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 dents. The original parish records of St. James Church, Vancouver, Wash- ington, and of St. Paul's Church, at St. Paul (formerly French Prairie), Oregon, are in the Roman CathoUc Chancery, Portland; photostats are in the library of the Oregon Historical Society.

State and county histories, newspaper articles, particularly obituaries and pioneer reminiscences, are other valuable sources for interesting bits of his- tory of Oregon residents when the region was still held jointly by England and the United States, populated largely by French speaking Canadians, and about to be invaded by American land seekers.

John Work's list of men comprising the various messes of his Cahfornia brigade includes the names given below. Veterans of the 1831-32 expedition will be indicated by an asterisk (*).

Mess No. I

F. C hampaigne— Frani^ois Champaigne* (or Champagne), a veteran of Work's Snake Brigade which returned to Fort Vancouver on July 27, 1832. A list of the members of that brigade is given in William S. Lewis and Paul C. Phillips, The Journal of John Work (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1923), pp. 63-66. Champaigne accompanied Work on his Ump- qua expedition of 1 834. See Oregon Index, p. 114. Work's sick list of August 1833 shows that Champaigne was accompanied by his wife and at least four children.

L. Boisvant— Louis Boisevant (also Boivers, Boisvert, etc.), a trapper. H. B. C. List, No. 336, 1823-24.

/. S. LaRoc que— Joseph. Sebastian LaRocque, or Larocque (sometimes given as Lorange*). H. B. C. List, No. 971, 1823-24; Oregon Index, p. 388.

LaRocque's woman companion, Marianne of the Cayuse, furnished ro- mantic excitement for the expedition. The couple is mentioned by later travelers in Cahfornia, where the pair returned after the discovery of gold. Charles Edward Pancoast, A Quaker Forty -Miner (Philadelphia: Univer- sity of Pennsylvania Press, 1930), pp. 323-24; Isaac Cox, The Annals of Trinity County (Eugene, Oregon: Printed for Harold Holmes by John Henry Nash, 1940), p. 6^. Cox erroneously calls Marianne a "pseudo-wife." The St. Paul Parish Register contains the following entry: "I, Tiberius Sanderino, have baptised Marianne LaRocque and have joined [her] in matrimony with Joseph Sebastian LaRocque. Age of wife twenty-seven years. This day, 20th May, 1845."

L. Quintall— Laurent Quintal*. H. B. C. List, No. 870, 1823-24; Oregon Index, p. 607. Quintal was called a "sly dog" by Alexander Ross.

T. Smith— Thomas Smith*, a trapper, whom Work called "a stupid, life- less fellow." Oregon Index, p. 692. This may be the notorious "Pegleg"