Jestnair Joseph Bonin
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 424
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Eight generations of Bonins born in the United States, beginning with the family of Antoine Bonin (b. 1715) and Marie Marguerite Tellier (1726-1800). Antoine was a rifleman in the French Army of occupation of the Louisiana Territory; he married Marie in October 1740 while stationed at Fort Toulouse, Mobile, Alabama. Following his discharge in 1763, he and his family relocated in French territory west of the Mississippi River, settling finally in present-day St. Martinville, Louisiana. This Bonin family is distinguished from the other Bonin families from France, Belgium, Poland, Germany, or Italy by the term Bonin Martinet.