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47 Native of Detroit; married Marie Josephe Robert, who seems to have owned property in Detroit. Owned property on portage Mingo, in Little Prairie, and portage of river St. François; died in 1804; after his death his wife in a peti- tion to the commander regarding the estate says, it was on account of being cru- elly deceived in business transactions he decided to come to the Louisiana ter- ritory. His son, Joseph Hunot, Junior, in 1800, married Elizabeth Millette, daughter of Jean Baptiste Millette and Angelique Paradot, natives of Ste. Gen- evieve. In 1804, this son was accused of being an accomplice in theft committed by Thomas, negro slave of R. J. Waters, but was vindicated. Another son, Ignace was in New Madrid in 1791, and afterward on small Bay Portage river St. François.
48 John E. Harte was a resident of Bayou St. Thomas in 1795.
4º "Creole de los Illinois," native of Detroit; in 1792 with Didier Marchand, Vincent Barras, Jean Camus, Jean Nicholas Toussainte and Jean Baptiste Louis Collin, hired to James Turcotte as wood cutters, etc., for fifteen piastres a month. This Collin may be the same who was "held in irons" at Cahokia
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The "LaFleche," and the "Vigilanta" were also stationed at New Madrid in that year. Don Bernardo Moline was captain of the "Victoria" in 1797. Another galliotte was named "L'Activa" in command of McCoy, and Don Pedro Rousseau was commandant of the "Fuerzai." Rousseau in 1795 was in command of the Spanish squadron on the Mississippi, when Fort San Fernando was established at what was then known as Ecore des Margot, commanding His Majesty's galley "La Venganza" before "Campo de Esperanza." By order of Gayoso he cleared the woods for the fort, clearing six or seven arpens in one day. The Chickasaw Indians seeing that he did this work with his men all unarmed were greatly pleased and asked Gayoso through their chief, Ligulayacabe, the privilege to give him a name, and named him "Payemingo," meaning "without fear." He was so charmed with the place he cleared for the fort that he says that "it would be a grief for such important lands to fall into the hands of the Americans. " 50
The names of the settlers who came to New Madrid, induced by Morgan's splendid scheme, cannot all be ascertained, but the number was larger than now generally supposed. Free land and no taxation were undoubtedly great inducements. So also the knowledge of the fact that no vexatious obstructions existed as to the shipment of the agricultural produce of the Spanish country to New Orleans. Among those who were attracted by Morgan to New Madrid were David Gray 51 and Joseph Story, both of Massachusetts. Gray, prior to his immigration to New Madrid, lived at Kaskaskia. In New Madrid he was a merchant, and held the position of interpreter, being master of the Spanish and French languages. Little else is known about him. He, however, as well as his wife, were possessed of a degree of culture and education unusual at that time in the district. He owned prop-
in 1788. His son, François Langlois, Junior, in 1802 married Barby St. Aubin, daughter of Jean Baptiste St. Aubin and Marie Louise Dennir, deceased, natives of Vincennes.
50 Received the special thanks of the king for meritorious service while under command of General Don Bernardo de Galvez in East and West Florida; was commandant of the brigantine "Galveztown;" also served at the fort of Natchito- ches; aided in capturing William Bowles, and took him to Havanna; took artil- lery to New Madrid in 1793 when threatened by the French-American filibus- teros; captured a number of small English vessels loaded with artillery and flour. An active man. His son, Pedro Andre Rousseau, a cadet in the Louisiana regiment.
51 Native of Dunbar, son of Alexander Gray and Margaret Melville, in 1800 married Dinah Martin, widow of Azor Rees and daughter of Matthias Martin and Eleanor Griffen, of Pennsylvania. On account of cruel treatment his wife secured a separation from him.
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erty both in the village and in Big Prairie. Joseph Story, the deputy Spanish surveyor of the district, was a son of William Story and Jane Appleton of Boston, Massachusetts, and came to New Madrid with Morgan to assist in laying out the city. He married Catherine Seek, daughter of Jacob Seek and Margarite Keser, of Pennsylvania, at New Madrid in 1794.
Captain Robert McCoy and Captain Richard Jones Waters, already mentioned, were perhaps the most prominent American residents of New Madrid at this period. McCoy originally resided in Vincennes, but settled in New Madrid in 1787 and engaged in the Indian trade. For a number of years he was an active citizen in Spanish New Madrid, an officer and adjutant general of militia, and in command of a Spanish galley, no unimportant position at that time at New Madrid, when all vessels navigating the Mississippi river, under the Spanish rules and regulations, were compelled to land there, and all the cargoes destined for New Orleans, or points in the Spanish possessions, were sub-
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ject to inspection. McCoy remained in the Spanish naval service until the arrival of Don Henri Peyroux. Before the arrival of Peyroux, and from June to August, 1799, he acted as commandant of New Madrid. In 1800 he was commandant in the Tywappity Bottom. This Tywappity Bottom is situated opposite the mouth of the Ohio, and at that time many Americans coming down the river sought the privilege of settling in this rich and fertile district, and McCoy's services were very valuable to the Spanish government as well as to the new immigrants. He died and was buried at New Madrid in 1840.52
Richard Jones Waters 53 was a physician by profession. He was induced by Morgan's glowing scheme to settle at New
52 2 Hunt's Minutes, pp. 144-5, Missouri Historical Society Archives. Years afterward, when the old cemetery of New Madrid was gradually washing into the river, an old negro one morning came to the old graveyard with his wagon and dug up the bones of his old master, carried them to another place, and re-interred them. McCoy married Marie Lafond, daughter of Dr. Lafond.
53 Native of Maryland, son of William Waters and Rachel Jonce (Jones) ; in 1800 married Françoise Godfroy (widow of Louis Vandenbenden, engineer of Upper Louisiana) daughter of Rene Godfroy and Françoise Randu, natives of Contance in Normandy, province of France. He died in 1806, leaving an es- tate of $60,000 in cash, a very large sum at that time. Had no children, but adopted two sons of Mrs. Jacob Myers. These boys were respectively named John and Richard Jones Waters. John left the country when a youth, disap-
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Madrid. He possessed energy and enterprise; built the first water-mill in New Madrid at the mouth of the bayou St. John ; was a merchant, and extensively engaged in the Indian trade; was a speculator in land, and became a very large land owner. After the acquisition of Louisiana he was a leading and active member of the first convention assembled west of the Mississippi river, and his name appears on the remonstrance addressed by that convention to the Congress of the United States. According to DeLassus, " he was a very zealous officer, of extensive knowledge, but of somewhat extrava- gant disposition and very quarrelsome," evidently. referring to the litigation in which he was involved with almost every one.
Among other prominent traders in New Madrid, in addition to those already enumerated, were Barthelemi Tardiveau & Co. 54 Barthèlemi Tardiveau was no doubt the most distinguished settler attracted to New Madrid by Morgan. Roosevelt remarks that he has found several disconnected notes about him that prove his importance in the development of the west. He was a native of France, but had lived in Holland, a man of education and culture. In 1780 he was a merchant in Louisville and furnished supplies to General George Rogers Clark. While there he addressed a letter to General Clark, recommending that a certain Shawnee squaw be sent as a messenger with peace proposal to the tribes in Ohio, which suggestion was adopted with good results. After peace was established between the colonies and Great Britain he removed to Kaskaskia. During the turbulent and lawless period that prevailed in the country after the conquest Tardiveau la- bored earnestly to protect the rights of the old French habitans. When Gen. Harmar came to Kaskaskia he was greatly impress- ed with Tardiveau's ability, relied on him in his relations with the French residents and made him his interpreter. As attorney he represented the French settlers before the old Continental Congress in New York, endeavoring to secure a confirmation of the old French titles, to land that had been in the possession of these habi- tans for almost a century. He was bitterly assailed, principally peared and never was heard of, but Richard remained with his adopted mother and finally inherited all the property.
54 The members of this firm were, Tardiveau, Pierre Menard and Pierre Audrain. Menard was a merchant at Kaskaskia, a large slave owner, and in 1800 sold property to Edward Robertson, including horse-mill and dis- tillery, with all machinery and stock, taking in part payment slaves. In 1804 this firm owed Jean Baptiste Sarpy of New Orleans 11,991 piastres for mer- chandise.
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because these French settlers agreed to pay him for his services with a part of the land, title to which was thus to be perfected, and the only means the settlers had to pay him for his trouble. Morgan, too, interested in securing for his new colony a large im- migration, sought to discourage Tardiveau and intrigued to defeat Congressional action. . Although thus opposed in his work, princi- pally through his efforts, Congress between 1788 and 1791 passed several acts securing the French settlers their land claims, and in addition made grants to all who had served in the militia and to the American settlers who had made improvements on land granted by the American officials. To the French settlers these
grants were of little benefit. Their lands and claims soon fell into the hands of speculators. Tardiveau, too, seems to have realized that these simple French were in no wise a match in the grasp for land and wealth with their American compeers. At any rate, in 1792 he wrote a letter to Count Aranda outlining a plan to attract the French population on the east side of the Missis- sippi to the Louisianas, and finally himself removed to New Madrid in 1793. Tardiveau was a man of literary ability, an ac- complished linguist, spoke and wrote French, English and Span- ish and also was familiar with some Indian languages. He was Spanish interpreter at New Madrid at the time of his death.55
Two German traders, Steinbeck & Reinecke,56 who had estab-
55 His library was inventoried as follows: a Greek and Latin dictionary, ten volumes of Greek and Latin books, an English-Spanish dictionary, a French dictionary of two volumes, Johnson's English dictionary, a treatise on agriculture, a Dictionary of Commerce, the works of Montesquieu in six volumes, Necker's works on Finances in three volumes, three volumes of the American Agricultur- ist, Restant's Grammar, and nine French volumes. From a letter to St. James Beauvais, dated New York, 1788, it appears that Barthélemi Tardiveau was there to secure a grant from Congress of 500 acres to each of the inhabitants of Kaskaskia. After much delay he finally secured a report favoring a grant of 400 acres, but hopes that the full 500 acres will be finally granted. Here he met Colonel Morgan, and writes that Morgan much discouraged him in his work, assuring him that Congress would grant nothing, that he (Morgan) was about to purchase 2,000,000 acres with some 200 persons of means, and he ought to join him in this enterprise. It was also charged that he favored a land-grant by Congress because he intended to buy out the French settlers anyway who were going across the river into Spanish territory, and finally some asserted that the French had lost nothing by Clark's troops, all of which greatly harassed Tardiveau, but finally the act was passed. The St. Louis archives show that in 1786 Madame Chouteau sold Tardiveau a farm in Grand Prairie 6 arpens by 80 for 10,000 pounds of flour, a house built of posts 80 feet long and divided into several apartments was located on this land. Evidently Tardi- veau at this time had some idea of settling in St. Louis.
56 Frederick Reineche (Reinecke) merchant, native of "Brunswick en Al- magne," son of deceased Jean Frederick Reinecke and Margaret Karley ; in 1804 married Rebecca Butler, native of Montgomery county, Maryland; daughter
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lishments at Cape Girardeau and at Little Prairie also did busi- ness at New Madrid. Other traders were Derbigny, LaForge & Co.,57 and Etienne Bogliolo, who afterward entered into partner- ship with McCoy. Bogliolo originally came from the island of Guadaloupe with considerable property.58
Dr. Samuel Dorsey, a native of Maryland, during the Spanish government, was surgeon of the post, receiving a monthly salary of thirty dollars. He came to New Madrid in 1793 from Vincennes, and in 1795 married a Miss Jose Bonneau, daughter of Charles Bonneau, at New Madrid, where she died in 1799.59 Dr. Hugh McDonald Chisholm was another physician of New Madrid. He settled in the town in 1791, and came to New Madrid from Kaskaskia. He had rendered military service there. He was a land speculator and merchant. In 1795 he had a grant on the forks of the bayou St. Martin and St. Mary, but in 1808 the Mississippi had washed this land away. Dr. Henry Masters was also an early physician in New Madrid. In 1804 he was appointed justice of the peace of the district. But perhaps the earliest physician who located in the New Madrid district was Dr. Elisha Jackson, who came to the · country in 1790. He was a man of property and a slave owner. Dr. Jean B. Lafond, who was a resident of Kaskaskia when Gen- eral Clark took possession of that place lived and died here. With Father Gibault, Dr. Lafond piloted the combined American and French forces to Vincennes, and greatly assisted in the capture of that place, by inducing the French habitans of the Illinois country to espouse the American cause. Subsequently Dr. Lafond removed to Ste. Genevieve, and from Ste. Genevieve to New Madrid.60
of Jean Butler and Anne Chene. Christopher Frederick She(i)ver performed the ceremony, Charles Gross, Robert Mitchell and Reuben L. Bockett, being witnesses.
57 In 1799 bought property of R. J. Waters, including mill.
58 Bogliolo and his son Matteo were engaged in much early land litigation. A granddaughter of Etienne Bogliolo married Honorable T. J. O. Morrison for many years senator from New Madrid district.
50 Son of Nathan Dorsey and Sophie Owen. Dr. Dorsey was a large land owner, and from New Madrid removed to the Cape Girardeau district, where he married his second wife, a daughter of Jeremiah Thompson; he resided in the Cape Girardeau district until 1812, and then removed to Claiborne county, Mississippi.
60 Among the settlers of the village of New Madrid during the Spanish government were: Pierre Archambeau (1791); Charles Bonneau (1791); Louis Brouillet, Senior (1791) native of Canada, son of Joseph Brouillet and Eliza- beth Dulud; married Marianne Thibault of Vincennes, daughter of Nicolas
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Among those who were led to settle west of the river, by Morgan, was Andrew Wilson, a native of Scotland, and it is said that he was a Presbyterian minister. Of course he did not exercise his Thibault and Josephe St. Aubin. Their son, Louis Brouillet, Junior, also a resident here; Antoine Gamelin (1790), came from Vincennes where he was a resident in 1770; in 1791 he inherited property from the estate of Ignace Gamelin, his father, of Montreal, Canada, who died in 1789; his wife was Lisette de La Jesmerais, probably a daughter of Captain de La Jesmerais, who Randot reported left "a wife and six children to beggary" upon his death in 1708; Jean Baptiste Bissette (1791); François Berthiaume (1790); Charles Nicolas Bolot (or Blot) (1791); Thomas Chambers (1791) apprenticed his son Bradshaw Chambers, in 1791, aged six years, to John Hemphill, master carpenter, for a term of fifteen years; and in 1800 the same boy was bound out to R. J. Waters for five years; Jean Baptiste Chandellier, Chandillon (or Chatillon ) (1791) also owned a tract on the river St. François; Jacque Coutu, or Cottu, or Coutue, dit Chatoyer (1791), a trader, son of deceased Etienne Coutue and Theresa Briant, natives of Canada, parish of St. Antoine, Montreal, married Charlotte Maisonville, daughter of Joseph Maisonville. Coutue seems also to have been a carpenter, says he turned over the buildings he had put up under contract to Ignace Chatigny; François Champagne, or Compagnotte (1791) master carpenter; Renez Couder; (or Codere); Jean Baptiste, Toussaint and Santos Coder or Coudert (1791) Hypolite Campeaux (1791); Antoine Cerré Senior, (1791); also at Ste. Genevieve and New Bourbon, Ignace Chatigny (1791), in 1792 sold property including tanyard, and afterward near Hill or Pine Tree. Probably the same Chatigny who in 1780 was arrested for speaking disrespectfully of the court of Cahokia. Louis Toussaint Denoyon (1791); in 1801 on Big Lake and Grand Marais; Samuel Davis (1791); François Dumais (1791), son of Ambroise; Jean Denys (or Dennis) (1791); Joseph Deganne (1791); Benjamin Davis (1791); Aaron Day (1791); Joseph Dutailler (or DuTallie (1791), also on river St. François; Jean Derland (1791), Fort Celeste; François Derousser (Desrousses), dit St. Pierre (1791) from Vincennes, married Veronique Metayer, in 1800 owned land on Big Prairie, on bayou St. Henry and St. Mary; Jean Easten (1791); John Fulham (or Fulhorn) (1791), corporal of a company of militia under Richard Jones Waters; Joseph Fernandez (1791); Louis Gaultier (1791) appointed Antoine Gamelin to receive a stock of goods for him at New Madrid, among Joseph L'Amoureux' papers is an account from one Gaultier dated in 1769, evidently a resident of Vincennes; John Hemphill (or Hanyshill) (1791) master carpenter, from Vincennes, parish St. François, was a slave owner; James Hemphill (1791) owned land on lake St. Ann; Gabriel Hunot, pere, (1791), merchant in the town, had a grant on Lake St. Ann, also at Carondelet in St. Louis district; Edouard (Edward) Huettner (1791), a German, merchant and solicitor for Pierre Deroche and Pierre Audrain; Jere- miah Kendall (1791); Pierre Latour (1791), also on Big Bay Portage, river St. François; François Lacoste (1791), dit Languedoc; Joseph Lafleur, a resident of Vincennes in 1770, came to New Madrid in 1791; Joseph LaGrande (1791), merchant, "creole de los Illinois," in 1799 received a grant on Big Bay portage, river St. François, from DeLassus for services rendered the government with the Indians; Madame Lagrand (Veuve) (1791), a Charlotte Legrand, daugh- ter of deceased Gabriel Legrand, native of Detroit, parish Assumption, was also here in 1791, a sister of Jean Marie Legrand. This Charlotte Legrand seems also to have been in Ste. Genevieve. The La Grande came originally from Detroit. Louis Laffelier, dit Jasmin (1791), a man by name of Jasmin was at Vincennes in 1786, a trader ; François Lavoix (1791), may be Lacroix of Ste. Genevieve; Josiah Whittredge (1791); Antoine Bordeleau (1791); Arthur Mellon (1791) owned several tracts on the lakes near New Madrid; Joseph Millette (1791) also on river St. François; Jean Baptiste Millette (1791), native of Canada, formerly a resident of Vincennes, married Angelique Lafleur who seems to have
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ministry after settling in the Spanish possessions, nor is it known that he ever preached a sermon in New Madrid even after the country was acquired by the United States, but he taught school there for a time.
been widow of Joseph Peradeau (Paradot), in 1792 had two grants in Ste. Gen- evieve district for himself and son, but abandoned them, regranted to Guibourd, in 1802 was on the St. François; Joseph Maisonville, Senior and Junior (1791), from Detroit, Canada, parish of St. Ann, lived in 1783 for a time at Vincennes; Hibernois (Ibernois), dit Meloche (1791) (evidently an Irishman), afterwards in Little Prairie; Antoine Mallet (Millette) (1791), of Vincennes, married Cather- ine Bordeleaux in 1775 at Vincennes, died 1793, had two children, Catherine and Antoine, Junior, Catherine married Michel Clermont (1794), and is evidently the Catherine Millette widow Barsaloux in 1791, who afterwards lived at Ste. Genevieve and died there in 1804; Joseph Montmirel or Monmirel, dit Durant, or Duren (1791), near Ste. Genevieve in 1795; Jean Baptiste Morelle (1791) merchant, died in Vincennes in 1793; Kiete or Quiete Naeleman or Naheliman (1791); Marie Ouarllia (1791); Amable Perron (1791); François Paquin, Pasquin or Pequan (1791) near the village, in 1802 asks for a grant of land for his sons Fran- cois, Noel, Antoine and Pierre, which had been abandoned by Charles Bonneau ; Pierre Porior, dit Desloge (1791), furnished material to Joseph Michel for his house, also material for the public work of Fort Celeste; Samuel Power (1791) ; Eustache Peltier (1791), married Angelique Languedoc, but signs her name Angelique Lacoste, he was in Little Prairie in 1803; Jean Presset (or Gresset) (1791); Pierre Gurez (or Querez), dit LaTulipe (1791), one of the contractors to build Fort Celeste, married Marie Josephe Peltier, sold his house to Pierre Deroche, including all fruit and plants in 1791; Jacob Hans Stillman (1791) German, married Marie Presle, died in 1792 at Little Prairie; Joseph Reindeau (or Reguindeau) dit Joachim (1791), of Vincennes, married Theresa Raphiante, he owned tracts of land on lakes St. John and St. Thomas, and in 1801 at Little Prairie. A widow of Pierre Peron also seems to have married a Joseph Riendeau, possibly the same. James Ryan, (1791), boarded for a time with Conrad Carpenter, in 1794 sold property on bayou St. Thomas to Tardi- veau, Audrain & Co .; François Racine (1791) on lakes St. Marie and St. Isidore, his sons François, Junior, and Andrew also lived there; Jean Baptiste Richard (1791); Azor Rees (1791), slave holder, married Dinah Martin who afterwards married David Gray; Veronique Reaume (Veuve Legrand) (1791), and in the same year we find Veronique Legrand Babinge or Babing; Charles Boyer dit Laffond or Laffont (1791); John Reburn (1791); Joseph Sans- façon (1791); Alexander Sampson (1791), afterwards in Little Prairie and river Gayoso; Louis St. Aubin, senior (1791), his son Louis, junior, in 1800 was on Big Lake, also lived at Little Prairie; Jean Baptiste St. Aubin (1791); Pedro Saffray (1791), merchant and trader, owned property on Lake Ricardo, in 1804 he arranged to leave the post to spend the winter and trade among the Indians, but was detained by a suit on accounts, in 1800 engaged himself to Gabriel Cerré for two years as clerk and book-keeper, but Cerré says on account of drunkenness, etc., was compelled to dismiss him in 1801, Saffray remained at the post, however, subject to his command till the end of the engagement, and . claimed his salary; Pierre Sabourin (1791) merchant, native of Parish of Point Claire, Montreal, Canada, married Marie Anne(Marianne) Dubez, native of Vincennes; Sanschagrin (1791); Louis Tonnelier (1791), a witness at the mar- riage of Joseph Laplante; Louis Violet (1790), had a son named Emanuel Vio- let he left in care of Jean Dennir, who it seems raised him; Francois Vachette dit St. Antoine (1791); Samuel Black (1792), a native of Flanders; Henry Bagley (or Bacley), a trader, died in New Madrid in 1792, seems to have been a man of means as he had a large inventory; a Henry Badley was here in 1791, and a firm called Bacley, Hewet & Co .; Don Juan Bartelet (1792), a dealer in New Madrid, slave owner; Joseph Theodore Baillet (1792); William Bartelet (1792) ; Philip Briscot (1792); Joseph Blacborn (Blackburn) (1792); Noel Berthiaume (1792); Hypolite Canyseau (Campeau) (1792); Ephraim Connor (1792), a native
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His son George Wilson was the first sheriff of New Madrid after the cession of the country. He was a merchant, and in 1802 sexton of the parish.
of New Hampshire, son of Benjamin Connor and Marie Fogne in 1793 mar- ried Lucy Morris, a native of Maryland, Prince George county, daughter of John Morris and Nancy Mason; Philippe Chifler (Schiffler) (1792); François Cockrel (1792); William Cohen (Cowen), also spelled Culhoon and Caouenne, a native of Carlisle, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania (1792) laborer, married Marie Block, daughter of Henry Block and Marie Hamer of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania ; Joseph Cerezo or Ceres (1792) was in service of Antoine Gamelin and Pedro Saffray as book-keeper and manager of their distillery, was also at Portage of river St. François; Julia Campeau (1792) widow of Jean Baptiste Charetier (Chartier) their son Jean Baptiste, junior, native of Vincennes also lived in New Madrid, in 1803 married Françoise Latremonille, daughter of Jac- ques Latremonille and Marie Lafleur, natives of Vincennes; Toussaint Coder (or Godair) (1792); John Davis (1792) married Nancy Pritchett and who sur- vived him living in New Madrid in 1796; Thomas or David Davis dit David Johnson (1792) on lake St. Marie; Moses Decker (1792) ; Baptiste Foucher (1792) married Anne Gabriel Besnard; Bonaventure Foucher, a resident of Vincennes in 1770, came to New Madrid in 1792; Charles Guilbeaut, Guilbourd, Guil- bault (or Guilbert) (1791), from Vincennes, parish St. François, slave owner, in 1801 at Little Prairie and lake Isidore; Joseph Gonet (1792), in 1802 on river Gayoso; Claude Joseph Gonet (1793) native of parish of St. Julien in, France, son of deceased Claude Joseph Gonet and Barby Juliet; Richard Gras (or Grace); Russell Huitt (Hewitt) (1792) carpenter, employed by McCoy, was one of the heirs of Henry Bagley, also owned property on lake St. Thomas; John James (1792); Francisco Jourdin (1792); Jacob Myers (1792) dit Rober- son Pearson, official carpenter, in this year built probably a temporary church, for which he received from Portelle $400, and in 1793 another church, was sergeant of a company of militia, and in 1795 conducted a public tavern for one year, obli- gating himself not to sell liquor or strong drink to any Indians or colored slaves under penalty of thirty piastres and the confiscation of his liquor. This Jacob Myers was a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; in 1801 married Cheriat Lee, a native of Maryland. Moses Lansford (1791) lived at or near Fort Celeste, also owned property on the Mississippi in St. Louis district at Petite Rocks, in 1800, which he bought of Jacques Clamorgan, who had acquired it of Jean Dodje (Dodge) of Ste. Genevieve; George Lansford also lived in New Madrid; Paul Portneuf dit Laderoute (1786) native of Illinois, son of Paul Portneuf dit Lade- route and Louise (or Lisette) Debois, in 1793 married Marie Ann Derosier, (widow of deceased Joseph Dubez) native of village St. Pierre of Illinois, daugh- ter of Bonaventure Derosier and Judith Larivier. Two of the witnesses to this marriage were, François Leonas and Bonar Arizabel. Juan Christianero (1792) (a German whose real name was Johann Christian Gerold) soldier of infantry at Fort Celeste; John François Laloue or Laluz (1792) at Fort Celeste; Pedro Languedoc (1792); François Languedoc (1792); Jean Moise (Moses) Malboeuf (1791); William Mack (or Mock) (1792), native of Virginia, son of Rudite (Ran- dolph) Mock and Catherine Trombeau, married Ruth Morris, daughter of John Morris and Nancy Mason, natives of Prince George county, Maryland, was on lakes St. Ann and St. François; Marie Morgan (1792) in the village on the Mississippi; James McCulloch (1792) also on lake St. Thomas; Frederick Ostman (1792), his property at his death sold to J. B. McCourtney ; Pierre Phil- berry (1791), sold in this year to Don Thomas Portelle five thousand shingles at six pesos per hundred; Pedro Padget (1792); Thomas Pardon (or Purdon) (1792); Antoine Petit (1792) contracted with Joseph Michel to do carpenter work; Ebenezer L. Platte (1792); Etienne St. Marie (1792), on lake St. Mary and Bay of Portage of river St. François, his children were Thereza, Ursula, Etienne, Joseph, Louis and François; William Spann (or Spahn) a German, (1792) married Ann Catarina, daughter of Andrew Toucanbroud; Andrew
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