Coincoin's fourth Metoyer son, Pierre, received a similar grant in 1798, four years before he, too, was freed. Yet those acquisitions pale beside the acts of Marie Therese Metoyer, Coincoin's ...

By 1797 she had bought and freed her daughter Thereze and grandson from de Soto; her sister Marie Louise; as well as Catiche, the illegitimate daughter of her son Louis Metoyer. Coincoin was ...