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- There is this slave purchase record, placing him in New Orleans by 1810. This is probably a slave he had brought with him from Cuba:
Document Date: 3/29/1810
Document Number: 188
Notary: Broutin
Date of Sale: 3/29/1810
Depository: housed in parish courthouses.
Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).
Language of this record: French
Seller: Jean Mouchon
Buyer: Victor Babin
Name Explanation: IS: Probably a corruption of ""Louis d'or"". Another form found among Wolof is Libidor.
Name: Lindor dit Victor
Name Type: African
Gender: male
Race: black
Age: 25
sold or inventoried as an individual
Currency Type: piastre = 1 p
Value of Sale: 450
Sale Common Price: 450
His death certificate, dated 26 June 1835, reads: "Jacques Degrange, a native of Savoie [?], aged twenty seven years a merchant, residing in this Parish suburb [?] Annunciation and Appollo street, who by these presents doth declare that Jean Mouchon, a native of Lucerne, aged about seventy years, late a merchant died in this Parish suburb [?] Annunciation Thalie Steet, on the twenty ninth May last past at eight o'clock AM the deceased was married and has left children."
His succession was filed in the court of probates in New Orleans in 1835; succession is present, but no will or inventory are present. It can be found at the NOPL/City Archives. See http://nutrias.org/inv/probates/probias.htm.
A minister named Pierre Mouchon (1733-1797) lived in Geneva, and compiled an index to Diderot’s Encyclopedia. He had a son named Jean born abt. 1763, but I do not know if he is the same as this Jean. [2]
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