Michael Vogel (1684)

Born 1684 in Aldorff, Wurttemberg, Germany

Died [date unknown] in German Coast, Louisiana, Nouvelle-France

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Biography

Michael Vogel of Altdorf, Suevia, Germany. Catholic; 40 years old. Cooper. A little hard of hearing. Son of two years, daughter of eighteen years in New Orleans. Sixteen verges cleared. (Ten verges=one arpent.) Two years on the place. One pig. 1726: Four arpents cleared. 1726: Margarethe Vogel, his daughter, married Jean Bossier, farmer from Natchitoches. 1731 : Two children. One negro; two cows.^[1][2]

Sources

1. ↑ J. Hanno Deiler, Settlement of the German Coast of Louisiana and the Creoles of German Descent, Philadelphia: Americana Germanica Press, 1909; reprint R & E Research, 1968, Online.
2. ↑ Title: German Coast Families, European Origins and Settlement in Colonial Louisiana Author: Albert J. Robichaux, Jr. Publication: Hebert Publications 1997 Library of Congress Catalog Card # 96-78542; Personal copy in possession of Jacqueline Girouard; pp. 355-357.

See Also:

• Title: Archdiocese of New Orleans Sacramental Records; Reverend Monsignor Earl C. Woods, editor, New Orleans, 1993; Volume 1, 1718-1750; copy in possession of Jacqueline Girouard; pp. 28 & 105

Text: BOSSIER, Jean (Jean, husbandman, and Marguerite BE[S/R]ON CARTASAGRA, of the Diocese of Cahors) resident of Natchitoches, m. 16 Jan. 1726, Marguerite FOGLE (Michel, resident of Les Allelmands, and Barbe GUIGRY [QUIBRY?]) , native of Swabia Wit: Michel FOGLE, the bride's father; Louis JARRY, resident of New Orleans; Urbain MALDAQUE, sergeant in the troops of this city; Jean LAPORTE, resident of Natchitoches; Jean Baptiste BOCQUET; Jaque DUPREZ (SLC, M1, 99)