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Vicitims of the massacre include:
Bellanger? Jacques Bellanger?, his widow married a Rabalais.
Bonnaventure
Nicholas Bonnaventure, Indian Interpreter at Natchez, married to Antoinette Bergere. A son, Francois Bonnaventure was on the Ouachita River by 1765, and first married an Indian maiden named Marie Jeanne, later Marie Louise Massson, or Macon, who bayou Macon in Ouchita may have been named after.
Lebeau Lebeau and Mayeux were the only two men captured who were allowed to live by the Natchez Indians. Historian and descendant Steve Mayeux speculates they were spared because of their trade, Lebeau a tailor, and Mayeux a teamster, or wagon driver. Possibly the Indians used Mayeux to gather the clothes from the deceased settlers and Lebeau to resize them.
Mayeux Pierre Mayeux, native of Maintenay, France, was one of only two men who were captured by the Natchez Indians and later freed. (Others had survived but had not been captured). Mayeux's daughter, Genevieve, married Jean Francois DeCuir of Hainaut.
Victims of the 1729 Massacre at Natchez
From Ministry of the Colonies, National Archives of France, C. 13, V. 12, General Correspondence of Louisiana, pages 57 to 58 v.; copy Vol. XIX, pages 241 to 245.) Post of the Natchez . Register of the persons of the post of the Natchez was massacred on the 28th of November, 1729, by the neighboring Indians whose name the said post bears.
Gentlemen and Ladies to wit:
De Chepart [This name is spelled ÒDeschepartÓ in the original.], Commandant Masse, his lieutenant, his wife and niece Desnoyers, second-lieutenant, commandant of the town and director of the White Earth concession.
The garrison composed of twenty-four men of whom the soldier named Belair alone escaped
Bailly, director
La Sonde, surgeon-major
Laurent Hurlot, assistant surgeon
Kneper, notary
Francois Dubrey, sacristan
De Longrais, director of the Concession of Saint Catherine
La Renaudais, keeper of the warehouse of the White Earth
Pascal, captain of the Company’s galley, who arrived two days before
Caron, captain of the Company’s boat, who arrived two days before
La Loire Desursins, formerly councillor
Sabanier, his wife and one of his children
Villeneuve, his wife and one of his children
Louis Mirault, tailor and his child (called St. Louis)
Louis Le Tortillier called “La Marche”, his wife, his child
Livernais and one of his children, his wife
Antoine Gavignon called “rape du Bor” and two of his children Julien Chartier Jean Despace called ÒBeausejourÓ and his child
Jean Charles Le Maire called ÒCambrelotÓ
Louis Henry called Òlittle St. LouisÓ and two of his children
Picard, his wife and son-in-law, copper-smith
Leonard Charante and four of his children
Antoine Jouard called ÒMoutonÓ
Jean George Schutz calied ÒJean L’AllemandÓ
Jean Roussin and his child
Pierre Billy called “La Jeunesse” Joseph Ducrot, cooper for the Company Pierre Dauvido called ÒLe BleuÓ La Forc and his wife Grimault La Plaine, his wife, his child, his niece Le Houx, his child, his niece; formerly keeper of the warehouse at the Arkansas Anselme Foucault called ÒLa FleurÓ Francois Censier Jean Delon and his child Francois Fertin and two of his children and his brother-in-law Gabriel Poulin L’Evesque and his child Pierre Lambremont and his child Jean Louis Dupin Jean Flandrin, his wife and two of his children.
The wife of Michel Beau Papin, interpreter, his wife and his two children
Louis Longueville
La Ferte
Jean Evrard,
Bohemian Stroup,
Bohemian, his wife and his child
Estienne Rene Lartault, tailor Bideau, his wife and his child
Ponconet, his wife and his two children
Modeste Le Brasseur by trade and his wife Barbier Massiot
The wife of Canterelle, mid-wife Guerin, his wife and two of his children
The wife of Sondu, goldsmith, and her child
Pimon Robinet Duchesne of the invalides Quidor and Pierre his servant
Foulian, his wife and child Le Clerc and his wife.
The nephew of Mr. De Longrais
Madame, commander of the negroes of the White Earth
Pouvalin, his wife and his child Robichon, his wife and his child Auberlet, his wife and his child
Pierre Schmitt, his wife, this child and his brother-in-law
Gaspard Tilly, his wife, two children and his brothers
Rosser, his wife and his child La Douceur.
A child of Nicholas La Cour
Le Grand, mason, his wife and two of his children
Sans Soucy, servant of Mr. Guyot
Estiene, blacksmith with Mr. De Longrais.
The wife of Mirly, and her child
Pierre Le Blanc Ducorroir, cooper
La Lande Goupil
Bonaventure
La Vielle,
Bohemian Knight
La Miette and her three children
Joly, cabinet-maker and his wife
Leger, cabinet-maker and his wife Isbra,
carpenter, Jean Jouan, carpenter, Ribert, carpenter, Picard, carpenter, Monthuy, his wife and his child Pierre Toudou, his wife and his child Beausoleil, servant of Sabanier Cornseret, cooper. The widow Richard and her child Pierre Letant Benichon Badeau Le Maire, cooper. the Dauphine woman, the Montauban woman and her two children Alain Duquay called "the little mason" Francois Hyacinthe Giles Jossian La Pierre called "Chatelain."
Voyageurs who had arrived there a few days before:
Ducodere, commandant at the Yazoos
The Reverend Father Poisson, Jesuit missionary
Kolly and his son from New Orleans [In the margin: Send to his son with certificate, September 10th, 1754.]
Langlois, clerk
Monsieur Kolly, ditto Charlot Verlug, son of the Chapitoula Bourbeau, colonist of New Orleans
St. Pierre, workman of the said Bourbeau, colonist of New Orleans Soupar of the Yazoos Bompugnon of the Yazoos.
Detachment from the Tunicas for scouting consisting of seven men, only one of whom escaped with his life:
Mesplet, who was burnt and tortured with Dominique St. Amant, killed in the combat Busebois and Navarre and another volunteer
TOTALS: 144 Men, 35 Women, 56 Children
Among the number of women massacred there were four women whose abdomens the savages ripped open and whose children, included in the above register, they killed.
I, the undersigned Father Philibert, priest and missionary to the said Natchez, certify that the present register, is correct.
On board the Duc de Bourbon.
The 9th of June, 1730
F. Philibert,
(Autograph signature) Capuchin priest and missionary.
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