| Timetable of the Iroquois War |
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1608 |
Founding of Quebec. |
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1615 |
Canoe Route from Quebec via St. Lawrence, Ottawa, Matawan, and French Rivers to Georgian Bay on Lake Ontario now known to the French. |
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1633 |
Samuel de Champlain governor of New France. |
De Belmont. |
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1665 |
Jean Talon Intendant of New France. |
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1672 |
Count Frontenac governor of New France. |
De Belmont. |
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1681 |
The Iroquois attack villages of the Illinois. M. de Tonty wounded. |
De Belmont. |
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10 September 1687 |
Pierre Camus dit Lafeuillade buried in Lachine. |
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20 September 1687 |
Henry Fromageau buried in Lachine. He and nine others had been killed by the Iroquois. |
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17 November 1687 |
Louis Jets buried in Lachine. He and nine others had been killed by the Iroquois. |
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12 July 1689 |
Jeanne Danny buried. She had been killed by an Indian. |
Tanguay, vol. 1, p. 157 |
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5 August 1689 |
1500 Iroquois kill or capture more than 200 people in a raid on Lachine. |
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12 October 1689 |
Count de Frontenac arrives in Quebec. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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November 1689 |
Convoy departs to resupply Fort Frontenac for the winter. It includes four Indians who had been among the 40 tricked by M. de Denonville and sent as prisoners to France. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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December 1689 |
Sieur Zachary Jolliett brings word from Sieur de la Durantaye at Missilimakinac, Fathers Nouvel and Carheil among the Hurons and Outawas, of the rising Indian danger. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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25 January 1690 |
Sieur de Portneuf, third son of Monsieur de Becancourt, leaves Quebec with fifty Frenchmen to attack the seaboard between Boston and Pentagouet. His lieutenant is Sieur de Courtemanche, Repentigny - his cousin. They are accompanied by 60 Abenakis from Chaudiere Falls. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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28 January 1690 |
Sieur d'Hertel leads three of his sons, twenty-four Frenchmen, twenty Soccoquis Indians and five Algonquians from Three Rivers to attack a point somewhere in New York, between Boston and Orange. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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February 1690 |
Lieutenants Le Moyne de Sainte Hélène and Dailleboust de Mantet, along with Sieur Le Moyne d'Iberville and Sieur Repentigny de Montesson, lead force from Montréal to attack Orange. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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9 March 1690 |
Indian embassy arrives in Montréal with six belts of wampum to negotiate an exchange of prisoners. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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March 1690 |
The party that had gone to attack Orange returns, having sacked Corlard (Schenectady) instead. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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27 March 1690 |
Sieur d'Hertel attacks Salmon Falls. The son of M. Crevier, Seigneur of St. Francis is killed in this battle. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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Spring 1690 |
The Chevalier d'Eau leads four Indians back to Missilimakinac, accompanied by four Frenchmen and Colin. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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22 May 1690 |
M. de Louvigny leaves Montréal with Sieur Nicolas Perrot to relieve Sieur de la Durantaye at Missilimakinac. He has 143 French Voyageurs and six Indians with him. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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18 May 1690 |
Sieur de Beauvais, son of Sieur de Tilly, accompanied by Sieur de la Brosse and four other Frenchmen, joins with the Indians of the Sault and of the Mountain, under the leadership of the Great Mohawk. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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25 May 1690 |
Sieur d'Hertel joins forces with Portneuf at Koskebée. They attack the fort together and capture it on the 28th of May. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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1 June 1690 |
Sierus d'Hertel and Porneuf leave Koskebée and return to Canada. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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2 June 1690 |
M. de Louvigny stops at Les Chats and fights a party of Iroquois. After the battle, he continues to Misslimakinac while Sieur d'Hosta returns to Montréal. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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June 1690 |
Fight at Pointe aux Trembles between twenty-five Frenchmen, led by Sieur Collombet and more than twenty-five Iroquois (that many were killed). Sieur Collombet is killed in the fight, along with eleven other Frenchmen. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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4 June 1690 |
The party with the Great Mohawk meets a force of Abenaki and Algonquian Indians (friendly to the French) and they fight at Salmon river, where it falls into Lake Champlain. The Great Mohawk is killed. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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8 June 1690 |
M. de Saint-Claude, a missionary, presides over the burial of Paul Hué, a child of eight or nine, who had been killed by the indians. |
Després - Histoire de Sorel, page 69. |
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2 July 1690 |
Jean Grou, Sieur Coulombe, Jalot, Larose, Cartier, Jean Beaudoin, Pierre Masta, Isaac, de Montenon, Sieur de Larue, Guillaume Richard dit Lafleur, and Antoine Chaudillon buried on Jean Grou's "coulée". They had been killed by the Iroquois. |
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22 July 1690 |
Count de Frontenac leaves Quebec for Montréal. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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31 July 1690 |
Count de Frontenac arrives in Montréal. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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18 August 1690 |
Hundreds of Indian canoes spotted on the river raise tremendous alarms. Sieur de l'Ille Tilly arrives ahead of the canoes with the news that these canoes are filled with 500 western Indians come to trade in Montréal. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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25 August 1690 |
Grand feast held with Indians in Montréal. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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29 August 1690 |
Sieur de la Bruère brings word to Montréal of the English force sighted by Chevalier de Clermont massing on Lake Champlain. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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4 September 1690 |
Scouts having seen noone on the trails nearby, the French force leaves La Prairie de la Madeleine. The English soon after attack La Fourche. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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4 September 1690 |
Small battle at "fourche de la Prairie de la Magdeleine" takes the lives of Jean Bourbon, Jean Duval, Jean Barault, Latreille, Boileau, Larose, d'Auvergne, soldiers of Mr. le Chavalier Degrais. |
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September 1690 |
Sieur Desmarais killed by the Iroquois in front of Fort Chateauguay. |
Champginy - 1691 |
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22 September 1690 |
M. de la Mothe, accompanied by Sieur de Murat and thirty-four men, attacks some enemy Indians in their cabins near Saint Francis(?). Both M. de la Mothe and Sieur de Murat lose their lives in the action. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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1 October 1690 |
Sieur de la Durantaye arrives in Montréal with fifty-five canoes loaded with beaver pelts from Missilimakinac. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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14 October 1690 |
Count de Frontenac arrives back in Quebec, just ahead of a large English fleet. He brings 300 men with him. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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15 October 1690 |
M. de Vaudreuil, Colonel of the Regular Troops, sets out with a hundred men to attack the enemy, should they land near Quebec. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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16 October 1690 |
Phipps arrives with his 34 boats and demands the surrender of New France. Count de Frontenac declines the offer. Quebec is beseiged. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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18 October 1690 |
Alexandre-Samuel De Clermont, Joseph de la Touch, and one other killed in combat with the English. |
Register of Beauport. |
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23 October 1690 |
Alexandre-Samuel De Clermont, Joseph de la Touch, and one other buried in Beauport. |
Register of Beauport. |
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7 November 1690 |
The Te Deum is sung in Quebec and the fires of joy are lit for the Count. The English fleet sails back to the colonies. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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27 November 1690 |
"La Fleur de Mai" sails for France with Champigny's letter for 1691 on board. |
Champigny - 1691 |
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3-5 December 1690 |
Remains of several soldiers killed in a Small battle at "fourche de la Prairie de la Magdeleine" , on the 4th of September, 1690, reinterred at Laprairie. |
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16 May 1691 |
Jean Prou dit La Baguette, soldier in the company of M. de L'Angloiserie, buried in Sorel. "il a mené une vie exemplaire et la mort précipitée et violente ne lui a pas permis de recevoir d'autres sacrements que celui de l'Extrême Onction." |
Després - Histoire de Sorel |
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30 May 1691 |
Sieur de Courtemanche departs Missilimakinac for Montréal. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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18 June 1691 |
Sieur de Courtemanche arrives in Montréal. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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June 1691 |
800 Iroquois raiding around the farmlands near Montréal. Several people captured from various locations. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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7 June 1691 |
Francois Lemoyne de Bienville buried in Montréal. He was killed by the Iroquois in an encounter near Repentigny, along with Claude Ducharme, Gilles Chauvin, one of Crisafy's soldiers, de Goulétréz, a sergeant of Mr. De Muy, Charles Barbier, and Laurent Chartier. |
Tanguay, vol. 1, p. 24 Pages 134 & 135 of Bacquville de la Potherie. |
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8 June 1691 |
Claude Ducharme buried in Montréal. |
Tanguay, vol. 1, p. 207. |
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8 June 1691 |
Charles Henri Barbier dit Le Minime buried in Montréal. |
Tanguay, vol. 1, p. 24 |
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27 June 1691 |
Gourdon dit Lachasse buried in Lachine. He had been killed by the Iroquois. |
Tanguay, vol. 1, p. 279 |
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1 July 1691 |
Soleil d'Afrique arrives. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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11 August 1691 |
Enemy attacks at La Prairie de la Madeleine. Pierre Cabassier, sergent royal, Nicolas Barbier, Louis Ducharme, Francois Cibardin, Jean Leber, and Pierre Pinquet killed in the battle. According to Bacqueville de la Potherie, this is also the battle in which Saint-Cirque was killed. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 Pages 134 & 135 of Bacquville de la Potherie. |
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11 August 1691 |
Louis Ducharme buried. He had been killed by the English at the same time as Cabassier. |
Tanguay, vol. 1, p. 207 |
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11 August 1691 |
Francois Cibardin buried. He had been killed by the English at the same time as Cabassier, in a battle at Laprairie. |
Tanguay, vol. 1, p. 130 |
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19 August 1691 |
Jean Le Magnan, about forty-five years of age, buried in Sorel. He had been killed by the Iroquois. |
Després - Histoire de Sorel, page 70 |
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29 October 1691 |
Lemaistre Denis killed by the Iroquois "à la côte St. Laurent". |
Tanguay, vol. 1, p. |
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30 October 1691 |
Lemaistre Denis buried. |
Tanguay, vol. 1, p. |
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December 1691 |
22 friendly Indians attacked by 24 Iroquois around Chambly |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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Attackers chased back to Lake Champlain and captives rescued by 40 Indians from the post of Chambly. News of the attack is brought by a squaw who had escaped from the attackers. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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February 1692 |
120 French & 205 Indians under the command of Captain Dorvilliers dispatched to scour the area for signs of the enemy. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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Captain Dorvilliers scalds his foot in an accident with a kettle and turns command over to Sieur de Brancour. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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A party of 50 of the enemy met at Tonihata and defeated. 24 killed, 16 taken prisoner, 10 escape. French party loses 5 Indians, 1 Frenchman, 5 wounded. The officers in this party are de Sourdy, Dauberville, Labrosse, Forsan, Beaubassin. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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20 March 1692 |
Pierre Desroches, captain, buried in Montréal. |
P.R.D.H. - Record 49437. |
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April 1692 |
Attack by a party of Indians on a party of friendly Indians in the river St. Francis above Three Rivers. Chaudière Noire and his Onandaguas are attacking voyageurs around the portage at Long-Sault (Carillon). |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 Pages 157 & 158 of Bacquville de la Potherie. |
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Small parties of friendly Indians raiding around Orange. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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43 Frenchmen, escorted by party of 3 Frenchmen and 25 Indians under command of Sieur de la Noue, set out to warn voyageurs at Missilimakinac that they would be ambushed on their return to Montreal. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 Pages 157 & 158 of Bacquville de la Potherie. |
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Escort leaves party of 43 after they pass expected point of ambush. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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Party of 43 returns to Montreal having discovered enemy fires day after parting from the escort. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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43 dispatched again with larger escort. They discover the main body of the enemy and return without giving battle. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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Two parties sent out by other routes to warn voyageurs at Missilimakinac. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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End of May 1692 |
29 canoes of Indians come to Montreal to trade furs. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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Indians leave Montreal with escort of 36 Frenchmen to assist in passing dangerous point, which extends from within 12 leagues of Montreal to the Long Sault. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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Combined party is attacked at the entrance to Long Sault, with loss of 21 Frenchmen and 3 Indians, of whom 5 are killed and rest made prisoner. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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17 June 1692 |
DelaBussiere, sergent dans les troupes buried in Montreal. "Tue par les Iroquois au Long-Sault avec plusieurs soldats." |
P.R.D.H. - Record 49439 |
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28 June 1692 |
Word of defeat reaches Montreal. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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29 June 1692 |
130 men, including officers and soldiers, and 60 Indians under the command of Sieur de Vaudreuil, commander of the forces, dispatched to the place where the enemy struck the last blow. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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A canoe belonging to this detachment on board of which were three soldiers, upset, and one of them was drowned. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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Beginning of July |
Enemies took 2 farmers who were mowing near Fort Roland, four leagues above Montreal, and, some days after (15 July - per Michel Robert), captured nine at La Chenaie five leagues below. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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M. de Callières sends a detachment of 80 men commanded by captains Duplessis and Merville to rescue captives. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 Pages 159 of Bacquville de la Potherie. |
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15 July 1692 |
Nine settlers captured by Iroquois at La Chenaie. |
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Two settlers taken on L'Ile Jesus, near La Chenaie, and a barn full of Hay burned. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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Detachment of 80 marches against raiders, goes as far as the woods but decides not to enter forest. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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M. de Callières dispatches M. de Vaudreuil with 150 men, Frenchmen and Indians, to join the detachment; but the enemy discovers them and they retreat. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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Sieur de Vildenay, an officer of the regular army, who had been three years a prisoner among the Iroquois, escapes, bringing M. de Vaudreuil the intelligence that the enemy party numberes 150; that it was the party which lay in wait for the Voyageurs from the Outoauaca, and that they have prepared two loads of beaver above the Long Sault. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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On this report, M. de Vaudreuil returns to Montreal where M. de Callières orders 500 men, French and Indians, to go and await the enemy at the place where the beaver was concealed. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 Pages 160 of Bacquville de la Potherie. |
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12 July 1692 |
Jean Lavallée dit Petit-Jean buried. |
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12 July 1692 |
Joachim Boucher, son of Pierre Boucher and Jeanne Crevier buried. |
Tanguay - DGCF |
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22 July 1692 |
M. de Vaudreuil, with his force of 500 passes the Long Sault, and sees one of the enemy's canoes crossing the river. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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22 July 1692 |
M. de Vaudreuil lands, and leaving 100 men to guard the bateaux and canoes, sets out through the woods in search of the enemy's camp. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 Pages 160 & 161 of Bacquville de la Potherie. |
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22 July 1692 |
M. de Vaudreuil's force of 400 attacks enemy camp at night. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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The enemy loses 20 men including killed and prisoners, and 9 women and 5 children, without counting the wounded. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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12 French prisoners recovered. French losses: three officers, Sieurs Labrosse, Montesson, and Lapoterie; 3 soldiers, 4 farmers, and 4 Indians, and had six wounded. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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22 July 1692 |
Buried in Montreal: Three officers: Jean-Baptiste LeGardeur de Montesson, 26 years of age, son of Jean-Baptiste DeRepentigny and Marguerite Nicolet; Jacques Le Neuf sieur de la Potherie, son of Michel Leneuf, sieur de la Vallière; Pierre De la Brosse, Sieur de Bocage, leiutenant of marines; and four soldiers: Pierre-Nicolas Jetté, age 23, son of Urbain Jetté; Lavallée, a carpenter and soldier in the company of St-Ours; Joachim DeBoucherville, son of Pierre Boucher, the governor of Trois-Rivières. |
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Abt. the 28th of July |
Sieur de Lusignan, two other officers and thirty men were attacked, on their way from Three Rivers to Montreal, by thirty-nine of the enemy, whilst passing along the shore of the Richelieu islands, above Lake St Peter. Sieur de Lusignan and three soldiers killed and two wounded. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 Pages 161 of Bacquville de la Potherie. |
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Party that had attacked Sieur de Lusignan captures a girl of 15 or 16 years of age and breaks her mother's arm, who also would have been captured had it not been for a soldier who wounded an Indian who was taking her away. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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M. de Frontenac departs from Quebec with 200 Canadians and 40 or 50 Indians to protect the harvest. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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M. de Frontenac meets canoe manned with 10 men who brought him intelligence of the arrival at Montreal of 400 men, French and Indians, who had left Missilimakinac on the arrival of Mr de St Pierre, who had been sent thither overland. This party had set out without any peltries, intending only to attack the enemy who were waiting on the Grand river2 for their coming down. But they were no longer visible, for they composed the same party that had been beaten and routed by Sieur de Vaudreuil, so that those from Missilimakinac found only their camp, and thus proceeded to Montreal without any interruption. |
Champigny - 8 Oct 1692 |
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2 November 1692 |
M. de Saint-Claude presides over the burial of Jean Pelletier and his son Jean-Francois Pelletier in Sorel, saying "qu'ils on vécu d'une manière très chrétienne et ont donné des marques d'édification et de piété.". |
Després - Histoire de Sorel, page 70. |
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28 January 1694 |
Urbain Baudry, son of Jean Beaudreau and Marie Chauveau, buried. |
Tanguay - DGCF |
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28 October 1694 |
The remains of Marie Cadieu and at least four other victims of the Iroquois raid on Lachine buried. The remains of Noel Charmois dit Duplessis and André Danis dit Larpenty, recovered from around Noel's home, are buried. The remains of Jean Fagueret dit Petitbois, killed by the Iroquois on 5 August, 1689, are buried. |
Tanguay - DGCF Note by M. Rémy, the curé of Lachine, in the parish register. |
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31 October 1694 |
The remains of Madeleine Boursier, killed in the raid on Lachine on 5 August, 1685, recovered and buried. |
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16 September 1695 |
Francois Francoeur, sergent, buried. He was killed by the Iroquois. |
Tanguay, vol. 1, p. 241 |
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29 September 1695 |
Christophe Fébvrier killed by Iroquois. |
Michel Robert. |
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30 September 1695 |
Christophe Fébvrier buried in Boucherville. |
Michel Robert. |
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23 May 1701 |
Remains of René Chartier missed in the original sweep of his property after the Iroquois raid on Lachine of 5 August 1689 interred. |
Note by M. Rémy, the curé of Lachine, in the parish register. |
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Les corps, de ces dix infortunés ont été retrouvés, en 1687, et inhumés dans l'église de Ste. Anne du Bout de l'Ile. M. le Curé Chevrefils conserve un petit crucifix trouvé sur l'une des victimes.
La Vieux Lachine et la Massacre du 5 août 1689: 30 september 1687, 10 victims of the Iroquois at baie d'Urfé
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Les corps de ces victimes, retrouvés en 1866, on été solennellement enterrés dans l'église de Ste. Anne du Bout de l'Ile, par M. le curé Chevrefils.
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Ce jourd'hui, vingt huit octobre 1694, fête de saint Simon et saint Jude, en vertu de certain mandement de Mgr. l'Illust. et Réverendiss. Evêque de Québec, contresigné par son sécrétaire, Trouvé et scellé du sceau de ses armes, suivant les publications et annonces que nous avons faites aux prônes par deux dimanches consécutifs, nous Pierre Rémy, Curé de la paroisse des Saints Anges de la Chine, en l'île de Montréal, nous sommes transportés, à l'issue de la messe de paroisse, aux lieux où avaient été enterrés les corps de plusieurs habitans de cette pariosse, tant hommes que garçons, femmes et filles, le 5 Août, 1689, que les castes, maisons et granges de cette paroisse furent prises, saccagées et brulées par les Iroquois, pour les inhumer et transporter dans le cimetière, ce qui n'avait pu être fait plus tôt tant par les incursions des Iroquois qui ont été fréquentes depuis ce temps, que parceque leurs chairs n'étaient pas encore consommées, et pour les transporter et les enterrer dans le cimetière de cette paroisse, ce que nous avons exécuté en la présence de plusieurs de nos paroissiens:
1. Près la maison Lalande était le corps de Jean Fatueret dit Petitbois, où ayant fait des fouilles avec des pioches, proche une grosse roche nous avons trouvé tous ses os, toutes les chairs étant consommés, lesquels nous avons fait lever de la terre.
2. Sur l'habitation de feu Jean Michau nous avons trouvé les os du dit Jean Michau et de son fils Pierre, âgé de 15 ans, et d'Albert Boutin, de 18 ans, fils de sa femme.
3. Sur l'habitation de feu Noël Charmois dit Duplessis, nous avons trouvé les os du dit Charmois, d'André Danis dit Larpenty, tués et brulés.
4. Sur l'habitation d'André Rapin, nous avons trouvé dans un creux, cinq têtes, dont une de Perinne Filastreau, femme de Simon Davaux dit Bouterain, avec ses os, une tête et les os d'un garçon qu'on dit être un soldat; deux têtes d'enfants et leurs os, et la tête de Marie Cadieu, femme d'Andre Canaple dit Valtagagne, dont les os furent trouvés dans une fosse, au pied du grand bastion du fort Rolland.
Nous avons fait aussi lever de terre, sur le bord de l'eau, une partie des os de deux soldats, tués le 6 Août, 1689, dans le combat que les Iroquois livrèrent aux Français entre le fort de l'église et le fort Rolland; n'ayant pu faire inhumer le reste des os, à cause du débordement des eaux qu'il fait à présent.
5. Nous avons envoyé six hommes par delà de la petite rivière de la Présentation, sur l'habitation de feu René Chartier, où lui et ses deux fils, et un petit sauvage, leur esclave, de la nation des Panis, avaient été tués par les Iroquois, le 5 août, 1689, et où plusiers personnes nous ont, depuis leur mort, rapporté avoir vu, sur la terre, leurs têtes et leurs os; mais le herbes ayant cru depuis ce temps, ils n'ont pu en rien trouver, et le soleil étant près dese coucher, nous nous sommes retirés. Ayant fait mettre ces os dans un bateau que nous avons été recevoir, avec le surplis et l'étole noire, au son de la grosse cloche, accompagné d'acolytes en surplis, portant les chandeliers, la croix et l'eau bénite, et chantant les psaumes, suivant la coutume de la Sainte Eglise; et les ayant fait couvrir du drap mortuaire, nous les avons fait porter et mettre en dépot en l'église, pour en faire le lendemain l'inhumation dans le cimetière; ce que nous fîmes avec grande solennité, après avoir dit, dessus les os, une grande messe de leur anniversaire, et fait tout le service avec offrande du pain et du vin. Et de ce que dessus, avons fait et dressé présent procès verbal pour servir et valoir en temps et lieu, que nous avons signé et fait signer par André Rapin et Jean Paré, anciens marguilliers, et Guillaume D'Aoust, chantre de cette église.
André Rapin
Jean Paré
Guill. D'Aoust
P. Rémy, curé
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Juillet (1692).
Le 22. --- Dans une rencontre avec les Français, un nombreux parti d'Iroquois massacre trois officiers: Jean-Bte LeGardeur de Montesson, âgé de 26 ans, fils de Jean-Bte DeRepentigny et de Marguerite Nicolet; De la Poterie (1); Pierre De la Brosse (2) et quatre soldats; Pierre-Nicolas Jetté, âgé de 23 ans (3); Lavallée (4); Joachim DeBoucherville (5); Vincent.
(1) Leneuf de la Poterie, fils de Michel Leneuf, sieur de la Vallière.
(2) Sieur de Bocage, lieutenant de la marine.
(3) Fils d'Urbain Jetté, de Montréal.
(4) Menuisier, soldat de M. de St-Ours.
(5) Fils de Pierre Boucher, ancien Gouverneur des Trois-Rivières.
DIFFERENCES OF OPINION:
This exerpt from Travers Les Registres was actually posted on the Lavalley Discussion List and generated some discussion. Michel Robert, an avid genealogist and amateur historian, posted the following objections to Abbe Tanguay's interpretation of the record:
The Montesson should actually be Alexandre Le Gardeur, Sieur de Montesson, with the same parentage, buried in Montréal on the 22nd of July.
Lavallée, menusier, soldat de M. de St-Ours, was buried in Montréal on the 12th of July, 1692. This could not be him.
This identification of Joachim by Tanguay does not seem likely for two reasons. There was no Joachim DeBoucherville and the family had already been ennobled. If the gouverneur's son was in the battle, he would have been an officer. A more likely candidate is Jean-Baptiste Reguindeau dit Joachim, son of Joachim Requindeau and Madeleine Hanneton, but he was actually buried on the 12th of July, 1692.
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" ... en son vivant habitant de cette paroisse, qui fut tué par les Iroquois, sur son habitation, près de la petite rivière de la Présentation, le 5 août, 1689, jour de la destruction de Lachine. Le curé de cette paroisse, ayant appris que ces os étaient répandus sur l'habitation du dit deffunct et qu'ils n'avaient pu être jusqu'à présent ramassés, nous les avons fait recueillir et mettre en terre sainte, le dit défunt ayant toujours vécu en bon chrétien, s'étant confessé et ayant communié aux pâques de la dite anée." - La Vieux Lachine et la Massacre du 5 août 1689