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The Fayard Family
a certain day and time before the Council to answer to the charges brought by Jean FAYARD.
On May 22, 1748, a notice of citation is made for Jean Fayard dit LaLancette of New Orleans, Louisiana, by Sheriff Le Normand, attached to the Superior Council of this Province of New Orleans, on Pierre de Lorme of New Orleans at his home. It is ordered that the said de Lorme must appear on the first Saturday of the month of June at nine o'clock in the morning in the chambers of the Superior Council, the first day of the new session, to respond to the charge made by Jean Fayard.
NOTICE IS SERVED ON PIERRE DE LORME
No date is given as to the appearance of Pierre de LORME before the Superior Council, but it was no doubt ?on the first Saturday of June, 1748, at nine o'clock in the morning" as per the citation above. The accounting takes place as ordered by the Council and follows in translation from the French. It is interesting to note the diverse debts mentioned in the accounting by de LORME . French law would be strictly followed in these proceedings, so Mr. de LORME probably had a lawyer draw up the general accounting of the FISSEAU estate.
The following accounting was rendered to Jean Fayard, husband of Francoise Fisseau, before the Superior Council of the Province of Louisiana, by Pierre de Lorme, in the name of Marianne La Garenne, the Widow Fisseau, his wife.
It is not necessary to give a lengthy account to such a demand because the plaintiff (Fayard) has never wanted any more than what is due to his wife, Francoise Fisseau, and that the lengthy requests of May 21,
1748, be responded to.
The accountant (de Lorme) will have the honor to explain it to the Court that the things left by the deceased Nicolas Fisseau included two adult negroes and one young child, and old house on stilts (posts in the ground) on two-thirds of a piece of land. The house was void of furniture; that the negro in the service of Mr. Chenier had the misfortune of drowning in the lake, for which the accountant had received the sum of 1,300 pounds for damages, which included 800 pounds due to the Company, tor which discharge is available; the company also kept 125 pounds for the return ticket of Fisseau from France and 375 pounds which was given to the widow, which she used for herself and her daughters to pay for a lengthy illness endured. The accountant was not present at that time.
When the young negro boy went to see his mother, who was in the service of one named Piosa, he drowned in a well.
The slave woman left a boy of twelve and three small girls, one of six years, one of three and one of eighteen months.