It is said that:

"Though the mills of God grind

"slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;

"Though with patience He stands waiting,

"With exactness grinds He all."

So let us await the move of propaganda, assured that although it takes it a long time to decide the matter, it will finally come to an end.

PART VIII

MISCELLANEOUS

CHAPTER LII

CITIZENS AND FAMILIES OF EARLY DETROIT

BY CLARENCE M. BURTON

DIRECTORY OF CADILLAC'S VILLAGE, 1701-1710-DETROIT RESIDENTS IN 1789-IN 1795 -DETROIT IN 1820-THE PROMINENT FAMILIES AND NAMES OF THE DAY.

DIRECTORY OF CADILLAC'S VILLAGE, 1701-10.

Abatis, Jean (or Labbatu, see Labatier).

Aguenet (or Aguet), called Laport, Guilleaume. (Possibly the name should be Haguenot.)

Arnauld, Bertrand, merchant. Came to Detroit, July 18, 1702.

Badeillac, Louis, called Laplante. Made an agreement to come to Detroit May 29, 1701, the first convoy.

Bannois, Jeanne. She was the first wife of Guillaume Bouche, and died in 1703. This name is given by Tanguay as Beauvais.

Bariteau, Julien, called La Marche. Came May 30, 1705, but did not remain. Baron, Denys, voyageur. Came June 21, 1706.

Barthe (called Belleville), Jean, a soldier. Came October 10, 1706.

Barthe (called Belleville), Marie Charlotte, daughter of Jean Barthe, above. Born October 27, 1709.

Bassinet, Joseph, sieur Tourblanche. Came April 2, 1707, but did not stay. Bassinet, Pierre, brother of above. He came April 2, 1707, but did not stay. Baudreau, Gabriel. Gabriel Baudreau and his wife, Catherine Foretier, were voyageurs passing through Detroit on their way to Mobile, November 24, 1708. Baudreau, Marie Louise, daughter of Gabriel Baudreau. Baptized November 24, 1708.

Baugret, Francois, called Dufort. Came September 10, 1710.
Beauchamp, Jacques. Came as bargeman, May 30, 1705.

Beauchamp, Pierre, brother of above. Came same time.
Beaugis (or Baugis), Michel, voyageur.

Beauregard, see Dupuis.

Belille (or Belisle), Henry, first surgeon of the fort.

Besnard, Rene. Came June 21, 1706. Soldier of Carignan regiment.

Bienvenue, Alexis, son of Francois, below. He married Josette Bouron, January 17, 1740.

Bienvenue, called Delisle, Francois. Came before March, 1704. His first wife was Genevieve Laferiere, and his second wife was Marianne Lemoine. He

was buried September 29, 1751, aged eighty-eight years. The transformation of French names is well illustrated by this person. His descendants are nearly universally known here by the name of Delisle or DeLisle, and the surname of two centuries ago is not uncommonly used today, as a Christian name, and we frequently find Bienvenue, or Welcome, Delisles in our real estate records. Bienvenue, Joseph, son of Francois Bienvenue above. Baptized March 5, 1704, and buried December 3, 1711.

Bienvenue, Marie, daughter of Francois Bienvenue, above. cember 8, 1705. She married Jacques Roussel, April 7, 1725. Marianne in the marriage record.

Baptized De

She is named.

Bienvenue, Marie Joseph, daughter of Francois Bienvenue. Born August 25, 1709.

Bienvenue, Rafael. Buried April 24, 1706, aged two years. Unless this is the same person as Joseph Bienvenue, above, it is scarcely possible that Rafael was a son of Francois Bienvenue. This is the first recorded death in Detroit, though there is other evidence that a child of Alphonse de Tonty died before the first church was burned, in 1703, and that Madam Bouche died in 1703.

Bizaillon (or Bisaillon), Michael, son of Benoit Bisaillon and of Louise Blaye, of Clairmont, in Auvergne. He married Marguerite Fafard (dit DeLorme), June 30, 1710.

Bluteau, Agathe (in some places this name is spelled Bulteau), wife of Francois Judith Contant, dit Rancontre.

Boilard, Jeanne, wife of Pierre Leger, dit Parisien.

Bombardier (called la Bombarde), Andre, a soldier and farmer. Left Detroit after 1709.

Bombardier (called la Bombarde), Bernard Phillipe, son of Andre Bombardier, above. Born October 12, 1709.

Bombardier, Jean, son of Andre Bombardier, above. Born July 18, 1707. Bone, Marie Anne. The name probably should be spelled Beaune. She was the widow of Francois Lorry and daughter of Jean Bone and Mary Magdelaine Bourigier. She married Martin Cirier June 12, 1710. She came to Detroit April 18, 1707, under an agreement to serve Cadillac for three years at eighty livres per year.

Bonne, Francois.

Bonnet, Guillaume (surnamed Deliard), Amorer, a native of the parish of Charlesburg, near Quebec. He died January 13, 1709.

Bosne, Francois. Came April 13, 1709.

Bosseron, Francois (Tanguay spells the name Beauceron), farmer. He was the husband of Marie Le Page (which name see).

Botquin, Pierre (called St. Andre), a soldier. Came October 19, 1706. An inventory of goods that he carried to Detroit in 1710 includes fifty pounds of powder at forty sols per pound, one hundred pounds of bullets at ten sols per pound, and thirty-two pots (of two quarts each) of brandy at forty-five sols per pot.

Boucher, Guillaume. His first wife was named Jeanne Beauvais, and after her death, in 1703, he married Angelique Tholme, widow of Pierre Robert, August 16, 1716.

Boncher, Pierre, Esquire sieur de Boucherville.

Bourbon, Pierre, voyageur. Came June 15, 1706. Married, in 1711, Marie Anne Gouyon.

Bougery, Denis. Came as bargeman, May 30, 1705.

Bourgery, Jean Louis. Brother of Denis. Came September 14, 1710.
Bourg, Jean (called Lapierre), voyageur. Came June 15, 1706.

Bourgoin (called St. Paul), Didier, soldier of Montigny. He signs Bourguin. Boutron (called Major), Estienne, farmer. The name Estienne shows one of the common transformations of the French words. This is now commonly written Etienne (Stephen), and the second letter has been dropped, as it has in Destroit, Chesne, despot, and many other words.

Boutron (called Major), Marguerite, daughter of Etienne Boutron, above. Born September 15, 1709.

Boutron (called Major), Marie Angelique, daughter of Etienne Boutron. Baptized July 5, 1707.

Boyer, Zacharie, voyageur. Came May 20, 1708.

Boyer, Jean. Came as bargeman May 30, 1705.

Brabant, Michael, voyageur. Came August 2, 1707.

Breunel, Anne (probably intended for Anne Bruneau, which see), wife of Louis Normand.

Brisset, Bernard. Came May 18, 1708.

Bruneau, Anne, wife of Louis Normand, dit Labrierre.

Brunet, Francois, dit Bourbonnais. Came May 30, 1705.

Buet, Rene. Came as bargeman, May 30, 1705.

Butard,

thirty-two years.

Cabazier, Charles, voyageur. Came June 13, 1707, on business.
Cadieu, Pierre. Came as bargeman, May 30, 1705.

Cadillac. See De La Mothe.

Caillomeau, Louis. Came September 6, 1710. This name probably should be Galannaux.

Camerand. See Chouet.

Campau, Jacques (the name is also spelled Campo, Campos, Campeau and Campot), blacksmith. Came September 3, 1708. His wife was Cecile Catin. He was buried May 14, 1751, aged seventy-eight years.

Campau, Jean. Came as bargeman, May 30, 1705.

Campau, Jeanne, daughter of Michel Campau.

Campau, Louis, son of Jacques Campau. He married Marie Louise Robert, widow of Francois Pelletier, and daughter of Pierre Robert and Angelique Tholme, January 7, 1724.

Campau, Marguerite, daughter of Michel Campau. Baptized March 2, 1708. Campau, Marie Angelique, daughter of Jacques Campau. Born December 6, 1708.

Campau, Michel, farmer.

Masse. He died before 1740.

Came August 3, 1707. His wife was Jeanne

Campau, Paul Alexander, son of Michel Campau. Born September 14, 1709. He married Charlotte Sioneau, daughter of Mathurin Sioneau and Marie Charlotte Dubeau, February 15, 1740.

Cardinal, Jacques, voyageur. Came October 13, 1707. Died May 17, 1724, aged eighty-four years.

Cardinal, Jacques, son of the preceding. Came October 13, 1707. His wife was Jeanne Dugue, and third son, Pierre, was baptized August 30, 1729.

They already had a daughter, Jeanne, who acted as godmother to the infant, Pierre. Jeanne married Laurent Parent.

Cardinal, Marie, wife of Jacques Hubert dit la Croix. With her husband and one child, she set out from Montreal for Detroit, May 22, 1709.

Cardinal, Pierre. Came September 6, 1708.

Caron, Vital. Came April 2, 1707.

Carriere, Antoine (he signs the church record Hantoine Carrier, in 1710). His parents, Andre Carriere and Cecile Jannot, lived on St. Paul Street, Montreal. He first came to Detroit, April 11, 1707, as a voyageur.

Casse (called St. Aubin), Jean. This is a good illustration of the change of French names. The family name of Casse has been so completely lost through years of use of the nickname, that this man's descendants are universally known as St. Aubin, and there are many of them in Detroit today. I have grouped them all under this name. Jean Casse's wife was Marie Louise Gautier. He died February 27, 1759, aged more than one hundred years.

Casse (called St. Aubin), Jean Baptiste. Died of smallpox February 25, 1733, aged twenty-seven or twenty-eight years. A great many people died in the winter of 1733-4, of smallpox. Jean Baptiste St. Aubin married Magdeleine Pruneau, daughter of Jean Pruneau and Suzanne Bellanger, of Quebec, July 31, 1731.

Casse (called St. Aubin), Jacques, son of Jean Casse and Marie Louise Gautier. He married Catherine Vien, daughter of Ignace Vien and Angelique Du Sable, December 27, 1745.

Casse (called St. Aubin), Marie Anne, daughter of Jean (or Jean Baptiste) Casse and Marie Louise Gautier. Born October 5, 1710. She married Charles Chauvin (blacksmith), October 27, 1726. There was another daughter, Agathe Casse, who married Nicholas Campau, dit Niagara.

Casse (called St. Aubin), Pierre, son of Jean Casse. Baptized May 2, 1709. Catin, Cecile, wife of Jacques Campau. She died before 1732. Her daughter, Marianne Campau, married Joseph Bondy, July 28, 1732, and her son, Claude, married Catherine Casse (dit St. Aubin), daughter of Jean Casse, January 22, 1742.

Catinet, Joseph, of Pointe aux Tremble, near Montreal, was in Detroit July 26, 1707.

Chabot, Joseph.

Channet (called Camirand), Andre, sergeant of the troops in this country. His wife was Anne Pastorel.

Channet (called Camirand), Andre, son of above. Born May 13, 1708. Channet (called Camirand), Pierre, son of Andre, senior. Born about April

1710.

Chanteloup, Pierre, farmer. Acted as godfather to Jean Bombardier, July 18, 1707. His wife came to Detroit April 11, 1707.

Charbonneau, Joseph. Came April 25, 1707.

Charbonneau, Michel. Came April 17, 1707. Brother of above.

Charnic. See du Charnic.

Charlet, Francois. His wife was Marthe Forstier.

Charlet, Pierre, son of above. Born May 3, 1709.

Charon, Charles.

Charpentier, Jean. Came April 2, 1707.

Chauvillon, Charlotte, wife of Jean Barthe, dit Belleville.