Precourt Meunier (age 40), his unnamed wife (age 29), and daughter Marie Angelique (age 9) are recorded on a list of French colonists dated September 1764. Precourt Meunier is recorded as an Officier brevete aide Major au Corps Royal des Arquebusier de France ["honorary" assistant Major in the French Royal Corps of infantrymen with a long gun called an arquebus]. Meunier also served as a recruiting director with DeBoffe.
Meunier and his wife must have died, because their daughter Marie Angelique [recorded as Maria Angelika Mounie (age 12)] is recorded on the 1767 census of Franzosen in Household No. 5 along with her mother's parents, Casimir & Maria Louise Certellet. [See Certellet Family.]
The 1764 list of colonists records that Precourt Meunier came from the French region of Brie, his wife from the region of Brittany, and their daughter from the region of Paris.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas & Georg Rauschenbach. Die "Berufer": Abenteurer der Aufklärung in Katharinas II. Kolonisierungsprojekt (Moscow, 2019): 41.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 442.
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