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.

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

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