Marie Suzanne Sauset dit Panyouasas

Marie Suzanne Sauset dit Panyouasas is identified in the supplied family line as Barbara’s seventh great-grandmother and as the mother of Magdelaine Panyouasas Baudreau. The available notes contain limited direct information about her and appear to combine traditions and research concerning several women connected with the Baudrau dit Graveline family.

Marie Suzanne Sauset dit Panyouasas is listed in this family line as the mother of Magdelaine Panyouasas Baudreau. Through Magdelaine, her descendants include Marie “Marthe” Paquet, Jacob Hankel Bang II, Emanuel I Bang, Emmanuel Bang, Matilda Bang, Ruby Armena Maples, and Doris Helen Sherrell.

The supplied material gives her life dates as 1671–1775. It does not provide a dated record that clearly establishes her birth, death, parentage, or marriage.

Family-tree notes describe a woman named Suzanne as a Protestant associated with La Rochelle, France, and as the wife of a man identified only as Jean. According to those notes, Jean departed La Rochelle with D’Iberville aboard La Renommee in October 1699. The notes say that Suzanne may have reached the colony during a later voyage of the Marguerite and that her first mention in the colony was when Jean lived on Massacre Island, now Dauphin Island. They further state that she instructed her servants in the Protestant faith and died on Dauphin Island, Alabama. The notes do not clearly demonstrate that this Suzanne was Marie Suzanne Sauset dit Panyouasas.

Other material concerns Magdelaine Panyouasas Baudreau, identified as the natural child of Jean-Baptiste Baudrau dit Graveline and an Indian woman. Magdelaine’s 26 August 1726 marriage record to Pierre Paquet II is described as naming her “Magdeliene dit Pany Baudreau.” The notes report a tradition that her mother was an Indian woman called Emashapa Panyouasas, described as Choctaw, but also acknowledge that there is no specific documentation for that identification. Because the supplied material does not reconcile this tradition with the name Marie Suzanne Sauset dit Panyouasas, the exact identity and background of Marie Suzanne remain uncertain.

The related Baudrau dit Graveline material places this family in the early French Gulf Coast colony, including Fort Maurepas, Old Mobile, Dauphin Island, and the Pascagoula River area. It describes Jean-Baptiste Baudrau dit Graveline as a trader, livestock owner, and early settler in what is now coastal Mississippi and Alabama. These details provide context for the family of Magdelaine Panyouasas Baudreau but should not be read as direct biographical evidence for Marie Suzanne Sauset dit Panyouasas.

Historical context

The family notes place associated members of this line in French colonial Gulf Coast communities during the early eighteenth century. They mention La Rochelle in France, the expeditions of Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville, Fort Maurepas near present-day Ocean Springs, Old Mobile, Massacre Island or Dauphin Island, and the Pascagoula River region. The notes also describe trade, shipping, cattle raising, and relationships between French colonists and Native peoples. Several statements in the notes are presented as tradition, deduction, or the view of unnamed researchers rather than as fully documented conclusions.

Sources & research

Higginbotham, Jay. Pascagoula: Singing River City. Gill Press, 1967, p. 5.
Adkinson, et al. 1991, pp. 95–98.
Conrad. 1970, p. 2 and p. 50.
Cassibry II. 1988, pp. 700–704.
The American State Papers. 1994, p. 38.
Atkinson. 1991, p. 23.
Lepre. 1995, pp. 54–61.
The Ocean Springs Record. January 15, 1998.
Mississippi Provincial Archives, French Dominion and Mobile Cathedral records, as cited in the supplied notes.
Magdelaine Baudreau and Pierre Paquet II marriage record, 26 August 1726, as described in the supplied notes.
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