De la Baume served under Visconte de Bonneville during the American Revolution. He arrived in Texas around 1800 and settled near current day San Antonio.
Partial Transcription of his rejected pension application R.2856:
"...he came over from France during the Revolutionary war of the British Colonies under the command of Gen. the marquis de la Fayette as a Captain and that he commanded a company during the war of the Revolution and that he was present [?] and commanded his company in all the battles where La Fayette was present and at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at York Town,-- that he then obtained leave of absence from the Amer. to visit [llegible], and during his stay there the Rev. [??]tion broke out in France which prevented his Return to his native country. He reside [?] in Louisiana until 1800 when he removed to his present residence, which is thirty two years since when the Revolution broke out at this place he was possessed of seven thousand Doubloons, and twenty-five thousand dollars in silver and large quantities of valuable estate which was taken by the Royalists..."
See "La Baume of Bexar" by Michael Weil:
www.uiw.edu/sanantonio/LaBaume.html
See also the Texas SAR site:
http://www.txssar.org/Buried.htm
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LA BAUME. Joseph (Jose) De La Baume (1731-1834) was a French army officer who came to North America with the Marquis De Lafayette and fought in the American Revolution. According to his last will and testament he was the oldest son of Joseph Philip Comte de La Baume and wife Mary Isabel Dalton who were of the countship of La Baume in the Province of Avignon, France. La Baume came from Montpellier to America.
De la Baume came to America during the Revolutionary War as a Captain in the French Army commanded by the Marquis de Lafayette. According to his Last Will and Testament, he "was present and commanded his company in all the battles where La Fayette was present and at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown." At the Texas State Capital Building in Austin, there is a brass plaque put up by the Texas Society of the Sons of the American Revolution listing Joseph de la Baume's name along with others from Texas who served in the American Revolutionary War. The end of the revolution found de la Baume in Louisiana. The first records, dated 13 June 1777, show that the Chev. De Clouet, commandant of the Opelousas Post certified a petition to the Spanish Governor, Bernardo, Comte de Galvez, for de la Baume as a "habitant" for the Vacherie or cow-pasture within the king's land. De la Baume was granted a 40-arpent concession located on the bayou on the Prairie des Nez Pique.
He later joined the Royal Spanish army serving under Don Juan Filhiol, also a Frenchman by birth, a captain in the Spanish army since 1779 and commander of Ft. Mir�, the single Spanish fort in the 1790's responsible for the Ouachita Valley in current northern Louisiana around Monroe. Lieutenant La Baume was second in command of the fort from 1793 through probably 1800. In 1795, he became as well as Filhiol a close friend of Dutch Guiana-born Philip Hendrik Nering B�gel known in Texas as Baron de Bastrop (Baron Felipe Enrique Neri de Bastrop). He was a resident of San Antonio de Bexar and his stone house called La Baume Place was on the south side of The Alameda, or Cotton Wood Grove, (now E. Commerce St.) at the Alamo (current St. Joseph's St.). On the south was the property of last Spanish governor Antonio Martinez. La Baume and Bastrop were apparently close associates through their lives since Bastrop left some of his property to de La Baume's daughter. The La Baume property was purchased by permission of Joaquin Arredondo from Maria Rosa Marques and Baron de Bastrop in 1808. La Baume willed his rights of inheritance to the countship and any properties in France to his daughter Victoriana (Victorine) with the provision that should female succession be prevented, his son Joseph would receive it. La Baume received a pension from the United States government for services a captain in the "glorious struggle for Independence from Great Britain." La Baume is said to have visited the legendary gold and silver mines of San Saba and sent specimens from the Los Almagres mine to Mexico City which came into the hands of Baron von Humboldt and judged "the finest he had ever seen." La Baume first married Ana Maria Kentree of Ouhachita, LA and then Louise Cuturie from Nacogdoches. With the latter, he had children Victorine, Joseph, Gertrude and Sancir Pierre. La Baume lived until about 1834 when he died at the age of 103. Daughter Victorine inherited a fifth of the estate of Baron de Bastrop for "services rendered him by her father." She married Alexander Vidal, a Frenchman from Louisiana.
For his services to Spain, La Baume received title in 1806 to 27,000 acres of Texas land which encompassed the original and historic El Capote Ranch. De La Baume's grant was reaffirmed after Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821. Virginia-born Michael Erskine (1794-1862) acquired the property in 1840. He raised cattle on the ranch and drove his herds to California and New Orleans. Since the San Antonio to Gonzales road forded the Guadalupe River on El Capote land, many travelers passed this way [According to DeWitt Colony maps, the road crossed the Guadalupe on Green DeWitt tracts northwest of the De La Baume grant. The Erskines may have acquired these tracts and added them to the ranch lands.--WLM]. The Erskine family hosted several eminent visitors, including William Bollaert (1840), Ferdinand Roemer (1845-1847), and Frederick Law Olmsted (1857). After the Erskine family sold the ranch in the 1870s, part of the land was deeded to Edith Kermit Carow, the second wife of Theodore Roosevelt. During the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt rode an El Capote horse, "Seguin," at the battle of San Juan Hill (1898). The ranch was acquired in 1897 by Judge Leroy Gilbert Denman (1855-1916), a justice on the Texas Supreme Court, and is owned by his descendants. In part from the Texas Historical Marker, GuadalupeCo, TX near Seguin Information used with permission from SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS
Wallace L. McKeehan, All Rights Reserved
Partial Transcription of his rejected pension application R.2856:
"...he came over from France during the Revolutionary war of the British Colonies under the command of Gen. the marquis de la Fayette as a Captain and that he commanded a company during the war of the Revolution and that he was present [?] and commanded his company in all the battles where La Fayette was present and at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at York Town,-- that he then obtained leave of absence from the Amer. to visit [llegible], and during his stay there the Rev. [??]tion broke out in France which prevented his Return to his native country. He reside [?] in Louisiana until 1800 when he removed to his present residence, which is thirty two years since when the Revolution broke out at this place he was possessed of seven thousand Doubloons, and twenty-five thousand dollars in silver and large quantities of valuable estate which was taken by the Royalists..."
See "La Baume of Bexar" by Michael Weil:
www.uiw.edu/sanantonio/LaBaume.html
See also the Texas SAR site:
http://www.txssar.org/Buried.htm
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LA BAUME. Joseph (Jose) De La Baume (1731-1834) was a French army officer who came to North America with the Marquis De Lafayette and fought in the American Revolution. According to his last will and testament he was the oldest son of Joseph Philip Comte de La Baume and wife Mary Isabel Dalton who were of the countship of La Baume in the Province of Avignon, France. La Baume came from Montpellier to America.
De la Baume came to America during the Revolutionary War as a Captain in the French Army commanded by the Marquis de Lafayette. According to his Last Will and Testament, he "was present and commanded his company in all the battles where La Fayette was present and at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown." At the Texas State Capital Building in Austin, there is a brass plaque put up by the Texas Society of the Sons of the American Revolution listing Joseph de la Baume's name along with others from Texas who served in the American Revolutionary War. The end of the revolution found de la Baume in Louisiana. The first records, dated 13 June 1777, show that the Chev. De Clouet, commandant of the Opelousas Post certified a petition to the Spanish Governor, Bernardo, Comte de Galvez, for de la Baume as a "habitant" for the Vacherie or cow-pasture within the king's land. De la Baume was granted a 40-arpent concession located on the bayou on the Prairie des Nez Pique.
He later joined the Royal Spanish army serving under Don Juan Filhiol, also a Frenchman by birth, a captain in the Spanish army since 1779 and commander of Ft. Mir�, the single Spanish fort in the 1790's responsible for the Ouachita Valley in current northern Louisiana around Monroe. Lieutenant La Baume was second in command of the fort from 1793 through probably 1800. In 1795, he became as well as Filhiol a close friend of Dutch Guiana-born Philip Hendrik Nering B�gel known in Texas as Baron de Bastrop (Baron Felipe Enrique Neri de Bastrop). He was a resident of San Antonio de Bexar and his stone house called La Baume Place was on the south side of The Alameda, or Cotton Wood Grove, (now E. Commerce St.) at the Alamo (current St. Joseph's St.). On the south was the property of last Spanish governor Antonio Martinez. La Baume and Bastrop were apparently close associates through their lives since Bastrop left some of his property to de La Baume's daughter. The La Baume property was purchased by permission of Joaquin Arredondo from Maria Rosa Marques and Baron de Bastrop in 1808. La Baume willed his rights of inheritance to the countship and any properties in France to his daughter Victoriana (Victorine) with the provision that should female succession be prevented, his son Joseph would receive it. La Baume received a pension from the United States government for services a captain in the "glorious struggle for Independence from Great Britain." La Baume is said to have visited the legendary gold and silver mines of San Saba and sent specimens from the Los Almagres mine to Mexico City which came into the hands of Baron von Humboldt and judged "the finest he had ever seen." La Baume first married Ana Maria Kentree of Ouhachita, LA and then Louise Cuturie from Nacogdoches. With the latter, he had children Victorine, Joseph, Gertrude and Sancir Pierre. La Baume lived until about 1834 when he died at the age of 103. Daughter Victorine inherited a fifth of the estate of Baron de Bastrop for "services rendered him by her father." She married Alexander Vidal, a Frenchman from Louisiana.
For his services to Spain, La Baume received title in 1806 to 27,000 acres of Texas land which encompassed the original and historic El Capote Ranch. De La Baume's grant was reaffirmed after Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821. Virginia-born Michael Erskine (1794-1862) acquired the property in 1840. He raised cattle on the ranch and drove his herds to California and New Orleans. Since the San Antonio to Gonzales road forded the Guadalupe River on El Capote land, many travelers passed this way [According to DeWitt Colony maps, the road crossed the Guadalupe on Green DeWitt tracts northwest of the De La Baume grant. The Erskines may have acquired these tracts and added them to the ranch lands.--WLM]. The Erskine family hosted several eminent visitors, including William Bollaert (1840), Ferdinand Roemer (1845-1847), and Frederick Law Olmsted (1857). After the Erskine family sold the ranch in the 1870s, part of the land was deeded to Edith Kermit Carow, the second wife of Theodore Roosevelt. During the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt rode an El Capote horse, "Seguin," at the battle of San Juan Hill (1898). The ranch was acquired in 1897 by Judge Leroy Gilbert Denman (1855-1916), a justice on the Texas Supreme Court, and is owned by his descendants. In part from the Texas Historical Marker, GuadalupeCo, TX near Seguin Information used with permission from SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS
Wallace L. McKeehan, All Rights Reserved
De la Baume served under Visconte de Bonneville during the American Revolution. He arrived in Texas around 1800 and settled near current day San Antonio.
Partial Transcription of his rejected pension application R.2856:
"...he came over from France during the Revolutionary war of the British Colonies under the command of Gen. the marquis de la Fayette as a Captain and that he commanded a company during the war of the Revolution and that he was present [?] and commanded his company in all the battles where La Fayette was present and at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at York Town,-- that he then obtained leave of absence from the Amer. to visit [llegible], and during his stay there the Rev. [??]tion broke out in France which prevented his Return to his native country. He reside [?] in Louisiana until 1800 when he removed to his present residence, which is thirty two years since when the Revolution broke out at this place he was possessed of seven thousand Doubloons, and twenty-five thousand dollars in silver and large quantities of valuable estate which was taken by the Royalists..."
See "La Baume of Bexar" by Michael Weil:
www.uiw.edu/sanantonio/LaBaume.html
See also the Texas SAR site:
http://www.txssar.org/Buried.htm
*********
LA BAUME. Joseph (Jose) De La Baume (1731-1834) was a French army officer who came to North America with the Marquis De Lafayette and fought in the American Revolution. According to his last will and testament he was the oldest son of Joseph Philip Comte de La Baume and wife Mary Isabel Dalton who were of the countship of La Baume in the Province of Avignon, France. La Baume came from Montpellier to America.
De la Baume came to America during the Revolutionary War as a Captain in the French Army commanded by the Marquis de Lafayette. According to his Last Will and Testament, he "was present and commanded his company in all the battles where La Fayette was present and at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown." At the Texas State Capital Building in Austin, there is a brass plaque put up by the Texas Society of the Sons of the American Revolution listing Joseph de la Baume's name along with others from Texas who served in the American Revolutionary War. The end of the revolution found de la Baume in Louisiana. The first records, dated 13 June 1777, show that the Chev. De Clouet, commandant of the Opelousas Post certified a petition to the Spanish Governor, Bernardo, Comte de Galvez, for de la Baume as a "habitant" for the Vacherie or cow-pasture within the king's land. De la Baume was granted a 40-arpent concession located on the bayou on the Prairie des Nez Pique.
He later joined the Royal Spanish army serving under Don Juan Filhiol, also a Frenchman by birth, a captain in the Spanish army since 1779 and commander of Ft. Mir�, the single Spanish fort in the 1790's responsible for the Ouachita Valley in current northern Louisiana around Monroe. Lieutenant La Baume was second in command of the fort from 1793 through probably 1800. In 1795, he became as well as Filhiol a close friend of Dutch Guiana-born Philip Hendrik Nering B�gel known in Texas as Baron de Bastrop (Baron Felipe Enrique Neri de Bastrop). He was a resident of San Antonio de Bexar and his stone house called La Baume Place was on the south side of The Alameda, or Cotton Wood Grove, (now E. Commerce St.) at the Alamo (current St. Joseph's St.). On the south was the property of last Spanish governor Antonio Martinez. La Baume and Bastrop were apparently close associates through their lives since Bastrop left some of his property to de La Baume's daughter. The La Baume property was purchased by permission of Joaquin Arredondo from Maria Rosa Marques and Baron de Bastrop in 1808. La Baume willed his rights of inheritance to the countship and any properties in France to his daughter Victoriana (Victorine) with the provision that should female succession be prevented, his son Joseph would receive it. La Baume received a pension from the United States government for services a captain in the "glorious struggle for Independence from Great Britain." La Baume is said to have visited the legendary gold and silver mines of San Saba and sent specimens from the Los Almagres mine to Mexico City which came into the hands of Baron von Humboldt and judged "the finest he had ever seen." La Baume first married Ana Maria Kentree of Ouhachita, LA and then Louise Cuturie from Nacogdoches. With the latter, he had children Victorine, Joseph, Gertrude and Sancir Pierre. La Baume lived until about 1834 when he died at the age of 103. Daughter Victorine inherited a fifth of the estate of Baron de Bastrop for "services rendered him by her father." She married Alexander Vidal, a Frenchman from Louisiana.
For his services to Spain, La Baume received title in 1806 to 27,000 acres of Texas land which encompassed the original and historic El Capote Ranch. De La Baume's grant was reaffirmed after Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821. Virginia-born Michael Erskine (1794-1862) acquired the property in 1840. He raised cattle on the ranch and drove his herds to California and New Orleans. Since the San Antonio to Gonzales road forded the Guadalupe River on El Capote land, many travelers passed this way [According to DeWitt Colony maps, the road crossed the Guadalupe on Green DeWitt tracts northwest of the De La Baume grant. The Erskines may have acquired these tracts and added them to the ranch lands.--WLM]. The Erskine family hosted several eminent visitors, including William Bollaert (1840), Ferdinand Roemer (1845-1847), and Frederick Law Olmsted (1857). After the Erskine family sold the ranch in the 1870s, part of the land was deeded to Edith Kermit Carow, the second wife of Theodore Roosevelt. During the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt rode an El Capote horse, "Seguin," at the battle of San Juan Hill (1898). The ranch was acquired in 1897 by Judge Leroy Gilbert Denman (1855-1916), a justice on the Texas Supreme Court, and is owned by his descendants. In part from the Texas Historical Marker, GuadalupeCo, TX near Seguin Information used with permission from SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS
Wallace L. McKeehan, All Rights Reserved
Partial Transcription of his rejected pension application R.2856:
"...he came over from France during the Revolutionary war of the British Colonies under the command of Gen. the marquis de la Fayette as a Captain and that he commanded a company during the war of the Revolution and that he was present [?] and commanded his company in all the battles where La Fayette was present and at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at York Town,-- that he then obtained leave of absence from the Amer. to visit [llegible], and during his stay there the Rev. [??]tion broke out in France which prevented his Return to his native country. He reside [?] in Louisiana until 1800 when he removed to his present residence, which is thirty two years since when the Revolution broke out at this place he was possessed of seven thousand Doubloons, and twenty-five thousand dollars in silver and large quantities of valuable estate which was taken by the Royalists..."
See "La Baume of Bexar" by Michael Weil:
www.uiw.edu/sanantonio/LaBaume.html
See also the Texas SAR site:
http://www.txssar.org/Buried.htm
*********
LA BAUME. Joseph (Jose) De La Baume (1731-1834) was a French army officer who came to North America with the Marquis De Lafayette and fought in the American Revolution. According to his last will and testament he was the oldest son of Joseph Philip Comte de La Baume and wife Mary Isabel Dalton who were of the countship of La Baume in the Province of Avignon, France. La Baume came from Montpellier to America.
De la Baume came to America during the Revolutionary War as a Captain in the French Army commanded by the Marquis de Lafayette. According to his Last Will and Testament, he "was present and commanded his company in all the battles where La Fayette was present and at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown." At the Texas State Capital Building in Austin, there is a brass plaque put up by the Texas Society of the Sons of the American Revolution listing Joseph de la Baume's name along with others from Texas who served in the American Revolutionary War. The end of the revolution found de la Baume in Louisiana. The first records, dated 13 June 1777, show that the Chev. De Clouet, commandant of the Opelousas Post certified a petition to the Spanish Governor, Bernardo, Comte de Galvez, for de la Baume as a "habitant" for the Vacherie or cow-pasture within the king's land. De la Baume was granted a 40-arpent concession located on the bayou on the Prairie des Nez Pique.
He later joined the Royal Spanish army serving under Don Juan Filhiol, also a Frenchman by birth, a captain in the Spanish army since 1779 and commander of Ft. Mir�, the single Spanish fort in the 1790's responsible for the Ouachita Valley in current northern Louisiana around Monroe. Lieutenant La Baume was second in command of the fort from 1793 through probably 1800. In 1795, he became as well as Filhiol a close friend of Dutch Guiana-born Philip Hendrik Nering B�gel known in Texas as Baron de Bastrop (Baron Felipe Enrique Neri de Bastrop). He was a resident of San Antonio de Bexar and his stone house called La Baume Place was on the south side of The Alameda, or Cotton Wood Grove, (now E. Commerce St.) at the Alamo (current St. Joseph's St.). On the south was the property of last Spanish governor Antonio Martinez. La Baume and Bastrop were apparently close associates through their lives since Bastrop left some of his property to de La Baume's daughter. The La Baume property was purchased by permission of Joaquin Arredondo from Maria Rosa Marques and Baron de Bastrop in 1808. La Baume willed his rights of inheritance to the countship and any properties in France to his daughter Victoriana (Victorine) with the provision that should female succession be prevented, his son Joseph would receive it. La Baume received a pension from the United States government for services a captain in the "glorious struggle for Independence from Great Britain." La Baume is said to have visited the legendary gold and silver mines of San Saba and sent specimens from the Los Almagres mine to Mexico City which came into the hands of Baron von Humboldt and judged "the finest he had ever seen." La Baume first married Ana Maria Kentree of Ouhachita, LA and then Louise Cuturie from Nacogdoches. With the latter, he had children Victorine, Joseph, Gertrude and Sancir Pierre. La Baume lived until about 1834 when he died at the age of 103. Daughter Victorine inherited a fifth of the estate of Baron de Bastrop for "services rendered him by her father." She married Alexander Vidal, a Frenchman from Louisiana.
For his services to Spain, La Baume received title in 1806 to 27,000 acres of Texas land which encompassed the original and historic El Capote Ranch. De La Baume's grant was reaffirmed after Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821. Virginia-born Michael Erskine (1794-1862) acquired the property in 1840. He raised cattle on the ranch and drove his herds to California and New Orleans. Since the San Antonio to Gonzales road forded the Guadalupe River on El Capote land, many travelers passed this way [According to DeWitt Colony maps, the road crossed the Guadalupe on Green DeWitt tracts northwest of the De La Baume grant. The Erskines may have acquired these tracts and added them to the ranch lands.--WLM]. The Erskine family hosted several eminent visitors, including William Bollaert (1840), Ferdinand Roemer (1845-1847), and Frederick Law Olmsted (1857). After the Erskine family sold the ranch in the 1870s, part of the land was deeded to Edith Kermit Carow, the second wife of Theodore Roosevelt. During the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt rode an El Capote horse, "Seguin," at the battle of San Juan Hill (1898). The ranch was acquired in 1897 by Judge Leroy Gilbert Denman (1855-1916), a justice on the Texas Supreme Court, and is owned by his descendants. In part from the Texas Historical Marker, GuadalupeCo, TX near Seguin Information used with permission from SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS
Wallace L. McKeehan, All Rights Reserved
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