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Jacques Auguste de la Chaise

Also Known As: "de la Chaise", "Delachaise", "de Lachaise", "Chase"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Cusset, Allier, Auvergne, France
Death: February 06, 1730 (54)
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States
Place of Burial: New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Antoine De la Chaise and Helene de la Chaise
Husband of Marguerite le Cailly
Father of Jacques de la Chaise; Marie-Louise De LaChaise; Jean De LaChaise; Marie-Félicité Villars; Charles De LaChaise and 3 others

Managed by: James Fred Patin, Jr.
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About Jacques Auguste de la Chaise

Individual Note

Occupation: French Royal Commissioner, Louisiana Colony ; 1st Councillor, French Superior Council, Louisiana (<1769) Source: Book - Arch. of New Orleans Sacr. Rec. - V1, 1718-1750 - [book] - Woods, Earl, ed. p70 ‘The first census of the city, taken in 1726, gives the names and addresses of its first inhabitants. . . On Chartres Street was ... the large house where lived de la Chaise, his wife and two children...’

‘In 1726, the population numbered 880, of which 65 were servants and 129 slaves. There were only ten horses in it.

‘Each square formed by the intersection of the streets was divided into four allotments, and in each allotment was erected a house--a low, square, eight or four-room cottage built of split cypress logs, raised a few feet above the ground, with high ridged roof covered with bark, and with solid cypress doors and windows.

‘Tall, pointed picket fences surrounded the houses, built as was the custom in France ‘entre cour et jardin.’ Source: - Book - King, Grace - [book] - Creole Families of New Orleans - New York: Macmillan, c1921 (P5,P6,P4,P6) Witness: Marriage of Claude Jousset LaLoire & Marie-Anne leBlanc. Feb 26, 1725. Witness: Marriage of Noël Henri duBuisson & Marie-Anne Bertin. May 8, 1728. Witness: Marriage of François dit Bellegarde leMelle & Marie Louise Mariette. Nov 8, 1728. Witness, the bride’s father: Marriage of Louis Joseph de St Martin Bisoton & Marie Marguerite de laChaise. Feb 28, 1729. Witness, the bride’s father: Marriage of Jean Louis Prat & Marie Louise de laChaise. May 9, 1729. Witness: Marriage of Ignace François Broutin & Marie Madeleine leMaire. Sep 26, 1729.

One of two commissiioners sent to Louisiana by the Company of the Indies in 1722. Source: - Book - King, Grace - [book] - Creole Families of New Orleans - New York: Macmillan, c1921 (P159) - Book - Arch. of New Orleans Sacr. Rec. - V1, 1718-1750 - [book] - Woods, Earl, ed. (P137,P37,P164,P22 & 71,P214,P35)

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Jacques Auguste de la Chaise's Timeline

1675
July 26, 1675
Cusset, Allier, Auvergne, France
1700
1700
Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France
1702
1702
FRA, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France
1704
1704
FRA, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France
1706
1706
1708
1708
Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France
1710
1710
1712
1712
1724
1724
Paris, Ile-de-France, France