From "Genealogy of Drouillard Families of St. Clair Co., Mich"             St. Clair continued, page 23-26
Compiled by Elizabeth L. (Warner) Droulard
Algonac, Michigan, 1979
(Available  at Mt. Clemens Public Library, 150 Cass Ave, Mt. Clemens, MI)
     also with Sierens, Alphonse J. The Drouillard family.  (Genealogy-Reference).
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St.Clair Co: Page 11. DROUILLARD history
  The first official record we have of our Drouillard line is the marriage of Jean Drouillard and Jeanne Chevreau, August 30, 1666 at Marennes, diocese of Saintes, Saintonge, France.  Marennes is on the seacoast in Southern France near the port of Bordeaux.  Witnesses at the marriage were Pierre Mercier, Jean Drouillard, Etienne Drouillard and Michel Baudet.  Their son, Simon was baptised there November 11, 1668.
    Simon (1) came to new France as a soldier with Lestringant de Saint-Martin and was in the campaign against the Iroquois below Montreal.  He married at Quebec November 25, 1698, Margaret Ferret, the eleventh of thirteen children of Peter  Ferret and Mary Lasnon.  Simon and Margaret had one child born at Repentigny, Province of Quebec.  Three more children were baptised at St. Francis, Isle Orleans.  The family left their farm around 1707 and moved to Quebec City where two more children were born.  Margaret died in 1711 at the age of thirty.  Simon was listed as a "soldat de le Mothe" (with Cadillac).  He was a sublieutenant at the time of his second marriage at Levis to Ann Cadoret age 19, the daughter of George Cadoret and Barbara Boucher.  Simon and Ann had eleven children but the years from 1718 to 1736 held much sadness for them.  All of the children died between the ages of one and nine years with the exception of Marie Catherine who married Charles Carrier.  When Simon came to Detroit is unknown.  his last child was baptised at Quebec City May 28, 1733, six months before his death.  Simon and several others were ambushed by Indians about three miles east of Fort Pontchartrain, a league west of the river.  He was buried at Detroit October 21, 1733.  Ann was enumerated in the 1744 census of Quebec City with her daughter Catherine.  She died at Quebec March 2, 1754.
    John Baptiste (2), born 1707, son of Simon and his first wife, Margaret, was 26 when he was married at Lachine to Elizabeth Rapin, born 1712, daughter of John Baptiste Rapin and Catherine Janson dit Lapalme.  Lachine was a settlement just below Montreal at Lake St. Louis.  John Baptiste was in the military service under Marin who was a French officer that was involved in Wisconsin and Illinois.  John and his family, during this period, moved from one army post (or fort) to another, and this fact alone, may explain the reason why some of the birthplaces of his children are unknown.  After he left the army, during peacetime around 1744, he engaged in managing canoe trains from Montreal to Detroit.  The route of these canoe trains is really an amazing feat!  To avoid the Iroquois, the canoes started from Montreal up the Ottawa River to Lake Nipissing then down the French River to Georgian Bay.  Entering Lake Huron they drifted past Cape Hurd following the coast line of Lake Huron down to Port Huron.  They were in large groups of 100 or more.  It was the only way Detroit received the supplies and the mail.
   In 1749 a determined effort was made to increase the population of Detroit.  The following proclamation from Governor Galissonniere was read in every parish along the St. Lawrence.  "Every man who will go to settle in Detroit shall receive gratuitously, one spade, one axe, one ploughshare, one large and one small wagon.  We will make an advance of other tools to be paid for in two years only.  He will be given a Cow, of which he shall return the increase, also a Sow.  Seed will be advanced the first year, to be returned at the third harvest.  The women and children will be supported one year...."
(Pare, George: The Catholic Church of Detroit, 1701-1888, p.178-179)
    Jean Baptiste Drouillard--was sent from Montreal and arrived at Detroit on July 16, 1749, with his wife, five boys and three girls to take up the land that has been granted to him....
    Many of the entries state that land is granted on the "south side" (Canadian).  All through the French period there was no distinction made between what we know as the American and Canadian side of the river.  It was all Detroit.....
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Story here on page 18 about Pierre Drouillard, b. 1746,
who signed as witness and translator for Indian Treaties.
In addition to the Indian wife, George Drouillard's mother,
Pierre had a 2nd wife "Angelique Descamps"
and a 3rd wife, Susan Miller.
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"Pierre fell into disfavour with the British and in 1786 he went to
Kenton's Station.
Kenton said he "became unfortunate and came and lived with me 14 years."

His family came and lived for a time but Angelica returned to
Detroit and took the children with her.
With Simon's help Pierre was taken into the United States Service by
Congress.
He negotiated with the Indians near Sandusky."
"Pierre lived with Susan Miller, a Kentuckian and daughter of
Hannah and John Miller.
They had two daughters, Drusilla and Hannah and a son born at Kenton's
Station that he named Simon Kenton Drouillard, after his friend.
The youngest of their four children, Joseph, was born September 1, 1796
at Wellsburg, Va.
 "When Joseph was four years old his family moved and settled on the
Ohio side of the river 25 miles below Gallipolis where Millersport now
stands, deriving its name from Miller (his grandfather).
(Evans, Nelson W.: History of Scioto County, Ohio, p. 1262).
Pierre evidently returned to Detroit about this time.  He was buried
there April 16, 1803.
His wife, Angelica married at Assumption, Sept. 17, 1803, Louis Peltier,
son of John Baptise Peltier
and Mary Joseph Corvets."
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Nelson Drouillard, b 1868 d. 1911 Toledo OH (f: Robert m. Ellen LaPoint)
Denissen's page 382: (Robert 6,Dominic5,Nicolas4,John Baptist3, John2,Simon1)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nancyelder/cem/NelsonDCert1868-1911.jpg

George Drouillard's Promissory Note, from Skarten's book:
GeorgeDSig.htm