New England Town Surveyor — Jonathan Danforth

B. 29 Feb 1628 in Framlingham, England¹
M. (1) 22 Nov 1654 in Boston, Massachusetts²
Wife: Elizabeth Poulter
M. (2) 17 Nov 1690 in Billerica, Massachusetts³
Wife: Esther Champney
D. 7 Sep 1712 in Billerica, Massachusetts⁴

When 17th century Puritans settled all over New England, they needed to transform wilderness into communities. Surveyors like Jonathan Danforth played an important role in making that happen.

Jonathan was born in Framlingham, England on February 29, 1628 to Nicholas Danforth and Elizabeth Barber.¹ He was the youngest of seven children, and his mother died two days after he was born.⁵ Five years later, Nicholas and his children migrated to Massachusetts; it’s believed they arrived on the ship Griffin.⁵

After settling in the town of Cambridge, Nicholas died in 1638.⁵ Jonathan was just 10 years old and was likely cared for by his oldest sister who was married the following year. He had two older brothers who rose to prominence in New England. One was Samuel, who became a famous Puritan preacher, poet and astronomer.⁶ The other was Thomas, a Puritan leader who played a small part in the Salem witch trials in 1692; his name was used as a judge in the play The Crucible, although the character was a composite of several men.⁷

After Jonathan came of age, he became one of the earliest settlers of Billerica, Massachusetts. On November 22, 1654, he married Elizabeth Poulter, the first marriage recorded in town records.² Jonathan and Elizabeth had 11 children born between 1656 and 1676, 3 of whom died as infants.

Jonathan's signature.

Jonathan’s service of planning towns likely began in 1656. That year, several thousand acres were granted by the Massachusetts General Court to become the new town of Billerica, and Jonathan was part of a committee that divided the land into five- and ten-acre lots.⁸ By 1659, he was working as a surveyor, a profession he would pursue for the rest of his life.⁹ In 1661, Jonathan partnered with his wife’s step father, John Parker, to survey and lay out 4,000 new acres allotted for Billerica. In return for his work, the two were allotted 1,000 acres to be divided amongst themselves.¹⁰

During the 1660s, Jonathan was actively surveying throughout Massachusetts and beyond. He helped plot out portions of Massachusetts north and northwest of Boston, and the towns of Nashua, Hudson, Litchfield, Amherst and Milford in New Hampshire.⁹ He was responsible for drawing up plat maps and was referred to in documents as an “artist.”¹¹ It was said that he gave his measurements using the 32-point compass system,⁹ and that instead of a pencil to make his lines, he used a knife impressed into the paper.¹⁰ Jonathan’s last known surveying project was in March 1702 when he was 74-years-old.⁹

Besides his work as a surveyor, Jonathan held other important positions in the community. He was town recorder in Billerica for over 30 years,⁹ and for a time, he was Billerica’s representative to the General Court.⁸ He also served as militia captain during King Philip’s War, and was one of four men responsible for fortifying the town.¹² His house was used as a garrison, housing two other families besides his own whenever the alarm was sounded.¹² After the conflict ended the following year, Jonathan received a 12-year-old Native American boy as a bound servant. The boy was named John Warrick, but he died in 1686.¹³

Jonathan’s wife Elizabeth died on October 7, 1689,¹⁴ and he married Elizabeth Champney on November 17th of the following year.³ He passed away on September 7, 1712,⁴ and was buried at the Old South Burying Ground in Billerica. Jonathan was the 7G grandfather of Bette Davis. The salt-box-style house he built and lived in stood until 1878.⁸ A historical plaque is there today that reads:

Site of homestead of Captain Jonathan Danforth, pioneer of Billerica and famous surveyor. “He rode the circuit, chained great towns and farms to good behavior; and by well-marked station he fixed their bounds for many generations.”¹⁵

Jonathan's house in Billerica.

Children (all by Elizabeth Poulter):
1. Mary Danforth — B. 29 Jan 1656, Billerica, Massachusetts;¹⁶ D. May 1732, Chelmsford, Massachusetts;¹⁷ M. John Parker (1647-1699)¹⁷

2. Elizabeth Danforth — B. 27 May 1657, (probably) Billerica, Massachusetts;¹⁸ D. 9 Dec 1739, Westborough, Massachusetts;¹⁹ M. Simeon Hayward (1648-1733), 7 Mar 1687, Billerica, Massachusetts²⁰

3. Jonathan Danforth — B. 18 Feb 1659, Billerica, Massachusetts;²¹ D. 11 Jan 1711, Billerica, Massachusetts;²² M. Rebecca Parker (1661-1754), 27 Jun 1682, Billerica, Massachusetts²³

4. John Danforth — B. 23 Jan 1660, (probably) Billerica, Massachusetts;⁸ D. 7 Feb 1661, (probably) Billerica, Massachusetts⁸

5. John Danforth — B. 22 Feb 1661, (probably) Billerica, Massachusetts;⁸ D. 4 Jun 1662, (probably) Billerica, Massachusetts⁸

6. Lydia Danforth — B. 1 Jun 1664, (probably) Billerica, Massachusetts;²⁴ M. Edward Wright⁸

7. Samuel Danforth — B. 5 Feb 1666, Billerica, Massachusetts;²⁵ D. 19 Apr 1742, Billerica, Massachusetts;²⁶ M. Hannah Crosby (1672-1752), 8 Jan 1695, Billerica, Massachusetts²⁷

8. Anna Danforth — B. 8 Mar 1668, Billerica, Massachusetts;²⁸ D. 13 Aug 1737, Billerica, Massachusetts;²⁹ M. Oliver Whiting (1665-1736), 22 Jan 1690, Billerica, Massachusetts³⁰

9. Thomas Danforth — B. 29 Apr 1670, Billerica, Massachusetts;³¹ D. 31 Jul 1670, Billerica, Massachusetts³²

10. Nicholas Danforth — B. 1 Apr 1671 Billerica, Massachusetts;³³ D. 8 Mar 1694, Billerica, Massachusetts³⁴

11. Sarah Danforth — B. 23 Dec 1676, Billerica, Massachusetts;³⁵ D. 15 Oct 1751, Concord, Massachusetts;³⁶ M. (1) William French (1668-1723), 22 May 1695, Billerica, Massachusetts;³⁷ (2) Ebenezer Davis (1676-1753)³⁶

Sources:
1    Birth record of Jonathan Danforth, Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001
2    Marriage record of Jonathan Danforth and Elizabeth Poulter, M., T. C., V. & T. R.
3    Marriage record of Jonathan Danforth and Esther Converse, M., T. C., V. & T. R.
4    Death record of Jonathan Danforth, M., T. C., V. & T. R.
5    The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, Vol. II, 1634-1635, Robert Charles Anderson, 2001, pp. 281-285
6    Samuel Danforth (Wikipedia article)
7    Thomas Danforth (Wikipedia article)
8    Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, William Richard Cutter, 1908, p. 165
9    “Jonathan Danforth (1628-1712),” Backsights Magazine, published by Surveyors Historical Society 

10  The Early Grants of Land in the Wilderness North of Merrimack, George Augustus Gordon, 1892
11  “The Boundary Lines of Old Groton,” Samuel Abbott Green, M.D., Bay State Monthly, Vol. 1, 1884
12  History, Charter and By-laws of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois, 1900, p.164
13  “The Lost History of Slaves and Slave Owners in Billerica,” Christopher M. Spraker, Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2014
14  Find-a-Grave listing of Elizabeth (Poulter) Danforth
15  Danforth Homestead marker, Billerica, Massachusetts
16  Birth record of Mary Danforth, M., T. C., V. & T. R.
17  Find-a-Grave listing of Mary (Danforth) Parker
18  Birth record of Elizabeth Danforth, M., T. C., V. & T. R.
19  Death record of Elizabeth Hayward, M., T. C., V. & T. R.
20  Marriage record of Simeon Hayward and Elizabeth Danforth, M., T. C., V. & T. R.
21  Birth record of Jonathan Danforth (younger), M., T. C., V. & T. R.
22  Death record of Jonathan Danforth (younger), M., T. C., V. & T. R.
23  Marriage record of Jonathan Danforth and Rebecca Parker, M., T. C., V. & T. R.
24  Birth record of Lydia Danforth, M., T. C., V. & T. R.
25  Birth record of Samuel Danforth, M., T. C., V. & T. R.
26  Death record of Samuel Danforth, M., T. C., V. & T. R.
27  Marriage record of Samuel Danforth and Hannah Crosby, M., T. C., V. & T. R.
28  Birth record of Anna Danforth, M., T. C., V. & T. R.
29  Death record of Anna Whiting, M., T. C., V. & T. R.
30  Marriage record of Oliver Whiting and Anna Danforth, M., T. C., V. & T. R.
31  Birth record of Thomas Danforth, M., T. C., V. & T. R.
32  Death record of Thomas Danforth, M., T. C., V. & T. R.
33  Birth record of Nicholas Danforth, M., T. C., V. & T. R.
34  Find-a-Grave listing of Nicholas Danforth
35  Birth record of Sarah Danforth, M., T. C., V. & T. R.
36  Find-a-Grave listing of Sarah (Danforth) Davis
37  Marriage record of William French and Sarah Danforth, M., T. C., V. & T. R.

Participant in Connecticut’s Early Days — William Lewis

B. about 1620 in England or Wales¹
M. (1) before 6 May 1645 in Hartford, Connecticut¹
Wife: Mary Hopkins
M. (2) 22 Nov 1671 in Boston, Massachusetts²
Wife: Mary Cheever
D. 18 Aug 1690 in Farmington, Connecticut³

The story of William Lewis is entangled with the early history of Connecticut, having arrived there with his parents in 1635, then serving in local leadership roles throughout his life.

William was born in about 1620 to William Lewis and Felix Collins.¹ Some sources say that he and his parents were from Wales, but the raw data supporting this isn’t evident. William was the only known child of his parents. William migrated to Massachusetts with his parents on the ship Lyon in 1632.⁴ For a couple of years, the family lived in Cambridge, then joined Reverend Thomas Hooker’s party who settled in Hartford.⁴ After William came of age, he settled in the new community of Farmington, originally named Tunxis. In 1645, William became Farmington’s first town clerk.⁴

In about 1644, William married Mary Hopkins in Hartford,¹ and over the next 23 years, they had ten children. Mary died, and on November 22, 1671, William married Mary Cheever,² the daughter of Boston Latin School headmaster, Ezekiel Cheever. The wedding took place in Boston on November 22nd. William and his second wife had six children, with the youngest born in 1681 when William was over 60-years-old.⁵

William was a prominent person in Farmington. Along with being town clerk, he was deputy to the Connecticut General Court in 1689 and 1690.⁶ He also served in the town’s militia, first as a lieutenant in 1651, then as captain in 1665.⁶ He led the militia during King Philip’s War which was involved in the Narragansett campaign in 1675.⁶

Like some men who lived in colonial New England, William owned several slaves, two of whom were Native Americans.⁷ He was also known to have an African slave named Sampson.⁶ Puritans may not be thought of as having been slaveowners, but in 1640, there were actually more Africans in New England than there were in Virginia. Some of William’s enslaved people were left to his family in his will, and were freed later on.^6,7

Part of the inventory of William's estate with two slaves on last line.

On August 18, 1690, William died.³ He was buried in the Ancient Burying Ground in Farmington. His wife remarried in 1692;⁸ she passed away in 1727.⁹ Famous descendants of William include Franklin Delano Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, W.K. Kellogg, television inventor Philo Farnsworth and Mitt Romney.¹⁰

The lasting legacy of William is perhaps the house he built during the 1660s on property he got from his father.¹¹ He lived there with his family and presumably, his younger children were born there. The house remained in the family after his death and was expanded during the 18th century, becoming a much larger house.¹¹ By the American Revolution, it became the Elm Tree Inn, a landmark in Farmington for many years.¹¹ Today the building is a condominium with over eight units. At least one of them includes the original house built by William.

The house that grew around William's house, as it looks today. 

Children by Mary Hopkins:
1. Mary Lewis — B. 6 May 1645, Farmington, Connecticut;¹² D. about 1691, Farmington, Connecticut;¹³ M. Benjamin Judd (1643-1689), about 1667, Farmington, Connecticut¹³

2. Phillip Lewis – B. 13 Dec 1646, Hartford, Connecticut;¹⁴ D. 1724, Fairfield, Connecticut;¹⁵ M. Sarah Ashley (1648-1698), about 1669, Hartford, Connecticut¹⁶

3. Samuel Lewis — B. 18 Aug 1648, Farmington, Connecticut;¹⁷ D. 28 Nov 1725, Farmington, Connecticut;¹⁷ M. (1) Elizabeth Orton (~1654-?), about 1687, Farmington, Connecticut;¹⁸ (2) Mary (?-1745)¹⁷

4. Sarah Lewis — B. 1 Oct 1652, Farmington, Connecticut;¹⁹ D. 10 Aug 1722, Hadley, Massachusetts;¹⁹ M. Samuel Boltwood (1648-1704)¹⁹

5. Hannah Lewis — B. about 1653, Farmington, Connecticut;²⁰ D. 24 Feb 1725, Hadley, Massachusetts;²⁰ M. (1) Samuel Crow (1649-1676), 17 May 1671, Hadley, Massachusetts;²¹ (2) Daniel Marsh (1653-1725), 5 Nov 1676, Hadley, Massachusetts²²

6. William Lewis — B. about Mar 1657, Farmington, Connecticut;¹ D. about 1737, Farmington, Connecticut;¹ M. Phebe Moore (1669-1725)¹

7. Felix Lewis — B. 12 Dec 1658, Farmington, Connecticut;¹ D. after 1738, (probably) Hadley, Massachusetts;¹ M. Thomas Selden (1655-1734), before 16 Jun 1675, Hadley, Massachusetts²³

8. Ebenezer Lewis — B. 1660, Farmington, Connecticut;²⁴ D. 22 Jan 1709, Wallingford, Connecticut;²⁴ M. Elizabeth Merriman (1669-1750), 2 Dec 1685, Wallingford, Connecticut²⁵

9. John Lewis — B. 15 May 1665, Farmington, Connecticut;¹ D. Oct 1694¹

10. James Lewis — B. 10 Jul 1667, Farmington, Connecticut;²⁶ D. after 1728, (probably) Jamaica, Long Island, New York;¹ M. Mary Meekins (1670-?), about 1694, Farmington, Connecticut¹

Children by Mary Cheever:
1. Elizabeth Lewis — B. 20 Oct 1672, Farmington, Connecticut;²⁷ D. 1674, Farmington, Connecticut¹

2. Ezekiel Lewis — B. 7 Nov 1674, Farmington, Connecticut;²⁸ D. 14 Aug 1755, Boston, Massachusetts;¹ M. (1) Mary Braden (1669-1703), 18 Mar 1702, Boston, Massachusetts;²⁹ (2) Abigail Kilcup (~1678-?), 11 Oct 1704, Boston, Massachusetts³⁰

3. Nathaniel Lewis – B. 1 Oct 1676, Farmington, Connecticut;³¹ D. 24 Feb 1752, Farmington, Connecticut;³² M. (1) Abigail Ashley (1681-1727), 25 Nov 1699, Westfield, Massachusetts;³³ (2) Thankful Pomeroy (1679-1773), 4 Jul 1726, Northampton, Massachusetts³⁴

4. Abigail Lewis — B. 19 Sep 1678, Farmington, Connecticut;³⁵ D. 24 Jan 1707, Farmington, Connecticut;¹ M. William Wadsworth (~1671-1751), 10 Dec 1696, Farmington, Connecticut³⁶

5. Joseph Lewis — B. 15 Mar 1679, Farmington, Connecticut;³⁷ D. about 1680, Farmington, Connecticut¹

6. Daniel Lewis — B. 16 Jul 1681, Farmington, Connecticut;⁵ D. 16 Mar 1682, Farmington, Connecticut¹

Sources:
1    The Great Migration Begins, Robert Charles Anderson, 1995, p. 1186
2    Marriage record of William Lewis and Mary Cheever, Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850, FamilySearch.org
3    Death record of William Lewis, C., V. R., P. to 1850
4    Book VXIII of the Genealogy of the Lewis Family, William Richard Cutter, 1891, pp. 7-8
5    Birth record of Daniel Lewis, Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, FamilySearch.org
6    WikiTree listing of William Lewis III
7    Probate file of William Lewis, Connecticut Probate Records, 1649-1932, FamilySearch.org
8    Marriage record of Thomas Bull and Mary (Cheever) Lewis, U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Ancestry.com
9    Death record of Mary Bull, Connecticut, U.S., Town Death Records, pre-1870, (Barbour Collection), Ancestry .com
10  FamousKin.com listing of William Lewis
11  “Elm Tree Inn (1655),” Historic Buildings of Connecticut (website)
12  Birth record of Mary Lewis, C., B. & C.
13  Find-a-Grave listing of Mary (Lewis) Judd
14  Birth record of Philip Lewis, C., B. & C.
15  Find-a-Grave listing of Philip Lewis
16  WikiTree listing of Philip Lewis
17  Find-a-Grave listing of Samuel Lewis
18  WikiTree listing of Samuel Lewis
19  Find-a-Grave listing of Sarah (Lewis) Boltwood
20  Find-a-Grave listing of Hannah (Lewis) Marsh
21  Marriage record of Samuel Crow and Hannah Lewis, Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, FamilySearch.org
22  Marriage record of Daniel Marsh and Hannah Crow, M., S. V. R.
23  Birth record of John Selden, Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, FamilySearch.org
24  WikiTree listing of Ebenezer Lewis
25  Marriage record of Ebenezer Lewis and Elizabeth Merriman, C., V. R., P. to 1850
26  Birth record of James Lewis, C., V. R., P. to 1850
27  Birth record of Elizabeth Lewis, C., B. & C.
28  Birth record of Ezekial Lewis, C., B. & C.
29  Marriage record of Ezekial Lewis and Mary Braden, M., S. V. R.
30  Marriage record of Ezekial Lewis and Abigail Kilcup, M., S. V. R.
31  Birth record of Nathaniel Lewis, C., B. & C.
32  Death record of Nathaniel Lewis, Connecticut, Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934, FamilySearch.org
33  Marriage record of Nathaniel Lewis and Abigail Ashley, C., V. R., P. to 1850
34  Marriage record of Nathaniel Lewis and Thankful Lyman, C., V. R., P. to 1850
35  Birth record of Abigail Lewis, C., B. & C.
36  Marriage record of William Wadsworth and Abigail Lewis, C., V. R., P. to 1850
37  Birth record of Joseph Lewis, C., B. & C.

Mixed-Race Man of Early Indiana — François Turpin

B. before 1751 in Kaskaskia, New France¹
M. before 20 Oct 1777 in (probably) Post Vincennes, Illinois Territory²
Wife: Marie-Josephe Levron dit Metayer
D. 1 Oct 1809 in Vincennes, Indiana Territory³

During the 18th century, France laid claim to vast parts of North America, and adventurous men left Canada to make money in the fur trade. Some would produce children with indigenous women, and the outposts where they lived became populated with their bi-racial descendants. One of them was François Turpin.

François had a somewhat unusual background. He was born in about 1750 in Kaskaskia, a trading post in the Illinois country, to Joseph Turpin and Hypolite Chauvin de La Freniere.¹ His paternal grandfather had been a fur trader based in Montreal who sometimes worked outside of the law as a coureur de bois, and several of his children wound up living at Kaskaskia. François’ other grandfather had also come from Montreal, but he became an early colonial settler on the Gulf Coast; it was on a trade expedition to Mexico that he acquired a female indigenous slave who would become François’ grandmother.

François was very young when his father died, and he may have even been born posthumously. His mother remarried to Joseph de LaMirande on March 19, 1750, and in some records “LaMirande” was added to François’ name.⁴ During the mid-1750s, the family lived in Opelousas, Louisiana, where François’ mother died in about 1758 and his step-father remarried.⁵

The places François lived.

How did François end up moving back near where he was born? Without any records, we may never establish a clear timeline of when he lived where, but an older sister who married in 1751 stayed in Kaskaskia into the 1770s,⁵ and this connection may have drawn François back. Interestingly, the older sister eventually relocated to Louisiana with her third husband, leaving only François in the north.

At some point, François settled in Post Vincennes, which was then under British control. The earliest record of him there was the baptism of his oldest child, François-Joseph, on October 20, 1777.² François’ wife was Marie-Josephe Levron dit Metayer, but their marriage is missing from church records, possibly because no priest was assigned to the town. They went on to have eight or ten more children, with the youngest born in 1798.⁶ At least four of the children died as infants or young children.

François had his part-indigenous heritage in common with many of the people living in Vincennes. A culture developed from a mixture of French and Native American customs, which can accurately be labeled as Creole. The people lived in a tight community of log cabins, painted white and situated on narrow streets. Outsiders sometimes viewed the people of Vincennes as being lazy, but others described that “they developed a deep appreciation of their own happy lot and an attitude toward outside interests that amounted in many cases to indifference, as they leisurely hunted, fished, traded with the [local tribes], raised a few vegetables, a little corn, and tended their small herds of cattle.”⁷

Most remarkable about the Creole people of Vincennes is what they did during the American Revolution. While the French who lived in Canada largely supported the British, those who lived at Vincennes eagerly signed an Oath of Allegiance to the American cause. On July 20, 1778, a visiting priest named Father Pierre Gibault encouraged all the men in town to sign or put their “X” on the oath. François was one of the men who signed his name.⁸ The following February, George Rogers Clark led a successful attack on the British holding Fort Vincennes, giving the Americans a strategic foothold in the West. 

François signed his name on the Oath of Allegiance in Vincennes.

After the war, many of the French settlers participated in the transition of Vincennes into an American town. François served on the Northwest Territory Court of General Quarter Sessions grand jury in August 1798.⁹ In 1799, François was named in a lawsuit involving a debt owed by his father-in-law, Joseph Levron dit Metayer, to a man named André Lacoste¹⁰ (he had married Joseph’s widow in 1773). The suit was filed 28 years after Joseph Levron had died. François never showed up at court, and the ruling was that he and his wife, along with a few other heirs, were to pay $1,450, a very large sum of money. It’s not known if anyone actually paid.

François died on October 1, 1809,³ and was buried in the St. Francis-Xavier church cemetery in Vincennes. The following year, he was posthumously involved in a dispute of land ownership in Kaskaskia. The plot of about 12 acres had originally belonged to François’ father Joseph Turpin, and Francois had deeded it to a man named Pierre Menard in 1801. But in 1803, the children of François’ sister had deeded the same land to another man, John Edgar, claiming that François was never the legal heir because he was really the son of his mother’s second husband. The case became one of trying to prove who fathered François: Joseph Turpin or Joseph de LaMirande. Some witnesses swore François was born over a year after Joseph Turpin had died, and others said that he was born much earlier. The ruling was that François was indeed Joseph Turpin’s son and Pierre Menard could claim ownership of the land.¹¹

Debunking the incorrect identity of François’ wife
Some researchers have said that François was married to a woman named “Françoise Mallet.”¹¹ This was a wrong assumption — in fact, no one by that name seems to have existed in Vincennes. The faulty information arose from a transcription of a baptism at St. Francis Xavier church during the 1790s. It has François as the father of the child, but the mother was identified as “Françoise Mallet.” Because François has the name “LaMirande,” some concluded there were two François Turpins, and only this one was the son of Joseph Turpin and Hypolite Chauvin.

None of the other records for François Turpin’s children include the name “LaMirande," but each one gives Marie-Josephe Levron as the mother. Also, the name “Françoise Mallet” shows up in no other records in Vincennes. Therefore it seems likely that there was a mistake in the transcription for the record (or in the original record) that names Françoise Mallet. 

Children:
1. François Joseph Turpin – B. 20 Oct 1777, Poste Vincennes, Illinois Country;² M. Josephine Guelle, 14 Jul 1805, Vincennes, Indiana Territory¹²

2. Antoine Turpin – B. 13 Jan 1779, Vincennes, Virginia Territory¹³

3. Jean-Baptiste Turpin — B. 30 May 1782, Vincennes, Virginia Territory;¹⁴ D. 18 Aug 1786, Vincennes, Virginia Territory¹⁴

4. Marie-Josephe Turpin — B. 15 Oct 1784, Vincennes, Virginia Territory;¹⁵ D. 7 Mar 1786, Vincennes, Virginia Territory¹⁵

5. Raphael Turpin – B. 8 Sep 1786, Vincennes, Virginia Territory¹⁶

6. Louis Turpin — B. 13 Mar 1789, Vincennes, Northwest Territory;¹⁷ D. 8 Aug 1845, Indiana;¹⁸ M. Celeste Joyeuse, 2 May 1830, Vincennes, Indiana¹⁷

7. Rosalie Turpin — B. Mar 1791, Vincennes, Northwest Territory;¹⁹ M. Charles Grimard (1776-?), 19 Dec 1809, Vincennes, Indiana Territory²⁰

8. Ursule Turpin — B. 3 Feb 1796, Vincennes, Northwest Territory;²¹ D. 8 Aug 1797, Vincennes, Northwest Territory²²

9. Elizabeth Turpin — B. 12 Nov 1798, Vincennes, Northwest Territory;⁶ D. (possibly) 1835, Vincennes, Indiana;²³ M. François Ravellette (1791-1857), before 4 Oct 1817, (probably) Vincennes, Indiana²⁴

Sources:
1    There is no direct source connecting François to his parents, and the birth year is a rough estimate. But a land claim from Kaskaskia dated 24 Feb 1810 gave a witness’ testimony that he was the son of Joseph Turpin (see footnote 12).
2    Birth record of François Joseph Turpin (François Turpin’s oldest child), Indiana, U.S., Select Marriages Index, 1748-1993, Ancestry.com
3    Death record of François Turpin, Indiana Deaths and Burials, 1750-1993, FamilySearch.org
4    The Family of Nicolas Chauvin de La Freniere (website), Sadie Greening Sparks, 18 Oct 2000 
5    Marriage contract of Joseph LaMirande and Catherine Frédèric, Louisiana Historical Center, Louisiana State Museum
6    Baptismal record of Elizabeth Turpin, Indiana, Births and Christenings, 1773-1933, FamilySearch.org
7    Creole (French) Pioneers at Old Post Vincennes, 1930s, Wabash Valley Visions & Voices Memory Project, visions.indstate.edu  
8    “The Oath of Vincennes,” The American Catholic Historical Researches, Vol. 7, 1911, p. 400
9    Venire Grand Jurors, Indiana Memory Hosted Digital Collections 
10  Andre Lacoste dit Languedoc vs. François Turpin and others, Indiana Memory Hosted Digital Collections  
11  The Family of Joseph Turpin, Sadie Greening Sparks, 18 Oct 2000, sadiesparks.com
12  Marriage record of François Joseph Turpin and Josephine Guelle, I., U.S., S.M.I.
13  Baptismal record of Antoine Turpin, I.B.& C.
14  Baptismal record of Jean-Baptiste Turpin, I.B.& C.
15  Baptismal record of Marie Joseph Turpin, I.B.& C.
16  Baptismal record of Raphael Turpin, I.B.& C.
17  Marriage record of Louis Turpin and Celeste Cartier, Indiana, Marriage Certificates, 1960-2012, Ancestry.com
18  Burial record of Louis Turpin, I.D.& B.
19  Baptismal record of RosalieTurpin, I.B.& C.
20  Marriage record of Charles Grimard and Rosalie Turpin, I., U.S., S.M.I.
21  Baptismal record of Ursule Turpin, I.B.& C.
22  Burial record of Ursule Turpin, I.D.& B.
23  “Ravellettes from Indiana Roys, Griffith, etc.,” Genealogy.com 
24  Baptismal record of Pierre Ravalette (Elizabeth’s child), I.B.& C.