Author: Joan Ferris Curran

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Published: 1988

Total Pages: 184

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Louis Marie Augustin LeClercq, son of Francois and Marie Barbe (Dupont) LeClercq, was born August 29, 1744 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, a seaport town in northwestern France. He died 1801 in New Orleans. On Oct. 14, 1771 he married Marie Therese deMairé at St. Barthéléme Church in La Rochelle, France. She died in La Rochelle on 11 September 1780. Augustin and his six children, aged 10 to 17, left France and sailed from Le Havre 1790. They settled in Gallipolis, Gallia Co., Ohio. Descendants live in Ohio, New Orleans and West Baton Rouge, Louisiana and elsewhere.