Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Eighth Generation246. Claude CHÂTELAIN dit BELONY was born on 6 September 1766 in New Orleans (Orleans Parish), Louisiana, USA.1430 He was baptized on 11 September 1766 at St. Louis Church/Catheral in New Orleans (Orleans Parish), Louisiana, USA.1431 War of 1812 Military service: (War of 1812, Private, 17th, 18th and 19th Consilidated Regiment., Louisiana Militia) in 1812.1432,1433 An inventory of his estate was made on 28 November 1820 but he was still alive on that date. The document does mention that his wife was deceased by that date. He also placed his "X" on one of the documents related to this succession on 31 May 1821.2887 "Claude Chatelain" is listed as an inhabitant of Avoyelles, Louisiana, who owns slaves and who contributed to the indemnity to those of the Pointe Coupee whose slaves were executed as a result of the conspiracy of the Negroes in the year 1795. This indemnity fund was established by Spanish Governor General Baron de Carondelet so that slaveholders could be reimbursed for slaves who were sentenced to death, killed in flight or sentenced to the public works. This fund was established in conjunction with new slave control regulations and restricted slave trade after Captain Guillaume Duparc, commandant of the Pointe Coupée Post,learned in April of 1795 of a plot by local slaves to force their masters into giving them their freedom. At that time, Duparc immed. sent out three patrols to arrest the slaves suspected of planning the revolt. Soon afterwards, several negroes and mulattos were arrested and jailed. In all, sixty three persons were implicated; fifteen were hanged and several others were sentenced to presidio duty or banished from the colony. The slaveholder tax of 1795 imposed a tax of six "escalins" (75 cents) per slave on slaveowners in the Louisiana colony. There was considerable opposition to this tax and many refused to pay. Claude paid a tax of six piastres. The census of these taxpayers was dated 3-20-1796. Suzanne GAUTHIER and Claude CHÂTELAIN dit BELONY665 were married on 31 January 1792 in Opelousas (St. Landry Parish), Louisiana, USA.1434 They1434 appeared in the census in 1810 in (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA. They appeared in the census in 1820 in (Avoyelles Parish), Louisiana, USA. 247. Suzanne GAUTHIER was baptized on 3 April 1777 in (Pointe Coupée Parish), Louisiana, USA.1435 She died before 28 November 1820. She was listed as deceased on that date on the succession inventory record of the community property of her and her husband.2887 Children were:
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