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FRENCH HISTORY 1706-1714

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Ville-Marie is renamed Montreal.

The residents of New France now called themselves Canadians and were proud of their 'parler canadien-francais', a language distinct from Standard French that was still evolving in France and Canadian French included many Indian words and expressions.

(III)-Jacques Christophe Cadieu, Metis, b-1700, died before 1755, son (II)-Jean Cadieu (1671-1709) and (I)-Marie Bourdon Pachirini of the Kichesipirini People (1675-1717?): married Marie Joseph Viau. 

Marie Therese Cole, born May 9, 1701, baptised December 8, 1703 Montreal, daughter Joseph Cole de Baverly, Nouvello-Angleterre and Sara Randal, as an infant, was captured at Jackson, Nouvelle-Angleterre. 

(IV)-Joseph (Dazi) Mius, Metis, b-1700, Acadia son (III)-Joseph (Dazi) Mius, Metis, b-1680 and (II)-Marie Amirault; married September 1726, Port Royal, Acadia 1st Marie Joseph, 2nd Marie Vincent  

October 7:  Winterton, Newfoundland. death William Lincedild and his headstone is believed to be the oldest complete English headstone in Canada.

Anna Wheelright married 1700 Guillaume Parsons was captured during the war with the sauvages August 22, 1703 with infant Anna Parsons b-1801.

Most New France descendants do not realize that Quebec French is based on Gallo-Romance French, as France had not yet replaced this dialect in France when our forefathers migrated, and no concerted effort was made in New France for linguistic purity until the late twentieth century.

The Beaver Trade Agreement of May 15 established Guigue as the Farmer of the Western Domain.  He has to pay the King the sum of 200,000 livres a year rent for the Farms of Canada and for the hat monopoly of the Kingdom.  The King effectively established the Company of Canada, headquartered in Quebec, in which merchants and inhabitants can participate by acquiring shares.

The French population in the Colony of Canada numbered about fifteen thousand.  The Crown ceded almost all the riverfront; from Quebec to Montreal.  This opened nearly two hundred seigneurs for rural settlement, and three of four families engage in farming.  Every year, four or five hundred voyagers received permission to enter the fur trade around the Great Lakes, and as many as five to six times that number went without permission.

Francis Parkman suggests that 2/3rds of the Mohawk People had settled at Caughnawaga, St. Lawrence River.  Many of the Iroquois traders to the North West originated from this settlement.

Trading posts or Truck Houses as they were called were located throughout Acadia at this time.

Eric Cobham and Mara Lindsey were the most blood thirsty pirates that worked the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  The sank every ship captured and killed everyone who fell into their hands.  The ships were assumed lost at sea and the pirates went undetected for 20 years.  They went to France and Eric became a judge and disclosed his deeds on his death bed. 

The word Pawnee evolved into the word Panis as a special reference to an Indian slave and eventually became a reference to any slave in New France.  It is believed because the Pawnee People were being slave raided by both the French to the north and south the word Pawnee became synonymous with the word slave.    

March:  Montreal, birth, (III)-Antoine Tessier, Metis, died, March 30, 1716, Montreal son (II)-Jacques Tessier, Metis, born March 2, 1675, Montreal and (II)-Marie Adhemar (1679-1754).

May 16:  Montreal, birth, (III)-Marie Madeleine Tessier, Metis, daughter (II)-Paul Tessier dit Chaumine (1651-1730) and (III)-Madeleine Cloutier (1660-1748); married November 17, 1721, Montreal (II)-JacquesGautier dit St. Germain b-1696 son (I)-St Germain Gautier (epouse September 15, 1738, Montreal (II)-Marie Joseph Trullier Lacombe). 

August 5:  Quebec, baptism Jean Baptiste (sauvage), a slave.

August 13:  Quebec, birth (III)-Louis Durand, Metis, son (II)-Louis Durand die Couturier, Metis b-1670 and (II)-Elisabeth Agnes Michel dit Taillon (1682-1718); married January 22, 1725 Sorel Marie Anne Dumay.

September 3:  Montreal, birth, (III)-Marie Madedeine Gervaise, Metis, daughter (II)-Charles Gervaise, Metis and Marie Boyer.

October 13:  Montreal, birth (II)-Jeanne Lefebvre, Metis, daughter (I)-Jean Baptiste Lefebvre (1651-1715) and  (II)-Cunegonde Gervaise, Metis, (1657-1724): 1st married November 4, 1721 Montreal (III)-Jean Baptiste Descarry (Descaris); 2nd marriage April 19, 1728, Montreal (III)-Paul Tessier dit Lavigne, b-1701, died October 21, 1773, Longue Pointe son (II)-Jacques Tessier. 

December 24:  Quebec, baptism Nicolas (sauvage).

1701  

Illegitimate births in Quebec are recorded  as 19, between 1701 to 1710.

Nicolas (Fronsac) Denys, Metis son Richard Denys and Anne Patarabego Amerindien; married 1701, Acadia, Marie sauvagesse.

Jean Gauthier alias Sakingoara Saguingoira b-1669 married Marie Suzanne Capei8suec8e.

(IV)-Jean Baptiste Mius, Metis, b-1701, Acadia son (III)-Francois Mius, Metis, b-1681 and Marie Mi'Kmag. 

(IV)-Charles Mius, Metis, b-1701, Acadia, died 1795 Cap de Sable, Nova Scotia, son (III)-Joseph (Dazi) Mius, Metis, b-1680 and (II)-Marie Amirault; married January 21, 1731, Port Royal, Acadia, Marie Marthe Hebert

An ancestor of the Garneau clan, (II)-Marie Joseph Proteau, is born on March 19, 1701 La Perade, Quebec daughter (I)-Luc Proteau born 1668 and (II)-Marie Germain born 1670.

Jacques Francois de Mombeton de Brouillan (1651-1705) arrived in Acadia as commander.  He was appointed Governor 1702-1705.

Rene Nectabo, b-1701 Acadia son Louis Nectabo Mi'kmaq of Cap Sable, Acadia and Elizabeth: married August 24, 1726 Port Royal, Acadia Catherine Anorgin, Metis, b-1707 daughter Francois Anorgin and Marie Francoise Meodametch.

A new French policy encouraged Coureurs des Bois and Indians to move to Louisiana.

January 2/6:  Pte Aux Trembles, Montreal, birth/death (III)-Genevieve Gervaise, Metis, son (II)-Nicolas Gervaise, Metis, (1666-1750) and (II)-Madeleine Payet, b-1677. 

January 7:  Boucherville, birth (III)-Marie Joseph Cadieu, Metis, daughter (II)-Jean Cadieu (1671-1709) and (I)-Marie Bourdon Pachirini of the Kichesipirini People (1675-1717?): married 1st February 16, 1722, Longueuil, Bernard Viau; 2nd marriage August 21, 1745 Longueuil, Jean Baptiste Goguet. 

January 16:  Quebec, baptism Charles Louis (8an8asa8et) Abenaquis (sauvage).

January 17:  Quebec, birth (II)-Jean Gabriel Molay, died March 8, 1701, Quebec son (I)-Jean Molay, b-1669 and (II)-Marie Anne Hervieux, Metis b-1781.

January 17:  Montreal, birth, (III)-Marie Anne Gervaise, Metis daughter (II)-Louis Gervaise, Metis, b- 1663, and  (II)-Barbe Pigeon.

March 4:  Quebec, death Domitilde Abenaquise (sauvage) b-1693.

March 19:  Montreal, marriage, (II)-Urbain Gervaise, Metis, son, (I)- Jean Gervaise (1621-1690), and (II)-Anne Archambault, Metis (1621- 1699); 1st married October 1, 1696, Montreal (II)-Marie Caron, died August 8, 1699, Montreal; 2nd married March 19, 1701, Montreal (II)-Genevieve Perthus.

March 12:  Boucherville, marriage Pierre Menard, Metis, son Maurice Menard, (1664-1741) and Marie Madeleine Couc, Metis b-1669.

March 14:  Quebec, birth (II)-Marie Joseph Bodin, Metis daughter (I)-Pierre Bodin b-1641 and (III)-Angelique Pinguet, Metis b-1672.

April 23:  Sorel, birth (IV)-Louis Boucher, Metis son (III)-Charles Boucher b-1658 and (III)-Marguerite Pelletier, Metis b-1666.

June 5:   Cadillac:  Alphonse Tonty, Dugue, Chacornacle, Jesuit Father Vaillant, Recollect Father Constantine and one hundred French in twenty five canoes, arrived July 23 at the narrows of Detroit River and built a fort, which King Louis hoped would curtail free trade.  Cadillac assumed command of the Fort.  Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac had told King Louis XIV that  "the world may revolve in its axis to all eternity, but Canada will no more become a France than a desert a garden." Concerning the Jesuit, their conduct smelled of seduction a hundred yards off.  He could think with relish of knocking off the jaw of Father Etienne Carheil; the Jesuit who opposed him at Fort Michilimackinac.

June 21:  Quebec, baptism Jean Baptiste Tamarois (sauvage), b-1693.

July 28:  Montreal, birth, (III)-Marguerite Tessier, Metis, died July 14, 1715, Montreal, daughter (II)-Jean Tessier dit Lavigue, Metis, died December 7, 1734 Ville-Marie (Montreal), and (II)-Louise Caron (1671-1703); married November 24, 1721, (II)-Philippe Lachenaye, b-1699 son (I)-Prosper Lachenaye. 

August 7:  Quebec, baptism Marguerite (Nemelo) a Micmac  (sauvage).

October 9:  Quebec, birth (III)-Pierre Prevost, Metis, son (II)-Jean Baptiste Prevost, Metis, (1659-1737) and (II)-Marie Anne Giroux, b-1667; 1st married February 27, 1724 Marie Joseph Sedilot; 2nd marriage February 9, 1762, St. Joseph, Beauce, Reine Boldec; 3rd marriage February 18, 1765, Charlotte Jacques.

October 22:  Montreal, birth, (III)-Paul Tessier dit Lavigne, Metis, died, October 21, 1773, Longue Pointe son (II)-Jacques Tessier, Metis, born March 2, 1675, Montreal and (II)-Marie Adhemar (1679-1754); married April 19, 1728, Montreal, (II)-Jeannie Lefebvre St. Jean, baptised 1700 veuve Jean Descarry; daughter (I)-Jean Baptiste Lefebvre.

October 31:  Quebec, marriage (III)-Jean Metivier to (II)-Genevieve Courier, Metis, born March 28, 1679, Sillery daughter (I)-Jacques Couturier b-1646 and Catherine Annennotak, Huronne.

November 22:  Quebec, birth (II)-Louise Francoise Gatien, Metis, daughter (I)-Pierre Gaten b-1659 and (III)-Genevieve Pinguet, Metis (1665-1702); married January 18, 1727, Quebec (I)-Joseph Loubier b-1699.

December 3:  Batiscan, marriage (II)-Mathurin Cadau et Cadot, Metis, son (I)-Mathurn Cadotte, Cadau alias Poitevin (1649-1729) and (II)-Marie Catherine Durand, Metis (1666-1708); 1st Married Batiscan,  (III)-Angelique Gaudry; 2nd marriage February 13, 1741 Pointe Aux Trembles de Quebec, Felicite.

December 6:  Montreal, birth (III)-Marie Elisabeth Tessier, Metis, died February 11, 1780, Montreal,  daughter (II)-Jean Baptiste Tessier, Metis (1672-1736) and (III)-Elisabeth Regnaut (1681-1747); married November 3, 1722, St. Laurent, Montreal, Antoine Paisan aka Paysan dit Sansquartier, b-1682.

December 30:  Montreal, birth, (III)-Genevieve Gervaise, Metis, daughter (II)-Urbain Gervaise, Metis; and 1st married October 1, 1696, Montreal (II)-Marie Caron, died August 8, 1699, Montreal; and 2nd married March 19, 1701, Montreal (II)-Genevieve Perthus.

1702  

Jean Denis married 1703, Acadia, Cécile (Bertrand) Berteau sauvagesse.

(I)-Francois de Beauharnois de La Chaussaye, Baron de Beauville (1665-1746), is appointed Intendant New France September1702 to September 1705.   The fur trade was in decline following a price slump in Europe.

(III)-Louis Prudhomme, Metis b-1702 son (II)-Fras Xavier Prudhomme and (II)-Cecile Gervaise, Metis b-1671; married July 2, 1727, Montreal (III)-Marie Madeleine St. Aubin, b-1710 daughter (II)-Julien St. Aubin b-1673 and Suzanne Courault, veuve de Jean Gateau; Madeleine veuve June 11, 1751 Pierre Cardinal.

England, the Netherlands and  the Austrian Empire declared war on France and Spain (1702-1713).  New France believed that, although New England had twice the population of New France, they are astonishingly cowardly, completely undisciplined and without any experience in war.  The Governor of New York believed it would only take 1,500 men and eight Frigates to drive the French from America.  New France ships ten times the number of peltry than New England to Europe and the capture of this additional trade would soon pay for the war.  The other New England colonies did not support New York.

Colonel Benjamin Church (1643-1717) called the 'Squaw Killer' was given instructions in Massachusetts to burn, plunder, destroy and get spoils where ever landed in Acadia.  They were told to say their daily prayers and no foul language.  (Squaw derived from the Cree word iskwao is a very insulting English word.)

The Puritan elders of Massachusetts offered:

100£ bounty for each male Indian scalped over 12 years age
105 bounty for each male Indian taken prisoner
  50 bounty for each female or child scalped
  50 bounty for each female or child taken prisoner

At this time about 120,000 livres of card money is in circulation in Canada.

January 6:  Pte Aux Trembles, Montreal, birth (III)-Nicolas Gervaise, Metis, son (II)-Nicolas Gervaise, Metis, (1666-1750) and (II)-Madeleine Payet, b-1677; married October 10, 1724 Longue Pointe, (IV)-Marie Francoise Archambault , b-1706, died November 6, 1753, Pte Aux Trembles, Montreal daughter (III)-Jacques Archambault. . 

February 24:  Montreal, birth, (III)-Genevieve Gervaise, Metis, daughter (II)-Charles Gervaise, Metis and Marie Boyer.

February 27:  Quebec, death Jaqueline Abenaquise (sauvage) b-1690.

March 31:  De Bienville is commissioned Governor of Louisiana.

May 15:  England declared war on France.  This Queen Anne War lasted from 1702 to1713.

September 3:  Quebec, birth, (IV)-Francois Metivier, Metis, son (III)-Jean Metivier and (II)-Genevieve Couturier, Metis, b-1679. 

October 19:  Un chief, de la mission du Sault (sauvage) (In the presence of a large number of Temoins) 

October 28:  Quebec, birth (III)-Antoine Durand, Metis son (II)-Louis Durand die Couturier, Metis b-1670 and (II)-Elisabeth Agnes Michel dit Taillon (1682-1718).

December 15:  Beauport, birth, (IV)-Louis Prevost, Metis, died February 17, 1703 Beauport son (III)-Vincent Prevost, Metis, (1682-1758)and (III)-Marie Agnes Vesina (1679-1766)

December 21:  Quebec, death Pierre (sauvage) b-1693.

1703  

(III)-Marguerite Cadieu, Metis, b-1703, died July 16, 1757 Bout de Ille, Montreal, daughter (II)-Jean Cadieu (1671-1709) and (I)-Marie Bourdon Pachirini of the Kichesipirini People (1675-1717?): married Louis Blay. 

M. de Saint Cosmé, a missionary priest traveling from New France to Natchez, possessed in his party a young Indian slave boy.

Jean Denis married 1703, Acadia, Cecile (Bertrand) Berteau an Indian or Metis?

(IV)-Mathieu Mius, Metis, b-1703, Acadia son (III)-Francois Mius, Metis, b-1681 and Marie Mi'Kmag. 

(IV)-Francois Mius, Metis, b-1703, Cap de Sable, Acadia son (III)-Joseph (Dazi) Mius, Metis, b-1680 and (II)-Marie Amirault; married February 14, 1735. Port Royal, Acadia Jeanne Duon 

(III)-Philippe III Mius, Metis, b-1703, Acadia son (II)-Philippe Mius, b-1660 and Marie Mi'Kmag; married 1700, Acadia Marie Mi'Kmag. 

On the death of Callieres, (I)-Philippe de Rigaud (Regault), marquis de Vaudreuil (1643-1725) assumed control and two years later became governor of New France June 1703 to October 10, 1725.  He was the owner of 11 slaves.  (I)-Father Sebastien Rale (Rasles) (1657-1724), a Jesuit,  from Norridgewock thirty miles north of Augusta, Maine wrote Vaudreuil; "when the governor wished it, at a word from their missionary the Abnaki would be ready to lift hatchet against the English (speaking people)."  Vaudreuil with a five hundred man army pursued the Acadia issue and on August 10, attacked the town of Wells again with thirty nine citizens killed or carried off.  Also attacked are Saco Falls, Spurwink, Scarborough, Cape Porpoise and Winter Harbor killing over one hundred settlers.

(I)-Philippe de Rigaud (Regault), marquis de Vaudreuil (1643-1725) throughout the first quarter of this century urged the Abnaki Nation to wage war on the Illinois Nation to obtain slaves for himself.

(I)-Morpain (1686-1749) of France became a pirate and headed for the new world.

(IV)-Madeleine Mius, Metis, b-1703, Acadia daughter (III)-Maurice (Mieusse) Mius, Metis, b-1682 and Marquerite Mi'Kmag

February 19:  Montreal, birth, (III)-Jean Gervaise, Metis, daughter (II)-Charles Gervaise, Metis and Marie Boyer.

With a population of 1,450, the Acadians are enumerated again.

March 2:  Longueuil, birth (III)-Pierre Cadieu, Metis, son (II)-Jean Cadieu (1671-1709) and (I)-Marie Bourdon Pachirini of the Kichesipirini People (1675-1717?): married November 5, 1725, Montreal, (II)-Marie Tougard daughter (I)-Guillaume Tougard 

March 27:  Montreal, birth, (III)-Marie Elisabeth Tessier, Metis, died, May 7, 1703, Montreal daughter  (II)-Jacques Tessier, Metis, born March 2, 1675, Montreal and (II)-Marie Adhemar (1679-1754).

April 30:  Quebec, marriage (III)-Francois Laraue b-1676 to (III)-Angelique Pinguet, Metis, died May 13, 1744, daughter (II)-Pierre Pinguet dit La Glardiere b-1704 and (II)-Anne Chevalier, Metis; 1st married June 7, 1688 Quebec (I)-Pierre Bodin b-1641

May 11:  Montreal, birth, (III)-Paul Tessier, Metis, died December 22, 1753, Longue Pointe, son (II)-Paul Tessier dit Chaumine (1651-1730) and (III)-Madeleine Cloutier (1660-1748);  married April 19, 1728, boucherville (III)-Madeleine Favreau b-1710, daughter (II)-Jean Favreau. 

June 19:  Trois Rivieres, birth (II)-Maurice Delpee, Metis, died May 3, 1749 Pte du Lac, son (I)- Francois Singerny also St. Cerny and Delpee (1640-1725) and (II)-Marie Angelique Couc dit Lafleur, Metis, (1661- 1750); married July 27, 1729 Trois Rivieres Therese Petit.

July 11:  Boucherville, marriage, Jean Baptiste Menard, Metis, son Maurice Menard, (1664-1741) and Marie Madeleine Couc, Metis b-1669;

July 30:  Montreal, birth, (III)-Marie Madeleine Gervaise, Metis, died August 1, 1703, Montreal, daughter (II)-Louis Gervaise, Metis, b- 1663, and  (II)-Barbe Pigeon.

August 13:  Ste Famile I.O., marriage Jean Baptiste Debois to  (III)-Louise Pelletier, Metis, died November 26, 1703 Ste Familee I.O. son (II)-Francois Pelletier, Metis and Marguerite Morisseau.

August 22:  (I)-James Adams de Wells, Angiais, captured August 22, 1703, married Catherine de la Nouvelle Angleterre, a servant (slave?) Pierre Le Gardeur.  Clement Adams born/died November 9/11, 1704, Montreal.

August 22:  (II)-Anna Catherine Parsons born May 6, 1701 Lac Des Deux Montagnes, baptised January 10, 1710 Lac Des Deux Montagnes, taken with Samere by the savages August 22, 1703 and was baptized by Mr Meriel, ptre S.S., daughter (I)-William Parsons and Anne Wheelright; married Claude Antoine De La Martiniere.

August 25:  Montreal, birth (III)-Gilbert Tessier, Metis, died November 11, 1718, Montreal,  son (II)-Jean Baptiste Tessier, Metis (1672-1736) and (III)-Elisabeth Regnaut (1681-1747)

August 27:  Montreal, birth, (II)-Jean Tessier dit Lavigue, Metis, died December 7, 1734 Montreal, son (I)- Urbain Tessier, (1624-1689) and (II)-Marie Archambault, Metis baptised, 1636, died August 16, 1719 Pte Aux Trembles, Montreal; 1st married November 21, 1686 (II)- Laprairie Jeanne Leber b-1671, died December 4, 1687 Laprairie daughter (I)-Jean Leber: 2nd married April 21, 1688 Laprairie (II)- Louise Caron b-1671, died April 13, 1703 Montreal,daughter (I)-Claude Caron; 3rd marriage August 27, 1703 Laprairie (II)- Marie Catherine de Poitiers, b-1671 died January 22, 1745 Montreal daughter (I)-Jean Baptiste Poitiers. 

November 12:  Boucherville, marriage (I)-Pierre Voison b-1677 a sauvage Panis (slave) of M. Boucher; 1st married (III)-Marie Anne Martin (Lacroix), b-1682 daughter (II)-Charles Martin;  2nd marriage December 23, 1709 Laprairie (II)-Marie Jeanne Peras (Lafontaine) b-1671 daughter (I)-Pierre Peras, veuve October 30 1718 Montreal Claude Faille.   

November 22: St. Augustin, marriage (II)-Jean Dubeau et Duboeq, Metis, b-1669, died September 12, 1743 St. Augustin (dans I'eglise) son (I)-Laurent Dubeau, b-1636 and Marie Felix d'Arontio, Huronne, d-1689; married to (II)-Marguerite Harnois.

November 27:  Montreal, death (I)-Louis Limousin dit St. Louis b-1672 married Marie Teganiha, Iroquois, sauvagesse. 

December 3:  Quebec, birth, (IV)-Louis Francois Metivier, Metis, son (III)-Jean Metivier and (II)-Genevieve Couturier, Metis, b-1679. 

December 21:  Quebec, baptism Augustin Abenaquis (sauvage).

1704  

The American British claimed the French King wants universal monarchy by gaining control of England and English territory in America.

The French capture the British settlement of Bonavista on the north coast of Newfoundland.

Jean Baptiste Hertel de Rouville, (1668-1722), son of Francois Joseph Hertel de Moncour (1642-1722), led a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing 54 settlers and taking 120 prisoners.  As a result of this attack, he became known as the 'Sacker of Deerfield'.  The brutality of this attack affected the sensibilities of both the French and English. 

(IV)-Angelique Mius, Metis, b-1704, Acadia, died March 19, 1730, Acadia son (III)-Joseph (Dazi) Mius, Metis, b-1680 and (II)-Marie Amirault; married January 4, 1724, Cap de Sable, Acadia, Francoise Grosvalet. 

Riviere Ouelle, birth (I)-Guillaume Arguineau, died July 7, 1749 Riviere Ouelle married Marie Anne sauvagesse.

(I)-Claude de Ramezay, (1659-1724) Governor Montreal, Quebec (1704-1724) except during Vaudreuil's absence, (1714 to 1716) when he was acting Governor New France.

Rev. (II)-John Williams (1664-1729) and his daughter Esther Williams (1691-1751) who was married to an Indian named Joseph Meacham (likely a Metis) from Deerfield, Massachusetts, are held prisoner in Quebec.  His wife Eunice Mather (1664-1704) died or was killed on the trip to Quebec.

Marriage (II)-Ignace Tessier, Metis son (I)-Urbain Tessier (1624-1689) and (II)-Marie Archambault, Metis (1636-1719); married 1704 (II)-Marguerite Luissier b-1683 daughter (I)-Jacques Luissier.

January 1:  Pte Aux Trembles, Montreal, birth (III)-Pierre Gervaise (Gervais), Metis, son (II)-Nicolas Gervaise, Metis, (1666-1750) and (II)-Madeleine Payet, b-1677; married January 7, 1732, Montreal, (III)-Marie Marguerite Senecal b-1711, died September 21, 1737, Montreal, daughter (II)-Andre Senecal 

January 24:  Montreal, birth, (III)-Elisabeth Prudhomme, Metis died March 20, 1708 Montreal  daughter (II)-Fras Xavier Prudhomme and (II)-Cecile Gervaise, Metis b-1671;

January 25:  Port Royal, Acadia, marriage Jean Leblanc to Jeanne Bourgeois, Metis daughter Guillaume Bourgeous and Anne D'Aprenesteguy Martignon.

February 19:  Quebec, birth (IV)-Francois Laraue, Metis, died April 21, 1760 Quebec, son (III)-Francois Laraue and (III)-Angelique Pinguet, Metis b-1672; married July 1, 1754 Quebec, (III)-Marie Angelique Liberge (1724-1798). 

February 28:  Jean Baptiste Hertel de Rouville (1668-1722), his four brothers, fifty French and two hundred Abnakis, leaving Montreal in January and arriving in February at Deerfield, Massachusetts, killed forty eight men, women and children and captured one hundred and nineteen.  The French killed many of the weaker prisoners, as they are unable to sustain the forced march back.  Fifty-seven prisoners returned to Boston in 1706, but the rest remained among the savages.

March 11:  St. Nicolas, Quebec, birth (III)-Marie Anne Durand, Metis daughter (II)-Louis Durand die Couturier, Metis b-1670 and (II)-Elisabeth Agnes Michel dit Taillon (1682-1718); married January 11, 1723 St. Antoine Tilly,  Nicolas Marion.

April 12:  Charlesbourg, birth (III)-Pierre Michelon, Metis died May 30, 1704, Charlesbourg, son (II)-Jean Michelon (1669-1724) and (II)-Genevieve Gatin, Metis b-1682.

April 19:  Montreal, birth, (III)-Angelique Gervaise, Metis, daughter (II)-Urbain Gervaise, Metis, and 1st married October 1, 1696, Montreal (II)-Marie Caron, died August 8, 1699, Montreal; and 2nd married March 19, 1701, Montreal (II)-Genevieve Perthus.

May 11:  Acadia, birth, Marie Anne Denis, Metis, daughter, Jean Denis and Cecile Mikmak

May 14:  Montreal, birth, (III)-Charles Tessier, Metis, died November 12, 1718, Montreal son (II)-Jacques Tessier, Metis, born March 2, 1675, Montreal and (II)-Marie Adhemar (1679-1754).

June 7:  Montreal, birth (III)-Marie Catherine Tessier, Metis, daughter (II)-Jean Tessier dit Lavigue, Metis, (1663-1734) and (II)-Marie Catherine de Poitiers, b-1671; married October 11, 1728, Montreal (II)-Antoine Janis (Sicard Antoine), born April 7, 1708 Trois Rivieres son (I)-Francois Janis de Gany and (II)-Simone Brosseau (1684-1746).

June 10:  Quebec, baptism Jean Baptiste de Pantagouet (sauvage) born in March.

June 20:  Benjamin Church (1639-1718), with 700 men, three warships and fourteen transports, burned Les Mines (Grand Pre), took Cobequid (Truro) and Piziquid (Pigiguit), and wasted Beaubassin, Acadia.  They laid siege to Port Royal but they refused to surrender, and the English (speaking people) departed.

June 24:  Montreal, baptism Marie Marguerite Batson, (Metis?) nee a la "Piscadoue", Nouvelle Angleterre, born February 5, 1697,  daughter of John Batson, Abglais, and Anna Odihorn, captured as an enfant August 21, 1703, in the service of Pacaud.

June 30:  Montreal, marriage (II)-Geoffroy Lefebvre, Metis, born December 27, 1677, Montreal,  son (I)-Jean Baptiste Lefebvre (1651-1715) and  (II)-Cunegonde Gervaise, Metis, (1657-1724); married (II)-Marie Madeleine Michel Michaud b-1681, died March 25, 1745, Montreal, veuve Jacques Leduc, daughter (I)-Jean Michaud..

July 9:  I'lle Dupas, birth (IV)-Marie Anne Boucher, Metis daughter (III)-Charles Boucher b-1658 and (III)-Marguerite Pelletier, Metis b-1666; married August 5, 1721 I'lle Dupas (II)-Antoine Joly b-1691 son (I)-Pierre Joly (1651-1721) and Genevieve Tessier b-1653..

July 9:  Ste Foye, birth (III)-Marguerite Louise Dubeau, Metis, daughter (II)-Jean Dubeau et Duboeq, (1669-1743) and (II)-Marguerite Harnois (1677-1747): married October 20, 1722 St. Augustin, Antoine LaMarie

August 18:  French and Indians destroyed the English settlement of Bonavista, Newfoundland.

August 21:  Quebec, baptism Etienne (sauvage).

August 26:  Quebec, marriage Simon Doyer to  (II)-Marie Jeanne Gatien, Metis, died July 15, 1755, Quebec, daughter (I)-Pierre Gaten b-1659 and (III)-Genevieve Pinguet, Metis (1665-1702); 2nd marriage May 28, 1713, Quebec (I)-Henry Cain dit Lataille 

September 4:  Montreal, birth, (III)-Louis Gervaise, Metis son (II)-Louis Gervaise, Metis, b- 1663, and  (II)-Barbe Pigeon.

September 13:  Montreal, birth, (III)-Marie Josette Gervaise, Metis, daughter (II)-Charles Gervaise, Metis and Marie Boyer.

November 22:  St. Augustin, marriage (II)-Jean Du Bocq, Metis son (I)-Laurent Du Bocq b-1636 and Marie Felix Arontio, Huronne, Sauvagesse; married Marguerite Harnois.age 

December 16:   Francoise Besnard, widow of Marin Jannot (at the same time a deed was acted upon), made a sale to Claude de Ramezay.  It is the last document that was found of this remote living ancestor who was buried in Montreal, February 6th, 1707, Posterity.

1705  

(IV)-Madeleine Mius, Metis, b-1705, Acadia daughter (III)-Francois Mius, Metis, b-1681 and Marie Mi'Kmag. 

(III)-Anne Mius, Metis, b-1705, Acadia daughter (II)-Philippe Mius, b-1660 and Marie Mi'Kmag; married Paul (Gravois) Guidry, b-1701, son Claude (Gravois) Guidry and Marie Petitpas.  

Father Pierre Francois Xavier de Chastlvoix (1682-1761), a Jesuit taught in Quebec in 1705-1709, wrote a History of New France.  Between 1720 and1722, he traveled from Quebec to New Orleans via Michilimackinac.  He generally considered the Savages as idolatrous, credulous, immoral, indolent, improvident, warlike, arrogant, given to slandering each other and treacherous.  He constantly reiterated the need for Europeans to keep the Savages in awe, if they are not to be despised and taken advantage of.  Those Savages who are baptized or allies of the Jesuit, he considered as brave, hardy, faithful, generous, gentle, intelligent, noble and full of good sense.  He also praised the harmony of their domestic and community life.  It is little wonder that these Savages considered the Black Robes as lying hypocrites.  Chastlvoix's work would dominate European thinking for the next one hundred and fifty years.

(II)-Jean Baptiste Couc, b-1673 married 1705 Lachine, Anne Sauvageese.

(I)-Jacques (Pere) (1638-1728) and (II)-Antoine Denis (fils) j. Raudot (1679-1737) are joint Intendants of New France September 1705 to 1710.  Jacques left finance largely to his son, Antoine to concentrated his attention on the administration of justice and public order, attempting to bring in reforms of the seigniorial and judicial systems, education, agriculture and the militia.  Antoine asked to be removed from this position.

Intendant Raudot informed the residences of Beauport and L'Ange-Gardien, Quebec that the Church tithes (taxation) must be paid on all products of the soil (including domestic animals), not just grains, even if the soils are not cultivated; such as for hay.  The parish priests shall be the tax collectors and appear before the council to justify the church claims.  The people groaned under the yoke of the Church tax collectors and landlords.

The French King is informed that foreign commerce continues in some of his colonies despite repeated injunctions.  All Frenchmen and foreigners engaged in prohibited commerce are to be seized by force of arms. They are to pursue the ships, reduce them by force of arms and  seize the cargo.

Among the Coureurs des Boise are some men from good families such as the sons of Seigneur Charles Legardeur de Tilly in 1679, the sons and brothers of Charles le Monte de Longueuil, the Seigneurs Philippe Gauthier de Comporte, Rene Gaultier de Varennes, Pierre Boucher, Isaac Berthier and Pierre de Saurel in 1681, members of the family Leneuf de la Valliere de Beaubassin in 1693.  Yet others are simple colonists or colonists sons.  The lure of profit, freedom and adventure is common to all of them.

March 4:  Repentigny, birth (III)-Marguerite Tessier, Metis, died April 30, 1734 Laprairie; daughter (II)-Ignace Tessier, Metis, b-1677 and (II)-Marguerite Lussier b-1683; married 1730, (III)-Francois Dominique Lefebvre, b-1703 son (II)Joseph Lefebvre..

April 23:  Quebec, baptism Joseph Thomas Abenaquis (sauvage).

June 1:  Quebec, baptism Marie Jeanne Abenaquise (sauvage) born in May.

August 16:  Quebec, birth (III)-Marie Genevieve Michelon, Metis died March 16, 1724, Quebec, son (II)-Jean Michelon (1669-1724) and (II)-Genevieve Gatin, Metis b-1682.

August 27:  Longueuil, birth (III)-Joseph Cadieu, Metis, son (II)-Jean Cadieu (1671-1709) and (I)-Marie Bourdon Pachirini of the Kichesipirini People (1675-1717?). 

September 14:  Port Royal, Acadia, marriage Claude Le Jeune, Metis, son Martin Le Jeune and Marie Kagigonius of Port Maltois, Acadia;  married Anne Godet, Metis daughter Jean Godet and Jeanne Henry of Petite Riviere, Acadia.

November 13:  Slaves in New France are declared to be "moveable property."

November 22:  Boucherville, marriage (I)-Laurent Jean Baptiste L'Eveille dit Renard Locat, du nom du 2nd Mari de son epouse, b-1681; Panis; married (III)-Marie Demers et Dumets; epouse November 26, 1711 Boucherville Louis Renaud locat, daughter (II)-Etienne Demers.

 
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