Jean-Baptiste Bossier dit Le Brun

Jean Baptiste Bossier dit Le Brun (1676-1745),was a native of Casselsagrat, Tarn-et-Garon, France. He was already in his forties when he joined Bernard La Harp's expedition in 1718 to explore concessions in the newly established Louisiana Colony. After arrival in Louisiana the La Harpe expedition was rerouted by Governor Beinville to explore the upper reaches of the Red River for trade purposes. La Harp selected five volunteers and pushed north along the River into present day Arkansas and founded Ft. Charlotta in present day Fulton, Arkansas. On the return trip, Bossier remained at Ft. Jean Baptiste de Nachitoches on the Red River created in 1714 to protect the undefined border with Spanish Texas. [2]

Bossier was granted two parcels of land on the east bank of the Red River in Natchitoches, possibly in compensation for rebuilding of the original fort further inland in 1732. By that time he had acquired land in St. Charles Parish near New Orleans and was raising a family there. He had married Anne Chaigneau Rousseau, a Natchitoches widow with two children in about 1728. They had three boys in the years following. Bossier appears to have moved back and forth from his family home in St. Charles and his Natchitoches property. No doubt he farmed land on both sites, but the Company of the Indies also licensed him to make bricks, tiles and earthen pots at his St. Charles site. These two locations became ancestral homes for later generations of Bossiers. [3]

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