
1787 Census of Prairie Du Rocher
transcribed from
"Illinois Historical Collections, Kaskaskia Records"
Pages 419-420
Transcribed by Kim Torp
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Transcriber's Note: Footnotes were added by the original author
Transcriber's note:
Using a handy online translator, here's what the French means:
pere: father
ses fils: its sons
son fils: his/her son
ses beaux fils: its beautiful
sons
son neveu: its nephew
dit: known as (so for entry #12,
it would be "known as Laronde")
veuve: widow
orphelin: orphan
Transcriber followed all original capitalization
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[C.C. Pp., Ill., Kaskaskia and Ky., xlviii., 179.]
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58 - See ante, p. 18, n.3 |
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59 - Louvieres or Louviere was elected justice for the village in 1779 and served the full term. See ante, p. 85. He continued to live in the village after 1790 and was appointed to important posts. |
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60 - See ante, p. 416, n. 21 |
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61 - Ayme Comte was elected justice of Prairie du Rocher in 1782. He reappeared as judge in 1784, for some unknown reason. See ante, p. 353 |
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62 - According to signature his name was Giovani Baptista Jacomini. He was elected justice in 1782. |
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63 - The only signature of this man that I have seen looks as if the name was Gecochy, but it is probably given correctly here. |
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64 - He was the son of Nicolas Janis (see ante, p. 18, n. 4), and was born in 1759. He was appointed ensign in the Illinois regiment by Clark and served during the Vincennes campaign. His services were particularly praised by Clark. His wife was Rene Julia Barbau, by whom he had eight children. He finally moved to Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Hock, Hist. of Missouri, i. 354, n. 43 |
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66: See ante, p. 415, n. 1?. |
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79 en tout. |
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