Angelique Villere

On 2 February 1787, at St. Charles on the German Coast, Louis-Auguste Meuillon purchased from the estate of Jacques Philippe de Villeré-de la Chaise, later governor of Louisiana, a 15-year-old slave girl named Angélique, “négresse créole”: St. Charles Parish Court House (Edgar, La.), Clerk of Court’s Office, estates, no. 467, conveyances, no. 471. On 05 March 1792 at the St. Charles Post on the German Coast, Jacques Villeré, nègre libre, purchased his female daughter, Angélique – age 25, négresse – from Louis-Auguste [sic] Meuillon for 1,225 piastres: St. Charles Parish Court House, Clerk of Court’s Office, conveyances, no. 1107.

Note: Father named is Jacques Villeré, nègre libre, not Joseph Roy de Villere (1725-1769).