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Genealogy of Joseph Laframboise

Darcy John Bouchard. Li Exule 07/2013

I: French Family
Chart 4/5 b

Antoine
Desrosiers

Sophie
(Sylvie)
Trou

Antoine
Desrosiers

Guillon
Catherine
Dubord
Guerard
dit
Lafontaine

Alexander
Raoul

Pierre
Dubord

Anne
LeNeuf
du
Hrisson

Marie
Desrosiers

Marie
Claire
Raoult

Chart 2

Claire
Genevive
Dubord
dite
Lafontaine

Joseph
Marie
Trottier
de
la Bissonire

Chart 5
Chart 1: Claire Genevive Dubord dite Lafontaine

Michel
Mathieu
LeNeuf
du
Hrisson

Chart 1
Claire Genevive Dubord dite Lafontaine
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Michel Mathieu Leneuf du Hrisson son of Mathieu Leneuf de la Poterie and
Jeanne Lemarchand (Le Marchant)1 was born in 1601 - and he died (age 71) on 26
October 1672 at Trois-Rivires, St-Maurice, Qubec.
Anne LeNeuf du Hrisson daughter of Michel Mathieu Leneuf du Hrisson was
born about 1631 at Caen, Basse-Normandie, France - and she died (age ) on 16 October
1711 at Champlain, Champlain, Qubec.
Antoine Desrosiers was born on 20 August 1619 at Forez, Lyons, Bourgogne,
France - and he died (age 72) on 8 August 1691 at Trois-Rivires, Champlain, Qubec.
He was a Matre Charpentier (Master Carpenter), Royal Judge at Trois-Rivires, and an
employee of the Jesuits.
Antoine Desrosiers was born in 1591 at Renaison, Loire, France. Sylvia/Sylvie
Trou was born in 1595 in France. Antoine Desrosiers married Sylvia/Sylvie Trou in
1617 in France: One son is known: Antoine Desrosiers (1619-1691).
Antoine Desrosiers son of Antoine Desrosiers and Sylvia/Sylvie Trou married
Anne LeNeuf du Hrisson daughter of Michel Mathieu Leneuf du Hrisson on 24
November 1647 at Trois-Rivires, Qubec: Eight children are known: Marie Desrosiers
(1650-1722), Michel Desrosiers dit Dsilets (1652-1734), Joseph Desrosiers (1655-?),
Jean-Baptiste Baptiste Desrosiers dit Dutremble (1657-1704), Marie-Anne Desrosiers
(1661-1740), Antoine Desrosiers Lafrenire (1664-1742), Pierre-Marie Desrosiers (16671723), and Marie-Jeanne Desrosiers (1671-1687).
Alexander Raoul2was born on 20 December 1633 at Dey, France - and he died
(age 59) on 5 January 1692 in Champlain, Qubec.
Marie Desrosiers daughter of Antoine Desrosiers and Anne LeNeuf du Hrisson
was born and baptized on 16 June 1650 at Trois-Rivires, St-Maurice, Qubec - and she
died (age 72) on 28 November 1722 in Champlain, Qubec.
Alexander Raoul married child-bride (age 12) Marie Desrosiers daughter of
Antoine Desrosiers and Anne LeNeuf du Hrisson on 19 February 1663 at Trois-Rivires,
Qubec: Ten children are known: Joseph-Franois Raoul (1669-1733), Marie-Anne
Raoult (1673-?), Jean Baptiste Raoult (1676-?), Marie-Jeanne Raoult ou Raux (16781

Mathieu Leneuf de la Poterie and Jeanne Lemarchand (Le Marchant) - see Chart 4/5 b. Mathieu
Leneuf de la Poterie was cofounder of the "Communaut des Habitants des Trois-Rivires" in 1645. He
was also "lieutenant gnral civil et criminel."
Alexander Raoul aka "Alexandr Raoult," "Alexandr Rault," "Alexandr Rau," "Alexandr Rheau."

1709), Marie-Claire Rauolt (1680-1756), Michel Alexandr Raoult (1684-?), MarieMadeleine Raoult (1685-?), Marie-Francoise Raoult (1687-?), Alexis Raoult (1690-?),
and Marie-Anne Toutant (Rault) (deceased).
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Guillon Dubord dit Lafontaine [Soldat de Carignan] was born about 1636 at
Limousin, France - and he died (age 69) on 2 April 1705 at in Champlain, Qubec.
Catherine Guerard was born in 1642 at St-Etienne du Mont, Paris, le-deFrance, France - and he died (age 85) on 11 October 1727 at Champlain, Champlain,
Qubec.
Guillon Dubord dit Lafontaine [Soldat de Carignan] married Catherine
Guerard on 12 February 1670 at Champlain, Qubec: Eleven children are known: Pierre
Dubord (1671-1756), Maximin Dubord (1673-?), Antoinette Dubord (1676-1768)
(deceased), Etiennette Aurez (Laferriere) (Lafontaine) (~1676-?), Dominique Dubord dit
Lafontaine (1679-?), Charles DuBord dit LaFontaine dit Clermont (1681-1749), twins:
Joseph Dominique Dubord (1683-1759) and Jean-Baptiste Dubord (1683-1764), Daniel
Lafontaine dit Dubord (1688-?), Marie Madeline Dubord (1692-?), and Balthazar
Lafontaine dit Dubord (1694-?).
Pierre Dubord son of Guillon Dubord dit Lafontaine [Soldat de Carignan] and
Catherine Guerard was born in 1671 at Champlain, Champlain, Qubec - and he died
(age 85) 12 November 1756 at Champlain, Qubec.
Marie-Claire Rauolt daughter of Alexander Raoul and child-bride Marie
Desrosiers was born in 1680 at Qubec, Qubec - and she died (age ) on 26 January 1756
at Champlain, Qubec.
Pierre Dubord son of Guillon Dubord dit Lafontaine [Soldat de Carignan] and
Catherine Guerard married Marie-Claire Rauolt daughter of Alexander Raoul and
child-bride Marie Desrosiers on 9 January 1702 at Champlain, Qubec: Two daughters
are known: Marie-Antoinette Dubord (1715-1772) and Claire-Genevive Dubord dite
Lafontaine (1720-1754).
Claire-Genevive Dubord dite Lafontaine daughter of Pierre Dubord and
Marie-Claire Rauolt was born on 28 August 1720 at Champlain, Qubec - and she died
(age ) on 29 January 1754 at Batiscan, Qubec.

Jean
Lefebvre

Marguerite
LeSueur

Julien
Lefebvre

Jules
Trottier

Pierre
Loyseau

Magdeleine
Loys
Esrable
Cutiloup

Pierre
Julien
Lefebvre

Jules
Catherine
Gilles
Loisseau
Trottier
Belcourt
ou
Desruisseaux

Jeanne
Cutiloup

Pierre
Michel
Lefebvre
dit
Desctaux

Jeanne
Cutiloup

Pierre
Aunois

Anne
Marie
Cloutier

Jeanne
Aunois
dite
La Ceriseraie
Chart 3

Antoine
Trottier
dit
Desruisseaux
1

Marguerite
Domballe

Andr
Martel

Marie
Louis
Catherine Fafard
Lefebvre
dit
Longval

Marie
Luca
dite
Dontigni

Nol
Trottier
dit
Desruisseaux

Marguerite
Thrse
Fafard
dit
Longval

Chart 1

Claire
Genevive
Dubord
dite
Lafontaine

Joseph
Marie
Trottier
de la Bissonire

Chart 5
Chart 2: Joseph Marie Trottier de la Bissonire son of Nol Trottier dit Desruisseaux

Chart 2
Joseph Marie Trottier de la Bissonire
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Jules Trottier was born in 1564 at Saint-Martin, Provence-Alpes-Cte d'Azur,
France - and he died in France. Jules Trottier was a "charpentier de grosses oeuvres"
("carpenter/builder of large buildings").
Jules Gilles1 Trottier Belcourt ou Desruisseaux son of Jules Trottier was born
on 10 May 1590 at St. Martin D' Iger, Orne Au Perche, France - and he died (age 65) on
10 May 1655 at Trois-Rivires, Qubec. Jules Gilles Trottier Belcourt ou Desruisseaux
was a "charpentier de grosses oeuvres et laboureur" ("carpenter and laborer").
Pierre Loyseau was born about 1577...
Catherine Loiseau daughter of Pierre Loyseau was born in 1596 at St-Martin,
Provence-Alpes-Cte d'Azur, France - and she died (age 60) on 28 January 1656 at TroisRivires, St-Maurice Co., Qubec; her being buried at Trois-Rivires, Qubec. Jules
Gilles Trottier Belcourt ou Desruisseaux married Catherine Loiseau in 1625 at Ig, Orne,
France: Five children are known: Xaint Trottier (1633-1633), Julien Cabaret Trottier
(1636-1670), Antoine Trottier dit Desruisseaux (1640-1706), Pierre Trottier (~16421693), and Jean-Baptiste Trottier (1646-1703).2
Antoine Trottier dit Desruisseaux son of Jules Gilles Trottier Belcourt ou
Desruisseaux and Catherine Loiseau was born on 21 January 1640 at St. Martin d' Ige,
Perche, France - and he died (age 66 ) on 5 December 1706 at Bastican, Champlain,
Qubec. Antoine Trottier dit Desruisseaux was also known as Sieur Desruisseaux,
Marchand Batiscan et seigneurie de l'Isle aux Hrons, Sieur DesRuisseaux ("Of the
Brooks").
ii a
Jean Lefebvre dit Desctaux was born in 1538 at Calvados, Basse-Normandie,
France - and he died (age 99) in 1637 at Basse-Normandie, France.
Marguerite LeSueur in 1542 at Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France - and she
died at Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France.
Jean Lefebvre dit Desctaux married Marguerite LeSueur...: One child, a son
named Julien Lefebvre (1563-~1650) was born.
1
2

Gilles Trottier (also called Jules or Julien) was born around 1590 in the parish of St-Martin d'Ige, in the
district of Montagne, France.
Jean-Baptiste Trottier was born on the ship "Cardinal" en route from France to Qubec on 27
September 1646 - and he died (age 57) 24 May 1703 in Qubec: He was a "meunier et charron" ("miller
and wheelwright").

Julien Lefebvre son of Jean Lefebvre dit Desctaux married Marguerite

LeSueur was born on 22 October 1563 at Perche, Blain, Pays de la Loire, France - and he
died (age 87) in 1650 at St-Jean-de-Liversay, Charente-maritime, Poitou-Charentes,
France.
Magdeleine Esrable was born 22 October 1653 at Perche, Blain, Pays de la
Loire, France - and she died (age ) in 1650 at St-Jean-de-Liversay, Charente-Maritime,
Poitou-Charentes, France.
Julien Lefebvre son of Jean Lefebvre dit Desctaux married Marguerite
LeSueur married Magdeleine Esrable in 1590 in France: Three children are known:
Pierre-Julien Lefebvre (1594 - 1646), Nicolas Ladouceur Lefebvre (c.1603-?), and
Robert Lefebvre (1611-1673).
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Loys Cutiloup was born in 1640 at Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie,
France - and he died (?) 28 August 1687 in Qubec.
Marguerite Domballe was born in 1577 at St Germaine, Centre, France - and she
died in France.
Loys Cutiloup married Marguerite Domballe: One daughter named Jeanne
Cutiloup is known...
Jeanne Cutiloup was born 16 July 1597 at le-de-France, France - and she died
(age 100) on 11 February 1697 at le-de-France, France.

Pierre-Julien Lefebvre1 son of Julien Lefebvre and Magdeleine Esrable married

Jeanne Cutiloup son of Loys Cutiloup and Marguerite Domballe: Two children are
known: Pierre Michel Lefebvre dit Desctaux (1616 - 1668) and Pasquire-Perrine
Lefebvre (1627-1695).
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Jeanne Aunois dite La Ceriseraie daughter of Pierre Aunois and Marie-Anne
Cloutier (both of France) was born in 1616 at Sceaux, Arch Diocese of Paris, Haute de
Seine, France [or born in 1621] - and she died (age 81) on 11 February 1697 at
L'Immacule Conception, Trois Rivires, St. Maurice, Qubec.
Jeanne Cutiloup was born in 1595 at Paris, Paris, le-de-France, France...
Pierre Michel Lefebvre dit Desctaux son of Pierre-Julien Lefebvre and
Jeanne Cutiloup was born 20 October 1616 at Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, le-de-France,
France - and he died (age ) on 16 July 1668 at Cap de la Madeleine, St-Maurice, Qubec.
Pierre Michel Lefebvre dit Desctaux son of Pierre-Julien Lefebvre and
Jeanne Cutiloup was twice married: He first married Jeanne Cutiloup... He arrived in
Qubec in 1640 - and became one of the important citizens of Trois-Rivires. He next
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Pierre Lefebvre had come from Sceaux by 1642. His presence was first noted at Trois-Rivires on 11
April 1643, in a case opposing the brothers Michel and Jacques Leneuf against Guillaume Isable. The
former were accused of kicking and beating the latter. The fact of his having been a witness to the charge
must not have left the Leneuf's with any rancor, because Jacques and Marie-Marguerite Leneuf were
godfather and godmother to Pierre Lefebvre's eldest son, Jacques, on 12 January 1647. Certain
genealogists assert that ancestor Lefebvre arrived in New France already married to Jeanne
Aunois/Auneau, but it is more likely that their marriage was celebrated at Trois-Rivires about 1646.
Neither the civil nor marriage record have been recovered, however, a contract recorded by Severin
Ameau, dated 2 September 1663 indicates that Pierre Lefebvre was a native of Sceaux and that his father
was also named Pierre.
Pierre acquired his first land grant from Governor Charles Hualt de Montmagny on 15 August
1644. According to historian Marcel Trudel, this plot had an area of thirty arpents and was bordered by
land belonging to the heirs of Etienne Vien, to Jacques Aubuchon dit le Loyal and a third piece to the
"sauvages." A Large Land Owner: On 16 April 1647, the Company of New France ceded to Pierre
Lefebvre, at the same time as to Nicolas Marsolet, a grant of a quarter league in frontage by a league in
depth, whose southwest boundary extended to the mouth of the Gentilly River. The Marsolet domain,
situated upstream of Lefebvre's was allotted to him en fief et seigneurie with the right to dispense justice.
These two pieces of land where joined into a single fief in 1676. On 1 June 1674, Governor Montmagny,
bestowed another favor on the tireless Pierre Lefebvre. Along with Guillaume Pepin, Guillaume Isable
and Sebastien Dodier, he allowed him to clear the Ile de Mileau, across from their homes.
Captured by the Iroquois: Pierre Lefebvre spent three long months as a captive among the
Iroquois and returned in October in the company of one of the latter, who had managed to escape his
guards at Trois-Rivires some time earlier. On 14 June 1650, Pierre acquired a "peid terre" in TroisRivires: It measured twenty "toises" in frontage by the same in depth, near the palisade, between rue StFranois-Xavier and the place of Bertrand Fafard dit Laframboise. On this land stood a house shared
by him and Fafard. Thirteen years later in a lawsuit brought by Pierre Lefebvre against Jacques and
Ren Besnard, it was inferred that this house, which today would be on Turcotte terrace, had had not
roof for the past two years and was in a state of decay. A bit later Pierre became the proprietor of a small
island named l'Islet, situated at the mouth of the St-Maurice River between the mainland and the Ile de la
Trinite' (Saint Quentin).

married Jeanne Aunois dite La Ceriseraie daughter of Pierre Aunois and Marie-Anne
Cloutier in 1646 at Trois-Rivires, Qubec:1 Eight children are known: Jacques Lefebvre
II dit Desile (1647-1720) First Seigneur of Baie-du Febvre and founder of the Baie-StAntoine parish, Marie-Catherine Lefebvre (1648-1705), lisabeth Lefebvre (~16511687), Elisabeth Lefebvre (1651-?), Michel Lefebvre dit LaSiseraye (1654-1708), Ignace
Lefebvre (1656-1740), Ange Lefebvre dit Desctaux (1658- 735), and Pierre Lefebvre
(1661-1745).
Marie-Catherine Lefebvre daughter of Pierre Michel Lefebvre dit Desctaux
and Jeanne Aunois dite La Ceriseraie was born on 4 December 1648 at Trois-Rivires,
St. Maurice, Qubec - and she died (age 57) on 29 November 1705 at Batiscan,
Champlain, Qubec.
Marie-Catherine Lefebvre daughter of Pierre Michel Lefebvre dit Desctaux
and Jeanne Aunois dite La Ceriseraie was twice married: She fist married Antoine
Trottier dit Desruisseaux son of Jules Gilles Trottier Belcourt ou Desruisseaux and
Catherine Loiseau on 2 September 1663 at Trois-Rivires, Qubec: Nine children are
known: Nol Trottier dit Desruisseaux (1674-1720), Marie Catherine Trottier de
Beaubien (~1679-1731), Franois-Marie Trottier (1679-1744), Antoine Trottier dit
Pombert (1681-?), Marie-Anne Anne Trottier (1682-1738), Michel-Louis Trottier (~16711723), Julien Trottier Desrivires (~1687-~1737), Alexis Trottier (deceased) and Joseph
Trottier (deceased)
Marie-Catherine Lefebvre also married Andr Martel (~1645-?).
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Nol Trottier dit Desruisseaux son of Antoine Trottier dit Desruisseaux and
Marie-Catherine Lefebvre was born in 1674 - and he died on 14 April 1720...
Nol Trottier dit Desruisseaux son of Antoine Trottier dit Desruisseaux and
Marie-Catherine Lefebvre married child-bride (age 13) Marie-Thrse Fafard dite
Longval daughter of Louis Fafard dit Longval and Marie Luca dit Dontigni on 10
January 1701 at Qubec, Qubec: Three children are known: Marie-Franoise Trottier dit
Labissonire (1708-1759), Joseph-Marie Trottier de la Bissonire (1718-1758), and
Marie-Exupre Trottier (1719-?).
Joseph-Marie Trottier de la Bissonire son of Nol Trottier dit Desruisseaux
and Marie-Thrse Fafard dite Longval was born 16 May 1718 at Batiscan, Qubec - and
he died on 1 April 1758 at Batiscan, Qubec.
1

Some genealogists seem to think that Pierre arrived in la Nouvelle-France already married to Jeanne
Aunois, but their wedding probably took place in Trois-Rivires around 1646. Notes by Father Archang
Godbout (a pioneer of Trois Rivres) maintains that Aunois is wrong and that it is probably Auneau
(Auno or Aunos). Nevertheless Jeanne`s name all official documents is Aunois. We never found the
register or the marriage contract to verify this, but papers prepared by the lawyer Svarin Ameau on 2
September 1663 indicate that Pierre was born in Sceaux and that his father was also called Pierre.

Joseph-Marie Trottier de la Bissonire son of Nol Trottier dit Desruisseaux

and Marie-Thrse Fafard dite Longval married Claire-Genevive Dubord dite
Lafontaine daughter of Pierre Dubord and Marie-Claire Rauolt on 21 April 1743 at
Champlain, Qubec.
Continued Chart 3

Chart 2/3 a
Marie Sdilot daughter of Louis Sdilot
Chart 2
Grimoult
Jean lizabeth
Marie
Fafard Tibou Antoinette
(Thibault) LeVerdier
1

Jules
Pierre
Trottier Loyseau

Marie
Louis
Marie Bonaventure Jules Catherine
Challe Sdilot Grimoult
Pagnon
Trottier Loiseau
(Cherier)

2
Chart 2
Ren
Benard
Bertrand
ou
Marie
Jules
Marie
Fafard
Besnard
Sdilot Cabaret Sdilot
dit
dit
Trottier
Laframboise Bourjoli
Sieur
de Bourgery
1
2

Chart 3

Antoine
Marie
Trottier
Catherine
dit
Lefebvre
Desruisseaux

Chart 2

Insert Chart 2/3 b: Marie Sdilot daughter of Louis Sdilot

Jean Fafard was born about 1595 at St-Jean-Baptiste Et St-Patrice D'argences,

AR. Caen, v. Bayeux, Normandie or Calvados, France; being christened in 1694 at
Argences, Calvados, France - and he died (age 101) in 1696 in Hotot En Auge, Lisieux,
Normandie, France.
lizabeth Tibou (Thibault) was born about 1600 at St Jean Baptiste Or HototEn-Auge, Caen, Calvados / Normandie, France - and she died (age 47) in 1647 at St JeanBaptiste, St Patrice d'Argences, Normandie, France.
Marie-Antoinette LeVerdier was born about 1599 at d'Hotot-en-Auge, Lisieux,
Normandie, France being baptized (age 11) in France - and she died (age ~97) in 1696 at
Hotot-en-Auge, Calvados
Jean Fafard was married twice: He first married lizabeth Tibou (Thibault) in
1619 at Rouen, Normandie, France: One daughter named Franoise Fafard (1624-1702)
was born. Jean Fafard next married Marie-Antoinette LeVerdier (age 19) in 1618 at

Lisieux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France: Two sons are known: Bertrand Fafard dit
LaFramboise (~1620-1660), and Franois Fafard dit Delorme (1630-1711).
Louis Sdilot dit Montreuil was born about 1600 " Gif-sur-Yvette, Palaiseau,
Paris, Essonne, France"; being baptized in 1600 at Essonne, Gif-sur-Yvette, France - and
he died (age 72) on 25 January 1672 at Qubec City, Qubec.
Marie Challe aka Cherier aka Chasle was born about 1600 at Montreuil,
Picardie, France - and she died in France.
Marie Grimoult daughter of Grimoult was born about 1600 at Picardie,
Palaiseau, Paris, France - and she died (age 82) on 25 January 1682 at Qubec, Qubec.
Louis Sdilot dit Montreuil first married Marie Challe aka Cherier aka Chasle
in 1626 in France: One daughter, Marie Sdilot, is known... Louis Sdilot dit Montreuil
next married Marie Grimoult daughter of Grimoult widow of Bonaventure Pagnon in
1626 at Gif-sur-Yvette (St-Rmi), France: Seven children are known: Jacqueline Sdilot
(1637-1667), Adrien Sedilot (1639-1715), tienne Sedilot dit Desnoyers (1640-1688),
Marguerite Sdilot (1643-1672), Marie Sdilot (1644-1687), Jean Adrien Dit Montreuil
Sedilot (1647-1687) - a voyageur into Illinois Territory, and Jean Sdilot dit Montreuil
(deceased).
Marie Sdilot daughter of Louis Sdilot and Marie Challe aka Cherier aka
Chasle was born on 21 October 1634 at Montreuil, Ile-de-France, France - and she died
(age 55) on 11 June 1689 at Trois-Rivires, Qubec.
Marie Sedilot daughter of Louis Sdilot dit Montreuil and Marie Grimoult was
born 21 October 1644 at Qubec.
Bertrand Fafard dit Laframboise son of Jean Fafard and Marie-Antoinette
LeVerdier was born about 1620 at Hotot-en-Auge, Lisieux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie,
France; being christened about 1620 at Argences, Calvados, France - and he died (age 40)
on 3 November 1660 at Trois-Rivires, St Maurice, Quebec.
Ren Benard ou Besnard dit Bourjoli, Sieur de Bourgery son of Jean Besnard1
and Madeleine Maillard2 was born about 12 February 1625 at Villers- Charlamagne,
Chateau-Gontier, Angers, Anjou, France - and he died (age 64) and was buried on 12
June 1689 at Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Qubec.
Marie Sdilot daughter of Louis Sdilot and Marie Challe aka Cherier aka
Chasle was twice married: She first married Bertrand Fafard dit Laframboise on 21
December 1640 at Qubec: Five children are known: Joseph Fafard (1645-1666), Louis
Fafard dit Longval (~1649-1717), Stephanie-tiennette Fafard (1652-1721), Jean-

1
2

Jean Besnard was born about 1600in France.

Madeleine Maillard was born in 1619.

Baptiste Fafard dit LaFramboise (1656-1714) [see Chart 3], and Marie-Jeanne Fafard
(1659-1664).
Marie Sdilot daughter of Louis Sdilot and Marie Challe aka Cherier aka
Chasle next married Ren Benard ou Besnard dit Bourjoli, Sieur de Bourgery on 2
February 1661 at Trois-Rivires, Qubec:P Six children are known: Marie-Anne Bnard
dite Besnard (Bernard Bourjolie) (1661-1719), Joseph Benard (dit Bourjoli) (1662-?),
Marie-Jeanne Besnard (1664-?), Maurice Benard dit Bourjoli (1666-?), Isabelle Benard
dit Bourjoli (1668-?), Ren Benard dit Bourjoli (1670-?).
Jules Cabaret Trottier son of Jules Gilles Trottier Belcourt ou Desruisseaux
Catherine Loiseau was born on 30 March 1636 at St-Martin D'ige, Mortagne, Orne,
France - and he died (age 34) 21 September 1670 at Cap-de-la-Madeleine, , Qubec.
Jules Cabaret Trottier son of Jules Gilles Trottier Belcourt ou Desruisseaux
Catherine Loiseau - brother of Antoine Trottier dit Desruisseaux married Marie Sedilot
daughter of Louis Sdilot dit Montreuil and Marie Grimoult on 16 August 1660 at
Qubec: Two children are known: Elizabeth Blanchet Trottier (1664-1699) and Catherine
Trottier (1665-1735).

Mathurin Jeanne
Jean
Turcot
Belion Guinandeau

Jeanne
Baron

Jean
Marie
Franois
Perrette
Martin Rene
Fafard Antoinette Turcot(te) Josphte Lucas Houbert
LeVerdier
Guinandeau
or
Punandeau
Ren
Benard
ou
Besnard
dit
Bourjoli
Sieur
de Bougery

Bertrand
Fafard
dit
Laframboise

Marie
Sdilot

Jean
Turcot

Jacques
Lucas
dit
Lpine

Jacques
Marchand

Franoise
Capel

3
Charts 4 & 5

Jean-Baptiste
Fafard
dit
Laframboise

Louis
Fafard
dit
Longval

Marie Franoise
Luca
Marchand
dite
Dontigni

Pierre
Madeleine
Nol
Boucher
LeGardeur

Chart 2

Nol
Trottier
dit
Desruisseaux

Marguerite
Thrse
Fafard
dite
Longval

Joseph
Marie
Trottier
de la Bissonire

Chart 2

Jean-Baptiste
Laframboise

Marie
Charlotte
LeGardeur

Jean-Baptiste
Fafard
dit
Laframboise

Chart 5

Chart 3: Joseph Marie Trottier de la Bissonire & Jean-Baptiste Fafard dit Laframboise

Chart 3
Joseph Marie Trottier de la Bissonire & Jean-Baptiste Fafard dit Laframboise
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Jean Turcot son of Franois Turcot(te)1 and Perrette Josphte Guinandeau or
Punandeau2 was born 7 May 1641 at Fontenay-le-Comte, Poitou, France - and he died
(age ) on 19 August 1652 at Trois-Rivires, St-Maurice, Qubec. Note: tue par les
Iroquois.
Jacques Lucas dit Lpine son of Martin Lucas and Rene Houbert was born
about 1620 in France - and he died (age 39) 12 September 1659 at Trois-Rivires, StMaurice, Qubec.
Jacques Marchand was born in 1636 at Caen, Normandie, France - and he died
(age 59) on 6 October 1695 at Trois-Rivires, St-Maurice, Qubec.
Franoise Capel was born in 1626 at Normandie, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
- and she died (age 73) on 19 April 1699 at Champlain, Champlain, Qubec. Franoise
Capel was married three times: She first married Jean Turcot son of Franois Turcot(te)
and Perrette Josphte Guinandeau or Punandeau on 25 April 1651 at Trois-Rivires, StMaurice, Qubec: One son is known: Jacques Turcot(te) (1652- 1699). Franoise Capel
next married Jacques Lucas dit Lpine son of Martin Lucas and Rene Houbert on 9
November 1653 at Trois-Rivires, St-Maurice, Qubec: Three children are known: Marie
Luca dit Dontigni (1655-1700), Francois Lucas (1658-1699), and Alexander Lucas
(deceased). Franoise Capel next married Jacques Marchand on 1 February 1660 at
Trois-Rivires, St-Maurice, Qubec: Six children are known: Francoise Marchand
(~1654-1739), Marth-Madeleine Marchand (Lemarchand) (1660-1722), Marguerite
LeMarchand (~1664-?), Alexis Marchand (LeMarchand) (~1670-1738), Capt. JeanBaptiste Louis DeCourtel Marchand (~1680-~1730),3 and Marguerite LeMarchand
(deceased).

Franois Turcot(te) son of Mathurin Turcot and Jeanne Belion was born in 1600 at Bas, Haute-Loire,
Auvergne, France - and he died (age 51) on 25 April 1651 at Bas, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, France.
Perrette Josphte Guinandeau or Punandeau daughter of Jean Guinandeau and Jeanne Baron was
born in 1605 at Maillezais, Vendee, Pays de la Loire, France - and she died (age 46) on 25 April 1651 at
Fontenay le Comte, Poitou, France. Franois Turcot(te) married Perrette Josphte Guinandeau or
Punandeau: Four children are known: lisabeth Turcot (~1630-1635), Abel Turcault (1631-1687),
tienne Turcot (1634-?), and Jean Turcot (1641-1652).
Little is known about Captain Marchands' early life: It is known that Jean was first at Fort Cond in the
French Colony at Mobile and Captain in the French Marines commanding the French colonial trading
Fort Toulouse, near present day Wetumpka, Alabama. In 1720, he married Sehoy of the prestigious
Wind Clan of the Creek Nation: Their children were Sehoy II (April 1722-1799) and Chief Red Shoes
(died 1783/84). Sometime in 1722, he was murdered by his own men in a mutiny who had apparently
become fed up and frustrated over shortages of food, supplies and pay.

Marie Luca dit Dontigni daughter of Jacques Lucas dit Lpine and Franoise
Capel was born on 22 January 1655 at Trois-Rivires, St-Maurice, Qubec; being
baptized on 22 January 1655 at Immacule Conception de Trois-Rivires - and she died
(age 45) and was buried on 29 November 1700 at Trois-Rivires, St-Maurice, Qubec.
Franoise Marchand daughter of Jacques Marchand and Franoise Capel was
born about 1654 at Qubec. Qubec; being baptized in 1664 - and she died (age 75) on 17
February 1739 at Trois-Rivires, St Maurice, Qubec.
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Jean-Baptiste Fafard dit LaFramboise son of Bertrand Fafard dit Laframboise
and Marie Sdilot was born and christened on 25 February 1656 at Trois-Rivires, StMaurice, Qubec - and he died (age 58) July 1714 at Trois-Rivires, St-Maurice, Qubec.
Jean-Baptiste Fafard dit LaFramboise married Franoise Marchand daughter of
Jacques Marchand and Franoise Capel on 8 November 1683 at La Prade, Qubec:
One son is known: Jean-Baptiste LaFramboise (1694-1771).
Louis Fafard dit Longval, Sieur de Longval et Batiscan, a merchant, son of
Bertrand Fafard dit Laframboise and Marie Sdilot was born and baptized about 14
November 1649 at Trois-Rivires, St-Maurice, Qubec - and died (age 68) on 4 February
1717 at Batiscan (St-Franois-Xavier) , Qubec. Louis Fafard dit Longval was twice
married: He first married child-bride (age 17) Marie Luca dit Dontigni daughter of
Jacques Lucas dit Lpine and Franoise Capel on 10 November 1671 at Batiscan,
Champlain, Qubec: One daughter is known: Marie-Thrse Fafard dite Longval
(1688-1753).
Louis Fafard dit Longval next married Franoise Lafond daughter of tienne
Pepin De Lafond dit Mongrain and Dame Marie Boucher... - infer.
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Marie-Thrse Fafard dite Longval daughter of Louis Fafard dit Longval and
Marie Luca dit Dontigni was born on 1 August 1688 at Trois-Rivires, Qubec - and she
died (age 65) on 14 September 1753 at Batiscan (St-Franois-Xavier) , Qubec.
Nol Trottier dit Desruisseaux son of Antoine Trottier dit Desruisseaux and
Marie-Catherine Lefebvre married child-bride (age 13) Marie-Thrse Fafard dite
Longval daughter of Louis Fafard dit Longval and Marie Luca dit Dontigni on 10
January 1701 at Qubec, Qubec: Three children are known: Marie-Franoise Trottier dit
Labissonire (1708-1759), Joseph-Marie Trottier de la Bissonire (1718-1758), and
Marie-Exupre Trottier (1719-?).

FIRST FRENCH FAMILY

Gaspard
Boucher

Nicole
Lemer

Nicole
Lemaire

Huron
Pierre
Marie
Marie
Boucher
Chrtienne Jeanne
Sieur
Crevier
de Grosbois
et Boucherville
1
2

Marin
Boucher

Dame
tienne
Marie
Pepin
Boucher
De Lafond
dit
Mongrain

Julien Catherine
Lesieur Le Sache

Charts 4 & 5
Pierre
Nol
Legardeur

Jean-Baptiste
Laframboise

Madeleine Marguerite Marie

Louis
Franoise
Boucher
Vollant
Luca
Fafard
Lafond
dit
dit
Dontigni Longval
1
2

Marie
Charlotte
LeGardeur

Charles
Lesieur
dit
Lapierre

Nol
Marguerite
Trottier
Thrse
dit
Fafard
Desruisseaux
dite
Longval

Chart 5

Chart 2

Chart 3/4: Descendants of Gaspard Boucher

Chart 3/4
Descendants of Gaspard Boucher
Refer to Notes for Chart 5
Dame Marie Boucher daughter of Gaspard Boucher and Nicole Lemaire was
born on 22 January 1629 at Notre-Dame, Mortagne-Au-Perche, Basse-Normandie,
France - and she died (age 77) on 29 November 1706 at Batiscan, Qubec.

tienne Pepin De Lafond dit Mongrain son of Pierre Lafond and Franoise
Prieur was born about 1615 at St-Laurent-de-la-Barrire, Saintonge, France - and he died
(age 50) on 9 September 1665 at Trois-Rivires, Qubec. He was a domestic with the
Ursulines, a Royal Notary, and a carpenter.
tienne Pepin De Lafond dit Mongrain son of Pierre Lafond and Franoise
Prieur married Dame Marie Boucher daughter of Gaspard Boucher and Nicole Lemaire
on 30 January 1645 at Qubec, Qubec: Seven children are known: Jean de Lafond
(1646-1716), Genevive de Lafond (1652-1703), Marie Lafond (1654-?), Pierre Lafond
dit Mongrain (~1655-~1720), Franoise Lafond (1658-~1717), tienne Lafond (16611689), and Augustin Ppin de Lafond (1664-?).
Julien Lesieur was born about 1620 at Deauville, Calvados Dpt., BasseNormandie Rgion [Prev. Normandie], France...
Catherine Le Sache was born about 1625 at Ozeville, Normandie, France...
Julien Lesieur married Catherine Le Sache: One child is known: Charles
Lesieur dit Lapierre was born about 1647 at Ozeville, Cherbourg, Normandie, France and he died (age 50) probably of a heart attack on14 January 1697 at Batiscan, Qubec.
He was "procureur fiscal de la Cte et Notaire-royal" in Batiscan.
Within two years of his arrival in Nouveau France in 1668, Charles Lesieur
became a notary for the Jesuits taking care of their land transactions and acted as their
fiscal procurer. At age twenty six, circa 1672, he was given the seigneurial title of Sieur
de la Pierre by the Jesuits who had large seigneurial holdings in Nouveau France. Very
shortly afterwards, in the same year, he married Francoise LaFond daughter of Pierre
LaFond and Marie Boucher.1
Franoise Lafond daughter of tienne Pepin De Lafond dit Mongrain and Dame
Marie Boucher was born and baptized on 8 July 1658 at Trois-Rivires, St-Maurice Co.,
Qubec - and she died (age 59) on 1 October 1717 at Montral, Qubec. She was twice
married: She first married Charles Lesieur dit Lapierre on 11 October 1671 at Qubec
City, Qubec.
Franoise Lafond daughter of tienne Pepin De Lafond dit Mongrain and Dame
Marie Boucher first married Charles Lesieur dit Lapierre on 11 October 1671 at
Qubec, Qubec: Nine children are known: Charles Lesieur (1674-1739), Pierre Lesieur
(~1677-), Julien Lesieur Lapierre (~1679-1715), Augustin Lesieur (1682-), Jean-Baptiste
Lesieur dit Desaunier dit Desaulniers (1686-1740), Joseph Lesieur dit Coulomb (16881723), Marie-Catherine Catherine Lesieur (1691-), Antoine Lesieur dit Lapierre (16931736), and Marie-Franoise Lesieur (1695-1758).

Marie Boucher was the sister of Pierre Boucher, Governor of Trois Rivires and Sieur de Grosbois.
Pierre owned the land which was later - around 1704 - to be the town of Yamachiche and surrounding
areas.

Franoise Lafond next married Louis Fafard dit Longval on 19 July 1703 at
Batiscan, Champlain, Qubec: No children are known.

Robert
Le Gardeur

Pierre
Le Tavernier
Sieur
du Jardin

Pierre
Langlois

Jean
Jeanne
Le Gardeur Le Tavernier
de Croisille

Boniface
Le Gardeur
de Tilly
de Mutrecy

Louise
de Monfriard

Pierre
Magdeleine
de Corday
de Montesson
Sieur
de Repentigny

cuyer
Ren
Le Gardeur
Sieur
de Tilly

Rene

Christoph Marie
Juchereau Cochon

Jean Robert
Creste Aubin

Jean
Langlois

Sieur
Jean
Juchereau
de More

Jeanne
Creste
de St-Denis

Capitaine
Guillaume
Jean
Langlois

Dame
Catherine
de Corday

Sieur
Jean
Aulnets
Juchereau
de St-Denis
de Maur

Charles
Le Gardeur
de Tilly

Jacques
Millet

Jeanne
Vicent

Jeanne
Millet

Chart 5

Madeleine
Boucher

Chart 5
Chart 4: Charles LeGardeur de Tilly & Genevive Juchereau

Edouard Anne
Vicent Fanfield

Marie
Catherine
Langlois

Genevive
Juchereau

Pierre
Nol
Le Gardeur
de Tilly

Jacques tiennette
Millet Berthais

Marguerite
Vollant

Chart 4
Charles LeGardeur de Tilly & Genevive Juchereau

i
Robert Le Gardeur was born about 1450 - he was the father of Jean Le Gardeur
de Croisille. Jean Le Gardeur de Croisille son of Robert Le Gardeur was born about
1480 in France - he married Jeanne Le Tavernier daughter of Pierre Le Tavernier, Sieur
du Jardin. Jeanne Le Tavernier daughter of Pierre Le Tavernier, Sieur du Jardin was
born about 1489 - and she married Jean Le Gardeur de Croisille: Three sons: Jean Le
Gardeur de Croisille, Philippe Le Gardeur, and Boniface Le Gardeur de Tilly de Mutrecy.
Boniface Le Gardeur de Tilly de Mutrecy son of Jean Le Gardeur de Croisille
and Jeanne Le Tavernier is known born at Thury, Harcourt, Normandie, France - and he
died on 31 August 1566 at Caen, Thury-Harcourt, Normandie, (Calvados), France.
Boniface Le Gardeur de Tilly de Mutrecy married Louise de Monfriard: Six sons are
known: Seigneur Guillaume Le Gardeur de Tilly, Sieur Robert Le Gardeur de l'Isle, Sieur
Jacques Le Gardeur de Haymille, Roland Le Gardeur de Tilly, and cuyer Rene Le
Gardeur Sieur de Tilly. Louise de Monfriard also died at Caen, Thury-Harcourt,
Normandie, (Calvados), France.
cuyer Ren Le Gardeur Sieur de Tilly son of Boniface Le Gardeur de Tilly
and Louise Monfriard was born about 1557 at Thury, Normandie, France - and he died
(age ~79) in 1636 at Lisieux, Calvados, Normandie, France.
Pierre de Corday, Sieur de Repentigny married Magdeleine de Montesson:
one daughter, Dame Catherine de Corday, was born about 1568 at Thury-Arcourt,
Calvados, Normandie, France - and she died (age 89) on 7 July 1657 at Trois-Rivires,
Qubec: It is not known whence she immigrated. cuyer Ren Le Gardeur, Sieur de
Tilly son of Boniface Le Gardeur de Tilly and Louise Monfriard married Dame Catherine
de Corday daughter of Pierre de Corday, Sieur de Repentigny and Magdeleine de
Montesson: Three children, two sons and a daughter are known born: Marie-Marguerite
Legardeur,1 Sieur Pierre Legardeur de Repentigny (~1605-1648), and Charles Le
Gardeur de Tilly (1616-1695).
Charles Le Gardeur de Tilly son of cuyer Ren Le Gardeur, Sieur de Tilly, and
Dame Catherine de Corday was born about 1616 at Thury-Harcourt, Calvados,
Normandie, France - and he died (age 79) on 10 November 1695 at Qubec, Qubec.

ii
1

Marie-Marguerite Legardeur daughter of cuyer Ren Le Gardeur Sieur de Tilly and Dame
Catherine Corday married Jacques LeNeuf de La Poterie (~1604-1687) son of Mathieu LeNeuf de la
Poterie and Jeanne Lemarchand / Le Marchant: See Insert Chart 4/5: Jacques LeNeuf de la Poterie &
Marie-Marguerite Legardeur.

Christoph Juchereau was born about 1540 - and he died (age 123) about 1663.
Marie Cochon was born about 1545 at Tourouvre, Orne, France - and she died (age 60)
on 3 April 1605 at Tourouvre, Orne, France. Christoph Juchereau married Marie
Cochon: One son, Jean Juchereau, is known born at Tourouvre, Orne, France - and he
died in 1692 at Tourouvre, Orne, France.
Jeanne Creste de St-Denis daughter of Jean Creste and Robert Aubin was born
about 1658 at Tourouvre, Orne, France - and she died (age 39) on 11 August 1597 at
Tourouvre, Orne, France.
Jean Juchereau married Jeanne Creste de St-Denis: Three sons are known:
Pierre Juchereau,1 Sieur Jean Aulnets Juchereau de St-Denis (1592-1672), and Sieur
Nol Juchereau de Chatelets (~1593-~1648), who arrived in Qubec in 1632.

iii
Jean Langlois son of Pierre Jean Langlois and Rene was born about 1540 at
Saint Jean d`Angely, Charente Maritime, Poitou, Charentes, France - and he died (age ) in
1581 in France. Guillaume Jean Langlois son of Jean Langlois son of Pierre Jean
Langlois and Rene was born in 1566 at St-Londard De Parcs, Alencon, Orne, France and he died (age 68) on 25 July 1634 at St-Londard des Parcs, Normandie, France.
Guillaume Jean Langlois was Capitaine de la Marine Franaise (Captain in/of the French
navy).
Jacques Millet was born in 1525... - he married tiennette Berthais - and their
son Jacques Millet was born in 1550 at Neuville-aux Boix, Loiret Centre, Normandie,
France. Jacques Millet son of Jacques Millet and tiennette Berthais died in 1625 at
Neuville-aux Bois, Loiret Centre, Normandie, France. Jeanne Vicent daughter of
Edouard Vicent and Anne Fanfield was born in 1550 at Neuville-aux-Bois, Loiret
Centre, Normandie, France - and she died on 9 April 1657 at Neuville-aux-Bois, Orlans,
Orlanais, France. Jacques Millet son of Jacques Millet and tiennette Berthais married
Jeanne Vicent daughter of Edouard Vicent and Anne Fanfield: Two children are

Jean Juchereau, and his two brothers, Nol, and Pierre, had emigrated from the town of Tourouvre in
Perche, France. These three brothers recruited up to eighty families for New France. They became the
founders and the early settlers of Beauport, located just northeast of Qubec City on the St-Lawrence
River.

known, a son named Nicolas Millet de Beauceron (1628-1673),2 Maitre-charpentier, and

a daughter named Jeanne Millet.
Jeanne Millet daughter of Jacques Millet and Jeanne Vicent was born in 1575 at
St-Lonard-des-Parcs , Alenon, Basse-Normandie, Orne, France - and she died (age 97)
on 13 May 1672 at Orne, Basse-Normandie, France. Capitaine Guillaume Jean
Langlois married Jeanne Millet: Three daughters and one son are known born: Judith
Fortier1 (1595-1654), Marguerite Catherine Langlois2 (1596-1665), Marie-Catherine
Langlois (~1605-1661), and Jean Nol Langlois3 (1606-1684).
2

Maitre-charpentier Nicolas Millet de Beauceron son of Jacques Millet and Jeanne Vicent was born on
6 December 1628 at Neuville-aux-Bois, Orlans, Orlanais, France - and he was killed in a house fire on
9 March 1673 at Montral, Qubec. Catherine Lorion daughter of Mathurin Lorion and Franoise
Morinet was born about 1636 at Ste-Soulle (Charente-Maritime), France - and she died on 20 April 1720
at Montral, Qubec. Nicolas Millet de Beauceron married Catherine Lorion. Catherine Lorion was 17
when she left France in 1653 sailing alone on the same ship that brought her future husband Pierre
Villain.
On 4 May 1653 Pierre Villain enlisted with the Company of Montreal as an engag at Lafleche,
near Malicorne for five years with a yearly salary of 65 livres and a contract was drawn up by the Notary
Leroyer. Before leaving Nantes, Pierre was advanced 101 livres, 7 sols and 8 deniers apparently to buy
winter clothes as certified in a contract signed before Notary Beliotte of Nantes. On 20 Jun 1653, the
group of 103 emigrants hired as engages and 19 others, including his future wife Catherine Lorion
departed from St-Nazaire aboard the St-Nicolas with it's Captain Pierre LeBesson. The ship soon began
taking on significant amounts of water and had to return to France. They waited on an island near StNazaire until another vessel could be located and departed on 20 July 1653. Upon their arrival in Qubec
City, en route to Montreal, on 22 September 1653, their vessel hit some rocks and was stranded. After
weeks of waiting, the Grand Recrue departed Qubec City aboard canoes, arriving at Ville-Marie on 16
November 1653.
Although she came alone on that voyage, her father, Mathurin Lorion, her stepmother, Jeanne
Bisette (her mother was Franoise Morinet), and two younger half-sisters, Marie and Marie Jeanne joined
her only a few years later. Her marriage to Pierre was her fourth. Catherine is also said to have been born
at Anjou, France, and to have died at St. Martin, Qubec. The latter undoubtedly is a correct reference to
Ct St-Martin or St-Martin's Hill at Longue Pointe. She is included as a "First Lady" of Montral as she
precedes the arrival of the Fille du Roi (Daughters of the King).
Judith Fortier daughter of Capitaine Guillaume Jean Langlois and Jeanne Millet was born in 1595 at
Parroise de Mougan, Courtiel, Poitou, France - and she died 24 November 1654 in France. Jacques
Abraham Martin was born about 1590 at Ile de R, France. Jacques Abraham Martin married Judith
Fortier: One daughter named Marie-Anne Martin was born about 1635 at Saint-Martin-de-R, le de R,
Aunis Province (now Charente-Maritime department, Poitou-Charentes), France...
Marguerite Catherine Langlois daughter of Capitaine Guillaume Jean Langlois and Jeanne Millet was
born on 18 February 1596 at St-Xiste, La Rochelle, Montpellier, Aunis, Normandy, France - and she died
on 17 December 1665 at Qubec, Qubec. Abraham Martin dit l'Ecossais was born 27 November
1589 at Aunis, Charente-Maritime, La Rochelle, France - and he died on 8 September 1664 at Qubec,
Qubec. Abraham Martin dit l'Ecossais married Marguerite Catherine Langlois: Ten children are
known...
Abraham Martin dit l'Ecossais was "matre pilote royal du St-Laurent en plus d'agriculteur" and
Marguerite Catherine Langlois was a Lady-in-waiting to Madame Champlain.
Jean Nol Langlois son of Capitaine Guillaume Jean Langlois and Jeanne Millet was born on 3 June
1606 at St-Lonard-des-Parcs, Orne, Basse Normandie, France - and he died on 14 July 1684 at
Beauport, Qubec. Jean Nol Langlois was a "Pilote de navire sur le fleuve St-Laurent" (Ship's captain
on a boat on the St-Lawrence River), Ship's Navigator, and Carpenter. Franoise Garnier/Grenier was
born on 16 March 1604 at St-Lonard-des-Parcs, Orne, Basse Normandie, France - and she died as the
result of an accident (which will remain a mystery) on 1 November 1665 at Beauport, Qubec. Jean

Marie-Catherine Langlois daughter of Capitaine Guillaume Jean Langlois and

Jeanne Millet was born about 1605 at Nantes, Brittany, France - and she died (age 56) on
14 January 1661 at Qubec, Qubec.

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Sieur Jean Aulnets Juchereau de St-Denis son of Jean Juchereau and Jeanne
Creste de St-Denis was born on 31 March 1592 at St-Aubin, Tourouvre, Orne, France and he died on 7 February 1672 (age 80) at Qubec, Qubec. Sieur Jean Aulnets
Juchereau de St-Denis married Marie-Catherine Langlois daughter of Capitaine
Guillaume Jean Langlois and Jeanne Millet: Three children are known: Sieur Jean
Juchereau de la Ferte1 (~1618-1685), Sieur Nicolas Juchereau de St-Denis2 (~1627~1692), and Genevive Juchereau (~1632-~1687).
Genevive Juchereau daughter of Sieur Jean Aulnets Juchereau de St-Denis
and Marie-Catherine Langlois was born about 25 July 1632 at Fert-Vidame, Eure-etLoire, France - and she died (age 55) on 5 November 1687 at Qubec, Qubec. Charles
Le Gardeur de Tilly son of cuyer Ren Le Gardeur, Sieur de Tilly, and Dame
Catherine de Corday married child-bride Genevive Juchereau (age 16) on 1 October
1648 at Qubec, Qubec: Seven children are known including Pierre Nol Le Gardeur
de Tilly.
Pierre Nol Le Gardeur de Tilly son of Charles Le Gardeur de Tilly and
Genevive Juchereau was born about 24 December1652 at Qubec City, Qubec - and he
died (age 68) on 12 August 1720 at Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Qubec.

Nol Langlois married Franoise Garnier/Grenier: Eleven children are known...

Sieur Jean Juchereau de la Ferte son of Sieur Jean Aulnets Juchereau de St-Denis and MarieCatherine Langlois was born about 1618 - and he died on 16 November 1685. Marie-Franoise
Giffard daughter of Dr. Robert Giffard de Montcel (or Moncel) and Marie Renouard was born about
1600 at Montagne, France. Sieur Jean Juchereau de la Ferte married Marie-Franoise Giffard on 21
November 1645 at Qubec.
Sieur Nicolas Juchereau de St-Denis son of Sieur Jean Aulnets Juchereau de St-Denis and MarieCatherine Langlois was born about 11 May 1627 at La Fert-Vidame, Centre, France; being baptized on
11 May 1627 at La Fert-Vidame, Centre, France - and he died on 4 October 1692 at Qubec, Qubec.
Marie-Thrse Giffard daughter of Robert Giffard de Montcel (Moncel) and Marie Renouard was
born on 11 November 1629 at Beauport, Qubec - and she died on 22 June 1714 at Beauport, Qubec.
Sieur Nicolas Juchereau de St-Denis married Marie-Thrse Giffard on 22 September 1649 at Qubec:
Eleven children are known...

Capitaine
Guillaume
Jean
Langlois

Jacques Judith
Martin Fortier

Jeanne
Millet

Jean
Juchereau

Huron/Wendat
ABRAHAM
MARTIN
dit
l'Ecossais
1

Jeanne
Creste
de St-Denis

Marguerite
Jean
Marie
Catherine Aulnets Catherine
Langlois
Juchereau Langlois
2

Jean
Franoise
Nol
Garnier
Langlois
Grenier
dit
Boisverdun

FIRST FRENCH FAMILY FIRST FRENCH FAMILY

Chart 4/5 a: Children of Capitaine Guillaume Jean Langlois & Jeanne Millet
FRANCE

Chart 4

Pierre
Arriette Jean
Marguerite
Gervais
Stevenotte
De La Coste De Bize Le Neuf Le Gardeur Lemarchand
ou
tiennette
de St-Germain

cuyer
Dame
Ren
Catherine
Le Gardeur de Corday
Sieur
de Tilly

Marguerite
Lacoste

Mathieu
Le Neuf
de la Poterie

Jeanne
Marchand

Chart 4

Charles
Genevive
Le Gardeur Juchereau

Chart 4

Jacques
Marie
Le Neuf
Marguerite
de la Poterie Legardeur

Antoine Sophie
Desrosiers Sylvie
Trou

Michel
LeNeuf
de Hrisson

Antoine
Desrosiers

Anne
LeNeuf
du Hrisson

Chart 1
Chart 4/5 b: Jacques LeNeuf de la Poterie & Marie-Marguerite Legardeur

Nicolas Marguerite
Denis
de Lafitte
Simon
Denis
de la Trinit

Honorat Suzanne
Dubreuil Gareau
Jeanne
Dubreuil

Mathieu
LeNeuf

Franoise
Dutarte
dite
Terte
2

Jeanne
Lemarchand

Ren
Catherine
Le Gardeur de Corday

Jacques
LeNeuf
de la Poterie

Sieur
Pierre
Denis
De La Ronde

Marie
Marguerite
Legardeur

Catherine
LeNeuf
de la Poterie

Charles
Aubert
de la Chesnay

Marie
Anglique
Denis
dit
Delaronde

Chart 4/5 c: Marie-Angelique Denis dit Delaronde

FIRST FRENCH FAMILY FIRST FRENCH FAMILY FIRST FRENCH FAMILY

Jacques Marie
Aubert Goupy

Charles
Aubert
de la Chesnay

Sieur
Guillaume
Couillard
de L'Espinay

Marie
Guillemette
Hbert

Jean
Marie
Juchereau Franoise
de la Ferte Giffard

Catherine
Gertrude
Couillard

Marie
Louise
Juchereau
de la Ferte

Chart 4/5 d: Three Wives of Charles Aubert de la Chesnay

Pierre
Denis

Catherine
LeNeuf
de la Poterie

Marie
Anglique
Denis
dit
Delaronde
3

Chart 4/5 c
Marie-Angelique Denis dit Delaronde
Simon Denis de la Trinit son of Nicolas Denis and Marguerite de Lafitte was
born and baptized on 12 January 1600 at Saint-Pierre-du-Boile, Tours, Indre-et-Loire,
France - and he died on 9 December 1670 at Tours, Centre, France. Simon Denis de la
Trinit was married twice: He first married Jeanne Dubreuil daughter of Honorat
Dubreuil and Suzanne Gareau on 26 May 1628 at Tours, France: Two children are known
including Sieur Pierre Denis De La Ronde; he next married Franoise Dutarte dite
Terte on 15 June 1643 at Saint-Vincent, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France: Eleven children
are known... He was ennobled by the King of France in 1668. He built a trading post at
Ste Anne (Englishtown) Cape Breton.
Sieur Pierre Denis De La Ronde son of Simon Denis de la Trinit and Jeanne
Dubreuil was born on 8 October 1631 at Saint-Vincent, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France 1708 and he died (age 76) on 3 June at Qubec, Qubec.
Catherine LeNeuf de la Poterie daughter of Jacques LeNeuf de la Poterie and
Marie-Marguerite Legardeur was born about 1637 in Qubec - and she died (age 60) on
25 October 1697 at Qubec.
Sieur Pierre Denis De La Ronde married Catherine LeNeuf de la Poterie on 23
August 1655 at Qubec, Qubec: Seven children are known, including Marie-Anglique
Denis dit Delaronde.
Marie-Anglique Denis dit Delaronde daughter of Pierre Denis and Catherine
LeNeuf de la Poterie was born about 16 April 1661 at Qubec, Qubec - and she died
(age 52) on 8 November 1713 at Qubec, Qubec; she was buried on 9 November 1713
at Qubec, Qubec. Charles Aubert de la Chesnaye married Marie-Anglique Denis dit
Delaronde on 11 August 1680 - four children are known...

Chart 4/5 d
The Three Wives of Charles Aubert de la Chesnaye
Jacques Aubert was born about 1600 in France - and he died in France. Jacques
Aubert, an advisor to the king, was "intendant ou contrleur gnral des fortifications d'
Amiens, Somme, Picardie." Marie Goupy was born about 1605. Jacques Aubert
married Marie Goupy (Goupil) before 1632 at Saint-Michel, Amiens, Somme, Picardy,
France: One child, a son named Charles Aubert de la Chesnay was born.
Charles Aubert de la Chesnaye son of Jacques Aubert and Marie Goupy was
born about 12 February 1632 at Saint-Michel, Amiens, Somme, Picardie, France - and he

died (age 70) on 20 September 1702 at Qubec, Qubec. Charles Aubert de la Chesnaye
was "marchand, trafiquant de fourrures, financier, principal homme daffaires de la
Nouvelle-France au xviie sicle, seigneur et membre du Conseil souverain": Charles
Aubert de la Chesnaye, the richest financier and businessman in Nouveau France, would
eventually become recognized as the principal businessman and the greatest landowner of
the colony of Nouveau France's history. Charles Aubert de la Chesnaye was married
three times: He first married child-bride Catherine Gertrude Couillard (1648-1664)
daughter of Guillaume Couillard de L'Espinay and Marie-Guillemette Hbert on 6
February 1664; he next married Marie-Louise Juchereau de la Ferte (~1650-?)
daughter of Jean Juchereau de La Ferte and Marie Franoise Giffard on 10 January
1668; he thence married Marie-Anglique Denis dit Delaronde (~1661-~1713) daughter
of Pierre Denis and Catherine LeNeuf de la Poterie on 11 August 1680.
Catherine Gertrude Couillard daughter of Guillaume Couillard de L'Espinay
and Marie-Guillemette Hbert was born about 21 September 1648 in Qubec; she was
baptized on 21 September 1648 - and she died (age 16) on 18 November 1664. Charles
Aubert de la Chesnaye married child-bride Catherine Gertrude Couillard (age 15) on 6
February 1664: One son, Charles Aubert de la Chesnaye fils, is known born on 17
November 1664 at Qubec, Qubec... - he died in 1690.
Marie-Louise Juchereau de la Ferte daughter of Jean Juchereau de La Ferte
and Marie Franoise Giffard was born about 1650 - and she died unknown. Charles
Aubert de la Chesnaye married Marie-Louise Juchereau de la Ferte on 10 January 1668:
Six children are known: Sieur Franois Aubert De La Chesnaye (1669-1725), Jacques
Aubert (1670-1670), Sieur Pierre Aubert De Gasp (1672-1731), Sieur Louis Aubert De
Forillon (~1674-1720), Ignace Aubert (1676-1687), and Marie-Charlotte Aubert De La
Chesnaye (1677-1721).
Marie-Anglique Denis dit Delaronde daughter of Pierre Denis and Catherine
LeNeuf de la Poterie was born about 16 April 1661 at Qubec, Qubec - and she died on
8 November 1713 at Qubec, Qubec; and she was buried on 9 November 1713 at
Qubec, Qubec. Charles Aubert de la Chesnaye married Marie-Anglique Denis dit
Delaronde on 11 August 1680...: Twelve children are known: Marie-Catherine Aubert De
La Chesnaye (1681-1703), Antoine Aubert De La Chesnaye (1683-?), Marguerite
Anglique Aubert De La Chesnaye (1683-1743), Joseph Aubert De La Chesnaye (16851686), Gabrielle Franoise Aubert De La Chesnaye (1687-1759), Joseph Aubert De La
Chesnaye (1687-1704), Jacques Aubert De La Chesnaye (1689-1689), "Enseigne" Louis
Aubert De La Chesnaye (1690-1745), Charles Aubert de la Chesnaye (1693-1708),
Franoise Charlotte Aubert De La Chesnaye (1697-1732 or 1784), Marie Anglique
Aubert De La Chesnaye (1699-1729), and Gabrielle Franoise Aubert De La Chesnaye.
In 1682 Charles Aubert de la Chesnaye founded the (largely unsuccessful)
Compagnie du Nord to compete with the Hudson's Bay Company.


Charles Jacqueline Franois Isabelle
Renouard Michel de Lauzon Lotin
Chart 4
see below
Sieur
Jean
Aulnets
Juchereau
de st-Denis
de Maur

Marie
Catherine
Langlois

Sieur
Jean
Marie
Juchereau Franoise
de la Ferte Giffard

Chirurgien
Robert
Giffard
de Montcel
(Moncel)

Sieur
Nicolas
Juchereau
de St-Denis

Gouverneur
de la Nouvelle France

Marie
Renouard

Jean
Lauzon

Marie
Joseph
Michelle
Thrse
Giffard
Thrse
Giffard
de Beauport Nau(lt)
De St-Denis
Sieur
de Fargy

Marie
Goudard

Louis
Lauzon

Jacques
Catherine
Nau(lt)
Granger
de Fossambault

Catherine
Nau(lt)
de Fossambault

FIRST FRENCH FAMILY FIRST FRENCH FAMILY FIRST FRENCH FAMILY

Chart 4/5 e: Children of Jean Juchereau de Maur & Marie-Catherine Langlois

Chart 4/5 e
Children of Jean Juchereau de Maur & Marie-Catherine Langlois
i
Jean Lauzon,1 Gouverneur de la Nouvelle France, son of Franois de Lauzon,
seigneur de Lirec,2 and Dame Isabelle Lotin de Charny was born about 1584 in France and he died (age 82) on 16 February 1666 at Paris, Paris, le-de-France, France. Marie
Goudard was born about 1585 in France - and she died (age 56) on 23 January 1651 at
Paris, Paris, le-de-France, France. Jean Lauzon married Marie Goudard: One son, Louis
Lauzon was born about 1630 in France - and he died (age 29) on 5 May 1659 at le
d'Orlans, Qubec.

Conseiller au Parlement de Paris le 3 Fvrier 1613, maitre des requtes le 23 Mai 1622. Co-fondateur de
la Compagnie des Cent Associs le 9-Avril-1627 et prsident du conseil de direction 1627-1628.
Gouverneur de la Nouvelle-France le 17 Janvier 1651 au 26-1-1657 (arriv le 13 Octobre 1651, dpart
Septembre 1656).
Franois de Lauzon, seigneur de Lirec, conseiller au Parlement de Paris le 18-Juin-1581, etabli a Paris et
Isabelle Lotin, dame de Charny.

Jacques Nau(lt) de Fossambault and Catherine Granger were both born about
1600 in France. Catherine Granger died (age 46) on 2 April 1646 at Paris, Paris, le-deFrance, France. Jacques Nau(lt) de Fossambault married Catherine Granger: Two
daughters are known: Catherine Nau(lt) de Fossambault (~1634-~1676) and Michelle
Thrse Nau(lt) (~1640-~1695).
Catherine Nau(lt) de Fossambault daughter of Jacques Nau(lt) de Fossambault
and Catherine Granger was born about 1634 at Ste-Eustache, Paris, Paris, le-de-France,
France - and she died (age 42) on 29 October 1676 at Qubec, Qubec. Catherine Nau(lt)
de Fossambault first married Jean-Baptiste Peuvret de Mesnu:1 Five children were
born... Catherine Nau(lt) de Fossambault next married Louis Lauzon son of Jean
Lauzon, Gouverneur de la Nouvelle France, and Marie Goudard: No children are known.
Michelle Thrse Nau(lt) daughter of Jacques Nau(lt) de Fossambault and
Catherine Granger was born about 1640 at Paris, Paris, le-de-France, France - and she
died (age 55) on 6 April 1695 at Qubec City, Qubec.
ii
Pierre
Viron

Guillaume
Giffard

Louise
Viron

R.
Enjoys

Jean
Pinguet

Marc
Giffard

Jeanne
Poignant

Charles
Renouard

Jacqueline
Michel

or

Chirurgien
Robert
Giffard
de Montcel
(Moncel)

Marie
Renouard

Chart 4/5 e i : Dr. Robert Giffard de Montcel (Moncel)

Dr. Robert Giffard de Montcel (Moncel) son of Guillaume Giffard and Louise
Viron or son of Marc Giffard and Jeanne Poignant was born in 1587 at Mortagne-au2

Jean-Baptiste Peuvret de Mesnu son of Jacques Peuvret and Marie de la Garenne was born about 1633
at St-Pierre de Belleme, Mortagne-sur-Svre, Vendee (Perche), Pays de la Loire, France - and he died
(age 64) on 23 May 1697 at Qubec, Qubec. Jean-Baptiste Peuvret de Mesnu was a noble. a soldier,
and administrator, and a notary.
Pierre Viron son of Loys Viron and Marguerite Leduc was born in 1525 in France - and he married R.
Enjoys...: One child is known: Louise Viron who was born in France in 1558. Louise Viron was twice
married: She first married Guillaume Giffard and had one child: Robert Giffard de Montcel (Moncel).
Louise Viron next married Jean Pinguet. Jean Pinguet was born in 1555 in France -a nd he died in 1587

Perche, Lower-Normandy, France [or he was born about 1596 at Autheuil, Orne, France]
- and he died (age 81) on 14 or 16 April 1668 at Beauport, Qubec. Robert Giffard de
Montcel (Moncel) was a chirurgien (surgeon) and apothecary - pedigree charts have him
listed as a doctor.
Marie Renouard daughter of Charles Renouard and Jacqueline Michel was born
about 1600 at Mortagne, France - and she died unknown.
Robert Giffard de Montcel (Moncel) was an apothecary and surgeon and said to
be the first doctor of Hotel-Dieu de Qubec. Her first built a hunting cabin near Beauport
about 1627, captured by the Krike Brothers in 1628, but returned to Qubec with his
wife and two children in 1634v- and settled on e of the first seigneuries.
Giffard is credited with bringing several families to Qubec as settlers for the
Company of Nouveau France.
Robert Giffard de Montcel (Moncel) married Marie Renouard: Three children
are known: Marie-Franoise Giffard (~1600-?), Marie-Thrse Giffard De St-Denis
(1629-1714), and Joseph Giffard de Beauport, Sieur de Fargy (~1645-~1705).
Marie-Franoise Giffard daughter of Dr. Robert Giffard de Montcel (Moncel)
and Marie Renouard was born about 1600...
Sieur Jean Juchereau de la Ferte son of Sieur Jean Aulnets Juchereau de StDenis and Marie-Catherine Langlois was born about 1618 in France - and he died (age
67) on 16 November 1685. Sieur Jean Juchereau de la Ferte married Marie-Franoise
Giffard: One daughter, Marie-Louise Juchereau de la Ferte, was born about 1650.

in France.

Chart 4

Charles
Genevive
Le Gardeur Juchereau
de Tilly

Gaspard
Boucher
HURON
Pierre
Marie
Boucher
Madeleine
Sieur
Chrtienne
de Grosbois
et Boucherville

Marie
Jeanne
Crevier

Chart 3
Jean-Baptiste
Fafard
dit
Laframboise

Franoise
Marchand

Pierre
Nol
Le Gardeur
de Tilly

Madeleine
Boucher
Chart 2

Jean-Baptiste
Laframboise

Charts 9 & 10

Louis
Marguerite
Joseph
Madeleine
Laframboise Marcotte

Marie
Charlotte
Le Gardeur

Jean-Baptiste
Fafard
dit
Laframboise

Joseph
Marie
Trottier
de la Bissonire

Chart 1

Claire
Genevive
Dubord
dite
Lafontaine

Genevive
Exupre
la Bissonire
Chart 6

Franois
Laframboise

Marianne
Shaw-we-no-quah
Chevalier

Chart 6
Chart 9 & 10

Chart 5: Joseph Laframboise & Franois Laframboise sons of Jean-Baptiste Fafard dit Laframboise

Chart 5
Joseph Laframboise & Franois Laframboise
i
Sieur Pierre Boucher de Grosbois et de Boucherville son of Gaspard Boucher
was born and baptized on 1 August 1622 at Notre-Dame, Mortagne, Orne, Perche, France
- and he died (age 95) on 19 April 1717 at Boucherville, Chambly Co., Qubec. Sieur
Pierre Boucher de Grosbois et de Boucherville was official interpreter and agent to the
Indian Tribes, Governor Trois-Rivires, Sieur de Boucherville, Seigneur de Montbrun.
Gaspard Boucher came to Nouveau France with his family in 1635, from the
region of Mortagne-au-Perche in lower Normandy. Nouveau France had just been made
a royal property and colonization was encouraged. Qubec, the first city of Nouveau
France, had only been founded 26 years earlier, and the total population of white
habitants amounted only to a few hundred.
Pierre Boucher was age 13 when he first crossed the Atlantic in 1635. At the age
of 18, he entered the services of the Jesuits and spent four years with the Huron missions
at Georgian Bay. He quickly learned a few Amerindian languages, and became an
interpret for religious missions trying to convert the natives. He lived in HURONIA
between 1637 and 1641. In 1641, Governor Huault de Montmagny took him into his
service as a soldier in the garrison of Qubec City, but especially as an interpreter and
agent to the Native tribes (due to his familiarity with the Huron dialects). In this capacity
he took part in all the parleys of the authorities with the Natives. In 1645 Boucher was
appointed official interpreter of Indian languages at Trois-Rivires - the third oldest and
today third largest city in the province. He was appointed commissary-general of the
trading post in 1648. Pierre Boucher first married Marie-Madeleine Chrtienne, a
Huron girl, in 1649 at Trois-Rivires- she died in childbirth. He was elected captain of
the militia in 1651. Pierre Boucher next married Marie-Jeanne Crevier on 9 July 1652
at Qubec, Qubec. While in this capacity he distinguished himself against an attack by
the Iroquois in 1653 and concluded a peace treaty with them on favorable terms. The
next year, owing to this success he was named governor of the settlement, responsible of
the city defenses. In 1661 he was sent to France to represent the colonies: Louis XIV
ennobled him when he for writing the first book on Canada,1 a first in itself for a colonist:
"L'histoire vritable et naturelle des murs et productions du pays de la NouvelleFrance, vulgairement dite le Canada" was published in Paris in 1664.
The new noble returned to Trois-Rivire in 1662 as governor of the city: He
returned with soldiers, supplies, additional settlers and a commitment of support to the
Nouveau France colony by the French Monarch, Louis XIV. Re-appointed governor in
1662 he continued this position until his resignation in 1667. He left the charge in 1667
and withdrew from public office to establish himself on his seigniorial land of
Boucherville, given to him by the King: (The area is today a city, a suburb of Montral,
1

A description of the flora, fauna and native societies in the region (and a significant, pioneering
documentation of North American natural history).

still known as Boucherville, just south of the St-Laurent River facing the metropolis). He
was succeeded in the governorship by his son-in-law, Ren Gaultier de Varennes.
It is not before 1717 that the Seigneur Pierre Boucher de Boucherville, the first
Canadian settler to be ennobled by King Louis XIV, died at his seignory Boucherville,
which was named in his honour, at the venerable age of 95 yeas old. Despite not having
any children with his first wife, Marie-Madeleine Chrtienne, the Huron girl who had
been educated by the Ursuline Order of Nuns, he was survived by his second wife,
Jeanne Crevier - she had fifteen children, giving him later 26 grand children; out of
those 26, two are well known: Pierre de la Vrendrye who was the first white to reach
the Rockies, and Marguerite d'Youville, who founded the Gray Nuns of Montral, and
was canonized in 1990.
Madeleine Boucher daughter of Sieur Pierre Boucher de Grosbois et de
Boucherville and Marie-Jeanne Crevier was born in 1661 at Qubec - and she died (age
78) on 3 February 1739 at Montral, Qubec. Pierre Nol Le Gardeur de Tilly son of
Charles Le Gardeur de Tilly and Genevive Juchereau married Madeleine Boucher in
1680 at Boucherville, Qubec: Two daughters are known: Marie-Charlotte LeGardeur
and Charlotte-Franoise Legardeur.1
Marie-Charlotte LeGardeur daughter of Pierre Nol Le Gardeur de Tilly and
Madeleine Boucher was born on 3 May 1698 at Qubec City, Qubec - and died
unknown..
Jean-Baptiste Laframboise son of Jean-Baptiste Fafard dit Laframboise and
Franoise Marchand was born on 5 March 1694 at Trois-Rivires, Qubec - and he died
(age 77) in 1771 at Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Qubec. Jean-Baptiste Laframboise married
Marie-Charlotte LeGardeur on 23 October 1730 at Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Qubec: Two
sons are known: Jean-Baptiste Fafard dit Laframboise and Jean Charles.
Jean-Baptiste Fafard dit Laframboise son of Jean-Baptiste Laframboise and
Marie-Charlotte LeGardeur was born on 13 March1735 at Trois-Rivires, Qubec - and
he died (age 63) in 1798...
Genevive Exupre la Bissonire daughter of Joseph Marie Trottier de la
Bissonire and Claire Genevive Dubord dite Lafontaine was born in 1741 - and she died
(age 25) in 1766...
Jean-Baptiste Fafard dit Laframboise son of Jean-Baptiste Laframboise and
Marie-Charlotte LeGardeur married Genevive Exupre la Bissonire daughter of
Joseph Marie Trottier de la Bissonire and Claire Genevive Dubord dite Lafontaine...:
Two sons are known:
1

Charlotte-Franoise Legardeur - died April 1706 - married Rene De Clignancour D'Amours (16601710) son of Sieur Mathieu D'Amours de Chauffours et de la Morandire (1618-1695) and Marie
Marsolet (1638-1711). Sieur Mathieu D'Amours de Chauffours "arriv Qubec avec le Gouverneur
Lauzon en 1651, nomm major des troupes la mme anne, membre du Conseil Souverain de Qubec de
1663 son dcs, premier seigneur de Matane."

Franois La Framboise (1767-1830), boatman for the American Fur Company and fur
trader at Mackinac Island, and Alexis Joseph LaFramboise (1762-1800).
Francois Fafard dit La Framboise son of Jean-Baptiste Fafard dit Laframboise
and Genevive Exupre la Bissonire was born in 1767 at Trois-Rivires - and he died
(age 63) on 26 April 1830 at Hardscrabble, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois (killed by
Winnebago Indians).
Marianne Shaw-we-no-quah (South Woman) Chevalier daughter of Franois
Pierre Chevalier and Chopa was born between 1755 and 1760.
Francois Fafard dit La Framboise son of Jean-Baptiste Fafard dit Laframboise
and Genevive Exupre la Bissonire married Marianne Shaw-we-no-quah (South
Woman) Chevalier daughter of Franois Pierre Chevalier and Chopa...: It is estimated
that they were married in 1780.
Francois Fafard dit La Framboise was a fur trader in Qubec in the late 1700's.
Franois operated a very early trading post in the vicinity of what is now Milwaukee
before relocating to Chicago sometime prior to 1800 - a location then called "Skunk
Grove." He and his son, Joseph, were among the first 27 registered voters in Chicago
(see The Inhabitants of Chicago, 1825-1831). Joseph became one of the five "Chicago
Chiefs."1 He was granted $2000 in the Chippewa treaty in 1829 for a canoe load of
merchandise taken by Chippewa and Ottawa Indians in 1799. He was said to be
improvident and after wasting his property was killed by the Winnebago Indians.
Joseph LaFramboise married in Chicago a woman named Theresa E. Peltier
(born about 1802) and had several children. According to his descendants, there is no
factual evidence that Joseph was a polygamist; his Catholic faith, they insist, would have
precluded his engagement in such a practice; but, there is at least one source, however,
that suggests the Chief had two wives.

Besides Joseph LaFramboise, they included Alexander Robinson, Billy Caldwell, Perish LeClair, and
Wabaunsee. They each signed the treaty for their band to remove to the West in 1835. Alexander
Robinson remained in the Chicago area and the rest moved to the Council Bluffs, Iowa, area. They
became known as the Caldwell Band or Prairie Band of the Pottawatomie Nation and stayed there for
nine years. During that time, Wabaunsee and Caldwell died and LaFramboise and LeClair signed yet
another treaty which compelled their relocation to the Kansas reservation north-west of present-day
Topeka. There they joined other Pottawatomie from Michigan and Indiana who had preceded them.

Jean-Baptiste Symphoose
Reaume
Oua Oua Gouk
Thomas

Sieur
Louis
Chevalier

Marie
Madeleine
Reaume

Chart 5
Jean-Baptiste
Laframboise

Genevive
Exupre
la Bissonire

Pottawatomie
Chief
Neebosh
(Nee Boash)
Nau-non-gee

Franois
Pierriche
Chevalier
(Chief Shobonnier)

Marianne
Chopa
See Chart 6 b

Franois
Laframboise

Marianne
Shaw-we-no-quah
Chevalier

Chief
Joseph
Wan-goe-see
Laframboise

voyageur
Louis
Antoine
Ouilmette

Josette
Wen-och-kwe
Peltier
(Born in France)

Thrse
E.
Peltier
1

Jacquet
Peltier

Archang
Marie
Chevalier

See Chart 6 b
Labarge

Chart 6 a: Chief Joseph Wan-goe-see Laframboise

Chart 6 a
Chief Joseph Wan-goe-see Laframboise
Jean-Baptiste Reaume was born on 24 September 1675 at Qubec, Qubec.
Symphorose Oua Oua Gouk Thomas in 1679 in the Pays-d'en-Haut/Great
Lakes Area - and she died (age ~68) in 1747 at La Baye Nouveau France.
Jean-Baptiste Reaume married Symphorose Oua Oua Gouk Thomas...: One
daughter is known: Marie-Madeleine Reaume (1711-1787).

Sieur Louis Chevalier was born in 1720 at Mackinac Island, Michigan - and he
died (age 68) on 26 September 1789 at Montral, Hochelaga, Qubec.
About 1755, a French Canadian named Louis Chevalier established a trading post
on the St-Joseph River near Lake Michigan in the far south-west corner of the present
day state of Michigan. Chevalier was married to a Pottawatomie woman who went by
the name of Marie-Magdeleine Reaume and they lived among the Pottawatomie in the StJoseph area until 1780. It is possible that Chevalier and his wife were the parents of at
least one son, Franois...
Marie-Madeleine Reaume daughter of Jean-Baptiste Reaume and Symphorose
Oua Oua Gouk Thomas was born in 1711 in Illinois Country, Nouveau France.
Sieur Louis Chevalier married Marie-Madeleine Reaume daughter of JeanBaptiste Reaume and Symphorose Oua Oua Gouk Thomas...: One son is known:
Franois Pierriche Chevalier (Chief Shobonnier)...
Pottawatomie Chief Neebosh (Nee Boash) Nau-non-gee died on 17 August
1812: Two daughters are known: Marianne Chopa (1738-1815) and Polly Neebosh Naunon-gee.
Marianne Chatalie or Chopa daughter of Pottawatomie Chief Neebosh (Nee
Boash) Nau-non-gee was born in 1738 at Calumet, Michigan - and she died in 1785 or in
1815 (age ~77) in Michigan.
Franois Pierriche Chevalier (Chief Shobonnier) son of Sieur Louis Chevalier
and Marie-Madeleine Reaume married Marianne Chopa daughter of Pottawatomie
Chief Neebosh (Nee Boash) Nau-non-gee...: Two daughters are known: Marianne Shawwe-no-quah Chevalier (1760-?) and Archang Marie Chevalier (1777-1840).
Franois Pierriche Chevalier (Chief Shobonnier) eventually rose to prominence
as one of the most powerful Mtis families within the Great Lakes, and was the chief of a
village bearing his name - "Shobonnier" - located at the mouth of the Calumet River in
Indiana. Franois married Marianne Chatalie or Chopa daughter of Pottawatomie Chief
Neebosh (Nee Boash) Nau-non-gee and they were the parents of Archang Chevalier considered a full-blood Pottawatomie. Franois and his wife were also the parents of
Josette, Angelique, and brother Jean-Baptiste Chevalier.
On 20 October 1832 at the Treaty of Camp Tippecanoe (Indiana) gathering,
"Francois Chovanier" was one of 61 Pottawatomie signatories. At the infamous Treaty of
Chicago, on 26 September 1833, "Sho-bon-nier" is among the 77 Pottawatomie chiefs
and headmen listed as signatories. In 1790, a French Canadian named Antoine Ouilmette
(Wilmette) settled at the mouth of the Chicago River and in 1796 married Archang,
daughter of Shobonnier.

Marianne Shaw-we-no-quah ("South Woman") Chevalier daughter of

Franois Pierriche Chevalier (Chief Shobonnier) and Marianne Chopa was born in
1760...
Archang Marie Chevalier daughter of Franois Pierriche Chevalier (Chief
Shobonnier) and Marianne Chopa was born in 1777 at Sugar Creek, Fort St-Joseph,
Michigan - and she died (age ~63) on 25 November 1840 at Council Bluffs,
Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
Louis Antoine Ouilmette was born in 1760 at Landraugh, Montral. Qubec;
being baptized as "Antoine Louis Ouimet" in 1758 - and he died (age ~81) on 1
December 1841 at the Pottawatomie Reserve, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Louis Antoine Ouilmette was "probably a Mtis descendant" of Ouilamette, a
Native French American who was prominent in the Lake Michigan region beginning in
the 1680s. Louis Antoine Ouilmette was a voyageur and fur trader employed by the
American Fur Company; in July 1790 he moved to he moved to Chicago, Illinois, where
he built a log cabin on the north side of the main branch of the Chicago River, just to the
west of the property of Jean-Baptiste Point du Sable. The village of Wilmette, Illinois
[phonetic spelling of Ouilmette] is named in his honor.
In 1796 or 1797, Louis Antoine Ouilmette married a French-Pottawatomie
woman, Archang Marie Chevalier daughter of Franois Pierriche Chevalier (Chief
Shobonnier) and Marianne Chopa, at Grosse Point (now Evanston and Wilmette): Eight
children are known: Elizabeth Ouilmette (1800-1863), Archang A. Ouilmette (18021905), Joseph A. Ouilmette (1808-1897), Louis Ouilmette (1809-1868), Franois F.
Ouilmette (1819-?), Sophia Ouilmette (1827-?), Michel Ouilmette (1831-1863), and
Josette Ouilmette - as well as an adopted daughter named Archang Trombola.1
Louis Antoine Ouilmette and his Mtis family were friendly with most of the
local native American population and so they remained in Chicago in the four years that
followed the Battle of Fort Dearborn in 1812. Antoine was the only white resident
during this time.
According to Frank R. Grover, Louis Antoine Ouilmette was a "progressive,
energetic man of good business ability for those times, and he accumulated considerable
property. He had a store in Chicago, and also a fine lot of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs.
He also had a farm at Racine, Wisconsin, which he frequently visited while living in
Chicago. He also made occasional business trips to Milwaukee and Canada." He was
renown as a kind, whole-souled, generous man of remarkable energy and perseverance,
who made friends with everybody, both Indians and whites, and he in turn was
universally liked and respected; except that he was illiterate - a serious impediment to his
working as an independent trader. Ouilmette's wife Archang purportedly was a skilled
fur trader, a translator, and a guide for early Chicago settlers; she was, it is said, a friend
to both whites and natives of the area and acted as an intermediary between her fellow
Pottawatomie tribe members and early Chicago residents. She was instrumental in the
1

Cf. Gabriel Dumont and Madeleine Wilkie who also owned a store and adopted children.

signing of the second Treaty of Prairie Du Chien in 1829, which gave the U.S.
government title to much of the tribal lands in northern Illinois; in recognition of this the
U.S. government awarded 1280 acres (5.2 km2) of land in present-day Wilmette and
Evanston to Archang and two of her children. Ouilmette was Roman Catholic: In April
1833, along with Alexander Robinson, Billy Caldwell, several of the Beaubiens and
others, he sent a petition to the Bishop of the diocese of Missouri, located in St-Louis,
asking for permission to establish the first Catholic church in Chicago. The petition was
received on 16 April and granted the next day.
Franois Laframboise son of Jean-Baptiste Laframboise and Genevive Exupre
la Bissonire [Chart 5] was born in 1780 - and he died (age ~50) in 1830. He was a fur
trader in the Wisconsin and Chicago area and operated a trading post at the present site of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Franois Laframboise son of Jean-Baptiste Laframboise and Genevive Exupre
la Bissonire married Marianne Shaw-we-no-quah ("South Woman") Chevalier
daughter of Franois Pierriche Chevalier (Chief Shobonnier) and Marianne Chopa...:
Four children are known: Josette Baptiste Laframboise (1796-1845), Claude Laframboise
(1797-?), Chief Joseph Wam-goe-see LaFramboise (1799-1867), and Alexis "Red
Lightning" Laframboise (1806-?).
Chief Joseph Wam-goe-see LaFramboise son of Franois Laframboise and
Marianne Shaw-we-no-quah ("South Woman") Chevalier was born on 21 December 1799
in Michigan - and he died (age 67) on 23 February 1867. He was married three times: He
first married Thrse E. Peltier daughter of Josette Wen-Och-Kwe Peltier1...: Three
children are known: Joseph Laframboise (1820-1840), Thrse Chee Chee LaFramboise
(1823-1914), and Julia Ann Laframboise (1853-1910). Chief Joseph Wam-goe-see
LaFramboise also married Jacquet Peltier (1800-?) and ( ) Labarge...
Chief Joseph Wam-goe-see LaFramboise of the Pottawatomie tribe went west
with the Pottawatomie in 1835.
Thrse E. Peltier was born in 1802 - and she died after 1867 at Silver Lake,
Shawnee county, Kansas. She worked for W.H. Wallace from 15 October 1826 to 11
January 1827 making shirts and performing various services, receiving $9.36.

Josette Wen-Och-Kwe Peltier was born in 1799 in France.

Chart 6 b
Michel Ouilmette and Marie Suzanne Sncal
Chart 2
Julien
Magdeleine Guillaume
Lefebvre
Esrable
Autin
Chart 2
Pierre Marguerite Robert
Gagn
Rose
Lefebvre
de Plet
Martial
Marie
Sauton Marguerite
Gagn

Jeanne
Autin

Pierre
Jeanne
Julien
Cutiloup
Lefebvre

Pierre
Lefbvre

Chart 2

See Chart 6 a
Pierre
Sncal

Marguerite
Pinsonneau

Pierre
Boudreau

Pierre
Sncal

Marguerite
Lefebvre

Jean-Baptiste Symphorose
Reaume Oua Oua Gouk
Thomas
Sieur
Louis
Chevalier

Suzanne
Franoise
Boudreau

Marie
Suzanne
Sncal

Michel
Ouimet

Marth
Amable
Gosselin

Pierre
Franois
Chevalier

Louis
Antoine
Ouilmette

Marianne
Chatalic
or
Chopa
Archang
Marie
Chevalier

Chart 6 a
Chart 6 b: Michel Ouilmette and Marie Suzanne Sncal

Marie
Madeleine
Reaume

Pottawatomie
Chief
Neebosh
(Nee Boash)
Non-Non-Gee

i
Robert Lefebvre son of Julien Lefebvre and Magdeleine Esrable [see Chart 2]
was born in 1611 at Ste-Trinit, Bois, Guillaume, Rouen, France - and he died (age 62)
on 4 September 1673 at Laprairie, Laprairie Co., Qubec.
Jeanne Autin daughter of Guillaume Autin was born in 1616 at Bois Guillaume,
Rouen, Normandie, France - and she died (age 57) on 4 September 1673 in Normandy,
France.
Robert Lefebvre married Jeanne Autin on 28 October 1636 at Ste-Trinit, Bois
Guillaume, Normandie, France: Ten children are known: Pierre Lefbvre (1650-1694),
Joseph-Franois Lefebvre (1674-?), Marguerite Lefebvre (1676-?), Franois Lefebvre
(1679-1727), Marie Lefebvre (1681-?), Anne Lefebvre (1683-?), Laurent Lefebvre (16841696), Suzanne Lefebvre (1688-?), Joseph-Laurent Lefebvre (1690-1730), and Gabriel
Lefebvre (1693-?)
Pierre Lefbvre son of Robert Lefebvre and Jeanne Autin was born in 1650 at
Ste-Trinit-de-Bois-Guillaume, Rouen, Normandie (Rouen, Seine-Maritime), France;
being baptized in 1648 at Rouen, Normandie [Now Seine-Maritime Dept., HauteNormandie Rgion], France - and he died (age ) on 4 April 1694 at Laprairie, Laprairie
Co., Qubec.
ii
Martial Sauton son of Martial Sauton and Tiphaine Musar was born in 1644/45
at Angoulme, Poitou-Charentes, France [or in 1653 at Notre-Dame D'aigre, Angoulme,
Angoumois, Charente, France]; being christened in 1644 at Notre Dame D'aigre,
Angoulme, Angoumois, France - and he died (age 28) the same day on 4 August 1672 at
Montral, Qubec; being buried on 4 August 1672 at Montral, Communaut-Urbainede-Montral, Qubec.
Marie-Marguerite Gagn daughter of Pierre Gagn and Marguerite Rose de
Pelet was born on 14 September 1653 at Qubec, Qubec - and she died (age 67) on 7
June 1720 at Laprairie, Laprairie Co., Qubec. Marie-Marguerite Gagn was married
twice: She first married Martial Sauton on 10 January 1667: Two sons are known:
Martial Sauton (1671-?) and Pierre Sauton (1669-?). Marie-Marguerite Gagn next
married Pierre Lefbvre son of Robert Lefebvre and Jeanne Autin on 4 September 1763
at La Nativit-de-la-Prairie-de-la-Madeleine, Laprairie, Qubec: Ten children are known:
Joseph-Franois Lefebvre (1674-1742), Marguerite Lefebvre (1676-1740), Franois
Lefebvre (1679-1727), Marie Lefebvre dite Laciseray (1680- ~1681), Anne Lefebvre
(1683-?), Laurent Lefebvre (1684-1696), Pierre Le Febvre (1686-?), Suzanne Lefbvre
(1688-1721), Joseph-Laurent Lefebvre (1690-?), and Gabriel Lefebvre (1693-?)

iii
Pierre Bourdeau was born in 1659 at Clermont, Auvergne, Haut-Loire, France;
being baptized (age 4) in 1663 at St-Jean-D'aubrigoux... - and he died (age ) on 28
October 1713 at Montral, Qubec. Pierre Boudreau was twice married: He first married
Marie Faille daughter of Mathieu Faye dit La Fayette of the Carignan Lavarenne and
Marguerite Franoise Maurceau on 25 October 1689 at La Prairie, Qubec: Two sons are
known: Pierre Bourdeau (1694-1789) and Dominique-Andr Bourdeau (1699-1750).
Pierre Bourdeau also married Marguerite Lefebvre daughter of Pierre Lefbvre and
Marie-Marguerite Gagn on 25 October 1689 at La Prairie, Qubec: Seven children are
known: Marguerite-Francoise Bourdeau (1701-1717), Joseph Bourdeau (1703-1748),
Marie-Catherine Bourdeau (1704-1789), Pierre Bourdeau (1706-1771), SuzanneFrancoise Bourdeau (1708-1758), Anne-Catherine Bourdeau (1710-1746), and Laurent
Bourdeau (1713-1767).
Chart 6 b
Carignan Lavarenne
Mathieu
Faye
dit
La Fayette

Pierre
Boudreau

Marie
Faille
1

Filles du Roi
Marguerite
Franoise
Maureau

Pierre
Lefbvre

Marie
Marguerite
Gagn

Marguerite
Lefebvre
2

Chart 6 b
Chart 6 c: Marie Faille daughter of Mathieu Faye dit La Fayette and Marguerite Franoise Maurceau

Mathieu Faye dit La Fayette was born in 1641 at Haute-Loire, Auvergne, France
or at Clermont, Sarth, Auvergne, France - and he died (age 54) with his son Andr Faille
(age 17) killed by Iroquois on 29 August 1695 at La Nativit de la B-V-M, La Prairie,
Qubec. Mathieu Faye dit La Fayette arrived in Qubec on 17 August 1665, a soldier in
the company of the regiment of Carignan Lavarenne.1
1

The pleas of the colonists of Nouveau France for assistance in their struggle with the Iroquois were
answered in 1665 with the arrival of the first French regular troops in Canada, the Carignan-Salires
Regiment. Between June and September 1665, some 1200 soldiers and their officers arrived in Qubec,
under the leadership of Lt. General Alexander de Prouville, Sieur de Tracy.
The series of forts established by the Regiment along the Richelieu River, along with the success
of its second campaign into the land of the Mohawk Indians, led to a long period of peace for the colony,
which permitted it to prosper. However, King Louis XIV's plan included the permanent settlement of
many of the soldiers and officers in Canada. Over 450 of these troops remained in the colony, many of
whom married the newly arrived Filles du Roi.
Most persons of French Canadian descent can claim one or more of these brave soldiers as
ancestors. In addition to the list of soldiers and officers on the official "roll" of the Regiment, there were
many others who participated in the successful campaign against the Iroquois, including many

Marguerite Franoise Maureau daughter of Franois Moreau and Franoise

Gardien was born in 1665 at Saint-Sulpice, Saint-Sulpice, Rhne-Alpes, France - and she
died (age ) on 16 October 1718 at Laprairie, Qubec. Marguerite Franoise Maureau was
a Filles du Roi.1
Mathieu Faye dit La Fayette married Marguerite Franoise Maureau
daughter of Franois Moreau and Franoise Gardien on 30 September 1670 at Montral,
Qubec: Eleven children are known: Anne Faille (1672-?), Marguerite Faye (1674-1721),
Marie Faille (Faye) (1676-1700), Andr Faille (1678-1695), Marie-Angelique Faille
(1683-1731), Jean Faille (?-1684), Marie-Jeanne Lafaillette dite Lafayette (1684-1755),
Anne Faille (1686-1689), Francois Faille (1689-1689), Marie-Anne Faille (~1691-?), and
Elisabeth Faille (1695-?)
Marie Faille (Faye) daughter of Mathieu Faye dit La Fayette and Marguerite
Franoise Maureau was born on 25 March 1676 at Laprairie, Qubec; being christened
on 26 March 1676 at La Nativit-de-la-Prairie-de-la-Madeleine, Laprairie, Qubec - and
she died on 14 June 1700 at Laprairie, Qubec.
Suzanne-Francoise Bourdeau daughter of Pierre Boudreau and Marguerite
Lefebvre was born on 8 March 1708 at La Prairie-DE-La-Madeleine, Qubec; being
christened on 8 March 1708 the same day at La Nativit-de-la-Prairie-de-la-Madeleine,
Laprairie, Qubec - and she died (age 50) on 27 February 1758 at Laprairie, Qubec.
iv
Pierre Sncal son of Jean Sncal and Catherine Marguerite Marie De Seine
was born on 16 August 1673 at Montral, Qubec; being christened on 16 August 1863
the same day at Montreal, le de Montral, Qubec - and he died (age 61) on 14 June
1734 at Laprairie, Qubec.
Marguerite Pinsonneau was born about 1679 at St-Ours, Richelieu, Qubec and she died (age ) on 30 July 1734 at Laprairie, Qubec.

militiamen who resided in the colony but whose names were not recorded for posterity. We honor all
these 17th century men who paved the way for growth and prosperity of Nouveau France.
The Filles du Roi, or King's Daughters, were some 770 women who arrived in the colony of Nouveau
France (Qubec) between 1663 and 1673, under the financial sponsorship of King Louis XIV of France.
Most were single French women and many were orphans. Their transportation to Qubec and settlement
in the colony were paid for by the King. Some were given a royal gift of a dowry of 50 livres for their
marriage to one of the many unmarried male colonists in Qubec. These gifts are reflected in some of
the marriage contracts entered into by the Filles du Roi at the time of their first marriages.
The Filles du Roi were part of King Louis XIV's program to promote the settlement of his colony
in Canada. Some 737 of these women married and the resultant population explosion gave rise to the
success of the colony. Most of the millions of people of French Canadian descent today, both in Qubec
and the rest of Canada and the USA are descendants of one or more of these courageous women of the
17th century.

Pierre Sncal son of Jean Sncal and Catherine Marguerite Marie De Seine
married Marguerite Pinsonneau on 4 November 1694 at Montral, Qubec: Eleven
children are known: Joseph Sncal (1694-?), Jean-Baptiste Sncal (1699-1728),
Marguerite Sncal (~1701-1779), Franois Sncal (1703-1703), Marie-Anne Sncal
(1704-1718), Pierre Sncal (~1706-?), Therese Sncal (1708-?), Antoine Sncal
(1710-1785), Joseph Sncal (~1711-1730), Franois Sncal (1714-1714), and MarieFranoise Boyer dit Payet (1717-?).
Pierre Sncal son of Pierre Sncal and Marguerite Pinsonneau was born about
1706 at Vercheres, Qubec [or he was born in 1709 at Contrecoeur, Qubec] - and he died
(age unknown) at La Prairie De La Magdeleine, Qubec.
Pierre Sncal son of Pierre Sncal and Marguerite Pinsonneau married
Suzanne-Francoise Bourdeau daughter of Pierre Bourdeau and Marguerite Lefebvre on
10 June 1731 at Laprairie, Qubec: One daughter is known: Marie-Suzanne Sncal
(1746-1768),
Marie-Suzanne Sncal daughter of Pierre Sncal and Suzanne-Francoise
Bourdeau was born on 25 August 1746 at Laprairie, Qubec - and she died (age 22) on 2
June 1768 at Laprairie, Qubec.
v
Michel Ouimet was born on 9 July 1738 at Sault-au-Recollet, Montral, Qubec and she died (age 82) on 29 June 1820 at Laprairie, Laprairie, Qubec. Michel Ouimet
was twice married...
Michel Ouimet first married Marie-Suzanne Sncal daughter of Pierre
Sncal and Suzanne-Francoise Bourdeau...: One son is known: Michel Albert Ouimet
(1768-1768)
Michel Albert Ouimet son of Michel Ouimet and Marie-Suzanne Sncal was
born on 21 February 1768 at Laprairie, Qubec - and she died (age 7 weeks) on 13 April
1768 at Laprairie, Qubec. Marie-Suzanne Sncal also died (age 22) on 2 June 1768 at
Laprairie, Qubec.
Marth Amable Gosselin daughter of Gabriel Joseph Gosselin and Genevieve
Crepeau was born 0n 27 July 1742 at St-Pierre, le d'Orlans, Qubec - and she died (age
48) on 14 March 1790 at Laprairie, Laprairie, Qubec.
Michel Ouimet next married Marth Amable Gosselin daughter of Gabriel
Joseph Gosselin and Genevieve Crepeau in January 1772: Eleven children are known:
Jacques Alexis Ouimet (1772-?), Michel Ouimet (1773-?), Antoine Ouimet (1774-?),
Louise Amable Ouimet (1775-1775), Marie-Genevive Ouimet (1776-1776), Anonyme
Ouimet (1777 - 1777), Claude Ouimet (1779-1779), Louis Ouimet (1780-?), Franois
Ouimet (1781-1781), Marth Ouimet (1782-1782), and Marie-Marth Ouimette (1784-?).

Note: Six of their children died in infancy.

vi
Louis Antoine Ouilmette son of Michel Ouimet and Marth Amable Gosselin
was born in 1760 at Landraugh, Montral, Qubec - and he died (age 81) on 1 December
1841 at Pottawatomie Reserve, Council Bluffs, Iowa
See Chart 6 a: Chief Joseph Wan-goe-see Laframboise

II : Macutetis
Kewinaquot "Returning Cloud" & Nesxesouexite Neskes
& Charles Michel Langlade, Father of Wisconsin
Ojibwe
War Chief
Menehwehna
Minavavana
Ki-non-chau-sie

Chief
Ke-wi-na-quot
"Returning Cloud"

Nissowaquet
Ke-wi-na-quot

Kinonchamec

Marianne
Ouichigikoua

Nesxesouexite
Neskes
aka
Mi-jak-wa-ta-wa
"Otter"

Domtille
Oukabe
dit
Neveu
La Fourche

Marianne
Neeskeek
Neskech

Chart 7: Kewinaquot "Returning Cloud" & Nesxesouexite Neskes

The principal Ojibwa war chief of the area around Michilmackinac and Mackinac
Island was Grand Chief Menehwehna Minavavana, also called Ninkaton and Le Grand
Saulteur, who was born about 1710. He was 6' tall and lived at Thunder Bay and was
chief of the Ojibwe in 1761. An ally of the French, he captured Michilmackinac with
Chief Madjeckewiss1 on 2 June 1763; when Michilmackinac was reoccupied by the
1

Chief Madjeckewiss also known as Mash-i-pi-nash-i-wish, Bad Bird, Kaigwiaidosa, or otherwise, was
born about 1735 in Northern Michigan - and he died in 1805 or 1806 near Toledo, Ohio. Madjeckewiss
was the principal Ojibwa chief of the Thunder Bay, Michigan community, being a descendant of an
influential Ojibwa family from Lake Superior. Together with Chief Minavavana, Madjeckewiss captured
Fort Michilmackinac on 2 June 1763; he was at the Siege of Detroit with Wasson in 1763; met with Sir
William Johnston at Fort Niagara in 1764; Madjeckewiss passed through Detroit on the way to Niagara
in July 1768, he conferred there from July 10th to July 16th; he was at Johnson Hall from July 22nd to
July 27th, 1768; and was charged with the murder of a trader and imprisoned at Michilmackinac in April
1771. Madjeckewiss attended a council with De Peyster at Michilmackinac in July 1774; he was an ally
of the British in 1776; he was at the invasion of New York in 1777; he attended the Great Council at
L'Arbre Croche on 4 July 1779; he lived at Cheboygan in the winter of 1779; he attacked St-Louis on 10
March 1780; he attended a council at Detroit on 26 April 1781; according to Captain Lamothe,
Madjeckewiss died sometime before August 1793; Nash-i-pi-nash-i-wish, Ojibwa chief, attended and

British he moved west through Illinois and Wisconsin. He met Pontiac in the Illinois
Country with the French in the fall of 1765. Minavavana was visited by 15 chiefs sent
from the French in 1766; he arrived in Cahokia [East St-Louis] in April 1770 to avenge
the murder of Pontiac.
Minavavana warned the English that France's defeats during the French and
Indian War did not mean that England could assert sovereignty over Indian lands.
Although you have conquered the French, you have not yet
conquered us! We are not your slaves.
Minavavana

The king of France employed the Ojibwe to make war upon the English. In this
warfare, many of them were killed - and it was their custom to retaliate, until such time as
the spirits of the slain were satisfied. The spirits of the slain were to be satisfied in either
of two ways: The first is revenge - by the spilling of the blood of the nation by which
killed them; the other, by "covering the bodies of the dead" and thus allaying the
resentment of their relations, which was done by making presents. But the English never
sent any presents, nor entered into any treaty with them. Wherefore they were still at war
with those white men.
Below Fort Holmes on Garrison Road, Skull Cave is believed to have been the
hiding place for English Fur Trader Alexander Henry. Close friend of Ojibwe Chief
Minavavana, who sent Henry to hide in the cave on a bed of human bones in order to
save him from death during Pontiacs Rebellion in 1763. The war began in May 1763 ,
offended by the policies of British General Jeffrey Amherst, the Natives attacked a
number of British forts and settlements: Henry passed there in June unscathed through
the massacre of the English by the Indians under the leadership of Chief Minavavana,
who was acting in concert with Pontiac to wipe out if possible the English in New France.
Eight forts were destroyed and hundreds of colonists were killed or captured with many
more fleeing the region. The casual dream of Chippewa Chief Wawatam was the means
of saving Henry's life on this occasion. Wawatam had dreamed long before of adopting
an Englishman as his brother. When he first beheld Henry, he knew the latter for the
person whom the Great Spirit had been pleased to point out to him as his white kinsman.
They had exchanged presents and Henry declared his willingness to have Wawatam for
his brother. It was a lucky dream for Henry. An Indian slave-woman secreted him in a
garret on that terrible day, and his brother Wawatam spirited him away from the vicinity
as soon as possible. Hostilities came to an end after British Army expeditions in 1764.
The uprising prompted the British government to modify the policies that had provoked
the conflict.
Minavavana killed two servants of a trading company; his camp was attacked by a
British war party at Michilmackinac in the fall of 1770 - and he was knifed in his tent.
Ojibwe warrior Kinonchamec (fl. 1763) son of Ojibwa Grand Chief
Minavavana became Head Chief on 3 May 1835. He arrived at Detroit on Saturday 18
June 1763, a council was held at his camp the next day where he criticized Pontiac for
violating the rules of war at the Siege of Detroit.
spoke at the council at Greenville, where he represented the Ojibwa, Odawa and Pottawatomie Nations.

Ke-wi-na-quot (Returning Cloud) son of Ki-non-chau-sie was one of the most

powerful chiefs of the Ottawa tribe. Ke-wi-na-quot married Nesxesouexite Neskes aka
Mi-jak-wa-ta-wa "Otter" - three children are known: Nissowaquet Ke-wi-na-quot,
Domtille Oukabe dit Neveu La Fourche, and Marianne Neeskeek Neskech. Domtille
Oukabe dit Neveu La Fourche and Marianne Neeskeek Neskech had families - infer.
Chief
Ke-wi-na-quot
"Returning Cloud"

Daniel
Joseph
Villeneuve

Augustin
Mouet
Sieur
de
Langlade

Ka-re-gwon-di

Nesxesouexite
Neskes
aka
Mi-jak-wa-ta-wa
"Otter"

Domtille
Oukabe
dit
Neveu
La Fourche

Father of Wisconsin
Charles
Michel
Langlade
Chart 16
Chart 8: Charles Michel Langlade, Father of Wisconsin

Domtille Oukabe dit Neveu La Fourche daughter of Ke-wi-na-quot and

Nesxesouexite Neskes was married three times: She first married Daniel Joseph
Villeneuve, a Frenchman - and had children; she next married Augustin Mouet Sieur de
Langlade, another Frenchman - and had children, especially Charles Michel Langlade,
Father of Wisconsin; she lastly married Ka-re-gwon-di, a Native - and had children. She
died after 1754.
Daniel Joseph Villeneuve married Domtille Oukabe dit Neveu La Fourche
before 1712 - six children are known born before 8 March 1715/16 and before 14
November 1725. Two daughters were known to have married: Marie-Louise Thrse
Villeneuve married Claude St-Germain Gautier de Verville - three children are known

born between 3 February 1737/38 and 3 October 1745. Claude St-Germain Gautier de
Verville died after 1745.
Augustin Mouet Sieur de Langlade was born about 1695. While still a young
man, he was lured into the unconquered and unexplored North-West and settled near
Mackinaw (Michigan) and traded with the Ottawa. He became very friendly with the
Ottawa's and married a daughter of the celebrated Ottawa chieftain Ke-wi-na-quot
"Returning Cloud." After this union he gained wonderful restage over the Ottawa's.
Charles Michel Mouet Langlade, the second child, was born in 1724 at
Vackinaw. At the age of twenty-five he moved with his parents and their younger
children to the settlement at Green Bay. Here he continued as a trader among the Indians,
living a peaceful life until 1771 - he was age 16 years. Sieur Charles de Langlade
married Charlotte Bourassa daughter of Rene Bourassa on 12 August 1754. Charles
Michel Langlade was Commander at Fort Michilmackinac
Sieur Charles De Langlade gained a reputation for bravery and strategy second to
none. Before the out-break of the French-Indian war in 1754 he had led a force against
the Sac Indian nation and succeeded in pushing them back from their holdings in the Fox
River Valley to the banks of the Wisconsin River.
ii
Jean-Franois "Petit Jean" Marcotte & Marianne Morrisset
Jean-Franois "Petit Jean" Marcotte son of Jacques Marcotte1 and Isabelle
Elizabeth Salle2 was born on 21 December 1691 at Pointe aux Trembles, Portneuf,
1

Jacques Marcotte son of master butcher Charles Emile Marcotte and Jacqueline Boucher was born on
7 October 1644 at St-Leger de Fcamp, Rouen, Seine Maritime, France - and he died on 12 November
1720 at Neuville, Portneuf, Qubec. Jacques Marcotte married Isabelle lizabeth Salle a Fille du Roi
in 1670 at Ameau, Qubec: Fifteen children are known born between 1671 and 1696 at Trois Rivires,
St-Maurice, and Neuville and Pointe aux Trembles, Portneuf, and Pointe aux cureuils, Qubec.
Isabelle lizabeth Salle daughter of Pierre LaSalle and Franoise Lupia was born in 1651 at StMdard de Paris, Paris, France - and she died 31 December 1722 at Cap Sant, Portneuf, Qubec. Pierre
Salle was the palace's hardware merchant. Francoise Lupia was of the Saint-Mdard parish of SaintMarceau, a suburb of Paris. Isabelle lizabeth Salle arrived in Qubec as a Fille du Roi in 1670 and
married Jacques Marcotte at that time at Ameau, Qubec: Fifteen children are known born between
1671 and 1696 at Trois Rivires, St-Maurice, and Neuville and Pointe aux Trembles, Portneuf, and
Pointe aux cureuils, Qubec.
Pierre LaSalle and Franoise Lupia had 15 children. Immediately after their marriage, they
settled in Neuville, Qubec. In the 1681 census, Pierre LaSalle had one shotgun, 4 horned animals and
20 arpents of valuable land. On 25 July 1683 Nicolas Duport granted him a parcel 3 arpents on front by
40 arpents depth next to that of his brother Nicolas. On 25 June 1689 Jacques Suine rented him a piece
of land 3 arpents on front by 40 arpents depth in Neuville for the price of 15 bushels of grain per year, for
5 years. The same day, with Francois Denevers, he passed on to the lord/seigneur Jacques-Alexis Fleury
Deschambault a store for repairing fishing gear, in return for this obtaining them an exemption from
going to war. They demanded from him only their food. On 20 November 1698 Rene Robineau de
Becancoeur and his wife Marie Anne Leneuf rented to him for 6 years the state land in Portneuf, with a
portion of the house and all the buildings, furniture and animals, of which their were 4 cattle, in return for
half the grain the first year and 500 pounds for each of the other years. She lowered the rent by 15
pounds in 1701 (March 14th) because she kept the garden for herself. On 17 February 1701, he sold his

Qubec - fourteenth of fifteen children - and he died in December 1760 at Cap Sant,
Portneuf, Qubec. Marianne Morrisset1 daughter of Mathurin Morrisset2 and Elizabeth
Coquin dit Latournel3 was born on 9 November 1700 at Neuville or Point aux Trembles,
Portneuf, Qubec - and she died on 5 December 1742. Jean-Franois "Petit Jean"
Marcotte married Marianne Morrisset on 6 April 1717 at Cap Sant, Portneuf, Qubec:
Seventeen children are known born between 1717/18 and 1739 at Cap Sant, Portneuf,
Qubec - as follows:
Children of Jean-Franois "Petit Jean" Marcotte & Marianne Morrisset
1) Joseph Marcotte: he was born and christened on 2 March 1717/18 at Cap
Sant, Portneuf, Qubec.
2) Marie-Josphte Marcotte: she was born and christened on 14 February
1718/19 at Cap Sant, Portneuf, Qubec.
3) Jean-Baptiste Marcotte: he was born on 15 April 1720 or 4 December 1723
or in 1740 at Mackinac Island, Michigan - and he was killed by Indians at the portage
between the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. He married Marie Neeskeek Neskech on 24 July
1758 at Fort Michilmackinac, Michigan - infer.
4) Andr Marcotte: he was born and christened on 30 November 1720 at Cap
Sant, Portneuf, Qubec - and he died and buried on 18 January 1720/21 at at Cap Sant,
Portneuf, Qubec.
5) Pierre Marcotte: he was born on 2 May 1722 and christened on 3 May 1722 at
Cap Sant, Portneuf, Qubec.
6) Marie-Genevive Marcotte: she was born on 10 May 1722 and christened on
11 May 1722 at Cap Sant, Portneuf, Qubec.

land in Neuville to Jean Leveille for 360 pounds. He then obtained a parcel of land in La Chevriotiere.
He then sold that to Simon Arcand on 17 April 1712 for his son Joseph Arcand - age 17 years - and the
deal was made official on the following October 24th. The lord/seigneur Francois Chevigny of La
Chevriotiere confirmed on 20 February 1714 the concession that he made on 27 October 1712 of a parcel
of land of 3 arpents on front by 40 arpents depth in his domain. The exact date of his death is unknown,
but it's no later than 16 March 1717, the time of the marriage contract of his son Jean.
Alternatively, Jean Marcotte's wife was Genevieve Morrisset, the sister of Marie-Anne Morrisette.
Furthermore, the children listed here also have conflicting birth dates (i.e. less than nine months in
between children).
Mathurin Morrisset son of Nicolas Morrisset and Marie Thomas was born in 1635 at ThouarsaisBouil, La Rochelle, Vendee, France - and he died on 8 January 1716/17 at Cap Sant, Portneuf, Qubec.
Mathurin Morrisset married Elizabeth Coquin dit Latournel on 9 January 1689/90 at Neuville,
Portneuf, Qubec: Ten children are known born between 1691/92 and 1709 at Cap Sant and Les
cureuils and Neuville or Point aux Trembles, Portneuf, Qubec.
Pierre Coquin dit Latournel son of Rennet Coquin and Allex Fayel was born in 1636 at St-MacLou,
Rouen, Seine Maritime, France - and he died on 4 October 1703 at Neuville, Portneuf, Qubec.
Catherine Beaudin daughter of Sebastien Beaudin and Hillarie le Deslie was born in 1651 at St-Severin,
Paris, France - and she died on 9 August 1718 at Neuville, Portneuf, Qubec. Pierre Coquin dit Latournel
married Catherine Beaudin on 12 October 1671 at Notre Dame, Qubec City, Qubec. Elizabeth
Coquin dit Latournel daughter of Pierre Coquin dit Latournel and Catherine Beaudin was born eldest
of ten children on 13 April 1674 at Neuville, Portneuf, Qubec - and she died on 18 April 1714 at Cap
Sant, Portneuf, Qubec. Elizabeth Coquin dit Latournel married Mathurin Morrisset on 9 January
1689/90 at Neuville, Portneuf, Qubec: Ten children are known born between 1691/92 and 1709 at Cap
Sant and Les cureuils and Neuville or Point aux Trembles, Portneuf, Qubec.

7) Marie-Anne Marcotte: she was born in 30 May 1724 and christened on 31 May
1724 at Cap Sant, Portneuf, Qubec - and she died in 1782.
8) Joseph Marcotte: he was born in 1726 at Cap Sant, Portneuf, Qubec.
9) Marie Marcotte: she was born and christened on 2 July 1726 at Cap Sant,
Portneuf, Qubec.
10) Franois Jean Marcotte: he was born on 8 August 1728 at Cap Sant,
Portneuf, Qubec - and he died before 1793 in Qubec. He married Anglique Marie
Fiset.
11) Augustin Marcotte: he was born and christened on 22 September 1728 at Cap
Sant, Portneuf, Qubec.
12) Joseph Marie Marcotte: he was born on 24 March 1729/30 and christened on
25 March 1730 at Cap Sant, Portneuf, Qubec - and he died 11 August 1790 and buried
on 12 August 1790 at Cap Sant, Portneuf, Qubec.
13) Franois de Sales Marcotte: he was born on 2 September 1732 and christened
on 7 September 1732 at Cap Sant, Portneuf, Qubec.
14) Marie-Madeleine Marcotte aka Marie-Elizabeth Marcotte: she was born 16 or
18 October 1734 and christened on 19 October 1734 at Cap Sant, Portneuf, Qubec.
15) Alexis Marcotte: he was born on 28 May 1737and christened on 29 May 1737
at Cap Sant, Portneuf, Qubec - and he died on 13 January 1796 at Cap Sant, Portneuf,
Qubec.
16) Antoine Marcotte: he was born on 22 November 1738.
17) Jean-Franois Marcotte: he was born on 28 April 1739 and christened on 298
April 1739 at Cap Sant, Portneuf, Qubec - and he died and buried in April 1803 at Cap
Sant, Portneuf, Qubec.
Marianne (Neeskeek "Otter") Neskech daughter of Chief Ke-wi-na-quot
"Returning Cloud" and Nesxesouexite Neskes was also known as Marianne Amighissen
or Meghissen, Migisan, Marie Anne Thimotee-Migisan Neskech, Marie Nesketh Sarrasin,
or by other variations thereof. The young Outaouais woman was baptized on the day of
her daughter's birth (10 March 1757) and both mother and daughter were given the
Christian name Marie/Marianne. Marianne Neskech first married her daughter's father, a
French voyageur named Claude de la Haye Pelle1 on 20 May 1756 at Ste-Anne's Church,
Michilmackinac, Michigan: Marianne dit la Haie Pelle was born and also baptized on 10
March 1757. Claude de la Haye Pelle, born before 1740, died between 20 May 1757 and
24 July 1758. And Marianne Neskech next married Jean-Baptiste Marcotte son of
Jean-Franois "Petit-Jean" Marcotte and Marie-Anne Morrisette on 24 July 1758 at Fort
Michilmackinac, Michigan.
Marianne Neskech died of exposure... she was old and couldn't use her legs; so
her son LaFourche - age 18 years - took her outside and let her freeze to death in a snow
storm.

Claude de la Haye Pelle was born before 1740 - and he died between 20 May 1757 and 24 July 1758.
Claude de la Haye Pelle married Marianne Neskech on 20 May 1756 at Michilmackinac, Michigan:
One child, a daughter named Marie Anne dit La Haie de Pelle was born on 10 March 1757.

FRANCE

Jean
Franois
"Petit Jean"
Marcotte

voyageur
Claude
de
la Haye
Pelle
1

Louis
Joseph
Francis
La Framboise

Madame
Souligny
Leduc

Marianne
Morrisset

ODAWA (OTTAWA)
Chief
Ke-wi-na-quot
"Returning Cloud"

NWC
Jean-Baptiste
Marcotte

Nesxesouexite
Neskes
aka
Mi-jak-wa-ta-wa
"Otter"

Marianne
Neeskeek
Neskech

Marguerite
Magdeleine
Marcotte

Chart 9: Joseph La Framboise & Marguerite Magdeleine Marcotte

4 December 1723 or in 1740 at Mackinac Island, Michigan. He was baptized on15 April
1720 or 5 December at Cap Sante, Portneuf, Qubec. He was a North-West Company
"factor" or chief agent. He first married Madame Souligny Leduc before 1758 at
Michilmackinac, Michigan - no children are known. He next married Marie Neeskeek
Neskech on 24 July 1758 at Fort Michilmackinac:1 Jean-Baptiste Marcotte and Marie
1

Fort Michilmackinac was originally built by the French in 1714-15 to control the fur trade and
European development of the upper Great Lakes of North America. Michilmackinac was more of a
fortified community than a military outpost, and later a British fort and trading post. Built around 1715,
and abandoned in 1783, it was located along the southern shore of the strategic Straits of Mackinac
connecting Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. There was an Odawa (Ottawa) community along the shore
when Fort Michilmackinac was built, but the Odawa moved 20 miles west to L'Arbre Croche (present
day Cross Village) in 1741 when their corn fields were no longer fertile. In the summer months the
Michilmackinac population would swell as voyageurs and traders arrived from Montral and points east.
Other trappers and traders would come to meet them from the interior, as well as hundreds of Native
Americans.
The Church of Ste-Anne de Michilmackinac was built in 1743. During the French and Indian
War, joint Native American and French forces from Michilmackinac traveled south to battle British and
colonial American troops. On 9 July 1755 those forces, led by Charles de Langlade participated in the
defeat of General Edward Braddock and a young George Washington at the Battle of Monongahela
River in Pennsylvania.
The French garrison departed the Mackinac Straits at the conclusion of the French and Indian War
and British troops arrived 1761. The French civilian community remained and encouraged the Native

Neeskeek Neskech had seven children of the Nation of the Courtes Oreilles (half Ottawa
Indians) - as follows:
Children of Jean-Baptiste Marcotte & Marie Neeskeek Neskech
1) Marie Marcotte was born on 8 September 1759 and baptized on 30 September
1759 at the church of Ste-Anne de Michilmackinac.
2) Jean-Baptiste Marcotte was born on 11 or 12 January 1762 at his father's
wintering grounds at La Pointe die Chagouamigoun, Wisconsin: He was baptized on 30
September 1762 at the church of Ste-Anne de Michilmackinac. Jean-Baptisate Marcotte
died about September 1828 at Assumption, Sandwich, Ontario.
3) Charlotte Marcotte1 was born about 1767 at Qubec: She died on 2 January
1806 at Mackinac Island - and was buried on 3 January 1806 St-McKina Cemetery, Old
Roman Catholic Cemetery, Mackinac Island, Michigan.
4) Marianne Marcotte was born 30 September 1769 at Mackinac; being baptized
on 10 July 1775 at St-Anne's Church, Mackinac, Michigan - her Godparents were
Hippolyte Campeau and Marie Anglique Sejourne.
5) Marguerite Marcotte, also known as Chippewaqua, her Pottawatomie name,
was born in August 1771: She was baptized on 10 July 1775 at the church of Ste-Anne de
Michilmackinac - her godparents were Hippolyte Janis, merchant and Agath, wife of
Sieur Cote: She was the sister of Topinabee, the last Pottawatomie "war chief": She
drowned with her second husband Louizon, a Pottawatomie half-breed, and family, in
1834 in a wrecked schooner on Lake Michigan en route from Mackinac Island to Grand
River Michigan.
6) Thrse Marcotte was born in 1775/76 at "Old Mackinac" (Michilmackinac,
Mackinaw City, Michigan): he lived at an Ottawa Village near Fort St-Joseph, present
day Niles Michigan, between 1783 and 1804: She was baptized on 1 August 1786 at StAnne's Church, Mackinac, Michigan: Between 1805 and 1853 she lived at Mackinac
Island, Michigan: After 1820, her second husband became very sick, and she took over
his duties as Trader for the American Fur Company at Mackinac: Between 1853 and 1855
she lived at Green Bay, Wisconsin, where she died on 31 October 1855.
Americans to drive out the English. During Pontiac's Uprising in 1763, Native Americans defeated the
British garrison, using the subterfuge of a bagataway (lacrosse) game to take the British unexpectedly.
Many of the British were killed with some taken prisoner. The French population (which far out
numbered the British) was unharmed. Alexander Henry was one of the English fur traders who was
taken prisoner - see Chief Wawatam supra.
With Pontiac's lack of success in Detroit, British troops were unopposed when they retook Fort
Michilmackinac in 1764. Native American and British relations improved over the following years and
by the time of the American Revolution, Indian forces from the region participated in the war on the side
of the British. The most famous British Commander at Michilmackinac was Major Robert Rogers, a
colonial farmer from New Hampshire, who was Commandant from 1766-1768.
Soldiers from the 10th Regiment of Foot were transferred from Fort Michilmackinac in 1774 and
participated in the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775. The Fort was relocated to Mackinac Island
during the American Revolution, with some of the buildings moved across the ice in the winter of 178081. The remaining structures were burnt to the ground. The church of Ste-Anne de Michilmackinac was
one of the buildings moved across the ice when the community was moved to Mackinac Island.
1
Charlotte Marcotte first married Charles F. Wagacouchin son of Aniquiba, a St-Joseph Pottawatomie
chief, Aniquiba survived outbreak of smallpox in Michigan and helped French forces capture Fort William
Henry. Aniquiba was also the father of Topinabee - one of Tecumseh's war chiefs.

7) Marguerite Magdeleine Marcotte was born in February 1780 in "Superior

Country" at Grand River, Kent Co., Michigan - or in 1782 at Mackinac Island, Michigan:
She was baptized on 1 August 1786 at Mackinac Island, Michigan. In June 1780 she was
at Fort St-Joseph, Michigan; after 1783 she lived in an Ottawa Village near Fort StJoseph. She became the Mackinac Island post manager for American Fur Company after
her husband's death in 1806. In 1830 she was living in Michilmackinac County,
Michigan.
Jean-Baptiste Marcotte was evidently a man of some substance since the
Mackinac Register refers to him as Sieur, a title of distinction; the same source said he
could not write his own name. The family home was at the post at St-Joseph (present
day Niles, Michigan): He, his wife, and four children, were living there about 30 June
1780. This small settlement had a population of forty-nine person who lived in a few
rude cabins in or near a fort that had fallen into disrepair. They made their living by
trading with the Indians. Marcotte and his neighbors did not spend all of their summers
at St-Joseph, they made regular trips to Michilmackinac, where their children were
baptized. In June of 1780, when the fort was being transferred from the mainland to
Mackinac Island for security reasons during the Revolutionary War, Marcotte pledged his
assistance to establish the village on the island. And in July 1782, he joined other
"merchants and inhabitants" in a petition for a priest to minister to the people of
Mackinac.1
In 1783, Jean-Baptiste Marcotte was killed by Indians at the portage between
the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers.

"Therese Schindler" by John E. McDowell, Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 61, No. 2, Winter
1977-1978, pg. 125-143, State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Ojibwe
War Chief
Menehwehna
Minavavana
Ki-non-chau-sie

Kinonchamec

Chief
Ke-wi-na-quot
"Returning Cloud"

Nissowaquet
Ke-wi-na-quot

Marianne
Ouichigikoua

Nesxesouexite
Neskes
aka
Mi-jak-wa-ta-wa
"Otter"

Daniel
Augustin Ka-re-gwon-di Domtille
Joseph
Mouet
Oukabe
Villeneuve
Sieur
dit
de
Neveu
Langlade
La Fourche
1
2
3

Father of Wisconsin
Charles
Michel
Mouet
de
Langlade

Jean
Franois
"Petit Jean"
Marcotte

Pottawatomie
Anaquiba
(Water Moccasin)

Pottawatomie
panis slave
Anglique

voyageur
Claude
de
la Haye
Pelle

Madame
Souligny
Leduc

NWC
Jean-Baptiste
Marcotte

Pottawatomie
Charles
F.
(Wagacouchin)
Agacouchin
1

Marianne
Morrisset

Marianne
Neeskeek
Neskech

Pottawatomie
panis slave
Louizon Marguerite
George
Pierre Thrse
"Chippewaqua" Schindler La Salire Marcotte
Marcotte

Louis
Marguerite
Joseph Magdeleine
Francis
Marcotte
La Framboise

2
1

Chart 10: Overview - Charts 1, 2, & 3: Kewinaquot "Returning Cloud" & Nesxesouexite Neskes - Charles Michel Langlade, Father of Wisconsin - Joseph La Framboise
& Marguerite Magdeleine Marcotte

iii
Marguerite "Chippewaqua" Marcotte & Jean-Baptiste Chandonnet dit Agacouchin
Pottawatomie
Pottawatomie
panis slave
Anaquiba
Anglique
(Water Moccasin)

Pottawatomie Pottawatomie
Charles
Louizon
F.
(Wagacouchin)
Agacouchin

NWC
Jean-Baptiste
Marcotte

Adjunct General
Charles
Franois
Chandonnet

Charlotte
Marcotte

Marianne
Neeskeek
Neskech

Marguerite
"Chippewaqua"
Marcotte

DETROIT

Benoit
or
Benedict
Joseph
Chapoton

Thrse
Meloche

or
Jean-Baptiste
Chandonnet
dit
Agacouchin

Pottawatomie
Kesis-Shadana

Mary
Louisa
Chapoton
2

Chart 11: Marguerite "Chippewaqua" Marcotte

Anaquiba (Water Moccasin), a noted chief of the St-Joseph Pottawatomie, was

born on 14 April 1720 at Cass or Berrien Co., Michigan. Anaquiba's home village was at
the confluence of the Dowagiac Creek and the St-Joseph River, one mile north of present
day Niles, Michigan. In 1757 he helped French forces capture Fort William Henry north
of Albany, New York; he survived an outbreak of smallpox in 1758; he was at St-Joseph,
Michigan, in 1758; in 1767 he brought British prisoners from St-Joseph to Detroit.
Anaquiba died on 30 June 1790.
Charles F. (Wagacouchin) Agacouchin son of Anaiquiba was a Pottawatomie he died before 1799. He married Marguerite "Chippewaqua" Marcotte daughter of
Jean-Baptiste Marcotte and Marianne Neeskeek Neskech on 1 July 1792 at St-Joseph of
St-Hyacinthe, Qubec: Two children are known born in 1789 and 1793 - see JeanBaptiste Chandonnet dit Agacouchin.

Anglique, whose faithfulness was displayed in many ways through the deep
affliction which had fallen upon her mistress (the murder of her mistress' husband). She
(Anglique) greatly endeared herself to Madame Laframboise, and went ever after her
her constant companion in all journeying, Madame becoming in time very dependant
upon her, so that the tie which bound them together remained unbroken until the death of
the mistress.1
Louizon son of Anglique, a panis slave of the Pottawatomie who belonged to
Mme. Thrse Marcotte and his family left Mackinac in a schooner in 1834, to go to
Grand river; the vessel was wrecked on the way and all on board were lost. Anglique
had two other children: a son named Franois Lacroix, older than Louizon, he was a
slave of Thrse (ne Marcotte) Schindler; and a daughter named Catishe, who lived to
be an old woman...
Charles Franois Chandonnet son of Andr Chandonnet and Charlotte
Frechette was born on 12 July 1763 at St-Joseph, St-Hyacinthe, Qubec - and he died
between 18 July 1812 and 1815 at the entrance of St-Joseph River and Lake Michigan.
Charles Franois Chandonnet became an adjunct general in the American Revolutionary
Army: He served in Hagen's Regiment as captain, then as major in the 4th Regiment of
the Duchess County Militia; he fought under General John Stark and General George
Washington (!) who gave him land in Chazy Landing and in Altona (sp) NY. He died in
1810 - and is buried in Chazy Landing: On his tombstone is a Masonic emblem.
Charlotte Marcotte daughter of Jean-Baptiste Marcotte and Marie Neeskeek
Neskech was born about 1767 at Qubec - and he died on 2 January 1806 at Mackinac
Isalnd, Michigan; and he was buried on 3 January 1806 at St-McKina Cemetery, Old
Roman Catholic Cemetery, Mackinac Island, Michigan. Charlotte disappeared from
written records after her husband's death
Marguerite "Chippewaqua" Marcotte2 purportedly the sister of Topinabee, the
last war chief of the Pottawatomie. She was baptized with her sister Marianne on 10 July
1775 at Ste-Anne's Church, Mackinac Island, Michigan: Her godparents were Hippolyte
Janis, merchant, and Agath, wife of Sieur Cote. Marianne Marcotte daughter of JeanBaptiste Marcotte and Marie Neeskeek was born on 30 September 1769 at Mackinac,
Michigan - and she was also baptized on 10 July 1775 at Ste-Anne's Church, Mackinac
Island, Michigan: Her godparents were Hippolyte Campeau and Marie Anglique
Sejourne.
Jean-Baptiste Chandonnet dit Agacouchin was either the son of Charles
Franois (Wagacouchin) Agacouchin and Marguerite "Chippewaqua" Marcotte or he was
the son of Charles Franois Chandonnet and Charlotte Marcotte; he was born in 1789 at
Bertrand, Michigan [or at Niles Township, St-Joseph Co., Indiana]. Note: Jean-Baptiste
was supposedly adopted by Charles Franois Chandonnet and took his last name. Jean
1

According to Midwest Pioneers: Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Vol. 14, pg. 35
Indians that converted to Christianity, especially Catholicism, in Michigan, were given Christian
baptismal names. This may explain how Margaret "Chippewaqua" Marcotte got her name. The baptismal
records usually give the Indian name as well as the new name.
2

Baptiste's natural father Charles Agacouchin was a Pottawatomie and believed to be the
brother of Topinabee... making Jean-Baptiste Topinabee's nephew.
Kesis-Shadana, a Pottawatomie, was born at La Porte, Indiana - and she died and
was buried in 1832 at La Porte, Indiana. Jean-Baptiste Chandonnet dit Agacouchin first
married Kesis-Shadana about 1810 at South Bend, Indiana: Five children are known born
between 1820 and before 1832 at La Porte, Indiana: Hortense, Poskow, Kesis, Lewis, and
Charles.
In the early part of the War of 1812, 67 men were evacuated from the historic U.S.
Army post called Fort Dearborn, near present day Chicago; they were accompanied by
the resident settlers and a body of supposedly friendly Indians. On the way to Detroit, the
Indian escort party was joined by another larger force of Indians and attacked the group.
Two-thirds of the Americans were killed and the rest were subsequently ransomed at
Detroit. Jean-Baptiste was kept in irons by the British and he received credit for assisting
Captain Heald to escape. During the War of 1812, Jean-Baptiste was employed by
Generals Lewis Cass and William Henry Harrison, future president of the U.S., as an
Indian Scout and special messenger. He remained in the service for some years afterward
in the capacity of a peace convoy of the Indians - an Indian scout in the secret service of
the United States Government, whose duty was to promote peace in the camps of the
Pottawatomie.
The 29 August 1821 Treaty granted two sections of land on the St-Joseph River to
Jean-Baptiste Chandonnet. One section of land adjoining the tract granted to Chandonnet
was also granted to Louis Joseph Daze, another son of Marguerite "Chippewaqua"
Marcotte.
Louis Joseph Daze son of Louizon, son of Anglique, a panis slave of the
Pottawatomie Nation and Marguerite "Chippewaqua" Marcotte - a half-brother of JeanBaptiste Chandonnet dit Agacouchin was born about June 1798 - and he was baptized on
18 August 1799 at Ste-Anne's Church, Mackinac, Michigan: His godfather was JeanBaptiste Le Moine and his godmother was Josette Adhemar, wife of Alexis La Framboise.
Louis Joseph was privately baptized by Charles Chandonnet.
Jean-Baptiste Chandonnet dit Agacouchin was granted the two sections of land
in Indiana as well as numerous other sections. These grants were for his services to the
government and because of his mother's rank in the Pottawatomie tribe. In 1822, he went
to the area and sold all but one section. Around this time, he was granted 640 acres by
the Pottawatomie near La Porte, Indiana, for marrying an Indian girl named KesisShadana - see supra. Jean-Baptiste lived with Kesis-Shadana on this land while his
French wife remained in Detroit, Michigan with his two surviving children. Kesis died
and Jean-Baptiste sold their land and moved to the property in South Bend. He brought
his "four" Native children with him. In March of 1823, Jean-Baptiste petitioned to sell
the last section of land.
Mary Louisa Chapoton daughter of Benoit or Benedict Joseph Chapoton and
Therese Meloche was born 7 January 1795 in Bloody Run, Detroit, Wayne Co.,

Michigan: [Alternatively, she is born on 20 March 1794 or on 7 January 1797 at Detroit,

Michigan] - and she died between 1888 and 1890 at Rossville, Kansas. After three
publications of banns of marriage, Jean-Baptist Chandonnet dit Agacouchin (halfPottawatomie) next married Mary Louisa Chapoton, a French woman, on 8 August 1815
at Detroit, Ste-Anne's Church, Wayne Co., Michigan: Three children are known born
between 1816 and 1822 at Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan, and/or Chicago, Illinois.
Jean-Baptiste went to Chicago and engaged in the fur trade of the region. Mary
Louisa Chapoton lived at Detroit in 1815; traveling with a Mrs. Baird from Mackinac by
schooner, she joined her husband in 1816 and wintered at Mackinac Island; she moved to
South Bend, Indiana area from Detroit in 1832; between 1850 and 1880 she was at StJoseph Co., Indiana. Jean-Baptiste sent for his French wife [Mary Louisa Chapoton] and
their two children in the early 1830's and they came from Detroit to live with him and his
Indian children.
Jean-Baptist Chandonnet dit Agacouchin died in September 1837, his wife Mary
Louisa had to borrow money from Pierre Navarre to purchase a burial shroud. He had
only lived 47 years, but in that time he made his mark in history and had a very exciting
life. Old records in City Cemetery of South Bend, Indiana, verify that John Chandonnet
is buried in the area referred to as the "old military plot" - but it is not marked in any
fashion. After the death of her husband in 1837, Mary Louisa Chapoton remained at
South Bend the rest of her life. Mary petitioned Congress to pass an act granting her and
her two surviving children one section of land for services rendered by her husband to the
United States during the War of 1812.
The 1876 Census for St-Joseph Church in South Bend lists Mary Louisa
Chandonnet (age 85) living with the LaMirande family. The 1880 church census still lists
Mary living with the LaMirande family... but with no age given. Since the 1876 church
census and the 1880 federal census show a 10 year age gap for Mary, one of the ages
must be wrong. The 1850 census lists her age as 54; the 1860 census lists her age as 66
years old; the 1870 census lists her as 77 years old. Therefore, the 1880 census should
list her age as closer to 84-87....not 95.
The Three Children of Jean-Baptist Chandonnet dit Agacouchin and
Mary Louisa Chapoton
Charles Benjamin/Benedict Chandonnet of Jean-Baptist Chandonnet (halfPottawatomie) and Marie Louisa Chapoton, a French woman, was born on 24 July 1816
at Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan - and he died on 19 or 20 February 1863 at South Bend,
St-Joseph, Indiana. Charles Benjamin/Benedict Chandonnet married Lucielle "Lucy"
Pelletier of Frenchtown daughter of Antoine "Anthony" Pelletier and Monica Delisle
about 1830 at Detroit, Michigan: They had five children. During the Civil War, Charles
joined the 48th Regiment and was enlisted as a Captain. Charles was also a Deputy
Sheriff of South Bend, Indiana.
Margaret Chandonnet daughter of Jean-Baptist Chandonnet (half-Pottawatomie)
and Marie Louisa Chapoton, a French woman, was born 4 August 1818 at Chicago,
Illinois or Detroit, Michigan; she was baptized on 25 August 1819 at Chicago, Illinois -

and she died and was buried on 13 December 1826 at Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan - age
8 years.
Mary Louisa Chandonnet daughter of Jean-Baptist Chandonnet (halfPottawatomie) and Marie Louisa Chapoton, a French woman, was born on 11 on
November 1822 at Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan - and she died of Erysipelas 1 on 6
February 1853 at South Bend, St-Joseph Co., Indiana: She was buried at the Sacred Heart
Church, Notre Dame, Indiana. Between 1822 and 1832, Mary lived with her mother in
Detroit at the fort while her father lived with his Indian wife "Kesis" near La Porte,
Indiana. After her father's wife Kesis died in 1832, Mary, her brother Charles, and her
mother were sent for by her father. They were brought to South Bend, Indiana to live
with him and his Indian children: Kesis, Hortense, Lewis, and Poskow.
Mary Louisa Chandonnet married Lewis Bresette son of Lewis Bresette and Emily in
1841 at South Bend, St-Joseph, Indiana.
Thrse Marcotte & Marianne La Salire
NWC
Jean-Baptiste
Marcotte

Gauthier
de
Niverille

Pierre
La Salire
1

Henry
Munro
Fisher

Miss
de
Niverille

George
Schindler

Thrse
Marcotte

Marianne
Lasalire

Henry
Samuel
Baird

Elizabeth
Thrse
Fisher

Chart 12: Thrse Marcotte & Marianne La Salire

Erysipelas (skin disease caused by "Strep Infection" which devastates the blood).

Marianne
Neeskeek
Neskech

Thrse Marcotte1 daughter of Jean-Baptiste Marcotte & Marie Neeskeek

Neskech was born in 1775 or 1776 at "Old Mackinac" (Michilmackinac, Mackinaw City,
Michigan; and she was baptized on 1 August 1786 at Ste-Anne's Church, Mackinac,
Michigan - and she died 31 October 1855 at Green Bay, Wisconsin; and she was buried at
Ste-Anne's Cemetery, Mackinac Island, Michigan. Before 1783, Thrse Marcotte lived
at Fort St-Joseph (as a little girl; she first married Pierre La Salire, a voyageur
(boatman), about 1789 at Fort St-Joseph, Niles, Michigan: One daughter named
Marianne Lasalire2 was born about 1790 - and she died about 1853. Pierre La Salire
abandoned his wife and child and went voyaging before 1799. Thrse Marcotte next
married George Schindler, a fine and will-liked Mackinac trader, on 12 July 1804 at
Mackinac Island, Mackinac Co., Michigan: One daughter named Lucy Tanner Schindler
was born... - she died when the schooner she was sailing in sank on the way to Grand
Rapids, Michigan. George Schindler son of Jean Jonas Schindler and of Genevive
Maranda was born before 1790 - and he got sick and died about 1826 at Mackinac
Island, Mackinac Co., Michigan. Before 1800 he was a soldier in "Upper Country"
(Canada) - after 1800, he stayed on in the "Upper Country" and became a fur trader; from
1805 on Thrse (ne Marcotte) Schindler made Mackinac Island her permanent home.
By 1800 he was gathering pelts on Michigan's Grand River, and although he was not as
large an operator as some of his colleagues (for all his goods could be transported in a
single bateau), he was an established trader who could provide a stable living. In one
respect he was different from most of the inhabitants of Mackinac: he was Protestant (but
promising to bring up his children in the Roman Catholic religion, the wife being a
Catholic). In 1820 Schindler became a trader for the American Fur Company at
Mackinac. Sometime after Marianne and Elizabeth came to Mackinac... George
Schindler lost both his health and his property. The nature of his illness is not known, but
he may have suffered a stroke for he became a cripple. Schindler was finished in the fur
trade, but he found a way to be useful nonetheless. He opened a school for boys,
numbering among his pupils Hercules L. Dousman,3 who later married Elizabeth's halfsister Jane Fisher Rolette, the soon-to-be widow of his partner in the trade, Joseph
Rolette.4
Henry Munro Fisher son of Donald Fisher and Elizabeth Munro was a
prominent fur trader, of Scotch ancestry in the employ of the American Fur Company.
Miss De Niverille was his first wife! Four children are known: Henry, Alexander,
Unknown, and Jane, who first married Joseph Rolette, a prominent Prairie du Chien,
Wisconsin, trader; and who next married Hercules L. Dousman, who became one of the
wealthiest men in Wisconsin. On 22 July 1809, Henry Munro Fisher next married
Marianne Lasalire of Mackinac, a daughter of Thrse Marcotte (wife of George
Schindler) by her first husband, Pierre Lasalire. Fisher was well liked by his fellow
villagers, and he became a justice of the peace and captain of militia. In addition to his
1
2

Thrse Marcotte is listed as "Outawas" Indian on her daughter Marianne's baptism certificate.
Marianne Lasalire married Henry Munro Fisher on 22 July 1809.
Hercules L. Dousman (4 August 1800 - 12 September 1868) was a trader and real-estate speculator
who played a large role in the economic development of Wisconsin. He is often called Wisconsin's first
millionaire.
"Therese Schindler" by John E. McDowell, Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 61, No. 2, Winter
1977-1978, pg. 125-143, State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

prominence at Prairie du Chien, Fisher had much to recommend him to his new bride.
He was a good-looking man with great physical strength, and although he was excitable,
he had "indomitable courage and perseverance."1 He moved from Prairie du Chien,
Wisconsin, to the Red River Settlement area about 1812, and between 1812 and 1824 he
was a partner/trader with the Hudson's Bay Company in Red River country. Marianne
Lasalire visited her mother at Mackinac Island, Michigan, between June AND July
1812; she was a school teacher and missionary worker with the Natives, and opened the
first boarding school in the "Old North-West." Henry Munro Fisher died in 1827 at
Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Marianne Lasalire was born about 1790 - and she died in
1853.
Elizabeth Thrse Fisher daughter of Henry Munro Fisher and his second wife
Marianne Lasalire was born on 24 April 1810 at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin; she was
baptized on 21 August 1821 at Mackinac Island, Michigan, (although, she had been
privately baptized at an earlier time) - and she died on 5 November 1890 at Green Bay,
Wisconsin. She was living at Mackinac Island, Michigan, between 1812 and 1824; in
September 1824 she moved to Green Bay, Wisconsin - where she learned to speak
English.
She was a woman of charming personality and excellent education,
proud of her trace of Indian blood, and had a wide acquaintance with the
principal men and women of early Wisconsin. Having traveled and seen
much, in pioneer days, and being gifted with a retentive memory which
did not fail her until the last few weeks of her long life, she was a rare
source of information to Western historical students.2
Madame Schindler 's mother was Migisan (although called " Marie by the
French), the daughter of Ottawa Chief Kewinaquot (Returning Cloud). On 12 August
1824, when but fourteen years of age, Elizabeth Thrse Fisher was married to Henry
Samuel Baird at Mackinac Island, where she had spent the greater portion of her youth;
she was his favorite student. Henry Samuel Baird was then a young Green Bay lawyer:
They at once removed them to Green Bay, where Henry Samuel Baird died on 30 April
1875 or 1876... and Elizabeth Thrse (ne Fisher) Baird died on 5 November 1890.
Henry Samuel Baird was born on 16 May 1800 at Dublin, Ireland... his family
moved to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, when he was five; he also resided in Ohio; and he was
the first professional layer in Wisconsin: He is known as "Father of the Wisconsin Bar."
On 5 June 1822 he moved to Mackinac Island, Michigan, and then, in September 1824,
he moved to unsettled Green Bay, Wisconsin territory. He suffered from ague, "a
malarial fever."

From "Therese Schindler" by John E. McDowell, Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 61, No. 2, Winter
1977-1978, pg. 125-143, State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Midwest Pioneers: Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, vol. 14

Jean
Franois
"Petit Jean"
Marcotte

John
Mary
Fisher Campbell

Claude
Marie
St-Germaine
Louise
De
Villeneuve
Verville

Donald Elizabeth
Fisher
Munro

Claude
Gauthier

Native Sac Fox

Magdeleine
Chevalier
1

Henry
Munro
Fisher

Miss
de
Niverille

Louis
Marie
Paschal Madeleine
Chevalier Reaume

Chief
Ke-wi-na-quot
"Returning Cloud"

Jean-Baptiste
Marcotte

Pierre
Lasalire

George
Schindler

Marianne
Lasalire

Jean-Baptist
Dumont

Madeleine
Gauthier

Marianne
Morrisset

Nesxesouexite
Neskes
aka
Mi-jak-wa-ta-wa
"Otter"

Marianne
Neeskeek
Neskech

Thrse
Marcotte

Sarcee/Crow
Assiniboine
Josphte
Joseph
Josphte
Laframboise

Jacques
Berger

Marie
Cecile
Dumont

3
1

Henry
Munro
Fisher

Marguerite
Parenteau

Chart 13: Henry Munro Fisher

Jean-Baptiste
Dumont

Marguerite
Laframboise

Marie Anne

Louise
Berger

Louis Joseph Francis La Framboise & Marguerite Magdeleine Marcotte

Franois Catherine
Chatelain Royer

Jean-Baptiste
Fafard
dit
La Framboise

MASSACHUSETTS

Benjamin Elizabeth Anna

Pierce Andrews Kendrick

US President
Franklin
Pierce

Capt.
Benjamin
Kendrick
Pierce

NWC
Marguerite
Jean-Baptiste
La Bissonire
Marcotte
dit
Chatelain

Louis
Joseph
Francis
La Framboise

Josette
La Framboise

Marianne
Neeskeek
Neskech

Marguerite
Magdeleine
Marcotte

fur trader
Joseph
P.
La Framboise

Chart 14: Louis Joseph Francis La Framboise & Marguerite Magdeleine Marcotte

Franois Chatelain
Jean-Baptiste Fafard dit La Framboise was born in 1735 - and he died in 1790.
Marguerite La Bissonire dit Chatelain daughter of Franois Chatelain and Catherine
Royer was born in 1741 - and she died in 1766: She was also known as Marguerite
(Exupre) dit La Bissonire and/or Marguerite Genevieve Trottier-Desruisseaux: She was
called a Pottawatomie. Jean-Baptiste Fafard dit La Framboise married Marguerite La
Bissonire dit Chatelain: Eleven children are known born between 1761 and 1776 - as
follows:
Children of Jean-Baptiste Fafard dit La Framboise & Marguerite La Bissonire dit
Chatelain
1) Jean-Baptiste La Framboise fils: born in June 1761.
2) Charlotte La Framboise: born on 7 June 1762.
3) Alexis La Framboise: born on 4 February 1763; he married Josette Adhemar;
he was notary and justice of peace at Mackinac: They had four children. Alexis also had

two sons with a Chippewa woman. He died on 2 April 1800.

4) Joseph La Framboise: born on 6 May or 16 April 1765 at Trois Rivires, StMaurice, Qubec; he married Marguerite Madeleine Marcotte daughter of Jean-Baptiste
Marcotte and Marianne (Neeskeek "Otter") Neskech; he was a voyageur and fur trader;
he was murdered by a drunken Indian in 1809 north of Grand Haven, Michigan, at the
mouth of the Muskegon River - infer.
5) Pierre La Framboise: born on 6 June 1768 - he died in 1852. He lived with
Elizabeth (Ne Set): born in 1810 at Red River, Wisconsin - she died in 1895.
6) Marguerite La Framboise: born on 18 June 1769.
7) Franois La Framboise: born on 4 October 1770 at Mackinac - he died in 1803
at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: killed by Indians. He had been living with a Pottawatomie
woman.
8) Claude La Framboise: born on 16 November 1771 - he died after 1807. Claude
supplied trade goods to Indian merchants.
9) Marie Tonette La Framboise: born on 31 July 1773.
10) Magdeleine La Framboise: born on 30 July 1774.
11) Jean-Baptiste La Framboise fils: born on 19 February 1776.
Louis Joseph Francis La Framboise son of Jean-Baptiste Fafard dit
Laframboise and Marguerite La Bissonire dit Chatelain was born on 16 April 1765 at
Trois Rivires, St-Maurice, Qubec - and christened on the same day at the Immaculate
Conception Church, Champlain, St. Maurice, Trois-Rivires, Qubec. Joseph La
Framboise, a man of education, refinement and great piety, was a voyager and fur trader
in Northern Lake Michigan area.1 Joseph La Framboise first married a young a young
Outaouais named Marguerite Madeleine Marcotte daughter of Jean-Baptiste Marcotte
and Marianne Neeskeek Neskech in 1794 in an unknown frontier Catholic Mission - and
they were later married by Jesuits in 1796 - and they were married a final time on 11 July
1804 in Ste-Anne's de Michilmackinac, Mackinac Island, Michigan.
The young couple chose as their winter headquarters a site near the rapids of the
Grand River, about where the village of Ada now stands. Joseph had been put in sole
charge of American Fur Company interests in that section and children came to the La
Framboise family - which in due time were sent on to Montral to be educated. The first
baptism performed by the famous Father Gabriel Richard during his visitation at
Mackinac in 1799 was that of Josette LaFramboise, their daughter.2
Joseph La Framboise was the first fur trader at Duck Lake, in Muskegon County
in Western Michigan: (Duck Lake is located on Lake Michigan). He probably built the
first cabin in the area, later - in 1821 - later sold by Madame La Framboise to Rex
Robinson the first white settler of Kent County. In 1802 La Framboise was trading at
Milwaukee, but by 1809 he built a cabin located in Ottawa County at Mouth of the
Muskegon River (near present Grand Rapids, Michigan) - his chief post. About
September 1809, while with his family in a teepee, he was killed by "drunken Winnebago
Indian" - he was on his knees and engaged in prayer:
1

One of his younger brothers, Claude La Framboise, who was living in Montral between 1801 and 1807,
supplied trade goods to Indian merchants. Two other brothers were in the Northern Lake Michigan area
in 1794.
From an article written about Madeline Marcotte in the Michigan History Magazine, Winter 1931, Vol.
15, Issue 1, pg. 71-79, "A Pocahontas of Michigan" by Vivian Lyon Moore (Hillsdale).

Joseph La Framboise [ ] dealt largely with the Indians. He was a

firm, determined man, and moreover was especially devout, adhering to
all the rites and usages of the Catholic Church. He was particular as to the
observance of the Angelus. Out in the Indian country, timed by his watch,
he was as faithful in this discharge of duty as elsewhere. Whenever in any
town where the bells of his church rang out three times three, at six in the
morning, at noon, and at six in the evening, he and his family paid
reverent heed to it. Madame Laframboise, his widow, maintained this
custom as long as she lived, and it was very impressive. The moment the
Angelus sounded, she would drop her work, make the sign of the cross,
and with bowed head and crossed hands would say the shot prayers, which
did not last much longer than the solemn ringing of the bells. In 1809,
Laframboise left Mackinac with his wife and baby boy1 (the daughter2
being at school in Montral) for his usual wintering place on the upper
part of the Grand River, in Michigan. They traveled in Mackinac boats, or
bateaux... There were two boats, with a crew of six men to each. They
were also accompanied by their servants - old Angelique, a panis slave,
and her son, Louizon - all of whom made a large party. At the last
encampment, before reaching Grand River, Laframboise, while kneeling
in his tent one night saying his prayers, was shot dead by an Indian, who
had previously asked for liquor and had been refused.3 The widowed wife,
knowing that she was nearer Grand River than her own home, journeyed
on taking the remains of her husband with her, and had them buried at the
only town in that vicinity which was near the entrance of the river, the
present day Grand Haven, Michigan.4
Marguerite Magdeleine Marcotte also known as Shaw-we-no-qua of the Nation
of the Courtes Oreilles (half Ottawa Indians)5 daughter of Jean-Baptiste Marcotte and
Marianne Neeskeek Neskech - beautiful granddaughter of Returning Cloud, celebrated
Ottawa chieftain was born in 1780 in "Superior Country" at Fort St-Joseph (near present
day Niles, Michigan) or in 1782 on Mackinac Island, Michigan - where she was baptized
in 1786. She was the youngest child. Madeline's childhood was spent among her
1
2
3

4
5

Joseph P. LaFramboise: born in 1805 at Mackinac Island, Michigan.

Josephine " Josette: Laframboise: born on 24 September 1795 at Mackinac Island, Michigan.
Alternatively, it was 1899... during the evening one young brave, Nequat, mad for liquor, persistently
and insultingly demanded whiskey from La Framboise who, unflinchingly and just as persistently,
refused. Brooding sullenly over the rebuff, Nequat watched the Frenchman retire to his tent for the night
and, delaying only till the latter was at prayer, stole through the opening and plunged his dagger into the
chest of the kneeling Joseph, and then dashed out and away. Horror-stricken and stunned, Madeline
could scarcely summon aid from the village and when the Pottawatomie did arrive, it was too late.
Joseph La Framboise had expired... she buried her husband at Grand Haven.
Midwest Pioneers: Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Vol. 14, pg. 38-39:
(Also in the book "Historic Mackinac" by Edwin O. Wood, Vol. 2, 1918, pg. 125-127).
Indians that converted to Christianity, especially Catholicism, in Michigan, were given Christian
baptismal names. This may explain how Margaret "Shaw-we-no-qua" Marcotte got her name. The
baptismal records usually give the Indian name as well as the new name.

mothers' people from whom she adopted both custom and costume, and she was, in every
sense, a Native. This fact troubled the Jesuit fathers, pioneer missionaries of the NorthWest, and they persuaded her mother (her father having died in her infancy) to allow her
to receive some religious and other training. At the age of about nine-or-ten, she first
received religious and other training by Jesuit Fathers. She justified the priest's faith in
her and though she retained the full tribal garb, she became a remarkable woman, a
skilled linguist, and a famous beauty. She was living at Fort St-Joseph in June 1780; after
1783, she lived in an Ottawa village near Fort St-Joseph. She took over as the Mackinac
Island post manager for American Fur Company: "Her French was said to be as pure as
that of a Parisian, she was both entertaining and refined, and in her person she combined
the symmetry and lithesomeness of the red race with the loveliness of the French, a fusion
that was well-nigh irresistible."1
She was a woman of strong character and great ability: As an instance of the
forceful character of this remarkable woman it is noted that after she was fifty years of
age she taught herself to read and write and before her death became really proficient in
French literature.
Madame LaFramboise obtained a trader's license from the newly organized
American Fur Company, and embarked upon her own career in the Astors' interests. She
continued the journeys up and down the Lake as the seasons changed, bartering with the
Indians along the route, and laying up riches for her Company and herself. She labored
among the tribes even more assiduously than before, teaching them by precept and
inculcating the Christ-spirit in them by example. She maintained her husband's devout
custom of saying the Angelus as long as she lived and wherever she might be. On
Mackinac Island she erected a home for herself which she left in care of her loyal
servants during her annual absences. Her wealth she used for great good. In shore she
acquired distinction and became a personage in that picturesque community.2
Marguerite Magdeleine (ne Marcotte) La Framboise was one of those who
assisted in founding and maintaining peace and goodwill between the Natives and Whites
of upper Michigan in the early days and was a noted resident of Mackinac with family
connections in Green Bay and Milwaukee: In 1830 she was living at Michilmackinac,
Michigan.
Her devotion is well documented in the parish register where she frequently
appears as a godmother to the baptized and witness at marriages. Madame Laframboise
donated the property adjacent to her home when parish leaders decided to move the
church and priests house from their original location in the village to the current site on
the east side of the island harbor in the mid 1820s. In exchange for her gift of land,
Laframboise asked to be buried beneath the altar at the end of her life. Father Henri Van
Renterghem honored her request when she died in 1846.
Marguerite Magdeleine Marcotte died on 4 April 1846 on Mackinac Island,
Michigan - and she was buried two days later on 6 April 1846. Her highly accomplished
1

From an article written about Madeline Marcotte in the Michigan History Magazine, Winter 1931, Vol.
15, Issue 1, pg. 71-79, "A Pocahontas of Michigan" by Vivian Lyon Moore (Hillsdale).
From an article written about Madeline Marcotte in the Michigan History Magazine, Winter 1931, Vol.
15, Issue 1, pg. 71-79, "A Pocahontas of Michigan" by Vivian Lyon Moore (Hillsdale).

daughter Josette La Framboise married Capt. Benjamin Kendrick Pierce in 1817: He

was an officer of the U.S. Army and a brother of President Franklin Pierce.3
Marguerite Magdeleine (ne Marcotte) La Framboise and Theresa (ne Marcotte)
Schindler (maiden names Marcotte) became quite famous on Mackinac Island. They
married fur traders, and when their husbands died, they took over the business and
became quite wealthy. These women are supposed to be listed on the Sault Ste. Marie
Chippewa Rolls, but Marguerite seems to be lost.

The marriage of Josette "Josephine" La Framboise to Captain Benjamin Kendrick

Pierce produced three children: Harriet was first born, then in 1819 Daniel was born. The
last child was Langdon who died within days of birth and Josette died then also. The
marriage took place on Mackinaw Island, Michigan, as Captain Pierce was in command
of Fort Mackinaw.
iv

Joseph P. La Framboise, fur trader

DAKOTA

Louis
Marguerite
Joseph
Magdeleine
Francis
Marcotte
La Framboise

fur trader
Joseph
P.
La Framboise

Walking Day

fur trader
William
Dickson

Sleepy Eye

daughter

daughter
one

daughter
two

Jane
Dickson

Sioux
Joseph
La Framboise
Chart 15: Joseph P. La Framboise, fur trader

From the Ste-Anne's Catholic Church, Mackinaw Island, Michigan web site history section...

Joseph P. La Framboise son of Louis Joseph Francis La Framboise and

Marguerite Magdeleine Marcotte was born in 1805 at Mackinac Island, Michigan - and
he died in 1584 at West Newton, Wabasha Co., Minnesota. Joseph P. La Fontaine was a
fur trader for the American Fur Company until the trade dwindled, then, in later life, he
took up farming.
In May 1817, Madame La Framboise hired a birch-bark canoe and Native crew
to take her and her son Joseph to school in Montral:1 In 1817, the American Fur
Company sent Joseph P. La Framboise with some Sioux Indians and two half-breed
Frenchman from Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, to establish a fur trading post on the
Missouri. They were packing a supply of goods, chiefly knives, beads and some cloth.
They proceeded across the country and established a small fort, which was built from
dead logs that were found lodged on the end of a sand bar at the mouth of Teton, or Bad
River. It was late in the fall and the river was frozen when they arrived there. La
Framboise called the post Fort Teton - and the settlement then established by him has
continued to the present time, evolving into the thriving village of Fort Pierre.
Afterwards, the post was supplied from St-Louis, by way of the Missouri. He was a
gracious host and a delightful companion having a great relish for songs and stories.
La Framboise was still there in 1819, but before 1822 he had returned to Prairie
du Chien. Joseph Rolette, manager for the American Fur Company, entrusted him with
a new enterprise into the Dakota country to the Sioux River at the big bend where
Flandreau now is. He procured his goods from Prairie du Chien and traded for five
years, and then moved his stock across the ctau to the headwaters of the Des Moines.
In 1828 Joseph P. La Framboise first married daughter of Walking Day on the
Des Moines in what is now Murray County, Minnesota - she was born before 1815 and
died about 1829: One child, a son named Joseph La Framboise2 was born in 1829 - and
he died after 1901. The wife soon died, and in course of time LaFramboise married
daughter one of Sleepy Eye, who was a brother of Walking Day, and upon the death of
this woman within a few years he married daughter two of Sleepy Eye. She, too, died
young, and in 1845 Joseph P. La Framboise married Jane Dickson daughter of fur
trader William Dickson - the wedding being the first in Nicollet County, Minnesota.
Three children are known born between 1845 and 1854 - and dieing after 1901: William
being the eldest and two younger sisters. Joseph P. La Framboise died in 1854 at his
home where he finally settled in 1839, at West Newton, Minnesota.

Joseph P. La Framboise possessed a college education, having graduated at a very precocious age, and
all through the years of his sojourn in the western wilderness he kept with him a small but choice
collection of books which he read diligently.
2
Joseph La Framboise grew up with his Native relatives and was "a typical Sioux."

Charles Michel Mouet de Langlade, Father of Wisconsin

Franois
Joachim
Bourassa

Augustin
Mouet
Sieur
de
Langlade

Ecuyer
Clement
Marie
Plante
Marguerite
Leriger
Roy
Sieur
de
La Plante

voyageur
Ren
Bourassa

Domtille
Oukabe
dit
Neveu
La Fourche

Father of Wisconsin
Charles
Michel
Mouet
de
Langlade

Marie
Lber

Nonnongawah
Dourana

Margaret
Ah-Qua-dah

Marie
Catherine
Lerig

Charlotte
Ambrosine
Bourassa

Chart 16: Charles Michel Mouet de Langlade, Father of Wisconsin , and Ren Bourassa, voyageur

Charlotte Ambrosia Bourassa was the daughter of Rene Bourassa pre, a retired
voyageur, and Marie-Catherine Lerig who then lived at Mackinaw.