Person:Etienne Pavie (1)

Name	Étienne Pavie
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	12 Apr 1740	La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France
Marriage	Bef 1780	to Marie Thérèse Eugenie Buard
Marriage		to Marie Louise _____
Will`^?`	29 May 1787	Louisiana Purchase, United StatesNorthwestern State University of Louisiana: Melrose Collection: 665 Will of Etienne Pavie and wrapper, May 29, 1787 (the will is filed in oversize)
Death`^?`	1 Jun 1787	Natchitoches, Louisiana, United StatesDied from wounds recieved, after being shot on the property of his plantation.

References

Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Natchitoches, 1729-1803: Abstracts of the Catholic Church Registers of the French and Spanish Post of St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches in Louisiana. (New Orleans, Louisiana: Polyanthos, 1977)
entry 920.
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Which Marie Louise Is “Mariotte”? Sorting Slaves with Common Names, in National Genealogical Society Quarterly
94, Pages 183-204, Sep 2006.

When Buard’s daughter Marie Thérèse executed a marriage contract with Étienne Pavie on 1 December 1779 her dowry was “one small mulâtresse aged twelve, named Marie Louise, Creole of this post, valued at 1250 livres, coming from the succession of her father.” As a Pavie slave, young Marie Louise bore two children:

i. Marie Silesie, born 27 December 1783 and baptized 5 February 1784 as the
quadroon daughter of the mulâtresse Marie Louise, both slaves of Pavie.

ii. Jean Baptiste, born 24 October 1785, racial composition unstated. His
mother was identified as “Marie Louise, mulâtresse of Pavie.”
Klier, Betje Black. Pavie in the Borderlands: The Journey of Théodore Pavie to Louisiana and Texas, 1829-1830, Including Portions of His Souvenirs Atlantiques. (Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2000).