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
On 2 March 1774, he renounced any claim to his mother's property because he was unable to financially support her. This freed up his mother to sell her property to support herself. At the time, she was a widow and approximately 76 years old.3
Bought land from Louis Pillet on 7 May 1774.4
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.5
By 1783 he had professed himself a citizen of Virginia (which at that time claimed the land that is now Illinois).6
May have been recorded in the 1787 Kaskaskia census.7
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 1740.8
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. Dean, Lawrie Cena. The Kaskaskia Manuscripts, Part Ten: 1763-1774, p. 788. This record should not be interpreted as meaning that Joseph Creely was destitute or abandoning his mother. By renouncing his claim to the property, it freed up Marie Francoise Ayette to sell it on the same day for 4,000 livres. The fact that he bought property two months later for 900 livres is additional proof that Joseph Creely was not destitute at the time. This seems to be a pragmatic arrangement so that his mother had full title to the property and could sell it.
4. Raymond Hammes manuscripts, II, 603.
5. Alvord, Clarence Walworth. Kaskaskia Records, 1778-1790, p. 136-139.
6. Mason, Edward G. Early Chicago and Illinois, p. 198.
7. Alvord, p. 414. Joseph Creely is probably entry #11, although it could have been his nephew, Jean Baptiste Creely.
8. Belting, p. 89.
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