Marie-therese metoyer biography of alberta

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  • Marie Therese became the matriarch of a family of fourteen children-four black and ten of Franco-African blood—and the founder of a unique colony of people.
  • Marie Thérèse Coincoin, born a slave and later freed by the father of her 10 children, Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer—who gave her a yearly.

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    The Story of The MelrosePlantation

    Melrose is one of the unique plantations of the old South, its career measured, not by years, but by generations. Its story will endure, for it is recorded not only in fiction and fireside legend, but on the indelible pages of history.

    The Association for the Preservation of Historic Natchitoches has undertaken the careful restoration of the eight -structures composing the Melrose complex. In , in the interest of maintaining Melrose as a monument to Louisiana history, Southdown Land Company, which had acquired the plantation. conveyed the six-acre site and complex of buildings to the Association. In , the Cane River plantation was declared a National Historic Landmark.

    The story of romantic Melrose Plantation begins with the legend of Marie Therese Coincoin, who was born, in , a slave in the household of Louis Juchereau de St. Denis, the first commandant of the post at Natchitoches. Marie Therese became the matriarch of a family of fo

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    The Matriarch of Melrose Plantation and it's Legacy

    Melrose plantation is a historical landmark in Natchitoches, Louisiana dating back to with a rich history and an extraordinary origin. 

    The Matriarch

    Marie Therese Coincoin was born a slave in Her owners eventually agreed to lease her to a Frenchman named Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer. This eventually would spark a relationship that would result in the birth of ten children. Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer would go on to fall in love with Marie Therese Coincoin and eventually purchase her and several of her children leading to their freedom. Marie Therese Coincoin would become a successful businesswoman and the matriarch of her expansive family which would soon become the leading family of a community of free people of color who would come to thrive as businesspeople, plantation owners, and slave owners.  

    The Founding


    With a parcel of nation given to her bygd Metoyer, Marie Therese Coincoin would begi

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    As Seen by Clementine

    Lot No. came up for bid Sunday afternoon, June 7, , on the second day of the Melrose Plantation auction. “I have an opening bid of two thousand,” said auctioneer Thomas Sanchez.  “Anybody else bidding?” 

    Excitement had been building for weeks, as bidders from New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Alexandria, and even Massachusetts traveled to the small town of Melrose on Cane River (actually an oxbow lake) for a two-day auction of the plantation’s contents. 

    Thomas’s father, Fernand Sanchez, a New Orleans antiques dealer whose auction house handled the sale, had announced in the Times-Picayune that the contents included fifteen antique beds, twenty armoires, marble-top dressers, washstands, collections of early looms, book presses, early Louisiana children’s chairs, a pair of Hepplewhite console tables circa , Spanish olive jars, and “all sorts of clocks, glass, china, curios, and unsigned portraits.”

    The heirs to Melrose, the Henr