Antoine Le Moyne de Châteaugué

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  • Drouin Institute (Archived baptismal record - see attached in Media tab)

Antoine Le Moyne de Châteaugué, baptized sometime in 1683 in Montreal, was the youngest of the Le Moyne brothers and began his career as a midshipman in the French navy. In 1698, he accompanied his brothers Iberville and Bienville on an expedition to rediscover the mouth of the Mississippi River. In 1700, Châteaugué aided Bienville in establishing Fort La Boulaye on the lower Mississippi, and two years later he was placed in charge of the new fort and warehouse on Dauphin Island at the entrance to Mobile Bay. Châteaugué served in various administrative positions in Mobile, Dauphin Island, and New Orleans for more than four decades. He returned to France in the mid-1740s and died on March 21, 1747, in Rochefort.