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 CHAPOTON

CHARLTON

the marriage of Jean Baptiste Gouyon, and was among the first in the settle- ment of Cadillac to take up land for permanent occupancy. On June 13, 1734, he received a government grant of land known as private claim number 5, being two arpents in width by forty in length, the title running to Jean Chapoton (Chirurgean). Dr. Chapoton's name appears spelled variously, as ("Farmer's History of Detroit," vol. i, p. 50) Pierre Chapoton, ("Jesuit Relations," vol. lxix, p. 308) Jean Baptiste Chapoton, and plain Jean Chapoton. Little is known of the extent and method of Dr. Chapoton's practice. Aside from his service to the soldiers and their families at the post it could not have been great, as Detroit had little resident population until the twenties and little land was taken up until the thirties. In the Jesuit Relations, vol. lxix, p. 249, it is said that on June 13, 1742, Sieur Chapo- ton, Surgeon of this post, borrowed the sum of one hundred livres in raccoon and lynx skins, promising to pay in similar peltries in May, 1743. That Chapoton was a devout Catholic appears from entries in the manuscript of Fr. Pierre Portier, Jesuit priest at Assumption Mis- sion, Sandwich, viz.: In 1748 the father says that Surg. Chapoton arranged for offering six masses; and in 1750 Chapoton became indebted to the mission for the same, but in 1S45 the father began masses for his soul. In 1752 Dr. Chapo- ton resigned his post and retired to his farm. He had married in July 1720 Mag- dalene Frappere, whose family had lived in the same province in France with the Chapotons, but at the time of her mar- riage were living in Quebec. At marriage Magdalene was fourteen years old, but bore the doctor twenty-two children!! Of these, four died in infancy, two in childhood, five single in adult life, and eleven intermarried with prominent fam- ilies. From his sons are descended the numerous branches of the Chapoton family in eastern Michigan and lower Canada. His second daughter, Madeleine, married Dr. LeGrande who in 1852 suc-

ceeded Dr. Chapoton as surgeon of the post.

Jean Chapoton died at his Detroit home November 12, 1760. L. C.

Pioneer Biography of Wayne County, Mich.,

Fred. Carslile, 1890.

Farmer's History of Detroit.

Jesuit Relations, vol. lxix.

Records of St. Anne's Church, Detroit.

Chatard, Pierre (1767-1848).

Pierre Chatard was born at Cape Francois, San Domingo, July 17, 1767 and educated in France, settling in Baltimore in 1797. He was a prolific writer, his paper, "An Account of a Case of Fistula Lachrymalis, with re- flections on the different modes of oper- ating in that disease," being the earliest Baltimore publication having refer- ence to diseases of the eye. ("Medical Repository," vol. vii, p. 28.)

He held the Montpellier M. D. and was consulting physician to the Baltimore Hospital and member of the faculty of Washington University. He died in Baltimore on January 5, 1848.

H. F.

Early History of Ophthalmology. Fried- wald, Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, 1897.

Charlton, Thomas Jackson (1S33-1886). Thomas Jackson Charlton was born in Bryan County and died in Savannah, Georgia (where most of his professional life was passed), on December S, 1SS6. He was the son of Dr. Thomas Jackson and Sarah Margaret Charlton. His grandmother was Emily, daughter of Thomas Walter, the author of "Flora Caroliniana," the first considerable work on southern botany. Dr. Charlton attend- ed Franklin College, now the University of ( ieorgia, and graduated from the Savan- nah Medical College, later becoming pro- fessor of obstetrics and clinical surgery there. While yet a student the yellow- fever epidemic of 1S57 occurred in Savan- nah and he promptly volunteered his ser- vices, as he had previously given them in the Norfolk epidemic. He received a gold medal from that grateful people. Prac-