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32 American State Papers, v Public Lands, p. 711.
33 The Vallé family came to the Illinois country from Canada; original name La Vallée, abbreviated to simply "Vallé," and in 1798, Trudeau says, was "the most numerous and notable family" of Ste. Genevieve. Pierre La Vallée, the ancestor, emigrated from near Rouen, Normandy, to Beauport, near Quebec, Canada, in about 1645. He was a surgeon, and an important and prominent man of Beauport in his day. His wife's name was Marie Blanc. One of his sons, Charles, married Genevieve Marcou, or Marcoux, and one of their
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the most to be recommended of that country, for not only is he esteemed by those habitants, but he is their true friend and protector." 34
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ORIGINAL VALLE HOUSE BUILT 1782 - MODERNIZED
In 1780 the river bank caved very rapidly in front of the old vil- lage, and some of the residents began to think of moving, or rather were compelled to think of moving away. In 1784 some of these sons was Don Francesco Vallé, "who married Marianne Billeron, daughter of Leonard Billeron. This Francesco emigrated from Canada to Kaskaskia, and from Kaskaskia to the old village of Ste. Genevieve, where he died in 1783. His sons were Don Francesco, Junior, intermarried with Marie Charpentier, Jean Baptiste, Charles, and Joseph Vallé, and his daughter, Marie Louise, intermarried with Louis Dubreuil de Villars. Of these sons, Don Francesco, Junior, the eldest, acted as commandant of Ste. Genevieve until his death in 1804, and was succeeded by Jean Baptiste Vallé. The daughters of Don Francesco Vallé, Junior, respectively, married Robert T. Brown, a member of the Constitutional convention of 1820; Dr. Walter Fenwick, who was killed in a duel by T. T. Critten- den; Joseph Pratte, and Captain Wilkinson. Colonel Jean Baptiste Vallé married Jane Barbeau, and attained a very old age. He was a very enterprising and prosperous business man and merchant, member of the fur-trading company, Vallé & Menard, and interested in the Iron Mountain Com- pany. Another son of Don Francesco Vallé, père, Don Carlos Vallé, married Pelagie Charpentier, and an only daughter, CANE OF J. B. VALLÉ Mary Louise, married Francois Leclerc in 1776.
34 General Archives of the Indies, Seville. Report of Zenon Trudeau, dated January 15, 1798, in papers from Cuba.
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residents began to erect their homes on the site of the present town, and finally the great overflow of 1785 caused many of the inhabitants of the old village to abandon it. Yet it was not until 1791 that the old village was entirely abandoned.35 Many Kaskaskia families also, who, during the flood, had been assisted by the commandant of Ste. Genevieve in every possible way so as to escape with their lives, and some at least of their property, concluded to remain and settle per- manently on the high place where the new town was located. During this overflow the water rose so high in the old village as to cover many of the log houses, and one of Mr. Chouteau's keel-boats arriving at that time was made fast to the top of one of the stone chimneys of a house standing in the Big Field, and boatmen climbed up on the roof to the top of the house to do so. This house, Labriere says, belonged to one Andre. The water in the Big Field was in many places from twelve to fifteen feet deep.36 "The inundation, " Miro wrote De Gal- vez, "has been so extraordinary that the oldest persons of these settle- ments have assured me that they have never seen another one like it." The flood of 1844, from water-marks kept at Ste. Genevieve, was four feet higher than the flood of 1785.37
In addition to the early merchants already mentioned, Louis Viviat, it seems, was in business in Ste. Genevieve in 1765. This Louis Viviat, was a merchant at one time at Kaskaskia and New Orleans. In 1775 together with Earl Dunmore and others, he pur- chased from the Piankeshaw Indians a tract of land above Vincen- nes, one hundred and fifty miles up and down the Wabash, and forty leagues (one hundred and twenty miles) on each side, embracing the greater central part of the present states of Illinois and Indiana, and at the same time purchased another tract below Vincennes, ex- tending from the mouth of White River to the mouth of the Wabash, and thirty leagues (ninety miles) to the Ohio on the east, and forty leagues to the Mississippi on the west, embracing all of Southern Illinois and Indiana.38 Datchurut, Francois Duchouquette, Louis Chamard, and Joseph Pouillot were all early Indian traders there. Lambert dit Lafleur was one of the most prominent merchants, and died December 26, 1771, leaving an estate of 74,000 livres, making
35 Ibid.
36 Copy of Hunt's Minutes, Book ii, pp. 206-7, Missouri Historical Archives. 37 I Billon's Annals, p. 226.
American State Papers, vol. ii Public Lands, p. 119.
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the total value of his estate $13,700 in our currency. This estate, at that time, was considered very large, and shows how the country developed in wealth. At the time of Lambert's death, his wife, Catherine Lepine, and her six children resided in New Orleans. In 1771, one Mathew Kennedy,39 evidently an Irishman, was a merch- ant at Ste. Genevieve, perhaps the first Irish-English merchant west of the Mississippi. In that year he shipped 12,000 pounds of flour to Arkansas post. Not much of a shipment now, but then no in- considerable transaction.
The first settlers in the present town were Jacques Boyer and one Loisette, evidently belonging to the Kaskaskia family of that name; Francesco Vallé, fils;40 Jean B. La Croix, Sr., who died there in 1781, leaving, what was then a large estate of 21,617 livres ($4,323.00). It was his uncle, Francois La Croix, who came with seven daughters from Canada to St. Phillipe in 1725, and, young marriageable ladies being then in great demand, all were quickly married. From St. Phillipe, Francois La Croix moved to Kaskaskia. Before Jean B. La Croix, Jr., came to Ste. Genevieve he married Louisa Govreau, February 14, 1765, at Kaskaskia. He had three brothers, Louis, Francis, and Jenot, and one of these joined the French company that went with Clark to Vincennes. Other early settlers were Jean Baptiste, and Vital Beauvais dit St. Jeme,41 and Jean Baptiste Pratte, a mer-
39 A Patrick Kennedy, no doubt a relative of this Mathew, was a resident and merchant of Kaskaskia in 1768, wrote a journal of an expedition undertaken by himself and several coureurs des bois, up the Illinois river in 1773, published for the first time in Hutchins' Topographical Description, reprinted by Burrows Bros., 1904. Kennedy resided at Kaskaskia when General George Rogers Clark conquered the Illinois country, joined his force, was quartermaster on the march to Vincennes, and for his services afterward was allotted land at Kas- kaskia .- Draper's Collection, Clark MSS., vol. xviii, p. 117.
40 Received a grant from Trudeau of Mine La Motte in 1796, and began to work the mines about 1800. Subsequently two leagues more were claimed by Jean Baptiste Pratte, Francois Vallé, Jean Baptiste Vallé, and St. James (St. Jeme) Beauvais, adjacent to this mine, and a grant was recommended by De Lassus, and the matter presented to the Intendant Morales at New Orleans, by James Maxwell, parish priest of Ste. Genevieve, who had a power of at- torney to represent the petitioners. A survey was also made and this title and claim were afterward confirmed. But none of these petitioners resided at the mines, although they undoubtedly personally looked after their interests. These mines were not only worked by them, but undoubtedly prior to this grant by Renault and his miners, and who received a concession from the French com- mandant of Fort de Chartres for this property.
41 A French-Canadian family, descendants of Jacques Beauvais dit St. Jeme, came to Canada in 1653, landing at Montreal, from Perché; married Jeanne Solde, from Anjou. - 3 Sulte, Canadien-Francais, p. 45. Jacques Beauvais dit Saint Jamme enlisted in a regiment of militia, organized at Montreal in 1663.
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chant.42 The Pratte family came to Ste. Genevieve from Fort de Chartres. In 1799 Pratte claimed that he had lived in the country fifty
THE VITAL BEAUVAIS HOME, BUILT IN 1786
years. He was a man of property, owned forty-five slaves prior to 1803, and twelve houses and outhouses on a grant on Grand river, a man named Monteon being his manager. Nicolas Janis came over from
-4 Sulte, Canadien-Francais, p. 10. The statement usually made that Beauvais was a nickname and that the true name of the family was Saint Jeme is incorrect; the family name was Beauvais, the original nickname, Saint Jeme, corrupted into Saint Jamme and latterly into St. Gem. One Jean Baptiste Beauvais came to Kaskaskia in 1725, and married Louise Lacroix at Fort de Chartres. He had a family of five sons and two daughters, and when the property of Jesuits was confiscated, Beauvais purchased same in 1765, being reputed the wealthiest man in the western country. Two of his sons, Jean Baptiste and Vital, moved to Ste. Genevieve, each owning several arpens in common field. Vital was at Mine à Breton from 1789 to 1794, digging for mineral; in 1797 on the Gabourie, and in 1798 Vital, Raphael, and Barthélemy St. Jeme, and Baptiste Bequette cultivated a tract with their slaves on the south branch of the Saline. A Jacques Beauvais dit St. Jemme, resident of Montreal in 1654, died, 1691; a farmer; was the son of Gabriel Beauvais and Marie Crevier de St. Martin d'Ige; had ten children. His son, Raphael, had eight children .- Dictionnaire Genealogique des Families Canadiens, by L'Abbe Cyprian Tanguay.
42 In 1791 he made a trip to Canada, then an event in the life of a person; and from the New Madrid archives it appears that he received a power of attorney from Baptiste St. Aubin and Antoine Bordeleau to settle some business for them while there. In 1797 Pratte claimed a grant of 7,056 arpens on the Saline, clearing about forty arpens and putting up buildings, and had a large herd of stock. Salt works were then carried on in the neighborhood, and a grant was
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Kaskaskia in 1790.43 He was a member of one of the most ancient families of that ancient settlement. Janis, Nicolas Boyer, Andre, Pierre and Paul De Guire were prominent residents of the new village. Paul De Guire in 1800 lived on the St. Francois river, where he made sugar, and was one of the first settlers of St. Michael (Frederick- town). Other residents were Jean Baptiste Taumier or Taumure, Senior, who lived in the old village in 1766 and afterward resided between the forks of the Gabourie; August, Antoine, and Baptiste Aubuchon (or Oubuchon), no doubt relatives or descen- dants of Joseph Aubuchon, syndic of Kaskaskia in 1739; Louis Bolduc; Jacques Guibourd, who operated a tan-yard in the neigh- borhood of the Aux Vasse in 1799. All these and others came either from Kaskaskia or Cahokia and Fort de Chartres, driven out by the overflow, and looking out for a higher and better location. Jean Baptiste Placie, or Du Placie, son of Joseph Du Placey, the same who furnished the money to Colonel de la Balme for an expedition against Detroit in 1780, and lost his life with many others in this ill- considered scheme, also came to Ste. Genevieve at this time. Near the new village, Michael Placet dit Michau in 1787 built a mill on the spring branch running into the north fork of Gabourie, but in 1794 was also on Establishment creek, and made sugar there in 1.799.44
made for "cutting of wood to enable claimants to carry on salt works"; he also had a grant on the Mississippi. The Pratte family originally came from Montreal to the Illinois country. In 1676 Jean Baptiste Pratte married Marianna Lalumandiere.
43 Jean B. Janis, born September 18, 1759, at Kaskaskia; was a son of Nicolas Janis, a native of France, who married in Kaskaskia, in 1751, a daugh- ter of Marie B. Taumure dit La Source. At the age of 20, Jean B. was ap- pointed ensign in the Kaskaskia company. He married Rene Julia Barbeau in 1781 at Prairie du Rocher, and died at Ste. Genevieve in 1836, at the age of seventy-eight. Clark says of him: "When the attack was made on Post Vincennes, during the heat of the action the ensign was wounded and dropped the colors, but young Janis, regardless of danger, immediately sprang forward and recovered the flag, which he bore in triumph to the end of the contest, when victory was achieved in the capture of the place and the surrender of the British forces." - Draper's Collections, vol. xviii., p. 183, Clark's MSS. Janis in 1776 removed to Ste. Genevieve; was father of eight children, as appears from a petition presented to the Twenty-fourth Congress, first session .- Draper's Collection, Clark MSS., vol. xviii., p. 93.
44 Among other residents of the new village of Ste. Genevieve prior to the cession of Louisiana, were Don Louis Dubreuil de Villars, an early resident of Ste. Genevieve; at one time civil com- mandant at Ste. Genevieve and at Arkansas Post, and thirty years a lieutenant and captain in the Spanish service. His two sons, Antoine and Jean Antoine Dubreuil (infants), had a concession given them on Big river in 1799, in recognition of his services; his widow, Marie Louise, received a grant in 1796 of a league square between the Aux Vasse and Saline for a stock farm and tannery. In 1797 a Madame Marie Villars, veuve of Pierre Dorlac, lived in Ste. Genevieve; may be the same person. Gabriel Aubouchon (1765) married a daughter of Jean Baptiste Crely. Louis Aubou-
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Thus the new village was founded and grew, and "le vieux village" washed away and disappeared. Some of the best-hewn stone of Fort de Chartres were taken to Ste. Genevieve and St. Louis, and used in the new buildings of those villages. It is said, and is undoubt- edly true, that windows and doors of the barracks of this old fort were also taken out and used in their houses by the settlers on both sides of the river. So this old fortress was made to contribute to the com- fort of the people.
chon dit Yoche had a claim in Bellevue valley, on Hagle's creek, a branch of Big river, and lived at St. Ferdinand in 1800; Augustine Auguste Aubouchon (1774) son of Pierre François Au- bouchon dit Morel, Morelly or Morelles, had a tract in the common field of New Bourbon, also a resident of St. Louis; Charles Boyer we find at Mine à Breton in 1788. Jaduthan Kendall was a resident of Ste. Genevieve and other places in upper Louisiana; in 1798 had a tannery on Gabourie creek, and in 1799, on condition that he would enlarge the tannery by adding a manu- factory for boots and shoes and a distillery and brewery, secured an additional grant from Tru- deau to aid in that purpose. He also had property on the Plattin, also on the Joachim (Swashon) as assignee of François Wideman, who had a ferry at the mouth of this stream. Kendall owned property in St. Louis and on Sandy creek and elsewhere. Andrew Lalande (1779) in 1791 on the Aux Vasse and Gabourie, may be a descendant of Jean Baptiste LaLande who married an Indian woman named 8abana Kie 8e, at St. Ann in about 1721; Louis Lalumandiere dit Lafleur (1791); Charles Robin (Robinette) an ancient inhabitant of Ste. Genevieve, and whose widow still lived there prior to 1803; Pierre La Chapelle (1792); Andrew De Guire dit La Rose from Canada, an early settler, died in 1768, an ancient captain of militia, married Marie Labassiere, his second wife, in 1769 in parish St. Joachim, his grand son Jean Baptiste De Guire, in 1800 one of the founders ot St. Michael, and on Grand river; Etienne Govreau, a resident here in 1775, a blacksmith and at New Bourbon, on the Saline in 1799 with Etienne Parent, Mine à Breton in 1802, afterward moving to Big river; Jean Baptiste Fortin; Louis Govreau (1797); Henry Govreau (1797); Joseph Govreau; William Girouard dit Giroux (1797), from Kaskaskia, also on Gabourie; Grassard dit Griffard (1797); Grinon (1797); Etienne Gaoiot (1797); Alexis Griffard (Guiffar or Griffert) (1797); Michael Griffar (1797); Barthèlemi Beauvais (1797) and Jean Baptiste Beanvais, Junior; Pierre Belote (1797), an orphan, lived with Jean Baptiste Pratte, had a grant on Grand river in 1799, which he sold in 1805 to Seth Hunt of Cape Girardeau dis- trict, at public sale; Louis Bolduc (1770) Etienne Bolduc (1797), also at New Bourbon, where his widow had a claim; François Bernier (1797); Michael Butcher, Barthèlemi and Bastian (Sebastian, also made "Boston" by some American scribes) Butcher, and Peter Bloom, all came to the country in 1797 and were Germans, stone-masons, and worked at their trade in and around Ste. Genevieve, putting up houses, chimneys and furnaces for smelting lead; in 1802 were six miles from Mine La Motte toward Ste. Genevieve on the St. François river; Henry Dielle, in 1792 built a house at "Le Moulin," owned property in the common field, and in 1798 on the Saline, where he estab- lished a stock farm and made sugar; slave owner; Pascal Detchemendy (1797) was on the Aux Vasse in 1790 and in this year had about twenty arpens under cultivation there, houses and outhouses built, was also on Gabourie and river Establishment and at St. Louis; Veuve Manuel (1797); Francois Janis (1797) had a sugar camp on the Aux Vasse; Jean Baptiste Janis (1797), from Kaskaskia, with François claimed the remnant of the common field lying on Gabourie creek under Nicolas Janis, in 1708 at New Bourbon, and in 1800 cultivated a farm on Estab- lishment creek by his slaves. A Francois and Jean Baptiste Janis on Black Water fork of Little river in New Madrid district, but not known if related to same; Etienne Paggett (1707); Jean Baptiste Labreche (1700), Canadian-French, was associated with Walter Fenwick in the claim for ten thousand acres at Mine La Motte; Veuve Lalumardiere (1766) secured a grant on the Aux Vasse and settled the land by building and living there while making sugar, probably widow of Francois Lalumandiere dit Lafleur of Kaskaskia; Jean Baptiste and Joseph Laluman- diere, in 1797 on the Gabourie; Jean Baptiste Lacroix (1797) also at New Bourbon - probably a son of J. B. Lacroix, Senior, mentioned heretofore; Jean Baptiste Martin (1797); Jean Baptiste Pratte, Junior, in 1792 had a grant in Bois Brule bottom, where he lived for a number of years; Etienne Parent (1797), one of those who cultivated in the common field, but lived at Ste. Genevi- eve, in 1798 had a concession on the Saline with Etienne Govreau (Goverot) for pasturing the town cattle during the winter, and for a sugar camp, also had property at New Bourbon; Amable Par- tenais (or Padenode) dit Mason in 1797 cultivated in the common field, originally from Kaskas- kia, and says he was a laboring man, was assignee of different parties at Old Mine, and in 1700 owned property at Mine à Breton, which he sold in 1802 and in 1806 lived on the Colman tract on Brazeau creek; François Simoneau (1707) cultivated land in the common field; Cadet Tonnelier (1797); Joseph Tessereau (or Tisserot) dit Teporot (1707) owned land in the common field and in Grand Park or Hill field; this Tessereau maybe was related to Jean Francois Tisserant de Mont- charveaux, Captain of Fort de Chartres in 1753; Louis Buat (or Buyatte), from Kaskaskia, where he rendered military service prior to 1700, lived between the two forks of the Gabourie adjoining Prairie à Gautier, opposite "Little Hills," in 1797; Pierre Aubonchon (1798), from Kaskaskia, made a park on his concession in the lower fields of Ste. Genevieve in 1797; François Jourrier (1798); Pierre Pratte (1798); Baptiste Placette (1798); Joseph Seraphim (1798), but it is a question whether
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After the conquest of Illinois by Clark a number of French inhab - itants of Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Prairie du Rocher moved across
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the river to Ste. Genevieve and St. Louis. Cerré, the principal mer- chant of Kaskaskia, for instance, moved to St. Louis, and so also, Father Ledru. Gratiot came to St. Louis from Cahokia. Among
his real name was not "Benoit," and a Toussaint Benoit dit Seraphim of St. Louis may be a re- lative; Dr. Aaron Elliott (1798), apparently an early American settler, bought property of Max- well, the cure; Richard, James and Thomas Applegate (1799) at Ste. Genevieve, but in 1800 had grants of land on Flat river near the St. François; Richard and Thomas Applegate lived on the Joachim, William Null was chain carrier for this survey, James came from Kaskaskia; Jean Burk, Senior, also spelled "Birke"; was a forgeron (blacksmith) and fourreur here prior to 1799, also on Big river. Burke (Birke) was a native of Germany. His son John Burke, Jr., married Rachael Prior, daughter of Thomas Prior of Virginia in 1801. Others here prior to 1803 were Francois Auger; Charles Aime, from Kaskaskia, originally came from Quebec; in 1770 married an Osage woman, his son, Jean Baptiste, in 1802 married Marie Louise Belon of New Madrid, daughter of Joseph Belon dit Laviolette, of Canada; Antoine Buyette; Antoine Boyer; Louis Bellemar, or Bellemair, and Charles Bellemair; Louis Coyteaux (or Couteau), in 1804 in Bois Brule bottom; Jacques Courtois; Louis Cavallier (or Chevallier); Pierre Chevallier (1783) seems also to have lived at various other settlements; Jean B. Cahos; Louis Champaigne, may be a relative of, or the Louis Champain, one of the chiefs of a remnant of the Chetimachas tribe of Indians living in Placquemines parish, Louisiana (American State Papers, 2 P. L., p. 392); Louis Caron; Antoine Dubreuil; Barthelemi Derocher; Joseph Dielle; John Dodge (1787); François Durant, possibly related to Joseph Monmirel dit Durant, of New Madrid, but also of Ste. Genevieve; Veuve Fortaine (or Fortin), likely came over from Kaskaskia; Pierre Govreau; Louis Gueron; Gravel; Joseph Garet; Jean B. Hubard (or Hubardeau); Henry Lalande; John Myer (1709) worked in tan-yard for Jaduthan Kendall; Richelet (or Recollet); Francois Lan- gelier dit Langeliervoles; Henry dit Charles Lehaye (Lehai); Louis La Rose; Louis Pepin Lachance; Francois Lalumandiere; Veuve Louis Laporte; Etienne La Marque; Longstreath (Longstreet); R. Lemeilteur; Nicolas Lionnois; Pierre Misplait; Noel and Bazil Misplait; Nicolas Mercier; Jean Louis Missey (Massey); Thomas Oliver (1804), native of Virginia, first came to Kentucky, then to this district, at his death in 1825 was judge of probate and clerk of circuit court of his county, which office he had held for years; Rosemond Pratte; Joseph and Ambroise Placette (or Placide); Portorico, a nickname of some early resident of Ste. Gene- vieve, real name not known; Jean Portes (Portais), and may be Portel, who was at Old Mine; Pierre Robert; Paul Robert, also at Carondelet; Joseph Ranger; Pierre and Lambert Ranger;
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others that removed from Kaskaskia to Ste. Genevieve at this time may also be mentioned La Plante and Dufure, who led Clark to
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Kaskaskia. They were voyageurs or engagés of traders. Both died in Ste. Genevieve, the former in about 1812 and Dufure about 1835. Dr. Jean B. Lafond, who, together with Father Gibault, had
Etienne Nicolas and Veuve Roussin; Antoine and Veuve Simoneau; Pierre Torico, a soldier in the Spanish service, already mentioned; Louis Trudeau. Nicola, Boilvin was also a resident trader of Ste. Genevieve at this time. In 1797 he was sent on a mission to Boston by Don Carlos Howard. American State Papers, 3 Public Lands, p. 592; was a trader at Prairie du Chien, afterward, in 1818, appointed Indian agent of the United States, a man of education, acted as justice of peace and earliest civil magistrate in Wisconsin; died on a keelboat on his way to St. Louis in the summer of 1824; furnished a list of Winnebago words to Humboldt, which was lost (ro Wisconsin Hist. Coll., page 65); married Helene St. Cyr, daughter of Hyacinthe St. Cyr.
Other names of early residents found in the Ste. Genevieve church records are: François Arcourt (1780), a Canadian; Pierre Bertrand dit Beaulieu (1765); Alexis Buette (1766); Louis Boucher (1769); Francois Bernier (1774); Antoine Bienvenue (1783); Joseph Couture (1768); Pierre Chauvin (1773); François Colman (1774), a German from bishopric of Wurzburg; Jean Baptiste Campeau (1780); Guillaume Clouet (1760); Jean Baptiste Bienvenu dit De Lisle (1780); François De Conaque (1783), married an Illinois Indian woman; Michel Denis (1783); Joseph Doza (1783); Joseph Delor de Treget (1774); Nicholas Derouin (1777); François Des Roussel (1767); Phillip Dagneau (1783); Jean Gagnon (1766), from Quebec; Jacques Gaillard (1768); Louis Gravel (1780); Louis Gelie (1780); Joseph Germain (1782); Antoine Huneau (1760); Louis Jeannet (1780); Joseph Jaret (1780); Charles Auguste Le Comte (1760); Pierre Alex Leverare (1774); Jean Laplante (1781); Archange Le Beau (1782); Pierre La Grange (1782); Michel Le Mitchie (1784); Michel Lelups (1786); Charles Normand (1777); Pierre Roy, a black- smith (1766); Pierre Rougest or Rougcot dit Berger (1767); Louis Ride (1776); René Rapicaut (1779), a merchant; Pierre Rebolioso (1783), a soldier, native of Spain; Jean Baptiste Poitvin (1766); Joseph Perrodeau (1782); Pierre Parens (1782); Jean Baptiste Petit (1781); Louis Thi- bierge (1774); Jean Tabernier (1782), a soldier; Antoine Morin (1768); Joseph Mocque (1769); Jean Baptiste Morelle (1774); Pierre Marcou (1763); Joseph Menard (1782); Joseph Martin (1783), a Spanish soldier; Louis Conac dit Marquis (1775); Pierre Veraux (Verreau) (1777); Jean Baptiste Beauchamp (1795); Jean Bourbonois (1760); Joseph De Blois (1800); Gaston Leopold de Volsey (1760); Pierre De Grossiers, Junior (1761); Pierre Des Moulins (1761) ; Patrick Fleming, a hatter, was in Ste. Genevieve prior to 1780; Joseph Jonka (1787); Nicolas Jarrott (1798);
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