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Jean Priot

Occupation
tailor
Origin
Nevers, France
Sources
Santerre, Foster, DMN 1906, Sandell

Positions

From the register of positions.

Family tree

Surname appears in the Santerre family tree.

Biography

Jean Priot


Name
  Canonical: Jean Priot
  Also: Mr. Priot (DMN 1906)

Birth: October 26, 1832, near Nevers (Nievre), France
Death: September 9, 1908, Dallas
Burial: Greenwood Cemetery, beside his wife

Origin: Nevers; educated by the Brothers; at 18 to Paris as an apprentice
  tailor

Family
  Half-brother: Emile Remond, who came to join him in 1856
  Wife: Leontine Frichot, daughter of Pierre-Philippe Frichot; married
    during the war
  Father-in-law: Pierre-Philippe Frichot, brickmaker
  Heirs Hyacinthe and Clara (the deed index, ~/repos/remond/PROPERTY.md)

Occupation at colony: farm work -- a tailor with no clients. Santerre's
  list: tailor.
Occupation in Dallas: brick manufacturer

Ship / arrival: a friend settled at New Orleans urged him to emigrate; he
  found no work there and went on to Dallas, one of the very first to
  arrive at Reunion (Cordillot). The Lexington's #224 "Pott" was rejected
  as a matcher artefact (src/findings.md).

Colony role
  - November 5, 1855: Priot v. Considerant, Dallas District Court suit
    No. 310, one of five suits by unpaid contractors and carters that
    autumn (Kagay; TIMELINE 1855.10-11)
  - Stayed at Reunion until the start of the Civil War

Post-colony
  - Wartime: employed by the Southern army -- wagon supply trains,
    quartermaster (Santerre ch. XII); married Leontine Frichot
  - End of the war: Dallas; late 1860s, brickworks with his father-in-law,
    the latter's son and brother; all four joined Section 46, and Priot's
    name appears at least once in the subscription lists of Le Socialiste
  - Own brickworks at Bryan, Harwood and Live Oak; expropriated, moved to
    the corner of Flora and Allen; retired 1882
  - 1884: built the new Dallas post office in brick (Sandell)
  - 1884: sold part of his Dallas holdings, returned to France and built a
    large house at Pont-Patin, Coulanges-les-Nevers, near his birthplace;
    lived there 1886-1906 growing his orchard and making wine; four trips
    back to the United States; 1906, resettled in Dallas for good

Land
  The deed-index transcription for Priot (grantor pages) in
  ~/repos/remond/PROPERTY.md: the 1886-87 liquidation, an 1899 power of
  attorney "to sell land" -- he kept selling from France into about 1902.
  The 1860 census run for the Reunion area ends immediately before the
  Priot household (src/population/README.md).

Sources
  Cordillot, "Priot Jean," Au Texas (2003)
  Sandell, colonist directory; ch. III
  Santerre, White Cliffs of Dallas (1955), colonist list; ch. XII
  Kagay, n. 55 (the 1855 suits)
  ~/repos/remond/PROPERTY.md (deed index, hand-read)

Notes
  Priot sued the colony in its first autumn and joined its International
  seventeen years later. The tailor-turned-brickmaker is the plainest
  case of the Paris trade with no market becoming the trade that built
  Dallas; his half-brother supplied the geology.

Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County (1892), pp. 502-503
  Remond's sketch dates Priot's arrival: he "had come to this country two
  years before" 1856 -- so 1854, before the colony existed, consistent
  with Cordillot's "one of the very first." He met Remond at Houston in
  1856; "resided in Dallas until 1887, accumulated a competency, but in
  that year sold his property and returned to France" (Cordillot: 1884).
  Signed the June 1868 memorial ("F. Priot" in the OCR).
  doc/text/books/1800/lewis_memorial_dallas_county_1892/excerpts.md

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