The father of Mary Alexandrien Sharp nee Lemaire is said to have been a Frenchman who dies under suspicious circumstances on a voyage to or from France. Is he the Alexander Lemaire mentioned below? The few details I have found on him tend to "fit" with the few details we have on Nellie's father.
France is the first European power to recognize the independence of the Texas Republic. A treaty is proclaimed between France and the Republic of Texas in 1840, and continues until 1846. A French chargé or minister is sent to the Republic, and plans are made for sending French colonists to Texas.
[/b] last sailed on . . . Arrived at New York, he immediately went among the shipping to see if he could obtain a passage to New Orleans. His object was to work his passage to New Orleans on some ship, . . . Passing along South Street, a small brig, which he had not seen before, attracted his attention, and on a board fastened to some of the ropes he saw, to his great delight, 'For New Orleans To-morrow.' It was the BRIG "AMANDA," George Gibbs, captain. . . .
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[/i]. Regarding the captain of the ship that
A. LEMAIRE last sailed on . . . translated from the French. . . . We sailed from Havre for Valparaiso on the 30th March, 1840, in the ship
Delphine, CAPTAIN COISY, with a crew of sixteen sailors and four passengers. . . . Those on board of her were not strangers; they were CAPTAIN COISY, Lieutenant Lepine, our sailors and companions, who came to deliver us and bring us provisions. . . .
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[/b] consular agent of France at Liberty, and asking orders for his recognition by the Texan authorities.] . . . 2 June 1842. Hon. Anson Jones, Secretary of State to Saligny. [Transmitting exequatur of
ALEXANDER LAMAR, consular agent of France for "Liberty County," and of F. Guilbeau, consular agent of France for San Antonio.]
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Galveston Daily News. Galveston, Texas. 13 May 1876.
The Colorado Gazette, of 12 July 1842, says the French emigrants who arrived in the FRENCH BRIG
AMANDA have been comfortably provided for by ? Pellegrini, the head of the colony. He has purchased land on the Colorado, nine miles above Matagorda, and on Peyton's bayou.
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[/B], former student at the Agricultural Institute at Roville, whose honorable character is personally known to me. . . . with necessary information on events taking place in various parts of Texas . . . and
ALEXANDER LEMAIRE for the new agencies at San Antonio, Matagorda . . . Ten or eleven months ago
MR. LEMAIRE, who had been named for the post at Liberty on the Trinity, embarked at Galveston on the brig
Amanda (under CAPTAIN COISY from Havre) for France to look after his affairs. It was learned that the
Amanda was forced to put into port at Bermuda for repairs. However, since she put to sea again she has not . . .
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[/B] last sailed on . . . Google Books. History of Thomaston, Rockland, and South Thomaston, Maine . . . Gather up the fragments, that nothing be lost. John 6,12. (1865) . . . Nathan Robinson, lost at sea in BRIG AMANDA, 1843.
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[/B] last sailed on . . . Google Books. Annals of the Town of Warren; With the Early History of St. George's, Broad Bay, and the Neighboring Settlements on the Waldo Patent. (1851). The town of Warren, in the county of Lincoln, State of Maine, . . . Capt. William James Lermond, b. July 18, 1813; sailed in THE BRIG AMANDA from N.O., in March, 1843, and with his vessel was never heard from. . . .
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[/b], the French consul of the town of Liberty, Cramayel chose not to replace him, declaring: "Liberty is only a hamlet in the interior of a region that has no direct commerce with foreign countries. In the surrounding area there are only about thirty French residents, widely scattered, & living in a situation close to destitution." . . .
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- 1840 :: there is a Samuel F. Lunier on the Liberty County tax list
- 24 May 1843 :: Mary Alexandrien Lemaire is born in Liberty County, Texas
- 1846 :: there is a Lamiel (Samuel?) Lanier on the Liberty County tax list
- 27 March 1848 :: there is a Samuel Laimer (b. 1826) who arrives in New York from Le Havre, France
- 1850 :: Mr. Lemaire is NOT listed on the Liberty County, Census with his wife and daughter.
- ca. 1852 :: The "widow" Lemaire marries John S. Beale. According to family lore, Mr. Beale was suspected of having some involvement in Mr. Lemaire's disappearance.
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