thanks for the info but I got the handle on Jean MALVEAUX connection to my family and why he was present. I know some stuff about MALVEAUX history. The MALVEAUXS, RIDEAUS, SAMS, have been intermarrying which each other for generations. Mr. Malveaux married Caroline Pitre, the half-sister of Euphemie RIDEAU. Her father was a Pitre slave by the name of Joseph