Military: Militia List, Post of Rapide 1788, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Source: Papeles Procedente de Isla Cuba, Archivo General, Seville, Spain,
Legajo (Bundle) 211-A    Folios 798; NOTE: Names as shown here are the more
accepted spelling, if known, rather than as name appeared in the original
text.
Submitted by:  Houston Tracy, Jr.



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MILITIA LIST, POST OF RAPIDE
1788

Papeles Procedente de Isla Cuba, Archivo General, Seville, Spain, Legajo
(Bundle) 211-A  Folios 798; NOTE: Names as shown here are the more accepted
spelling, if known, rather than as name appeared in the original text.


Etienne Maraffret Layssard, Commandante
Valentin Layssard
Etienne Bolon Layssard
Fuseliers
Vincent Porier,
Michel Deville, 
Louis Huet, 
Gratien Couillard, 
Joseph Nenozo
(?), Pierre Tourenne, 
Francois Martin, 
Pierre Denux, 
Languedoc (sic, VanLangendonck ?), 
Phillippe, 
Baptiste Martin, 
Jean Louis Deville, 
Louis Deville, 
Valentin Deville, 
Jean Baptiste Huet, 
Francois Huet, 
Pepin (sic),
Jean Bertol (sic), 
Joseph Serigne, 
Joseph Fruge, 
Pierre Parent, 
Antoine (illegible), 
Louis Renoul (sic, Renois ?), 
Joseph Marie (sic).

Americans:
Matthew Gray, 
Adam Hoffman, 
Jacque Cedar, Simon George, 
David Gray, 
Richard Earl, 
Leonard O'llson (sic) Jr.


1 Cavalrymen, armed with a matchlock (likely smooth-bore) musket, which had to
be lit, rather than more modern flintlocks with rifled bores available at the
time.