The British and French continue to squabble.
The British-Americans and the French Canadians are also squabbling.
The New Canadians the Metis continue to develop the Grand Prairies.
02/22/2012
METIS HISTORY 1756-1757
METIS HISTORY Return to METIS 1750-1799 index
1754
At the outbreak of yet another French and English war, often referred to as the 'French & Indian war', French traders are recalled from the Dakota Country. The conflict lasted until 1763 and ended French control in the West and Canada.
(II)-Isaac Batt Metis d-1791 worked for Hudson Bay Company (1754-1775).
Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (IV)-Brigitte Campeau born 1754, died November 18, 1772, British Fort Detroit, (Michigan), daughter (III)-Charles Campeau (1715-1785) and either (IV)-Marie Catherine St. Aubin dit Casse or Marie Charlotte Montray et Julliet La Cote?; married February 3, 1772 British Fort Detroit, (Michigan), Rene Tivierge.
(I)-John Favell Jr d-1784 Albany employed HBC (1754-1784) Albany & Moose, married Tittmeg or Titameg
RECORDED CHILDREN
(II)-Jane Favell, Metis
(II)-Humphrey Martin Favell, Metis b-1764 married Jenny Native
(III)-Humphrey Favel b-1794 NWT married Mary Native
(III)-Marie Favel Metis b-1795 N.W. married Francois Bonneau Metis b-1797
(II)-Mary Favell, Metis b-1775, d-1810 Brandon house, married (I)-John McKay (1753/63-1810)
(II)-Thomas Favell, Metis
(III)-John Favel (1780/81-1848) married 1821 Sarah or Sally Cree
Michilimackinac, New France (Michigan), birth, (III)-Marie Renee Chaboillez daughter (II)-Charles Chaboillez (1706-1757) and Marie Anne Chevalier.
(I)-John Favell Jr. died November 2, 1784 Albany employed HBC (1754-1784) he married Tittmeg aka Titameg native and had four children likely all at Albany;
(II)-Jane Favell, Metis;
(II)-Humphrey Martin Favell, Metis b-1764 married Jenny Native;
(III)-Humphry Favel b-1794 N>W.T, married Mary Native
(II)-Mary Favell, Metis, b-1775 died 1810, married 1791 Albany (I)-John McKay (1753-1810);
(II)-Thomas Favell, Metis (1780/81-1848)
Henley House (Old Post) at the Junction of the Albany and Kinogami Rivers, Ontario, is established 1743 but is abandoned in 1754 after the Indians sacked it for the poor treatment of their women by the British. William Lamb kept Wappisis daughter and Shanaps's wife "at bed and board". Wappisis and his two sons Shanap and Snuff were angered over the incident and furious when Lamb would not share his provisions. They killed Lamb and four other men and pillaged the food and trade goods. The Hudson Bay Company later hanged the three Indians.
Pierre Jacques Daneau, sieur de Muys is commandant Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), 1754 to 1785.
Alexander Rene Dagneau Douville (1698-1773/74) is assigned as commander Fort de la Presquet Isle (Presqu'Isle) (L'Assomption) (Erie, Pennsylvania) 1754 to 1755 and Fort Rouille from 1757 to 1759.
James Duffield is back in the field at Henlet House after being removed in 1744 because of his tyrannical nature. He is keeping Won-a-wogen and Nam-a-shis at bed and board, while refusing relatives access to the fort. The relatives attacked the House, killing Duffield.
Laurent Ducharme born 1723 Montreal, Quebec, son Louis Ducharme and Marie Picard, hired Pierre Bourdon, Antoine Basinet, Joseph Janot dit Lachapelle, Philibert Sicard, Laurent Roy and Joseph Menard for Michel Makina to go to Michilimackinac, New France (Michigan). He continued until the 1760's and 1770's when he was licensed to trade out of British Green Bay, (Michigan).
Chevalier, (II)-Louis Luc de LaCorne (born 1711) of Saint-Luc, commandant of the North West Territories, claims to have planted the first wheat in the Province of Saskatchewan, in the Carrot River Valley. He also claimed to have planted other grains and vegetables at Fort St. Louis.
Paul Lacroix (Hubert?) is sent to the Mississippi River by Joseph Martin.
(II)-Jean Baptiste Lafleur de Laprairie b-1754 Lachine married 1785 English River a Chipewyan girl
(III)-Jean Baptiste Lafleur Metis (1785-1875)
(III)-Pierre Lafleur Metis b-1803/04 from Maska joined HBC (1837-1873) English River.
James McBride, an Englishman, is on the Ohio River, Kentucky.
Marin the younger, commandant le Roi and the poste La Baye (Green Bay), New France (Wisconsin), went among the Dakota Sioux to establish peace with the Cree and Saulteaux (Ojibwa)- with slight success.
Antoine Piette dit Freniere is absent from his wife Therese Mandeville at dans les Pays d'en Haut.
(II)-Antoine Marechal, Metis, b-1754 likely Cahokia, son (I)-Nicolas Marechal de St. Vincent and Marie Jeanne Illinoise et lleret; de Ste Anne, Fort Chartres; married January 7, 1777 St. Louis, Missouri a Catherine Tabeau.
The Canadian Jean Baptiste Proulx of Le Pas (Manitoba) requested the English send him a few fathoms of tobacco, a pair of double-soled shoes, a fiddle and some strings for it.
Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), marriage, (IV)-Pierre Reaume born 1727 Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), son (III)-Pierre Reaume (1691-1740) and Marie Therese Esteve (Stebre) dit Lajeunesse; 1st married 1754 Marie Josephe Pilot, 2nd marriage 1763 Marie Catherine Dubois.
Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), marriage, (IV)-Pierre Reaume son (III)-Pierre Reaume dit Thamur (Themus) (1709-1766) and Suzanne Hubert Lacroix b-1709; married Marie Josephte Pilet.
Kaskaskia, (Illinois), marriage, Louis Resson dit Honore (1733-1807) son Louis Tesson Honore; married, Madeleine Patterson/Petre (1739-1812).
New England has a population of 1,500,000 people due to heavy migration of non-English people, mostly Irish, Scotch, German and those Protestant French.
Jacques Pierre Daneaux, Sieur de Muy (1695-1758), who commanded (1730-1735) Post River St. Joseph, this year succeeded Pierre Joseph Celoron (1693-1759) at Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan). He would command Fort Detroit until 1758.
(I)-Anthony Henley, born on the Isle of Wright, an outlaw wanted for smuggling, joined the Hudson Bay Company to escape punishment. He is indentured to working as a laborer and net maker at Fort York (Manitoba). When (I)-James Isham, d-1761, Chief Factor of Fort York, (Manitoba) asked for a volunteer to travel the interior and assess the trading situation, (I)-Anthony Henday (in the HBC service 1750-1762) jumped at the opportunity. (I)- James Isham, d-1761, a bigamist, wrote that Cree maidens are rare at thirteen or fourteen, and none exist at fifteen years of age.
Fort Detroit, marriage, (III)-Pierre Meloche, born November 2, 1730 son (II)-Pierre Meloche (1701-1760) and (III)- Jeanne Caron b-1709; married 1754 Marie Catherine Guignard.
Jean Baptiste Reaume, voyager, and interpreter, for Le Roy at La Baie, New France (Wisconsin), is recorded at Makinac, New France (Michigan), this year in the birth, death and marriage records.
Governor Kerlerec of Louisiana, asked for permission to stop the Coureurs des Bois- those vagabonds and vagrants, who under pretense of hunting were guilty of trading with savages without the permission of the Governor. It is noteworthy that a short distance from French Fort de Chartes (St. Louis) was the Metis settlement of Cahokia, at the historic Indian trading place at the forks of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. The Metis, without fanfare, were everywhere collecting furs, far beyond the ability of the French, Spanish or English to control them.
The five English traders at Henley House are executed because they had taken two Cree women as concubines. As a result, any attempt to reestablish this post is thwarted by the Cree.
The Spanish built Rosario Mission on the San Antoino River upstream from La Bahfa, Texas.
January 3: Michillimakinac, New France (Michigan), baptism Charles Joseph Repentigny, an enfant of a slave of M. De Repentigny.
January 7: Fort Detroit, marriage (IV)-Pierre Reaume dit Thamur ou Themus born August 25, 1727, Fort Detroit, died July 8, 1777 Fort Detroit son (III)-Pierre Reaume (1709-1766) and Marie Therese Stebbe, Lajounesse (1700-1730); married 1st, 1754 Marie Joseph Pilet (Pilette) (1736-1757), 2nd marriage August 22, 1763, Montreal (III)-Marie Catherine Dubois.
January 7: Detroit, marriage (III)-Joseph Rochereau dit Lesperance born May 11, 1725 Beauport son (II)-Jean Baptiste Rochereau dit Lesperance (1679-1757) and (II0-Elisabeth Dery b-1693; married (II)-Catherine Pilet b-1736, died June 5, 1763 Detroit daughter (II)-Jacaques Pilet.
January 8: St. Laurent, Montreal, birth Antoine Charles, Metis, son Jean Baptiste Charles b-1705 and (IV)-Marie Joseph Dumas.
January 8: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), marriage, (III)-Charles Campeau living la Cote Sud, born 1715, died December 24, 1785, British Fort Detroit, (Michigan), son (II)-Michel Campeau. 2nd marriage January 8, 1754, Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), to Marie Charlotte Montray et Julliet la Cote Sud born 1737, died 1773, British Fort Detroit, (Michigan), daughter Antoine Montray. 1st marriage October 31, 1751, Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), (IV)-Marie Catherine St. Aubin dit Casse daughter (III)-Joseph St. Aubin.
January 9: Makinac, New France (Michigan), birth, (III)-Charles Augustin Chalut (Chantloup) son (II)-Charles Chalut et Charlu (Chartre dit Chantloup) born 1715 and (IV)-Agnes, Agathe Amiot.
January 10: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), marriage, Guillaume Bernard to (IV)-Marie Joseph Campeau born March 6, 1740, Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), daughter (III)-Antoine Campeau and (V)-Marie Anne Pelletier.
January 14: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), marriage, (II)-Nicolas Lacelle et Laselle born February 17, 1715, Montreal, Quebec, died April 28, 1779, British Fort Detroit, (Michigan), son (I)-Jacques Lacelle pour Delacelle b-1670 and (II)-Angelique Gibaut b-1677; married (IV)-Marie Joseph Cardinal, born 1733, likely Lachine, Quebec, died January 14, 1754, Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), or Tanguay says died September 26, 1763, British Fort Detroit, (Michigan), daughter (III-Jean Baptiste Cardinal.
January 19: Lac Des Deux Montagnes, Quebec, Nicholas Venet born August 29, 1727, Montreal, Quebec, engage of Jean Baptiste Lefebvre of Montreal, Quebec.
January 19: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (II)-Marie Louise Gendron born January 19, 1753 Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), daughter (I)-Simon Gendron dit Potevin, a merchant, and (II)-Suzanne Bienvenu (1722- 1764).
January 20: Fort Detroit, birth Louis Pilet son Jean Baptiste Pilet and Marie Joseph Cornette.
January 21: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (IV)-Hypolite (Hippolyte) Gamelin died March 31, 1754 Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), son (III)-Laurent Eustache Gamelin born 1695 negociant died March 11, 1774 Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), and (III)-Marie Joseph Dudevoir et Bonvouloir dit Lachene daughter (II)-Claude Dudevoir dit Bonvouloir and Barbara Elisabeth Cardinal.
January 25: South West, birth (IV)-Marie Madeleine Jourdain, Metis, baptised July 19, 1756, Michillimackinac, New France (Michigan) daughter (III)-Jean Baptiste Jourdain b-1718 and Marie Joseph Reaume.
February 3: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), marriage, (IV)-Francois Leduc born December, 1727 dit Persil; premier Bedeau du Detroit son (III)-Joseph Leduc b-1690 and (III)-Marie Andree Heutebise b-1700 called Vitualise, 1754; epouse June 16,1734 , Montreal Rene Honeau.married (IV)-Marie Angelique Fauvel, d-1730 daughter (II)-Jacques Fauvel dit Bigras (1696-1751) and (II)-Angelique Clement born 1705.
February 8: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (III)-Theotiste Cosme et St. Cosme daughter (II)-Pierre Laurent Cosme et St. Cosmeborn 1721 and (III)-Catherine Barrois (1727-1790); married November 25, 1776, British Fort Detroit, (Michigan), Philippe DeJean.
February 13: Michillimakinac, New France (Michigan), Baptism, Ignace Bourassa Metis (1740-1757), son Marie Anne Pinas of a slave of M. (II)-Rene Bourassa dit La Ronde b-1688.
February 25: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), marriage, (III)-Jean Baptiste Drouillard, living cote de Misere, son (II)-Jean Drouillard born 1707 and (III)-Elisabeth Rapin, epouse February 12, 1756, Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), Joseph Guignard aka Dinhargue a Basque of Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan); married (III)-Marie Charlotte Fauvel dit Bigras daughter (II)-Jacques Fauvel dit Bigras (1696-1751) and (II)-Angelique Clement born 1705.
February 27: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (IV)-Angelique Boyer died May 6, 1754, Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), daughter (III)-Ignace Boyer (1721-1784) living Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), and (IV)-Angelique Pepin dit Descardonnets.
February 27: Fort Detroit, birth (III)-Julie Parant, died July 6, 1754 Fort Detroit, daughter (II)-Laurent Parant b-1703 and (IV)-Jeanne Cardinal b-1717.
February and March: (I)- Anthony Henday (HBC service 1750-1762) spent this time in training on the Hayes and Nelson Rivers, as far as Split Lake, to gain competence in measuring distances.
March 8: Detroit, marriage (IV)-Jean Baptiste Lienard Metis son (III)-Jean Francois Lienard Metis b-1691 and (III)-Agnes Bonhomme b-1684; married (II)-Marie Anne Deshetres b-1734
(V)-Pierre Amable Lienard Metis b-1755 Detroit married 1787 Cahokia, Catherine Lefebvre dit Courrier daughter of Francois
(V)-Charlotte Lienard Metis (1757-1757) Detroit
(V)-Jean Louis Lienard Metis (1758-1758) Detroit
(V)-Suzanne Lienard Metis (1759-1760) Detroit
March 22: Fort Detroit, birth (V)-Joseph Marie Robert son (IV)-Antoine Robert; married 1791 Detroit, Suzanne Tirot.
April: Jacques LeGardeur de St. Pierre (1701-1755) departed the Ohio Valley (Fort Duquesne) (Allegheny, Pennsylvania) for Montreal, being replaced by Claude Pierre Pecaudy de Contrecoeur (1706-1775).
April: Fort Duquesne, (Allegheny, Pennsylvania) located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, at the site of present day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was begun by the British. In April 1754 it was captured by the French Claude Pierre Pecaudy, Sieur de Contrecoeur and completed.
April 18: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (III)-Pierre Jean Gastinon son (II)-Francois Catignon also Gastinon et Gastignon dit Duchesne born 1700 and (III)-Marie Joseph David ( 1698-1793); married January 17, 1774, British Fort Detroit, (Michigan), Marie Joseph Laselle.
April 22: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), marriage, (II)-Joseph Davignon, et Javillon, dit Lafeuillade 1759, son (I)-Louis Davignon de Limoges died September 20, 1754, Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), and Mare Anne Macouce; married Marie Anne Lemelin daughter (II)-Guillaume Lemelin.
April 22 Montreal, marriage (I)-Henri Jandy, b-1722 to (III)-Marie Anne Lefebvre, Metis, born March 16, 1721, Montreal daughter (II)-Charles Lefebvre, Metis, b-1692 and (III)-Francoise Gaudry, b-1697.
April 22: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth. (II)-Angelique Gendron born April 22, died September 19, 1754, Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), daughter (I)-Simon Gendron dit Potevin, a merchant, and (II)-Suzanne Bienvenu (1722-1764). Not listed January 7, 1748 marriage listing of children?
May 5: Michilimackinac, baptism, (III)-Marie Chalotte Farley, Metis, born March 20, 1754, son (II)-Jacque Farley, b-1710, mixed blood Irish, a voyager and (III)-Marie Josette (Joseph) Dumouchel, Metis. born December 4, 1714, Montreal; married July 3, 1775 I'IIe Dupas, Joseph Cadet b-1747.
May 8: Makinac, New France (Michigan), birth (IV)-Charlotte Cardin (Cardinal) daughter (III)-Francois Louis Cardin (Cardinal) and Constance Chevalier..
May 8: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), marriage, Jean Baptiste Durbois to (II)-Marie Anne Deshetres daughter (I)-Antoine Deshetres, living Grosse Pointe, Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), maitre armurier, and (country marriage) (III)-Marie Charlotte Chevalier born August 3, 1710, daughter (II)-Jean Baptiste Chevalier (1677-1752) and (II)-Francois Alavoine (1690-1756).
May 8: Fort Detroit, marriage (IV)-Jean Baptiste Lienard dit Durbois, living La Grosse Pointe of the north, son (III)-Jean Francois Lienard b-1691 and (III)-Agnes Bonhomme b-1684, veuve de Noel Rouious; married (II)-Marie Anne Deshetrers b-1734 daughter (I)-Antoine Deshetres.
May 13: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (II)-Pierre Dufour son (I)-Pierre Dufour dit Bonvivant born 1714 and (III)-Marie Charlotte Gloria (1721-1766).
May 22: Detroit, birth (V)-Joseph Marie Robert son (IV)-Antoine Robert et Boucher (1765) b-1713 and (II)-Marie Louise Becquemont b-1727; married August 22, 1791 Detroit Suzanne Tiriot.
May 28: George Washington (1732-1799) attacked Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville (1718-1754) at the Forks of the Ohio near Jumonville, Penn where the new Fort Duquesne (Allegheny, Pennnsylvania) had been built. Jumonville and nine other French are sent to order Washington to withdraw from the area and are murdered by Washington before he retreated. Some believe this infamous attack by Washington triggered the American French Indian War known as the Seven Year War in Europe. In retaliation, on July 4, Louis Coulon de Villiers led a large force of French and Indians against the assassins who had retreated to Fort Necessity causing the surrender of the infamous George Washington (1732-1799). The French allowed the prisoners to return home. This defeat caused all of the waving Indian bands over to the French alliance.
May 31: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth/death, (III)-Marie Charlotte Celoron died June 12, 1754, Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), daughter (II)-Pierre Joseph Celoron born 1693 and (II)-Catherine Eury (1722-1797).
June 3: Jean Baptiste Brunet dit L'etang (Letang or Lestang) is hired by Toussant for Michilimackinac, New France (Michigan).
June 9: Michillimakinac, New France (Michigan), baptism Jean Baptiste Langlade birth 1734, son of a slave of M. Langlade, likely Charles?.
June 16: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (III)-Charles Casse son (II)-Charles Casse dit St. Aubin son (I)-Jean Casse and (II)-Marie Joseph Mettay (1729-1759).
June 24: Anthony Henley attached himself to a departing Cree party who is going to the land of the Blackfoot below the great Stony Mountains. It is important to understand that there are four differing journals of the 1754-1755 Henley trip, it is not know which one represents the truth.
June 26: Fort Detroit, birth (IV)-Marie Joseph Seguin daughter (III)-Joseph Seguin dit Laderoute (1717-1795) and (IV)-Marie Therese Tremblay; married September 9, 1771 Detroit, Jean Marie Dube
June 26: (I)-Anthony Hendy a convicted smuggler, employed HBC (1750-1762) departed Fork Factory for the Saskatchewan River system to encourage the the Indians to trade Hudson Bay rather than the French Canadians. The French Canadians and Metis were swarming the Saskatchewan Rivers since 1740 diverting trade.
July: Christopher Gist (1706-1759) built Fort George at the forks of the Ohio that was soon surrendered to the French.
July: Francois Hamelin hired for Lac Rouge (pays d'en Hault) Charles Houle, Jacques David, Paul l'Arche, Jean Baptiste La Farque, Benjemin Hamelin dit Paquot, Francois Le Fleche and Francois Trouchon dit Le Veille.
July 3: (I)-Robert Dinwiddle (1693-1710), Governor Virginia (1751-1758) a Scott, sent George Washington (1732-1799) with an army against the French at Fort Necessity, S.W. Pennsylvania. This was called by some the 'Battle of Great Meadows'.
July 4: George Washington (1732-1799), the wealthy slave owner, surrendered to the French Canadians after being surrounded at Fort Necessity. After his humiliating and bitter defeat he denounced the Roman Catholic Church and the French culture.
July 2 or 22: Michilimackinac, New France (Michigan), marriage, Michel Girardin, gunsmith, married Marie Hypolite (Hyppolite) Faure (Favre).
July 24: Conawapa, the Cree, took (I)- Anthony Henday (HBC service 1750-1762) to the French Fort Paskoyac, also called Basque, Pasquia or La Riviere du Pas (The Pas), (Manitoba) and conversed with the 'Assinipoval Metis' who, on first encounter, threatened to take him prisoner and send him to France. The French called the Fort: Basque, and it was twenty six feet long, twelve feet wide and nine feet tall. Three Frenchmen are presently at the Fort. (I)- Anthony Henday (HBC service 1750-1762) said this country belongs to the English as much as the French. One version suggests Anthony Henday is under the direction of Attickasish (Little Deer) but his role changes depending on different versions. One version has Henday being contemptuous and the others as being uncertain, even frightened. I would suspect, due to his lack of experience, the latter is more likely correct.
July 28: Michillimakinac, New France (Michigan), baptism Joseph Verandrye born 1737, adult slave of Chevalier De la Verandrye (Verandrie).
July 29: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), death, Marie Louise Campeau born 1724
August 1: Jean Baptiste Gourn dit Champagne (1709-1754) married, returning with his wife to Illinois, died Mackinac, New France (Michigan). Sieur Guion buried his eleven year old slave Jean Baptiste at Mackinac, New France (Michigan).
August 1: Michillimackinac, New France (Michigan), death, (I)-Jean Baptiste Jouin dit Champagne b-1709.
August 2: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (IV)-Louis Cabassier son (III)-Joseph Cabassier (1722-1773) and (II)-Angelique Bienvenu dit Delisle born 1721;
August 3: L'Islet, birth (II)-Marie Olive Gagnon, Metis, daughter (I)-Pierre Gagnon, a savage (Metis) (1709-1773) and Marie Anne Sauvagesse.
August 12: Cahokia, Illinois, marriage (III)-Etienne Magnan born December 24, 1721 Pte Aux Trembles, Quebec son (II)-Etienne Magnan b-1687 and (II)-Marie Anne Matte b-1687 married (IV)-Marie Louis Picard (Pichard), Metis, b-1734, died July 28, 1757, Cahokia, (Illinois) daughter (III)-Louis Picard b-1692 and Marie Anne Padoka des Ricaras, a Cahokia sauvagesse.
(IV)-Marie Louise Magnan Metis (1757-1757) Cahokia
August 12, Michilimackinac, New France (Michigan), (some suggest Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan)), marriage, (IV)-Charles Michel Mouet (Moras) de Langlade Metis born 1724/29, and died 1800, British Green Bay, (Wisconsin), son (III)-Augustin Mouet, sieur de Langlade aka Sieur de d'Englade born 1703, died 1771/77, and Domitille Oukabe dit Neveu aka Domithilde La Fourche or Kapiouapnonkoue, widow Daniel Amiot dit Villenuve;
1st married 1754 Michillimackinac, (IV)-Anne Charlotte Ambroise Bourassa (Bourrassa) Metis b-1746 Fort Detroit daughter (III)-Rene Bourassa dit La Ronde (1718-1792) and (III)-Anne Charlotte Veronica Chavalier [Mackinac Metis] baptised 1746, see marriage August 3, 1744; (Charlotte married Jean Baptiste Leduc October 12, 1773 British Fort Detroit, (Michigan)),
(V)-Louise Domitilde Mouet dit Langlade, b-1759 Michilimackinac, married 1787 Mackinac Michilimackinac (III)-Pierre Grignon b-1740
2nd marriage Dourana an Ottawa woman.
August 14: Michilimackinac, baptism, Jean Baptiste Reaume, Metis, born Octobver 1754 son Jean Baptiste Reaume, of Green Bay and Marie Matchiauagakauat (8agak8at) Savage of the Folle Avoine tribe b-1734.
August 15, Michilimackinac, New France (Michigan), marriage, Jean Baptiste Reaume, of Green Bay, New France (Wisconsin), an interpreter, Country married 1751, and churched 1754, Mackinac, New France (Michigan), Marie Matchiauagakauat (8agak8at) Savage of the Folle Avoine tribe b-1734.
August 18: Michilimackinac, baptism, Marie Migouanounjan born July 29, 1754 daughter Pierre Migouanounjan and Marie Ouakkonaouagan.
August 18: Michilimackinac, baptism, Louis Maur so Louis Maur and Marie Moran. Entry appeared in the 1786 ledger??
August 21: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), death, Jean Baptiste Fauvel born 1753, parents not recorded but most likely son (II)-Jacques Fauvel dit Bigras (1696-1751) and (II)-Angelique Clement born 1705.
August and September: Anthony Hemley and company departed The Pas (Manitoba) and the Saskatchewan River, heading overland to visit the Assiniboine who told him they would not trade with the English as the French keep them well supplied. In a different version he suggests they will trade with the English. The former version is more likely correct. Anthony Henley wasted little time in obtaining a country woman for his journey.
September 1: St. Pierre les Becquets, Quebec, birth, (III)-Marie Joseph Couturier, Metis daughter (II)-Denis Joseph Couturier, Metis, b-1681, and (II)-Therese Hamel, b-1707, died March 14, 1737 St. Pierre les Becquets, veuve de Jean Tousignan, daughter (II)-Jean Francois Hamel..
September 14: Michillimakinac, New France (Michigan), death Jean Baptiste Guyon, born 1743, slave M. Guyon.
September 23: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), marriage, (II)-Pierre Desnoyer born December 13, 1721, LaPrairie son (I)-Jean Baptiste Desnoyer and (II)-Marie Marguerite Laroche born 1693 daughter (I)-Jean Laroche; married (IV)-Marie Louise Leduc born April 18, 1734, died September 26, 1766, British Fort Detroit, (Michigan), daughter (III)-Jean Baptiste Leduc b-1684 and (III)-Marie Catherine Descary (Cary) (1696-1761).
September 27: Mackinac, New France (Michigan), baptism, (III)-Joseph Augustin Couvret, (Coubret) Metis, born August 10, 1754 son (II)-Joseph Couvret born 1695 and Marie Charlotte Sauteuse (Ojibwa) of Sault Ste Marie, Ojibwa Country (Michigan/Ontario).
September and October: (I)- Anthony Henday (HBC service 1750-1762) traveled south of Red Deer River to the Earchithinue tribe, visited the horsed Atsina of the prairies and south to the Bow River. Henday discovered that the Cree, like the Wendat of earlier periods, are middlemen in the fur trade. The Blackfoot do not have the canoe and the Bay is too far away for trade. One version of his journals suggests the Blackfoot gave Henley two slave girls but the other versions make no mention. This entry is highly suspect. It is suggested Anthony Henday (HBC service 1750-1762) first encountered the horse at Buffer Lake, Saskatchewan and bought his first horse at Sounding Creek, Alberta. Some even question if he made this trip due to the attempts to embellish his journals.
October: Joseph Blanpain (Blancpain) a Flemish trader is arrested by the Spanish at the French post on Galveston Bay and seized his trade goods. He was sent to Mexico City where he died.
October 3: Detroit, birth (IV)-Marie Catherine Rochereau daughter (III)-Joseph Rochereau dit Lesperance b-1725 and (II)-Catherine Pilet (1736-1763).
October 7: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (IV)-Marie Joseph Campeau, died August 10, 1755, Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), daughter (III)-Nicolas Campeau (1710-1756) and (II)-Agathe Casse (1716-1808).
October 14: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (IV)-Antoine Campeau son (III)-Antoine Campeau (1702-1759 and (V)-Marie Anne Pelletier.
October 28: Fort Detroit, birth/death, (II)-Joseph Vallee dit Versailles son (I)-Jean Vallee dit Versailles, and (III)-Marie Elisabeth Drouillard b-1740, epouse 1767 Pierre Desnoyers, daughter (II)-Jean Drouillard.
October 29: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth (V)-Jacques Sarazin, son (IV)- Pierre Sarazin Depeltaux, b-1718 and (III)-Marie Anne Cesire b-1730.
November 2: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (IV)-Pierre Toussaint Chesne, died April 9. 1754 son (III)-Pierre Chesne born 1724 and (II)-Marie Clemence Chapoton (1726-1753)
November 6: Fort Detroit, birth (IV)-Pierre Reaume, died December 1, 1754 Fort Detroit son (IV)-Etienne Louis Reaume b-1748 and Charlotte Barthe.
November 15: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (II)-Elisabeth Godfroy daughter (I)-Francois Godfroy (1717-1764) and (III)-Suzanne Pepin b-1719.
November 25: Fort Detroit, birth, (IV)-Charles Alexis Porlier, died September 18, 1755 Fort Detroit son (III)-Charles Porlier dit Vincennes b-1731 and (IV)-Francoise Genevieve Lambert b-1732.
November 30: Michilimackinac, New France (Michigan), baptism slaves: Charles Bourrassa Metis Marie Anne Pinas b-1728 slave of Sieur (II)-Rene Bourassa dit La Ronde b-1688; Maria Langlade slave of Sieur Langlade Jr.; Ingnace Bourrassa b-1740 Metis son Marie Anne Pinas b-1728 slave of (II)-Rene Bourassa dit La Ronde b-1688 and Joseph la Verandrie age 17 slave Chevalier de la Verandrie.
The November issue of Gentleman's Magazine said: The country bordering on the Hudson Bay might serve as an English Siberia where we might hold our convicts instead of hanging them by the thousands at home or transporting them to corrupt the natives of our colonies. Convicts should always be sent to a country barren and in a manner uninhabited because there they can't corrupt by their bad example. The Public Records of Ireland in Belfast contain documents of similar proposals. The worst offenders should be turned over to the Eskimos (Inuit) as slaves.
December 2: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), baptism, (IV)-Ursule Bouron son (III)-Louis Bouron dit Clermont; habitant La Cote south of Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), and (II)-Marie Ripau et Roiet;
December 11: Fort Detroit, birth (III)-Madeleine Mesny, daughter (II)-Antoine Mesny (1712-1794) and (II)-Jeanne Seguin Laderoute b-1724; married April 11, 1768 Fort Detroit Joseph Tremblay.
December 24: Lac des deux Montagnes birth (III)-Louis Hery Metis son (II)-Louis Hery (Duplanty-Kil8abe) born July 16, 1711 son (I)-Jacques Hery (1664-1746) and (II)-Jeanne Vanier b-1685; married Marie Anastasie Missalim8k8e of the Sauteux Nation.
1755
There is a good chance that (III)-Oliver Garneau, also called Coline de Carillon and Perrin de Louarget, is involved in the construction of Fort Carillon, a.k.a. Fort Ticonderoga, which commands the outlet of Lake George, Minnesota into Lake Champlain . This Fort is also known as Fort Vaudreuil. The Fort was abandoned by the French in 1759
(V)-Nicolas Amiot Metis b-1730 Mackinac son (IV)-Jean Baptiste Ambrose Amiot b-1694 and Marie Anne Kitoulague sauvagesse; married 1755 Mackinac Suzanne Sauvage b-1735, bapt 1755, Mackinac d-1757 Sault-au-Recollet;
(VI)-Ambroise Amiot Metis b-1754
(VI)-Joseph Amiot Metis d-1757 Mackinac
Alex Birshaw is born 1755 North West, census 1835, Metis colony Red River (Manitoba).
Francois Boucher de Niverville Grandpre is sent to prevent the flow of English goods from Fort Beausejour to Green Bay, New France (Wisconsin).
Kaskaskia, (Illinois), birth, Catherine Gauthier, Metis, daughter Jean Gauthier Jr., Metis, and Panis Sioux; Catherine married Jean Baptiste Brunet.
Mississippi River, birth, Joseph Reaume, Metis son Jean Baptiste Reaume, Metis and Marie Joseph Matchiougakouat (8agak8at) of the Folle Avoine tribe, working out of Green Bay, New France (Wisconsin), and Michillimackinac, New France (Michigan).
Domingo Del Rio conducted a Spanish military expedition to the Orcoquiza and Bidai People west of the Trinity River in East Texas to investigate reports of French in the area and to remove them from Spanish territory.
In early 1755 trader, Anthony Henday, journeyed onto the plains from York Factory via the Saskatchewan. He traveled the length of the Battle River valley, during which time he reported on presumed Blackfoot peoples at
(IV)-Marguerite Migneron (1723-1755) died Detroit, daughter (III)-Jean Francois Migneron b-1696 and (III)-Marguerte Hunaud b-1699; married 1740 (III)-Basile Marois b-1719 his 2nd marriage 1st. 1739 Therese Bouin Duppesne and 3rd 1756 Detroit Francoise Pimpare.
James Southland (Sutherland) listed born 1755, census 1835 Red River (Manitoba). This could be an error.
Marriage Marie Anne Amable Testard (1721-1799) daughter Jacques Testard sieur de Montigny (1662-1737) and Marie Anne Laporte de Louvigny (1696-1763); married 1st Pierre Gauultier LaVerendrye and 2nd marriage 1755 Louis Joseph Gaultier, sieur La Verendrye.
This season six slaves are baptized Mackinac, New France (Michigan), Pierre Francois age 12-13 slave Parent, Charlotte age 14-15 slave Monbron, Catherine age 13 slave Jean Baptiste Tellier dit La Fortune, voyager, Marie Anne age 16-17 slave Caron (Claude Caron, (b-1731)?), Anne age 11-12 slave St. Omer and Charlotte 18 months daughter Misoumanitou slave of de Villebon.
The French Assinipoval Metis are trading to the upper regions of the Saskatchewan River system, North West Territories. Daniel William Harmon (1778-1845) in 1805 reported that a French Missionary lived in the vicinity of Fort Assiniboine for a number of years instructing the Natives in the Christian Religion.
Fort des Prairies on the Saskatchewan River near Nepowewin is first constructed this year. This name would be applied to various different establishments after this date. If two forts are constructed on the prairies then they called one the upper and the other the lower Fort des Prairies.
General Edward Bradock (1695-1755) and a powerful force from New England tried to take Fort Duquesne, (Allegheny, Pennsylvania) located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, at the site of present day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and are soundly defeated by the French. The English would recover the Fort in 1758, but it was burnt before being abandoned. It would be rebuilt in 1761 by the British and called Fort Pitt.
General Edward Bradock (1695-1755) commanded 1,500 British regulars and the balance Provincials making a force of 2,150. They attacked the French Fort Duguesne (Pittsburgh) on the Ohio River. The massacre of the British-American force is by a much smaller French-Canadian force. Only 500 Americans escaped the slaughter. It is noteworthy that this Fort was originally built by the British in 1753 and captured and completed in 1754 by the French. The French, commanded by Captain Dumas and Metis Charles Langlade of Green Bay, New France (Wisconsin), includes 75 French regulars. George Washington, (1732-1799), a survivor, recounts that three hundred English settlers in wagons are fleeing New France in the Ohio. Reports confirm that the Natives are repelling the invasion on all fronts. During the next two years, the resistance to invasion continued and Chesterfield wrote: We are no longer a Nation. The Indian Nations only desired liberty and freedom for all peace loving peoples and the Government to live within negotiated settlements. George Washington (1732-1799), would start the genocide program against these Native peoples.
A French Fort is built at Prairie du Chien.
Fort Tiscondergoa (Carillon), a place between the waters, is built by the French at the confluence of Lakes Champlain and George in upper New York. The Fort was abandoned in 1759. It was briefly reoccupied in 1777 for a few months.
The English stopped at Fort Paskoyac and (I)- Anthony Henday (HBC service 1750-1762) wrote that the French spoke several languages to perfection. They have the advantage of us in every shape and if they had Brazil tobacco they would entirely cut off our trade. He still managed to return with seventy canoes that he traded on their return trip. Henday returned to York (Manitoba), June 23 and couldn't possibly have had more canoes than he started with as the best furs were traded to the French under his nose. It is highly likely that all four versions are forgeries by (I)-Andrew Graham (1733-1815), a sloop masters servant, done for political reasons. One forgery is dated 1755-56 rather than 1754-55 and is obviously not by (I)-Andrew Graham. The London office did not hold (I)-Anthony Henday (HBC service 1750-1762) as being very expert, even though they were dealing with forged documents. Upon his return he was sent out on another year venture but returned in a week, which further supports his incompetence. In 1756 (I)- Anthony Henday (HBC service 1750-1762) again failed to return to the Blackfoot saying sickness forced him back. It is alleged that Henday and Joseph Smith ventured into Blackfoot territory in 1759-60, but no record supports this claim. (I)- Anthony Henday (HBC service 1750-1762) retired in 1762.
January: Henley House is abandoned this year. The attack by angry Indians on Henley House was due to their women being kept at the post while their own access was denied. This is a clear violation of a social contract involving exchanging of women for post rights. "The Cree marriage rights might seem frivolous", William Falloner wrote. "However, both men and women perform their duties and are more chaste to each other than more civilized nations instructed with the duties of Christianity." Another report reached Albany House, James Bay that said the Indians had massacred the garrison called Henley House. The Cree claimed the attacks were at the instigation of the Coureurs des Bois.
January 7: Detroit, birth (II)-Joseph Renaud son (I)-Jean Louis Renaud dit Lajeunesse and (II)-Marie Joseph Guignard dit St. Etienne, b-1730
January 8: Fort Detroit, marriage, Francois Lacoste Archange De Marsac, epouse February 21, 1791 Fort Detroit (II)-Jean Baptiste Prudhomme b-1759.
January 8:: Fort Detroit, marriage Francois Tailbandier to (III)-Madeleine Bouron daughter (II)-Antoine Joseph Bouron, veuve February 26, 1748 Fort Detroit (I)-Jean Baptiste Putelle (1717-1752).
January 13: Fort Detroit, (Michigan), marriage (III)-Francois Rocheleau et Rocheleau dit Lesperance, born September 20, 1718 Beauport son (II)-Jean Baptiste Rochereau (1679-1757) and (II)-Elisabeth Dery b-1693; married (III)-Marie Joseph Meloche, b-1739, daughter (II)-Pierre Meloche (1701-1760) and (III)-Jeanne Caron b-1709.
January 18: Louis Le Gardeur, chevalier, is listed at Makinac, New France (Michigan), as officer commandant of Le Roi and Sault Ste Marie, New France (Michigan/Ontario).
January 18: Makinae, New France (Michigan), birth, (IV)-Charles Bourassa Metis son (III)-Rene Bourassa dit LaRonde (1718-1792) and (III)-Anne Charlotte Veronique Chavalier [a Mackinac Metis] born 1746, see marriage August 3, 1744.
January 26: Detroit, birth (IV)-Jean Baptiste Tremblay, son (III)-Augustus Tremblay (1710-1795) and (IV)-Marie Judith Laforest b-1723; married (IV)-Louise Raymond b-1761.
January 27: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (IV)-Jean Baptiste Drouillard son (III)-Jean Baptiste Drouillard and (III)-Marie Charlotte Fauvel dit Bigras.
January 20: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (V)-Francois Laforest, daughter (IV)-Guillaume Laforest b-1725 and (IV)-Marie Marguerite Tremblay (1725-1768).
January 26: Fort Detroit, birth, (IV)-Jean Baptiste Tremblay son (III)-Augustin Trembley (1710-1795) and (IV)-Marie Judith Laforest b-1753.
January 29: Detroit, birth (V)-Masrguerite Lebeau daughter (IV)-Rene Francois Lebeau b-1730 Montreal EJ Bau; and (IV)-Marguerite Mobel de Ladurantaye; elle epouse November 27, 1760 Detroit Jacques Quesnel.
February 2: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (IV)-Claude Thomas Chesne son (III)-Pierre Chesne dit Labutte born 1729 and (IV)-Marie Anne Cuillerier born 1730.
February 2/3: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), baptism, (IV)-Charles Francios Gouin (b-1748), married July 24, 1775, (V)-Angelique Godet, born February 12, 1759, Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), daughter (IV)-Jacques Godet (1699-1760) and (IV)-Marie Louise St. Martin dit Baudry Desbuttes (b-1724), 2nd marriage November 9, 1779, Suzanne Boyer born November 11, 1757, all at Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), daughter (III)-Pierre Boyer (1707-1765) and Marie Anne Louise Pepin.
February 3: arrived Detroit (II)-Louis Cesaire Dagneau (1704-1767) and (III)-Marie Anne Picote (1714-1756), both went to Detroit February 3, 1755 and died there.
February 10: Fort Detroit, marriage, (III)-Charles Poupart born October 23, 1720, Montreal, died October 1, 1777 Fort Detroit son (II)-Charles Poupart dit Lafleur (1698-1761) and (III)-Agnes Brazeau (1697-1742); married (IV)-Isabelle St. Aubin.
February 11: Fort Detroit, marriage (IV)-Pierre Louis Maillet born January 17, 1731 Montreal son (III)-Louis Maillet b-1693 and (II)-Angelique Perineau b-1699; 1st married May 11, 1750 Montreal, Marie Amable Leduc, 2nd marriage February 11, 1755 Fort Detroit (III)-Catherine Meloche b-1737, espouse February 7, 1764 Fort Detroit, Andre Pelletier and epouse August 21, 1752 Detroit (I)-Jean Baptiste Sappe dit Poligny b-1720.
February 11: Fort Detroit, (Michigan) marriage Pierre Louis Mallet to (III)-Marie Catherine Meloche, daughter (II)-Pierre Meloche (1701-1760) and (III)-Jeanne Caron b-1709; 1st marriqage August 21, 1752 Fort Detroit Jean Baptiste Sappe Poligny; 2nd marriage February 11, 1755 Fort Detroit Pierre Louis Mallet; 3rd marriage February 7, 1764 Fort Detroit Andre Pelletier.
February 11: Fort Detroit, marriage (II)-Louis Vessiere b-1736, Detroit to (II)-Louis Lafaye b-1745, died January 31, 1767 Fort Detroit.
February 25: Trois Rivers, Quebec, marriage, (III)-Francois Diel, maternal uncle d'Agathe Reaume Levasseur, il etait au Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), July 16, 1767 son (II)-Jacques Diel (1693-1745) and (II)-Marie Anne Crepin (1695-1745); Married (II)-Marguerite Sauvage (1728-1762) daughter (I)-Francoise Sauvage.
February 25: Fort Detroit, birth, (V)-Pierre Amable Lienard son (IV)-Jean Baptiste Lienard dit Durbois and (II)-Marie Anne Deshetres b-1734; married March 1, 1787 Cahokia, Catherine Lefebvre.
March 9: Fort Detroit, birth (IV)-Pierre Meloche son (III)-Pierre Meloche b-1730 and (II)-Marie Catherine Guignard dit St. Etienne b-1734 daughter (I)-Pierre Guignard; married August 27, 1781 Fort Detroit Marie Catherine Campeau..
March 26: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (IV)-Marie Louise Chiquot died June 13, 1755 daughter (III)-Zacharie Chiquot (1708-1775) and (III)-Marie Angelique Godfroy (1720-1791).
March 26: Fort Detroit, birth, (II)-Pierre Rambaut son (I)-Charles Nicolas Raimbaut and (III)-Julie Cecire pour Judith Amable b-1728 daughter (II)-Jeane Cecire.
March 29: Fort Detroit, birth, (IV)-Charles Morand son (III)-Claude Charles Morand (1722-1775) and (III)-Marie Anne Belleperche (1734-1794); married November 4, 1794 Fort Detroit Catherine Vessiere.
March 30: Michillimakinac, New France (Michigan), baptism, Pierre Francois Parant, Panis, born 1741, slave of M. Parant.
March 30: Michillimakinac, New France (Michigan), baptism, Marie Charlotte Monburn, Panis, born 1740, slave of M. Monburn.
April 3: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (IV)-Marie Madeline Lacoste daughter (III)-Francois Lacoste dit Lang-Languedoc (1720-1762) and (II)-Madeline Bourbon b-1722; married June 18, 1770, British Fort Detroit, (Michigan), Jean Baptiate Binet.
April 8: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), marriage, (IV)-Jean Baptiste Cardinal, born May 19, 1728, Montreal, Quebec, son (III)-Jacques Cardinal (1685-1763) and (II)-Jeanne Duguay (1691-1778); married (IV)-Marie Anne Maillet et Mallet daughter (III)-Jean Francois Maillet et Mallet b-1701 and (III)-Marie Roy b-1702.
April 24: Detroit, birth (IV)-Simon Tremblay son (III)-Ambroise Trembley and (IV)-Marguerite Simard b-1726, epouse November 23, 1767 Detroit Charles Moran.
April 28: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), marriage, Joseph Amable Fauvel to (II)-Marie Charoltte Gloria Dufour born 1739 daughter (I)-Pierre Dufour dit Bonvivant born 1714 and (III)-Marie Charlotte Gloria (1721-1766).
April 28: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), marriage, (IV)-Joseph Amable Fauvel dit Bigras son (II)-Jacques Fauvel dit Bigras (1696-1751) and (II)-Angelique Clement born 1705; married (II)-Marie Charlotte Dufour born 1739 daughter (I)-Pierre Dufour.
April 30: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (II)-Joseph Durand son (I)-Pierre Durand dit Montmirel (1706-1792) and (II)-Catherine Guignon.
May: (I)- Anthony Henday (HBC service 1750-1762) camped on the mouth of the Sturgeon River, 20 miles down river from Edmonton (Alberta). (I)-Anthony Henday had struck at the very heart of the French fur trade and had returned down the Saskatchewan River with sixty canoes of furs (sixty canoes of Cree?).
May 16: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (III)-Constant Casse daughter (II)-Jacques Casse and (IV)-Catherine Jean Vien died 1779.
May 17: Michilimackinac, baptism Joseph Ketchinape, born Dercember 29, 1754, son Pierre Ketchinape and Angelique Nekikkone.
May 23: The English were forced to stop at the French Fort La Corne at the forks of the river and ruefully (I)- Anthony Henday (HBC service 1750-1762) watched as the five or six French traded about one thousand of the best skins. The French were well aware of Henday's ventures last year. To suggest he discover anything new is absurd. It took four days for (I)- Anthony Henday (HBC service 1750-1762) to coax his Natives from the pleasant company of the French.
May 27: Michilimackinac, baptism, (VI)-Ambroise Amiot, Metis born 1754, son (V)-Nicholas Amiot b-1730 and his slave woman, whom he married, Marie Anne Oukimakpne (Kitoulague? name his mother?)
June: Daniel Hyacinthe Marie de Beaujeu arrived Fort Duquesne (Allegheny, Pennsylvania) to take command from Contrecoeurs.
June 11: Michilimackinac, baptism, Marie Anne Brisbe daughter Francois Brisbe and Marianne Parent.
June 17: Michilimackinac, baptism, (V)-Jean Baptiste LeTellier, Metis, born September 10, 1754, son (IV)- Antoine LeTellier et Tellier dit La Fortune, Metis b-1733 and Charlotte Mi-Gauanon-Jean Auetaukis (Migsanonjean) (8et8kis) sauvagesse.
June 18: Michilimackinac, baptism Pierre Onabeno son Achaka Onabeno and Maouemkonens, witnessed by Nicolas du Fresne, merchant.
July: The English Colonies (America) numbered 1,600,000 people including 200,000 slaves. New France numbered 80,000 people at best, and the King of France considered New France as being a sinkhole for money and a sponge for French blood. The number of slaves in New France is not listed, but must also run into the thousands. This year a group of Virginia's formed the Ohio Company in order to establish settlements in the upper Ohio Valley. The French hastened to construct a number of forts below Lake Erie. The French seized two British strong points: Fort Necessity and the site of Fort Duguesne. The British General Bradock marched on Fort Duguesne in July 1755 with one thousand, five hundred and fifty regulars and four hundred and fifty Virginia Militiamen. Their disastrous defeat included the death of Bradock.
July 3: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (III)-Nicolas Lacelle son (II)-Nicolas Lacelle et Laselle (1715-1779) and (II)-Marie Joseph Cardinal (1733-1763).
July 4: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (II)-Louis Gendron son (I)-Simon Gendron dit Potevin, a merchant, and (II)-Suzanne Bienvenu (1722-1764)t.
July 13: Michillimakinac, New France (Michigan), baptism, Catherine Tellier, born 1742, slave of M. Tellier.
July 13: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (IV)-Laurent Jr Gamelin, died September 20, 1759, Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), son (III)-Laurent Eustache Gamelin, born 1695, negociant, died March 11, 1774, British Fort Detroit, (Michigan), and (III)-Marie Joseph Dudevoir et Bonvouloir dit Lachene daughter (II)-Claude Dudevoir dit Bonvouloir and Barbara Elisabeth Cardinal.
July 17: Mackinac, New France (Michigan), Rene Bonaventure Auger, voyageur to Mackinac, New France (Michigan), source Tanguay
July 21: Michillimakinac, New France (Michigan), baptism, Marie Anne Caron, born 1738, slave of M. Caron.
July 25, (others suggest May 25): Michilimackinac, New France (Michigan), marriage, Francois Brisbe dit LaGrandeur, sargent, son Francois Brisbe and Marie of Gooneville, Normandy; married Marie Anne Parent veuve Joseph d'Ailleboust de Coulonge.
July 27: Michillimakinac, New France (Michigan), baptism, Anne St. Omer, born 1743, slave of M. St. Omer.
July 28: Acadia Governing Council chaired by Charles Lawrence (1709-1760) conceived and ordered one of the most horrendous acts in the history of Canada, the forced removal of Acadian citizens, many of who are Metis.
THE ACT: "After mature consideration it was unanimously agreed, that, to prevent as much as possible their attempting to return and molest the settlers that may be set down on their lands, it would be most proper to send them to be distributed amongst the several colonies on the continent, and that a sufficient number of vessels should be hired with all possible expedition for that purpose".
THE INFAMOUS COUNCIL OF NOVA SCOTIA:
Charles Lawrence (1709-1760) from England
Benjamin Green (1713-1772) from Massachusetts
John Collier d-1769 from England
William Cotterell
John Rous (1689-1760) from England
Jonathon Belchar (1710-1776) from Massachusetts
The infamous Jonathon Belchar (1710-1776) from Massachusetts, ruled that Charles Lawrence (1709-1760) is innocent of the severest criticism. Confiscation of lands, goods, chattel, and deportation of Acadian Natives is not considered severe.
August 2: Mackinac, New France (Michigan), baptism, Albert Farley born this day son Jacque Farley and Josette du Mouchel, living Michilimackinac..
August 6: Fort Detroit, birth (III)-Julien Parant son (II)-Laurent Parant b-1703 and (IV)-Jeanne Cardinal b-1717.
August 8: Marriage Detroit (III)-Dominique Jourdain b-1730, to (IV)-Jeanne Cardinal b-1755
August 17: Montreal, (I)-Michel Pormier Beaulieu b-1700 listed as a voyager.
August 18: Michilimackinac, New France (Michigan), marriage, (V)-Nicolas Amiot, Metis, born 1730 Mackinac, New France (Michigan), son (IV)-Jean Baptiste Ambrose Amiot, born 1694, and Marie Anne Kitoulague, sauvagesse; churched this year at Mackinac, New France (Michigan), Suzanne DuKimakoue (Nouvellaut), Savage, born 1735. They likely had a country marriage 1735 or earlier. Two sons are recorded Ambroise Amiot, Metis, born 1754 and Joseph Amiot, Metis, who died July 18, 1757, all at Mackinac, New France (Michigan).
August 18: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), marriage, (III)-Charles Chesne Metis born 1732 habitant de la Cote Sud-Ouest son (II)-Charles Chesne born 1694 and (II)-Catherine Sauvage (1695-1778); married (II)-Marie Joseph Descomps dit Labadie born 1737 daughter (I)-Pierre Descomps dit Labadie.
(IV)-Marie Catherine Chesne Metis b-1756 Detroit Thomas Vincelet
(IV)-Charles Chesne Metis b-1758 Detroit
(IV)-Pierre Chesne Metis married 1784 Detroit (IV)-Cecile Campeau b-1747 veuve de Claude Leblond
(IV)-Nicolas Chesne Metis (1760-1763) Detroit
(IV)-Charles Chesne Metis (1763-1766) Detroit
(IV)-Elisabeth Chesne Metis b-1766 Detroit
(IV)-Toussaint Chesne Metis b-1768 Detroit
(IV)-Gabriel Chesne Metis b-1772 Detroit married 1793 Detroit Genevieve Campeau
(IV)-Marie Joseph Chesne Metis b-1774 Detroit
(IV)-Agathe Chesne Metis b-1776 Detroit, married 1795 Detroit Alex Campeau.
August 18: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), marriage, (III)-Dominique Jourdain dit Labrosse Marie sous ce nom born August 12, 1730 Montreal, Quebec, maitre-sculpteur, son (II)-Paul Raymond Jourdain dit Labrosse, seculpteur et facteur d'orgues b-1697 and (II)-Francoise Godet b-1705; married to (IV)-Jeanne Cardinal born March 1, 1735, Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), daughter (III)-Jacques Cardinal (1685-1763) and (II)-Jeanne Duguay (1691-1778).
August 24: Michilimackinac, baptism, Charlotte de Villebon, Metis, b-1753 daughter of Savage Misoumanitou a slave of de. Villebon.
September 8: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), marriage, (IV)-Francois Godet dit Marantay, born March 6, 1720, son (III)-Jacques Godet (1673-1729) and (II)-Marguerite Duguay (1680-1730); married Fort Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), (III)-Jeanne Parant born April 23, 1739 Fort Detroit, daughter (II)-Laurent Parant b-1703 and (IV)-Jeanne Cardinal b-1717..
September: Jacques LeGardeur de St. Pierre (1701-1755) led a force of Mohawks and French Canadians against a British force near Fort Edwards (Lake George, New York) where he was killed. Others suggest Fort Edwards was created 1755 in Nova Scotia.
September 10: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (IV)-Julien Campeau son (III)-Jean Baptiste Campeau (1711-1783) and (III)-Catherine Perthus (1718-1763).
September 22: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), marriage, (II)-Jean Baptiste Chapoton born 1721 son (I)-Jean Baptiste Chapoton married (III)-Felicate Cesire born December 20, 1737, Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), daughter (II)-Jean Cesire (1698-1767) and (II)-Marguerite Charlotte Girard (born 1703). 1st marriage September 10, 1749, Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), (III)-Genevieve Elisabeth Godfroy (1728-1750). One child listed, no birth or marriage date Benoit Chapoton married Therese Meloche.
September 22: Fort Detroit, birth, (IV)-Charles Poupart son (III)-Charles Poupart (1720-1777) and (IV)-Isabelle St. Aubin.
October 4-6: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth/death, (IV)-Francois Campeau son (III)-Charles Campeau (1715-1785) and Marie Charlotte Montray et Julliet La Cote.
October 4/18: Fort Detroit, (Michigan), birth/death (IV)-Marie Joseph Rochereau daughter (III)- Francois Rocheleau et Rocheleau dit Lesperance, b-1718 and (III)-Marie Joseph Meloche, b-1739.
October 8: Detroit, birth (IV)-Marie Desanges Rochereau daughter (III)-Joseph Rochereau dit Lesperance b-1725 and (II)-Catherine Pilet (1736-1763); married Antoine Langlois.
October 13: Cahokia, (Illinois), birth (II)-Joseph Marechal, Metis, son (I)-Nicolas Marechal de St. Vincent and Marie Jeanne Illinoise et lleret; de Ste Anne, Fort Chartres.
October 16: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (IV)-Therese Boyer daughter (III)-Ignace Boyer (1721-1784) Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), and (IV)-Angelique Pepin dit Descardonnets; married October 8, 1770, British Fort Detroit, (Michigan), Jean Baptiste Casse, 2nd marriage February, 1779, British Fort Detroit, (Michigan), Francois Dagneau.
October 27: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (IV)-Angelique Cabassier, and likely died shortly thereafter as next daughter born also called Angelique, daughter (III)-Joseph Cabassier (1722-1773) and (II)-Angelique Bienvenu dit Delisle born 1721.
October 27: Fort Detroit, birth, (II)-Marie Catherine Vallee dit Versailles daughter (I)-Jean Vallee dit Versailles, and (III)-Marie Elisabeth Drouillard b-1740, epouse 1767 Pierre Desnoyers, daughter (II)-Jean Drouillard; married May 26, 1770 Detroit Jean Baptiste Pelletier.
November 4: Fort Detroit, (Michigan) marriage (III)-Francois Meloche, born May 19, 1733 Fort Detroit, son (II)-Pierre Meloche (1701-1760) and (III)-Jeanne Caron b-1709; married (IV)-Marie Francoise Lauzon born September 5,1739 Fort Detroit, daughter, (III)-Nicolas Lauzon (1693-1779) and (II)-Marie Louise Chauvin b-1696, died March 6, 1766, veuve de Julien Francois Becmont..
November 12: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (III)-Pierre Desnoyers son (II)-Pierre Desnoyer born 1721 and (IV)-Marie Louise Leduc (1734-1766).
November 13: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (IV)-Madeline Gouyou daughter (III)-Jean Baptiste Gouyou (1722-1764) and (II)-Louise Delieres (1724-1766).
November 19: Fort Detroit, birth Joseph Pelletier son Jean Baptiste Pelletier and Marie Joseph Mettay.
November 29: Detroit, birth Joseph Pelletier son Jean Baptiste Pelletier and Marie Joseph Mettay
December 18: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth/death, (III)-Deux anonymes Casse died August 18, 1755 daughter (II)-Noel Casse and (II)-Suzanne Esteve.
December 19: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (II)-Marie Louise Borde dit St. Surin daughter (I)-Jean Borde dit St. Surin and (II)-Marie Joseph Colet, see marriage 1753; Louise married January 20, 1772, British Fort Detroit, (Michigan), Charles Campeau.
December 22: Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), birth, (IV)-Joseph Amable Fauvel, died March 3, 1756, Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), son (III)-Joseph Amable Fauvel dit Bigras and (II)-Marie Charlotte Dufour born 1739.
December 25: Fort Detroit, birth (II)-Marie Joseph Yax, died May 15, 1764 Fort Detroit, daughter (I)-Michel Yax, a German, (1709-1793) and Catherine Herbins
September to December: The British governor of Acadia, Charles Lawrence, serving July 23, 1756 to September 24, 1762, expelled and deported eight to ten thousand settlers spreading them down the Eastern seaboard to Louisiana where they called themselves Cajuns. Cajun is a corruption of the word Acadian. About 4,000 Acadians are deported to Louisiana. Cajuns at this time are primarily French-Metis-Canadians.
METIS HISTORY 1756-1757
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