Euphrasie Suchet Lavisson

I represent Euphrasie Suchet, the widow Lavisson. I am listed in the deeds disposing of the property of Bertrand Suchet, deceased, in 1837, as one of his heirs; presumably I am his daughter, though information on my life and that of Bertrand has proven elusive. Census records indicate I was probably born in about 1795. An 1828 deed to Henry Michelet secures a debt I owed him for 100 piastres he paid to the captain of the Schooner Margaret in September of 1820. I had just arrived in Pensacola from Havana, newly widowed, with two young children and a female servant (probably an enslaved woman) and had no means with which to pay for my passage. Henry Michelet loaned me the funds, though it took until 1830 for me to fully pay him back. I secured the debt with property given to me “by my father” on my marriage. My late husband is believed to be Augustin Lavisson, but this has not yet been documented by the Sampler project researchers. In 1830, I sold an enslaved child, Marie Louise, 9 years old, “a slave for live” to Celestino Gonzalez. While I appear in the 1830 and 1840 census records for Pensacola, in 1845, my son, Auguste, and I sold land to Manuel D. Hernandez, and we were living in Mobile at the time.