BOISSEAU Joseph Holmes

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]

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.
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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."
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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 "

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

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)
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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.

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]

Notes:

Married:
in an apartment of the Catholic Cathedral

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)
------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------
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]

Notes:

Col. DeSaussure Ehyrr Boisseau
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 Sausure of Swiss Parentage.
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---[Holmes and Judith] 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, and the mother Judith E. Roberdeau died soon after, leaving one child surviving.Child with Judith : Joseph Homes 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 Homes 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.

Birth:
St. Christopher's Island (Now Saint Kitts),

DeSaussure married (LA) ROACHE Caroline in May 1720. Caroline and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]