Jean Baptiste Guillory, fils

Jean Baptiste Guillory, son of slave-owner Gregoire Guillory and Marguerite, an enslaved woman who had to go to court to achieve the freedom he'd promised her and her children, was born enslaved in Louisiana c.1770. He is sometimes referred to as Jean Babtiste II, as he had an older half-brother also named Jean Baptiste.

Thanks to his mother, he was free by the time he married Victoire Donato Bello, daughter of Donato Bello and Marie-Jeanne Taillefero, a mulatresse of New Orleans, in 1789.[1][2]

Known children of the marriage:

Jean Baptiste Guillory (1790) m. Marguerite Caramail c.1815.[3]
Louis Denis Guillory (1792)[3]
Caliste Guillory (1793)[3]
Marie Celeste Guillory (1795) m. Cassimir Roujeau in 1811.[3]
Evariste Guillory (1799)
Adelaide Guillory (1801)[3]
Marie Louise Guillory (c.1803)[4]
Donato Guillory (c.1805)[5]
Louis Casimir Guillory (c.1807)[3]

"Land grant records indicate that Jean-Baptiste Guillory was Martin Donato’s stock keeper on property Martin owned along Bayou Mallet (now designated as section 44 of Township 7 South, Range 1 West, and section 45 of Townships 7 and 8 South, Range 1 West). Under the terms of the O’Reilly ordinance, Jean-Baptiste also assisted his wife, Catherine Victoire, in securing a grant which is now designated as section 43 of Township 7 South, Range 1 West (State Land Office Records).[6]

He appears to have predeceased his wife, who died after 13 March 1823; at that time their property was distributed to their eight children.[7]
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