Francois Pierre Chevalier

Chevalier, François Pierre [also Louison; Shobonnier] born c.1755-60; métis son of Luc Ira [Louis] Chevalier and an Objibwa woman; married Marianne or Chopo, daughter of Potawatomi chief [see] Naunongee of the Calumet River area, and thereby became the French-Potawatomi chief of the village on the NW shore of Lake Calumet, where a group of the United Band of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi resided; their children were Pierre, Archange Marie (married [see] Antoine Ouilmette), Suzanne Françoise (Sheshi, married [see] Pierre Louis Morin, then married [see] Louis Pierre Buisson), François, Catherine (married [see] Alexandre Robinson), Marianne (married [see] François LaFramboise, Jr.), Josette (married Mark Bourassa), Louis, and Angelique (married Claude LaFramboise); signed the Chicago Treaty of Sept. 26, 1833, as Sho-bon-nier, and received $800 in payment for his children at the Chicago Treaty; died c.1834, at which time Alexandre Robinson became chief. [12] [275a]

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Chevalier, François Pierre [also Louison; Shobonnier] born c.1755-60; métis son of Luc Ira [Louis] Chevalier and an Objibwa woman; married Marianne or Chopo, daughter of Potawatomi chief [see] Naunongee of the Calumet River area, and thereby became the French-Potawatomi chief of the village on the NW shore of Lake Calumet, where a group of the United Band of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi resided; their children were Pierre, Archange Marie (married [see] Antoine Ouilmette), Suzanne Françoise (Sheshi, married [see] Pierre Louis Morin, then married [see] Louis Pierre Buisson), François, Catherine (married [see] Alexandre Robinson), Marianne (married [see] François LaFramboise, Jr.), Josette (married Mark Bourassa), Louis, and Angelique (married Claude LaFramboise); signed the Chicago Treaty of Sept. 26, 1833, as Sho-bon-nier, and received $800 in payment for his children at the Chicago Treaty; died c.1834, at which time Alexandre Robinson became chief. [12]

a French Canadian named Louis Chevalier established a trading post on the Saint Joseph River near Lake Michigan in the far southwest corner of the present day state of Michigan. Chevalier was married to a Potawatomi woman who went by the name of Mary Magdalene Reaume and they lived among the Potawatomi in the Saint Joseph area until 1780. It is possible that Chevalier and his wife were the parents of at least one son. Francis or Francois/ Francis /Chovanier/Shobonnier eventually rose to prominence within the tnbe and was the chief of a village bearing his name, "Shobonnier" located at the mouth of the Calumet River in Indiana. Francis married the daughter of Neebosh ( Mary Ann) and they were the parents of Archange Chevalier. A notation in "People of the Place of the Fire" states that Francis and his wife were also the parents of Josette, Angelique, and brother Jean B. Chevallier. Records from the Potawatomi tribal offices reflect a genealogy chart showing Archange Chevier as a full blood Potawatomi and the daughter of Francis Chevier, Chovanier or Shovinicr. On October 20, 1832 at the Treaty of Camp Tippecanoe (Indiana) gathering, "Francois Chovanier" was one of 61 Potawatomi signatories. At the infamous Treaty of Chicago, September 26, 1833, "Sho-bon-nier" is among the 77 Potawatomi chiefs and headmen listed as signatories

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Chevalier, François Pierre [also Louison; Shobonnier] born c.1755-60; métis son of Luc Ira [Louis] Chevalier and an Objibwa woman; married Marianne or Chopo, daughter of Potawatomi chief [see] Naunongee of the Calumet River area, and thereby became the French-Potawatomi chief of the village on the NW shore of Lake Calumet, where a group of the United Band of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi resided; their children were Pierre, Archange Marie (married [see] Antoine Ouilmette), Suzanne Françoise (Sheshi, married [see] Pierre Louis Morin, then married [see] Louis Pierre Buisson), François, Catherine (married [see] Alexandre Robinson), Marianne (married [see] François LaFramboise, Jr.), Josette (married Mark Bourassa), Louis, and Angelique (married Claude LaFramboise); died c.1834, at which time Alexandre Robinson became chief. [12] [275aMarianne (married [see] François LaFramboise, Jr.), Josette (married Mark Bourassa), Louis, and Angelique (married Claude LaFramboise);

A French Canadian named Louis Chevalier established a trading post on the Saint Joseph River near Lake Michigan in the far southwest corner of the present day state of Michigan. Chevalier was married to a Potawatomi woman who went by the name of Mary Magdalene Reaume and they lived among the Potawatomi in the Saint Joseph area until 1780. It is possible that Chevalier and his wife were the parents of at least one son.

Francis or Francois/ Francis /Chovanier/Shobonnier eventually rose to prominence within the tnbe and was the chief of a village bearing his name, "Shobonnier" located at the mouth of the Calumet River in Indiana. Francis married the daughter of Neebosh ( Mary Ann) and they were the parents of Archange Chevalier. A notation in "People of the Place of the Fire" states that Francis and his wife were also the parents of Josette, Angelique, and brother Jean B. Chevallier. Records from the Potawatomi tribal offices reflect a genealogy chart showing Archange Chevier as a full blood Potawatomi and the daughter of Francis Chevier, Chovanier or Shovinicr. On October 20, 1832 at the Treaty of Camp Tippecanoe (Indiana) gathering, "Francois Chovanier" was one of 61 Potawatomi signatories. At the infamous Treaty of Chicago, September 26, 1833, "Sho-bon-nier" is among the 77 Potawatomi chiefs and headmen listed as signatories