| Name |
Louis François Pitard |
| Birth |
21 Jun 1764 |
Corps-Nuds, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France  [1] |
| Baptism |
21 Jun 1764 |
Corps-Nuds, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France |
- Parish birth record says he was baptized “le même jour” as his birth.
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| Gender |
Male |
| Immigration |
Abt 1803 |
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba |
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| Immigration |
Abt 1810 |
New Orleans, Louisiana |
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| Military Service |
His obituary says that he served "under Lafayette" in the Revolution. According to the database on LafayetteGenWeb,"Louis Pitard" served as a "aide-cannonier" (a "help-gunner") and/or "Officier-marinier de canonnage," a petty-officer of gunnery, on the ship "Le Vengeur" during the Revolution. The source for his appearance on this database is Les combattants francais de la guerre americaine 1778-1783 (French Combatants during the American Revolution), compiled by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the SAR. See in the middle column on 49.
"Le Vengeur" was a 64-gun ship-of-the-line. In 1778 it was in an action off of Ushant, near the English Channel; in 1779 it helped France recover Grenada from the British; and in 1781-82 it fought for the US in the Revolution. (Note that this ship is not "Le Vengeur du Peuple," a 74-gun ship-of-the-line that during the American Revolution was named "Le Marseillois." Both ships were in D'Estaing's fleet.)
The database also says he was probably from Barbados; if he enlisted from there, this would put him in the Caribbean by the mid-1770s, as a very young man.
He is SAR Patriot #: P-336132. [2, 3, 4, 5] |
| Obituary |
An obituary was published in the New Orleans Bee on 29 April 1830 saying that he had died on Monday the 26th of April; this mentions his service in the Revolutionary War. His obituary says "dans sa soixante-dixième année," "in his seventieth year.” The obit. is not in the NOPL Index. |
| Death |
26 Apr 1830 |
New Orleans, Louisiana |
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Obituary for Louis Francois Pitard, d. 26 April 1830
The obit. appeared in the The New Orleans Bee/ L’Abeille de la Nouvelle-Orleans on 29 April 1830. |
| Burial |
St. Louis Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Louisiana [6, 7] |
- Archdiocese of New Orleans burial record: “Louis François Pitard, son of Louis Pitard, deceased, & Julienne Renfray, deceased, native of the parish of Corps Nuds, arrondissement of Rennes, dept. of Ille-et-Vilaine (Brittany), France, born 21 June 1764, husband of Angelique Avril, died at “midi et demi” on 26 April 1830.”
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| Notes |
- Before Louis François, there is a very early reference to Pitards in New Orleans, but they are not related in any way that is evident: Pierre Pitard was the son of Jean Pitard and Anne Prise; he was married on 19 October 1718 to Louise Marhe Seguin. The certification for the marriage was made on 17 November 1727, and is in Marriage Book 1, St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans. Pierre Pitard "dit la France" is also recorded on the census for Louisiana between 1699 and 1732 as living on Rue Royal. I have not seen any connection between that Pitard and this family.
The earliest reference to Louis François's life comes from the baptismal record for his son J.B. Octave Pitard, which says that he was from "Les Trois Maries, parish of St. Pierre, dept. of Ille-et-Vilaine (i.e., Corps-Nuds, Ille-de-Vilaine)." This document also gives his parents' names. Corps-Nuds is in the Diocese of Rennes in Brittany.
No Pitard appears on the list of land-owners on Saint-Domingue. Among the "settlers not planters" appears an unconnected "Alexandre Pitard."
The first record of Louis François in New Orleans is when he sold a slave named Robert to a Victor Coulon on 21 September 1810 in Orleans Parish. The slave came from Santiago de Cuba. Robert would have been brought from Cuba with the family.
I can't find the family on the census from 1810-1830 in New Orleans. In the 1810 New Orleans census there is an "Ls Peter" that may be "Ls Pilie," with one f.w.m. from 16-25 and one from 26-44. In the 1830 census there is "L Pitter" on the 1830 New Orleans census that also looks like "Pillié." The entry includes 2 white males 10-15, 1 between 40-50; 1 white female 30-40, 1 between 40-50. It also includes 9 slaves. Neither of these would seem to match the family, since Louis was born in 1765, and the oldest white male in the 1830 household was much less than 65. Maybe they were living in another family’s household.
Louis first appears in the 1811 city directory as: Pitard, Louis François . . . marchand, shopkeeper . . . 36 Levee. This address also has two other tenants: "GENERT, PETER; tailleur, tailor"; and "ROGERS, JOSEPH; graissier, grocer."
Bet. 1813 and 1835, Louis F. Pitard is a plaintiff in a parish court case (defendant, Widow Merlet; case no. 599), and a defendant in another parish court case (plaintiff B. Marigny; case no. 1793).
In the 1822 Directory, Louis F. is living next to a Prados:
183 Bourbon; PITARD, LOUIS F.; trader
185 Bourbon; PRADOS, JOSEPH; victualler
In 1822 Louis and Augustine Pitard appear in the Indentures Index:
PITARD AUGU vol. 3: no. 282 (June 1822) -- apprentice
PITARD LOUI vol. 3: no. 282 (June 1822) -- sponsor
Louis F. Pitard appears in the 1822 City Directory as "trader" at 183 Bourbon.
Louis F. Pitard appears in the 1823 City Directory as "trader, marchand" at 371 Bourbon. [8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
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| Person ID |
I13920 |
| Last Modified |
5 Apr 2025 |
| Father |
Louis Pitard
b. May 1743, Corps-Nuds, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France
d. 8 Jan 1791, Corps-Nuds, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France (Age 47 years) |
| Mother |
Julienne Renfray
b. 18 Sep 1736, Corps-Nuds, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France
d. 12 Nov 1801, Corps-Nuds, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France (Age 65 years) |
| Marriage |
19 Jul 1763 |
Corps-Nuds, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France |
| Family Charts |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Spouse / Partner |
Angelique Avril
b. 13 Sep 1773, Paroisse Saint-André, Bordeaux, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
d. 28 Jan 1844, New Orleans, Louisiana (Age 70 years)
| Marriage |
21 Feb 1797 |
Port-au-Prince, Saint-Domingue [13] |
| Children |
7 sons and 2 daughters |
| | 1 . Hugues Pitard
b. 9 Apr 1798
d. 9 Apr 1798, Port-au-Prince, Saint-Domingue (Age 0 years) | | | 2. Louis Florentin Pitard
b. 6 Jun 1799, Port-au-Prince, Saint-Domingue | | | 3. Augustin Pitard
b. 20 May 1802
d. 1 Mar 1803 (Age 0 years) | | | 4 . Angelique Adelaide Pitard
b. Abt 1804
d. 7 Mar 1818, New Orleans, Louisiana (Age 14 years) | | + | 5. Augustine Dominique Pitard
b. Abt 1806, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
d. 22 May 1853, New Orleans, Louisiana (Age 47 years) | | + | 6. Joseph Barthelemy Pitard
b. Abt 1807, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
d. 3 Nov 1847, New Orleans, Louisiana (Age 40 years) | | | 7. Maria Augustina Pitard
b. 7 Nov 1810, New Orleans, Louisiana
d. 11 Sep 1811 (Age 0 years) | | + | 8. Jean Baptiste Octave Pitard
b. 18 Jun 1813, New Orleans, Louisiana
d. 8 Sep 1842, New Iberia, Iberia Parish, Louisiana (Age 29 years) | | | 9. Pierre Gabriel Eugéne Pitard
b. 18 Sep 1816, New Orleans, Louisiana
d. 18 Feb 1822, New Orleans, Louisiana (Age 5 years) |
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| Family Charts |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
12 May 2025 |
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