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Marie Louise Mariette (c. 1712-1767) a Casket Girl of Old New Orleans

CHRONOLGY

1718 Bienville establishes the settlment of New Orleans

1720 Engineer from France, Adrien de Pauger, plots out the "Viewx Carré"

1721 New Orleans becomes the capital of the colonial government

1722 The first group of Casket Girls arrives in the Mobile Colony and are quickly married to the settlers from Canada. Casket Girls continue to arrive in different locations in the in the French Gulf Coast colonies, individually and in small groups, over the next three decades.

1727 A Jesuit priest, Nicholas de Beaubois, negotiates a contract with the Ursulines Sisters in France on behalf of the Compnay of the Indies for the founding of a convent in New Orleans. The nuns arrive in New Orleans on August 7, 1727. On December 23, 1727, Marie Louise Mariette, age 15, signs a contract with the Compnay of the Indies in which she agrees to sail to New Orleans and establish herself in the new colony.

1728 In April, Marie Louise Mariette sails from the port of Lorient on the French Atlantic coast aboard "Le Baleine." She arrives in New Orleans and Marries François Lemelle (Bellegarde) on November 8, 1728, in the St. Louis parish church.

1729 Marie Louise gives birth to a son, Jacques. He is baptized in the St Louis parish church on August 14. Jacques becomes a ship captain. He takes a mulatto mate, Jacqueline. They have three children, Agata, Tonton, and Adelaide. Jacques emancipates Jacqueline and the children. Marie subsequently gives birth to second son, François. He becomes a large landowner and marries Charlotte Labbe. Marie's third child is a daughter, Dominique Jeannette. She marries Denis Braud, a successful merchant.

November 28, 1729. Massacre of the French settlers in Fort Rosalie by the Natches Indians.

1731 The Company of the Indies, unable to make a profit, begins negotiaing with the French bovernment for release from its Louisiana proprietary. King Louis XV dissolves the Company's charter on January 23, 1731.

1732 Additional French nuns arrive.

1733 Mère Tranchepain, Mother Superior of the Ursulines in New Orleans, dies.

1734 Celebration, consecration of the new Ursulines Convent on Chartres Street in New Orleans.

1765 Petition by Widow Lemelle and her three children for permit to sell all properties belonging to the succession.