Jean Baptiste Richard & Marie-Anne You

Children of Jean Baptiste Richard and Marie-Anne You

Jean Baptiste Richard

Jean Baptiste was the fourth child and second son. He became a voyageur,
and travelled at one point to Ouiatanon, a Miami Indian village near the
present Lafayette, Indiana. Here he "obtained the services" of Marie-Ann,
whom he later married.95


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Item part of: Nouvelle-France. Congs et permis enregistrs Montral
[documents textuels]
1722, septembre, 03
SCOPE AND CONTENT: Permission accorde par M. le gouverneur gnral au
nomm Jean Richard, cy-devant interprte et forgeron au poste de
Ouyatanons, pour conduire sa femme malade dans son pays, esprant y
recouvrer la sant.
REFERENCE NUMBERS: CALL NUMBER: MG 8 - C 8
REPRODUCTION: Microfilm of the transcript, reel no. C-13986
CONSULTATION/REPRODUCTION: Textual records Transcript: Volume 2 ,
p. 253-256
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Enregistr le 3 septembre 1722 - Registre des
congs, 1721-1726.
SOURCE: RC 1533
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In 1722, they returned to Ouiatanon from Montral. The passport issued to
them reads as follows:
"No. 12. Permission to Jean Richard, September 3, 1722. [In margin:
Richard, permit for the Ouitanon. Took out sixteen pots of brandy for the
four men, left September 9.]
"There appeared at the record office of the royal jurisdiction of
Montreal before the clerk undersigned the Sieur Jean Richard, who
presented permission which monseigneur the governor general had granted
him to go to the post of Ouitanon this day, for which permission he
requested registration in conformity with itself and with the declaration
of the king of April 28, 1716, the record requested granted him by said
clerk for his use and to be used as may be thought proper and immediately
the said permission was registered by said clerk as follows. Done at
Montreal at said record office, September 3, 1722.
"Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil, Knight Grand Cross of the
military order of St. Louis, governor and lieutenant general for the king
in all New France.
"The man named Jean Richard, formerly interpreter and blacksmith at the
post of the Ouiatanon, where he served under the Sieurs de Vincennes,
father and son, has represented to us that his wife, who is of the
Ouiatanon nation, and who has been continually ill for the two years that
she came to live in this colony, wishes to return to her country to
recover her health, if it would please us to grant him permission to take
her back to said post of the Ouitanon with her children; and since the
Sieur de Vincennes fils who commands there has asked us for the said
Richard, whom he needs because he is a blacksmith as well as a good
interpreter and a man of good will to serve in the conversation which he
is obliged to hold for the interests of the savages, we have permitted
said Jean Richard to return to said post with his wife and three children
in a canoe, taking with him the men named Joseph Larriv, Louis Goulet,
and Franois Seran to aid him in conducting the said canoe, in which he
has declared to us that he is taking the things necessary for his
housekeeping, his clothes and those of his family, with a hundred pounds
of flour, three hundred pounds of biscuit, two pots of brandy, fifteen
pots of wine, and two pots of strawberry brandy, and that his entire
merchandise consists of only one hundred pounds of powder, one hundred
pounds of lead, nine ells of woollen cloth, a gross of knives, and two
pounds of vermilion. We forbid the said Richard to carry or to allow to
be carried in said canoe for his three employees any other merchandise or
brandy than that declared above under the penalties carried by the
ordinances; we also forbid them to do any trading or commerce with the
savages in the dependencies of Fort Frontenac, of Detroit, or elsewhere
than at the said post of the Ouiatanon. The said Richard will be required
to have these presents registered before his departure from this town at
the record office of the royal jurisdiction of Montreal. We enjoin the
three employees of the said Richard to return to this colony and to be
back during the month of July of next year at the latest, each with his
gun, which they will be required to have upon leaving from here and to
bring back upon their return, without being allowed to get rid of them by
trading them to the savages under penalty of three months in prison.
"Done at Montreal, September 3, 1722; signed, VAUDREUIL, and lower down,
for monseigneur, DE LESTAGE."95

Marie-Anne You

The translation of her baptism record reads:
"On this day, 22 May, 1710, has been baptized by me Missionary Priest,
undersigned, a slave, Panisse de Nation, belonging to Jean Richard,
Voyageur, age at baptism about fifteen years, and named Marie Jeanne, the
Godfather is Michael Beaugis, Voyageur, and the Godmother, Madeleine
Parent, both have signed the same day."95

Agns Richard