Pierre Pilet dit La Sonde
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 21 Jun 1704 - Berneuil-sur-Aisne, Dept de l'Oise, Picardie, France Christening: Death: After 1764 3 Burial: in Old Kaskaskia Cemetery, Kaskaskia, Illinois Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Catherine Marie Madeleine Boisron (10 Apr 1703 - 17 Jul 1748) 1 2 Marriage: Children: 1. Jean Baptiste Pilet dit La Sonde (1721-1721) 2. Jean Baptiste Pilet dit La Sonde (Abt 1722-1722) 3. Antoine Pilet dit La Sonde (1724- ) 4. Marie Louise Pilet dit La Sonde ( - ) 5. Marie Barbe Pilet dit La Sonde ( - ) 6. Madeleine Pilet dit La Sonde ( - ) 7. Angélique Pilet dit La Sonde (Abt 1733-1776)
Notes
General:
On page 97 of Kaskaskia under the French Regime Natalia Belting describes the descendants of Pierre Pilet dit Lasonde and his wife. She also says,
"On May 2, 1737, four arpents of land at Prairie du Rocher, reaching from the hills to the Mississippi, were granted to him, and on July 9 another arpent was given to him."
On page 58 she says,
"Pierre Pilet dit La Sonde and his wife, Marie Madeleine Boisron, on November 7, 1724, leased for five years from Louis Turpin property in Kaskaskia consisting of half a barn, half a house, half a mill, two cows, two oxen trained to work, two bulls, a horse, a cart, an old plow, two scythes, three sickles and three arpents of land. The rent was eighty minots of wheat a year." (Kaskaskia Mss., Commercial Papers, I.)
On page 36 she says,
"Among the first stone houses in Kaskaskia was that built for Pierre Pilet dit Lasonde by Charles Gossiaux, mason of Prairie du Rocher and Eustache Moreau, a mason of Kaskaskia. The contract, drawn March 2, 1739, which describes the house, almost defies translation, the French is so bad.
"Lasonde agreed to furnish all the material and pay the builders 700 livres, half in card-money, half in flour." (Kaskaskia Mss., Public Papers, III)
Find-a-Grave Memorial # 210285063:
Pierre Pilette-dit-LaSonde, the son of Pierre Pilette-dit-LaSonde and Marie Hauart, was born on Jun 21, 1704 in Berneuil-sur-Aisne, Oise, France. He and his wife, Marie Madeline Boisron, left La Rochelle, France with a group of 152 colonists on board the ship "Le Comte de Toulouse" on Nov 15, 1718. He was listed on the manifest as a "miner".They arrived in the Illinois Country in 1721, and leased half a barn, half a house, half a mill, 2 cows, 2 trained oxen, 2 bulls, a horse and cart and 3 arpents for 5 years from Louis Turpin at the rate of 80 minots of wheat a year. Four arpents of land were granted to him on May 2, 1737 in Prairie du Rocher, reaching from the hills to the Mississippi, and on the 9th of July, he received an additional arpent. On Mar 2, 1739, he made a contract with Charles Gossiaux and Eustache Moreau to build one of the first stone houses in Kaskaskia for the cost of 700 livres, half in card money and half in flour. He died sometime after 1764. The couple had eight children.
1) Jean Baptiste Pilet (1721-1721)
2) Jean Baptiste Pilet (1722-1722)
3) Antoine Pilet (1724- ? ) m. Marie Louise Granline
4) Madeleine Pilet (Abt. 1725- ? ) m. Jean Baptiste Milot
5) Marie Barbe Pilet (Abt. 1725- ? ) m. Michel Danis
6) Angelique Pilet (1733-1776) m. Jean Baptiste Creely
7) Dorothee Pilete (1739-1764) m. Jean Baptiste Oliver
8) Louis Pilete (Abt. 1745- ? )
1 Marthe Faribault Beauregard, La population des forts français d'Amérique (XVIIIe siècle), 1984, pg 85. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
2 Natalia Maree Belting, Kaskaskia Under the French Regime, pg 97. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
3 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 210285063.
4
Marthe Faribault Beauregard, La population des forts français d'Amérique (XVIIIe siècle), 1984, Vol 2, pg 194. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
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