Thanks to Patricia Weeks for the above information.

Thanks to Esther Carroll for the above information.

If you need additional information, please let me know. The Desgagne line is very large in Old Mines area of Washington County.

Thanks to descendant Becky Millinger for the above information.

Thanks to descendant Esther Carroll for the above information.

Thanks to descendant Esther Carroll for the above information.

Thanks to descendant Esther Carroll for the above information.

Thanks to descendant Tom Caulley for the above information.

James´ widow, Elizabeth, later married Thomas Brock who was from Sussex, England.

Thanks to descendant Esther Carroll for the above information.

William's father was John Pentecost JACKSON, said to have been a Revolutionary War soldier, though this has not been documented. John's father was also named John, as was his grandfather. They were born in Augusta County, VA and migrated to the area known today as Green County, KY. William P. has had thousands of descendants. Just one of his first sons, ?Philip - has over 1600 descendants.

William P. migrated from Green County, KY to Washington County by about 1830. His "first family" was born there, and many of them moved on to Phelps County by 1850.

Much information on this family can be found in two volumes placed in the Mine Au Breton Historical Society archives in Potosi by Eugene W. Jackson, and also in the Washington County Library in Potosi.

Thanks to descendant Gene Jackson for the above information.

Their children were:

Thanks to descendant Karen Carty for the above information.

Thanks to descendant Tom Caulley for the above information.

Thanks to descendant Earl W. Mundy, Jr. for the above information.

Jean Baptiste first settled in Ste Genevieve where he married Marguerite Chabot in 1794. Marguerite was a native of Vincennes and an orphan of the deceased Joseph Chabot and Ursule Clermont. At Ste Genevieve Jean Bte was granted land and lived there until 1801 when he moved his family to Old Mines.

The Portais couple were parents of Julie, Catiche, Jean, Ursule, Francois, Marie, Susanne, Melanie, Pierre, Joseph, Adele and Marguerite. Of note, six of these children married Boyers of Old Mines.

When the Old Mines concession was surveyed, Jean Bpt Portais was awarded Lot No. 4 In 1833, the priest at Old Mines testifying of the original claimants of Old Mines, stated that on Lot No. 4 resided the widow of Jean Portais, who had 45 children and grandchildren, nearly all of them living there on that concession.

The Portais name always appeared as such until the records of Washington County began, and then the name got changed to the spelling of Portell.

Thanks to descendant Patricia Weeks for the above information.

William Sloan served as a private in Sharp's Company, Tenth Regiment of NC Troops during the Revolutionary War. He and his brothers lived in what is now Cleveland County, NC, and somewhere between Shelby(town) and Kings Mt (town) and operated iron works. They were there prior to the Revolutionary War.

In 1807 about forty families left Bethany (adjoining congregation to Fourth Creek) for the West. William Sloan, Robert M. Stevenson (his brother in law) and Andrew McCormick, leaving their families in Christian County, Kentucky went in company with Daniel Boone on a tour of inspection into Missouri. They selected a site for the settlement of the colony at Caledonia, near Big River in Bellevue Valley, Washington County, Missouri. The colony set out from Kentucky on September 16, 1807 and arrived at Caledonia on the last day of November.

The following year, 1808, William Sloan located and opened up a farm about three miles south of Caledonia on Reed's Creek, and built his house on the south side of the present Main Road, running east and west, and on the east and south side of the creek in what is now Iron County, Missouri. He was appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within the County of Washington, Missouri on Sept 1, 1813 by William Clark, Governor of the Territory of Missouri. The oath of office was administered on Nov 30, 1813. The term was for 4 years.

Quoting from a history of Washington County, "Then on the first Monday of January 1814, Martin Ruggles, William Sloan and John Stanton, who had been commissioned by Governor William Clark as the first judges of the Common Pleas Court of Washington County, met in the village of Mine-a-Breton [today's Potosi: ed] and opened the first Court ever held in the county".

The Church Records and tradition at Caledonia, MO, show that William Sloan took a very active part in the organization of a Presbyterian congregation and the erection of a church building, which church history shows to have been the first Presbyterian Church established west of the Mississippi River. From the Missouri Gazette of Oct 12, 1816, we learn that, on Sept 16, 1816, the Washington County Bible Society was formed (first Bible Society west of the Mississippi River).

William and Jane lived in Lincoln County, NC until 1807. He was a farmer and Iron manufacturer. They left NC for KY. Left KY 9-16-1807 with family and others and arrived at Caledonia, MO last of Nov 1807. In 1808 located and opened up farm 3 miles south of Caledonia on Reed's Creek south side of road east and south of the creek.

There is a family tradition that William Sloan had a servant, Peter, who went with him as a body guard through the Revolution, and that Peter accompanied his sister to Missouri. Peter was fond of relating how on one occasion, while on guard, he shot a spy disguised in a bear skin prowling around their camp.

He was one of first judges of Common Pleas Court of Washington County formed in 1813, one of first elders of the first Presbyterian Church west of the Mississippi River, a lender of money and died possessing 640 acres of land and 26 slaves. He was one of the leading citizens of the pioneer community. Burial: Bellevue Presbyterian Cemetery, Caledonia, Missouri

Notes for JANE STEVENSON:
Jane Stevenson was sister of Robert M. Stevenson who, with William Sloan, Andrew McCormick and Daniel Boone made tour of inspection into Missouri in 1807 while their families remained in Christian County, KY. Another brother, James Stevenson was the grandfather of Adlai Stevenson, Vice Pres of U. S. during Cleveland's Administration. Burial: Bellevue Presbyterian Cemetery, Caledonia, Missouri

Children of WILLIAM SLOAN and JANE STEVENSON are:

Reverend Thomas Donnell, the first Presbyterian minister to work west of the Mississippi River, was called to be pastor of Bellevue Church, then called Old Concord Church. He was duly installed as pastor at the home of William Sloan on April 23, 1818. His wife, Eliza Sloan Donnell, was a daughter of William Sloan and Jane Stevenson, and a first cousin of Elizabeth Sloan McCormick, first wife of Joseph McCormick. The church under the leadership of Reverend Thomas Donnell, and as a result of the zeal of the elders, prospered greatly.

Thanks to descendant Karen Carty for the above information.

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