Notes for Marguerite "Chippewaqua" Marcotte

Notes for Marguerite "Chippewaqua" Marcotte

Chippewaqua (Margaret-Margot) Margaret-Margot is identified in family papers as a Pottawatomie from Detroit, possibly half Potawatomi. She was also known as Chippewaqua - Chippewa woman. Marguerite, or "Margaret", was also known as Chippewaqua, her Pottawatomi name. She was the sister of Topinabee, the last Pottawatomi "war chief". Marguerite Marcot was her French name. On the wedding register of her son Jean Baptiste, it mentiones Marguerite Marcot, a native of St. Joseph, residing in this parish (St. Anne's Church in Detroit).

Source: Judith McLeod: Marguerite, or Chippewaqua, also had a son named Joseph Daze.

Courtesy of John Palmer, Local History/Genealogy Room, St. Joseph County Public Library:
Indians that converted to Christianity, especially Catholicism, in Michigan, were given Christian baptismal names. This may explain how Margaret Marcot got her name. The baptismal records usually give the Indian name as well as the new name, so if a record could be found this might prove her relation to the tribe.

Midwest Pioneers: Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Vol. 19, 1695-1821: Register of Baptisms of the Mission of St. ?, pg. 77, lists Marguerite as baptised on the same day as her sister Marianne, parents listed as Jean Baptiste Marcotte and Marianne Neskeek. Godparents were Hyppolite Janis, merchant and Agathe, wife of Sieur Cote.

Midwest Pioneers: Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Vol. 14, pg. 42:
"...Louizon, married, and with his family left Mackinac in a schooler in 1834, to go to Grand river. The vessel was wrecked on the way and all on board were lost."