Jean Baptiste Louis DeCourtel Marchand

Jean Baptiste Louis DeCourtel Marchand, aka Captain Francois Marchand de Courcelles, was an eighteenth century French officer that served in the French colonies in America, and died after a second tour or duty ending in 1734. Marchand fathered two children with Sehoy, a daughter of the matrilineal Wind Clan of the Creek Nation, during his time in Alabama: Chief Red Shoes (1720 d. 1784) and Sehoy II Marchand (1722-1785), herself mother of Sehoy III McPherson (with trader Malcolm McPherson) and Creek Chief Alexander McGillivray (with trader Lachlan McGillivray). Moreover William Weatherford, the notorious Red Eagle, and his half-brother the mestizo Charles Weatherford were the sons of Sehoy III.

Captain Marchand was the French military commanding officer of the colonial trading post at Fort Toulouse, who suppressed a rebellion around 1721 and was relieved of his command or left abruptly around 1722, and returned for another tour.

External links

• City of Wetumpka Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
• Fort Toulouse/ Jackson State Park
• Toulouse-Fort Jackson State Historic Site
• Fort Toulouse & Fort Jackson Living History Groups
• Self-published list of descendants