Jean Étienne (Bore) de Boré (1741 - 1820)

Born 27 Dec 1741 in Kaskaskias, Illinois

Ancestors

Husband of Jeanne Marguerite Marie (Destrehan) Bore — married about 1771 in New Orleans, Louisiana

Descendants

Died 2 Feb 1820 at age 78 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States

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Biography

Étienne (Bore) de Boré is Notable.

Jean Étienne de Boré, the first mayor of New Orleans after the Louisiana Purchase, was a Creole French planter born in Kaskaskia, pays des Illinois, haute Louisiane, and is known for producing the first granulated sugar in Spanish Louisiana. His Caribbean workers' innovation c.1795 made sugar cane profitable as a commodity crop, and planters began to cultivate it in quantity. He owned a large plantation upriver from New Orleans, which was annexed to the city of New Orleans in 1870, and is now the site of Audubon Park, Tulane University, and Audubon Zoo.^[1]

Jean Étienne Boré (known as Étienne de Boré) was born to French colonists Louis de Boré and Therese Celeste Carriere de Mont Brun in Kaskaskia, Illinois Country, then under French control as part of upper (haute) La Louisiane. At a young age, his parents sent him to military school in France. On leaving school, he entered French military service in the prestigious Musketeers of the Guard, part of the royal household. After a visit to Louisiana on business, he was transferred to the cavalry. De Boré left the army with the rank of captain and settled in the French colony.^[2]

He married Jeanne Marguerite Marie d'Estréhan, daughter of Jean Baptiste Honoré d'Estréhan, the Royal Treasurer of French Louisiana, and Jeanne Catherine de Gauvrit,^[1] in 1771^[3] in New Orleans. ^{[citation needed]}

Their known children were:

1. Jeanne Marguerite Marie Bore (1773-1794)^[4][5]
2. Francoise Elisabeth Bore (1775-1830)^[6]
3. Jeanne Marie Bore (1777)^[7]
4. Marie Bore (1783)^[8]

Étienne de Boré died "in his country home two leagues from this capital,"^[9] (New Orleans) and was buried on 2 February 1820 at St. Louis Cemetery Number 1 in New Orleans.^[10][1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Wikipedia contributors, "Étienne de Boré," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%C3%89tienne_de_Bor%C3%A9&oldid=1097511849 (accessed February 27, 2023).
2. ↑ Mike Miller, citing historian Alcee Fortier's biographical sketch published in the New Orleans Picayune on 26 June 1884, in "First Families: dé Bore, Jean Etienne," LAGenWeb, citing Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, vol. 2, (Chicago: Goodspeed, 1892) pp. 476-477.
3. ↑ From Destrehan Plantation.org, website, "Our History: Destrehan Plantation,"

   At 20 years of age, Jeanne Marguerite (b. 1751) married Etienne DeBore, who at the age of 30 was a wealthy Louisiana businessman involved in the sugar industry.

4. ↑ Sacramental Records of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Vol. 3, 1772-1783 ("NOSR, vol. 3") Earl C. Woods and Charles E. Nolan, eds. (New Orleans, LA: Archives of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1989) p. 31;

   BORE, Jeanne Marguerite Marie (Jean Etienne, cavalry captain in the service of His Most Christian Majesty, and Jeanne Marguerite Marie DESTREHAN [@DESTHRIAN]), b. Oct. 31, 1773, bn. Jul. 26, 1773, s. Jean Louis DESTREHAN, the infant's uncle, absent, p. Jean Noel DESTREHAN, and Marguerite Marie DESTREHAN, the infant's grandaunt, absent, p. Anne Marguerite THOMASIN [@THOMAZAIN] (SLC, B7, 31)

5. ↑ Sacramental Records of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Vol. 5, 1791-1795, Earl C. Woods and Charles E. Nolan, eds. (New Orleans, LA: Archives of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1990) p. 42;

   BORE, Juana Margarita Maria (Juan Estevan and Juana Margarita Maria DESTREHAN), native of this parish, 21 yr., sp. Bartholome Francisco LEBRETTON, i. Jul. 21, 1794, d. Jul. 20, 1794 (SLC, F4, 13)

6. ↑ NOSR, vol. 3, p. 30;

   BORE, Francisca Isabel (Jean Etienne, cavalry captain of the King of France, and Juana Margarita Maria DESTREHAN [@DESTREHANS, DETREAN]), b. Mar. 1, 1775, bn. Jan. 9, 1775, s. Captain Francois SCIMARS BELLILE [@SIMAR DE BELIL] and Isabel Maria DESTREHAN FAVRE D'AUNOY [@DETREAN] [marginal note: died, Oct. 28, 1830] (SLC, B7, 46)

7. ↑ SRNO, vol. 3, p. 31;

   BORE, Juana Maria (Juan Esteban, captain of the cavalry of the King of France, and Juana Margarita DESTREHAN), bcs. Nov. 16, 1779, b. previously, bn. Mar. 17, 1777, s. Juan Noel DESTREHAN and Juana Maria DE MARIGNY (SLC, B9, 80)

8. ↑ Sacramental Records of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Vol. 4, 1784-1790, Earl C. Woods and Charles E. Nolan, eds. (New Orleans, LA: Archives of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1989) p. 35;

   BORE, Ma[*] (Juan Estevan, cavalry captain in the service of the King of France, and Juana Margarita Maria DETREHAN), b. Dec. 26, 1785, bn. Jan. 10, 1783, s. Nicolas FAVRE DONOY and Francisca Ysavel BORE (SLC, B9, 395)

9. ↑ Sacramental Records of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Vol. 14, 1820-1821, Charles E. Nolan and Dorenda Dupont, eds. (New Orleans, LA: Archives of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1999) p. 45;

   BORE, Jean Etienne, native of Kaskaskias in the State of Illinois, resident landowner in this parish, widower of Juana Margarita DESTREHAN, 78 yr., 1 mo., i. Feb. 2, 1820, d. [o], in his country home two leagues from this capital (SLC, F11, 167) [double entry on same page]

10. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6422598/jean-etienne-de_bor%C3%A9: accessed 27 February 2023), memorial page for Jean Etienne de Boré (27 Dec 1741–1 Feb 1820), Find A Grave: Memorial #6422598, citing Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.