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Fauconnier Valleau was a saddler by occupation, and after his marriage lived in New York City, where, by money payment, he was made a freeman,* October 17, 1766. In 1767, he was Constable of the West Ward of that city. At one period of his long residence in New York City he had a factory for the manufacture of chocolate.

Fauconnier Valleau during the Revolution was a Loyalist, and in October, 1776, with many other citizens, endeavored to have Civil Government restored in New York. A petition† for this purpose, dated October 16th of that year, and addressed to the Right Honorable, Richard, Lord Viscount Howe, of the Kingdom of Ireland, and to his Excellency the Honorable William Howe, Esqr., General of his Majesty's forces in America, had among those who affixed their signatures, Benjamin Stout, John B. Stout, Richard Stout, Robert Stout, Jost and Nicholas Lackman, David Provoost, Fauconnier Valleau, and John Legar. [Of John Legar or Legaré, see article "Elizabeth Valleau."]

Fauconnier Valleau with other refugees settled in Nova Scotia. How long he remained in exile after peace between the Mother Country and the colonies was declared, is not known, but as late as the year 1784 he was living in Sunbury County of that Province, as is seen by the following document:

"Be it Remembered that I John Valleau of Mauger-
ville in the County of Sunbury and Province of Nova
Scotia Do of my own free Will and Entent Deliver up all
my Right and title to a Certain Dwelling house built up
a Creek Commonly known by the Name of Swan Creek
unto Mr Fauconnier Valleau of the above said County
to his own proper use and behoof With the Care of all
the Improvements to me there belonging and at the
Reaping or gathering of said Crop the one half to be
Delivered to me and Likewise in Consideration of said
house and Improvements and one Log Canoe to be De-
livered to me as my own Property Delivering by this
agreement My full title and Privilege to the said Fau-
connier with Power to Remove any Incumbrance that
is or may be Detrimental to his Quiet and Peacable
Possession of said Premises in full and ample manner as
tho I my Self wear the Personal Possessor of the same
and for the true confirmation of Each and Every of
these articles I set to my hand and Seal this fourteenth
day of August A. D. 1784.

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William, a son of Fauconnier Valleau and Elizabeth Earle, born 1752; died

"N. Y. Hist. So. Coll." 1885, p. 231.

† See "History of New York during the Revolution," by Thomas Jones, Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province, Vol. II, p. 433, Note XVI.

A son of Fauconnier Valleau. Letter contributed by Mr. E. A. Marschalk.

in 1823. Married first, Eleanor Henneson, of Paramus, N. J., July 31, 1774.* Six children: William Fauconnier, Samuel, John, Henry Wesley, Martha Ming, and Ming.

Married second, Mary Burchsted (widow of Samuel Symmes, of Boston, Mass.). Five children: Gardner, Tryphena, Mary, and two others, names unknown.

Gardner Valleau, married in Louisiana, long before the late Civil War, Miss Sarah J. Hargadine, the daughter of a wealthy planter. He died before the opening of the War, leaving a widow and five children. One of these children, Mary, married, at the close of the War, Colonel Frank Powers of the Confederate States Army. They had two children: Belle Powers, who married, in 1891, Robert Carter, of Columbus, Ga., and has two children, Belle and Robert; Mary Valleau Powers, who married Samuel Salisbury, of Columbus, Ga., and has five children; Belle, Lewis, Samuel, Mary Valleau, and Marjorie.

Tryphena Valleau married Joseph Weeks and lived in Louisiana.

William Valleau was a shipbuilder at Corlears Hook, New York City. He was also a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church. A book entitled "Lost Chapters Recovered from the Early History of Methodism,"† at pages 523 and 524, in the account of Methodism in New York City in 1800, says, that among the local preachers who assisted the traveling ministers was William Veloe.‡

Children of William Valleau and Eleanor Henneson

I. William Fauconnier Valleau

Born 1777; baptised§ June 21, 1777. Died, Philadelphia, Pa., March 6, 1827. 2. Samuel Valleau

Born July 8, 1785; baptised July 31, 1785; present, Sarah Shea, his mother's sister. No further record.

3. John Valleau

Born 1786. Commissioned First Lieutenant 13th Regiment, U. S. A., Captain Malcom's Company, March 24, 1812. Killed in the American assault on Queenstown Heights, Upper Canada, October 13, 1812. He met his death whilst crossing the Niagara River, the fire of the British batteries being directed on the boats,¶ in which he and his comrades were endeavoring to force a landing to make the attack, which finally ended in defeat. He was scalped** by an Indian, and left on the bank, where his mother, who had gone to search for his body, found him buried. He died unmarried.

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* Marriage recorded at Reformed Dutch Church, New York City. Many of her descendants say the name Hennessey."

† By the Rev. J. B. Wakely, 1855.

↑ Valleau.

§ Baptism recorded at Trinity Church, New York City.

|| Baptism recorded at Trinity Church, New York City.

A report of the battle in "Poulson's Daily Advertiser," Philadelphia, Pa., November 10, 1812, says: "Lieut. Valleau was killed in crossing."

**"United States Gazette," Philadelphia, Pa., November 4, 1812.

tt Extract from letter of William Valleau, of September 9, 1815, to his sister, Mrs. Anne (Valleau) Morel, of Savannah, Ga.

"The death of my dear son John has been severe to me, as soon as war was proclaimed he was appointed first Lieutenant in the 13 U. S. Infantry and in the first action in storming the heights of Queenstown, he received two musket balls in his left breast; he was in the 27th year of his age, was mild and gentle in his manners and beloved by all who knew him. After his death I received a letter from his Captain Mr. Malcom giving me the particulars of battle as concerning my son, he says: that in the heat of battle he saw my son fall but could not pay the attention due to him at the moment, but having repulsed the enemy he says he returned and among the killed & wounded he found the body of his best friend, and then goes on to say, that no officer in the Army could have excited more real sorrow, than the death of my son, and further says that he is happy to say that he highly merited the respect paid to his memory. The British buried him with the respect due to an officer.

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Obituary* "Departed this life on the 13th. of last month, lieut John Valleau of the 13th regiment of United States infantry aged about 27 years, a native of New York. He fell at the attack of Queenstown, while encouraging his men to do their duty. He died beloved and regretted by his companions in arms; and he will long, very long, be remembered by his fellow citizens of New York. Mildness, humanity, and bravery, were the prominent traits of his character. Farewell then brave and good young man, you are now with the Father of our country, enjoying perpetual happiness where the din of war is heard no more.

Accept lamented Shade the praise I give

And still beloved in my remembrance live

A. B "

Lines Written on the Death of John Valleau

Son of William and Eleanor Valleau.

I

"Ah! Who shall dress the soldier's grave,

Ah! Who shall sing the soldier's knell,
Who far beyond the distant wave,

Has fell in battle, bravely fell!"

II

"Far, far from all he loved most dear,

From scenes where first he drew his breath,

The soldier went unchecked by fear,

From hostile hands to meet his death."

III

"The doating mother's hope is o'er,

To see him come with laurels crowned;

Yet hapless mother miss no more,
Thy son a brighter wreath has found."

IV

"And though thou see'st no more on earth,
The object of the fondest love,
His mildness, truth and modest worth,
Have found a recompense above."

V

"Upon his gentle virtue here,

Fond memory will delight to dwell,
Though checked so soon his bright career,
His bravery, fame shall loudly tell."

VI

"The strangers hands have made his bier,
And though no stone the spot shall tell,
Each feeling heart will prompt the tear,
For him, who for his country fell."

* "United States Gazette," Philadelphia, Pa., November 7, 1812.

†These lines were furnished by Mr. William Rathbone Valleau, of Philadelphia, Pa.

VII

"And though no sculptured marble there,
And though no willows o'er it wave,
The dews of heaven and wild flowers fair,
Will sweetly deck the soldier's grave."

4. Henry Wesley Valleau*

Born 1789; married Elizabeth Blades, of Maryland, 1812. He died, Philadelphia, Pa., 1828. She died June 30, 1849. Four children: William Rathbone, Fauconnier, John Ming, and Eleanor Suzanne.

Henry Wesley Valleau was commissioned as a Captain in the volunteer service during the war of 1812, and was at the Battle of North Point, Md., where the British force was met in its advance on Baltimore. His business in Baltimore was successively that of a coach-manufacturer and school teacher. About the year 1820, he removed with his family, consisting of a wife and one child, to Philadelphia, where he conducted an Academy, meeting with tolerable success in this vocation.

5. Martha Ming Valleau

Born 1793; married William Palmer Rathbone,† October 3, 1811. She died November 26, 1846. He born, New Jersey, September 3, 1782; died December 7, 1862. Ten children: Juliette, Mary Brown, twins born 1815, died same day; Charlotte, J. Castella, John Valleau, Samuel Brown, Eleanor Sophia, and William Van Allen.

6. Ming Valleau

Born April, 1798; married Julia Blanchard. He died July 7, 1822, of injuries received in a premature explosion, on July 4th, at Vauxhall Gardens, New York City. One child: William Blanchard.

His widow married a Mr. Prior, and died in 1852.

Ming Valleau, was a cadet at the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., 10. Aug. 1814, to 8. Nov. 1817; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Inf., Aug. 13, 1819; honorably discharged June 1, 1821.

* This sketch of him was contributed by his son Wm. Rathbone Valleau, who also gave the following: "Mrs. Valleau remarried, John Taylor, September 21, 1830. He belonged to Darby, Delaware Co., Pa., and was Captain of one of Cope's ships, name forgotten,-which was built by John Vaughan, of Kensington, Phila-engaged in the cotton trade between Charleston, S. C., and Liverpool, England. After the death of his wife, in 1849, Capt. Taylor took up his residence in Liverpool and married again. In 1875 he paid a visit to Wm. R. Valleau and his sister, Mrs. Money, staying with them some weeks, on account of having hurt his hand on the steamer coming over. He did not wait for the Centennial Exposition of 1876, but returned to Liverpool, and is now deceased."

William Palmer Rathbone when a young man was a Contractor and Paymaster in the United States Army, and was present at St. Mary's (now Emmet), Michigan, in the fall of 1818, when the most important treaty made with the Indians of the Northwest, since that of Greenville, Ohio, in 1795, by General Anthony Wayne, was concluded. The Indians present, ten thousand strong, were the Miamis, Pottowottomies, Chippewas, Ottawas, Delawares, Shawnees, Wyandottes, Senecas, and Kickapoos. The Roman Catholic Bishop Flaget, of Kentucky, was also present, as many of the sub-agents, interpreters, and Indians were Catholics. This account of the treaty is compiled from a letter published in 1850, at Wheeling, W. Va., but it makes no mention of the attack of campfever contracted by the Bishop, and of the sufferings he endured for want of the comforts so necessary to the sick. In an address by Judge Rathbone, at Parkersburg, W.Va., in 1859, he spoke thus: "And it fell to my lot also in 1818 to make Bishop Flaget's acquaintance during the making of the treaty with the Indians at St. Mary's, and to render to him such acts of kindness, as our restricted and rude army supplies for the sick could afford. For these small attentions to him in his sickness, when I myself, soon after, was a very sick invalid in Kentucky, the Bishop hastened to my relief, and insisted on supplying my every want. And what I prized also highly on the occasionI too, received; the venerable prelate's blessing.'

Mr. Rathbone resided in the City of New York, where he was prominently known as a partner of Henry Eckford in the ship-building business, a venture which proved unsatisfactory. He first purchased property in Bergen County, N. J., February 3, 1825, and shortly after moved from New York City to Hoppertown (in the said County), afterwards called Hohokus. In the year 1838 he was appointed one of the Lay Judges of Bergen County, N. J., and qualified as such March 28, 1838; he was not a lawyer by profession, but received the title of Judge from his having been a member of this court. He continued to live at Hohokus until about the year 1844, when he went to West Virginia, and remained there, at Parkersburg, until his death. In West Virginia he purchased lands and erected mills, and was among the first in the state to develop mineral oil. From the sale of productive oil wells and land he realized a handsome competency.-Compiled from various newspaper clippings and other sources.

"Hist. U. S. A., September 29, 1789, to September 29, 1889," by F. B. Heitman.

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