Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer (1744 - 1815)

Born 12 Mar 1744 in La Rochelle, Saint-Sauveur Parish, France

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Therese (Buard) Metoyer — married 13 Oct 1788 in Natchitoches, LA

Descendants

Died 30 Sep 1815 at age 71 in Natchitoches Parish, LA

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Biography

Pierre Metoyer is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A135277.

Pierre Metoyer is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P-248616
Rank: Private (?)

Elizabeth Shown Mills: "Metoyer, whose full name was Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer, always called himself Pierre. His descendants with Coincoin, to avoid offending Metoyer’s legitimate offspring, claimed descent from Thomas— giving birth to the “legend” that two Metoyer brothers settled on Cane River, one who married Coincoin and the other who took a white wife." (footnote 25, p 251) ^[1]

Elizabeth Shown Mills: "Coincoin’s life may be briefly summarized: As the young mother of five slaveborn children, Coincoin was rented about 1767 to a French bachelor, Pierre Metoyer, to tend his home and other needs. Across a twenty-year relationship, during which Metoyer privately freed her, she bore him ten children. On the eve of his marriage to a friend’s widow in 1788, he gave Coincoin sixty-eight acres off one side of his plantation. Metoyer retained possession of their children born before 1778 and eventually manumitted them when they reached their twenties, thirties, and forties." (p 248) ^[2]

See also, 1779 and 1787 citations from p 260-261 on the mortgage issues relating to their living situation. ^[2]

He was buried at the American Cemetery in Natchitoches. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Garber, “History of Melrose Plantation Like Turning Pages of Novel.” via Documenting a Slave’s Birth, Parentage, and Origins (Marie Thérèse Coincoin, 1742–1816): A Test of "Oral History"], National Genealogical Society Quarterly p. 245-66, December 2008.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Elizabeth Shown Mills, Documenting a Slave’s Birth, Parentage, and Origins (Marie Thérèse Coincoin, 1742–1816): A Test of "Oral History", National Genealogical Society Quarterly p. 245-66, December 2008.
3. ↑ American Cemetery, Natchitoches, Louisiana, Find A Grave: Memorial #30052425 Please note the children may not be assigned to the correct wife.

• Gary B. Mills, Elizabeth Shown Mills, The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color p 32 for an extensive family tree of Metoyer and Coincoin's descendants.
• Elizabeth Shown Mills, Documenting a Slave’s Birth, Parentage, and Origins (Marie Thérèse Coincoin, 1742–1816): A Test of "Oral History", National Genealogical Society Quarterly p. 245-66, December 2008.
• "A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography; Ten-Year Supplement 1988-1998," editors, Carl A. Brasseaux and James D. Wilson, Jr., published by The Louisiana Historical Association; pp. 154-156

• Mills, Gary B., "The Forgotten People," p. 10-12 & fn. 29, 30, 31

• See also: Wikipedia: Marie Thérèse Coincoin