Francois Chauvin Beaulieu de Montplasir (abt. 1725 - 1802)

Born about 1725 in Biloxi, Louisiane, Nouvelle-France

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Died 1 Oct 1802 at about age 77 in Tchoupitoulas, Louisiane, Nouvelle-France

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Biography

Francois Chauvin Beaulieu de Montplasir, son of Louis Chauvin and Charlotte Orbanne Duval, was born about 1725 in Biloxi, Louisiane, Nouvelle-France. He lived in lower Louisiana during the time that it was first French, then Spanish-ruled, prior to the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and American rule. (In 1800, France's Napoleon Bonaparte reacquired Louisiana from Spain in the Treaty of San Ildefonso, an arrangement kept secret for two years in preparation of the Louisiana Purchase).

His known siblings were:^[1]

1. Louis Chauvin deBeaulieu (1731 - 1801)
2. Charles Orbanne Demouy (1742 - 1804)

Francois married Marianne d'Apremont before 1755.

Their known children:

1. Marie Françoise (de Montplasir) Dracos (1755 - 1822)
2. Robert Chauvin Beaulieu de Montplasir (no marriage or known children)

Francois died on 1 October 1802 in Tchoupitoulas, Louisiane, Nouvelle-France.

Research Notes

The Attakapas Gazette, citing sources:

From Gary B. Mills:

Although he left two sons bearing the name of Chauvin de Beaulieu, their Louisiana descendants have faded into obscurity.

<1>A. FRANCOIS CHAUVIN DE BEAULIEU DE MONTPLASIR was born about 1725 In Biloxi. When he was baptized his godfather was his uncle, Paul Chauvin de Montplasir.

Some records point to the fact that he married MARIANNE DE LA LANDE DAPREMONT, the daughter of Pierre de la Lande Dapremont (a Captain of Louisiana troops who was burned at the stake by Chickasaw Indians on June 5, 1736) and Malanta Talla, a native of the Alabama nation.

Marianne was the granddaughter of Pierre de la Lande-Guyon and Therese Juchereau, the sister of Louis Juchereau de St. Denis (St. Denis Geneo) and a cousin of Charlotte Orbanne Duval’s 4th husband, Charles de la Lande Dapremont.

Francois and Marianne may have had two children: Robert Chauvin Beaulieu de Montplasir who never married, and Marie Francoise Chauvin Beaulieu de Montplasir who was born in New Orleans in 1755, married Michel Dragon in 1775, and died in New Orleans in 1822.^[2]

From Stanley Clisby Arthur's Old Families of Louisiana:

Louis’ posterity is not known outside of the descendants of a granddaughter, Francoise Chauvin Beaulieu de Montplasir, born in New Orleans, May, 1755, who married Michel Dragon, whose daughter in turn married Andrea Dimitry….A son was Francois Chauvin Beaulieu de Montplasir, born at Biloxi, who married Marianne la Lande d’Apremont born at Fort Conde.

From Early Settlers on the Delta, by Shirley Chaisson Bourquard:

On April 12, 1819 before Christoval de Armas, Notary Public, he (Michel Dragon) gave recognition to his daughter with Marie Francoise Montplasir Chauvin Beaulieu, named Marie Anne Dragon, age about 42 years and wife of Adrian Dimitry. He recognizes her as his natural daughter, conforming to the law. She would have been born around 1777.

There is a portrait of Marianne Celeste Dragon, painted about 1796, in the building next to the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans which gives her dates as 1777 to 1856.

But, according to the Attakapas Gazette, citing Sacramental Records of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Francois, in his death record, is listed as a bachelor, age seventy-seven.

He died in his house on the coast of Chapitoulas and was interred on October 2, 1802 in St. Louis Cathedral in the first section of the nave of the chapel of St. Francis.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Elizabeth Shown Mills, Chauvin dit Charleville, (Mississippi State, MS: Mills, 1976) p.__

   According to the Census of 1726, Louis Chauvin de Beaulieu and Charlotte Orbanne Duval had three children. Two of these, Louis Chauvin de Beaulieu, Jr., and Francois Chauvin de Montplasir, were both officers of the Coast Guard Militia at Tchoupitoulas at the end of the French regime in Louisiana.

2. ↑ Gary B. Mills, "The Chauvin Brothers: Early Colonists of Louisiana," Louisiana History, XV (1974)
3. ↑ Attakapas Gazette, citing NOSR, full citation needed.

• Virginia Families, p. 159
  

Francis Chauvin Beaulieu de Montplasir, born at Biloxi, no\v on the shore of Mississippi Sound, then within the jurisdiction of the province of Louisiana and for a while the seat of the Colonial Government; died (at the Tchoupitoulas settlement, above the City of New Orleans, which then extended only to Canal Street) October 1, 1803. He was a freeholder (franc tenancier), having inherited the freehold of his father. He was the son of Louis Chauvin Beaulieu and Charlotte Duval d'Epresmeuii. Married Marianne de la Lande d'Apremont, born at Fort St. Louis (old Mobile), afterwards Fort Conde, daughter of Captain Pierre de la Lande d'Apremont (son of Pierre de la Lande Gazon and Therese Jucherand), baptized Beaufort, Canada, July 13, 1685; burned at the stake by the Chicasaw Indians, Sunday, June 6, 1736; and Malanta Talya, born on the Alabamon River about 1692, at a village called Autega, in the Alabamon Nation, and died on the back bay of Biloxi in the winter of 1752.

Pierre de la Lande d'Apremont had come with d'Artaguette from the Illinois country to meet the expedition of Bienville against the Chickasaws. He was captured with others, and after the defeat of Bienville was burned at the stake. "Claiborne's History of Mississippi" has a graphic account of this tragedy.

• Ancestry.com, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Ancestry.com.

• (http://attakapasgazette.org/vol-6-2015/dhauterive-billaud-allied-families-bk-1-ch-1/)