Jean Baptiste Louis DeCourtel Marchand
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Jean Baptiste Louis DeCourtel Marchand, aka Captain Francois Marchand de Courcelles, was an eighteenth century French officer that served in the French colonies in America, and died after a second tour or duty ending in 1734. Marchand fathered two children with Sehoy, a daughter of the matrilineal Wind Clan of the
Creek Nation, during his time in Alabama: Chief Red Shoes (1720 d. 1784) and Sehoy II Marchand (1722-1785), herself mother of Sehoy III McPherson (with trader Malcolm McPherson) and Creek Chief Alexander McGillivray (with trader Lachlan McGillivray). Moreover William Weatherford, the notorious Red Eagle, and his half-brother the mestizo
Charles Weatherford were the sons of Sehoy III.
Captain Marchand was the French military commanding officer of the colonial
Fort Toulouse
, who suppressed a rebellion around 1721 and was relieved of his command or left abruptly around 1722, and returned for another tour.
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