| 1760 June 11 |
Bellechasse is born in New Orleans to Marie Jeanne Caron and Joseph Deville Goutin.
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| 1775 |
Bellechasse enters Spanish service as a soldier.
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| 1778 |
Bellechasse appointed a cadet in the Louisiana Infantry Regiment.
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| 1779 |
Bellechasse serves under Galvez during Spanish attacks at Ft. Bute (Manchac) and at Baton Rouge.
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| 1780 |
Bellechasse serves under Galvez during Spanish seige of Mobile.
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| 1786 |
Bellechasse is commissioned a lieutenant in the 5th Company, 3rd Battalion of the Lousiiana Regiment.
He has renmained in West Florida.
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| 1789 |
Bellechasse serves on an expedition under Vicente Folch to recapture runaway slaves.
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| 1792 |
Bellechasse remains at Ft San Estevan until this year.
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| 1793 |
Bellechasse joins the Mississippi Aquadron in command of the galley La Felipa.
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| 1794 |
Bellechasse is promoted to the rank of Lt. of grenadiers in the 1st Battalion in New Orleans.
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| 1795 February 26 |
A major portion of a French Quarter square was sold at public auction to Joseph (Jose) Deville Degoutin (Bellechasse) on this date from the succession sale of Pedro Carlos Petroux. Colonel Bellechasse sold off the land in small lots over several years. |
| 1796 |
Bellechasse serving again under Folch as commandant of Ft. St. Fernanco (now Memphis, Tennessee) 1796-97.
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| 1797 |
During 1797 several royal princes, exiles from revolutionary France, visit New Orleans. Bellechasse
and Clark are two of the many leading citizens who show them around the city. p287, New Orleans as it Was, Castellanos |
| 1798 |
Bellechasse is promoted to the rank of Captain and is commander of the post of New Feliciana.
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| 1799 |
Bellechasse retires from the military and becomes engaged in business enterprises in New Orleans and along the German Coast.
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| 1803 May 21 |
Broutin, Nar(ci)so New Orleans, (Louisiana) (Labarre, of (New Orleans) wishes to marry Rosina of this city. Labarre is the son of Fran(cis)co Pascalis de la Barre, councilman of this city, and Carlota Volant. Rosina is the daughter of Francisco Chauvin Delery Dezilet and Maria Marthe Bienvenu. Labarre's mother is the daughter of Gregorio Volant and Maria Devins. Rosina's mother is a daughter of Antonio Bienvenu and Maria Martha Devins. Maria Devins and Maria Martha Devins are daughter of Francisco Chauvin Devins and Martha Chauvin. His fiancee is poor; they are from a distinguished family. He asks Hassett to hear his case.) Joseph Deville Degoutin, retired captain, appeared and swore (to the information given above). He (Labarre, of (New Orleans) is over 25 and signs as Josef Deville Degoutin. D.S. (Spanish) Link to source webpage |
| 1803 October |
Pierre Laussat, the French colonial Prefect of Louisiana asks Joseph Bellechasse to become commander
of the provencial militia and Daniel Clark encourages him to accept. He commands the militia in the ceremony to transfer the colony to the United States.
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| 1804 August 7 August 14 |
Joseph Bellechasse is listed as a subscriber of the Louisiana Gazette.
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| 1804 October 12 |
Joseph Bellechasse is appointed to the Legislative Council.
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| 1805 March 5 |
Results of elections for aldermen, Bellechasse is elected in the 3rd district and is aldo a city recorder.
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| 1805 August 16 |
Bellechasse is appointed a colonel in the territorial militia.
p2,col 4, La. Gazette |
| 1805 February 28 |
Bellechasse is re-appointed to the Legislative Council.
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| 1805 September 28 |
From a mulatto called Celestin, Bellechasse learns of a plot to cause an insurrection among slaves. With other community
leaders and a detachment of gendarmerie the house where the plot is hatching is surrounded. Bellechasse camouflages himself
and is able to overhear the plot. A man named Grandjean, a recent arrival from Saint-Domingue is arrested. p246, New Orleans as it Was, Castellanos |
| 1806 |
Bellechasse serves as president of the New Orleans City Council, recorder and as a justice for the Territory of Orleans.
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| 1806 January 17 |
A decree signed by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison authorizes four of the most powerful men in Louisiana with the duty of organizing the new provisional government. Determined to lead the newly acquired Louisiana Territory into a representative democracy, Jefferson purposely selected individuals with long histories in Louisiana to make the transition from French to American rule as smooth as possible. These men were Joseph deVille Degoutin Bellechasse, Jean Baptiste Macarty, Jean Noel d'Estrehan de Tours, and Pierre Sauve. All four were members of the legislative council that shepherded the new territories into an unfamiliar form of government. The decisions they made exerted tremendous influence on the course of history in Louisiana. |
| 1807 July 24 |
Bellechasse orders a review of the militia.
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| 1807 July 24 |
Bellechasse publishes a brigade order.
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| 1807 July 24 |
Bellechasse commands a review of the regiments.
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| 1808 April 8 |
Bellechasse defends Daniel Clark. p2,col 3, La Gazette |
| 1798 |
Bellechasse serves as President of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Orleans.
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| 1811 |
Bellechasse is appointed an adminstrator of Charity Hospital.
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| 1812 |
Bellechasse serves at the convention helping to draft a state constitution.
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| 1813 August 14 |
Daniel Clark dies. Joseph Bellchasse is named as executor in Clark's will which disappears.
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| 1814 June 13 |
Joseph Bellechasse leaves New Orleans to visit family in Cuba. He travels through St. Augustine Florida where he receives a message from Richard Relf that he is accused of helping the British plans to capture New Orleans. In Cuba he learns that his family had left New Orleans in a hurry and he later blames this false report for the death of his wife and eldest son. This tragedy leads him to leave Louisiana completely.
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| 1820 June 14 |
Joseph Bellechasse corresponded with Samuel Davis after the death of Daniel Clark. Bellechasse wished to pass on to Myra the land that Clark had entrusted to him. Davis may have been trying to gain control of the land, or he may have been tring to keep the existence of the titles, and the truth of her heritage from Myra.
p22 Notorious Woman by Elizabeth Urban Alexandria from deposition of Samuel B. Davis, 1836 |
| 1833 Spring |
At his sugar plantation near Matanzas, Bellechasse welcomesMyra Clark and her young husband William Whitney.
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| 1834 August 24 |
Joseph Bellechasse recalls the land entrusted to him by Daniel Clark, "perhaps 50 lots" in a deposition used in Gaines v. City of New Orleans. he says that Clark did not provide for Myra in the 1911 will because he used other means to provide for her. He had left land with Bellechasse, Delacroix and Colonel Davis. Claark expressed doubt about his partners Relf and Chew.
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| 1837 |
Joseph Bellechasse provides another deposition for Myra's case.
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| 1850 |
Joseph Bellechasse dies in Cuba.
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