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 1700 - 1765 (65 years)
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| Name |
Jean Baptiste Honoré Destrehan de Beaupré |
| Born |
1700 |
Tours, France  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
26 Feb 1765 |
New Orleans, Louisiana [2] |
| Person ID |
I1107 |
Stewart |
| Last Modified |
22 Dec 2010 |
| Family |
Jeanne Catherine de Gauvrit, b. 25 Oct 1729, New Orleans, Louisiana , d. 29 Sep 1773 (Age 43 years) |
| Married |
Bef 1746 [3] |
| Children |
| + | 1. Jean Baptiste Honoré Destrehan de Beaupre, b. 09 Oct 1749, d. 05 Jun 1775 (Age 25 years) [Birth] |
| + | 2. Jeanne Marguerite Marie Destrehan, b. 23 Mar 1751, New Orleans, Louisiana , d. 26 Sep 1814, New Orleans, Louisiana (Age 63 years) [Birth] |
| + | 3. Jeanne Marie Destrehan, b. 14 Nov 1753, New Orleans, Louisiana , d. Jun 1798, New Orleans, Louisiana (Age 44 years) [Birth] |
| + | 4. Marie Elizabeth Destrehan, b. 8 Feb 1755, New Orleans, Louisiana , d. 27 Mar 1817, Bayou Road, Louisiana (Age 62 years) [Birth] |
| | 5. Jeanne Catherine Destrehan, b. Abt 1756, d. Aft 1773 (Age ~ 18 years) [Birth] |
| | 6. Jean Baptiste Louis Destrehan de Beaupré, b. 7 Feb 1758, New Orleans, Louisiana , d. Bef 09 Dec 1776 (Age 18 years) [Birth] |
| + | 7. Jean Noël Destrehan de Tours, b. 12 Dec 1759, d. 9 Oct 1823, Destrehan Plantation, Destrehan, Louisiana (Age 63 years) [Birth] |
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| Last Modified |
7 Mar 2021 |
| Family ID |
F345 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Nephew of the Capuchin Father Raphael (M. Raphael Destrehan) de Luxembourg, Chaplain and Vicar General of the Chapel of St. Louis, 1723-1734 and founder of the first school in Louisiana. [1]
- Came to the colony in 1722 with his family to function as treasurer for the King.
- Earned the enmity of Gov. Kerlerec for aiding the Commissaire de Rochemore. Expelled from the colony by the irate Gov. who declared that he was too wealthy and dangerous a man to remain in LA.
The true cause, was said to be that he supported Rochemore, the French Government Indtendant, who was close friend of Destrehan. Further study indicates that he came into conflict with Gov. Kerlerec over a French edict of March, 1724 that had been extended to LA, declaring Jews the enemies of the christian name who should not be allowed to reside in LA. If they stayed in spite of the edict, their goods and persons should be confiscated.
A Jew from Jamaica, Diaz Anna came to New Orleans on a trading mission and Rochemore had the vessel and cargo seized in keeping with the edict. Kerlerec sent soldiers to drive away the guard and restored the property to Anna. He also had Belot, Rochemore's secretary, and Marigny de Mandeville, Destrehan, de Lahoupe, Bossu and other officers arrestedand, within days, shipped them to France under the watch of Grandmaison.
As the vessel approached the coast of France, she was driven by a storm on that of Spain and entered the port of St. Sebastian. Grandmaison, according to Kerlerec's instructions, went to deposit the dispatches in the hands of the consul of France. Belot and his companions in misfortune accompanied the messenger to the consulate. The dispatches being delivered were placed on a table, from which it is supposed they were purloined by one of the consul's visitors, while he was attending on the others, whose attention had been drawn to some fine engravings on the waifs of the apartment.
On their arrival in Paris, Belot and his associates filled the court with their complaints of Kerlerec's arbitrary proceedings. He was universally blamed, dismissed, returned to France and jailed. The rest of the party returned to the Colony and resumed their lucrative occupation.
- Jean Bte. was imprisoned in the Bastille for nearly 13 months while his sister cared for the children as his trial progressed. He was able to clear himself but Kerlerec was returned to France to face charges and imprisonment.
Jean Baptiste. returned to the colony with only his oldest son, Jean, Jr. and the news that the king was about to give the colony over to Spain. He died in 1765, leaving his brother Louis as his executor in LA and his sister to the same function in France where she had the children.
- When the Spanish took over, they made an attempt to confiscate the Destrehan estate. Not to be daunted, Marguerite Marie, in France arranged a marriage for for her neice, goddaughter and namesake, Jeanne Marguerite Marie to Jean Etienne de Boré de Mauléon in France. Then she married off her second neice, Jeanne Marie to the son of the richest family in New Orleans, de Marigny de Mandeville. The estate was safe.
- In 1746 he was appointed Comptroller of the Colony by Vaudreil, Governor of the colony (just after the dissolution of the Company of the Indies).
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- [S1] Legacy of Old Louisiana, Louise Destrehan Rogér D'Oliveira, et. al., (Louise D. R. D'Oliveira), 114.
- [S205] To Reach Afar, Horace H. Harvey, Katherine Harvey Rogér, Louise Destrehan Rogér D'Oliveira, (Hercules Publishing Co., 1974), 233.
Jean Baptiste Honore Destrehan de Beaupre died in New Orleans on February 26, 1765.
- [S205] To Reach Afar, Horace H. Harvey, Katherine Harvey Rogér, Louise Destrehan Rogér D'Oliveira, (Hercules Publishing Co., 1974), 19.
After the Company of the Indies was dissolved and Vaudreil was Governor he appointed Jean Baptiste Honore Destrehan de Beaupre in 1746 to be the Comptroller of the Colony. By then Destrehan had married Jeanne Catherine de Gauvret (Gauvry) daughter of Captain Jean Baptiste de Gauvret (Gauvry), an officer in Bienville's troops and Jeanne Catherine Pierre.
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