Military: Militia List, Post of Rapide, Sept. 8, 1794
Source: Papeles Procedente de Isla Cuba, Archivo General, Seville, Spain,
Legajo (Bundle) _____
Folios _______; 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
8 September 1794

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


Antoine Valentin Layssard, Commandante
Officer, Jacque Gagnard; 
Sergeant Major, Cesar Archinard; 
Sergeant, Thomas Thompson 

Distinguished Officers:  
Monsieurs Charles LeDoux, 
Martin Despallier, Bolon Layssard,
Jean Archinard and Pierre Baillio

Fuseliers;
William Brown
Francois Huet
Louis Huet
William Burgin
Louis Burgin
Louis DeVille,
Jean Baptiste Belgarde
Richard Edmund Cuny
Edward McLaughlin
James McLaughlin
Leonard Dyson
James Crooks
Baptiste Crooks
Joseph Crooks
Edmund Nugent
Thomas Nugent
Matthew Nugent
Matthew Nugent Jr.
Joseph Leffier (sic)
Francois DuBois
Richard Earl
William Cook
Michel LaPrairie
Manuel LaPrairie
Jean Louis Deville
Valentin Deville
Etienne Deville
Celestin Vincent
Adam Hoffman
Jean (illegible)
Joseph Jeannot (sic)
Jean Cedar
Jacob Paul
John McLaughlin
Gabriel Martin
John Doyle
Robert Willson (sic)
Samuel Gray
David Gray
Thomas Swafford
Simon Swafford
Isaac Frazier
Benjamin Grubb
Nicholas Grubb
Nicholas Levens (sic)
John Fowler
John Burney
John Henderson
Reuben White
James White
George Paul
Mark Powell
Michel Hooter
Joseph Hooter
Philip Hooter
Lewis Hooter
Jacob Hooter
Jean Emond (sic, Aymond)
Joseph Frion (sic, Joffrion ?)
Pierre Robert
Michel Lacroy (sic, LaCroix)
Jean Louis Lacroy
Joseph Holmes. 
Uriah Wiggins
Daniel Wiggins
Jean Lejeune
Peter Fogarty
Thomas Hull
Dawson Hull
John Hull
Jean Baptiste Babe' (sic)
Jacques Babe'
Henry Bradley
Richard Bradley
Josephua Bradley
Joseph Laussage (sic)
John Cutts
Jean Vicks,
James Brewster
Joseph Butler
Jean Marcotte
Francois Marcotte
John Shaumire (sic,Straumire in other lists)
Jeremiah Applegate
Joseph Moran
Simon Saucier
Charles Sherry
John Bigs
William Weeks
Israel Marble
Simon Burney
Robert Lile Rogers
Alexander Innis
Stephen Tippet
Lewis Wells
Willing Wells
James Brown
Vital Papin (sic)
Jean Baptiste Cedar
Nicholas Corelied (Corley ?)
John McIvers (sic)
Francois Desantos (sic)
Isaac Younger.

(signed)  B. Layssard (Bolon)

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.