He married Genevieve Janis 7 Jan 1766 at the Church of the Hurons, Sandwich. Permission was obtained from the pastor of Ste Anne Detroit to be married by the Missionary of the Hurons at Sandwich "en consideration des glaces et de difficulte du passage de la riviere" (The Detroit River was mostly frozen)[3]
He passed away and was buried 6 Jun 1827 at St Jean Baptiste de Amherstberg. [4]
↑ Catholic Church. St. Anne (Detroit, Michigan), Transcript of original records, 1704-1754, vol.1, p382.
↑ Rev Christian Denissen, Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region (GFFDRR), 1987, Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, page 1033, #10.
↑ Rev Christian Denissen, Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region (GFFDRR), 1987, Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, page 1033, #10.
↑ Rev Christian Denissen, Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region (GFFDRR), 1987, Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, page 1033, #10.
↑ transcribed by Sharon A. Kelley, Marriage Records Ste. Anne Church Detroit 1701-1850, DSGR, FCHSM and Detroit300 Tricentennial Grant Program, p 19, #213.
↑ [http://my.tbaytel.net/bmartin/detroit1.htm This information was originally published by:
ONTARIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Papers and Records
Volume 7, Published in Toronto in 1906
Pages 26-84.]
↑ Rev Christian Denissen, Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region (GFFDRR), 1987, Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, page 1033, #10.
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