Jean Baptiste Crelis and Angélique Pilet dit La Sonde
Husband Jean Baptiste Crelis
Born: Christened: Died: Abt 1762 - (Kaskaskia, Illinois) Buried:
Father: Jean Baptiste Crelis ( -1759/1763) Mother: Marie Françoise Ayet (Abt 1698-1776)
Marriage: 2 Sep 1755 - Kaskaskia, Illinois 1
Wife Angélique Pilet dit La Sonde 2 3
Born: Abt 1733 Christened: Died: 31 Jul 1776 - Kaskaskia, Illinois Buried: 1 Aug 1776 - Kaskaskia, Illinois 2
Father: Pierre Pilet dit La Sonde (1704-After 1764) 3 4 Mother: Catherine Marie Madeleine Boisron (1703-1748) 3 4
Other Spouse: Gabriel Aubuchon (Abt 1735-1785) - 30 Apr 1765 - St. Genevieve, Missouri 5
Children
1 F Françoise Crelis
Born: Abt 1756 - Kaskaskia, Illinois Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Joseph Dupuis ( -Bef 1795) Marr: 13 May 1774 - Kaskaskia, Illinois 6Spouse: Augustin Trudel (Abt 1769-1822) Marr: 10 Sep 1795 - St. Louis, Missouri 7
2 M Jean Baptiste Crelis
Born: Abt 1758 Christened: Died: Buried: 14 Jun 1833 - Florissant, St. Louis Co., Mo 8Spouse: Elisabeth Bienvenu dit Delisle (Abt 1761-1852) Marr: 18 May 1779 - Kaskaskia, Illinois 1
3 M Antoine Crelis
Born: 16 Sep 1759 - Kaskaskia, Illinois Christened: 16 Sep 1759 - Kaskaskia, Illinois 9 Died: Buried:
4 M Jérôme Crelis
Born: 4 May 1761 - Kaskaskia, Illinois Christened: 5 May 1761 - Kaskaskia, Illinois 9 Died: Buried:Spouse: Thérèse Lefebvre ( - ) Marr: 2 Aug 1785 - Vincennes, Indiana 10
General Notes: Husband - Jean Baptiste Crelis
The following are from the parish records of Kaskaskia, Illinois (La population des forts français d'Amérique (XVIIIe siècle), Marthe F. Beauregard, Vol 2):
Jean Bte Crely is a godfather on July 21, 1760 and on February 2, 1761. These records may refer to his father.
DEATH:
Jean Baptiste Crely was probably alive May 5, 1761 when his son Jérôme was baptized in Kaskaskia. The baptismal record does not indicate that the father is deceased. He was certainly alive 9 months earlier. He died before August 24, 1762, when a division of property between his widow and his children took place in Kaskaskia.
General Notes: Wife - Angélique Pilet dit La Sonde
PARISH RECORDS:
The following is from the parish records of Kaskaskia, Illinois (La population des forts français d'Amérique (XVIIIe siècle), Marthe F. Beauregard, Vol 2):
13 Jun 1759 -- Angélique Pilet, épouse de Jean-Bte Crely, is a godmother.
HEIRS:
The following is a summary of a legal proceeding. A more detailed account in French and in translation to English can be found on pgs 496-501 of Kaskaskia Records, 1778-1790 by Clarence Walworth Alvord (Chapter XIV, "The climax of anarchy, August, 1787 to March 5, 1790", pgs 496-501). It can be seen online at ancestry.com. On June 20, 2021 it can be seen at
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044031782964&view=1up&seq=587&q1=Creilley
and at
https://archive.org/details/kaskaskiarecords05clar/page/496/mode/2up
On May 2, 1788 a finding was issued by a group of nine arbiters appointed by the Court of Kaskaskia to resolve a dispute between Mr. John Edgar, a merchant living in Kaskaskia and plaintiff in the name of and for the heirs of Madame Crely, and defendant M. Nicolas Caillot dit Lachanse, formerly of Kaskaskia.
Madame Crely is the widow of Jean Baptiste Crely. In a division between her and her children made August 24, 1762 in accordance with an inventory made on the same date, she was granted a sum of 25838 livres and 10 sols including a dwelling house, grounds, and other appurtenances situated on the ledge of rocks on the other side of the River Kaskaskia, granted May 24, 1745, and an adjoining tract granted May 10, 1746 by the commandant and commissioner of Kaskaskia at that time.
The plaintiff asserts that from the moment Madame Creely was put in possession of her property, she has been "out of her mind and incapable of alienating her property". Nevertheless on March 2, 1774 she made a sale to the defendant M. Lachanse.
Although notice to appear before the arbiters had been served on the defendant, he did not appear to defend himself. It appears that Gabriel Aubuchon, the second husband of widow Crely, and her legitimate children Baptiste Crely and Francoise Crely presented evidence that the widow was not in her right mind. On the basis of all of the evidence before them the arbiters were convinced that the sale of March 2, 1774 was irregular and that the widow Crely was "out of her mind and mentally deranged at the time of the transaction".
The arbiters recommend to the Court that the 2 tracts mentioned above be returned to the Crely heirs and especially to M. John Edgar with interest at 5% from the time of the death of widow Crely to the day he is put in possession. The 4000 livres which appears to be the sum that M. Lachanse gave in the sale, described as "soi-disant", are granted to M. Edgar to pay the expenses and costs incurred by him in pursuing the litigation.
"One half of the undersigned arbiters were French, the other half Americans to whom has been interpreted the contents of the present decision, in order to have it conform to our unanimous opinion. And as we, the arbiters assembled, have said nothing concerning the surplus property of the widow Crely, amounting to the sum of 25,838 livres 6 sols, which it appears that the said lady received at the time of the division made between herself and her children, we decide equally that the said Nicolas Lachanse must likewise return and restore all the property of the said lady into the possession of which he was put at her death, which occurred in the house of the said Lachanse; and he must likewise pay the interest on the sum [concerning the amount] of which there can be a question, to the Crely [heirs] or their representative, at the rate of five per cent from the time of the death of the said widow Crely until the moment of the perfect and full payment, together with all costs that may have been made;"
DEATH:
The burial record indicates that Angelique Pilet dit La Sonde died suddenly of a "rechute de couche", which probably means a delayed consequence of childbirth. She died 22 days after the birth of her last child.
1 Marthe Faribault Beauregard, La population des forts français d'Amérique (XVIIIe siècle), 1984, Vol 2, pg 85. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
2 Marthe Faribault Beauregard, La population des forts français d'Amérique (XVIIIe siècle), 1984, Vol 2, pg 194. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
3 Natalia Maree Belting, Kaskaskia Under the French Regime, pg 97. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
4 Marthe Faribault Beauregard, La population des forts français d'Amérique (XVIIIe siècle), 1984, pg 85. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
5 Researching the Aubuchons in Missouri, St. Louis Genealogical Quarterly, Vol XVII, No. 3, Fall 1984, pg 70. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
6 Marthe Faribault Beauregard, La population des forts français d'Amérique (XVIIIe siècle), 1984, Vol 2, pg 88. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
7 Old Cathedral Marriages 1781-1828 (St. Louis, Mo), Early U.S. French Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1695-1954, 28/155. Repository: http://www.ancestry.com.
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Marthe Faribault Beauregard, La population des forts français d'Amérique (XVIIIe siècle), 1984, Vol 2, pg 123. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
10
Marthe Faribault Beauregard, La population des forts français d'Amérique (XVIIIe siècle), 1984, Vol 2, pg 21. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
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