalver y Cardenas, Luis, Bishop
(New Orleans), Louisiana
(The above) is to be done. Quintero adds in a note that he tried to notify Alom but he was at St. Bernard, his residence.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 14
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
Letters are to be sent to the pastors of St. Charles, St. John Baptist, St. James of Caabanose, la Fourche, Valenzuela and Iberville to ascertain whether the burial of Falladas is entered in their registers from June 28, 1790 to July 16, 1790 or if they have news of his whereabouts. Alon is to be notified that within one year the 2000 pesos are to be turned over to the parish to fulfill clauses 4 and 5 of Falladas' will. Copies are to be made of these, of the statement of the 12th and of this decree so that the attorney may investigate the validity of the conveyance and the executor may draw up the necessary papers and send to the Commandant of St. Bernard of New Galvez, having previously obtained the aid of the governor.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 17
Salcedo, Manuel de
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
It is to be done as the Bishop asks.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 24
Mangan, Father Patrick
Cabahonece, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Mangan certifies that there is no entry in the register of the burial of Zenon Falladas nor any information of his whereabouts.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Sep. 4
Maguire, Father John
LaFourche, (Louisiana)
to Bishop Luis Penalver (y Cardenas)
(New Orleans), Louisiana
Maguire did not find Falladas' name in the register nor did he get any information from the old inhabitants and employees of the church.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Sep. 4
Saintpierre, Father Paul de
Iberville, (Louisiana)
Saintpierre found no entry of the burial of Falladas in the register of St. Gabriel's. The inhabitants say they have no knowledge that he ever lived in the neighborhood.
A.L.S. (French)
V-3-d D.S., A.D.S., A.L.S. (Spanish and French) 32pp. 4to. &
8vo.
25
1801 Sep. 16
Bustos, Patricio M(a)r(ti)n(e)z de
Madrid, (Spain)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans), Louisiana
Without doubt there is nothing of greater interest than the payment of interest and the retirement of the royal bonds issued for the defense of the monarchy. His Majesty has decided to apply certain excise taxes to this end, among them an augmenting by one fifth of the alms of the Bulls of the Holy Crusade for the Living and Dead and by half of those of Illustrious, Composition and Milk Foods. De Bustos is in charge for the term of 1802 and 1803. He believes the best way would be to distribute circulars to the pastors and assistants in order to announce this to the faithful. to avoid the heavy cost of sending copies of this edict, the printing is to be done in the bishoprics. (Penalver) is also to exhort the pastors and assistants to carry out the royal intentions. P.S. Since there is no Commissioner of the Crusades in the diocese (Penalver) is to commission the Prebendary of the Cabildo to appoint one who together with the royal treasurer will proceed to execute what is assigned to him by the enclosed circular to all the commissioners of the Crusades.
Printed Circular S. (Spanish)
Enclosure:
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1801 Sep. 14
Bustos, Patricio M(a)r(ti)n(e)z de
Madrid, (Spain)
(The circular about the excise tax, to be announced and posted in the parish churches. The new assessments of alms are listed. The circular is by order of) Antonio de los Rios.
Printed Circular S. (Spanish)
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1801 Sep. 14
(Bustos, Patricio Martinez de)
Madrid, (Spain)
to Commissioner of the Crusade of the Diocese
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Together with the officers of the royal treasury, the commissioner of the Crusade is to have the (above) circular printed.
Printed Circular (Spanish)
V-3-d Printer Circulars S. and Unsigned (Spanish) 6pp. 4to. & folio
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1801 (Sep. 16)
Girard, (Francois)
Dispensation asked by Fran(cis)co Girard to validate his marriage which, without the knowledge of their relationship, he had contracted with Marg(ari)ta Leflaux.
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1801 Aug. 19
Girard, Francois
Mobile, (Alabama)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Girard, a native of the parish of Our Lady of the Conception of Mobile, married Margarita Leflaux, his cousin, and finding out about the impediment of the relationship he asks for a dispensation.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 19
Vaugeois, Father Juan Fran(cis)co
Mobile, (Alabama)
Vaugeois, pastor of Conception parish certifies that the petitioner married in good faith.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Aug. 14
Vaugeois, Father Juan Fran(cis)co
Mobile, (Alabama)
Relationship of Fran(cis)co Girard and Margarita LeFlaux, both natives of Conception parish: Fran(cis)co, son of Francisca Baudin, daughter of Maria Luisa Lorendini, daughter of Mariana Fourchet; Margarita, daughter of Mariana Dupont, daughter of Mariana Juana Guillori, daughter Mariana LaCase, daughter of Mariana Fourchet who was married twice and had 2 children, one of each marriage, according to what several of the family have told Vaugeois.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Sep. 16
Penalver y Cardenas, Luis, Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
Penalver grants the dispensation; certain penances are to be performed, after which the pastor of Mobile is to revalidate the marriage. Father Isidro Quintero acts as secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
V-3-d D.S. (Spanish) 4pp. 4to.
10
1801 Sep. 28
Valllejo, Father Bernardino
Mission of S(a)n Jose
to Bishop Luis de Cardenas y Penalver
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Last week Vallejo received Penalver's letter of July 2 in which he sent a copy of the letter of October 8, (17)99 ordering Vallejo to advise Father Buena Ventura de Castro, (O.M.Cap.), to return to the capital where he would be received with kindness. Vallejo assures Penalver that he has never received the above letter nor has Governor Juan Bap(tis)ta Elquezabal. When de Castro arrived at Nacogdoches Vallejo was the priest at that place. He tried to persuade de Castro to return as soon as possible but de Castro assured him that grave causes had made him withdraw and that he had written one or two letters to Penalver asking for the passport to Havana and when he moved to these missions he wrote to the Provincial of the two Castilles (?) who lives in Madrid, Father Fidel de la Calzada and it seems that the provincial replied that he could remain in these missions until something else came up. But up to the present it does not seem possible to convince de Castro and he keeps saying that Louisiana does not suit his spirit.
V-3-d A.L.S. (Spanish) 3pp. 4to.
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1801 Sep. 30
(Penalver y Cardenas), Luis, Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Manuel Juan de Salcedo
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
On November 19, 1799, there was sent to Nicolas Maria Vidal, acting governor, a letter like this: Having examined the accounts of the Charity Hospital for the three months from October 1, 1798 to the end of the year as drawn up by the administrator, Fran(cis)co de Leiva, (Penalver) found it without defect and returns it to Vidal to conclude. With the alms ordered to be collected and Vidal's gifts, the hospital has been decorated, the numerous sick in the epidemic of August, September and October were cared for. In order to continue more funds are necessary. The coffin department which was taken away by Manuel Gayoso (de Lemos), Vidal's predecessor might be of help. The hospital has begun to make them again at the former prices and it would be desirable to let the hospital have this exclusive privilege as laid down by Baron (Francisco Luis Hector) Carondelet, predecessor of Gayoso. Two tracts of land owned by the hospital could be very useful but there are no funds; (Penalver) is persuaded that there were funds belonging to the hospital in the possession of Andres de Almonaster, its patron, at the time of his sudden death April 25, 1798 but they must be straightened out and collected. Almonaster was exempt from rendering accounts by the royal edict of August 14, 1794 but this privilege did not include not keeping accounts. He left the current accounts of the hospital up to March 31, 1798 signed and approved as can be seen from the books of the administration in charge of Leiva. There must have been another which he did not have time to approve. The last accounts of Leiva, presented by Gilberto Leonard obliges (Penalver) to draw up the instructive file which he encloses; Father Juan de Dios Valdes annotated the first and revised the others and (Penalver) concludes from his paper of the 16th that 4323 pesos 3 reales was realized by Almonaster during the administrations of Leonard and Leiva of which (Penalver) has no account. The revenue from twelve ports, the rent from taverns, smaller revenues, the legacy of Father (Francisco) Caldes, (O.M.Cap.), the medical care of the patron's slaves are sums of which there is no account; presumably he kept a private account in order to return them to the hospital. It might be explained to the widow who is the executrix so that his papers might be examined for any notes; if not, to show her the notations of the auditor and make up her mind that in justice the sum should be returned. (Penalver) does not speak of the 300 pesos of the legacy of Fran(cis)co Munoz as it has not been proved that Almonaster took it not that it was for the hospital except that a lamp was to be lighted in honor of Our Lady of which he will treat separately. In February (Penalver) asked for the file of which he spoke and which Vidal returned to him; it is the same one which he enclosed to Salcedo for examination. Although the hospital, according to Leiva's settlement, took 2021 pesos 3 reales more than it repaid to the patron, this should not be deducted. Perhaps the patron thought he would repay services received from the hospital with these expenses. Therefore the shortage is 6344 pesos 30 reales. Since the letter of November 19 up to today the activities of the hospital have increased. This requires more receipts. If there are any difficulties with the widow they should be referred to His Majesty in his royal and supreme council. (Penalver) has postponed this in order not to interfere with Leiva's settlement; now that it is completed, he believes he should not defer it.
V-3-d L.S. Copy (Spanish) 4pp. 4to.
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1801 (Oct. 3)
(Penalver y Cardenas), Luis, Bishop of
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Proceedings for the installation of Father Bernardo de Deva, (O.M.Cap.), pastor of St. John Baptist, 2nd German Coast.
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1801 Sep. 18
(Penalver y Cardenas), Luis, Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Manuel Juan de Salcedo
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
The parish of St. John Baptist is vacant because of the death of Father Mariano Brunet(e), O.M.Cap., in February; services have been supplied by neighboring pastors, Father Geronimo Blace of St. Charles and Father Patrick Mangan of Santiago. (Penalver) believes Deva of Valenzuela of Bayou LaFourche the best since his infirm leg and advanced age suit him for the service of a church of small scope where he could make all his journeys by pirogue. (Penalver) will take other means of serving Valenzuela temporarily.
L.S. Copy (Spanish)
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1801 Sep. 21
Salcedo, Manuel (Juan) de
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop Luis de Penalver y Cardenas
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Salcedo has no objection to the installation explained in Penalver's letter of the 18th.
L.S. (Spanish)
On the same paper:
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1801 Oct. 1
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
A copy of this letter is to be sent with the decree to Deba.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Oct. 3
Penalver y Cardenas, Luis, Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
Penalver, Archbishop-elect of Guatemala gives the necessary faculties to Deva. Father (Isidro) Quintero certifies that this is a copy of the original.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Oct. 3
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop of
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Father Bernardo Deba
(LaFourche, Louisiana)
(Penalver) encloses faculties for the pastor of St. John Baptist. They can be presented to the authorities at Deba's convenience so that his listing at the treasury may be arranged. This will be when he has gone to this parish, about which there is no hurry as there is at present no one to serve Valenzuela. Therefore, Deba will remain there until someone is sent; the parish of St. John will be helped out by the nearest pastors; Valenzuela if left without a priest, would be forsaken because of its location.
L.S. Copy (Spanish)
V-3-d L.S., A.D.S., D.S. (Spanish) 7pp. 4to. & 8vo.
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1801 (Oct. 14)
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis, Bishop)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Dispensation asked by Luis Dolives to marry Luisa Leflaux.
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1801 Oct. 8
Dolives, Louis
Mobile, Alabama
to (Bishop Luis Penalver y cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Dolives, oldest son of Domingo (Dolives) and Maria Luisa Baudin, a native of Conception parish of Mobile wishes to marry Luisa; youngest daughter of the deceased Mathias (Leflaux) and Mariana Dupont, also a native of the parish. They are related in the 3rd and 4th degree and ask a dispensation. Almost all in this place are related.
L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Oct. 8
Vaugeois, Father Juan Fran(cis)co
Mobile, (Alabama)
Vaugeois, pastor of Conception church certifies that the petitioner and Luisa are honorable but very poor.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Oct. 14
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The documents of this petition are to be kept together.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Oct. 8
Vaugeois, Father Juan Fran(cis)co
Mobile, (Alabama)
Relationship of Luis Dolives and Luisa Leflaux: Luis, son of M(a)ria Luisa Baudin, daughter of Maria Luisa Lorendini, daughter of Mariana Fourchet. Luisa, daughter of Mariana Dupont, daughter of Maria Juana Guillori, daughter of Mariana LaCase, daughter of Mariana Fourchet. Vaugeois certifies that the above has been given in the presence of the two witnesses who sign as Rafael Hidalgo and Francois Giraud.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Oct. 14
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
Penalver grants the dispensation under certain conditions upon fulfillment of which the pastor of Mobile will be notified to marry them. Father Isidro Quintero acts as secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
V-3-d L.S., D.S. (Spanish) 5pp. 4to.
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(1801) (Oct. 17)
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1801 Oct. 15
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
New Orleans, Louisiana
(Seal of Penalver)
In virtue of his nomination to Guatemala, Penalver must go to take possession of that see. He wishes to leave a satisfactory ruler for the diocese to govern it until the bulls freeing him from it are dispatched and notice is given, according to the royal cedula of November 6, 1786, in which event since it has no chapter, the government reverts to the metropolitan or in default to the nearest suffragan, and in case two are equi-distant, to the older one according to the cedula of November 13, 1799. He appoints Father T(h)omas Hassett, older canon as ruler of the diocese. He will be under Penalver's orders as long as he is here and afterwards will rule by himself until the event above stated. Penalver exhorts the members of the diocese to regard Hassett as ruler until another is appointed by competent authority. Father Isidro Quintero acts as secretary.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Oct. 17
Quintero, Father Isidro
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Hassett swore to fulfill the obligations as ruler of the diocese. Witnesses were Father Juan de Dios Valdez and Mateo Pauzant who sign with Hassett.
A.D.S.
V-3-d D.S., A.D.S. (Spanish) 3pp. folio
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1801 Oct. 20
Hidalgo, Jose Fran(cis)co
Puerto Principe (Camaguey, Cuba)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Hidalgo encloses the royal circular ordered sent by His Highness concerning the petition made in the name of Father Jose Manuel de Quezada, O. Merced. of this city for appeal from the decision made in the ecclesiastical court. Hidalgo asks that (Penalver) advise him so that he may bring it to the same authority.
L.S. (Spanish)
Enclosure:
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1801 Oct. 20
Charles IV, King of Spain
to The Bishop of the District
Through the Audiencia and royal chancery of the city of St. Mary of Puerto Principe of the Island of Cuba, by reason of the petition made in the name of Father Quesada of the Convent of Our Lady of Mercy seeking to determine to which metropolitan he must apply for appeal in the decision made in the ecclesiastical curia, the following decree was drawn up:
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(1801) (Oct. 6?)
Chavez, Luis, Pedro Catani and Melchor Foncerrada
The Audiencia rules that the nearest bishop should hear the case, which was ordered sent to all the bishops of the district requesting that they reply as soon as they receive it.
D.S. Copy (Spanish)
V-3-d L.S., D.S. Copy (Spanish) (2 copies) 8pp. 4to.
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1801 Oct. 22
Soleri(?)
San Lorenzo, (Spain)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans), Louisiana
In 1797 by order of the king there began in Madrid the publication of a periodical "Semanario de Agricultura y Artes," the prospectus of which is enclosed, to spread the knowledge of rural economy and industry. To extend the circulation of this magazine His Majesty recommended that the bishops make it known through the pastors to whom it is directed, urging them to spend as much time as their ministry allows in furthering the temporal welfare of their parishioners. But having learned that few copies of this work have circulated, His Majesty wishes to remind the bishops of the previous order on this point sent out by the Minister of State that the pastors may pay for this out of the account of the church.
V-3-d Printed circular D. (Spanish) 3pp. 4to.
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1801 Oct. 27
Bermudes, Fran(cis)co
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Fran(cis)ca Reyne, wife of Juan Bautista Carraby states that the daily mistreatment from her husband, so that she has to flee from the house with her six children to avoid him, his spending of her dowry and the legacy from his father, and the impossibility of his working because of drunkenness, makes her ask for a separation. She asks (Penalver) to hear her case. It is impossible to continue as she has three daughters who daily are exposed to hearing the words her husband uses when drunk, all of which is very harmful for their edification and chances for marriage.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Oct. 27
Penalver y Cardenas, Bishop Luis
(New Orleans), Louisiana
The testimony is to be received and turned over to the Vicar- General.
D.S. (Spanish)
V-3-d A.D.S., D.S. (Spanish) 3pp. 4to.
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1801 Nov. 2
Duralde, Martin
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1801 Jul. 20
Duralde, Martin
Opelousas, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
It can be seen by the opinion of the assessor, Manuel Serrano, in which (Penalver) concurred, that in the verdict which was sent Duralde the omission of the documents giving him ownership of the land which Father Pedro Zamora, (O.M.Cap.), damaged contributed to his condemnation. It seems to Duralde that it would not be against justice to have had the attached memo accompanied by the copy of the bill of sale and the certificate of inventory upon which his rights rest. He takes the liberty of returning all the documents, asking that his case be reexamined in the light of these new documents. Since both are signed by him and therefore may be considered illegal, he has asked Carlos Trudeau to show (Penalver) a copy of the bill of sale made by Nicolas Forstall. It will always be a scandal to him that Zamora, a Capuchin and pastor, knowing that the land was Duralde's and having other lands more convenient, should have been the one to open the door to an abuse which would have fatal consequences among the inhabitants.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
On the same paper:
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1801 Nov. 2
(Penalver y Cardenas, Luis), Bishop of New Orleans, (Louisiana)
(Duralde's letter is turned over) to the vicar-general of the diocese.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
V-3-d A.L.S., A.D.S. (Spanish) 4pp. 8vo.
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1801 Nov. 11
Salcedo, Manuel de
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas), Archbishop-Elect of Guatemala
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas), Archbishop-Elect of
Guatemala
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Illness and the difficult work of his office have prevented him until now from answering (Penalver's) letter of September 30 enclosing the proceedings to better the assistance to the ill and a copy of the paper which was sent with the letter of November 19, 1799, to Nicolas Maria Vidal, governor and vice-patron concerning the Charity Hospital, the doubt that Penalver has that there would be funds in the treasury for building on the Hospital's land, accounts which the deceased Andres Almonaster was to bear, whereabouts of the rentals from the twelve gates, tavern rentals collected in the administration of Fran(cis)co Leyva, the legacy of Father Fran(cis)co de Caldes, (O.M.Cap.), and the treatment of the patron's negroes. Salcedo is pleased with the ability and foresight with which Penalver proposes that the widow solve the affairs with the papers which have been left or if there are difficulties, have recourse to His Majesty through his council where they will be solved. Salcedo would be glad to have the governor conclude this delicate and thorny affair but since he has not done so he will take the measures he believes will carry out Penalver's wise and zealous foresight. Salcedo will be happy if he can follow Penalver's zeal in explaining the affair to the widow. (Penalver adds a note on the first page: To be turned over) to the vicar-general of the diocese.
V-3-d A.L.S. (Spanish) 5pp. 8vo.
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1801 (Nov. 18)
Longuepee, Jean Jacques
Dispensation asked by Juan Santiago Longue Epee to marry Maria Rosa Leblan(c).
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1801 Nov. 17
Bermudas, (Francisco)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Longue Epee, resident of Iberville asks for a dispensation. He asks that testimony be heard on these points: He is a native of Sa(n)malo of Great Brittany in France, son of Maria Fran(cis)ca Bourque and Juan Lo(n)gue Epee, son of Ambrosio Longue Epee and Ana Brasor. Maria Leblan, a native of Nantes, is the daughter of Targile Hebert and Juan Leblanc, son of Simon Leblanc and Margarita Bourque. His fiancee's parents are very poor, he has enough to help take care of them.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Nov. 17
Hassett, Father T(h)omas
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Hassett, as vicar-general, orders the testimony to be taken.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Nov. 17
Bermudes, Fran(cis)co
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Longue Epee swore (to information already given above and that) he is 30 years old and single. He signs as Jean Jacques Longuepee.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Nov. 17
Bermudes, Fran(cis)co
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Juan Guedre of Iberville swore (in addition to information already given above) that Maria Fran(cis)ca Bourque was the daughter of Jose Bourque and Maria Duga of Canada, that Juan Leblan and Targile Hevert were natives of Nantes. Guedre is 37; he does not know how to sign.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Nov. 18
Bermudes, Fran(cis)co
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Antonio Guedry of Iberville, swore (to the same information as has been given above). Guidry is 48 and signs as Antoine Guedry.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Nov. 18
Bermudes, Fran(cis)co
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Pablo Landry, a native of LaF(o)urche and resident of Iberville, swore (in addition to information already given) that Maria Francisca Bourque was a native of Canada. Landry is 48 and signs as Paul Landry.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Nov. 7
(St. Pierre, O.Carm.), Father Paul from Holy Peter
Yberville, (Louisiana)
Father Paul presents the bearer John Jaques Longepee, inhabitant of this parish of St. Gabriel at Yberville for about sixteen years who asks for a dispensation from the 3rd degree of parentage as shown by the attached paper. Almost all the inhabitants come from Acadia and are related. The father of the girl is an old man wanting help.
A.L.S. (English)
Attached paper:
Jean LeBlanc and Jean Jacques Longue Epee present their family tree to the Archbishop Louis de Penalbert (Bishop Luis Penalver y Cardenas) in order to obtain a dispensation for marriage between Longue Epee and Marie, daughter of Jean Leblanc. Jean Bourque married Maria Aucoint of which marriage was born Joseph and Margueritte. Margueritte married Simon LeBlanc of which marriage was born Jean LeBlanc who married Targile Hebert of which marriage was born Maria Rose LeBlanc. Joseph Bourque married Francoise Dugat of which marriage was born Marie Francoisse Bourque who married Jean Longue Epee of which marriage was born Jean Jacques Longe Epee. Signed November 6, 1801, by Roche, Jean Leblanc, Ambroise Longuepee, Jean Jaque Longuepee and Honore Brand.
D.S. (French)
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1801 Nov. 18
Hassett, Father (Thomas)
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
This document is to be with the above letter.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Nov. 18
Hassett, Father Thomas
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
V-3-d A.D.S., D.S. (Spanish, English, French) 17pp. 4to.
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(1801) (Nov. 27)
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1801 Jun. 10
Gili, Father Sebastian
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Gili, chaplain of the 2nd Battalion of the Mexican Infantry tells (Penalver) that in the treasury of this battalion there are various sums deposited by members who have died intestate. Article 4 of the royal order of July 20, 1779 orders the chaplain to celebrate the Masses agreed upon or at least one-fourth of them. Gili has also been informed by Fran(cis)co Pasqual, Judge Advocate, that on pagve 308 of the same book it is stated that if the balance of the intestate soldier is 100 reales or more it must be invested for the benefit of his soul. The first is a law, the second a very pious suggestion but as this commandant does not venture to turn it over and the souls of the dead lack suffrage, Gili begs (Penalver) to send him a letter with his backing so that it may be determined what is just.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Nov. 27
Marquina, Felix Berenguer
Mexico
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
(New Orleans), Louisiana
Marquina with the advice of the Judge Advocate has determined that when the balance of an intestate soldier of the province whose heirs are absent is not more than 10 pesos all is to be invested in suffrages and the same for one whose heirs are unknown; but if the heirs are present they are to receive the balance be it much or little with a deduction of the one-fifth which will be applied for suffrages. The sum is to be given to the chaplain. Therefore he warns the commandant of the 2nd Battalion and lets (Penalver) know in answer to his letter.
L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Jun. 11
(Penalver y Cardenas), Bishop (Luis)
New Orleans, Louisiana
to Felix Berenguer de Marquina
(Mexico)
The chaplain of the 2nd Battalion of Mexican Infantry stationed in this place has sent (Penalver) the (preceding) letter. In New Orleans the commanding officers did not wish to consult together, awaiting the resolution of the inspector: this is for all the Mexican regiment and Marquina will please decide as he deems just and give the necessary orders. (Penalver)'s interest is that the suffrage be not delayed.
Draft S. (Spanish)
V-3-d A.L.S., L.S. Draft S. (Spanish) 5pp. 4to.
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1801 Nov. 28
Ramos, Carlos
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
to (Father Thomas Hassett)
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Ramos, in charge of admissions to the Royal Hospital, wishes the first banns to be published for his marriage with Josefina Vincent. Since he must be out of the city at the beginning of next week to attend to important business in the home of Pedro Lastique he asks to be dispensed from the other two banns.
A.L.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Nov. 28
Hassett, Father Thomas
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Hassett dispenses from the other two banns. The pastor is to be notified that after one announcement that they may be married. Fran(cis)co Bermudes certifies the decree and notified Father Pedro Zamora, (O.M.Cap.).
A.D.S. (Spanish)
V-3-d A.L.S., A.D.S. (Spanish) 2pp. 4to.
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1801 Nov. 30
Garate, Miguel Ign(aci)o
Monterrey, (Nuevo Leon, Mexico)
to Bishop (Luis Penalver y Cardenas)
New Orleans, Louisiana
In his letter of November 11 Juan Bautista de Elquezabal, the governor of Texas, told Garate: "Father Buenaventura de Castro, O.M.Cap., who came from Louisiana to this province and now resides here, asked permission of its prelates to go to the convent of Havana whose prefect and president of the missions of that colony sent a patent in his favor to the governor of that island. this official transferred it to the Viceroy of Mexico and that official to the Commandant General of these provinces who in an order of September 15(?) gave it to Elquezabal asking him to deliver it to de Castro and make the necessary clearance. This is in answer to Garate's letter of October 12." Garate sends it on to (Penalver) for his information concerning what he told him in his letter of October 12 in answer to (Penalver)'s letter of July 2.
V-3-d L.S. (Spanish) 2pp. 4to.
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1801 (Dec. 24)
Brou, Ambroise
Dispensation asked by Ambrocio Broux to marry Serafina Becnel. Fran(cis)co Bermudes, notary.
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1801 Dec. 8
Brou, Ambroise
St. Charles Parish, First German Coast
to The Vicar-General of Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana
Broux of St. Charles parish wishes to marry Serafina Becnel of St. John Baptist parish to whom he is related in the 3rd degree. He asks for a dispensation.
L.S. (French)
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1801 Dec. 8
Blace, (O.F.M.), Father Jerome
St. John's Parish, (2nd German Coast)
Blace, pastor of St. Charles and acting pastor of St. John Baptist certifies the above letter.
A.D.S. (French)
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1801 Dec. 22
Brou, Ambroise
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Broux appeared and presented the family tree: Serafina is the daughter of Pedro Becnel and Magdalena Aidel, daughter of Carlota Ouvre and Christobal Aidel, son of Ambrosio Aidel and Margarita Chauffe. Ambrosio is the son of Fran(cis)ca Aidel and Pedro Broux, son of Ambrosio Aidel and Margarita Chauffe.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Dec. 22
Hassett, Father T(h)omas
New Orleans, Louisiana
Hassett, canon of the Cathedral, vicar general and governor of the diocese orders that the witnesses be heard and that the document in a foreign language be translated, naming Fernando Ibanez as interpreter.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Dec. 22
Bermudes, Fran(cis)co
New Orleans, Louisiana
Bermudes notifies Ibanez of his appointment. He accepts and signs. (His translation of Broux's letter and Blace's certification of December 8 into Spanish follow).
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Dec. 22
Bermudes, Fran(cis)co
New Orleans, Louisiana
Broux appeared before Hassett and swore (to information already given above) and that he is single and 28 years old.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Dec. 23
Bermudes, Fran(cis)co
New Orleans, Louisiana
Noel Velche of St. John Baptist parish appeared as a witness and swore (to information about the relationship already given above). He is 26 and does not know how to sign.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Dec. 23
Bermudes, Fran(cis)co
New Orleans, Louisiana
Pierre Heno of New Orleans swore (to information already given above). He is 21 and signs.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Dec. 23
Bermudes, Fran(cis)co
New Orleans, Louisiana
Rafael Ramos, comptroller and commissioner of war, swore (to information already given).
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Dec. 23
Hassett, Father Thomas
New Orleans, Louisiana
Hassett grants the dispensation under conditions of a general confession, an alms of 15 pesos to the Ursulines, 10 pesos to St. Lazarus Hospital, 5 pesos for Masses. Upon fulfillment of these terms the pastor of St. Charles will marry them.
D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Dec. 24
Bermudes, Fran(cis)co
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Sister Antonia of St. Monica Ramos, superior of the Convent of the Ursulines testified that she received from Ambrosio Broux 15 pesos for the orphans. The witnesses were Fran(cis)co Ramon Cani(?) and Rafael Ramos. Sister St. Monica signs.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
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1801 Dec. 24
Bermudes, Fran(cis)co
New Orleans, (Louisiana)
Juan de Castanedo testified that he received from Broux, 10 pesos for the hospital of St. Lazarus. Fernando Ibanez and Narsiso Broutin act as witnesses.
A.D.S. (Spanish)
V-3-d L.S., A.D.S., D.S. (French and Spanish) 19pp. 4to.
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