[East St. Charles Parish from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain]
East St. Charles Parish from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain; notes landowners: Frelson, George R. Rice, Madame Louis Labranche, Octave Labranche, Jean Frs. Pisero, Soniat, Adelard Fortier, Rene Trudeau, Heirs of Saml. McCutchson; Widow Drousin Labranche, Alexandre Labranche, Judge P. A. Rost, Jean Baptiste Drozin. Destrehan Plantation.
[New Orleans?]
The maker of this map, Theodore Gillespie, is listed in the 1861 New Orleans City Direcrory as a surveyor at 13 Carondelet, residing at Josephine and Rampart. The NOPL obituary index did not have a listing for him, but did for his wife, who died Oct. 11, 1877.
One of the landowners identified in this map, Pierre Adolphe Rost (1797-1868) was the owner of Destrehan Plantation. Rost served as Louisiana Supreme Court Judge, (1839, 1846-1853.) Another landowner, Widow Alcee Louis LaBranche, was the wife of Alcee Louis LaBranche, who served in the Louisiana House of representatives 1831-1833, was speaker of the House in 1833. He organized Texas and Louisiana volunteers for the Mexican-American War.