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Francois-Joseph Hertel de Moncour: (1642 - 1722)
He was the son of Jacques Hertel de Lafresniere (abt.1620-1651) & Marie-Marguerite Moral. Francois married Marguerite-Josephe Davenay-De Thavenet (Daughter of Raymond Dethauvenet & Elizabeth Demancelin) at Montreal in 1664 and their children were: Zacharie-Francois (1665-1752) (m. Marie-Charlotte Godfroy in 1695), Madeleine (1665-?) (m. Etienne Veron in 1694/95), Jacques Hertel de Cournoyer (1667-1748) (m. Marguerite-Therese Godfroy in 1691), Jean Bte.Hertel, de Rouville (1668-1722), Joseph Hertel de St.Francois (1671-1723) (m. Catherine Philippe in 1698), Louis Hertel de St.Louis (1673-1757) (m. Marie-Catherine Daillebout in 1730), Rene (1675-?), Lambert (1677-?), Marie-Francoise (1679-?), Claude (1682-?) (m. Genevieve Mirambeau in 1729), Michel (1685-?), Pierre Hertel de Moncour (1687-1739) (m. Marie-Therese Daillebout in 1721), Marguerite-Therese (1690-1722) (m. Jean Bte.Boucher in 1710).
Francois was captured by Mohawk warriors, tortured and adopted by a family of that tribe for two years, when he escaped back to Canada. In 1690 he organized three war parties into the British colonies, leading the party of 25 Canadian (also warriors of allied tribes) on an attack at Salmon Falls, NH. Reaching the target on 27th of March, they killed 42 English and took 54 prisoners. While on there return journey they were persued by a British party which led to an action inwhich his nephew (Louis Crevier) was killed.]
Francois had assisted in the construction of Fort Frontenac in 1673 and was the French military commander at Fort Frontenac from 1709 to 1712. He and his son's were known for their many brutal attacks on the English colonies.
Jean Bte.Hertel de Rouville: (1668 - 1722)
Jean was the son of Francois (Joseph) Hertel & Marguerite de Thavenet, born at Trois Rivieres,Quebec. Jean married 1st.Jeanne Dubois at Trois-Rivieres in 1698 & Marie-Anne Beudoin at Quebec in 1708, their children were; Jean Bte. (b.1709), Francois-Antoine (b.1715), Anne-Francoise (b.1716), Jacques-Michel (b.1719) & Rene-Ovide (b.1720)(m.Charlotte Babrielle Jarrot de Vercheres in 1767).
Jean Sr. was knighted (Chevalier de Saint-Louis) & obtained the commission to Captain in 1713. He became known as the "Sacker of Deerfield" due to his raid on that English settlement in 1704.

Pierre Hertel de Moncours: (1687 - 1739)
He was the son of Francois (Joseph) Hertel & Marguerite de Thavenet, born at Trois Rivieres,Quebec. Pierre married Marie-Therese-Judith D'Ailleboust in 1721 and their daughter was Jean-Pierre (b.1722, Montreal), Marie-Marguerite-Therese (b.1724, Montreal), Paul-Etienne (b.1727, Montreal), Louise (b. 1731, Montreal), Judith-Francoise (b.1733, Montreal), Francois-Xavier (b.1735, Montreal), Pierre (b.1738, Montreal),
Pierre was the French military commander at the post at Green Bay (Wisconsin) in 1734 but was recalled back east because of his disputes with the fur-traders.

Pierre-Joseph Hertel, sieur de Beaubassin: (1715 - ?)
Pierre-Joseph was the son of Joseph Hertel de St.Francois & Catherine Philippe, born in Trois-Rivieres. He married Catherine-Madeleine Jarrot (daughter of Jean Bte.Jarrot, sieur de Vercheres & Madeleine Francoise d'Ailleboust de Manthet) in 1751. [Her father commanded the post at Green Bay in 1747].
Pierre-Joseph followed in his families tradition and was a captain on a raid of Albany in 1756 during the King George's War. From 1756 to 1758 he was commander of the post of Lapointe (in today's northern Wisconsin) and sailed for France after the loss of Canada to the British.

Etienne-Francois Hertel de Saint Francois: (1734 - 1760)
He was the son of Claude Hertel & Genevieve Mirambeau, born at Trois-Rivieres, St.-Maurice, Quebec.
Etienne was stationed at Michilimackinac and was killed in an action against the British near Lotbiniere, Quebec on 18th of July of 1760

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Augustin LaRocque (Rock/Roc/Rocque) I: (1770's-aft.1846)
He was married to Agatha (b.abt.1784, Dubuque, Iowa- her father was of the Fox tribe & mother a Dakota) and also married Helen (Wakan Winona). Their children were: Augustin II (abt.1807-abt.1860)(m.a Menominee woman), Joseph I (b.1807/10)(m.Madeline Robinson), Catherine (b.abt.1809)(m.1st.to Francois Lapointe & 2nd.to Mitchell Lariviere), Francois (b.1810), Louis (b.abt.1813)(m.Nancy Campbell) & Angelique.
Augustin LaRocque (Rock/Roc/Rocque) II: (abt.1807-abt.1860)
He married a Menominee woman and their children were: Therese (b.1820)(m.Oliver Monnette), Pauline (b.1823/31) & Jean Bt. (b.1828).

Joseph LaRocque (Rock/Roc/Rocque) I: (b.1807/10-?)
He married Madeliene Robinson (daughter of a trader & a Dakota/Fox woman) and their children were: Joseph II (b.abt.1840), Baptiste (b.abt.1841), Domitille (b.abt.1842), Matilda (b.abt.1844), Josephine (b.abt.1847), Louis-Joseph (b.abt.1848) & Leander (b.abt.1853).

Catherine LaRocque (Rock/Roc/Rocque): (b.abt.1809-?)


Francois LaRocque (Rock/Roc/Rocque): (b.1810-?)


Louis LaRocque (Rock/Roc/Rocque): (b.abt.1813-?)
He married Nancy Campbell (b.1816/20)(daughter of Duncan Campbell & Therese)(she was the widow of Alfred Hudson)

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Louis Hamelin: (1681 - 1693)
Louis was the son of Louis Hamelin, seigneur des Grondines & Antoinette Aubert (m.7 aug.1679). He married Catherine Neveu (daughter of Jacques Neveu & Michelle Chauvin) in Detroit on 24 feb.1718 and their children were: Hyacinthe (b.1725), Jacques (b.1733) (m. Nipissing woman), Louis (b.1735), Jean Bte. (b.1741), Catherine & Marie-Louise.
Between 1726 &1730 Louis was hiring men for the western trade and in 1729 involved with Paul Marin & Alexis Lemoine Moniere in trade ventures at Michilimackinac, Green Bay & "Poste des Folles Avoines"
Charles-Joseph Hamelin: (1693 - ?)
Charles was the son of Louis Hamelin, seigneur des Grondines & Antoinette Aubert. In 1726 he was employed in the western fur-trade.

Charles Hamelin La Gueniere: (1714 - ?)
Charles was the son of Jacques Hamelin LaGueniere & Antoinette Richard-LaVallee (m.10 aug.1706). He married first Marie Athanase (b.abt.1708), a "Sauteux" woman who died in 1745 at Pte.St.Ignace. Charles then married on 4 feb.1748 at Michilimackinac, Catherine (daughter of "Sauteux" named Mouus). Charles children included Louis-Charles (b.mar.1737), Jacques (b.22 jan.1733), Marianne (b.10 jan.1731), Pierre-Charles (b.15 feb.1746 Sault Ste.Marie), Pierre (b.21 feb.1735), Marie Francoise (b.4 nov.1739) & Jean Bte. (bapt.27 aug.1741). He was the nephew of the above Louis Hamelin (1681-1693).

Francois-Marie Hamelin: (1729 - ?)
He was married to Marie-Catherine Roy (daughter of Francois Roy & Madeleine Truteau) in 1754 at Montreal. Francois-Marie was employed in the Green Bay trade in the 1740's & 1750's (also employed in the Green Bay trade during this time was Charles Hamelin, Michel Hamelin & Augustin Hamelin Jr.).

Alexander Hamelin (Amelin):
Alexander was a trader in the Prairie du Chien area in the winter of 1786-87.

Jacques Hamelin:
Jacques was born to Jacques Hamelin & Marie Anastasie Landry (m.25 nov.1771 in L'Assumption, Quebec) on 3 sep.1772. He was by 1801 in the neighborhood of the Red River of the north where his wife (Angelique Tourangeau) gave birth to Marguerite-Marie. At some point Marguerite moved to the U.S. and died in Little Canada, Mn. on 24 feb.1890. She had married Antoine Pepin who died on 31 jan.1851 in St.Paul, Mn. Jacques & Marie's other children that I am aware of were Jean Bte. (b.1805) & Solomon (b.1810).

Jean Baptiste Hamelin:
Jean led a Spanish force from Cohokia against the British (French/Native) settlement of St.Joseph (today's Niles, Mich.) in the autumn of 1780, in retaliation for the Canadian attack on St.Louis earlier that year in which many mid-western Native & French participated in. Jean managed to take the settlement (taking prisoners & furs) but upon returning west, was overtaken by British Lt.DeQuindre and a force gathered around the St.Joseph area. Hamelin's force was mostly killed or captured.

Joseph Hamelin (Hamel/Amelin):
1800/01-voyageur with Alexander Henry's Northwest Co. brigade on the Upper Red River of the north.
After 1801-sent by Henry to replace Lagasse at the Hairy Hills post (northeastern North Dakota).
1800/05-empoyee of the Northwest Co.'s Red River Department.
jun.1807-hired by Francois Freniere & Co. to winter on the St.Peters River (today's Minnesota River.).

Thanks to Joe Hamelin for the following email:
The proper spelling, if there is such a thing, is "Laganiere" -- it's a corruption of St. Mathurin
de la Dagueniere, the town in old Anjou, France, where the Hamelins are from.
The "Salteux woman" who died, according to Tanguay, took the name "Marie Athanese." She
supposedly died, he took another Salteux wife named "Marie Anastasie," and had three more
children by her. Pierre-Charles, Georges and Marie Joseph.
Don't drift off. This gets better.
I assumed Charlie just lived out his days in the Sault Ste-Marie wilderness. But then I got to
researching the branch of the family that, in 1762, resettled in LaPrairie, across the St.
Lawrence from Montreal. I wondered how Rene Hamelin came to meet a woman there,
marry and move from Grondines... so I did a search for Hamelins in LaPrairie on the
University of Montreal's site listing notary records. And guess who turned up...? Uncle
Charlie -- literally, Rene's uncle, who in 1760 -- at age 45 -- applied for a marriage license at
Montreal to marry a girl of 18. He listed wife Marie-Athanese as deceased. He died four
months later. Those 18-year-olds are hell on old voyageurs.
I kept searching. And guess who I turned up? Marie-Athanese! -- who, in 1757, was very
much alive and in Quebec, applying for a marriage license of her own. She listed her husband
Charles as deceased!
No computers in those days. No phones, no communications between towns.
If you didn't like your life, you paddled your canoe for a couple of days and then started
another one somewhere else. Not such a bad system, after all.
Anyhow, it took us 240 years to catch them...Yours, Joe Hamelin

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Richard Dobie: (abt.1731-1805)
He was in Montreal as early as 1761 and soon after establishing himself, entered into the fur trade. In the 1760's Richard was acting as a trader in partnerships with Lawrence Ermatinger, Pierre Montbrun & Benjamin Frobisher at times, trading at Fort Timiskaming, Green Bay & Michilimackiac. During the 1770's and 1780's he was acting as a outfitter & financier of trading ventures primarily to the Great Lakes with traders like Etienne Campion, William Grant, Jean Bte.Tabeau, John Grant, Robert Griffin & James Grant and to a lesser extent backed trade expeditions beyond Grand Portage as in the case of Etienne Wadden & Venance Lemaire dit St.Germain. Richard became a man of political influence in Canada and was a member of the Montreal militia, holding the rank of captain (1788-97) and major (1798-1805).
Richard accumulated a fortune, beginning shortly after the British conquest of Canada and acquiring much of his wealth before the formation of the North West Company. He lived a comfortable life in Montreal after his retirement from the trade in about 1790 and died in Montreal on 23 March 1805.

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Jacob Fahlstrom (Oza-windib or "Yellow Hair"): (1793 - 1859)
Jacob was born near Stockholm, Sweden on 25 jul.1793. He married Marguerite Bonga (m.1823 Fond du Lac, Mn.), who was the daughter of Pierre Bonga (a trader of African-Ojibwe ancestry) & an Ojibwe women. Their children were: John (b.abt.1823, Sandy L.) (m.Marguerite Reul), Nancy (b.abt.1823, Lake Superior area), Sarah (b.abt.1827, Gull L.or Mille Lacs) (m.Jean Bte.Fournier), Jane (b.abt.1829) (m.Joseph McKnight), Cecilla (b.abt.1835) (m.Charles Villendre), James (b.abt.1837), Sally & George (b.abt.1844) (m.Catherine Simondet).
Jacob arrived in North America, at Hudson Bay as a former cabin boy, landing in 1807 at the mouth of the York River. While on a hunting party he became separated, wandering until found by the Ojibwe and adopted by a woman of that tribe. By 1809 he was under the employ of the American Fur Co., in its Fond du Lac Department. While in that Dept. he worked for Chief Agent's Hugh McGillis, James Grant, William Morrison & William Aitken. In 1812 he was listed as living at Playgren Lake in Manitoba and was probably a resident of the Selkirk colony for some time.
In 1827, he and his family moved to the "Cold Spring" area of the Ft.Snelling Reservation but were driven off by the U.S. Army along with other "squatters", most of who were from the Red River Colony. He then (1838) settled on a farm in what later became, Valley City (above Valley Creek), Afton Township, Washington Co., Minnesota. and before he died he became a Methodist missionary (he had carried with him a pocket bible written in Swedish which was a gift from his mother) at the Kaposia village & the St.Croix Valley. The following is an account by Rev.Chauncey Hobart of his conversion to the Methodist Church: "This Bro.Fahlstrom was the first fruit of our mission among the Indians and converted on this wise: Residing within a mile of Fort Snelling, at 'Cold Spring', he had been employed occasionally by the Presbyterian missionaries and had been told by them that 'the Methodists were coming'. Anxious to know who these might be, he was informed that they were a kind of religious people, who were very noisy and demonstrative; that they shouted and hallooed and stamped; that they would often strike the Bible when they preached; and sometimes would knock the pulpit down they were so earnest. This account greatly interested 'Jacobs', as he was called in the expected missionaries, and on the arrival, not long after, of Bro.Alfred Brunson, accompanied by Bro.David King as missionary, Jacobs was on the alert to hear and see all that might be sid or done by them...Looking, listening, watching, alive with interest, he only waited until Bro.King came down towards the door; when going to him, and taking his hand in both of his, he exclaimed, "My name is Jacobs; I want to join you!"
In 1841, he moved to Lakeland, Washington County, Minnesota and in 1847 took a claim near Afton, Minnesota where he died on 29 jul.1859 and was buried atop a hill cemetery, on the Fahlstrom's Valley Creek farm.

I received the following e-mail from Keith Nelson ([e-mail]) - Thanks Keith -
Your summary of Jacob's life was rather cursory, and I wanted to add a few details.
Jacob is mentioned as being in the region of the mouth of the Minnesota (then St. Peters) river by 1819, when the army arrived to build the military Fort there. He occasionally worked as a "Striker" in the blacksmith shop at Fort Snelling and the associated Indian Agency, and his home is recorded as a blacksmith shop on a map of the area made in 1832.
After the floods of 1826, many refugees from the Red River colony passed through on their way to St. Louis. A few stayed on the military land, providing produce for the US Army. The Mississippi river makes an 'S' curve where it meets the Minnesota, going from south to east, northeast, and finally southeast. Though the fort buildings were on the west and north of the place where the rivers meet, the land claimed by the fort extended none miles both up and down river, including the half circle enclosed by the southern loop of the river.
It was technically illegal for civilians to settle on military land, but they were allowed to stay because they were useful. However, when the treaty of Mendota was signed in 1839, opening the land east of the river to settlement, the civilians were asked to leave. They resisted and were forcibly evicted. They moved across the river, unaware that they were still on fort land, and were evicted again. They crossed the loop of the river and settled, and were evicted yet again. Fed up with this, Fahlstrom is said to have determined to walk east until the sun set, sure that then he would be well and truly away from the army. This is supposedly why he named his farm "Afton" ('afternoon' or 'evening' in Swedish).
Fahlstrom's conversion was not TO Christianity, but from the Lutheran to the Methodist church.
There is a memorial to Jacob Fahlstrom at the intersection of Robert and Kellog lst streets in downtown St. Paul, MN.
If I can get an address, I will send you a photocopy of an article about Jacob that appeared several years ago in the La Compagnie Journal, the magazine of a voyageur reenactment group based at Fort Snelling

Thank's for the opportunity to contribute some additional information about Jacob Fahlstrom. James Mittun (Descendent of Jacob) [e-mail]
As stated above the Fahlstrom Story begins in Sweden. When still a youth, Fahlstrom Shipped to England. On his way the ship sank, but the young Swedes life was spared. From England he left for the new world with an expedition under the leadership of Lord Selkirk. the ships made their way to the Hudson Bay area, and it was while the ships were at anchor that the young Fahlstrom in his teens, explored the countryside. A severe thunderstorm arose while he was on shore. In his effort
to return to the ship he wandered away. Lost! He subsisted on dead fish cast on shore, berries, roots, bark, and small animals. Making his way southward he wandered into a band of Chippewa Indians and was adopted by an Indian woman who continued to be his foster mother for many years. Jacob learned their language, manner of hunting, cooking, camp rituals and form of worship. He wore their clothes and in all things, except his Swedish blood, Jacob was an Indian. He was Called Yellow Hair.
As time passed. Fahlstrom married a young Indian maiden, Margaret Bungo. Fahlstrom continued to live an adventurous life. He came as far south as Fort Snelling. General H. H. Sibley who arrived in 1832, remarked that Fahlstrom was here long before him. Fahlstrom traded with the lndians, worked for the Hudson Bay Company and the American Fur Company. He carried mail from Fort Snelling to Prairie du Chien and later became post rider between Prairie du Chien and St. Croix Falls.
Reputedly always a religious man, he is said to have carried a small pocket Bible with him from Sweden. About 1837 he was converted to the Methodist faith and because of his knowledge of the Indian language and life, he became an invaluable missionary to those people.
In July, 1984, Emery Johnson wrote an article in the Swedish-American Historical Quarterly titled " Was Oza-Windib a Swede?" He suggests that Jacob Fahlstrom, known as Yellow Hair, was actually the Indian guide that took Henry Schoolcraft to the sources of the Mississippi.
If Jacob Fahlstrom was the Oza Windib mentioned in Schoolcraft's book, Expedition to Lake Itasca: The Discovery of the Source of the Mississippi. We may have missed one of the most significant events of his life.

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Pierre Roy / LeRoy / Royer / Poitevin / St.Lambert: (1638/42 - 1721)
He was the son of Charles Roy & Jeanne Boyer, born in La Rochelle, France. Pierre married Catherine Ducharme (daughter of Jean DuCharme & Ann Lelievre) in 1672 at Montreal. Their children were: Marguerite (1674-1749), Anne (1676-1729) (m. Andre Babeu/Beauf in 1689), Pierre II (1676-1743) (m. 1st. to Marguerite Ouankikove/Ouabankiknove in 1705 and 2nd. to Marie-Angelique Faye-Lafaillette), Marie-Marguerite (1681-1758) (m. Clement Leriger dit Laplante in 1700), Jean (1683-?), Marie-Magdeleine (1684-1707/26) (m. Jean Peras dit Lafontaine in 1701), Jacques (1688-1730) (m. Martha-Marguerite French in 1711), Francois (1690/91-1747) (m. Madeleine Truteau/Trudeau in 1731), Etienne (1690/91-?), Andre (1692-1754) (m. Suzanne Bourdon in 1718), Louis (1694-1724) (m. Marguerite Dumay/Demers in 1718) & Marie-Josette (1697-?) (m. Louis Truteau in 1719).

Pierre Roy / LeRoy II: (1676 - 1743)
He was the son of Pierre Roy & Catherine Ducharme, born at Laprairie. Pierre married 1st. to Marguerite Ouankikove/Ouabankiknove in 1703 at Detroit and 2nd. to Marie-Angelique Faye-Lafaillette in 1705 at Laprairie. His children were: Marguerite (1704-1755) (m. Jean Robin dit Latouche in 1739), Pierre III (1706-1716), Marie-Louise (1708-1735) (m. Alexis Trotier des Ruisseaux in 1735 at Detroit), Marie-Renee (1710-?) (m. Jacques Tremblay in 1730), Marie-Madeleine (1710-1732) (m. Pierre Chene dit Labutte in 1728 at Miami village near Detroit), Marie-Anne (1705/12-?) (m. Francois Dupuis in 1732), Francois (1713-?) (m. Barbara-Elizabeth Dudevoir dit Lachine about 1735 at Detroit), Marie-Angelique (1717-?), Marie-Louisa (1717-?), Marie-Rose (1718-?), Marie-Charlotte (1720-?) & Jacques (1723-?).
Pierre I was hired in 1692 by the Jesuits to go to the 8ta8ois and in 1696 he was hired by Dumez, Trudeau & Benoit to the same tribe. In 1703 he was employed by Cadillac at Detroit and also employed in the west for the years of 1713 & 1718.
Louis Roy / LeRoy: (1694 - 1724)
He was the son of Pierre Roy & Catherine Ducharme, born at Laprairie. Louis married Marguerite Dumay/Demers in 1718 and their children were: Marie-Marguerite (b.1720, Detroit), Marie-Josephe (b.,1722, Detroit) & Marie-Madeleine (b.1726, Detroit).
Louis was employed in the west in 1718 & 1725.

Francois Roy / LeRoy: (1690/91 - 1747)
He was the son of Pierre Roy & Catherine Ducharme, born at Laprairie. Francois married Barbara-Elizabeth Dudevoir dit Lachine at Detroit about 1735. He was employed in the west for the years 1717, 1724 & 1730.

Edmond Roy - Chatellereau de Ste.Anne: (1665/75 - ?)
He was the son of Michel Roy-Chatellerault & Francoise Hobbe-Aube, born at Ste.Anne, De la Perade, Champlain, Quebec. Edmond married Marie-Anne Janvier (daughter of Jean Janvier & Dorthie Dubois) at Ste.Anne in 1701 and their children were: Michel (1701-1761) (m.Marie-Angelique Perot-Perrault in 1728), Marie-Francoise (1703-1760) (m.Pierre-Thomas Laquerre in 1725), Marguerite (1705-1788) (m.Jean Bte.Guillet dit St.Marc in 1728), Marie-Josephe (1707-1779) (m.Francois Perot in 1730), Joseph (1709-1761, Pte.Coupee, Louisiana) (m.1st.to Madeleine Perthuis at Detroit in 1736, m.2nd.to Perrine Lacour in 1741 at Pte.Coupee, Louisiana & m.3rd to Marie-Magelaine Lejeune).
Edmond was hired by Jean Bochart for Detroit in 1701, along with Michel Roy de Ste.Anne & Pierre Roy de Ste.Anne.

Joseph Roy - Chatellereau: ((1709 - 1761)
He was the son of Edmond Roy & Francoise Hobbe-Aube. Joseph married 1st.to Madeleine Perthuis at Detroit in 1736, m.2nd.to Perrine Lacour in 1741 at Pte.Coupee, Louisiana (daughter of Nicolas de La Cour & Perinne Bret) & m.3rd to Marie-Magelaine Lejeune/Janvier. His children were: Joseph-Noel (1745-1817) (m.Marie-Louise Bellome in 1769 at Pte.Coupee & Marie-Anne Bordelon in 1770 at Pte.Coupee, Louisiana), Suzanne (abt.1747-?), Jeanne-Juana (1747-?) (m. Antoine Goudeau in 1762 at Pte.Coupee), Therese (abt.1749-?), Jacques-Noel (1749-?) (m. Perinne Bordelon about 1772), Elizabeth-Isabelle (1753-?) (m. Joseph-Jean-Frederic Leonard in 1769 at Pte.Coupee), Suzanne (1758-?) (m. Guillaume Gilchrist in 1772 at Pte.Coupee), Eleanore (1760-1795) (m. Philipe Hebert-Milan in 1775 at Opelousas, Louisiana), Marie-Therese (1762/64-?) (m. Jean Bte.Darban in 1778) & Augustin (1766-?)

Joseph Roy: (1728 - ?)
He married Marie-Anne d'Amours de Chauffour (daughter of Pierre Damours de Chauffours & Cecile Thibodeau) in 1749 and their children were: Marie-Josephe, Thomas-Felicien (1762-?) (m. Marie-Josephe Godin in 1785), Josephe-Norberte & Marguerite.

Joseph Roy / LeRoy: (1744 - 1825)
He was the son of Joseph Leroy & Marie-Louise Gagnon, born in Charlesbourg, Quebec. He married Marguerite Oskinanotame (1760-1835) (daughter of Menominee leader AhkenepawehAkeeneebaway or Standing Earth and Waupanokiew) [she was the grand-daughter of Shawano and related to Oshkosh, Onaugesa, Kaushkaunoweh (Grizzly Bear) and Pottawattomie chief - Anaugesa]. Their children were: Susan Sowankien (m.Domanick Brunette), Francois (1784-?) (m.Therese Lecuyer), Charlotte (1785-?) (m. Joseph Campinne/Camanne in 1807), Angelique-Angeline (1786/89-1862) (m.Jacques-Jean Vieaux Jr. in 1786), Catherine Songbird (1787-?) (m. 1st. to Alexis Gardapier and m.2nd. to Joseph H.Rioux), Marie (m. Jean Marie Ducharme) & Pierre (abt.1793-?).
Joseph was the brother of Amable Roy (who married the daughter of Augustin Langlade). He was a resident of Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1780.

Francois Roy / LeRoy: (1784 - ?)
He was the son of Joseph LeRoy & Marguerite Oskinanotame and married Therese Lecuyer. From 1812 to 1818 Francois maintained a post at the portage between the Fox & Wisconsin Rivers

Amable Roy / LeRoy:
He was born in Montreal and married Agate Langlade (daughter of Augustin Langlade & widow of Pierre Leduc-Souligny). Amable was living at Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1761 and wintering on the Upper Mississippi in 1764.

Pierre Roy: (? - 1721)
He married Marie-Anne Macoutentiaoue at Kaskaskia, Illinois about 1716 and their daughters were: Marie-Louise (b.1717, Kaskaskia, Ill.) & Genevieve (b. 1719, Kaskaskia - d. 1721, Kaskaskia). Pierre died at Kaskaskia in 1721.

Joseph Roy- Chatellereau II: (1762 -?)
He was the son of Joseph Roy-Chatellereau I & Marie-Louise Hamelin and married Archange Dussault (daughter of Louis-Joseph Dussault & Louise Des Buttes) at Detroit in 1794. His brothers were Alexis (b.1766) & Michel (b.1769).

Jean Baptiste Roy:
He married Jeanne Prudhomme and their son Jean was baptised at Detroit in 1766.

Julien Roy: (abt.1730/32 - ?)
He married Marie-Barbe Saucier (daughter of Henry Saucier & Barbe Lacroix) at Mobile in 1750/51 and their children were: Marianne (abt.1754, Illinois) (m. Louis Baudin in 1778 at Mobile), Charles-Julien (b.1756, Mobile) (m. Susanne Dodier in 1779, St.Louis), Magdeleine (b.1758, St.Louis) (m. Francois Hebert in 1774, St.Louis), Julien II (b.1767, St.Louis) (m. 1st. to Marie-Louise Cote in 1784, St.Louis and Reine M.Guilgaut in 1797), Henry-Francois (b.1767, St.Louis-1831, Carondelet) (m. Jeanne Montardy in 1793), Pierre-Patrice (b.1770, St.Louis) & Louis (b.1773, St.Louis).

Alexis Roy dit Portelance:
He was the son of Louis-Paul Roy-Portelance & Angelique Allaire born in Lachine, Montreal, Quebec. Alexis married Marie-Josephe Brau/Brod at Lachine in 1761. His brothers were Louis (b.1727), Jean Bte. (b.1730), Joseph-Noel (b.1737) & Jacques (b.1742).
He was hired by Amable Huber for Michilimackinac in 1762 and wintered at Michilimackinac & the Mississippi River for Paterson & Kay in 1775/76.

Vincent Roy I:
His children were: Vincent II (1795-1872) (m. Lizette) & Daughter (abt.1800-?) (m. Simon McGillivay). Vincent I traded at Thief & Red Lake River's (Red Lake post) area for J.Sayer & Co. from 1794 to 1797. He establish at post on the Upper Red River (of the North) in October of 1797. He continued his employ with J.Sayer & Co. (Fond du Lac District) until about 1800, after which he was employed in the same department for the North West Co. (Hugh McGillis). In 1817 Vincent retired from the North West Co., driving 13 head of horses to the mouth of the Little Fork River and selling them to the NWC post in the area. He then settled on a farm at the mouth of that river. By June of 1837 the settlement at the mouth of the Little Fork River is almost abandanded and acording to William Sinclair's diary "...Roy had left Simon Sayer in charge while he was at the Red River where he plans to 'end his well spent life'." (Vincent Roy Jr. was at Sault Ste.Marie). Vincent's brothers were probably Joseph (1844-1825), Amable & Louis.

Vincent Roy II: (1795 - 1872)
He married Lizette (1805-1883) and their children were: John (1821-?) (m. Josette), Vincent III (1825-1896) (m. Elizabeth-Lizette Cournoyer - daughter of V.Cournoyer), Charles (1845-?) (m. Mary) & Lewis (1847-?) (m. Caroline).
Vincent lived in St.Croix Co. in 1842 and Crow Wing/Long Prairie Dist. in 1849.

Benjamin Roy:
He was from l'Assumption and from 1807 to 1808 employed by to Mackinac Co. for Mackinac & Prairie du Chien. In the 1820 Crawford Co.census he is propably at Prairie du Chien.

Joseph Roy dit Cire:
He is from Vaudreuil - St.Constant - Lachine and employed by the North West Co. & the American Fur Co. at places like Mackinac, Le Pic & Drummond Is.

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Jacques Cardinal: (1659-1724)
He was the son of Simon-Jacques Cardinal (Cardinault) & Michelle Garnier (Grenier), born at Lachine, Montreal, Quebec.
Jacques married Claude-Louise Arrivee dit Delisle in 1682 and their children were: Jacques (1685-1763) (m.Marie-Jeanne Du Guay in 1715), Marie-Magdeline (1686-1743) (m. Jacques Hubert dit Lacroix in 1707), Marie-Louise (b.1689) (m.Nicolas Millet in 1711), Barbe-Elisabeth (b.1694) (m.Claude Dudevoir in 1719), Marie-Magdeline (b.1699) (m. Jean Bte.Lootman Barrois in 1717) & Catherine (b.1707) (m. Charles St.Maurice in 1723).
Jacques hired Pierre Vaux in the spring of 1683 (in partnership with Jean Lefevre & Jean Dupuy) for "le voyage des 8ta8ats". His father-in-law (Jacques Arrivee) & his son-in-law's father (Jacques Hubert) were hiring men during the 1690's for "le voyage des 8ta8ats".
Simon Cardinal:
He was the son of Simon-Jacques Cardinal (Cardinault) & Michelle Garnier (Grenier), born at Lachine, Montreal, Quebec in 1667.
In the spring/summer of 1688 Simon II was hired by Francois de Boisguillot for "le voyage des 8ta8ats" along with Cardin, Michel Charbonneau, Gabriel Cardinal (Simon's brother), Nicolas Jette, Francois Rivard & Louis Couc (sr.du Montour).

Gabriel Cardinal:
He was the son of Simon-Jacques Cardinal (Cardinault) & Michelle Garnier (Grenier), born at Lachine, Montreal, Quebec in 1661. Gabriel married Marie-Anne Fanseque (Phanseque) in 1682.
In the spring/summer of 1688 Gabriel was hired by Francois de Boisguillot for "le voyage des 8ta8ats" along with Cardin, Michel Charbonneau, Simon Cardinal (Gabriel's brother), Nicolas Jette, Francois Rivard & Louis Couc (sr.du Montour). In the spring of 1692 & 1695 he was hired by Pierre LeSueur for "le voyage des 8ta8ats".

Pierre Cardinal: (1665-1719)
He was the son of Simon-Jacques Cardinal (Cardinault) & Michelle Garnier (Grenier), born at Lachine, Montreal, Quebec.
Pierre married Marie-Catherine Matou dit Labrie in 1685 at Montreal and their children were: Charles (1695-1710), Pierre (bap.1687) ((m.Madeleine Cesar in 1712), Jean Bte.(1691-1764) (m.Marie-Louise Massiot in 1727), Daniel (1692-1718) (m.Marie-Madeleine Gibault in 1717), Marie-Francoise (b.1697) (m.Pierre Hubert Lacroix in 1721), Marie-Anne (b.1701) & Francois Marie (1709-1743) (m.1st. Marie-Therise Brunet Letang & 2nd.Marie-Josette Meloche).
Pierre was with Juchereau St.Denis on his venture on the Mississippi in 1702 and he located six years later in Detroit.


Jean Marie Cardinal Sr.: (abt.1729-1780)
He married an Omaha slave (Panis Maha) (d.1827) & had the following children: Genevieve, Ursule (Charlotte), Marguerite, Susanna, Catherine, Felicite, Jean Marie Jr.(1771-abt.1823)(m.Elisabeth Antaya-Peltier) & Paul.

Jean Marie Cardinal Jr.: (1771-abt.1823)
He married Elisabeth (Isabel) Antaya-Peltier & had the following children: Eustache(b.1808), Helie (b.1810), Pierre (b.1812), Julien (b.1821)& Paul.


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Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry: (b.1682 - d.1756, Quebec)
He was the son of Gaspard & Anne de Vidalle and he married Marie-Renee Legardeur de Beauvais (b.1697 - d.1743) (daughter of Rene Legardeur & Mare Barbe Destours des Chaillions) at Quebec on 13 oct.1717. In 1717 de Lery [Docket] was a French military engineer and fortified Quebec & Montreal. His son, Lieutenant Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry, in 1756 led an engagement at Fort Bull.

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James Wilkinson: (1757 - 1825)
He was the son of Joseph Wilkinson & Althea (Betty) Heighe, born in Benedict, Calvert Co., Maryland. He married 1st to Ann Biddle (daughter of John Biddle & Sarah Owen) in 1778 at Philadelphia and 2nd to Celestine Trudeau (daughter of Charles Laveau Trudeau) in 1810 at New Orleans. His children were: John (1780-1796), James B. (1783/84-1813) (m.Hannah Toulmin/Coleman in 1810), Joseph B. (1785-1865) (m. Catherine Andrews in 1807), Margaret (m. Benjamin Rogers) & Elizabeth S. (b.1816) (m. Toussaint-Francois Bigot).
James was enrolled in the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1773, but his education was interrupted by the Revolutionary War in 1775 when he became a captain in the Continental Army serving under Benedict Arnold (he also served under Gen.George Washington & Gen. Horatio Gates). James saw action at the unsuccessful attempt to take Montreal, the Siege of Boston and the battles of Saratoga, Trenton & Princton. In 1777 he was Brevet Brigadier General and the Secretary of the Board of War, a position he held until 1778 when he was forced to leave because of his involvement in a move to remove Gen.George Washington as the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.
From 1781 to 1783 Wilkinson tried farming in Pennsylvania while also assuming the responsibilities of Brig.Gen.of the Pennsylvania Militia in 1782. In 1783/84 he moved to Kentucky and establish trading connection with New Orleans where in 1784 he swore allegiance to the Spanish government there. He apparently again took the oath of allegiance to Spain at New Orleans in 1787, becoming Spanish Secret Agent #13 in his attempts to keep Kentucky from joining the Union.
In March of 1791 he led a force of Kentucky Volunteers (2nd in command to Gen.Charles Scott - William Clark is a lieutenant under Wilkinson in this action) on a punitive campaign against the Ohio Valley tribes and the next year given the rank of Major General in the U.S.Army. By August of 1794 he is again a Brig.Gen.under Gen.Anthony Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers (Wilkinson intentionally delayed sending a supply train to Wayne in an attempt to undermine Wayne, according to Clark) and in 1796 is given the command of Detroit. From 15 December 1796 to 13 July 1798 he held the position of Commander in Chief of the U.S.Army (replacing Anthony Wayne). [He replaced Alexander Hamilton as the senior U.S.Army officer and Commander in Chief of the U.S.Army in June of 1800 - Hamilton was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804].
James was transferred to the Southern Frontier in 1798 and in December of 1803 took possession of the Louisiana Purchase (from the Com.of France - Laussat) on behalf of the United States with Gov.William Claiborne. On 30 July 1805 he was at St.Louis, Missouri (as the newly appointed U.S.Military Gov.of Louisiana Terr.), commanding Zebulon Pike to take a force up the Mississippi River, exploring the river to its source and to establish an American presents in the area in a attempt to wrestle control of the fur trade from the British. Pike arrived at the Canadian controlled Prairie du Chien on the 4th of September where he began to meet the British & French traders who controlled the trade out of the Great Lakes S.W. trade route (Fazer, Aird, Cameron & Woods) then ascended the Mississippi to the destination of the British traders from the L.Superior trade route (Dickson, Grant & McGillis) while also meeting with the Chiefs of the Dakota & Ojibwe Nations (Wabasha, Red Thunder, Broken Tooth & Flat Mouth). In July of 1806, Wilkinson sent Pike on another exploratory expedition (Wilkinson's son James Jr. accompanied the expedition) to the S.W. where he became a prisoner of the Spanish Gov.
During this period, ex-Vice President Aaron Burr was allegedly (with James Wilkinson) intending to invite the western subjects of Spain to form an independent empire in the west, with it's capital being New Orleans. In 1807 Burr surrendered to American officials after Wilkinson informed President Jefferson of his designs and in March of 1807 James is replaced by Meriwether Lewis as Governor. Not long after this occurred, the Missouri Fur Company was formed with its headquarters in St.Louis, Mo. with James brother, Benjamin Wilkinson among its founding partners (also P.Chouteau, M.Lisa, A.Chouteau, Wm.Clark, Wm.Morrison, R.Lewis, S.Labbadie, P.Menard & A.Henry).
Wilkinson was court martialed by order of President Madison and found not-guilty of the charges, on 25 December of 1811. So being the senior U.S.Army officer at the beginning of 1812, he was given the task of the invasion of Canada at the out break of the war. He had under his command 8000 men (and Gen.Zebulon Pike) who left Ft.George for the north, but the campaign turned to a retreat and the death of Pike. Again, Wilkinson was tried & acquitted in the disastrous Canadian invasion, but this time it ended his U.S.Army career.
Wilkinson spent his remaining years in Mexico where he traveled in 1821 in an effort to gain a Texan land grant. He died in Mexico City on 28 December 1825, from the effects of smoking Opium.

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Red Thunder (Wackhawendutah or Tonnerre Rouge):
There are many more questions about the life, family & history surrounding this individual than answers. The info I managed to gather on this individual seems to indicate him as one of the most influential Dakota (Nakota) Chiefs [not only at the village-band-tribal level (Yankton and/or Sisseton) but of the Dakota-Nakota-Lakota Nation level of influence]. I have explored many European sources but am lacking in oral tradition sources and I'm sending out a call for help from any of you folks out there that can muster up some additional info. Anyway here's what I have - please let me know if there are disagreements out there about any of the info
There appears to have been at least two Chiefs known as Red Thunder. Red Thunder I was born 1740-41 & died in 1822. he was probably the Red Thunder that was noted as visiting the new fort (Ft.Snelling) at the head of the St.Peter's River (Minnesota River) in jun.1821, estimated as 80 years old. This is probably the same Red Thunder that Zebulon Montgomery Pike listed on his "Abstract of the Nations of Indians on the Mississippi..." as Wuckiew Nutch - Tonnerre Rouge - Red Thunder with the remark "first chief of all the Sioux". (Pike defines the divisions of the "Sioux" as Minowa Kantong, Washpetong, Sissitons, Yanktons & Tetons - with Red Thunder as a Sissiton). Pike met Red Thunder on 21 apr.1806, "Upon my return I was sent for by Red Thunder, chief of the Yanctongs, the most savage band of the Sioux. He was prepared with the most elegant pipes and robes I ever saw, and shortly declared, That white blood had never been shed in the village of the Yanctongs, even when rum was permitted; that Mr.Murdoch Cameron arrived at his village last autumn; that he invited him to eat, gave him corn as a bird; that Cameron informed him of the prohibition of rum, and was the only person who afterward sold it in the village." ["The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike"; edited by Elliott Coues]

Excerpts from a "Personal Narrative of Capt.Thomas G.Anderson" from the "Collection of the State Hist.Soc.of Wisc." [vol.IX] - (1808-1811 wintering on Minnesota River); "Red Thunder or Wack-haw-en-du-tah was on of the most universally respected, chiefs among all the numerous Sioux bands....An Ottawa Indian, from L. Mich.,had, by some means, wandered away from his own country, and joined Red Thunder's band, where he received the kindest hospitality; but his tribe, in Mich., were at war with the Oma-haw Indians on the Missouri.......two hundred lodges each of Sioux and Omahaws encamped on the great plains.....a party was immediately sent to bring the Ottawa, dead or alive......(Red Thunder) said, "Since you will not permit me to keep the Ottawa, you shall not kill him, but I will," and shot him, the same ball accidently killing a young Omahaw......in order to avert the impending outbreak, early the next morning the Sioux chief mounted his horse, and rode alone to the Omahaw camp, singing his death song, and with his knife, as he rode among their lodges, cut pieces of flesh from his thighs, and throwing them to the dogs, saying: "My friends, I fed my dogs with your flesh yesterday, and am now come to feast your dogs on my poor flesh, in hopes that we may continue brethren." Red Thunder.......his wounds dressed; and in time, he was loaded with presents and sent home,....."
Red Thunder I, was probably the Red Thunder with Col. Robert Dickson at the siege of Ft.Meigs in 1813 and also probably the father-in-law of Robert Dickson (Mascotapah or Red Haired Man) whose wife was Helen Totowin (b.abt.1781 near Big Stone Lake). She was referred to as the sister of Red Thunder/Wekinyanduta, Chief of the Cut-Head band of Yankton. (reference to her father's name as Wanoti - head Yankton Chief). Robert Dickson was the British trader that Pike met on his expedition up the Mississippi River who at that time had both Ojibwe territory posts & Dakota territory posts and no doubt supplied Pike with some of his tribal information.


Red Thunder II was born about 1770 in the area of Big Stone Lake (Minnesota or North Dakota) & probably died before 1825.

Wannata/Charger in 1822 became Chief of the Yankton and/or the Sisseton on the west shore of Lac Traverse upon the death of Red Thunder [he was said to have been related to Gabriel Renville & a cousin to Tatankamanazin (Standing Buffalo)]. He may have been a son of Red Thunder II and was born about 1795.


...updated 3-6-99 - more to come later...

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Biauswah I:
He was a Ojibwe Chief of a village about 40 miles west of Lapointe in the late 1600's.
Biauswah II:
He was the principle Chief of an Ojibwe villages, at Sandy Lake & opposite the mouth of the East Savanna River in Minnesota. William Warren reports the oral history of Biauswah II being captured as a youth by the Fox and whose father traded his life for his son's. During the 1730's Biauswah II, led attacks on the Dakota at Sandy Lake who were forced south due to attacks from the Ojibwe & the Cree of the north. Biauswah's son Broken Tooth (Kahdawaubeda) later becomes Chief at Sandy Lake.

Kadowaubeda//Broken-Tooth/DeBreche: (abt.1750-1828)
He was the son of Biauswah II and married to Obenegeshipequag. His son's were Mongozid (Loons-Foot), Kahnindumawinjo/Kanandawawinzo & Sugutaugun and daughter's Charlotte (married Charles Oakes Ermitinger), Nancy(Keneesequa) (b.1793)(married Samuel Ashmun Jr.1822/23) & daughter (married Hole in the Day).
As a youth (the French called him Breche) he was at the taking of Michilimackac by the Ojibwe in 1763, in an attempt to drive the British from there lands. By 1805 Breche was the principle/civil Chief at Sandy Lake when Pike arrived on his American "discovery" mission to the source of the Mississippi River. In 1837 Breche was at Ft.Snelling for Treaty negotiations.

Mongozid/Loons-Foot:
He was the son of Kadowaubeda and from 1825 to 1847, Chief of the Fond du Lac band of Ojibwe.

Kahnindumawinjo/Kanandawawinzo/Le Brocheux:
He was the son of Kadowaubeda and was Chief of Sandy Lake Ojibwe from 1837 to 1852.

Sugutaugun:
He was the son of Kadowaubeda and was taken prisoner at Cross Lake as a child by the Dakota (still living with them in1852).

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FLAT-MOUTH / GUELLE PLATTE / ESHKEBUGECOSHE / AISHKIBUGIKOZSH:
Flat-Mouth (b.abt.1773-d.1852) was a civil Chief at Leech lake (Pillagers) by 1805 when Pike visited while on his American discovery mission. His parents were Wasonaunequa (Yellow-Hair) & a Dakota woman.(he had a brother - Beaux). He was reported to have grown up in the plains, west of the Red River. In 1812 he refused Col.Robert Dickson's plead to go to war against the Americans and fight for the British cause. In 1837 he was at Treaty negotiations at Ft.Snelling.

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Jean Bte. Cote: (1670 - 1736)
He was the son of Jean Bte.Cotte & Anne Couture, born in Quebec. Jean married Francoise-Charlotte Choret (Charette)[daughter of Joseph Choret & Anne Loignon) in 1695 or 1696 and had the following children: Marie-Anne (1696-1757) (m.Gabriel Paradis in 1718), Jean Bte. (1697-?) (m.Genevieve Bernier in 1720), Gabriel (1698-bef.1765) (m.1st.to Elizabeth Bernier in 1722 & m.2nd.to Marie-Madeleine Lebel in 1740), Prisque (1701-?) (m.Ursule Bernier in 1720), Francoise (1704-1793) (m.1st.to Jean Bte.Levesque & m.2nd.to Ange Dion Guyon), Marie-Catherine (b.abt.1706) (m.Vincent Riou in 1731 at Rimouski), Marie-Agathe (b.1708) (m.Joseph Levesque about 1713), Pierre (1712-1796) (m.1st.to Marie-Anne Lepage in 1735, m.2nd.to Madeleine Miville dit Deschenes in 1748 & m.3rd.to Marie-Scholastique Levasseur in 1775), Nicolas (abt.1696/1720-aft.1762) & Etienne (aft.1720-?).
Nicolas Cote: (abt.1696/1720 - aft.1762)
He was the son of Jean Bte.Cote & Francois-Charlotte Charette, born about 1696/1720 in Quebec. He married Marie-Claude Levaseur (daughter of Pierre LeVasseur & Marie-Elizabeth Michaud) in 1741 and had the following children: Gabriel (1742-1794), Marie-Joseph (1744-?) (m.Joseph Melancon in 1774), Genevieve (1746-?), Nicolas (abt.1746-?), Marie-Anne (b.1747), Honore-Michel (b.1748), Elizabeth (1749-?) (m.Louis Gastongue in 1767), Henri (b.abt.1750/53) (m.Judith Beaulieu in 1777), Pierre-Nicolas (b.1754) (m.Marie-Urule Saindon in 1779) & Jean Bte. (1758-?) (m. Marguerite Thibodeau in 1778).

Gabriel Cote: (1742 - 1794)
He was the son of Nicolas Cotte & Marie Levaseur, born at Kamouraska, Quebec. Gabriel married 1st.to Agathe Desjardins-Roy at Ste.Anne, Michilimackinac in 1768 & married 2nd.to Angelique Blondeau (daughter of Jean Bte.Blondeau & Genevieve Anger) in 1783 at Montreal.
From the records of the Parish of St. Anne's of the Lakes, at Michilimackinac:
"July 25, 1768, we, vicar-general of Illinois, in virtue of the powers vested in us
by monseigneur Briand, Bishop of Quebec, dated May 15, of the present
year, granted dispensation from the three publications of bans of marriage in
favor of the persons hereinafter named, to-wit; Gabriel Cote, trader, of this
post, son of Nicolas Cotte and of Marie le Vasteur, residing at camouraka;
and agathe Desjardins of this post. And, knowing no other impediment to the
said marriage, we received their mutual consent and gave them the mutual
benediction, according to the form prescribed by our mother the holy church,
to ratify and validate the consent the aforesaid parties had already given one
another on August 17, 1765, in the presence of several persons and in the
church, promising, as they could not do otherwise owing to there being no
priest, to take advantage of the arrival of the first one, to have their marriage
validated and thus legitimize a child born February 28, 1767, which they did
this day in the presence of Mr. Catin sargt and pierre Chaboiller, friends of the
husband; and of Sieur Jaques Gaisson and Dme Therese Campion wife of
pierre ignace DuBois, friends of the wife, all of whom, except the wife, signed
these presents first duly read.
GIBAULT, Vicar-general
COTTE; CHABOILLEZ; GIASSON; CARDIN; THERESE CAMPION DUBOIS."
Their children were: Marianne (b.1767), Agathe, Pierre-Gabriel (b.1775), Marie-Catherine (m.Francois-Antoine Larocques), Marie-Josephte (m.Jules-Maurice Quesnel) & Lucy-Angelique (m.Alexis Laframboise).
Gabriel went to the "Pays den Haut" in 1760 and was associated in the trade with Maurice-Regis Blondeau and John Grant from 1779 to 1785. This is probably the same Gabriel Cotte that hired Jacques Leveque for Michilimackinac in 1772.

Prisque Cote: (1730 - ?)
He was the son of Joseph Cote & Marie-Jeanne Roussin (daughter of Joseph Roussin & Anne Jacob), born in L'Ange, Quebec. Prisque married Marie-Magdelene Lefebvre in 1771 and their sons Prisque II (1772-1845), Antoine-Joseph (1776-?) & Louis (1779-?) were born in Detroit.

Louis Cote: (1734 - 1762)
He was the son of Joseph Cote & Marie-Jeanne Roussin (daughter of Joseph Roussin & Anne Jacob), born in L'Ange Gardien, Quebec. Louis married Marie-Anne Bisaillon at Laprairie, in 1749 [his sister Marie-Anne married Nicolas Roussin in 1741]. He died at Detroit on 31 October 1762.

Joseph Cote: (1744 - 1803)
He was the son of Charles Cote & Marie Genevieve Fiset, born at Lorette. He married at Assumption, Ontario Marie-Magdelene Martin dit St.Jean (daughter of Jean Martin & Therese Henault and widow of Jean Bte.Bertrand). They had sons, Joseph II (1782-1837) (m.Francoise Girard in 1810)& Pierre (b.1785) (m.Marie-Josephe Meloche). Joseph was buried at Sandwich on 11 March 1803.

Pierre Cotte:
In 1796 a P.G.Cotte was hiring voyageur's for Michilimackinac.
In 1799 a Pierre Cotte of Montreal was hired for "le Nord" by Parker, Gerrard & Ogilvy.
In 1804 a Pierre Cotte of St.Martin-Queenston was hired by McTavish & Frobisher (North West Co).
From 1806 to 1840 a Pierre Cotte was employed at first in the North West Co's Fond du Lac Department than later for the American Fur Co. in the same Department.
About 1845 a Pierre Cotte died at L'Anse.

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Pierre Couc dit Lafleur: (1624/35 - 1665)
He was the son of Nicolas Couc & Elizabeth Tampair born in either Trois-Rivieres or France. He married Marie Miteouamigoukoue (daughter of Barthelemi & Carole) at Trois-Rivieres in 1657. Their children were Jean Bte.(b.abt.1658), Louis (b.1659)(m.1st.to Marie Socokie in 1683 & m.2nd.to Jeanne Quigesiag/Quiquetigoukoue), Marie-Angelique (1661-1750)(m.Francois Delpee in 1682), Marguerite (b.1682)(m. Jean Fafard-Delorme in 1682 at Sault Ste.Marie), Elisaeth (b.1667)(m.Joachim Germano/Germaneau in 1684) & Madeleine (b.1669)(m. Maurice Menard in 1692 at Michilimackinac).
Louis Couc-Montour: (1659 - ?)
He was the son of Pierre Couc & Marie Miteouamigoukoue. He married [1st.] Marie-Madeleine Socokie in 1683 & [2nd.] to Jeanne Quigesiag/Quiquetigoukoue in 1688) and their children were; Jacques (bap.1684), Marie-Madeleine (bap.1687), Joseph (bap.1688), Francois (b.abt.1690) & Marie-Anne (b.abt.1691).
Louis was employed by Francois Boisguillot at the "laBaie des Puans" in 1688 and in August of 1692 he was hiring for "des 8ta8ois.

Andrew Montour: (abt.1700 - ?)
He was the son of Roland (Telenemut) Montour & a Iroquois woman, born in a Seneca village in New York. Andrew married Sarah Ainse (1728-1823) in 1745 and their son was Nicolas (abt.1760-1808). He was at Pickawillany with Croghan & Gist in 1751 & had a brother (Lewis/Tanweson) who was an interpreter for the French. Sarah later became a trader at Detroit and was married at least four times.

Nicolas Montour I: (abt.1756 - 1808)
He was the son of Andrew Montour & Sarah Ainse (bapt. at the First Dutch Reformed Church in Albany, New York) and married Genevieve Wills in Montreal in 1798. His son Nicolas II was at Ft.Vermillion on the Saskatchwan River 1804-06.
Nicolas was a clerk for Joseph & Benjamin Frobisher on the Churchill River in 1774 and a clerk for Barthelemi Blondeau in 1777. He became a partner in the North West Co. in 1784 and was at Fort des Prairies with Peter Pangman in the winter of 1790. He retired temporarily from the fur trade in 1792, but in 1797 was in partnership with David-Alexander Grant & William Grant.

Pierre Montour-Menard:
He married Geneveva-Amable Sicard and their son Jean-Marie was born in Detroit in 1769.

Joseph Montour I: (1811 - ?)
He married Angelique Barette (she was 1/4 Medawahkanton) and their children were Joseph II (b.abt.1841), Amelia (Emily) (b.abt.1843), Sylvester (b.abt.1845), Marie Lou (b.abt.1848), Charles (b.abt.1849) & Josephine (b.abt.1855). The children were all born in Wisconsin and later moved to St.Paul, Minnesota.

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Nicolas-Antoine Coulon, Chevalier de Villiers: (1682 - 1733)
Nicolas was the son of Raoul-Guillaume Coulon, sieur de Villiers & Louise de Lafosse (m.1677, Beaumont-Sur-Oise), born in Brittany, France. In 1705 he married Angelique Jarret de Vercheres (dau. of Francois Jarret de Vercheres & Marie Perrot) in Quebec. [Sometime before 1718 Nicolas may have married a Madame de La Chesaigne].
Children of Nicolas & Angelique:
Marie-Madelaine (b.1707) (1st.m.to Francois Duplessis Regnard Lefebvre in 1728; 2nd.m.to Claude Marin, sieur de la Perriere; 3rd.m.to Joseph d'Amours, sieur de Clignancourt in 1754).
Nicolas-Antoine II (1708-1750) (m.Madeleine-Marie-Anne Tarieux in 1743 - daughter of Pierre-Thomas Tarieu & Madeleine Jarret de Vercheres)
Louis (1710-1757) (m.Marie-Amable Prudhomme in 1753).
Francois (b.1712) (m.1st.to Elizabeth Groston de St.Ange de Bellerive, m.2nd.to Madelaine Marin & m.3rd.to Genevieve Esnoul de Livaudais.
Joseph (b.1718) (m.Anne-Marguerite Soumande in 1754).
Pierre (bapt.1720)
Charles-Francois (bapt.1721)
Marie-Anne (1722-1789) (m.Philippe-Ignace Aubert de Gaspe in 1745 - son of Pierre Aubert de Gaspe & Madeleine-Angelique Legardeur)
Terese
Marguerite
Louise (bapt.1724) (m.Amable Prudhomme in 1753).
Madeleine-Angelique (bapt.1726)
Antoine (m.1st.to Marguerite-Marie-Anne Tarieu de la Perade in 1741 and m.2nd.to Madeleine in 1743)


Nicolas-Antoine arrived in Quebed about 1703 and by 1715 he was a lieutenant in the French army. From 1725 to 1730 Nicolas was the French military Commander at Fort St.Joseph, from which Nicolas led (August of 1730) a force of French & Native Allies against the Mesquakie (Renard or Fox) Fort, built 60 leagues south of Lake Michigan, joining French forces from Fort de Chartes & the Miami Fort and preparing for their campaign of extermination of that Tribe. In January of 1731 the suvivors of that campaign surrendered to him at Fort St.Joseph and later that year he accompanied them to Montreal and Governor-General Beauharnois to ask for mercy (Montigny at Michilimackinac wrote of there leaving that Fort). From 1731 until his death (killed by a Sauk) in 1733, commanded & rebuilt the fort at La Bay (Green Bay, Wisconsin).

Joseph Coulon de Villiers, sieur de Jumonville: (1718 - 1754)
Joseph was the son of Nicolas-Antoine & brother of Louis. He married Anne-Marguerite Soumande (daughter of Jean-Paschal Soumande & Marguerite-Ursule LeVerrier - Anne married Jean-Pierre Bachoic in 1755) at Montreal in 1745. In 1754 Ensign Joseph was at the Forks of the Ohio where the new Fort Duquesne had been erected and under the command of Capt.Claude Pecaudy de Contrecoeur. Joseph was killed in a skirmish (May 1754) with the advancing force under Lt.Col.George Washington, an incident which is thought to have triggered the French & Indian War (known as the Seven Years' War in Europe).

Louis Coulon, sieur de Villiers:
Louis was the son of Nicolas-Antoine and brother of Joseph. He married Marie-Amable Prud'homme (daughter of Louis Prud'homme & Louise Marie de la Massiere) at Montreal in 1753 (she married Michel-Marie Avisse-Avice-Mougon in 1760). In Sep.1733 Louis was wounded in the second battle of Little Butte de Morts (near present day Neenah, Wisconsin). In 1754 Louis led a large force of French & Natives on a attack of Fort Necessity in which George Washington surrenders.

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