Ce pourrait être un roman, mais Norbert Soulié, le chercheur et généalogiste, contemporain né en 1951, n’ est pas écrivain ni inventeur de sornettes. Les archives de la Nouvelle Orléans ont effectué un magnifique travail de classement des archives pieusement concernées. Elles ont sauvé des milliers de documents, bien avant Katrina.
Parmi les milliers de documents, courriers, etc, un paquet contenant environ mille pages, s’ appelle de documents, les « Meuillion family papers », que nous laissons dans leur version anglaise. Le patronyme Meuillion est très courant à la Nouvelle Orléans, et nous ne pouvons pas identifier de façon formelle le propriétaire. Mais les documents sont sans équivoque :
Texto :
volume 6, page 276
” Bapt Norberto Soulie (Juan y Eulalia Mazange) born 24 oct 1793, bapt 12 April 1796
(Sponsor CARLOS Vivant & Adelaide Vivant) Annexe 44 Meuillion family papers
The bulk of materials comprise receipts, bills of sale, mortgages, and other legal and financial documents that record land and slave purchase transactions of Baptiste Meullion primarily with Alexandre DeClouet, Andrés Duclot, and Charles Vivant. Others appearing in the records are the sisters Clemencia, Eufrocina, and Mariana Hisnard (noted as free mulattoes), Michel Prudhomme, André Neraut, and Jean Soulié, and the enslaved persons Lindone, Judith, and Jeffy and their children Jeffy, Louisa, and Eliza, Carlos, Aggy, and Peter. The transactions were affected in St. Landry Parish, New Orleans, and the German Coast of Louisiana. Included among these is a receipt for Baptiste Meullion’s purchase of enslaved children from another Meullion from the German Coast, possibly some of his family members. The earliest item records Luis Augustin Meullion’s manumission of Baptiste Meullion and his mother, Maria Juana, in consideration of her service to Luis’s father Antonio Meullion and her recent conversion to Catholicism, and on the condition that they remain in service to him during his lifetime. An agreement for Mariana Meullion’s rental of a tract of land known as Longueville is also included, as are certificates or licenses for Baptiste Meullion’s carriages and a report of damage to his cotton shipped to Le Havre, France. In French, Spanish, and English. »
Ce document valide notre existence, et la suite de notre histoire.