From "A History of the Town of Chazy, Clinton county, NY"
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by Nell Jane Barnett Sullivan and David Kendall Martin,
George Little Press, Burlington, Vermont, 1970.
Page 48:
The fourth settler known to have come in 1786 was LOUIS MARNEY,
who had been a private in Capt. Gosselin's and in Capt. Selin's
companies of "Congress's Own." He had several daughters and a son, LOUIS
MARNEY, JR. The balloting book credits the father with lot 161 of
80 acres and lot 243 of 420 acres; his son received lot 122 of 80 acres
and lot 6 of 420 acres. On November 10th 1789, Louis Marnay signed
a power of attorney as a Refugee to Benjamin Mooers. He also witnessed
several other such documents in 1792, several dated in Canada; January
17th (Point Irvy?) (Levy?), January 18th (River de Sou), January 25th (River
de Sou), January 27th, March 20th, April 17th, June 11th, June 14th, June
16th (Montreal), and one in 1798 on January 31st. Louis Marnay, Jr.,
signed three such papers as a witness: October 23rd 1787, November 15th
1788, and January 7, 1792 (St. Charles).
Both Louis Marney with four in his family and Louis Marney
Fils (i.e. junior) with five in his family were residents in the Canadian
Settlement in 1787. On May 13th 1789, Pliny Moore noted that Louis
Marney (probably the son) and Noel Belanger cut wood on Isle La Motte.
Both father and son are listed in censuses for 1790 and 1800, but the father
had died by 1810, at which time the son was living in the Rouses Point
part of the Town of Champlain, where both father and son had moved in 1793.
LOUIS MARNAY, JR., who was born in Canada in
1759, in June 1775 enlisted at Quebec as a private in Col. Livingston's
regiment for eighteen months' service. He was discharged at Crown
Point in July or August 1776 and enlisted again in the fall at Albany in
Capt. Laban's Company of Hazen's regiment. He participated in the
battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Staten Island, and was finally discharged
as a sergeant in Capt. Selin's 8th Company at New Windsor, New York, on
June 30th 1783, with credit for six years and seven month's service for
which he was given a pension in 1819. At the time of his discharge
he was also decorated with the Insignia of Merit for his faithful service,
and his discharge was signed by George Washington himself. By 1798
he was living in what is now Rouses Point. In 1820 he was in a bad way
financially and submitted this account of his family and his property to
the pension office: he was a farmer on forty acres of mortgaged land in
Champlain with a log house. He was very infirm and troubled with
rheumatism. He owned one cow worth $20, two hogs $6, one ax $1.50,
one hoe $.75, six old chairs $1.50, six tea cups $.37, six knives and forks
$1, one pot $1, one 3 pail kettle and 2 water pails $2.75, Total $89.87.
His wife, Lizett, was aged 45 and feeble and out of health; his son Ezra
15 was lame in one leg and could labor but little; his daughter Susan was
16 and sickly, and his son Lawrence was only 2.
AMABLE BOILLEAU
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"Of the seven other Refugees who came north with Mooers in 1783,
we have record of six of them, showing that several seem to have
remained in the Canadian Settlement. A PETER BOILEAU served in "Congress's
Own" and drew lot 116 of 80 acres and lot 214 of 420 acres in the Refugee
tract for his private's service. In the same regiment was also LT.
PIERRE AMABLE BOILEAU who drew lots 83 and 150 of 80 acres each and lots
70 and 88 of 420 acres each. In 1787 Lt. Boileau was in the Canadian
Settlement with a household of four. On November 10th 1789, at Plattsburgh,
Pier Boieau Lt, his mark, as a Refugee, gave a power of attorney to Benjamin
Mooers. Lt. Amable Boilleau died intestate of a gunshot wound at
Champlain on February 19th 1805. During the Revolution an AMABLE
BOILLEAU served as an enlisted man in Hazen's Regiment for which service
he drew 80 acre lot 8 and 420 acre lot 37. The 1790 census lists
his household or the lieutenant's as two males over 16 and two females.
The 1798 assessment describes his property: Aimabley Boileau 40 acres on
Lake Shore and joining Laurent Oliver's Land. One Log house ($10).
One Log Barn 20x20 $240. On November 15th 1788, a group of Refugees
including Amaible Boileau, his mark, and Piere Boilau, his mark, had given
Mooers powers of attorney. It is difficult to distinguish these three
men, but one of them is no doubt the Pierre Boilau who was with Mooers
in 1783. Pierre Boilau was a resident of the Canadian Settlement
in 1787 with a household of two, and the 1790 census lists Peter Buylo
with a family of one male over 16 and one female."