Photo taken from Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois (1915), v.1, p. 314. Belting calls this period “anarchy.”44 The British set up no civil government in the town, and the Proclamation of 1763 prevented new colonists from moving there.
), Francois J. Creely (1792-1855?) 61.
Kaskaskia Records, 1778-1790.
and Marie Louis Marquis Dupuyau (?-? 90. Modern Kaskaskia on what were the common fields of the French period. I suspect, that this number is actually smaller than what the town's population was during the 1810's. By 1711 there was a church in Kaskaskia with a bell, a steeple, a baptismal font, and three chapels.5 Visitors to the area also reported three flour mills in the area, two of them horse mills that were the property of the Indians.6 Early written records originating at Kaskaskia come from the hands of the Jesuits that started the mission. Actually, few tribes had adapted as much or attached themselves more closely to the French. This is where I found alternate ways that Kaskaskia has been spelled and that Rouinsac was a Kaskaskian village. 46. 1930 Federal Census of Kaskaskia Village.
67. 13. The slide towards irrelevancy began immediately, as is apparent in the 1825 county census, where 617 people were recorded,75,76 although the town still had enough notoriety to warrant a visit from Lafayette.77 In the 1850 census (the next year for which there are individual numbers for Kaskaskia),78 there were only 486 people living in the town—the lowest in over a century. Alvord, Clarence Walworth. For modern Americans it is odd to think of Illinois—“The Land of Lincoln”—as an area where slavery was practiced, but the census numbers given above and other records show that slavery was practiced throughout Kaskaskia’s first century.
By the time American settlement reached them during the early 1800s, the Illini were nearly extinct and replaced by other tribes. During the winter of 1803-1804, a dozen men joined their Corps of Discovery—more than had joined at any other place.68 In 1809 Illinois Territory was organized with Kaskaskia as the capital.
The name Kaskaskia is the anglicized version of the tribal term "kaskaskahamwa," which means "he who scrapes it off by means of a tool." Pierre Menard, a French Canadian, settled in Kaskaskia in 1790. The 677 people are divided into 99 households. Norris, p. 194. 59. No population figures or censuses exist from Kaskaskia’s mission period. 87. 17. 1820 Federal Census of Kaskaskia Township. This is a direct link to the Kaskaskia Entry from Hodges Handbook: 1910. His grave is on the grounds of the state park on top of the hill, just slightly north of the old fort site. 64. Wikipedia does say that in 1950 the town had 112 people. The parish register actually starts with the baptism of Pierre Aco, the son Michel Aco and his wife Marie Rouensa,7 on 20 March 1695.8 At the time, though, the mission was located in Pimitoui (25 leagues to the north of the present Kaskaskia site).9 The first event in the register after the mission was moved to Kaskaskia was the baptism of Jean Sakingoara, son of Jean Sakingoara and Marie Susanna, on 19 January 1707.10 Because of a lack of white women in the frontier colony, many early Kaskaskia families were the result of intermarriage between French men and native Illinois/Kaskaskia women.
and Cecilia Creely (1820-? The 1830 and 1840 federal censuses exist for all of Randolph County, but they do not show which residents are in Kaskaskia and which live elsewhere in the county.
Map of Old Kaskaskia adapted from an 1875 atlas on display at Fort Kaskaskia State Park. This short history is just an introduction, and it is highly recommended that the reader examine the endnotes carefully and read the cited works. Could this only refer to white adults? The Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma is a confederation of Kaskaskia, Peoria, Piankeshaw and Wea Indians united into a single tribe in 1854. 79. 57. I always wondered how my 9-g-grandfather, Mamenthouensa, came to be called Rouensa. Norris, F. Terry. Ironically, the geographic features that originally made Kaskaskia such an attractive place to settle destroyed the town completely.82 Because the process was gradual over the course of several floods, the families living in the town were able to move their homes before the catastrophe struck. I do not have the expertise to judge his assertion, but his evidence (p. 237-239) is compelling.
Even with this, I suggest that you check with each tribe concerning their identity. Kaskaskia, Illinois History. My haphazard guess is that there were between 400 and 800 Americans in late 1787. approximately 95 percent of what was the largest and best known of all the Illinois Country Villages in the Central Mississippi River Valley was destroyed by the shifting channel of the Mississippi River during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.”92 However, an archeological survey in 1988 found evidence that the southern part of the village (as it stood in 1766) may not have been totally inundated. The Kaskaskia church bell, which was rung on 4 July 1778 to celebrate the town's liberation by the Americans from the British.
However, a 1734 map gives the population of Kaskaskia as 200, as cited in Belting, p. 39. This is a direct link to the Kaskaskia Entry from Hodges Handbook: 1910. After the defeat of the Kaskaskia, the supremacy of the Illinois Confederacy over their rivals continued to diminish. and Josette Creely (1807-1829), Pierre Lessard (?-1832) and Julie Creely (1795-? The permanent residents of Kaskaskia during its earliest period were mostly farmers and traders. 1755-1807) and Marie-Therese Creely (1769-? sign the guest book and 7. However, tensions started to mount. Modern Kaskaskia is almost entirely farmland, probably very fertile.
Archdiocese of New Orleans Sacramental Records, v. 1, p. 59. 85. Among others who signed on behalf of the government were Pierre Menard and Clark's son, Meriwether Lewis Clark.
The system of local government described in Belting, p. 21. However, the numbers are confusing in their presentation because she later lists 87 legitimate children and 14 bastard children—obvious not enough to account for the full 190. In a society with much higher infant mortality than what we know today in the United States, the 64 habitants, 37 women, and 54 children in Kaskaskia in 1723 could have only been possible with a significant amount of immigration. Louisiana Historical Quarterly, volume 15, no.
He is twenty years old and a lifelong resident of Vergennes. ), Jean Baptiste Creely (?-?) This is the pre-1800 number that probably most closely reflects the actual population at the time. 49.
River, met the Kaskaskia at the Big Muddy River in present day Franklin County. 11. None seemed to have had families. 51. This made it easy to place responsibility for the fate of the Illini on their native enemies, or perhaps even nature itself, and for this reason, their sad story became a favorite romanticized explanation of the Native American's "ride into the sunset" to prepare the way for the advance of "civilization." He would later be the first lieutenant governor of Illinois and a prominent citizen until the end of his life.66 However, Menard’s prominence in the civic life of Kaskaskia was an exception to the rule. E-mail: Kaskaskia Descendants Mass was held daily, but Sunday masses were especially well attended.
In 1950, only 439 Indians remained out of the twelve native tribes of Illinois. You will also want to read The Prairie Nations Page: Hodges Handbook: 1910. Norris labels the three sites as A, B, and C. A is today a cultivated field that contained limestone rubble, remains of window glass, two had-forged nails, and “two faience plate sherds” [sic]. Before the departure of many of the town’s oldest families, though, a census counted 191 adult French men in 1787.64 This list has many families who were destined to never appear in another surviving Kaskaskia census: Creely, Bienvenue, Delisle, and others.
), Gabriel Aubuchon (1807-?) The history of the Creely family is inextricably linked with the town of Kaskaskia, Illinois, and to fully understand the first four generations of the Creelys, one must understand Kaskaskia.
Illinois State Historical Library: Springfield, IL, 1909, p. 136-139. sign the guest book and In this treaty, the Confederacy ceded all lands the tribes held in Illinois. (Lee Sultzman). The tribes of the Illinois Confederacy were rivals of the Iroquois, Sioux, and most notably, the Shawnee. 4. The Creely family, though, remained in the city and continued to farm the fertile land. For more history of the Illiniwek and the area, see Louis and Clark Journey of Discovery: The Illiniwek and The French Colonial Period in Illinois, 1673 1765: A Selected and Updated Bibliography by B. Pierre Lebeau. and Marie James (?-? Jean Baptiste Creely (1758-1833), the grandson of the original Jean Baptiste Creely, didn’t leave until 1790 or 1791.
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