MOETHE, ANTOINE DE LA

BID Number
17366
Birth
1656: GASCONY, FRANCE
Death
1730: N.P.
Occupation
1713 - 1716: LOUISIANA/GOV., SIEUR DE CADILLAC (LANDEDON DAUPHIN ISLAND)
1683: PORT ROYAL/(NONE)
1694: FORT MACKINAC/COMMANDER
1712: FRANCE/GOV. OF LOUISIANA (APPOINTED AS)
Ethnicity
FRENCH
Notes
1713-16 : ARRIVED AT POST IN 1713; CAME FROM DETROIT, WHICH HE HAD RECENTLY FOUNDED IN 1713, SENT HIS CANADIAN LT. TO FOUND A POST ON RED RIVER AND SENT SAINT-DENIS TO SPANISH TERRITORY IN SEARCH OF MISSION OF FRAY FRANCISCO HIDALGO TO PURCHASE HORSES AND CATTLE FOR LOUISIANA. HE WAS RECALLED IN 1716; HAD BEEN PURSUING TRADE WITH MEXICO.
Source
MORFI
Sources
BANNON: THE SPANISH BORDERLANDS FRONTIER (1970) LAUT, A. C.: CADILLAC KNIGHT ERRANT OF THE WILDERNESS (1931) MORFI: HISTORY OF TEXAS (1935) CARTER: DOOMED ROAD OF EMPIRE (1963) ALESSIO ROBLES: COAHUILA Y TEXAS ... (1938) ASHFORD: SPANISH TEXAS, YESTERDAY AND TODAY (1971)
Variant Spelling
CADILLAC, ANTOINE DE LA MOETHE
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