Joseph Creely (?-?) and Marie Louis Marquis Dupuyau (?-?)

Joseph Creely Parents

Born: ?, in Kaskaskia, Randolph, Illinois.¹

Married: Marie Louis Marquis Dupuyau, 16 November 1763 in Kaskaskia, Randolph, Illinois.¹ First marriage

Died: ?

Marie Louis Marquis Dupuyau

Born: ?

Died: ?

Children

3. Louis Creely (born 30 November 1775, christened 10 December 1775).²

Notes on Joseph Creely

Bought land from Louis Pillet on 7 May 1774.³
Signed with a mark a letter of complaint from the Kaskaskia citizens to the American magistrates on 8 December 1779. In the letter the citizens protested the burdens that Kaskaskia alone shouldered of feeding the American troops. The winter appears to have been harsh and supplies short, even without the soldiers eating some of the stores.⁴
By 1783 he had professed himself a citizen of Virginia (which at that time claimed the land that is now Illinois).⁵
May have been recorded in the 1787 Kaskaskia census.⁶

Notes on Marie Louis Marquis Dupuyay

She was the daughter of Jean Baptiste Marquis and Marie Louis Pilet dit LaSonde. Her father was a blacksmith who had been in Kaskaskia since at least 1740.⁷
Variant surnames: Marqui, Dupuy, Dupuis.

Sources

1. Beauregard, Marthe F. La population des forts français d'Amerique, v. 2, p. 85.

2. Beauregard, v. 2, p. 123.

3. Raymond Hammes manuscripts, II, 603.

4. Alvord, Clarence Walworth. Kaskaskia Records, 1778-1790, p. 136-139.

5. Mason, Edward G. Early Chicago and Illinois, p. 198.

6. Alvord, p. 414. Joseph Creely is probably entry #11, although it could have been his nephew, Jean Baptiste Creely.

7. Belting, p. 89.