Marie-Jeanne Guillory

Marie Jeanne LaCasse married (1) Joseph Stamayer (Estamier) dit Chateauneuf, a soldier in Le Seur's Company. In the 1737 marriage record of Marie & Joseph Stamayer,
Marie signed her signature clearly.

Marie Jeanne LaCasse, widow, married (2) Joseph Pierre Gregoire Guillory on 1739, August 20, (archives of the Mobile Diocese).

In the 1739 marriage record of Marie & Joseph Gregoire Guillory, Jacqueline Vidrine, a noted researcher, states "both made only a cross, however some of the signatures are no longer visible due to the documents age and fading".
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• Later documents show Joseph Gregoire Guillory utilized a tutor for his children. It is assumed that Joseph & Marie were somewhat educated.

The Guillorys did not come to America as Acadians, but as soldiers, some sent from Montreal and some others sent from France to the Mobile, Alabama, area. By 1710, the Guillorys were living on the eastern end of Dauphine Island, Alabama, on Pointe a Guillory. But after the West Florida area was transferred to England in 1763, GREGOIRE (JOSEPH) GUILLORY began the family's odyssey to the old Post of Opelousas, and further west to Imperial Calcasieu.
GREGOIRE must have felt that he had no further reason to stay in Alabama.
Not only had he lost his property when the British signed the Treaty of Paris in 1763, but his young wife, MARIE JEANNE LACASSE GUILLORY, had died.
The couple also lost a child, Marie Louise, when she was 10 months old.
Later, GREGOIRE talked about the child's death:
'The child died in my absence, he said, Only my wife and an old man named Dauphin (probably a slave) was there.
They had to bury her because they could not carry her body to the fort.

In Opelousas, GREGOIRE looked for land, and the commandant there gave him permission to choose his own site. He received a tract with 16 arpents of water frontage and 40 arpents deep, about 575 acres. Ten of these arpents fronted on Bayou Courtableau and six arpents fronted Bayou Cocodrie.
The 1766 Census of Opelousas showed GREGOIRE GUILLORY as a single man with five sons and two daughters.
GREGOIRE GUILLORY served in the Opelousas militia, but he doesn't appear in their records after 1771 and he was not on the 1777 census.
Joseph Pierre Gregoire Guillory died 27 April 1764.

JOSEPH (PIERRE) GREGOIRE GUILLORY,(Lineage: FRANCOIS/SIMON/FRANCOIS) son of FRANCOIS GUILLORY and MARIE JEANNE MONFORT/MANFORT, born Dec 16, 1712 in Dauphin Island, Mobile, AL died March 28, 1786 at Opelousas, at the age of 74 Married MARIE JEANNE LACASSE/LACAZE, daughter of JEAN LACASSE and MARIE ANN FOURCHE/FOURCHET.
MARIE ANN FOUR HE/FOURCHET ,daughter of PIERRE FOURCHET and ANNE JEANNE BREATU E, was a “passenger” on the prison ship, LA Mutine.

Marie Jeanne LaCasse was born March 20, 1725/26 in French Mobile, Fort Toulouse, AL, died April 27, 1764 in Fish River, AL, buried April 27, 1764 at French Mobile, Fort Toulouse, AL.
JOSEPH (PIERRE) GREGOIRE GUILLORY and MARIEJEANNE LACASSE were married on Aug 20, 1739 at Notre Dame Cathedral, Mobile, AL. Marie Jeanne was the widow of Joseph Stameyer, who had died in 1738, less than 10 months after their marriage had taken place. She was born on March 20, 1726, making her not quite fourteen at the time of her second marriage, which was to Joseph Gregoire. Marie Jeanne Guillory died at the age of 38, on April 27, 1764 at Mobile, AL, after giving Joseph Gregoire eight children.
NOTE: Found the following under “Metis Culture 1741-1742. The “Jean Casse” referred to may be Marie Jeanne LaCasse’s father, Jean LaCasse:
October 17-27: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth/death, (II)-Sazanne Casse dit St. Aubin born 17th died 27th of October daughter (I)-Jean Casse and (II)-Suzanne Esteve dit Lajeunesse born 1721.
From another Guillory site:

“Joseph moved his family, including slaves, to Opelousas, Louisiana after Jeanne's death; he had recently received a land grant of some 640 acres there. Before the move, Joseph was having an affair with his slave, Marguerite; she was pregnant during the move to Louisiana. In the ensuing years, Marguerite gave Joseph Gregoire three additional children. Around 1770, Joseph began proceedings to free Marguerite and her children - yet paperwork that was drawn up turned out not to be legally binding. A legal case ensued where Marguerite fought to free herself, and then her four children, from slavery from Joseph Gregoire's legitimate children. This was known as "The Margarita Case". The case was not fully settled until 1783; Marguerite and her children had won their freedom.”

JOSEPH GREGOIRE GUILLORY and MARIE JEANNE LACASSE had eight children