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-
