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Jean Baptiste Carco and Pelagie Korin(Moran)
The groom in this 1801 marriage, Jean Baptiste Carco, was a distant cousin of his bride Pelagie Korin (Morin was anglicized to Moran in this area by 1900). His maternal grandfather Mathurin Christian Ladner was a brother to her maternal grandfather Nicolas Christian Ladner. The town of Pass Christian, Mississippi derived its name from the family of Christian Ladner who arrived in this area, then a French colony, in 1719#
The bride, Pelagie Moran descended from several of the first European families in Mississippi, and in Canada and Acadia. Among her paternal ancestors was the Apothecary Louis Hebert (cl574-1627), a friend and companion of the great explorer Samuel de Champlain. Also, through her father the Canadian Joseph Moran she had ancestors in common with those of Claire-Francoiae Bissot, wife of the discoverer of the Mississippi River, Louis Jolliet. Pelagie was a daughter of Louise Christian Ladner whose father Nicolas Christian Ladner waa granted Spanish title to Cat Island in the Mississippi Sound on August 1, 1781, after he had botm in possession of the Island since about 174-6. Pelagie's father and mother had been married on June 2, 1778, and Pelagie was probably born, as were several of her brothers and sisters, on Cat Island where her parents and maternal grandparents lived in the latter half of the 1700's.
On October 27, 1810 President Madison issued a proclamation announcing that Wm. C. C. Claiborne, Governor of the Territory of Orleans was empow^ ered to take possession of the Gulf Coastal area now a part of Mississippi, which	was then claimed	by the Spanish.	In early January 1811 a	Doctor
Flood	commissioned the	witness at this	marriage Jacques Ladner,	maternal
uncle	of the groom and	also a relative	of the bride, as Justice	of the
Peace	for the Bay of Biloxi area. Doctor Flood reported of his	1811 visit
to Biloxi that:
"The whole population of the parish of Biloxi from the best information that I could collect, may be estimated at 420; that of the parish of Pascagoula, 350, principally French and natives of Louisiana, a people more innocent and less offending than any I ever saw. They 3eem to regard nothing but the immediate neces3jU-ties for the support of life and are much pleased at being attached to and protected by the United States.
"How sensibly have I been impressed with the advantages that part of Louisiana which has lately been taken possession of is to the United States and particularly to the inhabitants of the Mississippi! The high sandy soil covered with pine and the beautiful bays and rivers which empty into the sea from Lake Pontchartrain to the bay of Mobile, seem to promise full recompense for the unhealthful clinate of New Orleans. It is my opinion in a military point of view, for the protection of the country and ensuring health to the officer and soldier the Pass of Christian and mouth of the Pascagoula cannot be surpassed nor equaled in the Mississippi Territory or that of Orleans." - History of Mississippi by Dunbar Rowland, Vol. I,
S. J* Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago-Jackson, 1925*
-	Gloria Smith Moran *
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