Hypolite Provost (Hallberg Family Data)

Hypolite Provost
(1803-)

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Spouses/Children:
Margaret Brunelle

Hypolite Provost

Born: 7 September 1803, Canada ³ ⁴
Marriage: Margaret Brunelle on 3 July 1835 in Michigan Territory ¹ ²

Another name for Hypolite was Paul.

In his life:

• He immigrated from Canada on 29 June 1828 to Mackinac. ⁴

• He was naturalized on 27 February 1855 in Dakota County, Minnesota. ⁵

• Hypolite was counted in the 1857 Dakota County census for Dakota County, Minnesota. ³

• He was counted in the 1860 US census for Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island. ⁶ Page 46. Enumerated as Paul.

• In 1860 he lived in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island. ⁶

• Hypolite worked, in 1860, as a farm laborer in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island. ⁶

Hypolite married Margaret Brunelle, daughter of Louis Brunelle, Sr. and Angelique Cote, on 3 July 1835 in Michigan Territory.¹ ² (Margaret Brunelle was born about 1812 in Michigan Territory ³.)

About his marriage to Margaret:

• They were blessed on 30 June 1839 in Wisconsin Territory. ¹ Married by Bishop Frederick Loras during his visit to the area in 1839. Previously married in a civil ceremony on 3 Jul 1835 by a Major Tailliaferro.

2 John H. Stevens, Personal Recollections of Minnesota and Its People and Early History of Minneapolis (Marshall Robinson, 1890.), page 397. "The earliest marriages in Hennepin county were declared in accordance with the forms of the civil law, before Lawrence Taliaferro, as justice of the peace. On July 3, 1835, Hippolite Provost was married to Margaret Brunell..."

4 Territory of Minnesota, Ramsey County, Declaration of Intention: Hypolite Provost (Sworn and Subscribed to at St. Paul, 24 Aug, 1850).

5 District Court of the First Judicial District, County of Dakota, State of Minnesota, Naturalization Papers: Hypolite Provost.

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