Joseph Rochemont de Poyen (13 JUN 1767 Guadeloupe, France in the West Indies - 17 Feb 1850 Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts) was the son of Pierre Robert de Poyen Saint Sauveur (23 July 1740 Guadeloupe, France – 14 Oct 1792 Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts) and Marie Joseph Mauvif (born 1743 in Baie-Mahault, Guadeloupe, Guadeloupe). His father was a direct descendant of Marquis Jean de Poyen who emigrated from France to Guadeloupe in 1658. He was a planter in the village of Habitation Piton near Saint-Rose, Guadeloupe on the sea coast. Pierre Robert de Poyen Saint Sauveur (1740 – 1792) was the son of Jean Pierre de Poyen Saint Sauveur (1716 – 1757) and Marie Élisabeth van SCHALKWYCK of Sainte-Rose, Guadeloupe, France, in the West Indies, who ran a large sugar plantation before the French Revolution. "Saint Sauveur" signifies his branch of the Poyen lineage in Guadeloupe. His mother was the daughter of Jean Mathieu MAUVIF (1706 – 1743) and Anne Marie Rose HUBERT (1706 – 1743).

Recommend references:

1) “Histoire et civilisation de la Caraïbe: Le temps des matrices: économie et cadres sociaux du long XVIIIe siècle” ppgs 302 - 306 for an important look at the economics and anthropology of his plantation in Guadeloupe.

2) “Reminiscences of a Newburyport Nonagenarian by Sarah Smith Emery” – start on the bottom of page 183 - 186 for the story of his family in Massachusetts.

3) Independent research by Roland Henry Baker, III.

Pierre Robert de Poyen Saint Sauveur was the father of five sons and two daughters. He was a royalist and supported Louis the XVI and fled Guadeloupe after republicans executed two of his son: Robert de Poyen and Saint Sauveur de Poyen. He escaped with three sons: Dupiton de Poyen, Montrape de Poyen and Joseph Rochemont de Poyen (1767 – 1850), two daughters, a sister (Agathe Anastase de Poyen Saint Sauveur born 1752 in Guadeloupe who died later in Baltimore, Maryland after 1792, widow of Mr Laperelle) and a step-nephew, Count Francis de Vipart (François Félix Hector de VIPART MORAINVILLIERS 1776 - 1811) and arrived in Newburyport in March of 1792. He died just before the execution of Louis XVI.

His son Joseph Rochemont de Poyen (13 JUN 1767 Guadeloupe, France, West Indies - 17 Feb 1850 Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts) settled in the Rock's Bridge area of what is now called Merrimac, Essex, Massachusetts and married Sally Elliott (1781 – 1858) the daughter of Thomas Elliot (1752 – 1818) and Sarah Swett (1756 – 1833) on 5 mar 1805 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. They had nine children:


1) Elizabeth Josephine de Poyen (Jan 1804 Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts - 6 Apr 1868 Portland, Cumberland, Maine) married Stephen Patten (1805 – 1869) and had five children.

2) Marie Antoinette de Poyen (21 Jan 1808 Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts – 11 Oct 1895 Merrimac, Essex, Massachusetts), died unmarried.

3) Francis Louis Poyen (2 DEC 1810 Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts – 24 Aug 1838 Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts) married Lucy Ann Smith (1809 – 1887) mother of Francis Louis Poyen, 2nd Lt of the Union Army (1838 – 1866).

4) Sally Elliot de Poyen (2 Mar 1812 Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts - 9 Oct 1894 Merrimac, Essex, Massachusetts) married MOSES GOODRICH (1807 – 1873).

5) Abigail Rochemont Weld de Poyen (2 June 1816 Portland, Cumberland, Maine - 29 March 1841 Portland, Cumberland, Maine) married Matthew Franklin Whittier (1812 – 1883) and had three children.

6) Thomas Elliot de Poyen (02 Jun 1816 Merrimac, Essex, Massachusetts – 8 May 1881 Merrimac, Essex, Massachusetts) married Elizabeth Bailey Loring (1823 – 1905).

7) John Saint Sauveur de Poyen (22 Oct 1819 Merrimac, Essex, Massachusetts - 22 Feb 1880 Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe of yellow fever while visiting family) married Elizabeth B Kinnison (or Kennison) (1824 – 1901) and had five children.

8) Francette C de Poyen (1820 Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts - 24 May 1909 Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts) never married.

9) Lucy Maude St de Poyen (Mar 1825 Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts - 07 Jun 1878 Merrimac, Essex, Massachusetts) married Charles Henry Palmer, Sr (1819 – 1892) and had six children.

Pierre Robert de Poyen Saint Sauveur's step-nephew, Count Francis de Vipart, married Mary Ingalls. Mary Ingalls is the subject of the poem, "The Countess," written by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) the brother of Matthew Franklin Whittier (Abigail Rochemont WELD de Poyen's husband). Count Francis de Vipart's real name is François Félix Hector de VIPART MORAINVILLIERS (1776 - 1811) the son of Charles Louis Hector de VIPART de DRUMARD (1743 – 1783) and Marie Anne Thérèse NÉRON VERPRÉ (1739 – 1790). His father, Charles Louis Hector de VIPART de DRUMARD, was the brother of Marie Jeanne Augustine de VIPART (born 1753) who married Pierre Robert de Poyen Saint Sauveur's brother: Denis Benjamin POYEN SAINT SAUVEUR (born 1748). Hence the Count was Pierre Robert de Poyen Saint Sauveur's step-nephew. The Count married second Marie Joseph LAFORCE and had one daughter: Marie Félicité Adeline VIPART MORAINVILLIERS.


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