Thank you for your help! Cindy -------Original Message------- From: NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com Date: 02/20/04 13:16:56 To: NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NISHNAWBE] Louis Hamelin Just noticed the following and thought it might be of interest. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lhbum:@field(DOCID+@lit(lhbum768 9hdiv9)) [The following entry was omitted, through clerical oversight, from the list of marriages given in our volume xviii.] August 20, 1787, after granting dispensation of bans between Louis hamelin, son of Sieur Charles hamelin and of the late Awaci, a sauteux savage, his father and mother, of the government of Montreal, of the one part; and Josette Le Sable, a savage of the Sauteux nation, residing at the old fort of Michilimakina, of the other part--I, the undersigned priest, administered the sacrament of matrimony to them, after receiving the mutual consent they had already pledged one another many years ago in the hope of having their marriage ratified by an approved priest and before several witnesses, also according to the ordinances of our mother the holy church and as testified below by the signatures of messieurs J. Be Nolen; L. Carignan, Notary public, witnesses, who Signed with us, as did also the husband; the wife declared that she could not sign her name. Payet, Missn. priest. L. Hamelin. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lhbum:@field(DOCID+@lit(lhbum768 9hdiv10)): She Marie Athanase, slave of Charles Hamelin died fortified with all the sacraments, on January 24, 1748, and was buried in the church the following day beside her deceased mistress. I interred in the cemetery of this post, in accordance with his last wishes, jacque Michel hamelin, trader, of the parish of Grondines, who died yesterday. At Michilimakinak, this November 15, 1757. There is a great deal of EXCELLENT reading with a lot of names seen on this list. Larry Friend (Black Buffalo) friend@2z.net ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237