•  What's New
•  This month's Feature: Marie-Marguerite PEPIN, and her husband Mathieu HIANVEU
•  COUSIN Speak
•  Tanguay said what . . . ?
•  Ramblings From the Editor
•  NewsLetter info

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WHAT'S NEW

   Life started to lump up a couple weeks ago and, forgetting everything I know, I said to myself, "Well, it certainly can't get any worse."  And Life, being the funny thing it is, promptly proved me wrong.

   No, I won't go into detail -- at least not yet -- but I will say that through the selfless efforts of a handful of good friends and family, I know that if things get even worse -- and they no doubt will -- I will survive it.

   I would also like to extend a very special thank you to cousin Marcel, who gifted me with a worry-free 30 some-odd-hours of serenity in peaceful and pleasant surroundings -- not to mention the best salmon steak I've had in a good many years (O! and the papaya salsa was to die for -- this guy knows his way around a kitchen).  He was a warm and genial host . . . with a delightfully wicked sense of humour.  Thank you -- again -- Marcel, may the Higher Powers who look after your Fate make your dearest held dreams come true.

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THIS MONTH'S FEATURE: Marie-Marguerite PEPIN, and her husband Mathieu HIANVEU dit Lafrance

   Remember: check it out in the Red and Blue Drouin, as well as the René Jetté, most especially the info on the older families. (If anyone has the titles of other good reference works, please feel free to pass them along.)

   Last month we looked at Pierre PEPIN, and his wife Madeleine BEDARD.  And I must add a correction here: I said Pierre was the 14th child, he was the 13th child.  Number 14, Pierre-Françoise, was baptised 19 December 1717 in Charlesbourg, but I have no other info on him.

   This month we look at Pierre's little sister, Marie-Marguerite PEPIN, and her husband Mathieu HIANVEU dit Lafrance, and their 7 children.

   Marie-Marguerite (2Jean, 1Robert), the 15th of Jean PEPIN and Marguerite MOREAU's 16 children, was baptised 28 August 1720 at Charlesbourg.

   Marie-Marguerite married Mathieu HIANVEU dit Lafrance on 28 August 1752 in Charlesbourg.

   Mathieu HIANVEU, son of Mathieu HIANVEU and Marie SEENEY, was baptised 19 December 1724 and buried 7 March 1793 in Québec.

   Marie-Marguerite and Mathieu had 7 children:

1.  Joseph-Louis HIANVEU, baptised 28 September 1753; buried 26 August 1754

2.  Marie-Thérèse HIANVEU, baptised 29 December 1754; buried 7 September 1755.

3.  Etienne-Joseph HIANVEU dit Lafrance, baptised 18 August 1756; buried 27 December 1838; married Marie-Françoise DANIEL 27 June 1780; 14 children

4.  Louise-Catherine HIANVEU, baptised 20 November 1757; buried 14 April 1798; married Louis-Joseph DROLET 29 April 1783 in Québec

5.  Thomas HIANVEU, baptised 4 February 1760

6.  Marie-Marguerite HIANVEU, baptised 15 March 1762; married Pierre LANGLOIS 25 September 1787

7.  Julien HIANVEU, baptised 12 April 1764

   If you see something that doesn't quite agree with your personal family history, e-mail me and tell me about it.

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COUSIN SPEAK

   The first is some more good stuff from Elise Dallemagne-Cookson.  It came in two different e-mails but I've condensed it a bit.  She said:

I think I can be of help to you in translating Tanguay because of my knowledge of French and because of my research into the French Canadian period 1664-1715.  For instance, re Tanguay No. 1 Marie -Genevieve Cadieu.  He is referring to the great massacre of the settlers of Lachine by the Iroquois on Aug. 5, 1689.  It was most likely Marie's scalp that was found in a hole - probably left there by Iroquois chased off by Andre.  Her body, or bones, on the other hand were found in a ditch outside the fortified walls of Fort Roland, which was located in Lachine.  The people tried to flee to safety there but were cut down by the Iroquois who were blockading it.

One point is very true that someone mentions in your newsletter is that people often went by their first names.  In doing research on my old farmhouse here in upstate NY (Cherry Valley), I tracked down its history during the period 1790-1800 through first names.  Using the last, or family name, as a jumping off point.  Also, another thing I discovered is that in Europe, - France and Holland, for instance - if the husband died young and the bride returned to her family to raise her little children, the children often took the last name of their mother as the "dit" part of their name.

You might wonder why they took so long to bury Marie-Genevieve Cadieu's bones, remember that Tanguay quotes a death certificate.  It could take up to several years before an official death certificate was officially recorded in the archives.  Actually burial took place immediately or soon thereafter upon death, but certificates were issued later.  And often they was never issued until the "inventory of goods" was done for inheritance and debt collecting purposes - and that could take a while.  That's why records often state "he died somewhere between 1690-1697" for instance.

Re repeated "baptisms"  Remember the baptismal record served as a birth certificate and ID.  If a family moved they needed to register in the new parish.  And you would use your baptismal record with which to register.  You can only be baptized once in the Catholic Church.

   From cousin Libby Quamstrom:

I found the information regarding the marriages of the two Jean Baptiste Emond to the two Josette Pepin Lachance in Talbot, Volume 8 of his Bellechasse editions.  Beginning on page 245 through page 251.  There were records of two "Josette" Pepin Lachance in the Beauce volume however, in the Bellechasse the younger is referred to as Anathalie.  She had a sister Marie Josette in this edition and it is likely that Fr. Talbot recorded Josette in error for the Beauce edition.

Beginning with Jean Baptiste Emond, le pere who married Josette Pepin Lachance on October 24, 1814 we find her parents on page 248, # 26, of the Bellechasse vol 8.

Joseph Lachance to Thecle Drouin, October 18, 1790 at St. Francois, Ile Orleans.  He was the son of Louis who married Madeleine Emond on July 20th 1757 at St. Francois Ile Orleans and is noted on page 247, # 10.  (L-P you might want to check this out: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=desym&id=I495)

The parents of Joseph Lachance were Louis Lachance and Louise Lepage who married at the same parish on February 28, 1729.  Recorded on page 146, #3.

We next find Ignace Pepin Lachance in his second marriage to Marie Lefort.  They married at St Pierre, Ile Orleans on March 8, 1689.  His first wife was Marie Gaulin who he married on January 27, 1687 at Ste Famille, Ile Orleans.  These are recorded on page 245 at # 2.

The ancestor was Antoine Pepin Lachance who married Marie Testu under contract recorded by Audouart on November 24, 1659.

For the Beauce et. al. Talbot referrs in this Bellechasse vol. that they can be found on pages 118 to 147.

Looking at Jean Baptiste Emond, le fils, he married Anathalie Lachance on June 11, 1850 at Lie Grues.  This is recorded in the volume on page 252 at # 59.

She was the daughter of Michel OlivierLachance, le fils, and Josette Drouin and married her at St. Francois, Ile Orleans on March 1, 1813.  They are recorded on Page 249 at # 32.

Michel Olivier Lachance, le pere married Agathe Rousseau at St Laurent, Ile Orleans on October 24, 1785, page 247 # 14.  He was the son of Gervais Lachance and Angelique Blouin who married at St. Jean, Ile Orleans on October 21, 1743 who are recorded on page 246, #5.

We next note that Gervais Pepin Lachance was the son of Jean Pepin Lachance who married Madeleine Fontaine on October 30, 1703 at St. Jean, IO.  This is his second marriage. He married Renee Guyon on October 25, 1688 at Ste. Famille, Ile Orleans.  He was the brother of Igance and so too found at page 245 #2.

Talbot makes note that he records this same Pepin dit Lachance in Beauce volume 6, page 118 to 147.

So there you have it for the successive couples with the "same names".

   On 7 March 2002 Emily Koss wrote the following about Antoine Pepin dit Lachance:

In my records, I have his date of baptism as 4-10-1636 and his wife, Marie Testu, born in 1638.  All the rest of the data is the same.  I am decended from Jean Pepin b. 9-16-04 through his great grandson, Joseph LaChance.

[Welcome to the newsletter, Emily. If you like what see in this issue, do nothing and I'll keep sending them; you have at least one cousin reading this newsletter.  However, if you already get enough email, just let me know.]

   On 6 March 2002, Father Darryl Pepin of Ironwood, Michigan, wrote:

I just found your website on Pepin/Peppan. I have enjoyed what I read so far.

I am a Roman Catholic priest who has been doing research on my family since I was in high school (the 60's).  I have my Pepin line all the way back to Guilliaume Pepin and have been working now on my mother's side for the past 7-8 years (have many "roadblocks!")

As I said, I have enjoyed what I have seen of your site and plan to read more.  Just wanted you to know!

[Thank you, kindly, Father. Have you seen Gilles Pepin's Pepin Association website yet?  Gilles concentrates on Guillaume and his descendants.  The URL is http://pages.infinit.net/afp  Oh, and welcome aboard.  As I said in my note to Emily, I'll keep sending you the COUSINS newsletter unless you already get too much email, and if you do, just let me know.]

   And from Glo (Where *is* this web site, Glo?)

Slaying of the Halbert McClure Family
By Emory L. Hamilton

From the unpublished manuscript, Indian Atrocities Along the Clinch, Powell and Holston Rivers, pages 111-113.

On the 20th of September, 1782, Colonel Arthur Campbell wrote to Colonel William Davies (1), saying:

On the 11th instant a party of Northward Indians penetrated as far in this county as the settlements on the head of Moccasin Creek, which is within ten or twelve miles of Abingdon, attacked a family of fourteen in number, (of course secured in the interior part), killed the husband on the spot, captivated the wife and six (6) of the children, three of whom, after being a short space in the enemies hands, was most inhumanely murdered.  One, a young woman, so long survived the blows as told the tragic tale.  Two made their escape the first day and night.  The old woman and one child, with a considerable booty in horses, household goods, etc., was carried forward three days, some distance down the Sandy River.

When part of our duty, with a perseverance in purpose, through a most rugged and difficult way that does them honor, overtook the Indians and wounded several of them; recovered unhurt, the two remaining captives, with the Indian's baggage and plunder they had taken.

Just seven days before the above letter was written, Campbell, had on the 13th of September, 1782, written to Col. Preston thusly:(2)

By a few lines received from Major Dysart,(3) I am informed that the Indians have murdered Halbert McClure's family, near our Courthouse, and some other persons, the number there unknown.

Captain John Carr, who was born on Carr's Creek in Russell Co., VA, September 6, 1773, and once lived as a boy on Moccasin Creek, wrote to Dr. Lyman C. Draper, in 1854 from Sumner Co., TN(4) saying:

...After that time (1776) my father moved near the head of Moccasin Creek. The Indians came and killed part of a family and carried off others as prisoners.  This family lived within about two miles of my father.  Their names were McClure.  Sally, the oldest daughter was to be married the next day after the attack was made by the Indians.  The father McClure was killed, also a son of his by the name of Moses, and Katherine, a grown girl, and John McClure, his oldest son was wounded, but afterwards recovered.

Sally McClure made her escape from the Indians the first night.  She met the party who were in pursuit of the Indians, as might be expected, her intended husband was among them.  His name was Kincaid, who married her shortly after her return.

James Oxer, who once lived on the Clinch, filed a Revolutionary War pension claim as the only living heir of his father, George Oxer, who was an Indian spy on the Clinch and who died in Montgomery Co., KY, in October 1809.  In the claim filed in Warren Co., Indiana, in 1858, he states:

That his father served on the Clinch and was married to Dorcas Shelby (Shelley) who died in Kentucky in 1824; that his father was in a skirmish with the Indians in which Captain (Alexander) Barnett (5) recaptured the McClure family of Virginia, and placed them in the care of his father George Oxer.

Joseph Smathers who once lived in this vicinity before emigrating to Kentucky, tells a very confused version of this incident to the Rev. John D. Shane, (6) in which he says:

McClure's lived at the head of Little Moccasin Gap.  McClure's cabin had a wooden chimney(7) on it.  They (Indians) had gotten between the chimney and cabin.  They had learned to say the old man's grace.  (Perhaps a table grace or prayer they overheard.)  His daughter was to have been married in a few days.  He (the father McClure) came and fell on his knee and begged them to desist and was shot dead.  They tomahawked and scalped a daughter and tread on her, and left her for dead, but she came to and lived.  Two other daughters were taken off.  One was the bride.  They taunted her about her groom and mocked the grace the old man said.  There never was half as much mischief done (by Indians) on Holston as on Clinch.

Halbert McClure had settled in 1773, near the head of Moccasin Creek in Washington Co., in Rich Valley, on a 400 acre tract of land opposite and a little east of Cabin Creek Ford and Bromley Gap on the southside of the North fork of Holston River.  He assigned this tract of land to John Kinkead in 1781.(8)  He was one of the appraisers of the estate of Benjamin Estill on April 17, 1782, and was a Juror in Botetourt Co., at a court on 15th of May, 1771.

(1)  Virginia State Papers, Vol. III, page 316-17.
(2)  Draper MSS 9 DD 38
(3)  Major James Dysart, first Sheriff of Washington Co., VA, lived east of Abingdon, on Route U. S. 11, at Book Hall (still standing).  He died in Rockcastle Co., KY, in 1831.  Was one of the Long Hunters and also at the Battle of Kings Mountain where he commanded a company
(4)  Draper MSS 6 XX 99
(5)  Alexander Barnett was County Lieutenant of Militia for Russell Co., VA, after its formation in 1786, and was a militia officer serving on the Clinch, while the territory was still Washington Co., VA.
(6)  Historical Collection of Rev. John D. Shane, Draper MSS 12 CC 96-7.
(7)  Early settlers often built this type chimney.  It was laid up of sticks of wood, pen fashion and daubed with clay.  They were called "stick and clay chimneys".
(8)  Washington Co., VA Entry Book 1, page 10 & 70.

Contact: Rhonda Robertson at: rsr@mounet.com

   Fantastic, Glo!  And, I dunno, guys, but this might just be "our"John McClure mentioned here.  Whadda ya think, cousins?

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RAMBLINGS FROM THE EDITOR

   I like books and own a few, a statement that will no doubt cause *both* my brothers to make loud rude noises (hopefully neither are consuming any sort of beverage when they read this).  Truth is that I have a few books like a millipede has a few legs.

   I once had the luxury of having them all in the same place, all at the same time, single-shelved with all titles visible.  This was when I was living in the woods and had the leeway to custom build a room for them.  A 10 by 12 "shed", with 8 foot walls, no windows.  Custom door.  Three of the walls were floor to ceiling bookshelves . . . FULL floor to ceilling shelves.  Not too many things quite like kicking back in my favorite comfy-chair with a hot cup of Red Zinger tea and reading, by lamp/candle light, to the sounds of tree frogs singing like tiny rusty hinges (early evening) and deer whistling and snuffling to each other as they moved along the game trail some 25 feet from my custom library (early *early* morning).

   Anyway.  Due to the space constraints of living in a 10 foot by 53 foot mobile home, some of the collection lives here with me, half on shelves half in boxes, and some of the collection lives elsewhere -- in boxes.

   About half of these books are science fiction/fantasy, running the gamut from Asimov's hard science-fiction to L. Frank Baum's Oz series (yes, series, about 13 of'em, plus a couple more written by other authors), many of which have been read several times.  The rest are reference of some sort.  A mid-80s set of Encyclopedia Britannica.  A couple decades worth of National Geographic.  English/Other Language dictionaries.  An assortment of religious texts from an assortment of faiths, past and present.  How-to books (upholstry, home wiring, auto mechanics, and herbal healing).  Native American/First Nations history.  Celtic, Norse, and Scottish mythology.  And a lot of books talking about the origins of things: words (fair and foul), inventions, books with titles like "Did Mohawks really wear mohawks?".  I am an Info Junkie.

   I was re-reading "Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things" by Charles Panati and stumbled across an interesting little tid bit of Trivia on page 121.  It says and I quote:

Pressure Cooker: 1679, England

At a London dinner party on the evening of April 12, 1682, the august members of the Royal Society sat down to a meal such as they--or anyone else--had ever eaten before.  Cooked by the invited guest, thirty-five-year-old French inventor Denis Papin, a pioneer of steam power, the evening's fare was prepared in Papin's latest marvel, the "steam digester."

Papin, an assistant to the renowned Irish physicist Robert Boyle, formulator of the laws governing gases, had developed his steam digester in 1679.  It was a metal container with a safety valve and a tight fitting lid, which increased internal steam pressure, raising a cooking liquid's boiling point.

Following the historic meal, the Royal Society's esteemed architect, Christopher Wren, wrote that thanks to the steam digester, "the oldest and hardest Cow-Beef may now be made as tender and savoury as young and choice meat"; one wonders what was served at the meal.  Wren oversaw the publication of a booklet, "A New Digester," which offered recipes for steam-cooking of mutton, beef, lamp, rabbit, mackerel, eel, beans, peas, cherries, gooseberries, plumbs, pike, and pigeon.

In the book, Papin astutely observed that pressure cooking preserved more of a food's natural flavor and nutritive value.  Other contributors demonstrate the "bandwagon effect" of attempting to employ a new invention for a multiplicity of purposes.  The authors offer methods for steam-cooking desserts, punches, hot toddies, and puddings.

History's first pressure cooker bombed--figuratively and literally.  Not only did the majority of Londoners not take favorably to the idea of steamed pike and pigeon, but those who purchased a digester and attempted its recipes often ended up with the evening's meal on the kitchen wall.  The temperature vicissitudes of an open fire were no match for Papin's imperfect safety valve.  Several serious accidents were reported.  Except for scientific applications (as autoclaves), pressure vessels were forgotten for about a hundred fifty years.  It was French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte who was responsible for the pressure cooker's reemergence.

   There's a tad more to this, but this is the part involving Denis.  Wonder if Denis is one of ours?

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TANGUAY SAID WHAT . . . ?

   The numbers on the following folk are from the Monster Data Base, currently at 15401 individuals.

   Shirley and Chuck: When I first came across the ACHIN/ACHON family, I wondered if perhaps your grandfather's middle name isn't a nod in the Achin direction.  It wouldn't be the first time a child was given a middle name that was the surname of an ancestor.  The Pierre mentioned below is the son of first generation André ACHIN and wife Françoise PIETOU.  Pierre was baptised in 1672 and buried 4 Feb 1693, and was one of 12, with three brothers and five sisters who married.

   For Pierre Achin #14256, it says in Tome 1, p 1, right after his burial date, "[ècrasé par la chûte d'un arbre]"  My guess is Pierre was killed in a logging accident, crushed by logs coming down the chute to the river.

   For Médard Chouart, Sieur des Croseilliers, #2026, in a footnote on his name, in Tome 1, p 129, "Chouard et Pierre-Esprit de Radisson, pour se veuger de quelque mécontentement, conduisent les anglais dans la rivière de Nemiscan, baie d'Hudson.  (Charlevoix, T.I, p. 479.)"  From my studies on the family ties to the Hudson's Bay Company, I'm thinking Médard was buddies with Pierre Radisson, who played both the English and French sides of the fur trade.

   For Jehan Cochon #14906 the burial footnote in Tome 1, p 133, says, "Honorable homme, venu au Canda, avec sa seconde femme et ses enfans.  Ancêtre de l'Honorable Joseph Cauchon, Président du Sénat de la Puissance du Canada."  This one looks a whole lot like, "Honorable [Gentle]man, came to Canada with his second wife and babies.  Ancestor of the Honorable Joseph Cauchon, president of the senate of the Dominion of Canada.  (I'm pleased that the only word I had to look up for this one was "puissance".)

   For Jeanne Boucault #14199, after her burial date in Tome 1, p 137, it says, "gelée sur le pont."  I'm *guessing* Jeanne froze to death on a bridge, boat, or ship.

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NEWSLETTER INFORMATION

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