businesses between Manchac, Mobile and Pensacola and since 1774 in New Orleans too again. The Monsanto sisters settled in Pensacola in British Florida and married in quick succession; Pierre André Tessier de Villauchamps (Eleanora), Thomas Topham (Gracia) and George Urquhart (Angélica). Urquhart, a Lowland Scot, was involved in local politics in West Florida. During the American Revolution, Manchac was captured by the Spanish ending Monsanto influence there. After the death of her husband in 1779, Angélica Monsanto married another Lowland Scot, Dr. Robert Dow and returned to New Orleans. After the death of Isaac, the brothers Manuel, Benjamin and Jacob Monsanto continued on their merchant activities. As well as the earlier slave plantation at Trianon, Benjamin Monsanto and his wife Clara owned a 500-acre slave plantation on St Catherine's Creek near Natchez, Mississippi from 1787 onwards (this was later known as Glenfield Plantation). During this time the Monsantos kept 51 Africans as their slaves for personal use (Benjamin owned 17, Angélica owned 8, Eleanora owned 4 and Manuel owned 12) and sold other enslaved Black people to slave plantations owners in Louisiana. One of the biggest slave deals Benjamin Monsanto engaged in occurred in 1785, when he traded thirteen "Negroes" for three thousand pounds of indigo. As well as slaves and indigo, they also traded in liquor, clothes, silverware, lumber, fabric, tea, tobacco, soap, animals furs and horses. As a multilingual and cosmopolitan family who could speak French, Spanish and English, the Monsantos were effective operators among the various different European settlers in the area and even after their "official" expulsion from New Orleans still had strong contacts with the local establishment. Manuel and Jacob Monsanto were back living at Toulouse Street in New Orleans by the mid-1780s. Benjamin Monsanto (died 10 October 1794) was appointed by Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, the Governor of Spanish Louisiana, to teams of citizens who dealt with inventories and appraisals of the slave plantation estates of deceased neighbours. Benjamin Monsanto had a brother, Manuel Jacob Monsanto, who was also prominent in Louisiana, he was known for his involvement in the slave trade where he dealt in African slaves (he engaged in twelve such contracts between 1787 and 1789). A scion of the Monsanto family was Mauricio Méndez Monsanto (1835—1891) who had business operations based out of St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies (this would later become part of the U. S. Virgin Islands