Gabriel (Caillot dit LaChance) Caillot-Lachance Sr. (1766 - 1826)

Born 20 May 1766 in Kaskaskia, Randolph, Illinois

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Ann (D'Amour) Cailot dit Lachance — married 31 May 1796 in Prairie du Rocher, IL

Descendants

Died 12 Feb 1826 at age 59 in Sainte Genevieve, Sainte Genevieve, Missouri, United States

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Biography

He was named for his uncle & godfather Gabriel Cerre, husband of his mother's sister Catherine, born 2 years after their marriage.

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 1st to Genevieve Chauvin dit Charleville, Feb 16, 1789, Kaskaskia, IL. (unsure if his daughter, Reine was Genevieve's or Mariann's).

He was married 2nd Marie Ann D'Amour-Delouviere, May 31, 1796, at St. Joseph's Church, Prairie du Rocher Illinois. The year before his brother, Antoine had married Marie's sister Jeanne. His 2nd marriage record says he was the widower of M.L. Chauvin Charleville.

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.^[1][2]

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

Children of Gabriel & Marie Ann:

1. Felicite, b 1797, bapt Feb 13, Ste. Genevieve, Mo; m Jean Baptiste St. Gemme Beauvais, jan 18, 1814;
2. Gabriel Jr, b Mar 9, 1800, Ste. Genevieve; m Marguerite Cerré, Jan 20, 1824; he d bef 1860
3. Louise, b 1801, Ste. Genevieve; d Aug 8, 1803, Ste. Genevieve, age 2
4. Lucille, b 1802, bapt Feb 5, Ste. Genevieve; m Jean Baptiste St. Gemme Beauvais, Nov 14, 1826, Ste. Genevieve (maybe her sister's widower)
5. Celeste, b 1803, bapt Apr 7
6. Judith, b 1804, bapt May 25, Ste. Genevieve; m William Henry Yallaly/Talluly?, Feb 28, 1832; he d bef 1850; 1850 she was liv with her brother, Noel's widow
7. Reine, b Apr 29, 1806, Ste. Genevieve; m Jean Baptiste Bequette, Jan 28, 1823
8. Jean Noel, b Apr 15, 1808; m 1st Julie Gorneau; m 2nd Marie Rosalie Placett, Apr 21, 1835; m 3rd his 1st cousin, Melanie (daug of Antoine), May 5, 1842; d Sept 14, 1845, age 37.
9. Melanie, b Dec 11, 1810; m Joseph Bartholomeu Carron, Jan 19, 1830; d June 12, 1880, bur St. Philomena's Cem, Bloomsdale, MO
10. Euphrosine (Euphrasie), b 1812, bapt Mar 13, Ste. Genevieve; m Antoine Aubuchon III, Jan 31, 1837, Ste. Gen.
11. Odile, b 1814, bapt July 13; m Etienne (Steven) Govreau, Jan 19, 1830
12. Helene Caillot, b 1816, bapt Apr 8
13. Marianne Caillot, b 1818; m her double 1st cousin, Paul Caillot, May 2, 1843, Ste. Gen.

Descendant Henry Joseph Lachance, b 1883.

Sources

1. ↑ (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
2. ↑ https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/C2366/madison-county

• U.S., Indexed Early Land Ownership and Township Plats, 1785-1898 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. APID: 1,2179::0

Acknowledgements

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. Caillot dit LaChance-14 was created by Buddy Van Arsdale through the import of Van Arsdale Family Tree.ged on Sep 12, 2015.