"SALE OF ETIENNE LAVIOLETTE'S LAND

This Indenture made the twenty fifth Day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and ninety one, between Gregor McGregor Esquire Sheriff For the District of Hesse of the one Part and John Askin of Detroit Esquire of the other Part, WITNESSETH that WHEREAS by Virtue of a Writ of firefacious issued out of his Majestys Court of Common Pleas for the Said District at the Suit of John Askin of Detroit Merchant against the Goods & Chatties Lands and Tenements of Etiene Laviolet16

16 Sebastian Jahan married Jane Oudinot and resided in Blois, diocese of Chartres, France. Their son, Jacques Jahan dit Laviolette, born in 1631, a tanner by occupa- tion, was the founder of the American family line. He married at Quebec on Sept. 27, 1658, Mary Ferra, a native of Creveaux, in Picardy. The husband was buried at Quebec, April 4, 1699, and the wife at St. Jean, Isle of Orleans, Feb. 17, 1713. Their son, Jacques Jahan dit Laviolette, was born at Chateau Richer, Nov. 28, 1663, married there, Nov. 5, 1686, and was buried at Quebec, Apr. 17, 1711. His son, also named Jacques, was born in 1689 and died in 1763, having spent his life in Lower Canada. He was a captain of militia at the Coast of St. Joseph at Point Levis. His son, Etienne Jahan dit Laviolette, is the person mentioned in this document. He was born at Point Levis, Feb. 20, 1736. In early manhood he came west to Detroit, and on Feb. 3, 1766, married at Sandwich, Amable Judith Prudhomme, daughter of Francis Xavier Prudhomme and Judith Cuillerier, who resided at the South Coast of Detroit, known as C6te de Misere. Judith Prudhomme was buried at Sandwich, Nov. 4, 1780. Etienne Laviolette married (second) Margaret Angelica Descomps dit Labadie, at Sandwich, April 18, 178S. The bride was the widow of Martin Levry and the daughter of Pierre Descomps dit Labadie and Angelica Lacelle. Laviolette removed to the River Raisin at some date prior to 1791, where his wife was buried, Oct. 2, 1802, and he himself on Feb. 7, 1807. By his first marriage Laviolette left several children, and numerous subsequent descendants. Denissen, op. cit.”

from SECTION VII LETTERS AND PAPERS : 1790-1791JOHN ASKIN PAPERS pages 370-371 http://archive.lib.msu.edu/MMM/JA/09/a/JA09a001p009.pdf