[1] According to Blanque,[2] Dominique François was bearer of a letter from the Ministry of War stating that he was to take up the position of Sous-Lieutenant in the 54th Infantry, one of the regiments to be sent to Louisiana.
The letter gave him orders to join his regiment at Batavie, where they were stationed, but the elder Burthe found it more convenient to have his cousin embark on the Surveillent: Blanque suggests that he was never properly appointed to officer status.
Dominique François acquired a plantation fronting on the river from Bernard Marigny by an act passed before Felix de Armas, Notary Public, on 3 June 1831 at the price of $38,000.
On 24 January 1854, two years after Dominique François died, a plan was made by Numegger, Surveyor to subdivide the property: this subdivision was called 'Burtheville' and is now one of the faubourgs of modern New Orleans.
[4] He was also one of the founders of Jefferson College in Convent, Louisiana in 1831 (the original building was destroyed by fire in 1842)[5] and President of the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad Company, responsible for the oldest line of street cars in the city, in 1834.