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Agathe Montreuil, a free woman of color, died in 1833. In this document filed in her succession, her son, Joseph, asks to be recognized as the sole heir of her property on Bayou Road. Joseph’s baptismal record, also filed in the succession, indicates that Agathe was born a slave of the Montreuil family.

(Succession of Agathe Montreuil, Orleans Parish Court of Probates, 1833)