Guerlain, Lewis Honore, 1777-
Lewis Honore Guerlain was born around 1777 and is mentioned in an 1812 letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton. According to the 1810 U. S. Federal Census of St. James Parish, County of Acadia, Louisiana, L. H. Guerlain was head of household, it was unknown what language he spoke, which was not unusual for the area because most people spoke either Acadian French, Creole, Spanish, or English, and he held two enslaved within his household. Research continues on this person.
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[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton D. Teackle, January 31, 1807]
Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle, written to her husband, Littleton D. Teackle from her father-in-laws house, Kegotank. She speaks about one of their enslaved people, Martha, a washerwoman, delivering a stillbirth baby. She brings up his recent contract to provide lumber for the building of the new U.S. Navy Yard. Their brother-in-law Charles Nicoll Bancker invited the John Teackle family to Baltimore as a change of scenery after the death of one of the Teackle sons, Henry. She asks if he has news about meeting the new British Ambassador and his wife, Anthony and Elizabeth Merry.