Person:Pierre Rentrop (1)

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-DEATH: On Descendancy Chart sent over e-mail by RIVERRAT79@aol.com in May 1996 by Margaret RENTROP MOORE. Peter Henry RENTROP, born 1838 [sic, check] in Westphalia, N W Germany; married 19 Oct 1812 in St. Martin de Tours Church, St. Martinville, LA to Marguerite BERTRAND; seven children listed. His succession is dated 1838 in St. Mary Parish, LA.

!MARRIAGE: Donald J. Hebert, SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA RECORDS, vol. 2; 1811-1830; Eunice, LA, by author, 1974; pp. 69 & 752; own copy; contains church and civil records. Pierre Henri RENTROP, son of Henry & Catherine Elizabeth NAPPE, married on 19 Oct 1812 to Marguerite BERTRAND, daughter of Jean Baptiste & Marguerite SCHEXNAYDER. Recorded in St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church, St. Martinville, St. Martin, LA (SM Ch.: v.5, #274).

!CENSUS: 1813, Berwick Bay, St. Mary, LA. Peter H. RENTROP had 8 slaves, (Reference: Mary Eliz. Sanders, RECORDS OF ATTAKAPAS DISTRICT, vol. 2).

!LAND-SLAVES: Glenn R. Conrad, LAND RECORDS OF THE ATTAKAPAS DISTRICT; 1804-1818; vol. II, part 1; p. 351; own copy. John ROGERS sold to Peter H. RENTROP the tract of land on which ROGERS lived, near RENTROP's ferry, together with all the rails and improvements thereon. Dated 8 Mar 1813, price $250, record No. 147 in St. Mary Parish Conveyances.

    Also on p. 353, Peter DEARBORN sold to Peter W.[sic] RENTROP 2 slaves: Hurphy (male age 18), Colas (25) for $1400, dated 19 Oct 1813, record No. 172 in St. Mary Parish Conveyances.
   On p. 366, Before Judge Andrew STELLE of East Baton Rouge Parish, Atwell RODGERS and John RODGERS sold to Peter H. RENTROP 2 slaves: James and Sanders, both about 25 years old, being the same slaves sold to Atwell by John on 8 Mar 1813. Sale dated 13 Jan 1815, price $1400, record No. 283 in St. Mary Parish Conveyances.
   On p. 374, he loaned $1400 on 17 Jan 1816 on a mortgage of 2 slaves. Record No. 358 in St. Mary Parish Conveyances.
   On p. 378, "Retrocession of land" filed 20 May 1816. Act of 3 May 1813. Peter Henry RENTROP declared that on 10 May 1811 he purchased a tract of land on west side of Bayou Teche, bounded above by Henry KNIGHT and lower side by vacant lands...in agreement that in one year after expiration of "An Act to Establish a Ferry from Attakapas to Lafourche" passed by legislature on 28 Feb 1811 in favor of Henry RENTROP, that the land return and become the property of Henry KNIGHT and said Peter Henry RENTROP until 28 Feb 1819, at which time it would become the exclusive property of Henry KNIGHT. Record No. 402 in St. Mary Parish Conveyances.
    On p. 383, on 25 Jan 1817, bought land 2 x 40 on Berwick's Bay next door for $400. Record No. 472 in St. Mary Parish Conveyances.
    On p. 389, on 28 Jun 1817, exchanged land with Henry JOHNSON, got tract on Berwick Bay on 18 x 80 arpents. Record No. 506.
    On p. 398, on 11 Jun 1818, William ROCHELLE sold to Peter H. RENTROP slaves: Sylvia (age 18) and her child Fanny (2); Rody (female, age 15), for $1162 cash.

!CENSUS: 1820 U.S. federal census, St. Mary Parish, LA; p. . Pierre H. RENTROP:

            Males                             Females                             Agric.                 M/Slaves/F 

0-9 10-15 16-18 19-25 26-44 45+ 0-9 10-15 16-25 26-44 45+

2                              1      1          1              1            2          14                           13  

Pierre was around 28, with his wife and three children under 10. [Is the older male over 45 his widower father? Recheck.]

!DEATH: Peter Henry RENTROP, succession dated 12 MAR 1838, in St. Mary Parish Courthouse, Franklin, LA (Frank.Ct.Hse.: Succ. #370) (SW LA R, vol. 3).

1. ↑ Clopha J. Theriot. "Family Tree in Ascending Order". (Printout from Family Tree Maker, 2001)
   p. [1], on Bergeron.

   Born 1789.

2. ↑ U.S. federal census
   Microfilm M252, Roll 10, p. 36 (24).

   Maxille BOURG:
   Free White Males Free White Females Other Slaves
   0-9 10-15 16-25 26-44 45+ 0-9 10-15 16-25 26-44 45+
   0 0 2 2 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 1
   [Maxille is around 32 years old, with wife 28, and two daughters under 10. Of the three other young men, perhaps one age 26-44 is his brother-in-law Pierre Henri RENTROP, and the older man over 45 is probably wife Caroline's father, Heinrich Gerhard RENTROP, now a widower around age 50. There is also one slave.]

3. ↑ Mary Elizabeth Sanders, comp. Records of Attakapas District Louisana, St. Mary Parish 1811-1860, vol. II. (Fort Worth: American Reference Publishers, 1969)
   p. 39.

   Peter H. Rentrope, with 8 slaves, living in the Berwick's Bay region of St. Mary Parish, on tax assessment rolls for 1813. Published in THE PLANTERS' BANNER for 6 Apr 1848 (p. 2, cols. 4-5).

4. ↑ Donald J. Hébert. Southwest Louisiana Records, 1750-1900: compact disk number 101. (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 2001).

   RENTROP, Peter Henry Succ. dated 12 March 1838 (Frank. Ct. Hse.: Succ. #370)

5. ↑ St. Mary Genealogical and Historical Society. St. Mary Links. (St. Mary Parish, LA)
   vol. 10, no. 2, p. 7.

   "Rentrope's plantation [also Fandal's] was purchased in the 1870s by a Capt. John Newton Pharr, and renamed FAIRVIEW PLANTATION. It was the last known site of any Indian mound in the area."

   (Summer 1994)