Accompanied by newspaper clippings from a 1911 issue of the New Orleans Picayune which partially transcribe Tureaud's manuscript and include reproductions of paintings of the Tureaud family, pasted into a scrapbook with manuscript annotations by reporter Trist Wood. and Manuscript memoir bound with string, in French, detailing Tureaud's employ as supercargo aboard the Alert, an American merchant vessel which departed Baltimore for the port of Vera Cruz in 1801 and his subsequent life in Louisiana. Narrative describes the Alert's interception and interrogation by a British privateer, the Spring Bird, and subsequent capture by a British ship, the Crescent. Tureaud was held on suspicion of smuggling goods for the benefit of France. Describes Tureaud's detention and examination in Port Royal by the English Admiralty Court; an accidental shooting, an outbreak of yellow fever, several encounters with other English vessels, and an attempted mutiny by the crew following the resumption of the Alert's voyage to Vera Cruz; the ship's inhospitable reception by the Spanish governor of Vera Cruz; and Tureaud's eventual settlement in New Orleans and introduction into New Orleans society. Details the arrangement of his marriage to Elizabeth Bringier and several other romantic attachments.
Description:
Augustin Dominique Tureaud, born October 23, 1764, in La Rochelle, France. He fled San Domingo after a slave revolt, and moved to Baltimore where he sought to make his fortune in maritime trade. After a failed commercial voyage to Vera Cruz in 1801, Tureaud settled in New Orleans, marrying fourteen-year-old Elizabeth (Betzy) Louise Bringier in 1803 to solidify a partnership with her father, Marius Pons Bringier. Tureaud later became a judge in Acadia County, Louisiana., Materials in French and English., and Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2003.
Subject (Geographic):
Latin America--Commerce--United States, New Orleans (La.)--Social life and customs--19th century, Port Royal (Jamaica)--Description and travel, United States--Commerce--Latin America, and Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico)--Commerce--History--19th century
Subject (Name):
Alert (Ship), Bringier, Marius Pons, Crescent (Ship), La Seine (Ship), Spring Bird (Ship), Tureaud, Augustin Dominique, b. 1764, Tureaud, Elizabeth Louise, b. 1788, and Wood, Trist
