Global InformationMichael Antoine Garoutte information
Michel "Michael" Antoine Garoutte | |
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 Digital Likeness Sketch of Michel Antoine Garoutte | |
| Nickname(s) | Hyacinthe Garoutte Michael of La Fayette ( Tavern ) Michael Garoutte of Espinassy |
| Born | April 12, 1750 Castle Garoutte, Marseille, Kingdom of France |
| Died | April 29, 1829 (aged 79) Pleasant Mills, New Jersey, United States |
| Buried | Methodist Episcopal Cemetery In Pleasant Mills, New Jersey, United States |
| Allegiance | Kingdom of France |
| Service/ |  United States Navy |
| Years of service | 1774 - 1787 |
| Rank | Pirate, Privateer and Naval Officer |
| Battles/wars | Battle of Chestnut Neck |
| Awards | Chevalier of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis IX of the Kingdom of France |
| Spouse(s) | Quakeress Sophia Sophronia Smith |
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| Other work | Tavern Keeper of The La Fayette Tavern |
Michel Antoine Garoutte anglicized as: Michael Antoine Garoutte (12th of April, 1750 – 29th of April, 1829 ) was a member of the first nobility of Provence in the Kingdom of France. He was a Pirate and Privateer in the early war for American Independence and ascended to the rank of Lieutenant in the first American Continental Navy.
He was the first owner of the La Fayette Tavern in Pleasant Mills, New Jersey, United States.[1][2][3]
He belonged to a very old Provençal family of the nobility. He and his sister the Lady Marie Magdeleine Garoutte-Lascour and her family were French Revolutionaries as they were among the first French nobles to reform the French government in the French Revolution. Michel Antoine Garoutte's sister married the Baron of Signes, Kingdom of France César Antoine Espinassy-Venel.
Garoutte's favored nephew was Antoine Joseph Marie d'Espinassy who ascended to the rank of Army General in the French Revolutionary War and whose family was later responsible for the voted regicide of Louis-Auguste the 12th Duke of Berry who became the King of France as Louis XVI. The Garoutte-Espinassy family later married into the British Royal Family after meeting Ladies of the 6th Earl of Essex Arthur Algernon Capell the night before the Battle of Waterloo. The Lascour, Garoutte and Espinassy families were involved in the French Monarchy for several traceable earlier centuries as their direct traceable ancestors are all referred to as Masters of their own noble and Royal House in the French Tongue: nobles de race, meaning that each family was part of the Hereditary Peerage of France. In later centuries this Espinassy family were deeply involved in the French Revolution. The Garoutte-Espinassy family later had close ties with Napoléon Buonaparte and this ended in Napoléon's capture at the Palais de Μalmaison and his death on Saint Hélènè Island.
Michel Antoine Garoutte was one of the founding Catholics of the U.S. State Pennsylvania.[4] The street named Garoutte in present-day Marseille, Republic of France is named after his family.
Additional research into historical documentation indicates the specific Metric System introduced to the French Republic by Napoléon Buonaparte from French Mathematicians specifically the Prince of Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord was devised with the contributions of earlier French Catholic Mathematicians and of the Garoutte-Espinassy family.
Michel Antoine Garoutte's maternal grand-father was the 6th Baron Henri de Lascour who was the first cousin and uncle of Louis Bourbon the King of France.[5]
Michel Antoine Garoutte's niece the Lady Claire Charlotte Espinassy-Garoutte is academically famous for her written works namely History of Europe, History of France, How To Be a Lady and Nouvel Abrégé de l'Histoire de France à L'usage des Jeunes Gens -- where the present-day nobility of numerous countries in the world as well as Universities still use these works to teach about the Nobility, European History and other topics.
The book named the Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas published and circulated in 1844 was partly inspired by the life stories of people during and after the French Revolution in and around the naval and shipping district called Marseille. Dumas partly based his works from stories most likely circulating about the Espinassy families in Marseille and Signes in the Kingdom of France and later the Republic of France and Restoration of the Bourbons to France.
- ^ Clerks Office of Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. Tavern Licenses: Deed Book: A3.
- ^ Iron In The Pines: The Story of New Jersey's Ghost Towns and Bog Iron, Page Number: 204
- ^ The Wharton Ledgers, Volume: 14, Page Number: 344
- ^ Camden County Centennial, 1844 - 1944
- ^ Dictionnaire de la noblesse contenant les généalogies, l'histoire & la chronologie des familles nobles de la France, l'explication de leurs armes et l'état des grandes terres du royaume, poffédées a̿ titre de principautés, duchés marquifats, comtés, vicomtés, baronies, &c., par création héritages, alliances donations, substitutions mutations, achats ou autrement par De La Chenaye-Desbois et Badier, Tome: 18, Volume: 18, Page: 957