New Orleans, Louisiana The third of February, I the undersigned Fr. Antonio de Sedella, Religious Capuchin, Pastor of the Parish Church of St. Louis in New Orleans, this year of 1818, having fulfilled the ordinary diligences with the publication of three Canonical Banns on three successive Feast Days, there being no impediment, have given the Nuptial Benediction to Antonio Bel, a resident of this city, a native of Faucigny, legitimate son of Antoine BEL and of Juana PANISSET, with Marie Azelia BOUTETT, a resident of this city and a native of the Attakapas, legitimate daughter of Juan Bautista BOUTETT and of Maria Luisa LEMEL, and received the mutual consent of the contracting parties and others, signing Alexandro ST. AMAND, Francesco JAROD, Joseph PERILLAC and the father of the groom, I have signed the month and year above. /s/Fr. Antonio de Sedella. St. Louis Cathedral Marriage Book 3, page 208, No. 732 New Orleans Genesis; Vol XXVI; July 1987; No. 103; 325 Helen Kendrick