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Jacqueline Lemelle

      Sex: F

Individual Information
     Birth Date: Abt 1730
    Christening: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 

Spouses and Children
1. *Jacques Santiago Lemelle
       Marriage: 
       Children:
                1. Agathe Lemelle
                2. Jeanne Francoise Lemelle
                3. Maria Adelaida Lemelle

Notes
General:
Per Urban Slavery-Urban Freedom by L. Virginia Gould:
"As a mulatress born during the early years of French Louisiana, it is doubtful Jacqueline was a slave brought directly from Africa. Records suggest her mother was a slave and her father was white. Likely, her mother was one of the first slaves brought into the colony. Like most other slaves and free women of color in New Orleans, Jacqueline did not leave a personal account of her life. Public documents reveal enough about her life, however, that it is possible to recover something of her identity and many of her experiences. Jacqueline appears in property records in which she was bought and sold. She also is found in manumission records in which she was freed and in those in which she freed others. Jacqueline and three of her daughters are discussed in some detail in the inventory of the estate of Santiago Lemelle. They also appear in local census and sacramental records.

As Jacqueline's relationship with Santiago Lemelle was redefined from slave to cohabitant to co-parent, her relationship with her family, her legal status, and her status in the community changed. As long as Jacqueline remained in slavery, she had no legitimate say in the lives of her daughters."

In fact, one of her daughters, Maria Juana, was sold away from her.

"Shortly after her own manumission, Jacqueline purchased the freedom of her daughter Maria Juana and her grandfather, Julia, from Francisco Lemelle, Santiago Lemelle's brother. Another of Jacqueline's children, Luis Dusuau, was freed by his white father, Don Joseph Dusuau de la Crois."


Per The Louisiana Historical Quarterly - Index to Spanish Judicial Records of Louisiana
"...Jean Francois, born the fourteenth of August of the present year, of Jacqueline, a mulattress slave of Mr. Lemelle; this child was declared free by Mr. Lemelle, the master, who declared to me that he wishes the said Jeanne Francois to be baptised as free."


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