Beaubien Family Manuscripts

Date1800 - 1900s

Classificationslevel 1: collection

Credit LineCitizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center Archive and Research Division

Object number2005.3.1-214

DescriptionOriginal and copied documents, records, correspondence, ephemera pertaining to Beaubien [Citizen Potawatomi] family allotments, enrollment, census, genealogy, religion, and family history. Family photographs [original and copies].
2005.3 Beaubien Family Manuscripts
2005.3_1 Allotments
2005.3_2 Family History
2005.3_3 Genealogy
2005.3_4 Government Documents

2005.3_1 Allotments
• Affidavit in ref: Hattie Henry testimony on estate of Harry Bostick, dated September 14, 1914, 1 pg.
• Affidavit in ref: Anna Ray testimony on estate of Harry Bostick, dated September 26, 1914, 1 pg.
• Allotment or Estate Record: Eliza S Beaubien 2 pgs.; Ellen Peltier nee Myers 1 pg.; Harry Bostick 2 pgs.; John Myers 1 pg.; Joseph Bostick 2 pgs.; Lizzie Hardin 3 pgs.; Mary Bostick 2 pgs.
• Dept of Int. F J Morgan Commissioner to S L Patrick Esq. US Indian Agent, Sac & Fox Agency OT in ref: receipt of application from David Bostick, dated February 4, 1891, 1 pg.
• Dept of Int. J M Stewart Commissioner to Archie C. Hector in ref: Ellen Peltier nee Meyers allotment, dated June 20, 1917, 3 pgs.
• Dept of Int. E B Merett Assistant Commissioner in ref: Approval of Heirship estate of Eliza S. Beaubien, dated June 2, 1920, 1 pg.
• Dept of Int. S G Hopkins Assistant Secretary in ref: Approval of Heirship on estate of Eliza S Beaubien, dated June 10, 1920, 1 pg.
• Dept of Int. in ref: Fee Patent in favor of heirs of Eliza S Beaubien, dated March 28, 1927, 1 pg.
• Allotment Documents in ref: Eliza S Beaubien, 26 pgs.
• Report on Heirship Eliza S Beaubien dated January 14, 1919, 8 pgs.
• Testimony of Benjamin Beaubien in ref: Estate of Eliza S Beaubien, dated January 11, 1919, 4 pgs.
• Testimony of John E Snake in ref: Estate of Eliza S Beaubien, dated January 11, 1919, 2 pgs.
• Report on Heirship of Ellen Peltier, dated June 21, 1917, 2 pgs.
• Testimony in ref: Estate of Ellen Peltier, dated June 20, 1917, 2 pgs.
• Transfer record of deed, M B Beaubien to Alexander Muller, dated March 25, 1887, 5 pgs.
• Dept of Int. OIA file, E B Meritt Asst. Commissioner in ref: M B Beaubien, 8 pgs.
• Report on Heirship of M B Beaubien dated June 14, 1917, 7 pgs.
• Testimony of John B Beaubien in ref: M B Beaubien, dated May 5, 1914, 6 pgs.
• Testimony of Mary Bostick in ref: M B Beaubien, dated May 5, 1914, 2 pgs.
• Shawnee Indian Agency to Commissioner of Indian Affairs in ref: George A Beaubien, dated March 10, 1917, 3 pgs.
• Shawnee Indian School to George A Beaubien in ref: improper loan on land held in fee, dated October 28, 1916, 1 pg.
• Letter from Wm A Richman to Commissioner of Indian Affairs in ref: Beaubien family, dated April 28, 1862, 2 pgs.

2005.3_2 Family History
• Beaubien Family History; Genealogy & Family History, 15 pgs.
• Chris Favre; Letter & two [2] Biloxi National Cemetery maps depicting burial sites Everett George Bostic and Robert Howard Bostic, 3 pgs.
• Certifying Signatories dated July 26, 1859, 2 pgs.
• Certifying Signatories dated July 27, 1859, 2 pgs.
• Letter from Council Bluffs Indian Agency to Chas H Beaubien, dated June 6, 1846, 1 pg.
• Dept of Int. to Virgil M Beaubien in ref: blood quantum, dated February 21, 1974, 2 pgs.
• Don Gentner Research: Letters dated from early 1800’s, 21 pgs.
• Doris Mitchell letter w/copies of ancestors and brief history, 5 pgs.
• Contract for Grace Dowd Tombstone 1 pg.
• Newspaper Article by Donna Scheibe in ref: Cindy and Nancy Stempel, 1 pg.
• Newspaper Article, Los Angeles Times, Sun., Feb. 24, 1974 in ref: Madore Beaubien, 1 pg.
• Beaubien family from “People of the Fire” by Priscilla Mullin Sherard, pgs. 130-1, 2 pgs.
• National Archives Microfilm Publications; letters received by the office of Indian Affairs 1859-1860, 4 pgs.
• The Potawatomi Indians, They cede their lands, pg. 31, 35, 1 pg.
• Wisconsin Historical Collection, Witherell’s Reminiscences, 2 pgs.

2005.3_3 Genealogy
• Ervil W Hyde Research: Family charts and history, 10 pgs.
• Marilyn Grace Robinson Family chart
• J D Holt letter: Family chart and history, 8 pgs. including envelope
• George Beaubien family list 1 pg.

2005.3_4 Government Documents
• Commissioner of Indian Affairs to John Beaubien in ref: IIM, dated October 27, 1892, 1 pg.
• Commissioner of Indian Affairs to Phillip Beaubien in ref: IIM, dated October 28, 1892, 1 pg.
• Dept of Int. to Samuel L Patrick Esq., Sac and Fox Agency in ref: Theresa Beaubien & family dated February 4, 1891, 1 pg.
• Dept of Int. to Samuel L Patrick Esq., Sac and Fox Agency in ref: affidavits from named applicants for enrollment dated November 2, 1892, 1 pg.
• Potawatomi Agency to Wm Dole dated January 14, 1862, 2 pgs.
• William E Murphy, U S Agent for Potawatomi Indians to Potawatomi Agency St Mary’s Mission, dated July 28, 1859, 4 pgs.
• Potawatomi Agency St Mary’s Kansas dated March 5, 1862, 1 pg.

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