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Nicholas Augustin Metoyer

b. 22 Jan 1768 · d. 19 Dec 1856 · generation G7

Nicholas Augustin Metoyer — Born 22 Jan 1768; bapt. 1 Feb 1768 — eldest son of Coincoin, twin of Marie Susanne (M65). Son of Marie Thérèse Coincoin (F_COIN) × C.T.P. Metoyer (F_CTP). Married Marie Agnes Poissot (M67), 22 Aug 1792. 'Grandpère Augustin', Cane River patriarch; first of the family to receive a Spanish land concession on Isle Brevelle (St. Augustin chapel built on his plantation, 1827). His Spanish grant was surveyed at 395 acres but reduced to 157 on the American resurvey; he gave sizable tracts to his many children as wedding gifts, and at his 1840 division (after Agnes's death) the two plantations he still held sprawled across 2,134 acres. His 1839 estate 'remainder' was valued at ~$140,425. Documented in the Natchitoches 1729-1803 register, Mills, Forgotten People, Mills & Mills, 'Slaves and Masters' (NGSQ 70, 1982).

Heritage estimate
European50%
African50%
An estimate of documented ancestry, NOT a DNA result.
Relationships
FatherClaude Thomas Pierre Metoyer
MotherMarie Thérèse Coincoin
PartnerMarie Agnes Poissot
ChildrenMarie Louise Metoyer · Marie Pompose Metoyer · Jean Baptiste Maxille Metoyer
Life, chronologically — every claim sourced
1768Enslavement
Born enslaved to Coincoin (bapt. 1768, 'child of Thérèse, slave of Sieur de Soto')
Mills, Natchitoches 1729-1803 #921
22 Jan 1768Baptism
b. 22 Jan 1768; bapt. 1 Feb 1768 — eldest son of Coincoin, twin of Marie Susanne (M65)
Mills, Natchitoches 1729-1803, #921
n.d.Parentage
Son of Marie Thérèse Coincoin (F_COIN) × C.T.P. Metoyer (F_CTP)
Mills #921; Forgotten People (2013) ch.1-2
1792Manumission
Manumitted 1792 by his father, at his impending marriage (three weeks before his 22 Aug 1792 wedding to Marie Agnes Poissot)
Mills & Mills, 'Slaves and Masters: The Louisiana Metoyers' (NGSQ 70, 1982)
22 Aug 1792Marriage
m. Marie Agnes Poissot (M67), 22 Aug 1792
Mills, Forgotten People (2013)
1827Land
'Grandpère Augustin', Cane River patriarch; first of the family to receive a Spanish land concession on Isle Brevelle (St. Augustin chapel built on his plantation, 1827). His Spanish grant was surveyed at 395 acres but reduced to 157 on the American resurvey; he gave sizable tracts to his many children as wedding gifts, and at his 1840 division (after Agnes's death) the two plantations he still held sprawled across 2,134 acres. His 1839 estate 'remainder' was valued at ~$140,425
Mills, The Forgotten People (2013) ch.4-6; Mills & Mills, 'Slaves and Masters: The Louisiana Metoyers' (NGSQ 70, 1982)
19 Dec 1856Death
d. 19 Dec 1856
Mills, Forgotten People (2013)
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