ground, were put up the same year, a few of stone, were built soon afterwards: BLOCK NO. 1, north half to Gilles Chemin, house 20 x 17 feet No. 2, south half to Charles Parent, do. 20 x 25 feet. No. 2, north half to Alexis Cotté, first post, then stone do., in 1774. No. 3, north half to Louis Marcheteau, post do., 20 x 30. No. 6, south half to Louis Ride, Sr., post do. No. 6, north half to John B. Martigny, first post, then a stone do. No. 8, south half to Alexander Langlois, post and stone do. No. 9, south half to Joseph Dubé, small cabin. No. 9, north half to René Kiersereau, 20 x 25 do. No. 10, south half to Charles Routier, mason, 35 x 20 do. No. 11, south half to John B. Bayet, 25 x 20 do. No. 11, north half to Judge Joseph Lefebvre, 40 x 22 do. No. 32, northeast quarter to Louis Deshetres, stone do. No. 33, northeast quarter to Laclede for Mrs. Chouteau, stone do. BLOCK No. 33, northwest quarter to Joseph Labrosse, stone house. No. 33, south half to Joseph Taillon, stone do. No. 34, Laclede's Block for Maxent & Co., stone do. No. 35, northeast quarter to Lambert Bonvarlet, cabin. No. 35, northwest quarter to Jacques Denis, carpenter, cabin. No. 36, northeast quarter to Kiery Desnoyers, 20 x 25 do. No. 37, southeast quarter to Jacques Noise du Labbé, 22 x 30 do. No. 38, northwest quarter to Pierre Montardy, posts, 20 x 18 do. No. 54, northeast quarter to Joseph Turgeon, 20 x 18 do. No. 57, northeast quarter to Marie Juannette, 25 x 20 do. No. 62, north half to Julien Leroy, 12 x 15 do. No. 63, northeast quarter to Ignace Laroche, 16 x 16 do. No. 64, south half to Louis Robert, 15 x 15 do. No. 82, southeast quarter to Pierre Montardy, soldier, 20x 19 do. No. 82, northeast quarter to Pierre Montardy, soldier, 40 x 22 do. As the site of the village was then thickly covered with timber and each one had to do, or have done, his own clearing, the only landmark to guide him in finding the location assigned him by Laclede, was the spot on which Laclede was then building his trading post, which was the initial point of the village, from which all the others were ascertained by admeasurement, etc. THE FIRST MANUMISSION. [Extract from the rolls of the Registry of the Royal Jurisdiction of the Illinois.] "To Messrs. De Neyon de Villiers, Major Commandant, and Bobé Desclauseaux, Acting Commissioner and Judge in Illinois: "The Abbé Forget, vicar-general, and superior of the missions, requests that it may please you, to authorize granting freedom to the negro slaves of this mission, for the care and good services they rendered my predecessors and to myself, to wit: a negro named Appollo, aged about sixty years, his wife, Jeannette, thirty-eight, and his youngest child, Anselmo, three years and a half. "At FORT CHARTRES, Nov. 4, 1763. "FORGET, "Miss'y Priest, Vicar-General.” "Considering the above request of the Abbé Forget, we grant full and entire liberty to the above named Appollo, Jeannette his wife, and Anselmo their child; to enjoy all the rights granted to the enfranchised, with the injunction to pursue an irreproachable conduct, and to hold in respect Mr. Forget, as well as all others worthy of respect, under penalty of being punished according to the laws of the realm. "ILLINOIS, Nov. 12, 1763, "NEYON DE VILLIERS, "BOBÉ. "Copy conforming to the original. LABUSCIERE, Notary. "I, John Arnold Valentine Bobé Desclauseaux, Orderer and Judge in the Royal Jurisdiction of Illinois, certify to whom it may concern, that the signature at the bottom of the act of emancipation on the previous page is that of Mr. Labusciere, and that he is notary and register in this jurisdiction, and that full faith may be put in his official acts as such. "In testimony we have affixed the seals of our office. "In ILLINOIS, Nov. 11, 1763. "BOBÉ." I certify having sold, in advance of her dowry, to Madame De Volsay, the daughter of Madelon, named Juannette, for the sum of five hundred livres, which she is to account for to her brother and sister, when you will make partition after my death. "NATCHITOCHES, July 16, 1768. "DE VILLIERS, Knight." STE. GENEVIEVE. Daniel Blouin was a son-in-law of the original Joseph Chauvin dit Charleville, and his home was at Kaskaskia, although he had operated largely in lead at the mine Lamothe, and salt at the works on the Saline, as would appear from the following: "Daniel Blouin, merchant of Kaskaskia, put on record in the archives of St. Louis, December 17, 1766, an inventory of the property he possessed on that day in the District of Ste. Gene vieve, and which he had disposed of to Mr. John Datchurut on that date at Mine Lamothe and the Salines: "A negro man named Cæsar, and wife Jeanetton. "Four negro men, Marthurin, Batiste, Noyos and Jasmin. "Half a house and three negro cabins. "A piece of ground from Labastille and Picart. "A piece of ground from each, Laroze, Tassin and Moreau. "Two lots of mineral, one in partnership with Mr. Beauvais. "Two hundred and eighty-four pigs of lead, ten horses, and the necessary tools. "A house in Ste. Genevieve acquired from the minors of Lin, and at the Saline, 50 pigs of lead, a pump, a shed and pig-sty, 2 leaden kettles for salt and 150 cedar stakes. "All which I have sold to Mr. Datchurut, who has this day taken possession of the whole, except the ground in suit with Mr. Catalan until after the decision of the suit before the council which will be Datchurut's if decided in my favor. "The whole for the sum of forty-nine thousand six hundred livres (49,600) in genuine money, which I have received in cash, for which I hold the said Datchurut released. "The deed to be executed with the same date. The deed for the above was executed in St. Louis, January 17, 1767. Isidor Peltier sold to Louis Blouin, both of Ste. Genevieve, October 7, 1767, a negro man, and house and lot in that place for one thousand two hundred and fifty livres, and gave his note for the amount, upon which he paid April 23, 1768, nine hundred livres. (Archives.) |