Charles Laveau Trudeau (1743 - 1816)

Born 1 Dec 1743 in New Orleans, Louisiana, New France

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Died 6 Oct 1816 at age 72 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA

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Biography

Charles Trudeau is Notable.

Surveyor-General of Louisiana; Acting Mayor (1812)

"Buried in the Saint-Louis cemetery in New Orleans, of which he had drawn the plan as well as that of Square Lafayette. ^[1]

Louisiana Historical Association Biography

TRUDEAU, Charles Laveau, surveyor. Born, New Orleans, ca. 1750; son of Jean-Baptiste Trudeau and Marianne Carrière. Brother of Zenon Trudeau (q.v.). Married Charlotte Peyraud. Children: Caroline, who married Thomas Urquhart (q.v.); Celestine, who became the second wife of Gen. James Wilkinson (q.v.); Josephine, who married Manuel Andry, fils, and Mannette, who married David C. Kerr. Named surveyor general of Spanish Louisiana in early 1780s and served in that capacity until his resignation on December 13, 1805. Elected to remain in Louisiana as an American citizen. His personal copies of surveys he had made became important in land questions affecting Louisiana "because they were the sole remaining records in the territory available to check land fraud." The official land surveys were taken by the Spaniards first to Pensacola and then to Havana. Because of the importance of the Trudeau papers "an agreement was worked out between Trudeau, Governor Claiborne (q.v.), and District Attorney James Brown" (q.v.). By the terms of the agreement, the papers would remain in Trudeau's possession "if the surveyor would keep the documents within the territory and take an oath of allegiance to the United States." The papers remained in Trudeau's possession until his death. Thereafter they began a long odyssey that eventually took them out of the state. Finally, in the early 1980s, two centuries after Trudeau began the famous collection, the papers returned to Louisiana. Trudeau in later life served as recorder for the city of New Orleans and president of the city council. Died, October 6, 1816. G.R.C. ^[2]

Charles Laveau was born in 1743. He passed away in 1816.

Sources

1. ↑ French Wikipedia
2. ↑ Sources: Edward F. Haas, "Odyssey of a Manuscript Collection: Records of the Surveyor General of Antebellum Louisiana," Louisiana History, XXVII (1986); Charles Maduell, Marriage Contracts, Wills and Testaments of the Spanish-Colonial Period in New Orleans, 1770-1804 (1969); Glenn R. Conrad, St. Charles (1974). http://www.lahistory.org/site37.php

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• "LA History: 'TRUDEAU, Charles Laveau'"

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• Find A Grave: Memorial #10625219 charles-laveau-trudeau