Notes for Jean-Baptiste Meloche

Notes for Jean-Baptiste Meloche

The 1762 Census of the Detroit area has a record for Jean Baptiste Meloche listing his location as N. of river from the Fort, NE to Grosse Pointe on Lake St. Claire. Age 22, 3 acres of land, in household, one boy, one girl, 2 slaves.

[Brøderbund Family Archive #118, Ed. 1, Canadian Genealogy Index, 1600s - 1900s, Date of Import: Feb 2, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.118.1.59215.24]
Individual: Meloche, Jean-Baptiste
Event: Married
Year: 1760
Place: Détroit 9
Province of record source: Québec
Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Canadiennes Depuis la Fondation de la Colonie Jusqu'a Nos Jours, Cinquième Volume, Depuis 1608 jusqu'a 1700.
Author: L'Abbé D Tanguay, ADS
Publisher: Eusèbe Senécal
Publication year: 1888
Volume/Page(s): 589
Please note: The province and county are associated with the location of the record source and in some cases may not be the same as the place where the event occurred.

Resided on the North East Coast of Detroit at the creek now called Bloody Run, where he operated a grist mill on the farm later called Hunt Farm or Private Claim No. 7, near the Detroit River later occupied by the Michigan Stove Works. Source: Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region, 1701-1936, page 822.

Jean Bte. Meloche is mentioned in the Survey of the Settlement of Detroit made by order of major Depeyster the 16 day of July 1782. (Source Michigan Pioneer Collections, Volume 10, 1886, pg. 607)
In household: 1 married woman, 1 young and hired men, 1 boy, 8 girls, 1 male slave, 2 female slaves, 5 horses, 4 oxen, 6 cows, 6 steers and heiffers, 9 hogs, 1500 flour, 70 wheat, 23 bushes of wheat sown, 6 arpents of indian corn sown, 20 bushels of oats sown, 60 arpents of clear land.