 1698 - 1733 (34 years)
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| Name |
Henriette Colon [1, 2, 3] |
| Birth |
Oct 1698 |
Kaskaskia, Pays des Illinois (Illinois)  [2, 3] |
| Christening |
27 Nov 1698 |
Notre-Dame de l'Immaculée Conception des Kaskaskias, Kaskaskia, Pays des Illinois (Illinois) [2, 3] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
28 Feb 1733 |
Mobile, Louisiane (Alabama) [4, 5] |
| Burial |
1 Mar 1733 |
Mobile, Louisiane (Alabama) [5] |
| Person ID |
I8333 |
LaZeut |
| Last Modified |
11 Dec 2019 |
| Family |
Charles Rochon, b. 4 Jul 1673, Québec, Québec d. 21 Mar 1733, Mobile, Louisiane (Alabama) (Age 59 years) |
| Marriage |
Y [8] |
| Children |
| + | 1. Marie Josèphe Rochon, b. 19 Mar 1722, Mobile, Louisiane (Alabama) d. 8 Nov 1752, Mobile, Louisiane (Alabama) (Age 30 years) |
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| Family ID |
F1229 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
13 Nov 2019 |
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| Documents |
 | 1698 Colon: Henriette 1698 Baptismal Record
Image of original baptismal record of Henriette Colon from Notre-Dame de L'Immaculée Conception des Kaskaskias as shown on 2017 PBS television documentary "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr." Several secondary sources and many family genealogies apparently rely upon a later transcription of the original document to assert that the baptismal record is that of a son "Henri" Colon. The name inscribed here is clearly "Henricam," a Latinized, feminine form of Henri, or in French, Henriette. |
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| Notes |
- Henriette's original baptismal entry reads "Henricam," a Latinized version of the French "Henriette." A later transcrition of this record erroneously shows her name as "Henriam," leading to a prevalent error that the entry was for the baptism of a boy "Henri."
The transciption error is apparent from an image of the original baptismal record shown on an episode of the television show "Finding Your Roots" linking news journalist Suzanne Malveaux to Henriette Colon. This image clearly showed the original inscription to be "Henricam," which the show translated as "Henrica."
A contemporaneous attestation of the feminine "Henricam," appears in a genealogical study of European royalty by Antonius Wilhelmus Schowart. One entry includes the marriage of "Henricam Catherinam"[Henriette Catherine] to a German prince Johannes Georgio II. [9, 10, 11]
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| Sources |
- [S67] Jacqueline Olivier Vidrine, transcriber and editor, Love's Legacy: Mobile Marriages, (Lafayette, Louisiana: The Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1985), pp. 158-159.
[Transcription of marriage record for Pierre Rochon and Catherine Paux (14 April 1738, Mobile Marriage Book I, p. 22a-1)]
Pierre Rochon, native of Mobile, son of Charles Rochon (1) of Montreal, Canada, and of Henriette Colon of Illinois (2).
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1. He died in 1733.
2. Henriette was a daughter of Jean Colon dit Laviolette and his first wife, the Indian Catherine Exipakin8a. The numeral 8 was used by the French for an Indian sound similar to ou and huit. See Jacqueline Olivier Vidrine, « L'histoire d'une recherche: Sarrazin-Stephan-Colon dit La Violette », La Voix de Prairies (Spring, 1981), 34-36....
- [S1929] Marthe Faribault-Beauregard, compiler, La Population des forts français d'Amérique (XVIIIe siècle), Tome 2, (Montréal: Éditions Bergeron, 1984 ), p. 122.
COLON dit LAVIOLETTE, Henri[cam], naissance en octobre, baptême 17-11-1698, fils [fille] de Jean & Catherine Ekepakin8a. Parrain le Sieur Doiniqaue de Tonty; Marraine omise. Témoin: le Sieur de Montigny qui l'a baptisé[e]
- [S11] René Jetté, compiler, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles de Québec des origines à 1730, (Montréal: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1983), p. 200.
CARON [COLON] dit LAVIOLETTE, Jean (...) d'origine inconnue.
mariage vers 1694 Kasaskia
OUAKIPAKINOUÉ, Catherine (...) Amérindienne
1. Michel baptême 04-10-1695 Kaskaskia
2. Jean-Michel naissance 12-07-1697 baptême 13-07-1697 Kaskaskia
3. Henri[cam] naissance octobre baptême 27-11-1698 Kaskaskia
- [S579] Winston De Ville, compiler, Gulf Coast Colonials, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1968), p. 57.
HENRIETTE COLON - Died 28 Feburary 1733.
- [S4933] Winston De Ville, compiler, Mobile Funerals, 1726-1764, (Claitor's Publishing Division, Baton Rouge, 1994 (2010 reprint)), p. 3.
1 March 1733: Henriette Colon, wife of Sr. Rochon, habitant, died the evening before. [Signed:] Petit; E. Dubourdieu; Boissy; Devin. (Mathias)
- [S4861] Jay Higginbotham, Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiana 1702-1711, (Tuscalosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1977), p. 282.
Furthermore, was not one of the respected inhabitants of Mobile, Jean Colon, dit La Violette (living at Mobile now with his Indian wife, Catherine Exipakinoea, and two children) living proof of how such [interracial] unions could prosper? Had not two of Bienville's esteemed Jesuits, Gabriel Marst and Julien Binneteau, baptized several of Colon's infants while Colon was still at Kaskaskia?
- [S4865] John Gilmary Shea, compiler, Early Voyages Up and Down the Mississippi, (Albany: Joel Munsell, 1861), p. 63.
Letter of J.F. Buisson St. Cosme, Missionary Priest, to the Bishop [of Quebec]
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On the 28th [November 1698] we landed at a village where there were about twenty cabins.... We said mass in the village in the cabin of a soldier named La Violette, married to a squaw, whose child Mr. de Montigny baptized....
- [S67] Jacqueline Olivier Vidrine, transcriber and editor, Love's Legacy: Mobile Marriages, (Lafayette, Louisiana: The Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1985), pp. 186-187.
[Transcription of marriage record for Jean Charles Demouÿ and Marie Josephe Rochon (9 February 1739, Mobile Marriage Book I, p. 25a-1)]
Jean Charles Demouÿ, native of St. Ambroise Parish in Melun, son of Denis Demouÿ, conseillier of the king and receveur des taillles of the district of Melun, and of Jean de Vandreberg.
Marie Josephe Rochon, native of Fort Condé of Mobile, daughter of deceased Charles Rochon and of Henriette Colon, habitants of this town.
- [S4862] Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, (Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 7 November 2017, Season 4, Episode 6: viewed 5 November 2019).
- [S4863] Antonius Wilhelmus Schowart, Observationes historico-genealogicae in quibus Totius Europae Regum ..., (Frankfort: Schrey, 2nd ed., 1696), p. 374.
- [S4864] Illinois register transcripts, 1695-1799, (Catholic Church. Notre-Dame de l'Immaculée-Conception (Kaskaskia, Illinois)).
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