Antoine (Caillot dit LaChance) Caillot-Lachance Sr. (1764 - 1814)

Born 2 Apr 1764 in Kaskaskia, Randolph, Illinois

Ancestors

Husband of Jeanne Felicite (D'amour-Delouviere) Lachance — married 10 Nov 1795 in Prairie du Rocher, Randolph, Illinois, United States

Descendants

Died 22 Feb 1814 at age 49 in Ste Genevieve, Missouri, USA

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Biography

Antoine was born in 1764 in Kaskaskia, IL
named for his grandfather Antoine Giard.

In 1787 Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance, the process by which the Americans were to settle their territory east of the Mississippi. In August, 1787 the magistrates of Kaskaskia (including Nicolas Caillot Lachanse) and several inhabitants of Kaskaskia (including Antoine Lachanse, Gabrielle Lachanse, Bapt. Lachanse & P. Chevallier) signed an agreement with Barthelemi Tardiveau, Esq. sending him to Congress to claim their land rights in Kaskaskia. Whether or not he was successful seems doubtful because of the number of people who left Kaskaskia the next year.
Nicholas sold his Kaskaskia property to Tardiveau in September 1787, and in the winter of 1787-88 he moved to Ste. Genevieve, taking with him 14 slaves and his 11 children, many of them already married. From Dec 1787 to Dec 1789 135 people (13 families) moved from the East side to the West side. It's likely that this had something to do with the Northwest Ordinance.

He married Jeanne Felicite D'Amour dit Delouviere, Nov 10, 1795 at St. Joseph Church, Prairie de Rocher, IL^[1]

Belle Pointe, on the road to Mine La Motte. Louis Lacroix claimed an interest in a concession at Belle Point on the Saline in 1798, with Antoine and Gabriel Caillot dit Lachance. The French words translated mean "beautiful point or spot" and were doubtless thought descriptive of the surroundings. ^[2][3]

In 1799 he moved with the rest of his family from Ste. Genevieve to began a settlement called St. Michael's (in 1814 renamed Fredericktown, Mo). He was a carpenter.

He died in 1814 in Ste. Genevieve, MO

Children of Antoine & Jeanne Felicite

1. Felicite, b Dec 4, 1796; m Joseph Boneau, May 10, 1819, Prairie Du Rocher, IL; d Jan 29, 1850, age 53
2. Odile, b Feb 27, 1799; m Laurent Etienne Pinsonneau/Pensoneau, Nov 23, 1818, Prairie Du Rocher, IL; d 1819, age 19
3. Antoine, b Aapr 16, 1800; d May 23, 1804, age 4
4. Celeste, b Nov 9, 1801; m Jean Baptiste Roy, Sept 4, 1820
5. Melanie, b July 11, 1803, Ste. Genevieve, Mo; m her widowed double 1st cousin, Jean Noel Caillot dit Lachance (son of Gabriel), May 5, 1842, Ste. Genevieve, Mo. He d 3 yrs after their marriage; she d aft 1860
6. Paul, b Jan 25, 1806, Ste. Genevieve, Mo; m his double 1st cousin, Marianne Caillot (daug of Gabriel), May 2, 1843, Ste. Genevieve;
7. Jean Baptiste, b Jan 24, 1808; m Marie Boisseau, Nov 25, 1834; went to California on a ship in 1852; d Feb 8, 1893
8. Rosalie, b Sept 1, 1810
9. Benjamin, b Aug 10, 1812; m Sarah Ann Ewing, July 28, 1840; d Dec 9, 1848
10. Placette, m Jeanne Fel Louvier, 1823

Sources

1. ↑ Source of marriage date: St. Joseph church records.
2. ↑ (History of Missouri, by Louis Louck, pg 378 -- https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_Missouri_from_the_Earliest/NWcOAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=belle%20pointe
3. ↑ https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/C2366/madison-county

Acknowledgements
This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. Caillot dit LaChance-10 was created by Buddy Van Arsdale through the import of Van Arsdale Family Tree.ged on Sep 12, 2015.