Késsinnimek - Roots - RacinesMon Petit Coin by Norm Léveillée
Biographical Dictionary for the Jesuit Missions
in Acadia and New France: 1602-1654
Part 2
Guillaume HUBOU arrived in Québec in 1623 as an employee of the Compagnie de Caen for one year, with a salary of 150 livres. He married Louis Hébert's widow, Marie ROLLET on 15 May 1629. He remained in Québec during the English Occupation from 1629-1632. He became an important man in the flourishing colony and Champlain granted him a plot of land in the vicinity of Québec. He worked his land and furnished wood to the Jesuits in March 1647. His wife died in 1649; he died four years later in 1653. (BD pp. 208-209)
Françoise JOBIN was born in Normandy around 1634. She came to New France in 1652 and contracted a marriage with Pierre DANDONNEAU at Trois-Rivières on 16 Jan 1653. They had eleven children. She died at Champlain on 6 July 1702. (BD p.214)
Marguerite LANGLOIS was Abraham MARTIN's wife. She came over to New France with him in 1619. They had at least ten children, but no descendants except through their daughters. Their youngest son Charles-Amador, born in 1648, became one of the first Canadian-born priests and was renowed for his vitures. When her husband Abrahma died, she married René BLANCHE on 17 February 1665. She died the same year. (BD p.238)
Noël LANGLOIS, a pilot, was born in 1603, at Saint-Léonard in Normandy. He was the son of Guillaume LANGLOIS and Jeanne MILLET. He was already in Québec in 1634, since Charles LALEMENT blessed his marriage with Françoise GARNIER there on 25 July 1634. They had ten children: Robert, Marie, Anne, Marguerite, Jean, Jeanne, Elisabeth, marie, Jean and Noël. He had descendants from two of his sons, Jean and Noël. He was the first quit-rent payer of Beauport, having received the first concession of cleared land, by Giffard in 1637. His wife, Jeanne, died in 1665 and a year later in 166, he married Marie CREVET at Château-Richer. They had one daughter. Noël died at Beauport on 15 July 1684. (BD p.239)
François-Joseph LE MERCIER, SJ was born in 1604 in Paris, the son of Paul LE MERCIER, goldsmith and valet of the King's Chambers and of Marie DUJARDIN. Father LE MERCIER was ordained a priest in 1633 and arrived at Québec on 20 July 1635. Three days later he left in a canoe for Huronia, where he was minister and infirmarian under Fr. Brébeu at Ihonatiria. For the next 18 years, he spent time ministering to the Bear Nation, was in charge at Ossossané, then moved to Sainte-Marie. When the Iroquois began to undertake the systematic destruction of the Hurons from 1648 to 1649, the Jesuits were forced to abandon their residence. The priests followed the Hurons to Ahouendoé Island there they had to rebuild, clear the land, provide lodging and food and to protect thousands of refugees. That summer the Christian captains along with 300 of their people decided to go and live with the French. Father LE MERCIER contributed to the construction of the village of Trois-Rivières. He became Superior in 1653 and established the Iroquois mission of Gannentaha in 1656. He became Superior once again in 1665 and presided over the rebirth of the Jesuit missions in the west. After having been recalled to France in 1672, he was appointed in 1673 as Visitor the West Indian missions; he travelled throughout the whole area, resolving difficulties; he was then named Superior General of the missions in 1674, and remained until 1681. He died at La Martinique on 12 June 1690 at the age of 86. He wrote the Relations for 1637 and 1638. (BD pp. 249-251)
He was the officiating priest at the baptisme of Marguerite COUC, daugter of Pierre COUC and Marie MITE8MEG8K8E, on 5 June 1664 in Trois-Rivières.
Michel LENEUF du HÉRISSON was born at Caen around 1601. He arrived in New France in 1636. He had a natural child, Anne DU HÉRISSON. He settled at Trois-Rivières, entered civic life, and his brother was the governor of the post. He acquired much land. He was in a dispute with the Jesuits for having obtained a title to some land in the seigneurie of Cap-de-la-Madeleine that had been reserved by the missionaires for an Algonquin settlement. He died before 26 October 1672. (BD p. 263).
Étienne MANGOUCH, a Nipissirinian, was one of the first of his people to be baptized (a Catholic by the Jesuits)in 1644. He became the strongest supporter of the missionaires among his own peple. He was captured by the Mohawks in 1652 but escaped and was picked up on the St. Lawrence by Father Paul RAGUENEAU on his way to Montréal. He arrived at Québec in 1653. (BD pp. 278-279)
Étienne joined the tribe of Charles PACHIRINI an Algonquin, in Trois-Rivières. Charles was an Algonquin who was wounded and cared for by Jeanne MANCE at Montréal in 1643 where he was baptized there on 2 April 1643. He rejoined his people at Trois-Rivières and became the captain of the Christian Algonquins there. He received a plot next to that of the Jesuits where the church was to be built; it was known as the Pachirini fief. (BD pp. 334-335)
MANIT8EABE8ICHIT, Roch was baptized as a youngster of ony a few months on 14 November 1636. François DERRÉ de GAND was his godfather and gave him French clothing. MANITOUEABEOUICHIT made a more important contribution by putting his daughter into the care of Olivier LETARDIF who entrusted her to Guillaume HUBOU who in turn clothed her and brought her up as French. She was baptized with the name of Marie Sylvester OLIVIER. She married Martin PRÉVOST, a valent and a receiver in a store, at Québec on 3 November 1644 and they had eight children, of whom four boys left Prévost descendants. She was known by her baptismal name rather than Marie Olivier MANITOUABEOUICH (BD p. 279) or OUCHISTAOUICHKOUE. (BD p. 327)
Abraham MARTIN or L'Ecossais (the Scotsman). He was born in 1589 and died in 1664 in Québec. He was a pilot and mastre of a barque. He arrived in Québec in 1619 with his wife Marguerite LANGLOIS and his brother-in-law Pierre DESPORTES. He was sailor of his life. He was hired by the Montmorency Company, lived in Québec with his family until 1629, when he returned to France. He came back to New France in 1632, after the English occupation. He continued his career as mastr of the barque at the service of the community, as he had done for the Hundred Associates. (BD pp. 284-285)
One of his daughters, Marguerite MARTIN married Étienne RACINE on 25 May 1638. They lived on the Beaupré estate on the Chiens River. The four boys of the nine children are the source of the family name RACINE. Marguerite died in 1679 and Étienne died in 1689. (BD p. 286 & 364)
Marie MITEOUAMIGOUKOUÉ or as I prefer to spell it the algonquin way MITE8AMEG8K8E was an Algonquin who married Pierre COUC on 16 April 1657. The had seven children, of whom two were boys. Louis, who married Jeanne Quiquetigoukoué at St-François-du-Lac on 7 January 1688, was the ancestor of the Coucs, called Montour, who formed several alliances with native women. (BD p. 299)
However, Lucien Campeau reprinted a grave error made by René Jetté in his Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles du Québec des Origines à 1730.
Father Campeau wrote that Mite8meg8k8e was the "daughter of Barthélemi (?) and Carole Pachirini". Jetté mistranslated "Carolus" as "Carole" instead of "Charles", who was Mite8ameg8k8e's tribal chief at Trois-Rivières. This error has been and continues to be propagated on the internet by many researchers who use Jetté's DGFQ as their only source. Refer to the narrative above on Charles Pachirini. Suzanne Boivin Sommerville, one of our authors, wrote in the March issue about this error, as well as an error on Pierre Couc's death.
There are many Algonquins Indians, baptized as Christians by the Jesuits, metioned in the biography on pages 325 through 334. All of the names begin with the OU, which was transcribed by the Jesuits from the symbol 8. One of them is 8CHITA8ICHK8E, another name for Marie Olivier MANIT8ABE8ICH (see above). There are also many Natives listed on pages 388-400. There are several biographies listed in the Native Americans section of my website.
There are several PELLETIER: Guillaume, known as the Globetrotter and originally from Tourouvre arrived in 1641 with his wife Michelle MABILLE and two sons Guillaume, who was a donné with the Jesuists in Huronia and Jean, who also went into the services of the Jesuits for a while among the Hurons. Jean married Anne LANGLOIS at Beauport in 1649. He died at Rivière-Ouelle in 1798.
Nicolas PELLETIER arrived in 1637. He was probably the first man to whom D'Ailleboust granted a plot of land on the territory that the Jesuits wanted to keep for their converts. His wife Jeanne DE VOUSSY was condemned forhaving sold alcohol to the natives. The family was absorbed into the Native Seigneurie in 1651. (BD p. 339)
There are two PINEL: Nicolas originally from Vire, Calvados (France) arrived with is wife Madeleine MARAUD in 1650 along with their five children. He settled in the native seigneurie at Sillery. His son Gilles married Anne LEDET in 1657 at Québec. They had nine children. The family first settled in the native seigneurie, then moved to Neuville. (BD p. 350)
I'm not related to Roger WILLIAMS but he did establish, during this time frame, a new American colony, Rhode Island, my state. He was born in Wales in 1599 in Wales, did his studies in London and Cambridge. As an Anglican minister, he set out for America in 1630. He arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, with his wife. He did not get along with the authorities, so he went to Salem then to Plymouth. He became acquainted with the natives. He travelled through the woods and arrived at Narragansett Bay. He came upon a site of his choice, today's Providence. He established this colony which was profoundly religious, but was distinguised for its principles of tolerance as well as friendly rapport and cultivated friendship with the natives. He died in 1683. (BD p. 421)
I have enjoyed travelling through this era of 1602 - 1654 and recognizing some of my ancestors who worked and lived during the founding of New France and who were known by the Jesuits. I thank the Jesuit Fathers Lucien Campeau, for his original document written in French, and William Lonc for the English translation.
For anyone doing research on ancestors of the early 17th century, this book is invaluable. You can contact Steve Catlin at scatlin@pathcom.com for purchasing information.
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