Henri Saucier was born 1706 in Old Mobile at the Fort Louis de la Louisiane to Jean Baptiste Saucier and Marie Gabrielle Savary (Savarit) who was a Pelican Girl.
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Henri Saucier was born 1706 in Old Mobile at the Fort Louis de la Louisiane to Jean Baptiste Saucier and Marie Gabrielle Savary (Savarit) who was a Pelican Girl.
In 1711, when Henri was five, his family moved from the then-abandoned fort at Old Mobile to New Mobile. By the time Henri reached his tenth birthday, his father Jean Baptiste Saucier had passed away. His mother remarried to Pierre Vifvareinne (Vivarenne) in Mobile about 1717; she and Pierre had two sons before Pierre died in 1719: Jean Baptiste and Francois. Marie Gabrielle married for a third time in 1720 in Mobile to Jean Baptiste Sansot dit LaGrange by whom she had a daughter Jeanne.
On 11 Aug. 1732 at the age of 26, Henry married 21-year-old Barbe la Croix at Fort de Chartres, Illinois. Barbe was the daughter of Francois and Barbe (Montmeuniere) La Croix. Henri and Barbe resided at Le Petite Village located just five miles above Old Fort de Chartres. From 1735 until mid 1738, the couple remained in Illinois.
Barbe La Croix's parents sold Henri three arpents of land, the property extending from the Mississippi River to the Bluffs, lying between land of Giradot and Francois la Croix. The price was 300 minots of wheat, payable in yearly installments of 10 minots, with the promise to maintain the commune which crossed his land. The agreement was signed with a cross for La Croix and a cross for his wife on 6 Feb. 1733.
By 1740, Henri had relocated his family on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, also living at times in New Orleans and Mobile. In 1757, word came to the coast that Henri's brother Francois and half-brother Jean Baptiste Vifvareinne (Vivarenne) had passed away. He promptly took care of his affairs and journeyed 