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VIJ. Mary Ann Royall1º. b. June 2. 1893.
Elizabeth Tennessee Royall' and Charles Daubigny MeMillin, her first husband, had issue :
1. Charles Royall MeMillin1, b. Jan. 13, 1880. Married (Dec. 1, 1897) Lula Sawyer, b. Dec. 13, 1882.
LI. Rosa Dora MeMillin10, b. Nov. 13, 1823: d. Aug. 10. 1895. Married (Nov. 13. 1890) James den Simmons, h. Aug. 10. 1862.
Elizabeth Tennessee Royall" and Abraham Hensarling. her second husband. had issue:
1. William Denny Hensarling1".
II. Abraham Hensarling10.
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Lilly Medora Royall' and William Carson Bozett had issue :
I. William Carson Bozett10, b. Dec. 30, 1880; d. Oct. 20, 1885.
II. Bertha Medora Bozett10, b. March 4, 1882.
III. Martha Elizabeth Bozett10, b. Oct. 22, 1883; d. Nov. 2, 1885.
IV. Claude Earle Bozett10, b. June 2, 1885.
V. Wirt Leggett Bozett10, b. Feb. 9, 1887.
VI. William Algie Bozett10, b. Nov. 2, 1888.
VII. Irma Lilly Bozett10, b. March 5, 1891.
VIII. Gladys Lorena Bozett10, b. July 18, 1892.
IX. Birdie Ruth Bozett10. b. March 27, 1894 ; d. Sept. 25, 1895.
X. Guy Frank Bozett10, b. Dec. 10, 1895.
XI. Norman Kittrell Bozett10, b. Oct. 4, 1897.
John Newell Royall' and Arizona Belle Burnett, his wife, had issue :
I. Lucile Verena Royall10, b. July 8, 1895.
II. Newell Reginald Royall1º, b. Oct. 26, 1897.
Wm. P. Miller? married, in 1895, Miss Anna Webb. Issue :
I. Rose-Budd Webb Miller10.
II. Wm. P. Miller1º, Jr.
John A. B. Miller9, Coleman, Texas, married in 1898, Miss Mattie B. Morris, and had issue :
I. John P. Miller10, b. Sept. 19, 1900.
II. Thomas Louie Miller10, b. Jan. 5, 1903.
III. Claude A. Miller10. b. March 15, 1905.
Mary Emma Miller9, Patterson, Louisiana, married in 1902. Mr. Horace Wadsworth. Issue :
I. Horace Miller Wadsworth10.
Rosa Dora McMillin? and James Aden Simmons had issue :
I. Jessie Verena Simmons10, b. Aug. 22, 1891.
II. Elizabeth Mildred Simmons10, b. March 27, 1903.
Charles Royall McMillin9 and Lula Sawyer, his wife, have two children :
I. Arthur Willis MeMillin10, b. Dec. 21, 1902.
II. Rosa Dell McMillin1º, b. July 4, 1904.
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CHAPTER VIII
DIMITRY FAMILY.
In the early occupation of Canada and Louisiana, and nearly to the same extent in the English Colonies, there was a disposition to multiply names and surnames, but during the French and Ameri- can revolution, and subsequently, there was a contrary tendency.
In Canada, large landowners, with sub-tenants, received the title of "Seigneur" or "Lord," really landlord. Landowners of a lesser degree, living on their own property, and exercising authority as magistrates, were called "Sieur" or "Squire," corre- sponding to Esquire, the first degree of Knighthood, or "Gentle- man." The "Landed Gentry" of England is a name expressive of the meaning of the title "Sieur."
Those, who in Canada and Louisiana acquired small conces- sions of land for cultivation or other purposes, by virtue of actual occupation on a nominal rent, but not exercising authority as a magistrate, were simply "franc tenanciers" or free holders.
Originally, every person had but one name. Plato recommended it to parents to give "happy names" to their children. The Pythag- oreans taught that the minds, actions, and success of men were according to their "names, genius and fate." The popes change their names upon their exaltation to the holy office, a custom by some authorities said to have been introduced by Pope Sergius (A. D., 687), whose name previous to his pontificate was "Swine Snout." Other authorities-for example, Platus Onufrius-refers it to John XII (A. D .. 956), and gives as a reason that it was done in succession from SS. Peter and Paul, who were first called Simon and Saul.
In France it was usual to change the name given in baptism, as was done in the case of the two sons of Henry II. They were christened, Alexander and Hercules, but at their confirmation their names were changed to Henry and Francis. It is usual for religi-
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euses, on entering monasteries. or convents, to assume new names, to show they are about to begin a new life and have renounced "the world, their families, and themselves."
Surnames first came into use in Greece and Egypt, and arose from great deeds or distinctions, as Soter, savior; Nicator, con- queror; Energetes, benefactor: Philopater, lover of his father; Philomater, lover of his mother. Strabo was surnamed Physiens, from his deep study of nature: Aristides was called the just ; Pho- cion, the good ; Plato the Athenian Bee; Xenophon, the Attic Muse : Aristotle, the Stagyrite; Pythagoras, the Samian Sage : Menodamus, the Eretrian Bull : Democritus, the Laughing Phil- osopher; Virgil, the Mantuan Swain.
Surnames were introduced into England by the Normans, and were adopted by the nobility, A. D., 1100.
The old Normans used "Fitz," signifying "Son of," as Fitz Herbert, Fitz Gerald; the Irish used "O" for grandson, deeming a family not established until their third generation, as O'Neal, O'Donnell; the Scots used "Mac" to signify "son of." as Mac- Donald, MacGregor; the Saxons added "son" to the name, as Williamson, Robinson.
This was the custom of the Brabanters and the Flemings, who were naturalized in the reign of Henry IV (1435). Among them we find many such names as Johnson, Wilson, Dyson, Mason and Nicholson.
There was a disposition in the British provinces of America, as well as in Canada and Lonisiana. to assume surnames taken from places and estates. While in the British colonies this was, gener- ally, merely to distinguish the person or family, as John Randolph of Roanoke, Charles Carroll of Carrolton, in Canada and Louisiana, the family name became lost in the name of the estate. or in the political position of the individual. so that brothers in blood often went by totally dissimilar names, as if belonging to different families. This increases the labor of a genealogist in attempting to trace a family history under such circumstances.
The practice of the Catholic Church in recording not only the names of parents, but those also of grandparents, both of the father and the mother, when making baptismal and other records. served to neutralize the difficulty to some extent ; and, indeed, these
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church records have proved most valuable, and trustworthy, even more so than legal records of wills and transfers of property.
A committee was appointed by the Senate of the United States, in 1780, to consider and report what style or title it would be proper to annex to the office of President and Vice President of the United States. A joint committee of the two chambers reported. "that it is improper to annex any style or title of office to those expressed in the constitution." This report was adopted by the House of Representatives, but was not agreed to by the most aristo- cratic Senate. The House, however, successfully persisted in its determination not to authorize any title. (Washington Writings. Volume X. pp. 20-22.
Noël Jucherand Sieur de Chatelets, a graduate at law, member of the King's Council, Auditor of the "Merchants Co.," was never married. He was drowned with his nephew, Noël, while traveling in France, in 1649.
Jean Jucherand. Seigneur de Mure, brother of the precedent. member of the King's Council, b. 1502; buried Feb. 7. 1672, mar- ried Marie Landlois, who was buried Jan. 15, 1681. at Quebec. Canada.
The above brother came to Quebec. in 1618, because Noël was present at a marriage of a certain Jean Nicholas, who was married that year. (Records Oct. 22, 1637.)
Jean Jucherand married Marie Langlois. They had issue :
I. Jean, b. 1625. Married, Quebec, Nov. 21. 1645, Marie Francoise Giffard : buried, Quebec, 1685.
II. Nicholas, b .- Married, Quebec, Sep. 22, 1649, Marie Thérèse Giffard : buried, Oct. 5. 1692. at Beau- port.
III. Noël, drowned, in 1649, in France, with his uncle of the same name.
IV. Genevieve. b. 1635. Married. in Quebec, Oct. 1, 1649. Charles le Gardeur : buried. Nov. 5, 1687. in the Hotel Dieu, Quebec.
Married, Quebec, Sept. 22, 1649. Nicholas Jucherand, son of Jean Jucherand, and Marie Therese Giffard, daughter of Robert Giffard : buried, Beauport. June 23. 1714. Nicholas Jucherand's
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titles were, Sieur de St. Denis, Seigneur de Beauport. He was buried at Beauport, June 23, 1714. They had issue :
I. Marie Jucherand, baptized, Beauport, Aug. 16, 1653 ; mar- ried twice : first, Quebec, Nov. 29, 1669, Francois Pol- let ; married, second, Quebec, Feb. 25, 1683, Francois d'Autreuil.
II. Charles de Beauharnais, St. Denis, King's Councillor, Lieutenant General of the Isle of Montreal, born at Que- bec, Dec. 15, 1685; married, Montreal, April 21, 1602, Denise Therese Migeon.
III. Ignace Jucherand du Chesnay, Seigneur de Beauport, bap- tised, Quebec, Aug. 11, 1658; married, Beauport, Feb. 24, 1683, Marie Catherine Pauvret ; buried, Beauport, April 8, 1715.
IV. Charlotte Francoise, b. Quebec, Feb., 1660, married, first, Beauport, Dec. 19, 1680, Francois Pachot; married, second, Quebec, Nov. 11, 1702, Francois de la Foret ; buried, Quebec, Dec. 30, 1732.
V. Madeline Louise, b. Quebec, July 12, 1662, married, Mon- treal, Sept. 1, 1694, Joseph Alexandre de l' Estrigan ; buried, Quebec, June 2, 1721.
VI. Thérèse Jucherand, b. Quebec, Nov. 9, 1664, married, Aug. 16, 1684, Pierre de la Lande Gazon.
VII. Nicholas, b. Quebec, Aug. 31, 1666.
VIII. Catherine Jucherand, b. Quebec, Oct. 21, 1668, married, Quebec, Dec. 19, 1689, Pierre Aubert, b. Quebec, June 3, 1703.
IX. Francois, baptized, Quebec, Sept. 21, 1670.
X. Joseph, b. Quebec, Jan. 16, 1673; buried, Quebec, Nov. 11, 1674.
XI. Louis, b. Quebec, Sept. 18, 1676.
XII. Jaqueline Catherine, an Ursuline nun, surnamed des Seraphins, baptized, Sept. 7, 1679; buried, Quebec, April 21, 1722.
The name Jucherand appears on many a page of the early and romantic history of Canada, Louisiana, and other colonial settle- ments.
Charles Jucherand, "the St. Denis," established a post at the
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mouth of the Wabash River, which is referred to by the historian La Harpe as follows : "On Feb. 8, 1703, a pirogue had come from the Wabash to Mobile, and brought the news that M. de Jucherand. Lieutenant General of the jurisdiction of Montreal, had reached there October 28, 1702, with thirty-four Canadians to establish a post at the mouth of the Wabash river in the name of the com- pany and with the intention of gathering buffalo hides.
"He asked for aid in men and provisions, but, although there was an order of the King to render this assistance, it was possible only to send him a barrel of powder." De la Lande Gazon, whose name appears in this genealogical line as the husband of Thérèse Jneherand. was actively interested in the enterprise.
Further on in "La Harpe's Histoire de la Louisiana," we trans- late :
1705, February. On the 28th M. Lambert reached Mobile with several Canadians who had abandoned the post (on the Wabash), because of the Indian hostilities. They had abandoned at the post thirteen thousand buffalo hides belonging to the company of the deceased M. de Jucherand.
M. Lambert was an ensign in the Canadian Company's service and had command of the post after the death of M. de Jucherand. The Indians having fallen upon the outlying plantations. M. Lambert deemed it the better part of wisdom to abandon the post while they could, their means of defense being inadequate.
Charles Jncherand de St. Denis and Thérese Denise Migeon married April 21, 1692, and had issue :
Charles Joseph Jucherand de St. Denis, created Cavalier of the order of St. Louis, baptized Montreal, August 9, 1696. Married (in Mexico, New Leon, 1715) Maria Pedro de Valesca. He re- moved to Louisiana in 1700. He was in command at Natchitoches, and at all times proved himself one of the most efficient men in the colony. As a reward for his services, Louis XV made him Cavalier of the order of St. Louis. He was highly esteemed by all the Indian tribes of Lower Louisiana and knew their dialects well. He passed his last year on his plantation, where he was joined by his wife, whom the Spaniards in Mexico sent to him.
Gayarre has dressed the story of this love affair of the Cavalier de St. Denis and the Seniorita Valesca in the garb of superlative romanee.
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ROBERT GIFFARD.
Dr. Seigneur de Beauport, b. 1587, came to Quebec, June 4, 1634; buried at Quebec April 14, 1668.
On December 31, 1705, Dr. Robert Giffard's body was trans- ferred from the Hotel Dieu to the Cathedral for services, and thence to the family burial ground at Beauport, where it was finally interred. (Archives of Quebec.)
Robert Giffard married Marie Renonard, b. 1659. They had issue :
I. Françoise Giffard, b. Quebec, June 12, 1634. Married (Quebec, Nov. 21. 1645) Jean Jucherand, b. Aug. 1665.
II. Louise Giffard, b. Quebec, March 30, 1637. Married (Quebec, Aug. 12, 1652) Charles de Lauzon, b. Quebec, Oct. 31. 1656.
III. Maria Giffard, b. Quebec, Nov. 1, 1639. Married ( Quebec, Sept. 22, 1649, when only ten years old) Nicholas Jucherand : d. June 23, 1714, at Beauport.
IV. Joseph Giffard, Sieur de Fargy, Seigneur de Beauport, b. Aug. 23, 1645. Married (at Quebec, Oct. 22, 1663) Michelle Thérèse Nau, buried Jan. 1, 1706.
V. Marie Françoise Giffard, the first Canadian religeuse. a sister of the hospital named "St. Francis Maria de St. Ignace," professed Aug. 10. 1650. buried Quebec, March 15, 1657.
In the preface to his work. "Dictionaire Genealogique des Families Canadiens," the Abbe Ciprien Tanquay says: "Side by side with the nobility of the sword comes that of the gown and also that of science. Like the first, these had their degrees, but they were not the less real."
Thus Dr. Robert Giffard is qualified as a nobleman. In France he was "Councillor of the King and Physician in Ordinary in attendance on His Majesty."
It would appear that the daughters of Dr. Giffard were married at a very early age. Early marriages were very common at that period and it should also be remembered that "b" stands in this record for "baptized" not "born."
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Married in Quebec, September 2. 1675. Jaques de la Lande, b. 1648, son of Pierre de la Lande, and Marie d'Arressen de Notre Dame de Bayonne. Pierre de la Lande was Judge of the Court of Lauzon. Married Marie Cuillard, daughter of William Cuillard and the widow Françoise Bissot. They had issue :
1. Pierre, born Beanfort, July 12, 1685, was a captain in the Provincial Militia and surnamed d'Apremont. He married an Indian princess of the Alabaman nation whose name in the Indian dialect was Malanta Talya. Capt. Pierre de la Lande d'Apremont was burned at the stake on Trinity Sunday, 1736, having been cap- tured in battle by the Chicasaw Indians after a disas- trous defeat of the forces commanded by Gov. Bien- ville, of Louisiana.
II. Jaques Joseph. b. Quebec, July 23, 1687, buried Beauport. March 24, 1699.
III. Pierre Francois, b. Quebec, May 6, 1687, took the sur- name of his brother Pierre, after his death and held the office of Councillor of the King in Louisiana.
IV. François Marie, b. Quebec, Sept. 10, 1690, buried Quebec, Jan. 8. 1703.
V. Marie Thérèse. b. Quebec. Aug. 31, 1691. Married ( Beau- port. Oct. 12, 1711) François Aubert.
In the interval between the surrender by M. Crozat of the exclusive privilege of trade in the vast region of Louisiana, and the assumption of exclusive privileges in Canada and Louisiana by the Western Company, of which the famous George Law was founder, called in contempt when it fell into bankruptcy. "The Mississippi Bubble." M. Renet and M. Gazon. together with M. Aubert, made a contract with the government. May 10. 1706. for the beaver trade of Canada. The contract ended with the current year 1707. having been annulled and abrogated by the phraseology of the charter of the Western Company.
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CHAUVIN.
The name Chauvin is identified with the earliest history of Canada as well as Louisiana. Chauvin, a captain of the King's ships, succeeded to the royal patents of the Marquis de la Roche, Lord of Robestral, and associating with himself an experienced navigator, Pontgrave, who had been trading during several years in the St. Lawrence, made two voyages with a view to establish trading posts.
In 1602 .he and Pontgrave explored the river as far as the point where now stands the city of "Trois Rivieres." In this expedition he established a little colony at Jadusac, now the city of Quebec and which was the beginning of that province. Chau- vin's rights were subsequently assigned by him to a company of Rouen merchant traders, under whose auspices several voyages were made by Pontgrave and Champlain; and when in 1610 these two chiefs of the company sailed for France, the colony was left under the governor, Pierre Chauvin.
Noel Jucherand was, as has been hereinbefore stated, the auditor of the Rouen Company in France. While we have been unable to find documentary record of the fact, it is a plausible belief and tradition that this Pierre Chauvin, captain of the King's ships and Governor of the Province of Quebec had a wife in France and was the father of Rene Chauvin, who married Catherine Avard de Soleme, and had issue :
I. Pierre Chauvin, born 1631 and was buried Aug. 4, 1699. Married (at Montreal, Sept. 16, 1650) Martha Autreuil, b. 1636, daughter of Rene Autreuil and Françoise Lachaumerlin, buried Feb. 25, 1714. at St. Francis, Isle Jesu. They had issue :
I. Marie Martha, b. Montreal, Jan. 17, 1662. Married (Montreal, Nov. 16, 1676) Nicolas Barron.
II. Pierre, b. Montreal, Nov. 10, 1663.
III. Barbe Therese, b. Montreal, Oct. 15. 1665. Married (May 20, 1687) Ignace Hubert, at Boucherville. Canada.
IV. Gilles, b. Montreal, June 3, 1668. Married, first (Mon- treal, Jan. 21, 1697) Marie Cabassier ; second (Mon- treal, Nov. 24, 1700) Angelique Gazon.
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V. Michelle, b. Montreal, May 21, 1670. Married ( Montreal, Oct. 21, 1695) Jaques Nepven. This Nepven family's fate was very sad. They went to the Wabash post, where the mother and her three children were massacred, and the father carried into captivity by the Indians was never afterwards heard of.
VI. Jaques, b. Montreal, May 17, 1672.
VII. Joseph, b. Montreal, April 14, 1674.
VIII. Nicolas, b. Montreal, Jan. 19, 1676.
IX. Louis, b. Montreal, Feb. 17, 1678.
X. Paul, b. Montreal, Feb. 21, 1680.
XI. Jean Baptiste, b. Montreal, Jan. 30, 1684, buried Mon- treal, June 21, 1697.
Of the above brothers, Ignace Chauvin settled in the Illinois country and was the ancestor of the Chauvins of St. Louis.
Paul Chauvin settled in the Natchez Bluff neighborhood and was killed in the general massacre of the settlers by the Natchez Indians in 1729.
Joseph Nicolas and Louis Chauvin ultimately settled in the Tchoupitoulas district above New Orleans, and became successful planters.
Referring to the expedition of La Salle, the historian La Harpe in reporting the return to Mobile in 1701 says, "Having arrived in the colony in December, 1699, with thirty workmen, he set out for the Tamerois in June, 1700. He stopped at the mouth of the Missouri River, where he was met by three Canadian travelers, who brought him a letter from Father Marent, a Jesuit of the Missouri House of "L'Immaculée Concepcion de la Sainte Vierge aux Illinois."
These Canadian travelers were the Chauvin brothers, men of great courage and enterprise, honorable and trustworthy leaders in all exploring and trading expeditions. They are identified with the earliest history of Louisiana. They took part with Iberville. Sauville and Bienville in their expeditions to find the mouth of the Mississippi River and in the exploration of the river. They were with Bienville, and with them Commander Jucherand de St. Denis, in their expedition to reconnoitre the position of the Spaniards to the west in 1700. They were with St. Denis in the exploration of Red River the same year. They accompanied the
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picturesquely romantic expedition of the Cavalier St. Denis to reconnoitre the Spanish missions in 1713, and were partners with that brilliant officer in his trading expedition to Mexico in 1716, of which Gayarre has given the story. In 1719 they established themselves as planters in the Tchoupitonlas district, above New Orleans.
Joseph Chauvin took the surname of de Lery afterwards and now known as Delery. Many connections and descendants of this family are living in and near New Orleans. The chief of these was the late well esteemed and highly distinguished physician. Dr. Charles Delery, of New Orleans.
Nicolas Chauvin took the surname of La Freniere, which after- wards became the synonym of patriotism and fearless maintenance of principle in Louisiana history, in the person of the Attorney General of the provincial government at the time of its transfer from the French to the Spanish crown.
Lonis Chanvin took the name of Beanlieu, and afterwards his son, on inheriting a plantation called "Montplasir" from his uncle, Paul Chauvin de Montplasir, added the de Montplasir to his name. Paul Chauvin was not married.
Louis Chauvin Beaulieu de Montplasir was the name he af- fixed to important documents, but he was known socially to his friends and neighbors during the latter part of his life as simply M. de Montplasir.
La Harpe refers to the plantations of the three brothers Chau- vin in the following words, translated from the French :
In regard to the grants located in the neighborhood of New Orleans, those of the Tchoupiloulas, belonging to Messrs. De Lery, La Freniere and Beaulieu, Canadian brothers, are the most advanced in condition, and promise a happy success. It may be said in praise of these gentlemen that they were the first to give a good example, and they deserve particular consideration for the services they have rendered the colony.
The sons of these men became conspicuous in their opposition to the Spanish control of Louisiana, and their hatred of the Spaniards was fiercely reciprocated.
As for La Frenière, he was one of the earliest exponents of that superlative independence of character, that earnest love of liberty, and that freedom of spirit which seems to have been first
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developed upon the soil of America. The boldness of his stand in opposing the transfer of the province to the Spanish crown cost him his life.
He was the champion and leader of those patriotic confederates who chased the Spanish governor from the city and boldly an- nounced those democratic principles which none had yet so plainly expressed, even on the natal day of American freedom :
"In proportion," says La Frenière, "to the extent both of com- merce and population is the solidarity of thrones and peoples ; both are fed by liberty and competition, which are the nursing mothers of the state, while the spirit of monopoly is but a tyrant and stepmother. With liberty there can be but few virtues. Despotism breeds pusillanimity and deepens the abyss of vice. Man under such conditions is considered as sinning before God only because he retains his free will."
To appreciate this bold language it must be remembered that it was officially uttered by the Attorney General of an absolute King and intended to command the attention of the despotic government of France.
La Frenière and his associates were shot to death in the open space in front of the barracks where the United States Mint now stands.
To return to 1719: In that year Messrs. Pellerin and Bellecourt, with a number of laborers, opened a place on St. Catherine's. In 1220 M. Humbert, director general of the Colony at Natchez, arrived with sixty laborers to improve his concession.
Perricault (who escaped the general massacre in 1729, because of his reputation as a boat builder) relates that he took lodgings with M. de la Loire des Ursines, director of the Western Com- pany, and after examination located his plantation on St. Cath- erine's, about a league from the fort, and there built a large dwelling house. There was some prairie land on the concession, which he plowed and sowed in French wheat. He erected a grist mill, forge, and machine shop to manufacture arms and imple- ments. He allowed M. de Montplasir (Paul Chauvin) to locate on land about a league from this settlement and to plant tobacco, which yields plentifully after the first year.
In 1721 M. Humbert sold his concession to M. Colby, whose agent was M. Dumanoir. They retained all the hands, and all
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afterwards perished in the general slaughter by the Natchez Indians in 1729.
As I have previously stated, this de Montplasir was Paul Chau- vin, brother of Louis Chauvin, who, like his brothers, had taken a surname. He was never married and was the uncle of Chauvin Beauleu, and made him his heir, upon which Beaulieu added de Montplasir to his name.
This Chauvin Beaulieu de Montplasir married Charlotte Duval d'Epresmeuil.
JEAN DONEAU SIEUR DE MUY, TWIN BROTHER OF NICHOLAS Settled in Louisiana; Captain and Chief of Staff or Cavalry; great-great- grandfather of Marianne Céleste Dragon
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