Document Date: 7/26/1779
Document Number: 1004
Location: Pointe Coupee
Master: Simon deceased La Cour
Master's Gender: 2
Name: Nicolas
Gender: male
Race: mulatto
Age Category: child
Birthplace: Louisiana Creole
Freed: under will
Relationship of freer to the freed: father
The manumission did not involve cash payment.
Slave was freed.
This slave's white father was certainly involved in the manumission process.
no prices at all
Members of Group: Mul. sis. and bro.
Family: Simon Lacour (white)-f,Genevieve-d,Nicolas-s
This slave's family relationships were indicated.
Comments: Freed by father master by will along with sibling. Recognized Genevieve & Nicolas as his natural children. Widow & brother protested. Freedom papers found in Spain AGI Cuba 206, fol. 657, on July 14, 1779. Marianne mulatto woman also freed. Their mother?

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Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy
1718-1820

Joseph

Gender: male
Race: black
Birthplace: Louisiana Creole
Age (when this record was documented): 24.0
Other comments: "creol de la Pointe Coupee;"

Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Francois Marcantel, pere
Name of the Buyer: Nicolas Simon dit la Rouille
Grouping: sold or inventoried as an individual
Selling Currency: g
Selling Value: 700
Selling Value: 1225

Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: St. Landry (Opelousas Post). [Calcasieu 1840, Cameron 1870,Acadia 1886, Evangeline 1908, Allen 1910, Jefferson Davis 1912, beaureguard1912]
Document Date: 1791-09-07
Document Number (from the document): 0
Type of document:Any documents involving maroons, including reports of runaways, interrogation of
caputred runaways, and testimony by slaves about runaways: yes
Language: French
Is this document of linguistic interest?: no
Is this inventory or sale of an estate of a free person of African descent?: no

Skill and Trade Information

Personality

Family Information
Was this slave inventoried with his/her mother?: no
Was this slave sold with his/her mother?: no

Importation Information
Was this slave being emancipated?: no
Slave listed as dead?: no

• Married: 24 NOV 1788 in OPELOUSAS CHURCH: REGISTER OF BLACK MARRIAGES---VOLUME 1, PAGE 11

1. Eulalie (Olaya) Simon
2. Louis-Nicolas dit Lorouy Simon
3. Jean Simon
4. Charles Nicolas Simon b: 1784