Baptism of
Pierre Marie Jean Elie Auguste Dupont de Gault
In the year 1798 on the fifteenth day of the month of April, I, the undersigned pastor of the said church, baptized Pierre Marie Jean Elie Auguste, born in Wilmington on the twenty-first day of August 1798, legitimate son of Pierre Henry Dupont de Gault and of Madam Marie Catherine Elizabeth Vienot de Vaublanc, his wife, landowners in the north of St. Domingue, and refugees in this state.
Godfather: Monsieur Jean Garesché DuRocher, Godmother: Madame Elizabeth Brossay, his wife, landowners in L’onesa St. Domingue.
Witness: Monsieur William le comte Hamon de Vaujoyeux¹, Louis James D’orbigny who also signed with us.
Signers: [Signé]
Pont de Gault
Vaublanc
D. DuPont De Gault
Garesché née Brossay
J. Garésché DuRocher
Hamon de Voujoyeux
De Moin D’Orbigny
E. Faure, Franciscan priest
¹ Some published works consistently render the name as Vanjoueux, but unless the letters "u" and "n" appear differentiated as written, we have rendered it Vaujoyeux.
