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About Jean Claude Favre
JEAN CLAUDE FAVRE (D.1782) http://www.hancockcountyhistoricalsociety.com/history/early-history...
Local “legend” mentions the Favres as being among the first cabin boys left by Iberville to learn Indian languages [from Penicaut, Fleur de Lys Chickasaw ask for young French boy, and Iberville gives them 14 year old St. Michel who already spoke well the language of the Oumas “qui est la mesme chose que le Chicachas” (:68 fn 15). [Note 15 mentions that this was one of six cabin boys that Iberville left in Louisiana to study Indian languages so that they could serve as interpreters.] This might account for the Favre’s long service as Indian interpreters, beginning with Jean Baptiste who is shown living with the Apalachies in 1721.
The Favres were owners of one of the earliest, if not the earliest documented land grant, near the project area. The original deed consisted of 640 acres in Section 37, T8R16W) directly north of the Challon Claim (Jackson Court House District Land Records, 1820-1847: Certificate # 12). The British Government in West Florida granted it to John Claudius Favre on December 18, 1767
At around the same time, the British granted 500 acres of land along the Pearl River to Jean Claude Favre. Jean Claude, born on April 16, 1721, was the son of Jean Baptiste Favre, one of the earliest French settlers in Mobile (Heitzman). The elder Favre, who died in 1725, was apparently very familiar with the local Indians. The 1721 census of Fort Louis de la Mobile shows Jean Baptiste living in the village of the Apalachies (Heitzman).
Jean Claude Favre, a new British subject from Mobile, married Marguerite Wiltz (b 1740, d7/28/1805) on June 7, 1759. She was the daughter of Marie Anne Colon. Her sister Marguerite Colon married Joseph Barbeau dit Boisdore, a Canadian on October 13, 1747. Together with the Favres, members of the Colon and Boisdore families would be the earliest non-Native settlers of the East Pearl River region of Hancock County. Apparently relations between the Favres and Boisdores were not always cordial as seen in a lawsuit brought in 1776 by Luis Boisdore versus Jean Favre. . Louis Boisdore filed the suit against Jean Favre in New Orleans over a slave named “Luison.” This case continued until 1783 when Widow Favre settles with Boisdore. Succession suit indicates that Jean Claude died around 1782. Marguerite Wiltz died 7/28/1802 at 65 (cf. LHQ October 1928, vol. II, no. 4: 668; St. Louis Cathedral Record of Interments (1793-1803) page 115 Act 1019) (11).(This would seem to be more authoritative than above, as record cutting off at 1803 could not include her as dying in 1805, as above)
Jean Claude had served France as translator during a critical transitional the meeting between the French and British with the Choctaw chiefs November 14, 1763. Minutes of Council with Choctaw, MPA V: Document 81, November 14, 1763. The British Governor of Mobile, Robert Farmar, met with d’Abbadie, Director General and commandant of the French at Mobile “desiring to cooperate reciprocally…[as] stipulated in article seven of the treaty of peace concluded on the tenth of February 1763…we have agreed …for the said articles to be made known and included under the name and territory of the region of the Alabamas, particularly the Kawitas, Abihkas, Chiachas, Kasihtas, and other dependents of the Kawitas, and finally the Talapoosas and Alabamas. This shall be accomplished by several separate assemblies, some for the above-mentioned Choctaw nation only, and the others for those known under the name of Alabamas, observing so far as possible that the above-mentioned Choctaws and Alabama Indians shall not be at Mobile together.” (Ibid :294).The speech was interpreted by Sieur Favre, interpreter maintained by his very Christian majesty, according to his certificate below, to the Indians of the Choctaw nation assembled for that purpose in the presence of the two governors of New Orleans and of Mobile and of the respective officers of the two crowns…” (Ibid: 299-300).
The same year as the Favre grant, an incident is reported of “marauding Choctaws killing cattle of the settlers (Ware and Rea: George Gould); it was said that they attacked from Pascagoula to Pearl River, driving families from the Bay of St. Louis to Cat Island 26. Perhaps theBritish attempted to quell the Native unrest by sending Jean Claude Favre. Simon, his son, would be a prominent Indian informant and guide for the American, Spanish and British governments. At the time of the land grant, Simon Favre, eldest son of Jean Claude and Marguerite Wiltz was only 7 years old. It is Simon who is widely reputed to have been the first European settler in the area. Governor Chester, writing about the land where Favre settled, observed, “The Land here is not extraordinarily high but seemingly fertile upon the Banks and back it is Pine Barren, the Trees of which are large and fit for Turpentine.”
For more extensive history, see Giardino & Guerin's The Favre Family in Early Hancock County at http://www.hancockcountyhistoricalsociety.com/history/the-favre-fam...
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As reported by Jerry Heitzmann. in his genealogical publication of The Favre Family, Jean Claude Favre was born April 16, 1721 , and married a Swiss soldier's daughter, Marguerite Wiltz, on June 7, 1759. Jean Claude, as an official Government Interpreter, traveled and lived in many Indian villages. thus resulting in his having spawned many children. As early 1767, Jean Claude had spent time in developing plantations along the Pearl River. Two of these properties averaged 1200 acres each. Before his death. in 1782, Claude produced five legitimate children with his wife, one of whom was Simon Favre, was born in 1760.
MyHeritage Family Trees Heggaton Family- Great Brotain - 31025021 in Heggadon Family Tree-Great Britain Web Site, managed by Tim Heggaton Birth: Apr 16 1721 - Mobile, Alabama, Spanish West Florida, Nuevo Espania
Death: July 21 1813 - Hancock County, Mississippi Territory
Parents: Jean Baptiste "escamouche" Favre, Marguerite Arlü
Siblings: Andrâe Carriere Farve, Jean Simon Claude Favre, Jean Joseph Baptiste Favre, Jean Matthieu Favre, Jean Pierre Favre, Marie-josáephe Carriere, Mrs.Gabriel Adrien Tixerant, Mrs. Pâelagiâe Tixerant
Wife: Marguerite Marie Wilhemina (Wiltz)
Partner: ? Possibly 6 Towns Choctaw District Mobilian
Children:: Marie Clare Favre, Simon Farve
- Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Aug 12 2018, 18:17:04 UTC
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Jean Claude Favre's Timeline
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April 16, 1721
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French Louisiana, Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, United States
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| 1760 |
May 31, 1760
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Pearlington Plantation, present day Hancock Co., near Waveland, MS
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| 1763 |
1763
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Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, United States
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| 1765 |
1765
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Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, United States
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| 1767 |
1767
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Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, United States
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| 1769 |
1769
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New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States
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| 1782 |
1782
Age 60
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Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, United States
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