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two daughters. The demand Is nade after having serried
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knowing he had left goods for all to use:	?-	house
stakes and posts of earth, with twolevels of land, erne Negro aan, one Negro woman and a Negro child. Marianne LaCarenne,1 Bother of the two daughters, had already sold a third of the land, and fearing that It was at_^the request of Pierre de Loroe, her husband, with whoa she( contracted a aecond marriage, It was thought that she was going to divert the rest from her children. It Is asked that Mr. DeLorme on the first part be condemned to wash his hands of the division of the property and participation in the Inhertr tehee of his wife, so as to get all for his wife rather jthan , for his sister-In-law. For this he uses the total Including expenses and ask that DeLorme render an account leavlng-everything together. The general trial Is heard and the Council has ordained and does ordain that for equity In the division, the Council orders that movables of the succession are to be sold, returns are to be divided, after raising what comes to the widow. Theriot and house are to be sold Judicially, to the profit of thej^elrs. The succession la to bear the costs. (June 1, 1758 - Decision #12 - Louisiana State Museum.)
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The family grew quickly. Betwejn 1744, when Marie Anne was born in Natchitoches, and 1763, Jean and Francolse were the parents of eight children.
Another, Francois, is in all probability a son of theirs, but tk? record ha a deteriorated so much that, other than for his name, dates and names are illegible. In order of birth the children were Marie Anne, Marie Louise, Pierre,
Jean (Baptiste), Andre, Louis, Pierre, Fellclte and, most probably, the Prancola mentioned above.	*	*	-
Louis, from whom the Moore genealogy Will be traced, vm? bom January :
29, 1748, and probably spent most of his early yeara in New Orleans.	r	C
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<^n March 29, 17^8, I, a Capuchin missionary apoatolie' priest, have supplied the ceremonies of baptism to Louis	V	J
Fayard, born on January 29, 1748,	of the legitimate	marriage	'
of Jean Fayard and Francolse ?lasot, his father and	mother.	i
The child had as godpareota Louis	Bernard and Marie	Francois*0,	,
Gauthier, who declared they could	not sign. In faith of
which I have signed the day and year aa above.	,	^	j	?'V
.....	>	Father	Pierre	*	*]
(BB III, p. 93, St. Louis	..	j.
Cathedral)	/ .	uf	'..>*?	J
Sometime In the early 1780's,(Louis met Martha Cargaret of Mew Orleans. .
After the usual courtship, their marriage took place in New\lrleana on Jun? 1, Wt \
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(MB 1, p, 106, Act 203, S.L.C.)	,	?
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