African + NativeDocumented

Marie Thérèse dite Coincoin

b. 1742 Natchitoches · d. 1816 Isle Brevelle · 5th great-grandmother

Born enslaved at the Natchitoches Post, freed by act in 1778, and granted 68 arpents on the Rivière aux Cannes in 1794. The Isle Brevelle community descends from her.

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Act of manumission, Natchitoches Parish, 1778

1778Manumission act

…do give liberty to the negress Marie Thérèse, called Coincoin, and to her infant daughter, freely and without price…

Natchitoches Parish Conveyance Bk. 8, p.41

Recorded before the post commandant. Her age is given as thirty-six.

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John Floyd Rachal

27 Mar 1926–13 Jan 2009 · French, Spanish, German, Romani, Caddo, Chitimacha, Canneci/Lipan Apache, Ewe / Togo, African, European, Native American · Documented

African + European + Native

Mary Priscilla Conant

10 Aug 1933–24 Jan 2022 · French, German, Canadian, Romani, Caddo, Chitimacha, Canneci/Lipan Apache, Ewe / Togo, Guinea, African, European · Documented

African + European + Native

Marie Thérèse Coincoin

1742–c.1816–17 · Ewe / Togo, African · Documented

African

Jean-Baptiste Florentin Conant Jr.

21 Apr 1820–28 Sep 1876 · French, German, Ewe / Togo, African · Documented

African + European

Nicholas Augustin Metoyer

22 Jan 1768–19 Dec 1856 · French, Ewe / Togo, African · Documented

African + European

Marie Zeline LeCourt

1825–~1914/1915 (LA death index 26 May 1914; Find a Grave 20 May 1915) · French, Ewe / Togo, African · Documented