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- Jean Jacques built the Whitney main house around 1790 and expanded it around 1803. In 1820, he sold the property to his sons Jean Jacques, Jr., and Marcellin. Marcellin eventually gained total control of the rest of the family's land, and commissioned the 1836-1839 remodeling. The plantation remained in the family's hands until it was sold to a Northerner, Bradish Johnson, after the Civil War. It was Johnson who actually named the property Whitney in honor of his grandson, Harry Payne Whitney.
Listed in 1784 census of the Second Coast of the Germans with his wife, Magdelaine Marmilion, 1 boy and 3 girls under 13 (LC&ML, 77)
Sponsors were ---tz Materne and Christine Greber
From Les Votagers, Jun 1997
Louisiana Courier, Dec 1819
PARISH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, GERMAN, COUNTY, COURT OF PROBATES
On Thursday, the 13 January next, at 10 o'clock A.M. will be sold at auction by the parish judges, on the principle plantation of Jean Jacques Haydel pere, and on his application, the following property belonging to the communiyt of the said J.J. Haydel pere with the late Mary Madelain Bozonnier his deceased wife:
1st A sugar estate measuring 17 arpents front on a double depth, with a stately house and all its appurtenances, bounded above by the widow of Mathias Roussel and below by Jacques Haydel and brothers.
2d Another sugar estate measuring 11 arpens with 3.4 front, on the usual depth, with all its appurtenances bounded above by the widow of Alphonse Haydel and below by Andre Hymes (sic).
3d 36 slaves of both sexes.
4 Furniture, implements of husbandry, kitchen tackling, plate, table linen, 30 horses or mules, 8 couple of oxen, many milch cows and their young ones, etc.
CONDITIONS
The price of the two plantations payable a third in March 1821, a third in March 1822, and the last third in March 1823.
The slaves payable a third in March 1820, a third in March 1821, and the last third in March 1822.
All the moveables in general payable in March 1820.
Purchasers shall give their notes, endorsed to the satisfaction of J. J. Haydel pere, and payable at the clerk's ofice of the parish court.
The real property to remain mortgaged until final payment.
The instrument of sale and mortgage at the cost of the purchaser.
Parish of St. John the Baptist, December 9, 1819. T. LeBlanc, Judge
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