I've been looking through a little book by John Chase entitled "Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children: And Other Streets of New Orleans".... and have come across some of our allied names. So periodically, I'll be sending little quotes from this book. We'll start this morning with De La Houssie [pag 59-60] "Bienville's problems on the receiving end of John Law's operations were multiple. Shiploads multiplied by shiploads of settlers were dumped upon him. Dauphin Island, disembarkation port for the conveys from LaRochelle, all but sank into Mobile Bay under the weight of convicts, beggars, and unfortunate victims of a despotic regime in France. These formed the bulk of the colonists sent to populate Louisiana. Some were consigned. Law's own huge four-square-league concession in the Arkansas country was provided with two hundred Germans. Sixty settlers arrived for Paris Duvernay's grant opposite Manchac on the river. Seventy for De La Houssie - his concession was in the ancient country of the Houmas Indiana, near the Red River Junction; and sixty more for De La Harpe, whose land was at Natchitoches." Enjoy! Renee