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One thing I should have added: Sieur Pierre Couturier was the Surgeon Major [chirugien] of the Fourth Company of the Swiss Regiment of Karrer, the only permanent military company stationed in New Orleans during the French regime.
This may be helpful:
EXTRACT FROM FUNERAL REGISTER ST. LOUIS CATHEDRAL ARCHIVES
No. 358
DON PEDRO
COUTURIERE
Gratis
On this eleventh day of October of this year
of seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, I, Fr.
Antonio de Sedella, Religious Capuchin, Cure
of this Holy Cathedral Church of the City of
New Orleans, interred with all the fitting funeral
pomp, and assisted, entirely through their kind-
ness, by four priests, in the Holy Ground of the
referred Church the remains of DON PEDRO COUTURIERE
of the age of seventy-nine years, a native of Toison in Poitu in the Kingdom of France,
a Surgeon by profession, married in a second Nuptial with DONA
JULIA DOURIEAUX; he received the Holy Sacraments,
and in faith I have signed
/s/ Fr, Antonio de Sedella
SOURCE: This is a certified direct translation of the original entry of St. Louis
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