Col. Jean Francois Allain, II

• Sources:
  • Census - "Census of Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, 1745" edited by Bill Barron (age: 43)

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A Patriot of the American Revolution for LOUISIANA. DAR Ancestor # A001314

From "Old Families of Louisiana"

The Allain family of French Louisiana traces its ancestry to Francois Allain of Brittany, a colonel in the French army, who played a conspicuous and distinguished part at the Battle of Fontenoy  in 1745, where he bore, as colonel of his regiment, the standard of France — i.e. the fleur-de-lys of the Bourbons. For his bravery the king bestowed upon him a sword of honor. Later he was posted with his regiment to Louisiana as commandant of the Attakapas Post and subsequently established himself as a planter in Pointe Coupee Parish.

He had two sons, François and Augustin, who were the progenitors of the several Allain families of this state. Both of them were officers under Galvez, and fought against the British at the taking of Baton Rouge. Charlotte Allain, as already recorded, married the son of Commandant Le Blanc de Villeneuve.

• THE DUBROCA FAMILY OF LOUISIANA