Possible Ancestor:
Joseph Rondo (Rondeau), born 1797 Montreal,  joined 1821
the Hudson Bay Company, wintered at the Fraser River,
Great Slave Lake and Fort Edmonton and settled at
Red River where he married Josephine Boileau, a Kutenai Metis.

Possible Ancestor:
Red River Marriages
List of men who were married by the Catholic Missionaries
after the establishment of the Red River Mission. 1818-1831.
included: 1828 Louis Rondeau

Possible Ancestor:
Benjamin Rondeau b-1846 Nova Scotia married about 1885 N.W.T.
 Caroline Metis b-1862 N.W.T., living Fort Edmonton 1891.

!NAME: Rondeau, Joseph Jr. [R.L. Scrip #94]

!HALFBREED_LAND_SCRIP: National Archives, RG 75, Entry 363, "List of Persons
to Whom Scrip was Issued under Red Lake & Pembina Treaties ..." Halfbreed
Scrip No. 94 issued FEB 12, 1873, under the Authority of Secretarial Decision,
JUN 12, 1872; delivered FEB 12, 1873

!HALFBREED_LAND_SCRIP: National Archives, RG 75, Entry 364, Treaty of APR
12, 1864, Red Lake and Pembina Half-Breeds," Scrip Stubs, Number 94 [checked],
dated FEB 12, 1873, 160 Acres, delivered FEB 12, 1873, issued to Joseph
Rondeau Jr., delivered to Agent E.P. Smith

Rondeau, Joseph Jr. [R.L. Scrip #94]                                 ·
National Archives, RG 75, Entry 363, "List of Persons to Whom Scrip was
Issued under Red Lake & Pembina Treaties ..." Halfbreed Scrip No. 94
issued February 12, 1873, under the Authority of Secretarial Decision,
June 12, 1872; delivered February 12, 1873

National Archives, RG 75, Entry 364, "Treaty of April 12, 1864, Red Lake
and Pembina Half-Breeds," Scrip Stubs, Number 94 [checked], dated
February 12, 1873, 160 Acres, delivered February 12, 1873, issued to
Joseph Rondeau, Jr., delivered to Agent E.P. Smith

Rondeau, Peter [R.L. Scrip #134/estate]                              ·
National Archives, RG 75, Entry 363, "List of Persons to Whom Scrip was
Issued under Red Lake & Pembina Treaties ..." Halfbreed Scrip No. 134
issued to Rondeau, Benjamin, heir of Peter Rondeau, on February 20,
1873, under the Authority of Secretarial Decision, February 17, 1873;
delivered February 20, 1873

National Archives, RG 75, Entry 364, "Treaty of April 12, 1864, Red Lake
and Pembina Half-Breeds," Scrip Stubs, Number 134 [checked], dated
February 20th, 1873, 160 Acres, delivered February 20,th, 1873, issued
to "Benj. Rondeau, heir of Peter Rondeau", delivered to Agent E.P. Smith

Rondeau, Benjamin [R.L. Scrip #134/heir]                             ·
Rondeau, Benjamin [R.L. Scrip #320]                                  ·
National Archives, RG 75, Entry 363, "List of Persons to Whom Scrip was
Issued under Red Lake & Pembina Treaties ..." Halfbreed Scrip No. 134
issued to Benjamin Rondeau, heir of Rondeau, Peter, on February 20,
1873, under the Authority of Secretarial Decision, February 17, 1873;
delivered February 20, 1873; and Scrip No. 320 issued January 19, 1874,
under the Authority of Secretarial Decision, December 27, 1873;
delivered January 19, 1874

National Archives, RG 75, Entry 364, "Treaty of April 12, 1864, Red Lake
and Pembina Half-Breeds," Scrip Stubs, Number 134 [checked], dated
February 20th, 1873, 160 Acres, delivered February 20,th, 1873, issued
to "Benj. Rondeau, heir of Peter Rondeau", delivered to Agent E.P. Smith

Rondeau, Benjamin [R.L. Scrip #134/heir]                             ·
Rondeau, Benjamin [R.L. Scrip #320]                                  ·
National Archives, RG 75, Entry 363, "List of Persons to Whom Scrip was
Issued under Red Lake & Pembina Treaties ..." Halfbreed Scrip No. 134
issued to Benjamin Rondeau, heir of Rondeau, Peter, on February 20,
1873, under the Authority of Secretarial Decision, February 17, 1873;
delivered February 20, 1873; and Scrip No. 320 issued January 19, 1874,
under the Authority of Secretarial Decision, December 27, 1873;
delivered January 19, 1874

National Archives, RG 75, Entry 364, "Treaty of April 12, 1864, Red Lake
and Pembina Half-Breeds," Scrip Stubs, Number 134 [checked], dated
February 20th, 1873, 160 Acres, delivered February 20,th, 1873, issued
to "Benj. Rondeau, heir of Peter Rondeau", delivered to Agent E.P. Smith
Mary I. Rondeau[1, 2]
1907 - 

Year: 1850   Territory: Minnesota   County: Ramsey   Sheet No: 49B
Reel No: M432-367   Division: Saint Paul   Page No: 107
Enumerated on: September 15th, 1850   by: Chas F. Tracy   
Transcribed by Michelle Pesola and Proofread by Maggie Stewart  
for USGenWeb, http://www.usgwcensus.org/. Copyright: 2008
 
======|=============|=======================|============|====================|============|==============|======|
 LINE | Dwell Famil | Firstname    Lastname | Age   Se C | Occupation  Real V | Birthplace | M S R Deaf & | SNDX |
======|=============|=======================|============|====================|============|==============|======|
    1 |   230   230 | Joseph       Rondeau  |    56 M    | Farmer         500 | Canada     |              | R530 | 
    2 |   230   230 | Josette B.   Rondeau  |    40 F    |                    | Canada     |              | R530 | 
    3 |   230   230 | Louis**      Rondeau  |    14 M    |                    | Min Terry  |              | R530 | 
    4 |   230   230 | Pierre       Rondeau  |    12 M    |                    | Min Terry  |              | R530 | 
    5 |   230   230 | Philomon     Rondeau  |    10 F    |                    | Min Terry  |              | R530 | 
    6 |   230   230 | Joseph       Rondeau  |     8 M    |                    | Min Terry  |              | R530 | 
    7 |   230   230 | Benjamin     Rondeau  |     5 M    |                    | Min Terry  |              | R530 | 
    8 |   230   230 | Eugene       Rondeau  |     2 M    |                    | Min Terry  |              | R530 | 
    9 |   230   230 | Julie        Rondeau  |  7/12 F    |                    | Min Terry  |              | R530 |

PROBABLY NOT OUR JOSEPH below
Joseph Rondeau is known to have left the Red River settlement
for Fort Snelling in 1836. He and his family had been counted in the Red
River censuses in May, 1834, and May, 1835. It may be a distortion to say
Rondeau led a party of "refugees". He and others certainly went because of
the high wages being paid by the US Govt, for builders, interpreters, etc.
He may have had a Joseph Desmarais with him, but not one who had lived at
Red River like Rondeau did.

Of course, I could be badly mistaken, and if you discover
something more, I'll be very interested.

Posted by: "Rod MacQuarrie" 

Tue Feb 19, 2008 5:17 pm (PST)


History of Minneapolis, Vol. 1
by Rev. Marion Daniel Shutter

The Carpenter Claim

        On November 3, 1838, Sergeant Carpenter sold a half interest in his claim to "Private Thomas Brown, of Company A, Fifth United States Infantry," for a consideration of $25. A log house was soon afterward built by the joint claimants. It stood near the river, opposite Hennepin Island, but the name of the occupant seems to have been forgotten. On May 6, 1840, Brown transferred his "undivided half" to Peter Quinn, "of St. Peter, Iowa Territory." Quinn was a native of Ireland and before coming to Fort Snelling in 1824 had lived at Winnipeg, where he married a half-breed Cree Indian woman named Mary Louise Findley. He served as a trader's clerk, Indian farmer, interpreter, etc., until killed at Redwood Ferry on August 18, 1862, at the beginning of the Sioux uprising against the whites.
        Quinn sold his interest on May 1, 1845, to Roswell P. Russell and Samuel J. Findley, who a year later transferred it to Pierre Bottineau for a consideration of $150. The deed describes the property as "a certain tract of United States land in the Territory of Wisconsin, St. Croix County, on the Mississippi River, above the Falls of St. Anthony, containing one hundred and sixty (160) acres, more or less." Pierre Bottineau had purchased Carpenter's interest in 1844 and after acquiring the interest of Russell and Findley became the owner of the entire claim of 320 acres.

Other Squatters
        A few others settled on the east side before the lands were legally opened to settlement. These persons were called "squatters," because they merely located or "squatted" upon the land, holding their claims by occupation until the lands came into market. What is commonly referred to as the "Petit John" claim was made in 1842. It extended along the river, south of the Plympton claim, and included the site of the State University. Maj. R. I. Holcombe, in the "Compendium of History and Biography of Minneapolis" (published in 1914), says: "In 1842 came Eli Pettijohn, an Ohio man. Strangely enough, his name is given in Warner & Foote's, Hudson's, Atwater's and other histories as 'Petit John,' as if his family name were John and his Christian name Petit. He made a claim south of Steele's, or down the river, where the University buildings now stand."
        Mr. Pettijohn was one of the first justices of the peace in Hennepin County, when it was organized in 1852, and afterwards held the office of assessor. He was still living when Major Holcombe wrote in 1914 and was then in the ninety-sixth year of his age. In 1845 he sold his claim to Pierre Bottineau, which made the latter the largest landholder on the east side.
        Another squatter who came in 1842 was Joseph Rondeau (sometimes written Rondo), a French Canadian, who made a claim north of the Carpenter claim. He was one of those who were evicted from the Fort Snelling reservation by Major Plympton's order and before making his claim at the Falls of St. Anthony had been living at "St. Paul's Landing", the site of St. Paul. He has been described as "aggressive and troublesome, continually trespassing upon the claims of his neighbors." Not long after Bottineau bought the Pettijohn claim in 1845, he got into trouble with Rondeau. But Bottineau was equal to the emergency. Rondeau was trying to hold two claims, one at St. Anthony and the other at St. Paul's Landing. One day while he was at the latter place, Bottineau took a few men and an ox team, went to Rondeau's claim, tore down his cabin and hauled the logs a mile or more back in the woods. He then proceeded to "jump" Rondeau's claim and succeeded in holding it.

Rondeau then retired to his St. Paul claim, where he passed the remainder of his life. He acquired a comfortable fortune and a street in St. Paul bears his name.