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Magnolia Mound Plantation
Location: Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge Pa., LA
Constructed: 1791
History: Armand Gabriel Allard Duplantier was the first Duplantier to come to Louisiana. Armand came to North America with the Marquis de Lafayette when Lafayette came to assist the struggling American colonists in their revolution against Great Britain. An injury caused Duplantier's release from duty in March 1782.
Armand's first wife, Augustine Gerard died in a yellow fever epidemic on August 28, 1799. On January 4, 1802, Armand married Constance Rochon. Constance had first been married to John Joyce and by his death Constance inherited Magnolia Mound Plantation. After their marriage Constance and Armand made their home at Magnolia Mound. Magnolia Mound is now a museum with focus on the Duplantier years.
In 1807, Armand bought Delord Sarpy Plantation in New Orleans. During the time Armand owned Delord Sarpy Plantation, the house was occupied by General James Wilkinson and his troops who were part of President Thomas Jefferson's military envoy to Louisiana after the American purchase in 1803. Wilkinson and his men stayed at the plantation between 1807 and 1810.
In 1827 Armand was laid to rest with military honors in Highland Cemetery as
one of the "Fathers of our
Independence."
Associated Surnames: Duplantier, Joyce
Associated Plantations: Delord Sarpy Plantation (LA)
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1800-1808: Slaves of Armand Duplantier
From Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1718 - 1820, all database entries for Armand Duplantier-Slaves sold in 1800:
- Nayde: black Creole male; age 24; born in British mainland; sold to Isidore Labauve in 1800
-Slaves sold in 1802:
- Jean Baptiste: black Creole male; age 50; sold to Louis Daigle in 1802
- Thomas: black male; adult; sold to Thomas Aillet in 1802
-Slaves purchased in 1803:
- Abraham: black Hausa male; age 40; born in Africa; purchased from Pierre Brousard in 1803
-Slaves sold in 1803:
- Agnes: black Creole female; age 17; born in Louisiana; sold to Michel Mahier in 1803
- Dominic: black Bamana/ Mande male; age 37; sold to Pierre Palluary in 1803
- Hector: black Fulbe/ Pular male; age 20; sold to Pierre Lebert in 1803
- Hercules: black Edo/ Kwa male; age 36; sold to Thomas Aillet in 1803
- Isaac: black Congo male; age 36; sold to Thomas Aillet in 1803
- John: black Congo male; age 30; born in Africa; sold to Baptiste Le June in 1803
- Julia: black Creole female; age 23; born in Louisiana; sold to Michel Mahier in 1803
- Leander: black Fulbe/ Pular male; age 33; born in Africa; sold to Jacques, Jr. Molaison in 1803
- LeDoucer: black male; age 32; born in Africa; sold to Pierre Labauve in 1803
- Lucy: black Creole female; age 17; born in Louisiana; sold to Isidore Labauve in 1803
- Nicholas: black Creole male; age 34; born in Louisiana; sold to Michel Mahier in 1803
- Sebastian: black Hausa male; age 34; born in Africa; sold to Jean Trahan in 1803
- Terine: black Creole female; age 35; born in Louisiana; sold to Louis, M.L. Dubordeau in 1803
- Thomas: black Jamaican male; age 35; born in Jamaica; sold to Pierre Fle in 1803
-Slaves sold to William Wikoff in 1803 ("14 slaves were sold with the Duplantier plantation. The price for everything was 16000 hard pesos of Mexican milled currency."):
- Charlot: black Creole male; age 46; born in Louisiana; foreman, Plantation manager/ driver
- Lajoie: black Guinea male; age 36; born in Africa
- Lindor: black Guinea male; age 45; born in Africa
- Magdalena: mulatto rouge Creole female; age 46; born in Louisiana
- Pierret: black Guinea male; age 55; born in Africa; carpenter
- wife Roseta: black Guinea female; age 55; born in Africa
- son Pedro: black male; child
- son Samson: black male; child
- dau. Susana: black female; child
- child Unnamed: black
- Thomas: black Guinea male; age 50; born in Africa
- Tienis: black Guinea male; age 33; born in Africa
- Vicente: black Creole male; age 18; born in Louisiana
-Slaves sold in 1804:
- Abram: black Gabon male; age 12; born in Africa; sold to Arsene Breau in 1804
- Baptista: black male; age 10; sold to Janvier Longuepee in 1804
- Baptiste: black Konkomba male; age 20; born in Africa; sold to Louis Breau in 1804
- Samson: black Wolof male; age 45; born in Senegal, Africa; sold (including entire family) to Jacques Raoul in 1804
- wife Judea: black Creole female; age 36; born in British mainland
- dau. Betty: black female; age 11
- son Billey: black male; age 8
- son Cato: black male; age 2
- dau Cloe: black female; age 14
- son Gerson: black male; age 5
- son unnamed: black male; age 0.1
- Catalina: black Creole female; age 19; born in Louisiana; sold to Janvier Longuepee in 1804
- Joseph: black Moor/ Nar male; age 55; sold to Jean Poret in 1804
- Letourdi: black Edo/ Kwa male; age 30; born in Africa; sold to Louis Daigle in 1804
- Luison: black Creole male; born in Louisiana; sold to Paulin Allain in 1804
- Mariana: black Creole female; age 22; born in Louisiana; sold to Felix Braud in 1804
- Syrina: black Edo/ Kwa female; age 30; born in Africa; sold (including all children) to Paulin Allain in 1804
- dau. Benedicta: black female; age 13
- dau. Cateche: black female; age 7
- dau. Martina: black female; age 4
- son Raymond: black male; age 10
- Will: black Jamaican male; age 50; born in Jamaica; sold to Janvier Longuepee in 1804
- Unnamed: black Gabon male; age 10; born in Africa; sold to Joseph Dupuis in 1804
- Unnamed: black Gabon male; born in Africa; sold to Marie Josepha Doucet in 1804
-Slaves sold in 1805:
- Augustin: black male; age 11; listed as "untrained"/ brut/ bozal; sold to Andres Gil in 1805
-Slaves sold in 1806 "Public sale of 18 slaves imported from Africa" (ship name: Success):
- Unnamed: black "Brut" male; age 18; sold to Joseph Sharp in 1806
- Unnamed: black "Brut" male; age 14; sold to Paul Daigre in 1806
- Unnamed: black "Brut" male; age 8; sold to George Garig in 1806
- Unnamed: black "Brut" female; age 7; sold to Pierre Decoux in 1806
- Unnamed: black "Brut" male; age 7; sold to Pierre Decoux in 1806
- Unnamed: black "Brut" female; age 8; sold to Charles Duval in 1806
- Unnamed: black "Brut" male; age 7; sold to Joseph Sharp in 1806
- Unnamed: black "Brut" male; age 7; sold to Jean Jarreau in 1806
- Unnamed: black "Brut" female; age 7; sold to Francois Legendre in 1806
- Unnamed: black "Brut" female; age 25; sold to Jean Tullier in 1806
- dau. Unnamed: black "Brut" female; age 7; sold to Jean Tullier in 1806
- Unnamed: black "Brut" male; age 6; sold to Jean Jarreau in 1806
- Unnamed: black "Brut" male; age 25; sold to Jacob Miller in 1806
- Unnamed: black "Brut" male; age 12; sold to Jean Balsinger in 1806
- Unnamed: black "Brut" male; age 14; sold to Jean Jarreau in 1806
- Unnamed: black "Brut" male; age 14; sold to Jean Balsinger in 1806
- Unnamed: black "Brut" male; age 12; sold to Jean Jarreau in 1806
- Unnamed: black "Brut" male; age 14; sold to George Kleinpeter in 1806
- Unnamed: black "Brut" male; age 14; sold to Francoise Alexandre Daigre in 1806
-Slaves sold in 1807:
- Hercules: black Congo male; age 18; purchased from James Kavanaugh in 1807; "mortgage of 160 arpent tract of land and the slave Hercules"
-Slaves purchased in 1808:
- Jean Guillaume: mulatto male; age 16; purchased from Carlos Delassus in 1808; "slave was bought in St. Louis"
-Slaves sold in an undetermined year:
- Diana: black Creole female; age 35; born in British mainland; sold to Pierre Allain; "Diana has been in the colony since infancy
- Unnamed black female
- dau. Eulalie: grif (black-Indian) female; age 7; sold to Julian, M.L. Bienville
- Frosine: mulatto female; sold to Hypolite Tivollier; "Frosine pays 200 pesos of her purchase price, condition the buyer will let Frosine work to pay Tivollier 600 pesos, when this is paid Frosine will be freed"
- Helen: black Creole female; age 45; born in Louisiana; sold to Baptiste, M.L. Massy; "All natives of this province, Helen and Marieta are to be set free, their price is set together and Clara is to be sold as a slave"
- dau. Marieta: mulatto rouge Creole female; age 26; born in Louisiana
- dau. Clara: grif (black-Indian) female; age 13
- Juan Pedro: black male; age 22; sold to Santiago de Villiers (slave went to Iberville)
- Luis: black Manding male; age 30; born in Africa; sold to Juan Luis Nero (slave went to Iberville)
- Unnamed: black Guinea male; age 10; born in Africa; sold to Andres Gil; "2 10 year old boys sold together for 700 p. Divided these prices into two to make individual prices."
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Research Leads
Robert Thomas Young Family papers. http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/findaid/y4548.html
Land grants (1796-1823) signed by Charles Trudeau and Spanish Governor Carondolet document land owned by Armand Duplantier in the districts of Baton Rouge and
the Felicianas…Plats and site plans (oversize, n.d.) outline property holdings of the Young family, Armand Duplantier, and others in Bayou Sara and West Feliciana…A slave bill of sale (1838), slave lists (1840s-1850s), and an account of slaves hired out document the ownership of slaves by Robert T. Young and others.
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