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BOISSEAU Virginia Sara Francoise

Female 1837 - Yes, date unknown


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  1. 1.  BOISSEAU Virginia Sara Francoise was born in Nov 1837 in Prince George County, VA (daughter of BOISSEAU Joseph Holmes and SIMMONS Rebecca Eldridge Heath); and died.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  BOISSEAU Joseph Holmes was born on 15 Mar 1795 in Prince George County, VA; was christened on 3 Apr 1795 in Prince George County, VA (son of BOISSEAU Joseph Holmes De Saussure and MARIE ANNE WESTMANIA GABERG (SHUROUSKII) PATTIN Marie Anne Westmania); died on 12 Jan 1839 in Prince George County, VA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Census: 1810, Dinwiddie County, VA
    • Military: 1812, Norfolk, VA; War of 1812
    • Census: 1820, Prince George County, VA
    • Census: 1830, Dinwiddie County, VA

    Notes:

    Christened:
    Baptised on Good Friday

    Census:
    Joseph Boisseau
    United States Census, 1810
    Name:      Joseph Boisseau
    Event Place:      Dinwiddie, Dinwiddie, Virginia
    Page Number:      75
    Line Number:      548
    Affiliate Publication Number: M252 , Affiliate Film Number: 67 , GS Film number: 0181427 , Digital Folder Number: 004433172 , Image Number: 00086

    Military:
    Served the last 8 months in the war.
    Boisseau Family Bible

    Census:
    Joseph Boisseau
    United States Census, 1820
    Name:      Joseph Boisseau
    Event Place:      Not Stated, Prince George, Virginia
    Page Number:      118
    Affiliate Publication Number: M33 , Affiliate Film Number: 135 , GS Film number: 0193694 , Digital Folder Number: 004185994 , Image Number: 00056

    Census:
    Joseph W Boisseau
    United States Census, 1830
    Name:      Joseph W Boisseau
    Event Place:      Dinwiddie, Dinwiddie, Virginia
    Page Number:      403
    Affiliate Publication Number: M19 , Affiliate Film Number: 196 , GS Film number: 0029675 , Digital Folder Number: 004411237 , Image Number: 00804

    Joseph married SIMMONS Rebecca Eldridge Heath on 8 Dec 1819 in Prince George County, VA. Rebecca (daughter of SIMMONS Joshua Thurston and BAIRD Sarah Eldridge Heath) was born on 8 Dec 1797; was christened in 1798; died on 29 Jan 1870 in Petersburg, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  SIMMONS Rebecca Eldridge Heath was born on 8 Dec 1797; was christened in 1798 (daughter of SIMMONS Joshua Thurston and BAIRD Sarah Eldridge Heath); died on 29 Jan 1870 in Petersburg, VA.

    Notes:

    Died:
    Died at the home of her son-in-law, George F. Doggett

    Notes:

    Married:
    Married by Rev William Snead, who was later Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia

    Subject: Re: [HARRISON] Rev. William Harrison of Petersburg VA
    Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 02:25:22 EDT

    Thought this might interest you:

    Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia.
    Article XL.
    At the death of Mr. Robertson in 1740, an agreement was made with a Rev. Mr.
    Hartwell to become the minister; but, misunderstandings taking place as to
    the terms, it was never carried into execution. Mr. Robert Ferguson was then
    chosen, and continued to be the minister for ten years,--until 1750. He was
    succeeded by the Rev. Eleazer Robertson, who continued two years, and was
    succeeded by the Rev. Thomas Wilkinson, who resigned in 1762, and was succeeded by
    the Rev. William Harrison, who resigned in 1780, though continuing to reside
    in Petersburg until his death in 1814, being eighty-four years of age. The
    parish being advertised as vacant, the Rev. Mr. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr.
    Cameron were candidates in 1784. The latter was chosen, and ministered in the
    parish until 1793, when he resigned. Of him I shall speak in another place. In
    the following year the Rev. Andrew Syme was elected, and continued until his
    resignation in 1839,--a period of forty-five years. He continued to reside in
    Petersburg until his death, esteemed and beloved, by all who knew him, as "an
    Israelite in whom there was no guile." For further particulars of him the
    reader is referred to my article on South Farnham parish, Essex county, from
    which he removed to Bristol parish, and to the Rev. Mr. Slaughter's full and
    very interesting pamphlet on Bristol parish. For some years previous to his
    resignation of the parish, Mr. Syme, on account of increasing infirmities, had
    called for an assistant, and obtained the services of the Rev. Hobart Bartlett,
    from New York, whose fine talents, popular preaching, and agreeable manners
    contributed much to the increase of the congregation. In the year 1839 I was
    induced, under peculiar circumstances, to take the temporary charge of the
    congregation, but soon accomplished the object had in view, and procured for
    the congregation the services of the Rev. Mr. Cobbs, now Bishop of Alabama. His
    ministry, during the few years of its continuance, was very prosperous in
    all respects. During that period a general awakening of the souls of the people
    of Petersburg took place, and the ministers of all denominations laboured
    faithfully in prayer, and sermons, and exhortations, private and public.
    Instead of discouraging such extraordinary efforts for so extraordinary an
    outpouring of the Spirit of God as was granted, Mr. Cobbs came behind none, and went
    beyond some, in the frequency and continuance of his religious exercises. The
    result was, that no congregation was more highly blest in the results
    thereof. I laid my hands on the heads of ninety-three at that time, who, for the
    last three months, had been receiving the daily instructions of their minister,
    either public or private, and of such other ministers as he was able to
    bring to his help. During Mr. Cobbs's ministry the ladies of the Wilmer
    Association--who had for so many years been the most active of all in supporting
    beneficiaries at our Seminary, sending at times to the amount of five and six
    hundred dollars to the treasury--began to divert their funds from this to the
    promotion of missionary labours in the town of Petersburg. The result has been
    the establishment of the prosperous church under the care of the Rev. Mr.
    Gibson. In the year 1843 the Rev. Mr. Slaughter accepted a call to this parish,
    after the resignation of the Rev. Mr. Cobbs. His services were so acceptable
    to the people, that at the end of the six months which he had proposed to
    himself as a trial, he agreed to continue, nor did he cease to labour there until
    his health so failed as to make it improper to add further efforts. He was
    succeeded by the Rev. Horace Stringfellow, who continued until the year 1854.
    His place has been supplied during the present year (1856) by the Rev. Mr.
    Platt, from Alabama.
    ----------------------
    Colonial churches in the original colony of Virginia : a series of sketches
    Page 173
    On November 22d, 1762, the Rev. Thomas Wilkerson resigned the parish. The
    same day he was succeeded by Rev. William Harrison The first twelve years or
    so of Mr. Harrison's incumbency seem to have been uneventful enough; then came
    the troublous times of the war with England. Under date of October 19th,
    1775, occurs the following entry in the vestry book:

    Whereas, The callamitous State of the Country renders it Doubtfull (page
    174) whether a Sufficient Sum Can be Collected from the people, for payment of
    the Parochial Debt, in Money. And by the Restrained Laid on Exports, by
    publick (sic) Consent, The Parishioners are Precluded of the Election which the
    Law Had Giveing (sic) them, in paying their Due's in Tobo or Money. It is
    Determined by Vestry That the Ministers Salary Shall be Estimated at One Hundred
    And Forty four Pound's, to be Collected as Nearly as Possible in Money Unless
    the prohibition on Exports Should be Removed, And in that Case the People to
    be at Liberty to pay in Tobo at Eighteen Shillings Per Hundred, In Lieu of
    Money, According to there (sic) Own Choice. And it's further to be Understood
    that the Revd Mr. Harrison shall wait for the Ballance, (sic) After the
    Collection is made, three Years without Interest, unless it should Please HEAVEN
    to Put an End before that time, To the Troubles of our Country, And then it
    is understood that Encumbered [t's] Salary shall be Demandable in the usual
    and 'accustomed way.'"

    Poor Mr. Harrison! One is hardly surprised at finding the following entered
    on the minutes of the vestry meeting held February 4, 1780: "This day of
    the Late Rector, the Revd. Mr. Harrison, wrote in his Resignation of his Cure
    of this Parish, which is accepted."
    ------------------
    From the family burying ground at "Porter Hill," corner of Harrison and
    Early Streets, Petersburg, Va.


    Sacred
    to the memory
    of the
    REV'D WILLIAM HARRISON
    who departed this life
    20th of November 1814
    Aged 84 Years.
    In tender regard of whom
    His Widow
    hath caused this monument to be erected.
    Here let him rest in peace
    And let us try to live like him
    That we like him may die.

    SACRED
    to the memory
    of
    Mrs. Ann Harrison.
    who departed this life
    July the 2nd 1829
    Aged 60 Years.
    Her Children
    from a sense of duty & affection
    have caused this monument
    to be erected
    in the memory of
    their tender Parent.
    If worth departed claims the heartfelt tear,
    Then stop -- and let it stream profusely here.
    ---------------
    REVEREND JOHN CAMERON'S REGISTERS
    Register of Marriages
    Bristol Parish, 1784-1793,
    1788 Dec .. William HARRISON & Ann MORISON Pr. George 2 8 "

    _MK Harrison_ ()

    _Ancestry.com _
    ()

    _Barrow County, GA_ ()

    Children:
    1. 1. BOISSEAU Virginia Sara Francoise was born in Nov 1837 in Prince George County, VA; and died.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  BOISSEAU Joseph Holmes De Saussure was born on 16 Apr 1775 (son of BOISSEAU Holmes DeSaussure Ehyrr and ROBERDEAU Judith E.); died on 7 Dec 1800 in Prince George County, VA.

    Notes:

    Boisseau Family
    Tradition says that the forefathers of the Virginia family being Huguenots came down to Montauban, France, to assist in carrying on the great Protestant University there. They continued their connection with the University till the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (March 5, 1685) when several of them fled to England. After a sojourn there of several years two brothers, Joseph Ehyrr Boisseau and James Boisseau, whose father, uncle and brother had been killed in the persecutions, sailed for Virginia in the same fleet, but in different vessels. A storm arose, the fleet was scattered and they lost sight of one another. Each had the idea that the other had perished, and for two generations the two families knew naught of one another. James Boisseau was accepted as minister in England, and there is a receipt signed by him, in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, dated 11 November 1689, for money paid to him as an emigrant minister to the colonies. This date doubtless gives about the time of the two brothers leaving England.
    Joseph Ehyrr Boisseau, after the storm reached Charleston [South Carolina] with the crew, all in an almost dying condition, and then went to the Island of St. Christopher, where he established himself as a sugar planter. He married in England Mathilde H.S. De Saussure of Swiss Parentage. (H = Huelrich)
    Children:
    (1) De Saussure Ehyrr Boisseau(2) Five Daughters (names unknown)
    Col. De Saussure Ehyrr Boisseau born on St. Christopher's Island, in the West Indies, married about 1720 Caroline Roche (Roache)
    Children:
    (1) Holmes De Saussure Boisseau---was educated at the University of Geneva---married Judith E. Roberdeau, a daughter of General Daniel Roberdeau, who was born on the Island of St. Christopher in 1727; moved to Philadelphia---[General Daniel Roberdeau] moved to Philadelphia, where he engaged in the lumber business; was member of the State Assembly in 1756-1760; manager of the Pennsylvania Hospital 1756-1758, and member of the Council of Safety 1776-1776; first Brigadier General of Pennsylvania troops 1776-1777, member of the Continental Congress and served from 1777-1779; moved to Alexanderia in 1785 and thence to Winchester, Virginia, where he died June 5, 1795.
    The residence of the married pair was on the Island of St. Christopher, but later they went to South Carolina where twins were born on Good Friday, 1775, and the mother Judith E. Roberdeau died soon after, leaving one child surviving.
    Child with Judith : Joseph Holmes De Saussure Boisseau
    [Holmes De Saussure Boisseau] who had doubtless come to know of his kins people in Prince George County, Virginia , came to Virginia in 1778, where he Married secondly Elizabeth Jordan, daughter of John Jordan. He returned with [Elizabeth Jordan] to the Island of St. Christopher, where he died in 1824. his wife Elizabeth Jordan died in france leaving two children..
    Children with Elizabeth:
    *Jane Jordan Boisseau, who married Thomas Eldridge*Holmes John Alexander Boisseau, who married Mary Ann Glover
    (John Jordan who had a brother Arthur, was probably a descendant of Arthur Jordan of Surry County, Virginia, brother of Col. George Jordan, Attorney General of Virginia (1670-1678)---see tyler's Quarterly VII, p. 48)
    (2) James Robert Boisseau, who married on St. Christopher's Island Jean Francois De Bois June 8, 1748.
    Children:
    (1) Pierre Francois De Bois--joined the American Army during the American Revolution, and was made Brevet Major October 7 1776.---He behaved with utmost gallantry and lost an arm in the battle of "the Woods."---resigned April 9, 1779 and returned to France
    (2) Other Daughters (names unknown)
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------
    Joseph Holmes De Saussure Boisseau married in France Marie Anne Westmania Gaberg (Shurouskii) Pattin, daughter of Lt. Josselin and Marie Anne W.G. Pattin, in an apartment of the Catholic Cathedral, at Marseilles France on June 15, 1794. They soon came to Prince George County, Virginia, where their father had lands. She was of a notable family of singers and on another line of distinguished naval men. Mr Boisseau died in Prince George County December 7, 1800, leaving three children of whom Joseph married Rebecca E. Heath Simmons December 8, 1819.

    Died:
    Mr Boisseau died in Prince George County December 7, 1800, leaving three children one of whom ( Joseph Holmes Boissea), Joseph married Rebecca E. Heath Simmons December 8, 1819.

    Joseph married MARIE ANNE WESTMANIA GABERG (SHUROUSKII) PATTIN Marie Anne Westmania on 15 Jun 1794 in Marseilles, France. Marie and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  MARIE ANNE WESTMANIA GABERG (SHUROUSKII) PATTIN Marie Anne Westmania and died.

    Notes:

    Married:
    in an apartment of the Catholic Cathedral

    Children:
    1. 2. BOISSEAU Joseph Holmes was born on 15 Mar 1795 in Prince George County, VA; was christened on 3 Apr 1795 in Prince George County, VA; died on 12 Jan 1839 in Prince George County, VA.

  3. 6.  SIMMONS Joshua Thurston (son of SIMMONS Randolph ( Joshua "Big" Ebenezer)" and THRUSTIN Sarah Mynn (Frances)); died on by Feb 1813 in Prince George County, VA; was buried in Prince George County, VA.

    Notes:

    owned land where the Prine George Golf Course is now

    PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES \endash Kirkham Cemetery

                   ----¤¤¤----

    Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


    LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Kirkham graveyard:
    1937 Oct. 4
    Research made by Jennie S. Harrison

    Cemetery Location: 1.2 miles north of Disputanta, Virginia, on Route #618;
    thence .8 mile northwest on Route #629; thence .1 mile south
    of Route #629.
    Prince George Co., Virginia


    DATE:

    About 1800.

    OWNERS:

    Mrs. Robert E. Scales. [1937]

    DESCRIPTION:

    This graveyard is located about fifty yards east of the residence, in the corner
    of an open field. The plot is about sixty feet square, fenced in and neatly
    kept. There is a lone cedar tree and one tombstone marking two graves.

    HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

    Inscription:

    Martha Stainback
    wife of William Kirkham
    Born in Prince George Co., Va. (this place) April 2, 1828
    Died in Clarksville, Va. Nov. 28, 1901
    MOTHER
    and
    William Kirkham
    Born in Petersburg, Va. Dec. 4, 1817
    Died in Petersburg, Va. July 13, 1893
    FATHER


    Others known to be buried in this graveyard are:

    Joshua Simmons (about 1800) and his daughters I & II
    I. Ann Simmons Harrison and her husband
    William Thomas Harrison, and his cousin
    James William Harrison

    II. Martha Simmons Stainback and her husband
    Peter Stainback, and their son
    "Doll" Stainback.
    (Martha S. & Peter Stainback are parents of the Martha Stainback to whom
    there is a marker).



    SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

    Informant: Miss Susie Figg, Prince George, Virginia

    Tombstone Inscriptions

    Visit by worker.

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    Joshua married BAIRD Sarah Eldridge Heath on 10 Dec 1796 in Prince George County, VA. Sarah (daughter of BAIRD Thomas Edwin and HEATH Rebecca Eldridge Bland) was born on 26 Oct 1775; died on 21 Sep 1842. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  BAIRD Sarah Eldridge Heath was born on 26 Oct 1775 (daughter of BAIRD Thomas Edwin and HEATH Rebecca Eldridge Bland); died on 21 Sep 1842.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Name: "Sallie"
    • Alt. Birth: 20 May 1779
    • Alt. Death: 21 Aug 1842

    Notes:

    Alt. Birth:
    Boisseau Family Bible

    Alt. Death:
    Boisseau Family Bible,

    Funeral Service performed Rev, Cobb, DD of St. Pauls

    Notes:

    Married:
    Married by Clergyman William Harrison of Bristol Parrish, Petersburg, VA.

    Subject: Re: [HARRISON] Rev. William Harrison of Petersburg VA
    Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 02:25:22 EDT

    Thought this might interest you:

    Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia.
    Article XL.
    At the death of Mr. Robertson in 1740, an agreement was made with a Rev. Mr. Hartwell to become the minister; but, misunderstandings taking place as to the terms, it was never carried into execution. Mr. Robert Ferguson was then chosen, and continued to be the minister for ten years,--until 1750. He was succeeded by the Rev. Eleazer Robertson, who continued two years, and was succeeded by the Rev. Thomas Wilkinson, who resigned in 1762, and was succeeded by the Rev. William Harrison, who resigned in 1780, though continuing to reside in Petersburg until his death in 1814, being eighty-four years of age. The parish being advertised as vacant, the Rev. Mr. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Cameron were candidates in 1784. The latter was chosen, and ministered in the parish until 1793, when he resigned. Of him I shall speak in another place. In the following year the Rev. Andrew Syme was elected, and continued until his resignation in 1839,--a period of forty-five years. He continued to reside in Petersburg until his death, esteemed and beloved, by all who knew him, as "an Israelite in whom there was no guile." For further particulars of him the reader is referred to my article on South Farnham parish, Essex county, from which he removed to Bristol parish, and to the Rev. Mr. Slaughter's full and very interesting pamphlet on Bristol parish. For some years previous to his resignation of the parish, Mr. Syme, on account of increasing infirmities, had called for an assistant, and obtained the services of the Rev. Hobart Bartlett, from New York, whose fine talents, popular preaching, and agreeable manners contributed much to the increase of the congregation. In the year 1839 I was induced, under peculiar circumstances, to take the temporary charge of the congregation, but soon accomplished the object had in view, and procured for the congregation the services of the Rev. Mr. Cobbs, now Bishop of Alabama. His ministry, during the few years of its continuance, was very prosperous in all respects. During that period a general awakening of the souls of the people
    of Petersburg took place, and the ministers of all denominations laboured faithfully in prayer, and sermons, and exhortations, private and public.
    Instead of discouraging such extraordinary efforts for so extraordinary an outpouring of the Spirit of God as was granted, Mr. Cobbs came behind none, and went beyond some, in the frequency and continuance of his religious exercises. The result was, that no congregation was more highly blest in the results thereof. I laid my hands on the heads of ninety-three at that time, who, for the last three months, had been receiving the daily instructions of their minister, either public or private, and of such other ministers as he was able to bring to his help. During Mr. Cobbs's ministry the ladies of the Wilmer Association--who had for so many years been the most active of all in supporting beneficiaries at our Seminary, sending at times to the amount of five and six hundred dollars to the treasury--began to divert their funds from this to the promotion of missionary labours in the town of Petersburg. The result has been the establishment of the prosperous church under the care of the Rev. Mr. Gibson. In the year 1843 the Rev. Mr. Slaughter accepted a call to this parish, after the resignation of the Rev. Mr. Cobbs. His services were so acceptable to the people, that at the end of the six months which he had proposed to himself as a trial, he agreed to continue, nor did he cease to labour there until his health so failed as to make it improper to add further efforts. He was succeeded by the Rev. Horace Stringfellow, who continued until the year 1854.
    His place has been supplied during the present year (1856) by the Rev. Mr.
    Platt, from Alabama.
    ----------------------
    Colonial churches in the original colony of Virginia : a series of sketches
    Page 173
    On November 22d, 1762, the Rev. Thomas Wilkerson resigned the parish. The same day he was succeeded by Rev. William Harrison The first twelve years or
    so of Mr. Harrison's incumbency seem to have been uneventful enough; then came the troublous times of the war with England. Under date of October 19th, 1775, occurs the following entry in the vestry book:

    Whereas, The callamitous State of the Country renders it Doubtfull (page 174) whether a Sufficient Sum Can be Collected from the people, for payment of the Parochial Debt, in Money. And by the Restrained Laid on Exports, by publick (sic) Consent, The Parishioners are Precluded of the Election which the Law Had Giveing (sic) them, in paying their Due's in Tobo or Money. It is Determined by Vestry That the Ministers Salary Shall be Estimated at One Hundred And Forty four Pound's, to be Collected as Nearly as Possible in Money Unless the prohibition on Exports Should be Removed, And in that Case the People to be at Liberty to pay in Tobo at Eighteen Shillings Per Hundred, In Lieu of Money, According to there (sic) Own Choice. And it's further to be Understood that the Revd Mr. Harrison shall wait for the Ballance, (sic) After the Collection is made, three Years without Interest, unless it should Please HEAVEN to Put an End before that time, To the Troubles of our Country, And then it is understood that Encumbered [t's] Salary shall be Demandable in the usual and 'accustomed way.'"

    Poor Mr. Harrison! One is hardly surprised at finding the following entered on the minutes of the vestry meeting held February 4, 1780: "This day of
    the Late Rector, the Revd. Mr. Harrison, wrote in his Resignation of his Cure of this Parish, which is accepted."
    ------------------
    From the family burying ground at "Porter Hill," corner of Harrison and Early Streets, Petersburg, Va.


    Sacred to the memory of the REV'D WILLIAM HARRISON who departed this life 20th of November 1814 Aged 84 Years. In tender regard of whom
    His Widow hath caused this monument to be erected. Here let him rest in peace And let us try to live like him
    That we like him may die.

    SACRED
    to the memory of Mrs. Ann Harrison.
    who departed this life
    July the 2nd 1829
    Aged 60 Years.
    Her Children
    from a sense of duty & affection
    have caused this monument
    to be erected
    in the memory of
    their tender Parent.
    If worth departed claims the heartfelt tear,
    Then stop -- and let it stream profusely here.
    ---------------
    REVEREND JOHN CAMERON'S REGISTERS
    Register of Marriages
    Bristol Parish, 1784-1793,
    1788 Dec .. William HARRISON & Ann MORISON Pr. George 2 8 "

    Children:
    1. SIMMONS John and died.
    2. SIMMONS Martha was born on 20 May 1792; died in bed 1870 in Petersburg, VA; was buried in Prince George County, VA.
    3. 3. SIMMONS Rebecca Eldridge Heath was born on 8 Dec 1797; was christened in 1798; died on 29 Jan 1870 in Petersburg, VA.
    4. SIMMONS Anne was born on 8 Apr 1799; was buried in Disputanta, Prince George, Virginia, USA.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  BOISSEAU Holmes DeSaussure Ehyrr (son of Col. BOISSEAU DeSaussure Ehyrr and (LA) ROACHE Caroline); and died.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: 1778, Prince George County, VA

    Notes:

    ---was educated at the University of Geneva---married Judith E. Roberdeau, a daughter of General Daniel Roberdeau, who was born on the Island of St. Christopher in 1727; moved to Philadelphia---[General Daniel Roberdeau moved to Philadelphia, where [Holmes] engaged in the lumber business; was member of the State Assembly in 1756-1760; manager of the Pennsylvania Hospital 1756-1758, and member of the Council of Safety 1776-1776; first Brigadier General of Pennsylvania troops 1776-1777, member of the Continental Congress and served from 1777-1779; moved to Alexanderia in 1785 and thence to Winchester, Virginia, where he died June 5, 1795.
    The residence of the married pair was on the Island of St. Christopher, but later they went to South Carolina where twins were born on Good Friday, 1775, [04/16/1775] and the mother Judith E. Roberdeau died soon after, leaving one child surviving.
    Child with Judith : Joseph Holmes De Saussure Boisseau
    [Holmes De Saussure Boisseau] who had doubtless come to know of his kins people in Prince George County, Virginia , came to Virginia in 1778, where he Married secondly Elizabeth Jordan, daughter of John Jordan. He returned with [Elizabeth Jordan] to the Island of St. Christopher, where he died in 1824. his wife Elizabeth Jordan died in france leaving two children..Children with Elizabeth:
    *Jane Jordan Boisseau, who married Thomas Eldridge
    *Holmes John Alexander Boisseau, who married Mary Ann Glover
    (John Jordan who had a brother Arthur, was probably a descendant of Arthur Jordan of Surry County, Virginia, brother of Col. George Jordan, Attorney General of Virginia (1670-1678)---see tyler's Quarterly VII, p. 48)

    Boisseau Family
    Tradition says that the forefathers of the Virginia family being Huguenots came down to Montauban, France, to assist in carrying on the great Protestant University there. They continued their connection with the University till the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (March 5, 1685) when several of them fled to England. After a sojourn there of several years two brothers, Joseph Ehyrr Boisseau and James Boisseau, whose father, uncle and brother had been killed in the persecutions, sailed for Virginia in the same fleet, but in different vessels. A storm arose, the fleet was scattered and they lost sight of one another. Each had the idea that the other had perished, and for two generations the two families knew naught of one another. James Boisseau was accepted as minister in England, and there is a receipt signed by him, in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, dated 11 November 1689, for money paid to him as an emigrant minister to the colonies. This date doubtless gives about the time of the two brothers leaving England.
    Joseph Ehyrr Boisseau, after the storm reached Charleston [South Carolina] with the crew, all in an almost dying condition, and then went to the Island of St. Christopher, where he established himself as a sugar planter. He married in England Mathilde H.S. De Saussure of Swiss Parentage. (H = Huelrich)
    Children:
    (1) De Saussure Ehyrr Boisseau(2) Five Daughters (names unknown)
    Col. De Saussure Ehyrr Boisseau born on St. Christopher's Island, in the West Indies, married about 1720 Caroline Roche (Roache)
    Children:
    (1) Holmes De Saussure Boisseau---was educated at the University of Geneva---married Judith E. Roberdeau, a daughter of General Daniel Roberdeau, who was born on the Island of St. Christopher in 1727; moved to Philadelphia---[General Daniel Roberdeau] moved to Philadelphia, where he engaged in the lumber business; was member of the State Assembly in 1756-1760; manager of the Pennsylvania Hospital 1756-1758, and member of the Council of Safety 1776-1776; first Brigadier General of Pennsylvania troops 1776-1777, member of the Continental Congress and served from 1777-1779; moved to Alexanderia in 1785 and thence to Winchester, Virginia, where he died June 5, 1795.
    The residence of the married pair was on the Island of St. Christopher, but later they went to South Carolina where twins were born on Good Friday, 1775, and the mother Judith E. Roberdeau died soon after, leaving one child surviving.
    Child with Judith : Joseph Holmes De Saussure Boisseau
    [Holmes De Saussure Boisseau] who had doubtless come to know of his kins people in Prince George County, Virginia , came to Virginia in 1778, where he Married secondly Elizabeth Jordan, daughter of John Jordan. He returned with [Elizabeth Jordan] to the Island of St. Christopher, where he died in 1824. his wife Elizabeth Jordan died in france leaving two children..
    Children with Elizabeth:
    *Jane Jordan Boisseau, who married Thomas Eldridge*Holmes John Alexander Boisseau, who married Mary Ann Glover
    (John Jordan who had a brother Arthur, was probably a descendant of Arthur Jordan of Surry County, Virginia, brother of Col. George Jordan, Attorney General of Virginia (1670-1678)---see tyler's Quarterly VII, p. 48)
    (2) James Robert Boisseau, who married on St. Christopher's Island Jean Francois De Bois June 8, 1748.
    Children:
    (1) Pierre Francois De Bois--joined the American Army during the American Revolution, and was made Brevet Major October 7 1776.---He behaved with utmost gallantry and lost an arm in the battle of "the Woods."---resigned April 9, 1779 and returned to France
    (2) Other Daughters (names unknown)
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    Joseph Holmes De Saussure Boisseau married in France Marie Anne Westmania Gaberg (Shurouskii) Pattin, daughter of Lt. Josselin and Marie Anne W.G. Pattin, in an apartment of the Catholic Cathedral, at Marseilles France on June 15, 1794. They soon came to Prince George County, Virginia, where their father had lands. She was of a notable family of singers and on another line of distinguished naval men. Mr Boisseau died in Prince George County December 7, 1800, leaving three children of whom Joseph married Rebecca E. Heath Simmons December 8, 1819.

    Residence:
    had doubtless come to know of his kins people in Prince George County, Virginia , came to Virginia in 1778, where he Married secondly Elizabeth Jordan

    Holmes married ROBERDEAU Judith E.. Judith was born in 1727 in Island of St. Christopher; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  ROBERDEAU Judith E. was born in 1727 in Island of St. Christopher; and died.
    Children:
    1. 4. BOISSEAU Joseph Holmes De Saussure was born on 16 Apr 1775; died on 7 Dec 1800 in Prince George County, VA.

  3. 12.  SIMMONS Randolph ( Joshua "Big" Ebenezer)" was buried in Prince George County, VA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: Prince George County, VA

    Randolph married THRUSTIN Sarah Mynn (Frances). Sarah and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 13.  THRUSTIN Sarah Mynn (Frances) and died.
    Children:
    1. 6. SIMMONS Joshua Thurston died on by Feb 1813 in Prince George County, VA; was buried in Prince George County, VA.
    2. SIMMONS Coleman died on 24 Nov 1827; was buried in Prince George County, VA.

  5. 14.  BAIRD Thomas Edwin was born in 1749 in Prince George County, VA (son of BAIRD Ephraim and HARRISON Hannah); died on 17 May 1814.

    Thomas married HEATH Rebecca Eldridge Bland. Rebecca and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 15.  HEATH Rebecca Eldridge Bland and died.
    Children:
    1. 7. BAIRD Sarah Eldridge Heath was born on 26 Oct 1775; died on 21 Sep 1842.