de Usoz, Martin F.

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Martin Francisco de Usoz 1st SGT Spanish Militia
American Revolutionary War Veteran

Father Mother	Miguel de Usoz Martina Odeana
Born Location	1750 Pamplona, Spain
Died Location	September 6, 1812 Louisiana
Cause
Age	62

Profession	Plantation owner

Spouse	Catalina Marrero of Santa Cruz de Tenerife Canary Islands
Children	12

Religion	Catholic
Burial Location	Ascension Catholic Cemetery Donaldsonville, LA

Martin Francisco de Usoz, a native of Pamplona, Spain, served as 1st Sergeant in the Spanish Militia under General Bernardo de Galvez.

Miguel de Usoz and his wife, Martina Odeana, and son Martin, left Pamplona, Spain in the late 1760s. They settled along Bayou Lafourche below Donaldsonville, LA (referred to as Barton) near Palo Alto Plantation. Records indicate Martin was an only child (or only surviving child). Conveyance records dating to 1770 list Ourso members in the Donaldsonville area.

Martin married Catalina Marrero, a native of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands. She departed on 22 October 1778 with her parents, Bartoleme' and Josefa Sosa Marrero and sisters Tomasa and Maria, on the ship, La Victoria. It is highly likely that all Ourso descendants in the USA trace their ancestry to Martin and Catalina.

Martin participated in the fight for American Independence by serving under General Bernardo de Galvez. His burial record from the Church of the Ascension of Our Lord in Donaldsonville states he was a First Sergeant in the Spanish Militia.

He is also listed in the Papeles Procedentes de Cuba (Cuban Papers) Legajo 159 and as translated in the Sons of the American Revolution's, C. Robert Churchill book, pages 84 and 151 - "Sexta Compania" and spelled as Martin Ussos (p. 84) and Martin Usos (p. 151).

While the recordation of the name has many variations - de Usos, de Ussos, Huso, Housos, Urso, Uso, etc - it is believed that the original spelling was de Usoz, in part to a village of Usoz being located near Pamplona.

Another indication that the spelling is de Usoz is that Lorenzo de Usoz is listed in the Cuban Papers and corresponding with the Louisiana colony in the late 1780s and 1790s.

MARTIN F. de USSOS
1ST SGT 17 REGT LA INF
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
1750 1812

DEATH RECORD
Translation

Martin de Usos y Odeana

On this 7th day of September, 1812, Don Bernardo de Deva Capuchin priest of the parish of Valenzuela, buried in the cemetery of this Church, the remains of Martin de Usos, native of Pamplona, First Sergeant for the King and retired soldier of the Louisiana Regiment, died the
sixth of September at the age of 62, legitimate son of Miguel de Usos and Martina Odeana
and to certify the day month and year of death. Native of Pamplona.

LAND GRANT LOCATION
NW Bank along Bayou Lafourche
Near Donaldsonville

This township map was approved April 5th, 1843 by the Surveyor General of Louisiana.

MARTIN HOUSOUS
S 61E 4675

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