Pierre Paquet

Father: Pierre Paquet

Children include Marthe

Pierre Paquet was the son of Pierre Paquet, a tailor, and Marthe Coular, and lived at Fort Condé, the French post at Mobile. His father was dead by 1726.

On 26 August 1726 he married Magdelaine, the natural daughter of Jean Baptiste Baudrau called Graveline and an Indian woman. The priest of Mobile, Father Matthias, published one bann and dispensed the other two, and he married them in Graveline's own house on the Pascagoula River, where he had been brought for the purpose. Pierre's uncle Michel Paquet was a witness, and made his mark.

By 1735 he was living on the bay at Mobile, where his daughter Marie Marthe was born. He bought land on the Mississippi River before 1731 and held part of Cat Island, in the Mississippi Sound. A son François and a daughter Marie Anne were baptised at New Orleans in the 1740s, both several years old. By 1748 his daughter Marthe was in the care of his brother Michel, and he is not heard of again.

Parents

Pierre Paquet

Children

Marthe Paquet b. 1735

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.

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Cite: Heirology, "Pierre Paquet", https://heirology.com/ancestors/pierre-paquet-ba021a.