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Jean Baptiste Baudreau dit Graveline, Sr. had only 2 known children to reach maturity:
His first child was Magdeleine "Pany" Baudreau. She was born about 1708 based on the assumption that she was age 18 when she married Pierre Paquet, Jr. on August 26,1726, (Cathedral at Mobile, Marriage Book 1, page 6). This record states that she was the "natural daughter of Jean Baptiste Baudreau dit Graveline, resident of the Pascagoula River, belonging to this Parish, and an Indian." This record does NOT give her mother's name. "Natural" means her parents were NOT married (by the Catholic Church) at the time Magdeleine was born, although they could have been married in the Indian tradition. We know that she died about 1748 as found on an "estate document" following Magdeleine's death. The record found is dated March 15,1748, and states:
1.	She died "within the past several months" at her "homestead" on the Pascagoula River.
2.	She was married to "a man named Paquet (Pierre Paquet, Jr.), a settler, who escaped from this country."
He "abandoned her ten to twelve years earlier" (about 1736 or 1738). In another source provided by Brother Jerome in his October 1990 article, a document clearly states that "Paquet left his family for Florida in October 1737."
3.	She "left a young girl of about thirteen to fourteen years of age, with some personal belongings and livestock which are now left in the hands of and in the care of a man named ALEXANDRE ST. MARTIN who treats them as they were his own." This young girl was her daughter by Pierre Paquet, Jr., Marie "Marthe" Paquet who was born, according to this record, in 1734 or 1735. Marie "Marthe" Paquet was born on May 4,1735, as found on her baptism record at the Mobile Cathedral dated, April 5,1736,( Bapt. Bk. 1, p. 113-a). ***Note that Alexandre St. Martin is now mentioned as someone special in her life. Also note that they do
not mention Magdeleine "Pany" Baudreau's other 3 children, born to a different father after Paquet, Jr. abandoned the family, to be discussed later.
This "estate document" can be found at the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans, under "Document dated March 15,1748" and was printed and translated by Brother Jerome Lepre, in an article in the Mississippi Coast Historical & Genealogical Society, October 1990 issue, p. 92
In another document, Magdeleine's daughter, Marie "Marthe" Paquet, filed a claim for her father's estate on March 17,1767, in the New Orleans Superior Council, stating:
1.	She is the widow of deceased Michel Daragary.
2.	Her father, Pierre Paquet (Jr.), died in Port-au-Prince, Island of Santo Domingo (Haiti).
This March 17,1767 document can be found in the Louisiana State Museum and printed by Brother Jerome in the same publication mentioned above, page 90. Note that "Marthe" does not mention any other heirs of her father, Pierre Paquet, Jr., indicating she was the only child of that union and the other children born to her mother, Magdeleine "Pany" Baudreau, were fathered by some other man. Who could that have been? Look back to the ALEXANDRE ST. MARTIN mentioned above. Look at the baptism and marriage records of her grandchildren, children of her daughter, Marianne, who married Nicolas Ladner dit Christian. These records are listed by Brother Jerome Lepre on page 87 of an article printed in the October 1990 edition of Mississippi Coast Historical & Genealogical Society publication. These grandchildren clearly refer to their
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