" Journal of a Fur-Trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri 1812 - 1813 "
by John C. Luttig
"Sunday the 26, set sail at 3 in the Morning, at 8 A.M. Immel & Queenville 90 went out to hunt and to visit his house were he lived last Winter, we came up with the house very fast, stopped a few minutes the wind fresh in our favor, took in Immel, Queenville had run after some Buffaloe, we went pretty fast and were obliged to stop for Queenville, who was far behind we gave him signal and embarked him, he had killed 1 buffaloe but we left the meat, taking care of the wind at 1 P.M. made Big Bend, camped on the North Side -- Distance 36 miles."
90 Francois Quenneville lived in St. Charles, Missouri. In June 1814, he gave his note to Mr Francois Duquette, to be paid upon his return from a trapping voyage. The next record I find of him is with the American Fur Company's Post in southwestern Missouri. He seems to have spent the remainder of his life in that section. He married Wihethtanga, an Osage woman and of this marriage there is record of the following children:Francois, born about 1819; Pierre, born about 1822, baptized at Harmony Mission, August 21 1827; Angelique, born October 10 1826; Andre, born about November 5 1829 and baptized near Marais des Cygnes, June 9 1830 and Elizabeth, who married August 10 1840, at the American Fur Company's trading-post on the Osage River, Jean Baptiste St. Michel. There was a trapper of this name with the Spanish Company in 1794. As he was referred to as "Sieur Quenville" by Jean Baptiste Trudeau, there is no way of determining that he is the same man of this expedition.
This is Francois Quenneville's signature.
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