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Jean Baptiste Le Court Grandmaison (Sieur de Grandmaison)


NationalityFrench 
RolesNaval Sailor, Ship Owner, Privateer, Merchant Sailor 
Date of Birth13.6.1759 - Paimboeuf ref:631
First Known Servicec.1778ref:631
A.K.A.Jean Baptiste Charles Lecourt Grandmaisonref:692
WifeRose Anne Bonvalet - Married 15.2.1791, Nantes ref:631
Last Known Service1804ref:631
Date of Death13.1.1861 - Nantes ref:631
Burialaft.13.1.1861 - Cimetière de la Miséricorde, Nantes ref:631

Event History


Date fromDate toEventSource
  Appointed Sieur de Grandmaisonref:631
c.1778c.1783Also participated in the US War of Independence (no years listed) .ref:631
bef.1789 Lieutenant de Vaisseauref:631
1791 Capitaine de Frégateref:631
1793 
Le Fabius (20) 1793-1793
French 20 Gun
Privateer Corvette
, Capitaine de Corsaire, and Commanding Officer
ref:692
1798 Capitaine de Vaisseauref:631
17981804"Capitaine de Vaisseau" , commander in isolation or in a division , without interruption until 1804 .ref:631
aft.28.2.1798 
L'Hydre (22) 1797-1798
French 22 Gun
Privateer Unknown
, Capitaine de Corsaire, and Commanding Officer
ref:692
1818 He was off Cuba .ref:631
1829 He was in command of a slave ship "Espiègle" which was boarded by "Colibri" in 1829 off Madacascar . The ship was sunk .ref:631
c.1859 Around his hundredth birthday he consented to receive a priest and find his way back to the Church .ref:631

Notes on Officer


Homeportref:692

Nantes


Carrierref:631

His service records until 1804 show 2 campaigns as privateer , the first as a lieutenant , the second on 02/28/1798 on the "Hydre" (see the race and the corsairs of the port of Nantes de S . de la Nicollière) .

He is at the origin of the Le Cour armament , in Nantes , in which his great-great-grandsons: Michel and Yves , worked .



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