Marthe Paquet

b. 1735 · Mobile

Born 1735, Mobile

Father: Pierre Paquet

Children include Marthe

Marthe Paquet was born on 4 May 1735, the daughter of Pierre Paquet, of the bay at Mobile, and Magdelaine Baudrau. She was baptised at Fort Condé, the French fort at Mobile, on 5 April 1736. The priest called her mother "the natural daughter of Sieur Bodraud dit Graveline", and that grandfather was her godfather, by proxy. At her parents' wedding ten years before, the priest had written that Magdelaine was the daughter of Graveline "and an Indian".

As a girl she was placed under the care of her father's brother, Michel Paquet, at New Orleans. On 19 March 1748 a meeting of her kin and friends before the Superior Council chose him as her tutor; Jean Baptiste Baudrau Graveline was among those summoned.

In the early 1750s she married Michel Gargare, son of the late keeper of the New Orleans prison. Six children were baptised between 1752 and 1764, among them Marie Anne in December 1758 and Marthe in November 1764. Michel died, and she raised them as a widow until she married Jacob Hingle, a German from Westerheim, at Pointe Coupée on 4 May 1769. She signed that entry Marthe Paquier. Three more children followed: Pierre Jacques in 1769, Françoise in 1772 and Thérèse in 1774.

She ended on the Mississippi coast. On 12 May 1804, as the widow of Jacob Hingle, she and her son Peter Jacob sold ten arpents on the Bayou Rieux at Pascagoula, land her family had held, built on and farmed for twenty five years. This time she made her mark. Through her daughters Marthe, who married Louis Fayard in 1781, and Marie Anne, who married Jean Ryan in 1786, she is an ancestor of many of the old families of the Gulf coast.

Parents

Pierre Paquet

Children

Marthe Gargare b. 1764

Sources

Baptism of Marie Marthe Paquet, Fort Condé, Mobile, 5 April 1736, Mobile Cathedral Book 1, page 113a, and marriage of Pierre Paquet and Magdelaine Baudrau, Mobile, 26 August 1726, Diocese of Mobile Marriage Book 1, page 6, both in English translation as quoted in Brother Jerome Lepré, "A Lady Undaunted: Marie Martha Paquet", New Orleans Genesis, vol. 21, no. 83 (July 1982), pages 263 to 270, reproduced in the Pacquet Family File, Pascagoula Public Library, Local History and Genealogical Department (now the Singing River Genealogy and Local History Library), archive.org item Pacquet, leaf 3. Baptisms of Nicolas (13 July 1752, Book II p. 259), Jean Baptiste (24 July 1754, Saint Charles, German Coast), Michel (7 September 1756, Book III p. 62), Marie Anne (20 December 1758, Book III p. 104) and Pierre (19 May 1762, Book IV p. 102), children of Michel Gargare and Marthe Paquet, parish of Saint Louis, New Orleans, in English translation as quoted in Brother Jerome Lepré, "A Lady Undaunted: Marie Martha Paquet", New Orleans Genesis, vol. 21, no. 83 (July 1982), pages 263 to 270, reproduced in the Pacquet Family File, Pascagoula Public Library, Local History and Genealogical Department (now the Singing River Genealogy and Local History Library), archive.org item Pacquet. Marriage of Jacob Hankel and Martha Paquier, widow of Michael Gargaret, Pointe Coupée, 4 May 1769, Baton Rouge Diocesan Archives, and sale by Martha, widow of Jacob Hingle, at Pascagoula, 12 May 1804, both in English translation as quoted in Brother Jerome Lepré, "A Lady Undaunted: Marie Martha Paquet", New Orleans Genesis, vol. 21, no. 83 (July 1982), pages 263 to 270, reproduced in the Pacquet Family File, Pascagoula Public Library, Local History and Genealogical Department (now the Singing River Genealogy and Local History Library), archive.org item Pacquet. Superior Council of Louisiana, minutes of 19 March 1748, quoted in the same.

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Cite: Heirology, "Marthe Paquet (b. 1735)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/marthe-paquet-1735-6dc76f.