Chesnier Duchesne-Smith family papers, 1780-1892.

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Chesnier Duchesne-Smith family papers, 1780-1892.

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This collection consists of original and photocopied handwritten family correspondence, and legal and financial documents, of the Chesnier Duchesne family. Most of the correspondence consists of personal letters concerning family affiars, written to Ambroise Alexandre Chesnier Duchesne, in Louisiana, or to his son, Léon, in Natchez, Miss., from relatives in France and French Algeria. Several of these original letters are in extremely fragile condition. Included also are letters written by A. W. Smith from Aurora, Ill., to his mother, Mrs. Charles A. Smith. Among the documents is a copy of the marriage contract of François Alexandre Chesnier Duchesne and Marie Angélique Brunet (May 18, 1814); U.S. citizenship papers of Charles A. Smith (Nov. 1850); and genealogical notes on the Chesnier Duchesne family. Included at the end of the collection is a folder containing a photocopy of a 1972 article, entitled: "Caldwell Parish in Slices, Alex Duchesne Married Four Times: Father of Fifteen Children."

1 linear foot (2 boxes)

eng,

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Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

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Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

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Smith Family

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Residents of Charleston and, prior to capture of Port Royal, S.C., by Federal troops in 1861, of Smithfield plantation on the Combahee River in Beaufort District, S.C.; William Mason Smith (1818-1851) married Eliza C.M. Huger in 1842; they were parents of six children, including third son, D.E. Huger Smith, who transcribed and annotated these letters ca. 1920s with his daughter, artist Alice Ravenel Huger Smith. From the description of Smith family papers, 1860 Dec. 4-1926 Dec. 26 ; ...

Chesnier Duchesne family.

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