Joseph Brazeau (1742 - 1816)

Born 1742 in Kaskaskia, Upper Louisiana, Louisiana, New France

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Therese (Delisle) Brazeau — married 7 Nov 1769 in Kaskaskia, Upper Louisiana, Louisiana, New France

Died 23 Nov 1816 at about age 74 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States

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Biography

Joseph Brazeau was born in 1742, in Kaskaskia, Upper Louisiana, Louisiana, New France, a son of Joseph Brazeau and Marie-Françoise Dizier. Joseph married Marie Therese Bienvenu Delisle 1759-1834 on November 7, 1769 at Kaskaskia. ^[1]

Joseph was the son of an French-Canadian trader and had taken up the same occupation before France ceded upper Louisiana to Spain on February 10, 1763. Charles Philippe Aubry, a Frenchman, remained in office as acting governor of Louisiana until Don Alexander O’Reilly replaced him in 1769. The exclusive commerce in the Missouri Valley, which had been granted to Maxent, Laclede, and Company of New Orleans in 1763 for a six-year period bythe French governor, Jean Jacques Blaise d’ Abbadie, was revoked by the Spanish authorities and trade became open to those who applied for it. ^[2]

Research Notes

On April 19, 1807, Manuel Lisa,734 a Spaniard, and George Drouillard left St. Louis in a keelboat. 735 They ascended the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers and stopped for the winter at the mouth of the Big Horn River in Montana where they built a fort, named Fort Manuel, which was also used as a fur depot. They returned in July 1808 with a load of furs and arrived in St. Louis on August 5, 1808. Their party included forty-two men, out of which nineteen were Frenchmen: Etienne Brant, Joseph Brazeau, François Bouche, Jean Baptiste Bouche, François Colas, known as Sansquartier, Cousin, Jean Baptiste Champlain, Jr. Pierre Desève, Antoine Dubreuil, Joseph Laderoute, also known as Casse, Jean Lafargue, Jean Baptiste Lusignan, Jean Baptiste Mayette, Calliste Montardy, Jean Murez, Antoine Bissonet739, and François Lecompte.

Collet's Index to Burials at the Old Cathedral, St. Louis places Joseph here with what is likely a burial date of November 23, 1816. His age is listed at 74 years and he's identified as the husband of Therese Delisle.

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/228909307/joseph_brazeau
2. ↑ The French Presence in Kansas 1673-1854, by Simone Amardeil Johnson, pages 70 and 71