I got a kick out of this quote from one of the two web sites I notified you of in a previous email: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It is surmised that Latil must have sold the portion of the rear of the Brazillier plantation south of Bayou Road which he owned, a triangle in shape, to Pierre Couturier. Couturier had been the surgeon for the Fourth Company of the Swiss Regiment of Karrer, the only permanent military company stationed in New Orleans during the French regime. Many of its officers founded Louisiana families, notably Gregoire Volant, whose daughter married Francois Pascalis de La Barre and whose son was executed by O'Reilly for instigating the revolt against Spanish authority in 1768. When he wasn't practicing surgery, Couturier imported furs and deer skins from western Louisiana and exported them to France. Couturier married Marie Francoise le Kintrek, the daughter of Jean Joseph Le Kintrek (called Dupont) and of Anne Marie Pose of New Orleans. Marie Le Kintrek must have soon died, permitting Couturier to marry into the Chevalier family for Couturier's brother-in-law after 1751 was Chevalier, storekeeper for the King in Illinois. Couturier's widow, Jeanne Chevalier, remarried Santiago Lamothe. After his death, she sold the property to Gabriel Peyroux in 1778. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This reminded me of Antoine Valentin... who, although he was stationed in the military at Fort Chartres and doing whatever was involved in his military service was also on the side wheeling and dealing in real estate and running his lead mine operations..... They were great multi-taskers, weren't they! ;-) Renee