A Statement of Claims coming within the provisions of the several acts of Congress of the twentieth of June, 1788, granting donations of four hundred acres to heads of families in the Illinois country; of the 3d of March 1791, granting donations to persons enrolled in the militia, and doing militia duty on 1st August, 1790; and donations of four hundred acres to such a had actually cultivated and improved land under any supposed grant from any court or commandant claiming the right to grant, &c., some of which were not entered within the time limited by law; but as those which have been approved by us are thought to be just and equitable claim they are submitted for the approbation of congress.
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Original claimant-------Present claimant.
Antoine St. Francois-----Pierre Troge, (heir)
Names of witnesses
Louis Pillett, ancient inhabitant of Cahokia.
Witness well knew Antoine St. Francois, of Peoria, a head of family, and cultivating the land; having a small field in which he sowed corn, in the year 1765, and remained there for several years after; and. came down and died in the country, (Illinois) That Pierre Troge was married to one of his daughters.
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Original claimant------Present claimant.
James Moore.----------Heirs of Moore.
Names of witnesses.
James Garretson, Esq., of St. Clair county.
That James Moore, deceased, was the head of a family, and living with his family in the Illinois country, (St. Clair county,) from some time in May, 1781, until the year 1786.
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Original claimant--------------Present claimant.
Henry Golding, deceased-----Heirs of Josiah Ryan,
Names of witnesses.
James McRoberts, Esq. and William Robins.
That, in 1786 and 1787, said Golding cultivated in corn. about six acres of land, which he had. cleared and. fenced. Robins states, that in the spring of 1787, deponent was at the house of said Golding, called Golding’s block-house, at a spring under the bluff, in the American bottom, called Golding’s spring’s where he had, under fence and. cultivated out from four to six acres. That said Golding continued in the country until he died, which happened, he thinks, in 1791. In the transcript of claims confirmed by the Governor, we find in page 11. the following entry, to wit “Josiah Ryan claims land adjoining Katy Ryan.” “Likewise land bequeathed to him by Henry Golding, deceased.”
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Original claimant--------------Present claimant.
Ephraim Story----------------------------------
Names of witnesses.
William Robins and Daniel Raper.
William Robins states, that he knew Story to keep house, and live in the county of St. Clair, in 1787. Raper, that he knew said Story to keep house in said county, Illinois Territory, in 1788.
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Original claimant--------------Present claimant.
John Slaughter---------------------------------
Names of witnesses.
John Moore and James Lemon.
Moore states, that he was well acquainted with said Slaughter, and knew him to keep a house in St. Clair county, Illinois Territory, in the years 1787 and. 1788. Lemon, that he knew the said Slaughter to keep a house in said county in 1787.
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Original claimant--------------Present claimant.
John Berks------------------------------------
Names of witnesses.
William Murray and John Moore.
That they were well acquainted with, and knew, John Berks to be a head of family, and to keep house in St. Clair county, Illinois Territory, in the year 1783.
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Original claimant--------------Present claimant.
James Whitley----------------------------------
Names of witnesses.
William Murray and John Moore.
That they were personally acquainted with James Whitley, and knew him to be head of a family, and to keep a house in St. Clair county, Illinois Territory, in the year 1788.
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Original claimant--------------Present claimant.
Reuben Miller------------------Reuben Miller.
Names of witnesses.
John Murdock, James McRoberts, Esq., and John Edgar.
Murdock states, that said Miller was in the country in 1790, and done militia duty as other militiamen, and now resides in the country. McRoberts, that he knew him, said Miller, in the country in. 1787 and 1790. Edgar, that lie knew him in the country, (Illinois,) in May or June, 1790, and sometime after.
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Original claimant--------------Present claimant.
Jean Baptiste Chevery--------Nicholas Jarrot.
Names of witnesses.
Louis Leperche, Nicholas Boismenue, and Louis Bihore.
Leperche states that he knew Jean Baptiste Chevery as an inhabitant, and planted corn for thirty years and upwards from this time, (1809.) Boismenue, that he knew said Chevcry, a settler in Peoria, near 30 years, (1809.) Bihore states that he, said Chevery, inhabited and resided Peoria with his family in 1783.
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Original claimant--------------Present claimant.
Jean Baptiste Poinstable------Jean Baptiste Poinstable.
Names of witnesses.
Jacque Ducharme, Louis Brunette, and Francois Vailett.
That said Jean B. Poinstable was head of a family at Peoria in the year 1783, and before and after that year. Had a house built, and cultivated land between the old fort and new settlement in the year 1780.
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Original claimant--------------Present claimant.
Francois Arcoit----------------Francois Arcoit,
Names of witnesses.
Baptiste Peltier, Pierre Verbois, and Sean B. Parant.
That said Arcoit was head of a family at Peoria in 1783; and that lie made an improvement near said village at tile same time. J. B. Parant states that he well knew the said Arcoit, an inhabitant of Peoria, in 1782; having a house of his own, cultivating the ground and planting corn; and that he had to leave the place on account of the Indians.
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Original claimant--------Present claimant.
Louis Brunette-----------Louis Brunette.
Names of witnesses.
Jacque Ducharme and Francois Vailett.
That said Brunette was head of a family at Peoria in 1783, before and after, and continued to live in said village.
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Original claimant----------Present claimant.
Widow Isabella Bond-----I. Bond, widow,
Names of witnesses.
Sarah Kinney and John Moore.
That the said. Isabella was a widow, and kept house, and was the head of a family in the Illinois country in 1783, and resided in the country ever since.
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Original claimant----------Present claimant.
Martha Ellison-------------M. Ellison.
Names of witnesses.
James Garretson and Isabella Bond.
That she, the said Martha, was a widow, and the head of a family, in the Illinois, in the year 1783, and continued some years afterwards.
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Original claimant---------------Present claimant.
Antoine Gerardin,
(son of August. Gerardin.)----Antoine Gerardin.
Names of witnesses.
Louis Perio, Julian Merceir, Francois Arnouse.
Pei1o knew said Gerardin to be the head of a family in Prairie du Pont in the year 1787. Arnouse and Merceir knew him to be head of a family, residing in Prairie du Pont, ever since the year 1787, until about three or four years past.
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Original claimant----------Present claimant.
Rene Locat’s heirs---------Heirs of Bone Locat,
Names of witnesses.
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The heirs of Rene Locat are found on the list of governors confirmations as entitled to a donation of 400 acres; and from testimony on record, page 75; relative to Pierre Locat’s donation claim, it is incidentally proven that Rene Locat died in Cahokia, in. the Illinois, before 1779, and that his widow continued to be head of a family until she died in the year 1786.
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Original claimant----------Present claimant.
Pierre Verbois-------------Nicholas Jarrot,
(alias Blondeaux.)
Names of witnesses.
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The donation claim of Pierre Verbois stands confirmed to Nicholas Jarrot, on the records of decisions made by Jones and Backus, (commissioners,) under No. 143; but it is not found on the abstract of confirmations forwarded by them to the Secretary of the Treasury, nor on the one transmitted by him to this office. This was an omission; the claim remains unsatisfied, and ought to receive a legislative sanction. But, as a militia right of 100 acres has been confirmed to P. Verbois, (alias Blondeaux,) the same man, under claim No. 898, only 300 acres ought to be confirmed.
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Original claimant----------Present claimant.
John Dumoulin------------John Duinoulin’s heirs.
Names of witnesses.
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The case of John Dumoulin is precisely similar to the preceding. He is, by the records of decision under No. 1773, entitled to 300 acres, having received a militia right.
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Original claimant----------Present claimant.
Isaac Levy------------------John Hays and heirs of said Levy.
Names of witnesses.
Joseph Poupard, Sen., and Sean Beauliew.
That both knew him, the said Isaac Levy, as head of a family before, in, and after, the year 1783, at Cahokia, in the Illinois country. That Maria Louisa, wife of Joseph Cecel, was the daughter of said Levy, one of his three children. That Emil Cecel, the wife of Francois Demit, is the daughter, and only heir now living, of the said Maria Louisa, deceased.
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Original claimant----------Present claimant.
Jean B. Parant--------------Nicholas Parrot
Names of witnesses.
Sean B. Poinstable, Jacque Ducharme, Louis Bihore, Pierre Verbois.
That Jean B. Parant was head of a family in Peoria in 1783, before and after that year. That he had a house built, and cultivated lands, near the old fort of Peoria, in the year 1780. Bihore and Varbois state that the said Parant was the head of a family in 1780 and 1783; and, at that time, had a farm, and raised crops. This man has been confirmed in a militia donation of 100 acres, under No. 1I, and is, therefore, entitled to only 300 acres
as head of a family.
It must be remarked that, in the transcript forwarded to the Secretary of the Treasury, 18th January, 1813, J. B. Periault, Sen. was represented as entitled to a donation as head of a family under No. 2661; but it is since ascertained that this J. B. Periault is the same with J. B. Perio, who had also obtained a confirmation of 400 acres as head of a family, under No. 1468. Now, as the certificate of confirmation to J. B. Periault under No. 2661, has not been issued, as J. B. Perlo, who is in fact the same man, has obtained his donation, the confirmation to Jean B. Periault, Sen. of 400 acres, under No. 2661,must be annulled, and this to Jean B. Parant, of 300 acres as head of a family, confirmed.
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