Pierre Hulin (abt. 1698 - abt. 1742)

Born about 10 Feb 1698 in Québéc, Nouvelle-France [uncertain]

Husband of Dorothee Accica — married 1720 in Kaskaskia, Illinois

Descendants

Died about 1742 at about age 43 in Kaskaskia, Pays des Illinois, Haute-Louisiane, Nouvelle-France [uncertain]

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Biography

Pierre Hulin lived
in Canada, Nouvelle-France.

Pierre Hulin lived in Louisiana.

Pierre Hulin, dit Ulain (often mis-transcribed as "Vlain") is said to have been born in Québéc to unknown Québécois c.1698. ^{[citation needed]} As a young man he may have made a living as a coureur des bois in the Pays des Illinois; possibly after his marriage he was a habitant of the early French settlement of Kaskaskia, originally built on a peninsula on the Kaskaskia River just north of where it joins the Mississippi River.

The Illinois habitant was a farmer and a fur trader. Sometimes he was also a carpenter, a smith, or a tailor, but even then he was first of all a tiller of the soil. And when the crops were in and there was no work for his tools or his needle, he left farming to his wife and hired himself out to one of the village merchants to carry trade goods to the Indians. A fur trader he wanted to be for the wealth he might gain, a farmer he had to be in order that the Illinois country could become the granary of Louisiana. ^[1]

His name appears on a few records made in Kaskaskia. He is recorded having bought a slave:

Chocolat, a slave belonging to the merchant, Jean Baptiste Richard, brought a price of 1,500 livres from Pierre Hulin, one-third paid in flour, one-third in hams, and one-third in card-money.^[1]

This undated transaction is most likely to have occurred between 1718, the first year enslaved Africans were shipped from Santo Domingo in the Caribbean to Kaskaskia to work the lead mines being developed in Missouri,^[2] and 1720, when card-money was first declared worthless; or between 1735, when card-money was reissued, and about 1739, when it became greatly devalued.^[3] The balance of the payment, flour and hams, suggests he was a farmer, wheat having been a major crop, and pigs being plentiful there.^[1] The purchase of a slave suggests he had an interest in increasing his farm yield or in lead mining. Belting suggests that almost every household in Kaskaskia had one or two slaves.^[4]

Pierre Hulin is said to have married c.1720 Dorothee Accica (or Ariga), a native woman,^[5] probably at Kaskaskia.

Their known children were born downriver in Louisiana:

1. Marie Louise Hulin (c.1724) m. Jean Baptiste Degagnier of Montreal in 1745.^[1][6][7]
2. Jacques Louis Hulin (c.1725) m. Catherine Toups of Des Allemandes, Louisiana.^[8]
3. Agnes Hulin (c.1726) m. Louis Normand, dit LaBruiere/ LaBriere/ LaBruyere in 1747.^[1][9][10]

In 1726, Jacques Bernard dit St. Bernard made a petition to force Pierre to claim and support a child that he allegedly had with Bernard's wife while he was away.^[11] I believe his wife during the relevant time period was Denise Aleaume.

Pierre Hulin died before September 15, 1743. On that date his widow remarried Antoine Cheneau, dit Sanschagrin, master roofer, widower of Cecile Bortan, after one ban.^[1][12]

Research Notes

• The following was included in the orphaned profile, from the index of the cited source and David Leleux:

Huet, Charles, 62, 96

Huet, Jean, 96

Huet, Joseph, 54, 96

Hulin, Agnes, 82, 88, 97

Hulin, Louise, 82, 88

Hulin, Marie Louise, 85

Hulin, Pierre, 59, 82, 88, 96, 97

Ariga, Dorothee, 82

Accica, Dorothee, 82

Accica, Marthe, 82

Deganier, Catherine, 82

Deganier, Jean Baptiste, 82

Normand, Louis, 62, 82

LaBruyere, Catherine, 84

Raimond Brosse dit St. Cerny, habitant of Kaskaskia (in Kaskaskia in 1726).

On June 27, 1744, the eve of his departure for New Orleans, he made a will bequeathing 300 livres to the church, 300 livres to his god-daughter, Agnes Hulin, and all else to his good friend Jean Henri' dit La Rose. (Kaskaskia Mss., Private Papers, IV).

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Belting, Natalia Maree, "Kaskaskia Under the French Regime," Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences, Vol. XXIX, #3 (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1948) pp. 51, 59, 60, 82, 85, 88, 96-97. Online at https://archive.org/stream/kaskaskiaunderfr00belt/kaskaskiaunderfr00belt_djvu.txt; cites Kaskaskia Mss., Commercial Papers, IV.
2. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Kaskaskia, Illinois," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kaskaskia,_Illinois&oldid=860334882 (accessed October 22, 2018).
3. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Card money," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Card_money&oldid=853259129 (accessed October 22, 2018).
4. ↑ Belting, p.60.
5. ↑ Belting, Appendix, p. 82.

   Text: September 15 [1743]. Antoine Cheneau dit Sanschagrin, master roofer, widower of Cecile Bortan (?), and Dorothee Ariga, widow of Pierre Hutin (Hulin). One ban.

6. ↑ Belting, Appendix, p. 82. Text: January 19, 1745. Jean Baptiste Deganier, native of Montreal, son of Jacques Deganier and Marguerite . . . , and Louise Hulin, born in New Orleans, daughter of the late Pierre Hulin and Dorothee Ariga. One ban.
7. ↑ Tanguay, HI, 37^; Registre de la Paroisse;

   Jean Baptiste Desgagnes, son of Jacques and Marguerite Jousset, baptized at Montreal September 5, 1717. He married Louise Hulin, daughter of Pierre Hulin and Dorothee, an Indian, on January 19, 1745, after the publication of one ban.

8. ↑ better source needed http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=davidleleux&id=I073562
9. ↑ Belting, Appendix, p. 82. Text: July 13. Louis Normant dit La Bruiere and Agnes Hulin, daughter of the late Pierre Hulin and Dorothee Accica. Two bans.
10. ↑ Registre de la Paroisse, Kaskaskia Mss., Commercial Papers, IV, March 22, 1740;

    Louis Normand (or Normant) dit La Briere, master smith of Kaskaskia. He married Agnes Hulin, daughter of Pierre Hulin and Dorothee, July 13, 1747.

11. ↑ Lawrie Cena Dean and Margaret Kimball Brown, The Kaskaskia Manuscripts 1708–1816, A Calendar of Civil Documents in Colonial Illinois, (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Archives, 1984) Document #26:5:23:1
12. ↑ Registre de la Paroisse, Kaskaskia Mss., Commercial Papers, IX;

    Antoine Cheneau dit Sanschagrin, master slater. He was living in Prairie Melique near Fort de Chartres in 1748, and in 1757 at Nouvelle Chartres. (Kaskaskia Mss., Commercial Papers, IX). His first wife was Cecile Bortan (?). On September 15, 1743, he married Dorothee Ariga (evidently an Indian), the widow of Pierre Hulin. (Registre de la Paroisse).