A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
Rose Ann Perret (Perry) was the oldest daughter of Abraham Perret (a watchmaker) and his wife Marie Ann. They were French-speaking Swiss who immigrated to the Selkirk Colonies north of what is now Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in about 1820. The conditions in the Selkirk Colony were not at all pleasant, and the Perrets left there in approximately 1823. They stayed for two years in what is now Pembina, North Dakota. Conditions there were extremely harsh and, having survived grass hopper infestations and prairie fires, they left Pembina for Minnesota. They followed the Red River and the Minnesota River, and were the first civilian settlers outside of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, in Saint Paul. A character nicknamed Pig's Eye Perrant was living in a cave along the river at that time, but the Perrets are considered the first settlers because they built a farmstead at Camp Coldwater, along the Mississippi. Some of the building foundations are still there. A historical marker was erected in that spot in the mid-1980’s. The Perrets had 14 children. The marriage of Rose Ann Perret and James Reuben Clewett is the first marriage of record in the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Some family members anglicized the French surname of Perret to Perry. The Minnesota Historical Society has quite a bit of information on the Perrets and Clewetts.
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