Isabel (Ysavel) Gregoire

I represent Isabel Gregoire, an enslaved negra woman. I was listed in Victoire LeSassier‘s 1830 complaint of divorce from Don Pedro de Alba as being 8 years old, though this probably referred to my age in 1813, when the late Don Jose Noriega‘s property was divided between Victoire and her son. By the time of the divorce, I had two children, Virginia and Elodie, who were both free. I may be the slave listed as Isabella in the will of Victoire LeSassier in 1833, in which case I was left to Victoire’s niece, Emelie Noriega Hubbell. My daughters Elodie and Virginie Victoire were each released from slavery – Elodie while an infant of 9 months in September of 1830, and Virginie Victoire by an instrument dated 1826 to take effect on her 21st birthday in 1843. (It is this instrument which provides my surname, Gregoire.)