Jean Baptiste Nöel Jourdan (abt. 1805 - 1879)

Born about 1805 in Louisiana

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Melanie Anne Poursine — married 23 Jun 1836 in Ascention Parish, Louisiana, United States

Descendants

Died 23 Dec 1879 at about age 74 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States

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Biography

Noel Jourdan [this man's father] was a son of a sergeant in the French regiment of Rochambeau during the [French] Revolution. He served until the surrender of Cornwallis, [1781] ^[1]and was finally discharged, on account of his ill health, in the West Indies, and made his way to New Orleans. He established a bakery, and soon became a man of wealth. He obtained from the Spanish authorities a concession on the Catahoula, now known as Jourdan river, in the present county of Hancock, Miss, and went extensively into the breeding of cattle and the manufacture of tiles. His only son he educated in France. On his return he became judge of the county, its representative in the convention and in the legislature, and was the most influential man, especially with the Creek population, in that quarter of the state. He subsequently removed to and became a large sugar planter in St. James, La., where he died. ^[2]

Death: ^[3]

Name: J. B. Noel Jourdan

Age: 75

Birth Year: abt 1804

Death Date: 23 Dec 1879

1834 Land: "Agreement between Edouard Jacob Jourdan, Vasseur Webre Jourdan, and Jean Baptiste Nöel Jourdan, Saint James Parish, and Citizens' Bank of Louisiana. Before the Notary Public Adolphe Boudousquié, New Orleans, appeared A. Cyprien Trémoulet, acting for the three Jourdans, residents of Saint James Parish. Also present was James D. Denegre, President of the Citizens' Bank, acting in accordance with the resolution passed by the bank directors at their December 10th meeting. Those present declared that the Jourdans were each owners of an undivided third of the following: 1) a sugar plantation in Saint James Parish, and two other surveyed sections of land; 2) fifty-seven slaves (names and ages given); and 3) 464 shares of capital funds stock of the Citizen's Bank, payment for which was guaranteed, along with payment for a loan of $10,337.60, by a mortgage given in 1834 by Noël Jourdan.," ^[4]

February, 1838 Law Suit

In February, 1838, Jourdan and Landry filed separate petitions in the District Court for the First Judicial District of the State of Louisiana, claiming their respective back lands. Barrett, who was then in possession of the tract surveyed for Bringier, answered the petition and called in warranty, according to the Louisiana practice, all the intermediate grantors between Bringier and himself and Bringier also. They all responded to the call, and various evidence was taken and filed in the causes, which, as has been already mentioned, were consolidated and prosecuted together.

Under this act of 1832, Noel Jourdan and Joseph Landry, claiming severally and respectively, under French or Spanish claims confirmed by the United States, lands bordering and fronting on the Mississippi River, and lying contiguous to the aforesaid claim of Bringier, asserted their right of pre emption to the lands back of their original tracts, and purchased, Noel Jourdan 269.44 acres, on the 9th of August, 1834, and Joseph Landry 154.21 acres, on the 8th of March, 1836.

Some stress, in the argument, was laid on the fact, that possession had been held of the land in dispute, under Bringier's claim, for more than ten years before the suits of Landry and Jourdan were brought, and therefore the petitioners were barred by prescription and limitation in Louisiana. Prescription of ten years' possession is relied on in defence by a direct plea, and made up part of the defence.

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To this ground of defence, it is a sufficient answer to say, that Jourdan first acquired his interest in 1834, and Landry his, in 1836; up to that time the lands they claim belonged to the United States, as part of the public domain, and on which the defendant, Barrett, and those under whom he claims, were trespassers; and that no trespass of the kind can give title to the trespasser, as against the United States, or bar the right of recovery; nor had the operation of time any effect as against Landry and Jourdan, until they respectively purchased.

1846: On List of Plantation Owners in St. James Parish in 1845-56* [Taken fromn P. A. Champomier, a statement of the sugar crop made in Louisiana, 1846]

Text: Noel Jourdan & Gaudin East Bank [of the Mississippi River] 66 miles from New Orleans.^[5]

1846: Law Suit ^[6]

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On the 9th of August, 1834, Jourdan, one of the plaintiffs in error, obtained from the receiver the following certificate.

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RECEIVER'S OFFICE, SO. EAST. DIST. LA.

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New Orleans, August 9th, 1834.

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Received from Noel Jourdan, of the parish of St. James, the sum of three hundred and thirty-six 80/100 dollars, being in full of the purchase money of his pre emption right by virtue of an act of Congress authorizing the inhabitants of Louisiana to enter their back lands, approved 15th June, 1832, to a tract of land adjacent to and back of his front tract, situate in township No. 11, range No. 3 east, and containing two hundred and sixty-nine 44/100 superficial acres, at one dollar and twenty-five cents, as per register's certificate, numbered No. 9.

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(Signed,) MAURICE CANNON, Receiver of Public Moneys.

Census (1840) Left Bank Of The Mississippi, St James, Louisiana, United States^[7]

Residence (1850) Eastern District, St James, Louisiana, USA^[8]

J B Noel Jourdan 45

Melanie Jourdan 28

Melanie Jourdan 12

Marie Jourdan 11

Jean Joseph Jourdan 9

Celeste Jourdan 7

Julie Jourdan 5

Laure Jourdan 3

Joseph Jourdan 1

Residence (1870) New Orleans Ward 8, Orleans, Louisiana^[9]

J B N Jourdan 65

Melanie Jourdan 48

Louise Jourdan 17

Felix Jourdan 10

L Jos Jourdan 9

Jas Jourdan 8

Agnes Jourdan 6

Louis Jourdan 4

Albert Jourdan 2

Melanie Jourdan 32

Research

His widow?

• Dame Vve Noel Jourdan (1793-1851) on Find A Grave: Memorial #154846481 retrieved 03 February 2018

Dame Vve Noel Jourdan [probably his son]

BIRTH 19 Feb 1793 New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA

DEATH 24 Apr 1851 New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA

BURIAL Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1 New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA

MEMORIAL ID 154846481

Sources

1. ↑ The painting depicts the surrender of British Lieutenant General Charles, Earl Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia on October 19, 1781, ending the Siege of Yorktown, and virtually guaranteeing American independence. Included in the depiction are many leaders of the American troops that took part in the siege. [1]
2. ↑ Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana; Embracing an Authentic and Comprehensive Acoount of the Chief Events in the History of the Sate, a Special Sketch of every Parish and a Record of the Lives of Many of the Most Worthy and Illustrious Families and Individuals. In Two Volumes. Illustrated; Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Compang 1892; Digitized and available from Google-books.com; p. 28
3. ↑ Orleans Death Indices 1877-1895; Volume: 75; Page: 1025; Ancestry.com. New Orleans, Louisiana, Death Records Index, 1804-1949 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA; Original data: State of Louisiana, Secretary of State, Division of Archives, Records Management, and History. Vital Records Indices. Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
4. ↑ Tulane University Digital Library
5. ↑ Title: Cabanocey, Lillian C. Bourgeois; New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 1957; reprinted Pelican Publ., 1998. copy in possession of Jacqueline Girouard; p. 197
6. ↑ 45 U.S. 169 - Noel Jourdan v. Thomas Barrett et al. HomeThe United States Reports 45 U.S. (4 How.)

   NOEL JOURDAN AND JOSEPH LANDRY, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR,

   v.

   THOMAS BARRETT ET AL.

   January Term, 1846 Open Jurist

7. ↑ "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHTD-5N1 : 15 August 2017), Noel Jourdan, Left Bank Of The Mississippi, St James, Louisiana, United States; citing p. 261, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 135; FHL microfilm 9,691.
8. ↑ Year: 1850; Census Place: Eastern District, St James, Louisiana; Roll: M432_239; Page: 224A; Image: 449
9. ↑ Year: 1870; Census Place: New Orleans Ward 8, Orleans, Louisiana; Roll: M593_523; Page: 748A; Family History Library Film: 552022