Dominguois

[…] and throat-satisfying liquid concoction—the American cocktail—by the first tenant of the building, a Dominguois apothecary, A. A. Peychaud.

He came to New Orleans when the Dominguois were expelled from that West Indies island by the uprising of the black slaves. In 1813 Joseph married Therese Anne Deyant, daughter of Louis Christophe Deyant and Marie Therese Valade, ...

The apothecary's name was Antoine Amedee Peychaud, one of the Dominguois who flocked to Spanish Louisiana when the blacks drove them from their island in the sunlit Caribbean. New Orleans owes much to these French-speaking ...

Some of the expelled Dominguois who flocked to what was then Spanish Louisiana brought gold to New Orleans. Others brought slaves along with their household goods. Some brought nothing but the clothes they wore upon their backs.