I represent Jean Marcos Coulon de Villiers, a Spanish officer born in New Orleans. I descended from French aristocracy, though my family had long been in the New World, from Canada to Illinois and down to Louisiana. My parents were Francois Coulon de Villers, Chevalier of the Royal and Military Order of St. Louis and infantry captain in the Louisiana Regiment, and his first wife Maria Magdalena Marin. Both were natives of Illinois; my mother died while the family was still there. I was a Spanish military officer with a long history of service in West Florida (my 1816 petition for a land grant from the Spanish Crown indicates I had serviced 41 years by then). I served as commander of the Louisiana Regiment, captain of the Grenadiers, and participated in the Pensacola and Mobile campaigns under Bernardo de Gálvez.
Sources: 71, 120