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Pierre Drouillard[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19]

Male 1746 - 1803  (56 years)


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  • Name Pierre Drouillard 
    Born 11 Oct 1746 
    Christened 13 Oct 1746  Ste. Anges, Lachine Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • GODPARENTS: Jean Baptiste Chenie, Jr. and Suzanne Blondeau
    Gender Male 
    Occupation Official interpreter of the Huron language for the British Indian Dept. 
    Died 14 Apr 1803 
    Buried 16 Apr 1803  Ste. Anne, Detroit Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • In 1775 Pierre was taken into the British Indian Department as an official interpreter of the Huron language. He was paid 16 shillings, York, per day. The Revolutionary War started in 1776. The British did not begin using Indians against the Kentucky frontier until 1777. Pierre was credited with saving the life of Simon Kenton, a prisoner of the Indians at Sandusky.

      Taken from "Genealogie des Drouillards" by Hazel M. (Lauzon) Delorme, available at the Société Franco-Ontarienne Library in Belle River, Ontario.
    Person ID I282  Drouillard
    Last Modified 29 Apr 2009 

    Father Jean Baptiste Drouillard,   b. 14 Feb 1707,   d. 25 Feb 1754 to 1755  (Age 47 years) 
    Mother Marie ELISABETH Rapin,   b. 06 Jun 1712,   d. 06 May 1787  (Age 74 years) 
    Married 05 Feb 1731  Ste. Anges, Lachine Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Witnesses to the marriage were Joseph Argentcour dit Drouillard, brother, Jean Chenin, cousin, Jean Baptiste
      Rapin, father, Jean Janson, grandfather, Antoine Rapin, uncle, Barbe Rapin, aunt
    Notes 
    • In 1733, the family was living at Soulanges. Between 1741-1744 they were at St. Joseph-de-la-Riviere-des-Prairies. In 1746 they were back at Lachine. Jean Baptiste moved his family to Detroit 26 Jul 1749 where he had received a land grant of three arpents on the south shore of the river.

      We know that Jean Baptiste died sometime between March 1754 and the middle of 1755, so there has been speculation that he was part of Beaujeu's force that fought at Fort Duquesne in 1755. [SK]
    Family ID F154  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Asoundechris Flat Head 
    Children 
     1. Pierre (GEORGE) Drouillard,   c. 27 Sep 1775, Assumption, South Coast of Detroit Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. May 1810, Three Forks of the Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 34 years)
    Last Modified 8 Dec 2003 
    Family ID F495  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Marie Angelique Descomps dite Labadie,   b. 14 Feb 1760,   d. After April 1824 
    Married 20 Nov 1776  Ste. Anne, Detroit Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Marriage contract between Pierre Drouillard and Angelique Labadie dated 19 Nov 1776 in the Labadie Family Papers held by the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
    Children 
     1. Son Drouillard,   b. 17 Aug 1777,   d. 17 Aug 1777  (Age 0 years)
    +2. Marie LOUISE Drouillard,   b. 05 Dec 1778,   d. 01 May 1855  (Age 76 years)
     3. Cecile Drouillard,   b. 14 Jun 1780,   d. 17 Jun 1780  (Age 0 years)
    +4. Catherine Drouillard,   c. 09 Oct 1781, Ste. Anne, Detroit Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 06 Apr 1861, Assumption, Sandwich Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Elisabeth Drouillard,   b. 03 Feb 1783,   d. 30 May 1783
    +6. Francois Xavier Drouillard,   b. 13 Mar 1784,   d. 26 Jan 1852
     7. Therese Drouillard,   b. 02 Apr 1786,   d. 09 Feb 1788
    Last Modified 8 Dec 2003 
    Family ID F146  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 Susan Miller 
    Children 
     1. Drusilla Drouillard,   b. At Kenton's Station, KY Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Eleanor (Ellen, Hannah) Drouillard,   b. At Kenton's Station, KY Find all individuals with events at this location
    +3. Joseph Drouillard,   b. 01 Sep 1796, Wellsburg, Brooke County, Virginia (now West Virginia) Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Mar 1895, Gallipolis, Gallia County, OH Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 98 years)
    +4. Simon Kenton Drouillard,   b. 1801, Kenton's Station (now Washington), Mason County, KY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1852-1860, At or near Placerville, El Dorado, CA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 8 Dec 2003 
    Family ID F149  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S16] Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections.
      Vol. III, 26, 34 (1881); Vol. VI, 502 (1883) Vol. VIII, 537 (1885): Vol. IX, 470 (1886): Vol. X, 472, 506, 527, 538, 543, 576, 609 (1886): Vol. XI, 337, 344, 364, 370 (1887): Vol. XIII, 42, 43, 65, 75, 90, 100, 101 (1888): Vol. XIX, 586, 587 (1891): Vol. XX, 213 (1892): Vol. XXIV, 26 (1894)

    2. [S30] History of Wayne County and the City of Detroit, Clarence M. Burton and M. Agnes Burton, (ed. H. T. O. Blue, associate ed. Gordon K. Miller (Chicago-Detroit: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1930)), 167 .

    3. [S17] WAYNE COUNTY PROBATE RECORDS (Reliability: 1).
      Docket #54, 21255, 21541, 21542, 21543, 21544, (No will, private claim 332 & 62 Grosse Pte, Wayne Co., 616 Macomb Co.)

    4. [S34] History of the Girtys, Consul Willshire Butterfield, (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1890 reprinted Columbus: Long's College Book Co., 1950), 350-51 .

    5. [S19] The Windsor Border Region, Ernest J. Lajeunesse, C.S.B., ((Toronto: The Champlain Society, University of Toronto Press, 1960)), 323, 324 .

    6. [S21] Michigan Censuses 1710-1830, ed. Donna Valley Russell , ((Detroit: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, Inc., 1982)).
      1) Census of July 1782: North Shore, p 55
      2) Census of September 1796: Huron River NE of Detroit p 72


    7. [S20] Genealogy of the Drouillard Families of St Clair Co., Michigan, Elizabeth L. (Warner) Droulard .
      16-21 and references therein

    8. [S32] History of The Detroit Light Guards 1708-1854 , John D. McDaniels, Lieutenant Colonel (retired), Michigan , ((Detroit: privately printed.1965) ), 5, 7 .

    9. [S36] Historical Collections of Ohio, Henry Howe, (State of Ohio), 381-82 .

    10. [S37] Ann Browns Ledger 1779-1785, (Detroit Society for Genealogical Research 50, #3 (Spring 1987) ), 107 & 108.

    11. [S37] Ann Browns Ledger 1779-1785, (Detroit Society for Genealogical Research 50, #3 (Spring 1987) ), 107 and 108.

    12. [S38] The Revolution on the Upper Ohio 1775-1777, (eds. Reuben Gold Thwaites and Louise Phelps Kellogg ), 127-128 .

    13. [S40] Simon Kenton, A Natural Man, Lowell H. Harrison, American History Illustrated, Vol. XI, #5 (August 1976), 10-16.

    14. [S37] Ann Browns Ledger 1779-1785, (Detroit Society for Genealogical Research 50, #3 (Spring 1987) ), 107, 108.

    15. [S39] Histoire des Canadiens du Michigan et du Comte d Essex, Ontario , Telesphore St-Pierre, ((Montreal: 1895), available at the Burtcn Historical Collection in Detroit).

    16. [S43] DRAPER MSS: .

    17. [S42] A History of Scioto County, Ohio, Together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio , Nelson Evans, (Nelson Evans, 1903), 1262 .

    18. [S41] Public Archives of Canada.
      Trial Nov 09, 1781

    19. [S54] Descendants of Simon Drouillard, Donald F. Drouillard, Norman W. Drouillard and Mark J. Drouillard, 3-8.


  

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