The children of Joseph Carriere and Marie Louse La Verne were:
Although these half-siblings of Damas are not in out direct line of ancestry, they are listed here to correct assumptions made by some genealogists that Pierre was the father of Joseph Damas.
Joseph was born in 1770. Pierre would have been thirteen years of age (and twelve years at the time of conception). Although not physically impossible, it is very improbable that the mulatto childred of Françoise (the slave) were also the children of PIerre. It is most probable that Joseph, père, was the father.
The documents which creates this controversy were those of the succession of Veronique Carriere, #3258< dated 17 Feb 1869, in which the heirs of Veronique petitioned the state to share in her estate.
In this case, J.B. Durousseau deposed that Damas, Victoire and Joudt were all mulattoes, the children of Francoise and reputed to be by Pierre Carriere. Baptiste, Gertrude, and Veronique were children of Françoise Carriere and reputed to be by Baptiste Grosleure, a Negro.
Other testimony included that Françoise was either a griffe or a mulatto.
Damas and Josephine Fusilier (also called Celinette) had ten children named Joseph, Collier, Gilbert, Marcellin, Marcel, Valsin, Leside, Melite, Cyprien, and Pouponne. Many of these names must have been nichnames since they do not appear in civil or church records. Collier was indeed Louis and Melite was Emeranthe. Joseph, Gilbert, Marcellin, and Cyprien are correct names. I cannot natch the other aliases.
Further testimony identified offsprings of the other children of Françoise and their descendents.