Miguez Name Meaning Portuguese and Galician (Míguez): patronymic from Miguel, a reduced form of Miguelez.
Signature: Xerox copy obtained from the St. Martin Parish Priest, Fr. Jeanne Jammes, 1982 when he researched the large 'Books of the Dead.
I was there and saw them in the vault at the Church's Rectory. Leslie Pierce Royce
A small group of Spanish countrymen from the port city of Malaga, Spain, set sail in late 1778 for New Orleans in the North American territory of Louisiana. These twenty or thirty farmer-immigrants and their families had earlier in the year been recruited by Don Francisco Bouligny to act as soldier-settlers in the new Spanish-Louisiana colony. This group of Spaniards included Juan Migues1 and his wife, Salvadora De Quero, their son, Salvador, along with about 60 others from the precincts of Malaga. The son of Francisco Migues, Juan was originally from the parish of Saint Sebastian near Tuy, Spain, a port city on the Atlantic located across the northern border of Portugal.
As a young man, Juan left Tuy in the province of Galicia for life in the city of Malaga in southern Spain, where he met and married Salvadora, a young city girl of about thirteen. In 1766 their first son, Joseph, was born. Later another son, Salvador, was born about 1774. On January 15, 1778, Juan signed a contract to come to Louisiana. And on June 5, the ship San Josef set sail, but Joseph was tragically left behind, as the ship sailed without notice on account of favorable winds.
Juan and his family, along with about two dozen other Malagan families, including his wife's relative, Josef de Porra, arrived in New Orleans in late 1778. There they reunited with Don Francisco Bouligny, the former lieutenant governor of Louisiana, who was in charge of the settling expedition. Bouligny left New Orleans sometime in the middle of January 1779 with four of the Malagueño families, which included the Romero and the Villatoro (Viator), families, along with four bachelors, one of whom was Francisco Segura, together with about 75 slaves and other laborers. Finally after three weeks of first traveling up the Mississippi by towboat and down the Atchafalaya River in chartered push boats, the band of Iberian settlers and slaves entered the calm waters of the Teche where Bouligny promptly selected a first site for the settlement. The Miguez family and others joined the site in March or April.
However, within days of the Miguez arrival in the Teche settlement, the level of the bayou suddenly began to rise about a foot and a half a day until the entire settlement of Nuevo Iberia was flooded under six to eight feet of water! With this disaster, Bouligny wisely abandoned the site and had the settlers moved upstream to the present-day site of New Iberia.
Nuevo Iberia
The new settlement which Bouligny founded was located in the sharp bend of the bayou. While this area was not yet populated before the arrival of the "Iberian settlers", however, the larger area of the Attakapas district was populated here and there with early 18th-century Creole Frenchmen and the recently arrived Acadians.
Within months of his arrival Juan Migues had bought a tract of land next to the settlement of New Iberia several hundred yards down the Bayou Teche encompassing about 770 feet of water frontage and extending about a mile and a half westward out into the grassy prairie. In 1781 Juan registered his first cattle brand. Later Juan acquired another tract adjacent to the south side of his land. This purchase extended his land along the bayou another 480 feet for a total of about 1250 feet. Finally Juan Miguez acquired a land grant in the area of Ile des Cannes to the southwest and across the prairie. This occurred about the same time in the 1790s that the other Spanish settlers such as the Segura's, the Romero's, the Viators, and the Prados had received grants along the shores of Spanish Lake.
The Death of Juan
In 1800, Juan and his sons registered their cattle brands at the Saint Martinville Courthouse, which at that time was still under the authority of the Spanish government. Juan had a distinctive M-shaped brand that was unmistakably his own. Yet soon after this effort of registering the cattle brand, he sold all his lands: (including that of his Spanish land grant to Joseph Broussard), and he and his wife, Salvadora, sent out for the town of New Orleans to open a cabaret in the area of the old French Quarter, apparently to retire from the country life. But soon after his arrival in disease-infected New Orleans, Juan became ill and soon died there on November 13, 1800, but not before he had hired an attorney and while on his death bed in clear mind and "with full use of his faculties" the day before he had left his last will and testament stating that he owned a store-cabaret, a slave women with child, and that there were three men who still owed him money, and that it was up to his sons to collect this money.
1 Juan (1748-1800) was the son of Francisco Migues (born about 1720) of the farming class and of Maria Diaz (born about 1728).
2 She was born about 1753.
3 This site was near the present-day town of Charenton.
4 This was located near the present-day site of the old sugar mill on Daspit Rd.
5 This land was four arpents wide by 40 arpents deep, and it ran along the bayou from about present-day Railroad St. to halfway between Jefferson and French Streets. Lengthwise this tract extended all the way to present-day Admiral Doyle Drive. See St. Martinville Original Acts (SMOA), bk. 2, No. 2, for the courthouse documentation.
6 Fragmentary evidence suggests that this land "was conveyed to Francisco Ortiz and then by him to Juan Migues. The original grant of this land was given to Francois Prevost.
7 This tract of land was located near the present-day Iberia Port Commercial Canal and at the end of Gall Road, off Jefferson Terrace, or the old Lydia Rd.
8 The sale of the first four arpent tract was to Louis-Charles de Blanc and is recorded in SMOA, Bk. 18, no. 69. The two-and-a-half arpent tract was sold by Juan to Juan Puche y Solis on September 9, 1800 (SMOA, Bk. 19, no. 136. This sale of Juan's land grant to the southeast occurred sometime before the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 when afterwards J. Broussard registered the land patent with the American government (See Glenn Conrad, Land Records of the Attakapas District, vol. 1.)
9 The will is located in the Spanish archives in the Government Building on Podyras St. in New Orleans under Spanish notary Pedro Pedesclaux 37:673. Juan's will is six legal pages beginning on Vol 37, page 673. Salvador Migues' power of attorney is on page 679 of Volume 37.
Signature: Xerox copy obtained from the St. Martin Parish Priest, Fr. Jeanne Jammes, 1982 when he researched the large 'Books of the Dead.
I was there and saw them in the vault at the Church's Rectory. Leslie Pierce Royce
A small group of Spanish countrymen from the port city of Malaga, Spain, set sail in late 1778 for New Orleans in the North American territory of Louisiana. These twenty or thirty farmer-immigrants and their families had earlier in the year been recruited by Don Francisco Bouligny to act as soldier-settlers in the new Spanish-Louisiana colony. This group of Spaniards included Juan Migues1 and his wife, Salvadora De Quero, their son, Salvador, along with about 60 others from the precincts of Malaga. The son of Francisco Migues, Juan was originally from the parish of Saint Sebastian near Tuy, Spain, a port city on the Atlantic located across the northern border of Portugal.
As a young man, Juan left Tuy in the province of Galicia for life in the city of Malaga in southern Spain, where he met and married Salvadora, a young city girl of about thirteen. In 1766 their first son, Joseph, was born. Later another son, Salvador, was born about 1774. On January 15, 1778, Juan signed a contract to come to Louisiana. And on June 5, the ship San Josef set sail, but Joseph was tragically left behind, as the ship sailed without notice on account of favorable winds.
Juan and his family, along with about two dozen other Malagan families, including his wife's relative, Josef de Porra, arrived in New Orleans in late 1778. There they reunited with Don Francisco Bouligny, the former lieutenant governor of Louisiana, who was in charge of the settling expedition. Bouligny left New Orleans sometime in the middle of January 1779 with four of the Malagueño families, which included the Romero and the Villatoro (Viator), families, along with four bachelors, one of whom was Francisco Segura, together with about 75 slaves and other laborers. Finally after three weeks of first traveling up the Mississippi by towboat and down the Atchafalaya River in chartered push boats, the band of Iberian settlers and slaves entered the calm waters of the Teche where Bouligny promptly selected a first site for the settlement. The Miguez family and others joined the site in March or April.
However, within days of the Miguez arrival in the Teche settlement, the level of the bayou suddenly began to rise about a foot and a half a day until the entire settlement of Nuevo Iberia was flooded under six to eight feet of water! With this disaster, Bouligny wisely abandoned the site and had the settlers moved upstream to the present-day site of New Iberia.
Nuevo Iberia
The new settlement which Bouligny founded was located in the sharp bend of the bayou. While this area was not yet populated before the arrival of the "Iberian settlers", however, the larger area of the Attakapas district was populated here and there with early 18th-century Creole Frenchmen and the recently arrived Acadians.
Within months of his arrival Juan Migues had bought a tract of land next to the settlement of New Iberia several hundred yards down the Bayou Teche encompassing about 770 feet of water frontage and extending about a mile and a half westward out into the grassy prairie. In 1781 Juan registered his first cattle brand. Later Juan acquired another tract adjacent to the south side of his land. This purchase extended his land along the bayou another 480 feet for a total of about 1250 feet. Finally Juan Miguez acquired a land grant in the area of Ile des Cannes to the southwest and across the prairie. This occurred about the same time in the 1790s that the other Spanish settlers such as the Segura's, the Romero's, the Viators, and the Prados had received grants along the shores of Spanish Lake.
The Death of Juan
In 1800, Juan and his sons registered their cattle brands at the Saint Martinville Courthouse, which at that time was still under the authority of the Spanish government. Juan had a distinctive M-shaped brand that was unmistakably his own. Yet soon after this effort of registering the cattle brand, he sold all his lands: (including that of his Spanish land grant to Joseph Broussard), and he and his wife, Salvadora, sent out for the town of New Orleans to open a cabaret in the area of the old French Quarter, apparently to retire from the country life. But soon after his arrival in disease-infected New Orleans, Juan became ill and soon died there on November 13, 1800, but not before he had hired an attorney and while on his death bed in clear mind and "with full use of his faculties" the day before he had left his last will and testament stating that he owned a store-cabaret, a slave women with child, and that there were three men who still owed him money, and that it was up to his sons to collect this money.
1 Juan (1748-1800) was the son of Francisco Migues (born about 1720) of the farming class and of Maria Diaz (born about 1728).
2 She was born about 1753.
3 This site was near the present-day town of Charenton.
4 This was located near the present-day site of the old sugar mill on Daspit Rd.
5 This land was four arpents wide by 40 arpents deep, and it ran along the bayou from about present-day Railroad St. to halfway between Jefferson and French Streets. Lengthwise this tract extended all the way to present-day Admiral Doyle Drive. See St. Martinville Original Acts (SMOA), bk. 2, No. 2, for the courthouse documentation.
6 Fragmentary evidence suggests that this land "was conveyed to Francisco Ortiz and then by him to Juan Migues. The original grant of this land was given to Francois Prevost.
7 This tract of land was located near the present-day Iberia Port Commercial Canal and at the end of Gall Road, off Jefferson Terrace, or the old Lydia Rd.
8 The sale of the first four arpent tract was to Louis-Charles de Blanc and is recorded in SMOA, Bk. 18, no. 69. The two-and-a-half arpent tract was sold by Juan to Juan Puche y Solis on September 9, 1800 (SMOA, Bk. 19, no. 136. This sale of Juan's land grant to the southeast occurred sometime before the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 when afterwards J. Broussard registered the land patent with the American government (See Glenn Conrad, Land Records of the Attakapas District, vol. 1.)
9 The will is located in the Spanish archives in the Government Building on Podyras St. in New Orleans under Spanish notary Pedro Pedesclaux 37:673. Juan's will is six legal pages beginning on Vol 37, page 673. Salvador Migues' power of attorney is on page 679 of Volume 37.
Miguez Name Meaning Portuguese and Galician (Míguez): patronymic from Miguel, a reduced form of Miguelez.
Signature: Xerox copy obtained from the St. Martin Parish Priest, Fr. Jeanne Jammes, 1982 when he researched the large 'Books of the Dead.
I was there and saw them in the vault at the Church's Rectory. Leslie Pierce Royce
A small group of Spanish countrymen from the port city of Malaga, Spain, set sail in late 1778 for New Orleans in the North American territory of Louisiana. These twenty or thirty farmer-immigrants and their families had earlier in the year been recruited by Don Francisco Bouligny to act as soldier-settlers in the new Spanish-Louisiana colony. This group of Spaniards included Juan Migues1 and his wife, Salvadora De Quero, their son, Salvador, along with about 60 others from the precincts of Malaga. The son of Francisco Migues, Juan was originally from the parish of Saint Sebastian near Tuy, Spain, a port city on the Atlantic located across the northern border of Portugal.
As a young man, Juan left Tuy in the province of Galicia for life in the city of Malaga in southern Spain, where he met and married Salvadora, a young city girl of about thirteen. In 1766 their first son, Joseph, was born. Later another son, Salvador, was born about 1774. On January 15, 1778, Juan signed a contract to come to Louisiana. And on June 5, the ship San Josef set sail, but Joseph was tragically left behind, as the ship sailed without notice on account of favorable winds.
Juan and his family, along with about two dozen other Malagan families, including his wife's relative, Josef de Porra, arrived in New Orleans in late 1778. There they reunited with Don Francisco Bouligny, the former lieutenant governor of Louisiana, who was in charge of the settling expedition. Bouligny left New Orleans sometime in the middle of January 1779 with four of the Malagueño families, which included the Romero and the Villatoro (Viator), families, along with four bachelors, one of whom was Francisco Segura, together with about 75 slaves and other laborers. Finally after three weeks of first traveling up the Mississippi by towboat and down the Atchafalaya River in chartered push boats, the band of Iberian settlers and slaves entered the calm waters of the Teche where Bouligny promptly selected a first site for the settlement. The Miguez family and others joined the site in March or April.
However, within days of the Miguez arrival in the Teche settlement, the level of the bayou suddenly began to rise about a foot and a half a day until the entire settlement of Nuevo Iberia was flooded under six to eight feet of water! With this disaster, Bouligny wisely abandoned the site and had the settlers moved upstream to the present-day site of New Iberia.
Nuevo Iberia
The new settlement which Bouligny founded was located in the sharp bend of the bayou. While this area was not yet populated before the arrival of the "Iberian settlers", however, the larger area of the Attakapas district was populated here and there with early 18th-century Creole Frenchmen and the recently arrived Acadians.
Within months of his arrival Juan Migues had bought a tract of land next to the settlement of New Iberia several hundred yards down the Bayou Teche encompassing about 770 feet of water frontage and extending about a mile and a half westward out into the grassy prairie. In 1781 Juan registered his first cattle brand. Later Juan acquired another tract adjacent to the south side of his land. This purchase extended his land along the bayou another 480 feet for a total of about 1250 feet. Finally Juan Miguez acquired a land grant in the area of Ile des Cannes to the southwest and across the prairie. This occurred about the same time in the 1790s that the other Spanish settlers such as the Segura's, the Romero's, the Viators, and the Prados had received grants along the shores of Spanish Lake.
The Death of Juan
In 1800, Juan and his sons registered their cattle brands at the Saint Martinville Courthouse, which at that time was still under the authority of the Spanish government. Juan had a distinctive M-shaped brand that was unmistakably his own. Yet soon after this effort of registering the cattle brand, he sold all his lands: (including that of his Spanish land grant to Joseph Broussard), and he and his wife, Salvadora, sent out for the town of New Orleans to open a cabaret in the area of the old French Quarter, apparently to retire from the country life. But soon after his arrival in disease-infected New Orleans, Juan became ill and soon died there on November 13, 1800, but not before he had hired an attorney and while on his death bed in clear mind and "with full use of his faculties" the day before he had left his last will and testament stating that he owned a store-cabaret, a slave women with child, and that there were three men who still owed him money, and that it was up to his sons to collect this money.
1 Juan (1748-1800) was the son of Francisco Migues (born about 1720) of the farming class and of Maria Diaz (born about 1728).
2 She was born about 1753.
3 This site was near the present-day town of Charenton.
4 This was located near the present-day site of the old sugar mill on Daspit Rd.
5 This land was four arpents wide by 40 arpents deep, and it ran along the bayou from about present-day Railroad St. to halfway between Jefferson and French Streets. Lengthwise this tract extended all the way to present-day Admiral Doyle Drive. See St. Martinville Original Acts (SMOA), bk. 2, No. 2, for the courthouse documentation.
6 Fragmentary evidence suggests that this land "was conveyed to Francisco Ortiz and then by him to Juan Migues. The original grant of this land was given to Francois Prevost.
7 This tract of land was located near the present-day Iberia Port Commercial Canal and at the end of Gall Road, off Jefferson Terrace, or the old Lydia Rd.
8 The sale of the first four arpent tract was to Louis-Charles de Blanc and is recorded in SMOA, Bk. 18, no. 69. The two-and-a-half arpent tract was sold by Juan to Juan Puche y Solis on September 9, 1800 (SMOA, Bk. 19, no. 136. This sale of Juan's land grant to the southeast occurred sometime before the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 when afterwards J. Broussard registered the land patent with the American government (See Glenn Conrad, Land Records of the Attakapas District, vol. 1.)
9 The will is located in the Spanish archives in the Government Building on Podyras St. in New Orleans under Spanish notary Pedro Pedesclaux 37:673. Juan's will is six legal pages beginning on Vol 37, page 673. Salvador Migues' power of attorney is on page 679 of Volume 37.
Signature: Xerox copy obtained from the St. Martin Parish Priest, Fr. Jeanne Jammes, 1982 when he researched the large 'Books of the Dead.
I was there and saw them in the vault at the Church's Rectory. Leslie Pierce Royce
A small group of Spanish countrymen from the port city of Malaga, Spain, set sail in late 1778 for New Orleans in the North American territory of Louisiana. These twenty or thirty farmer-immigrants and their families had earlier in the year been recruited by Don Francisco Bouligny to act as soldier-settlers in the new Spanish-Louisiana colony. This group of Spaniards included Juan Migues1 and his wife, Salvadora De Quero, their son, Salvador, along with about 60 others from the precincts of Malaga. The son of Francisco Migues, Juan was originally from the parish of Saint Sebastian near Tuy, Spain, a port city on the Atlantic located across the northern border of Portugal.
As a young man, Juan left Tuy in the province of Galicia for life in the city of Malaga in southern Spain, where he met and married Salvadora, a young city girl of about thirteen. In 1766 their first son, Joseph, was born. Later another son, Salvador, was born about 1774. On January 15, 1778, Juan signed a contract to come to Louisiana. And on June 5, the ship San Josef set sail, but Joseph was tragically left behind, as the ship sailed without notice on account of favorable winds.
Juan and his family, along with about two dozen other Malagan families, including his wife's relative, Josef de Porra, arrived in New Orleans in late 1778. There they reunited with Don Francisco Bouligny, the former lieutenant governor of Louisiana, who was in charge of the settling expedition. Bouligny left New Orleans sometime in the middle of January 1779 with four of the Malagueño families, which included the Romero and the Villatoro (Viator), families, along with four bachelors, one of whom was Francisco Segura, together with about 75 slaves and other laborers. Finally after three weeks of first traveling up the Mississippi by towboat and down the Atchafalaya River in chartered push boats, the band of Iberian settlers and slaves entered the calm waters of the Teche where Bouligny promptly selected a first site for the settlement. The Miguez family and others joined the site in March or April.
However, within days of the Miguez arrival in the Teche settlement, the level of the bayou suddenly began to rise about a foot and a half a day until the entire settlement of Nuevo Iberia was flooded under six to eight feet of water! With this disaster, Bouligny wisely abandoned the site and had the settlers moved upstream to the present-day site of New Iberia.
Nuevo Iberia
The new settlement which Bouligny founded was located in the sharp bend of the bayou. While this area was not yet populated before the arrival of the "Iberian settlers", however, the larger area of the Attakapas district was populated here and there with early 18th-century Creole Frenchmen and the recently arrived Acadians.
Within months of his arrival Juan Migues had bought a tract of land next to the settlement of New Iberia several hundred yards down the Bayou Teche encompassing about 770 feet of water frontage and extending about a mile and a half westward out into the grassy prairie. In 1781 Juan registered his first cattle brand. Later Juan acquired another tract adjacent to the south side of his land. This purchase extended his land along the bayou another 480 feet for a total of about 1250 feet. Finally Juan Miguez acquired a land grant in the area of Ile des Cannes to the southwest and across the prairie. This occurred about the same time in the 1790s that the other Spanish settlers such as the Segura's, the Romero's, the Viators, and the Prados had received grants along the shores of Spanish Lake.
The Death of Juan
In 1800, Juan and his sons registered their cattle brands at the Saint Martinville Courthouse, which at that time was still under the authority of the Spanish government. Juan had a distinctive M-shaped brand that was unmistakably his own. Yet soon after this effort of registering the cattle brand, he sold all his lands: (including that of his Spanish land grant to Joseph Broussard), and he and his wife, Salvadora, sent out for the town of New Orleans to open a cabaret in the area of the old French Quarter, apparently to retire from the country life. But soon after his arrival in disease-infected New Orleans, Juan became ill and soon died there on November 13, 1800, but not before he had hired an attorney and while on his death bed in clear mind and "with full use of his faculties" the day before he had left his last will and testament stating that he owned a store-cabaret, a slave women with child, and that there were three men who still owed him money, and that it was up to his sons to collect this money.
1 Juan (1748-1800) was the son of Francisco Migues (born about 1720) of the farming class and of Maria Diaz (born about 1728).
2 She was born about 1753.
3 This site was near the present-day town of Charenton.
4 This was located near the present-day site of the old sugar mill on Daspit Rd.
5 This land was four arpents wide by 40 arpents deep, and it ran along the bayou from about present-day Railroad St. to halfway between Jefferson and French Streets. Lengthwise this tract extended all the way to present-day Admiral Doyle Drive. See St. Martinville Original Acts (SMOA), bk. 2, No. 2, for the courthouse documentation.
6 Fragmentary evidence suggests that this land "was conveyed to Francisco Ortiz and then by him to Juan Migues. The original grant of this land was given to Francois Prevost.
7 This tract of land was located near the present-day Iberia Port Commercial Canal and at the end of Gall Road, off Jefferson Terrace, or the old Lydia Rd.
8 The sale of the first four arpent tract was to Louis-Charles de Blanc and is recorded in SMOA, Bk. 18, no. 69. The two-and-a-half arpent tract was sold by Juan to Juan Puche y Solis on September 9, 1800 (SMOA, Bk. 19, no. 136. This sale of Juan's land grant to the southeast occurred sometime before the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 when afterwards J. Broussard registered the land patent with the American government (See Glenn Conrad, Land Records of the Attakapas District, vol. 1.)
9 The will is located in the Spanish archives in the Government Building on Podyras St. in New Orleans under Spanish notary Pedro Pedesclaux 37:673. Juan's will is six legal pages beginning on Vol 37, page 673. Salvador Migues' power of attorney is on page 679 of Volume 37.
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