Jacques Mete' Descendants

Earl Metty entered the Navy in 1917 on the 16th of April in Detroit Michigan. He was assigned to theUSS Wakiva. His vessel departed US waters for Europe on August 25, l917. The ship was sunk on May 22, 1918 off the coast of France. The crew after being rescued were taken to Brest, France. After returning to the United States he was discharged on 1 October, 1919 at Pittsburgh, PA. He attained the rank of BM1C.

Leander's first wife, Marie Anne Mouton, apparently had a relatively short life span. After giving birth to his six children, she seems to have disappeared from recorded history. The first clue to be found was the 1850 census. Leander is listed as head of household residing in Mendon Township, St. Joseph County, Michigan. Living with him at that time were two of his sons, Solomon and Samuel, and his daughter Zoe who is believed to already be a widow. Also listed were Zoe's two daughters Marie and Caroline. Leander's youngest son is to be found listed in the household of his grandparents, Francis and Catherine Mouton.No record of Marie Anne is to be found. So what became of Marie Anne! The youngest son, William, was born in Dec of 1845. Did Marie Anne perhaps die as a result of this birth, or did she die accidentally or succumb to disease? These are questions to which we probably will never find an answer, unless it is to be found somewhere in the old courthouse records. And...

Leander, second son of Felix Metay and Catherine Le May, was united in marriage with Mary Ann Mouton, daughter of Francis Mouton and Catherine Navarre, on 10 January 1825 at St Antoine River Raisin. Mary Ann was the eldest child of Francis and Catherine, born 27 July 1810 at St. Antoine River Raisin. Thus she was just 14 years of age at the time of marriage while her husband was 26. Her father, Francis, was born circa 1772 at St Antoine River Raisin and her mother was born at the same place, sometime between 1792 and 1796. Francis and Catherine were married on 7 February 1809 before a civil magistrate and their marriage was ratified at St Antoine on 21 July 1810. In addition to Mary Ann, there were at least seven additional children: Frances b 16 Sep 1813; Francis b 12 Mar 1816; Gilbert b 13 July 1818 d 1904 bur St. Edward Cem, Mendon, MI m ca 1858 Catherine Lefleur, b 1842 Can. d 1909 Mendon; Genoni Silvester b. 15 Sep 1821; Catherine b 13 Aug 1824; Joseph b. 24 Jan 1828; and Oliver b...

Listed alphabetically below are the names of members of the METTY family who have been members of the armed forces of their country. This list is from the records I currently have in my possession and certainly is not all inclusive. If you have knowledge of someone with the surname METTY who is a descendant of Jacques Mete' and would like to have their name added to the list, please e-mail me their name, branch of service and dates of service if known and I will add them to this list. Alexis Metty, Michigan Calvary, entered 13 Dec 1862 and discharged 9 Jun 1865 Andrew Metty, Michigan Calvary, entered 2 Feb 1863 and discharged 17 Jul 1865 Anthony Metty, Territorial Militia, appointed ensigh 18 Dec 1824 Bernard Leroy Metty, U. S. Army, WWII Cleo Francis Metty, U. S. Coast Guard, entered 23 Sep 1958 and retired 30 Mar 1981 Cyril Metty, Michigan Infantry, entered 20 Feb 1865 and discharged 16 Sep 1865 Dennis Dale Metty, U. S. Navy Earl Gilbert Metty, U. S. Army, entered 19 Oct 1942 Ear...

This document can be found on the Bureau of Land Management website should you be interested in viewing or printing it. It is certificate #662 dated 24 July 1811 and begins: James Madison, President of the United States of America, to All to Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting: Know ye, that Felix Mette' ........ Note the spelling of our ancestors surname. The original french spelling had only one letter "t", but did have the accent mark on the final "e". This was 1811 and in the next few years, that final letter "e" would be changed to "y". But in the transition, there was a period of time during which the name was spelled Mettez. The land description places the property bordering on the River Rouge. Would it not be interesting to trace the ownership of this land and determine for what period of time it remained in the family and perhaps to what use it is being put to in our modern day!

For those of you familiar with Mendon, the sketches will aid you in visualizing the part Leander played in establishing the present town site. Unfortunately these are 8 1/2 by 11 pages and are not very legible, so if anyone wants copies of them, please contact me. Metty's Addition (first) was bounded by Main, Lake, State and Nottawa Streets. The Second addition was bounded by Main, Nottawa, Kline and the river. The following information appears in the History of St. Joseph County, MI 1877, published L. H. Everts & Co, Philadelphia, PA. p. 220 "... the next comer (to territory of Mendon Township) was Leander Metha, who came in from Monroe in 1835, and settled on the north side of the river on the present site of the village of Mendon... p. 221 "The first hewed log house was built by Leander Metha in 1834, near where Wakeman House now stands." p. 223 "The village of Mendon was first surveyed and platted in 1845, on the 22nd day of November, by Leander Metha, t...

Author: John McClellan Buckley, Vol. 1 page 512, published by Lewis Publisher 1913 FELIX METTY Among the early French settlers upon the River Raisin were several whose vigorous constitutions and simple mode of life carried them to a venerable age, an unusually large number of centenarians having passed nearly their whole lives in Monroe county. One of these notable Frenchmen was Felix Metty, who died here, almost upon the identical spot upon which he had lived for almost a century, at the age of one hundred and two years. The deceased was born in Canada, nearly opposite Detroit, in the year 1756. And at the period of early manhood removed to Detroit, where he participated in many of the perils and sufferings, incident to those times and to this frontier, until after the war of 1812, when he removed to Frenchtown and there remained till the day of his death. The old gentleman retained his vigor of body and mind until about a year before his death, walking regularly from the residence of...