Name Jean Louis | Died 1722 | |
Jean Baptiste Louis DeCourtel Marchand was an eighteenth century French officer that served in the French colonies in America, and died in 1722 in Fort Toulouse, near what is now Wetumpka, Alabama. He was married in 1720 to Sehoy, a prestigious daughter of the matrilineal Wind Clan of the Creek Nation, and had two children, Chief Red Shoes (birth unknown; d. ca. 1783; an uncle of Alexander McGillivray) and Sehoy II (1722-1799; grandmother of William Weatherford), McGillivray and Weatherford being Creek military and political leaders of their day.
Captain Marchand was the French military commanding officer of the colonial trading post, Fort Toulouse, and was murdered in a mutiny of his men sometime in 1722, over shortages of food, supplies, and pay.