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Note: The Tête Family of Louisiana
All the Tetes in Louisiana today are descended from one Auguste Tete and his wife, Rose Clement. Their marriage contract and civil wedding are reflected in formal acts passed before the Vice-Consulate of France in Philadelphia on October 26, 1811.
These acts show that August Tete was born in Port-au-Prince, Saint Domingue, formerly the most prosperous of French Colonies. He is declared to have been the son of Benoit Tete, a native of Ville Franche, Department of the Rhone (Villerferanche-en-Beaujolais, now Villefranclhe-surSaone), France, and Marie-Therese Suzanne Villegrain. The father is shown to have been a wholesale merchant who died domiciled in Port-au-Prince. Auguste's mother is declared to be a native of Le Havre de Grace, Department of the Lower Seine (Le Havre, in Brittany), France. These acts further reflect that the bride, Marie Rose Clement, was likewise born in Port-au-Prince, as the daughter of Jean Clement, a native of Montpellier, in the South of France, and his wife, Marie Pernot, native of Pezenas, a village southwest of Montpellier.
Auguste served in the War of 1812 as shown by the United States official pension records. In 1876 Auguste's widow was granted a pension. Her affidavit shows that Auguste enlisted in New Orleans and fought under Plauche and Roche in the battles of December 1814 and January 1815. The records include a certificate of the religious service that, per French practice, followed the civil service. It was performed at St. Joseph's Church in Philadelphia. The burial certificate for Auguste, included in the records, reflects that he was interred at St. Joseph's Church, Lafourche Parish (just below the Lafourche-Assumption boundary), Louisiana, and that he died at age 56 on July 16, 1846.
Notwithstanding his French citizenship, he was appointed Justice of the Peace for Assumption Parish on March 1, 1833 in consideration of his Patriotism) He was finally naturalized on August 7, 1840, formally announcing his allegiance to the Bourbon King of France. The location of Auguste's lands, situated on both sides of Bayou Lafourche, is shown on the La Tourrette Map of 1847.
(April 13, 1984, New Orleans, W. T. Tete)
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Veteran, War of 1812: In the Battle of New Orleans, [Jean Balthasar] Plauche?s Batallion d?Orleans of uniform companie s was composed of the elite of the native population of the city of French origin. Plauche?s Battalion, or Batallio n d?Orléans, ran the whole distance from Bayou St. Jean to Chalmette to join the column of attack. Many of the battali on were delicate young Creole boys, yet they bore their heavy muskets and knapsacks with as much ease as practised vete rans. As Alexander Walker, the laureate historian of the battle, says of them: ?With their gay and varied uniforms, ch aracterized by that good taste and regard for proportion and effect which distinguished the French race, with their bol d, handsome countenances and uniform size, the Orléans battalion was certainly a corps of which any commander might b e proud.? They were stationed at Spanish Fort and dashed off for the Place d?Armas, and, according to legend, ran th e entire distance. Here they joined the review of the troops by General Andrew Jackson. [Davis, Louisiana, P182.]
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=beebeewood&i d=I 1870
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Jan. 17, 1829 - Two male slaves, Jacob and Abram, ages 22 and 21, sold by Clement Townsend of Woodville, Mississippa and James Diggs of Norfolk, Virginia to August Tete of Assumption Parish, Louisiana. (Ancestry.com)
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