Petition Papers from the Succession of Eugene Beaurepaire, filed in the 4th District Court of New Orleans
This file appears in: The Beaurepaire Family: Freedom to Slavery and Back Again
William Epps, a local man who also married one of Felix Grima's other slaves, Justine, with whom he had numerous children testified as a witness to Marie Jeanne and Eugene's marriage here. He includes that he knew Marie Jeanne since she was 25 years old and Eugene for about 25 years before his death.
This file appears in: The Beaurepaire Family: Freedom to Slavery and Back Again
The Beaurepaire Family: Freedom to Slavery and Back Again
The house today marked 727-729 Burgundy Street, relatively unchanged since the early 1800s, has a history that reflects the tricky navigation of enslavement and freedom by a family called the Beaurepaires. On August 25, 1828, Louis Beaurepaire, a…