Pierre Trepagnier

The builder and first owner of the Trepagnier / Ormond Plantation was sugar baron Pierre Trepagnier, who in the early 1780s was awarded a tract of land between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River by Spanish Governor Don Bernardo de Galvez, in recognition of Trepagnier's service in subduing the British at Natchez as an officer in the Louisiana Militia during the American Revolutionary War. The manor house was completed shortly before 1789 (or 1780) and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Trepagnier (née Elizabeth Reynaud, m. 1777) and their eight children. The family grew indigo and then sugarcane on the property.

In 1798, Mr. Trepagnier was summoned from a family meal by a servant to notify him of a coach outside with a Spanish insignia. The servant was reported to have seen him meet a gentleman who was supposedly dressed in the clothing of a Spanish official. When the servant checked back, Trepagnier, the man and his coach had vanished and were never seen again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormond_Plantation_House

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Aug 16 2018, 15:03:13 UTC