American-Canadian Genealogist Issue #135

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American-Canadian
Genealogist
American-Canadian Genealogical Society – 4 Elm Street, Manchester, New Hampshire
Issue #135, Volume 39, Number 1, 2013; ISSN 1076-3902
Official Journal of American-Canadian Genealogical Society
P.O. Box 6478, Manchester, NH 03108-6478
Founded in New Hampshire in 1973
American-Canadian Genealogical Society
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Bernadette Meunier, #9489
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American-Canadian Genealogist, Vol. 39, Issue #135, 1st Quarter 2013
Table of Contents
President’s Letter
Gerard Savard, #4972 ............................................................................................................. 2
Editor’s Page
Pauline Cusson #2572 ............................................................................................................. 3
Tribute to Lucile Caron Lagasse, #2 1922-2013 ............................................................. 4
From Other Publications
Larry Autotte, #3505 ............................................................................................................... 5
From the Library Director
Jeanne Boisvert #6394........................................................................................................... 9
French-Canadians on the Move: The François Desruisseaux
Family Moves to Kansas
Don Patrie.............................................................................................................................. 10
Eastward Migration: The History of the Souviney Ancestors in Quebec
Randall Souviney .................................................................................................................. 14
Who is Marie Anne dit Gims, Jimes, Barnes, Canady, Kennedy?
Michelle Murphy #9907 and Muriel Chabot Normand #5706 ......................................... 17
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
John Barnes .......................................................................................................................... 24
French & Indian Raids in New England
Donald P. Chaput #2867 ....................................................................................................... 26
Who Was General Bernado De Galvez And Why Is He the Man We Honor With
Our Color Guard
Ron Cormier #2553 .............................................................................................................. 30
Queries and Answers
Mary Anna Paquette #2378..................................................................................................31
New Members
Bernadette Meunier #9489 .................................................................................................. 34
Important Notices ....................................................................................................................... 34
Donor’s List to the Building Fund and Financial Analysis................................................... 35
Notices
The Editor reserves the right to edit all contributions. American-Canadian Genealogist: Copyright 2013 by the American-Canadian
Genealogical Society. The journal, as a whole, is the property of the ACGS. Article contents are the responsibility of the author.
Copyright of articles belongs to the author. Statement to protect our non-profit status with the U.S. Postal Service: The AmericanCanadian Genealogist is the official quarterly publication of the ACGS. Volume number and issue number are found on the front
cover with ISSN number. The address of the Society is found on the back cover.
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President’s Letter
gsavard@comcast.net
It is with sadness that I start my president's letter with the news of the passing
of one of our co-founders, Lucille
Caron Lagasse. Lucille was 90 years
old at her passing and had lived a very
full life, being involved with local and
national politics, lovingly raising a
family and helping to nurture a small
genealogical society into a first-class
research facility. Lucille was very proud
of her French-Canadian Heritage. My
condolences to her friends and family.
She will be missed.
anniversary festivities. More details to
follow.
Like many other societies, we are facing
the challenges posed by competition from
internet resources, the expense of maintaining a facility and the challenge of acquiring new resources that will continue
to draw membership. In view of that, we
have formed a Strategic Planning Committee whose charter is to recommend
courses of action that our society should
take in order to maintain relevance to our
members. The immediate goal is to increase our membership base to assure
that we comfortably cover our fixed expenses. Among the ideas brought forth is
adding more member-accessible content
to our web site.
2013 will be a busy year for the Society. As
many of you realize, we are in the middle
of a fund-raising campaign to pay off the
necessary repairs to our building. We have
had positive responses from you, our
members, as well as local businesses and
societies. We are aggressively seeking
grants from various foundations. In the
past, we have also received generous
bequests from individuals who remembered us in their wills. Just a mention of
ACGS in an obituary can encourage others
to contribute to our continuing success.
How can you help? We are looking for
volunteers who can get involved in various projects, people who possess talents
in web design, publishing, accounting,
fundraising, organizing conferences and
many other specialized talents. It's a
great opportunity for someone who is
retired to get involved in worthwhile
projects. We have a need to bring additional members onto various committees, such as membership, the publishing of our journal and others so that we
can assure the continuity of these functions in case we lose some of our key
volunteers. I sincerely hope that you will
consider sharing your talents with us.
Please email us at acgs@acgs.org with
any thoughts, suggestions as to what
you would like to see from ACGS in the
future, talents that you possess, etc. It is
our sincere intention to continue to
serve the genealogical community well
into the future.
Final preparations for the NERGC conference are coming to an end. This very
popular genealogy conference to be held
at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester NH
on April 17-21, promises to be another
successful endeavor that ACGS is involved in. I'm hoping to see many of you
there. Please look for more details in
this journal or visit the NERGC website,
www.nergc.org.
Because of NERGC, we will not be
having a Spring Workshop day this year.
We are looking forward to our Fall
Conference however, where we will
combine featured speakers with 40th
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Editor’s Page
editor@acgs.org
It is always a challenge to begin this page,
especially in a new year. It will be especially challenging this year of our 40th
year of incorporation. We have some
great ideas for celebrating this event but
with limited funds. Unfortunately, one of
our co-founders, Lucille Caron Lagasse
#2, passed away January 15, 2013. We
will celebrate her life and monumental
contributions to this society as well. See
our tribute to her on the next page.
who are a part of his ancestry. Don does
an excellent job of compiling statistics on
the Indian raids and their captives that he
has gathered from the works of Emma
Coleman and various other well-known
authors on this subject.
It was such a pleasant surprise to hear
from a former member, Ron Cormier,
who used to live in Connecticut and
attend our conferences. Ron has written a
wonderful article on the Acadian influence in the Revolutionary War and in
particular in the Louisiana region. I find
this to be so much more informative and
understandable than when I was in
grammar school being taught American
History by French-Canadian nuns – now
there is a dichotomy! It makes a big
difference when you see History through
the life events of your own ancestors.
From the man who brought us the “Candy
Man” article in our last issue, Randall
Souviney, we have two more articles. It
was difficult to decide which one to put in
this issue. I think you’ll enjoy the one I’ve
chosen on his research trip to find his
ancestors. Look for his article on the
“King’s Daughters” in the next issue.
It is always encouraging to me when we
get new authors submitting articles for
our readers to enjoy. Library Director and
Book Reviewer, Jeanne Boisvert came
across an article in another periodical and
wrote to the author, Don Patrie. He has
graciously allowed us to reprint his article
on the migration of his ancestors to Kansas. We hope this will encourage our
readers to find out what happened to
those emigrants who did not follow the
mass-migration trend to New England. A
rich heritage developed far away from
here and we knew little about it. We tend
to forget that there was life beyond New
England even in the mid-nineteenth
century.
Our top researcher, Muriel Normand,
has been working on what began as a very
simple research task –a year ago! She and
Michelle Murphy whose line Muriel was
working on have collaborated on Part I of
a very excellent article for this issue.
Having worked with Muriel on other
research projects, I can assure you this
one will prove to be quite revealing. My
hat is off to the both of you. I know we’ll
be hearing more from Michelle and
Muriel in subsequent issues.
Our Queries Editor, Mary Anna
Paquette, has brought back some of the
older queries that she thinks may not
have been answered in the past. Perhaps,
with new resources, some of these
Queries can be answered…….. could be a
treasure trove for some of our members if
they get answered and published in our
journal.
We have a returning author - member
Don Chaput. Don is a former board
member of the Society as well. He has
submitted a very interesting article on the
New England captives brought to Canada
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Lucille Caron Lagasse, #2
Co-founder of ACGS
GOFFSTOWN, NH - Lucille Caron Lagasse, 90, of Goffstown, died Jan. 15, 2013, at her
home.
She was born the fifth of six siblings in
Manchester, Aug. 5, 1922, to Athanase and
Anna (Ducasse) Caron, of Canadian
descent. She lived through the Depression
and was a graduate of Holy Angels High
School. She was proud to be an aircraft
mechanic during World War II. She was
active in politics, serving in the state
Legislature. She ran for Congress, was
campaign manager for many governors,
New Hampshire congressmen and senators. She chaired President Ronald
Reagan's successful New Hampshire
elections.
Paulette Weaver of Kentucky, Annette
Holleran of Weare; her three sons,
Charles Lagasse of Bow, Michael
Lagasse of Weare and Richard Lagasse
of Goffstown; her beloved 12 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. We
all mourn the loss but we rejoice in her
life.
But for a happenstance 40 years ago when
Lucille’s son was a student of Professor
Roger Lawrence at St. Anselm College,
the birth of ACGS may not have occurred.
When her son went up to the Professor’s
desk to ask a question, he noticed some
genealogy charts among the Professor’s
papers. He noted that his mother had
some charts just like that. One thing led to
another and fortunately for us, Lucille,
Roger and some 60 other people became
the charter members of the AmericanCanadian Genealogical Society in
September 1973.
She was co-founder of the AmericanCanadian Genealogical Society in Manchester. She served on the board of the
New Hampshire Union Leader under
William Loeb. She championed involvement in church, school, town meetings,
and was a natural leader.
She was passionate about health and
authored a book on eating naturally. She
was a compassionate, loving wife and
mother who worked, sang and danced well
into her 80s.
As many attested at her funeral service,
Lucille was like the ‘ever-ready bunny with
sneakers.’ She just kept going. At 85 she
decided to publish a book on eating
healthy – something she always promulgated in her lifetime.
She loved to entertain friends and family,
especially cooking. She touched many lives
with her generosity, hospitality and warm
smile.
Her daughter Annette gave a beautiful
rendition of Lucille’s life as they lived it
with her. We could have sat there and
listened for hours. Never a dull moment in
the Lagasse home!
She was predeceased by her husband of 29
years, Armand J. Lagasse, in 1976.
She is survived by her two daughters,
She never missed an opportunity to encourage us to continue the work of keeping her
‘sixth’ child - the American-Canadian Genealogical Society – growing and thriving. It is an
honor to have known her. pdc
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From Other Publications
Laurent Autotte, #3505
Larry goes through each of the journals listed below looking for new publications to pass on to the
Acquisitions Committee. While he’s doing that, he also glances at the articles in each journal and
creates a list of the table of contents from each one. A nice service to keep our members informed –
thank you.
Acadian Genealogy Exchange (Newsletter)
(English) Vol. 41, October 2012
Arrival of the Acadians in Louisiana
Ancestors Found
Ile du Prince Edouard
Babin Family
Nicolaus Mius – the German Student
Mius d’Entremont Ancestry
Descendants of St. Louis, King of France
American Ancestors (New England Historic Genealogical Society)
(English) Vol. 13, No. 4
Introducing the Winthrop Fleet: Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England,
1629-1630
A Great Migration-Era Family Relic
Personal Archiving and the Genealogist
On the Trail of Treason: Peggy Shippen’s Amazing Story
The Authenticity of Joseph Ware’s Journal: A Historical Argument Revisited
Eighteenth-Century Family Histories
Ancêtre (L’) (Société de Généalogie de Québec)
(French) Vol. 39, No. 300
Gens de souche: Le Patronyme Normand
Les triplets de Beauport
Les premiers habitants de Sainte-Croix
Edmond Tessier, fils de l’ancêtre Mathurin
Robert Giffard: premier séjour en Nouvelle-France
Anglo-Normand (L’) (Bulletin de l’Association Gaspé – Jersey – Guernesey)
(French/English) Vol. 14, No. 3
La Passe Méditerranéenne
Pipon family genealogy
Au fil des ans (Société Historique de Bellchasse)
Le XXième siècle sera celui du Canada
Au fil du temps (Société d’histoire et de généalogie de Salaberry)
Les outils du charpentier
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Berkshire Genealogist (Berkshire Family History Association, Inc)
Old Fort Massachusetts
Ancestor Tables: Minnie Estella Robison; Thomas Loring Baylis
Chinook (Alberta Family Histories Society)
Discovering Cousins with Autosomal DNA Testing for Genealogy
Autosomal DNA: The New Revolution
Expanding the Concept of Family History and Relationships Through DNA
Connecticut Ancestry (Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc.)
Descendants of Abraham Bennett and his wife Christian Botsford of Newtown, CT
Early and mid-20th Century Vital Records of Norwalk: a Trio of Findings Aids
Vital Records of Greenwich, CT, 1847-1852: Overview
Births, Greenwich, CT, 1847-1852
Connecticut Genealogy News (Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc.)
Interesting Data from the 1850 Census
The Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Research Center – Full of Surprises
Profiles of Connecticut’s Civil War Veterans
Spotlight on the Town of East Hampton
Connecticut Nutmegger (The) (Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc.)
Determining the Parents of John Tyler, Born 1722/1723 in Branford, Connecticut
The Davignon/Deveneau/Devnew/Devernoe Family of New York, Massachusetts and
Connecticut: Abraham Davignon and His Descendants
Collins, McGrath and Maloney Families: From County Limerick, Ireland to Connecticut
Hartford District Probate Records from 1750 As abstracted by Lucius Barnes Barbour from
Volume 25 (1793-1800)
The Mythical Wives of Josiah Starr (1657-1716) of Danbury, Connecticut
Benedicts, Before America: What Our DNA Surprisingly Reveals: Benedict Surname DNA
Project
Interpreting a 1778 Connecticut Pay Journal Table
Dans l’Temps (Société de Généalogie Saint-Hubert)
150 ans! Un passé plein d’avenir: Paroisse Saint-Hubert 1862-2012
Échos Généalogique (Société de Généalogie des Laurentides)
Les Synnett d’Amérique (Synet, Senet, Sinotte, Synotte)
Entraide généalogique (L’) (Société de Généalogie des Cantons de l’Est)
Du nom de famille Mongrain au nom de famille Montgrand: un changement inattendu
Les Pruneau d’Amérique
Des noces d’or chez les Brassard
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Entre-Nous (Club de Généalogie de Longueuil)
Jean-Elie Gingras (1804-1891): constructeur de navires
Laurent Hise: Soldat Voltigeurs canadiens et la guerre de 1812
L’énigme Catherine Pillard et l’instruction en Nouvelle-France
L’instruction en Nouvelle-France
Generations (New Brunswick Genealogical Society)
Andrew and Abigail (Tracy) Smith
Sugarloaf Mountain of Campbellton, NB
Descendants of Thomas and Elizabeth Green, Part 1
The North Shore: Incidents in the Early History of Eastern and Northern New Brunswick,
Part 2
Heritage Summary: Charlotte County
Héritage (Société de Généalogie de la Mauricie et des Bois-Francs)
À l’origine des noms de famille [Fournier; Bernier; Bergeron]
Les dossiers: Annette Christiaansz: [Marie Anne Louise Christiansen/Christianson] Une vie
movementée
Norbert Parent, le frère de mon grand-père, est devenu un américain
Les premières femmes de la Nouvelle-France, filles à marier et filles du Roy
Javelier (Le) (Société historique de la Còte-du-Sud)
L’histoire du Lac Frontière
L’origine d’un nom: Le chemin des anglais
Lanterne (La) (Société de Généalogie de Drummondville)
Jean Rougeau et son temps (Part 1)
Mémoires (Société Généalogique Canadienne-Française)
Les origines des familles Le Neuf et Le Gardeur
L’île Sainte-Hélène es ses habitants – 17ième et 18ième siècles
L’implantation des Grégoire dans la région de Lanaudière at 18ième et au début du 19ième
siècle
Généalogie et heritage de la famille Vanier
Une lignée agnatique Saint-Amant
Sur la piste de John, Irénée et Émile Lessard
Michigan’s Habitant Heritage (French Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan)
Kateri (Catherine) Tekakwitha: Her Connection to Inhabitants of Le Détroit du Lac Érié
some of the First Miracles Described as Obtained through her intercession
War of 1812 – Preludes to the War and Key Events Occurring During the War in PresentDay Michigan, Northeastern Ohio, and Essex County, Ontario – Conclusion
Petite Cote, 1749 to DRIC: The Oldest Continually Inhabited European Settlement in the
Province of Ontario: Part II, Appendix C
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Burials from L’Assomption-de-la-Pointe-de-Montréal-du-Détroit, 12 July 1800 – 27
December 1805: Part 4
Engagé Contracts to Détroit: 24 August 1712 to 2 April 1721 – Part 1
Pierre Chesne dit Saint-Onge, #1 Pierre Chesne dit Labutte (1698-1774), #2 Pierre Chesne
dit Labutte (1729-1804), #3 Pierre Chesne dit Labutte (1770-1813), #4 Pierre Labutte of the
Detroit River Region (1800-1879); Part II: #1 Pierre Chesne dit Labutte
Essex and Kent County, Ontario Militia Rolls for the Period 25 December 1812 to 24
January 1813
Nos Sources (Société de Généalogie de Lanaudière)
Fonds Ferland
Les chemins de la mémoire
Mont Julien Déziel
Sainte Kateri Tekakwitha
Nova Scotia Genealogist (The) (Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia)
Your Introduction to GOONS!!!
Sexuality and Family History – a Conversation?
A Genealogy Research Trip to Your Ancestral Homeland
Quarterly (French Canadian/Acadian Genealogists of Wisconsin)
What’s in a Word
Coutume de Paris
Ramures (Les) (Société de Généalogie – Les Patriotes, Inc.)
Catherine Pillard
L’adoption et la Généalogie
Les Maillou dit Desmoulins
L’harmonie Calixa-Lavallée: 102 ans d’histoire
Marie-Anne Levasseur
Revue de Salem (La) (Franco-American Institute of Salem, Inc.)
Professeur J.-N.-A. Beaudry (1863-1912)
Sent By the King (La Société des filles du roi et soldats du Carignan, Inc.)
A Journey to Québec: To understand the lives of my ancestors
The Intendant’s Gift
Jean-Baptiste Talon First Intendant of New-France – Part three
Bishop François Xavier de Laval-Montmorency
Health Care in 1665 Québec
Souvenance (La) ( Société d’Histoire et de Généalogie Maria-Chapdelaine)
L’Ancêtre Jean Baril
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Sur L’Empremier (Société Historique de la Mer Rouge)
L’atelier de pêche des Pellerin de Shédiac
La maison Hamilton
Vermont History (Vermont Historical Society)
The Narrative of the Captive, George Avery, 1780-1782
A Fire by the Pond: The British Raid in Derby, Vermont, December 27, 1813
The General Court-Martial of Charles G. Chandler
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From the Library Director
Jeanne Boisvert #6394
The following books were donated to ACGS from our base of generous members and friends.
Although they are relatively older books, it seems important to let you know we have added them to
our shelves in the Main collection. Feel free to request any information you feel may relate to your
ancestors through our Research Services.
CREDIT GUIDE FOR LOWELL, MA,
copyrighted in 1912 by the Merchants
Mercantile Co. It is an alphabetical listing of
persons and their credit ratings which was
determined by opinions of bankers, attorneys
and other businessmen of the area. Each credit
rating is also accompanied by their
occupation.
of books, farm and farm products, improvements and repairs. The report lists the Massachusetts towns in alphabetical order. The end
of the book has tables of: Statistics of Poor
Relief, including the cost to cities and towns of
supporting and relieving poor persons in
Institutions, in private families, and in their
own home.
CITY AND TOWN ALMSHOUSES and
the PAUPER ABSTRACT: published in
1913, the 34th annual report of the State Board
of Charity of Massachusetts. This book
contains the Laws relating to almshouses, such
as their inspections, management, construction, number of inmates, consumptive
inmates, defective inmates, vagrants, libraries
CITY OF LOWELL TAX LIST OF 1919:
This book contains names of residents in
alphabetical order including their personal
value. Then there is an alphabetical listing of
streets with the house # and the occupant with
the value of the building, land, and the area
with the value per foot.
[Ed. Note: while these types of books are not really of genealogical value, they do give us a snapshot
of what a typical mill town looked like in the early 20th Century in New England. We hope there is
someone out there who will be astonished to find their ancestors mentioned in one of these books.]
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French-Canadians on the Move
The François Desruisseaux Family Moves to Kansas
Donald Patrie
DPatrie@bellsouth.net
[Editor’s note: This article first appeared in Le Manousien Volume 20 Number 3 Spring 2012, the
quarterly newsletter of Les Descendants de Louis Houde et de Madeleine Boucher (1655) Inc.
Their postal address is: Case postale 10090, succ. Sainte-Foy; Québec, QC G1V 4C6 CANADA.
This newsletter is published in French and English. Their e-mail address is:
info@famillelouishoude.com. Thank you Jeanne Boisvert for spotting it and asking the author to
submit it for our journal. pdc]
On a cold December morning in 1879,
Francois Xavier Desruisseaux, along with
his wife of nearly 14 years Emilie Lavigne
and seven children were in the Grand Trunk
Railroad Station, in Montreal waiting to
board the train that would eventually take
them to Salina, Kansas.
What would make a man who had lived in
Ste-Croix for 40 years uproot himself, his
wife, and seven children for a new life in a
strange, sometimes harsh land a thousand
miles away from his native Quebec?
The answer to the question is simple; the
reason has been the same for centuries – a
need for more arable land! The population
of Quebec farmers had increased ten times
since 1763 and the land was unable to support this farming population indefinitely
on either side of the St. Lawrence River.
The result was overcrowding, overuse of
the arable lands and economic hardship
within Quebec province. It was time for
many to move on to more favorable
conditions.
The older children were helping their
mother with the small children, while their
large pieces of luggage were being loaded
in the baggage car. Smaller bags of personal items needed for the arduous trip,
would be carried on to the passenger car as
the two adults and seven children, ranging
in ages from two years to eleven years,
would require these items during their sixday trip. Among those items would be
foodstuff to help feed the nine people for
the early part of the trip. Francois knew
that there would be food vendors at most
of the train stops; he also knew such food
could be expensive and money was scarce.
By 1850, 201 French-Canadian families
had already moved South and West into
the Kankakee area of Illinois to seek more
land and a better way of life.
When the train whistle blew, the family
said their good byes to the relatives and
friends who gathered at the station to see
them off. All of the adults knew that this
was their final “adieu” as it was very
doubtful that they would see each other
again. Tears were flowing as the party of
nine boarded the train. The last whistle
blew and the train slowly pulled away from
the station. The die had been cast; there
was no turning back.
The westward move was encouraged by
French-Canadian priest, Charles
Chiniquy, after a visit to the Kankakee
area in 1851. Father Chiniquy published a
letter in several French-language newspapers in Quebec encouraging families to
move to Illinois where land was cheap and
plentiful and a “sober and religious man
can thrive.” Father Chiniquy was correct;
in general, the French-Canadian popula-
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tion was quite successful in its new
environment.
By the 1870s, the children of the early
Illinois settlers were reaching maturity
and began moving into Clay and Cloud
counties in Kansas where, in the 1870s,
160-acre plots of land were made available
by the U.S. government under the Homestead Act. People were again on the march
to obtain arable land for farming and
settlement.
family now had 320 acres of good productive farmland.
Of special interest to me, a 40-acre plot of
land, next to the Desruisseaux land was
owned by a Joseph Hayes, who married
Marie-Anne Desruisseaux, the oldest
daughter of François and Emilie, on 30
November 1891. Marie-Anne and Joseph
were my grandparents. Joseph and MarieAnne had three daughters. Edith, the middle daughter, married Ellra Patrie, and I,
Donald Patrie, was their first child.
Records show that François X. and family
arrived in Kansas on 24 December 1879,
after a long six-day train ride from
Quebec.
François lived on his farm for 13 years,
raising their 12 children, most of the children living in Cloud County for their entire
lives. After retiring from the farm,
François and Emilie moved to Clyde living
there until his death on 9 March 1920. His
wife lived another 10 years. Both are
buried in Calvary Catholic Cemetery,
Clyde, Kansas.
Although François missed the Homestead
Act of 1870, in other ways, his timing was
perfect. By 1879 passenger train travel was
possible to the new lands. Before the
advent of passenger trains, travel was
limited to horse and wagon, and travel to
Kansas would have been measured in
weeks not days. Also, freight trains
allowed more goods to be moved into the
expanding West faster and at more
reasonable prices making living easier and
cheaper. Another important factor to
French Canadians in the area was that a
Catholic Church had been built close by in
St Joseph, Kansas.
One cannot help but be impressed by our
ancestors who moved from France to
Quebec, and many onward to the United
States. These hardy souls shared two
things in common, they spoke the same
language, and they were Roman Catholic.
These bonds helped assure their success in
their new surroundings no matter where
they settled.
The patriarch of the Cloud County
Desruisseaux clan lost little time in
acquiring the land he needed to raise and
feed his family. Just four months after his
arrival, on 3 April 1880, François purchased 160 acres of land, located in Elk
Township of Cloud County, Kansas. The
land was located three miles north and one
mile west of Clyde, Kansas. The land sold
for $1,000.00 ($6.25 per acre) with
François paying down $600.00. In later
years, two plots of nearby land of 80 acres
each were purchased by E. Desruisseaux
and F. Desruisseaux, probably sons
Edward and Fred. The Desruisseaux
Their common religion was also the social
bond that held them together and gave
them a common place to meet and greet,
share news, recipes, and later a place to
educate their children.
Although these new immigrants to the
area only numbered a few hundred families, they were able to build three churches
within miles of each other in the vicinity.
Not only did they build the church proper,
but also built parish houses, and schools.
These people were cash poor, but donated
their time, labor and what little money
they could afford to erect their new
churches.
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One of the early churches named after St.
Peter was built in southwest Cloud County,
but the settlement was by-passed by the
railroad and faded into the landscape.
After the railroad was built, a new town
called Aurora was plotted and built near
the railroad site. In 1893, the Catholic
population of Aurora made up of largely
French Canadians, built a church and
apparently named it St. Peter. On Easter
Sunday in 1909, the church was destroyed
by a storm. Almost immediately, a new
church was under construction and a year
and half later the new church was completed along with a parochial school. I
believe this church is still standing but not
in use. The town has a population of less
than one hundred people.
Central Kansas. In the years following, a
wooden church, rectory, and parochial
school were established in St. Joseph. In
1910 the church burned to the ground and
nearly everything was lost in the fire. A
new brick church was built and completed
in 1911. The church was one of the first, if
not the first parish established in the
Diocese of Salina, KS.
Although, this beautiful church was formally closed in June 1993, it has remained
a tourist attraction because of its architecture and beautiful stained glass windows. In December 2010, the Cloud
County Historical Society purchased the
church from the Salina Diocese. This purchase assures that there will be visitors
and events centered in the church, and the
church will be maintained to keep its
rightful place in the history of the French
Canadians in Cloud County.
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
located in Clyde, KS was built in 1905. The
church is a building of French Gothic
architecture with two towers, one large,
one smaller. It is located with two other
buildings. One is St. Ann’s school built in
1888, and the other building is a rectory
built in 1928. A church cemetery is just a
few miles away from the church. My
parents, a sister, and many of my relatives
are buried in this beautiful cemetery. The
church is still active today.
If you would like to view photographs of
the church, please go to
www.stjoeschurch.org.
[Ed. Note: Out of curiosity I was looking at
the public trees on Ancestry.com and
found a tree that included Joseph Hayes
married to Marie-Anne Desruisseaux,
however the corruption of her surname
was quite disturbing – Dreuisauch.
Looks like they were trying to sound the ‘x’
on the end of the real surname! Why they
didn’t use the Houde surname in the U.S.
leaves us with a big wonderment. According to the author, Don Patrie, they did
finally settle on the surname of
Derusseau or Derousseau. pdc]
St. Joseph’s Church in St. Joseph, Kansas
is known as the Mother Church of the
Diocese. St. Joseph Church was started in
the late 1860s when Father Joseph
Rimmele administered to the approximate 60 French-Canadian families in their
homes in St. Joseph, KS. In 1873 the
Bishop sent newly ordained Fr. Louis
Mollier, born in Savoy, France, to North
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Ancestral Line of
François-Xavier Houde dit Desruisseaux
Donald M. Patrie
Primary Person
Spouse
Marriage Date/Place
I
Louis Houde
Madeleine Boucher
Marin & Perrine Malet
12 January 1655
Québec City
II
Jacques Houde dit
Desruisseaux
M-Louise Beaudet
Jean & Marie Grandin
6 October 1686
St-Louis-de-Lotbinière
III
Charles Houde dit
Desruisseaux
Ursule Duguay
Pierre & Angèlique Delugrè
19 November 1721
St-Antoine-de-Tilly
IV
François Houde
M-Louise Bergeron
Joseph & Marie Croteau
10 January 1763
St-Antoine-de-Tilly
V
Jean-Louis Houde
M-Thérèse Coté
Jean-Baptiste & Thérèse Boucher
10 August 1802
St-Antoine-de-Tilly
VI
François-Xavier Houde
Agnès Aubin
Noel & Marguerite Bruneau
16 April 1833
Ste-Croix
VII
François-Xavier Desruisseaux
Émilie Lavigne
Charles & Olive Perreault
21 January 1868
St-Patrice-de-Tingwick
VIII
Marie-Anne Desruisseaux
Joseph Hayes
William & Eliza Ann Hainline
30 November 1891
Concordia, KS
IX
Edith Mae Hayes
Donald Maurice Patrie
Ellra Gilbert Patrie
George & Stella Cole
14 July 1921
Greenleaf, KS
X
Carmen Reynalda Magner
William & Maximina Rosario
Llamas
12 Dec 1953
Manilla, Philippines
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Eastward Migration: The History of the
Souviney Ancestors in Quebec
Randall Souviney
rsouviney@mac.com
[Ed. note: this article by Randall Souviney first appeared in: La Sève, Le Journal des Sévigny dit
Lafleur, 18 (2), July 2007; now defunct. ~pdc]
My phone rang at 3:30 a.m. and startled
me awake. Calls at this time of the night
were never good news. My mother was on
the line and she told me my Dad had
finally given in to the cancer, and could I
come home to Maine right away. I was
attending a conference in New Orleans
and in the back of my mind I expected to
get ‘the call’ in the next few weeks, but it
never comes when expected…or easy.
1982). We drove from our family home in
Dresden, Maine to Scotstown, Quebec
where my grandfather John was born. We
assumed that the family name had been
changed from Sévigny to the more
Anglicized surname of Souviney a hundred years ago, so we were looking for
evidence in local churches for Sevigny or
Sevigne surnames that might be connected to our family. Scotstown, where
my grandfather John was born, was on
the Trans-Canada railway and we discovered was also one of the primary sources
of the fine gray granite that was used in
construction throughout Quebec. We
were not able to locate the church records
in this small town and so we did not find
any evidence of John’s birth.
I arrived in Portland the next day. My
father was born on Munjoy (Mount Joy)
Hill in Portland on 23 August 1914. He
was born of immigrant parents, one
Catholic from Quebec and the other
Jewish from Poland. John Souviney is
my grandfather and Bessie Schuster is
my grandmother. I never met them. Their
marriage lasted only six years during this
turbulent time of World War I, but they
produced three children. Our family knew
little about our ancestry of either side,
except my uncle learned that their family
originally came from the Sherbrooke,
Quebec area and that we had relatives in
Portland, Maine and Hartford, Conn. I
promised my Mother at the funeral that I
would do what I could do to track down
Dad’s family tree.
We drove on to the garden city of Sherbrooke and found several Sevignys buried in St. Michael’s cemetery, but none
that seemed connected to the meager
family history that mother had collected
from our distant cousin Rose Souviney
who lived in Palm Springs, California.
Rose had spent most of her youth at the
Notre Dame Convent School in Sherbrooke, and was the only member of the
family who maintained her French fluency. We drove south through Magog,
Quebec since I had found a World War I
Registration Card for one of the Portland
Souviney men who reported his wife
was currently living in Magog, Canada.
Again, we had no luck finding any
Sevigny graves in Magog but had a wonderful visit in this lakeside resort town in
the Eastern Townships. We drove home
It was 15 years later that I finally was able
to take my mother on our search for dad’s
past in the Catholic graveyards of Sherbrooke. We were armed with my grandfather John’s death certificate (d. 1 Jun
1937 in Hartford, CT) that my mother
received after grandmother Bessie’s death
in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 20 Dec
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to Maine satisfied with our adventure, but
were still puzzled about how my Dad’s
family found their way to Maine over 100
years ago. Later I would discover that we
were very close to our ancestors’
graves…we were just one township away.
5) Joseph Edouard Sevigny & Celina
Lacroix dit Langevin (m. 19 Feb
1855, North Stukley, now Bonsecours, Quebec).
6) Joseph Andre Sevigny & MarieLea Leriger dit Laplante (m. 15
Aug 1882, Chesham, Quebec).
A year later I found online the Descendants de Jullien-Charles de Sevigne dit
Lafleur, Inc., and from their website,
Louis Richer of the Society de Genealogie de Québec. With a little help from
Ancestry.com and the U.S. Census
records, I was able to provide Mr. Richer
with the likely names of my great-grandfather and great-grandmother. He soon
discovered that the Québec marriage
index had mistakenly listed my greatgrandmother’s last name as Lachance
instead of Laplante, which is why my
mother had no luck finding their marriage record years before. Once this was
corrected, Mr. Richer quickly found my
Dad’s line back to Julien-Charles. The
following line has been documented by
Michael Sevigny and other members of
the Descendants de Julien-Charles de
Sevigne dit Lafleur, Inc., who are currently documenting the marriage records
for the entire Sevigny line (also see the
Randall Souviney Family Tree at
http:://www.ancestry.com):
7) Jean-Baptiste André Sévigny &
Bessie Shuster (m. 21 Feb 1914,
Portland, Maine).
8) Leslie John Souviney & Doris Lily
Randall (m. 1 Jun 1940, Dresden,
Maine).
9) Randall John Souviney & Stephanie Jo Mika (m. 21 April 2006,
San Diego, California).
With this new information in hand, my
wife and I traveled to Québec in December 2006 to trace the migration of my
family from Neuville and Tilly near Québec City through the Eastern Townships
to Notre Dame des Bois, on the border
with Maine. We flew to Manchester, NH
from San Diego, CA where I am a lecturer at the University of California and
Stephanie is an MRI technologist at a
private clinic. We rented a car and drove
to the historic Auberge Knowlton for our
first night. We visited the St. Benoit-duLac Abbey, a pastoral monastery complex nearby overlooking Magog Lake.
Then we drove to Notre Dame des Bois
and North Stukley (now Bonsecours)
where the local priest generously allowed
me to search the church records where I
found the baptismal record of my greatgreat grandfather Joseph André.
1) Jullien-Charles de Sevigne dit
Lafleur & Marguerite Rognon
dit Laroche (m. 18 Apr 1695,
Neuville, Quebec).
2) Antoine Sevigny & Marie
Francoise Beland (m. 10 Jan 1735,
Neuville, Quebec).
I also recently found in the Canadian
Genealogy Index a listing for Joseph
Sevigny working as a barber in
Scotstown, Quebec in 1891. This added
viability to the story since all three of
Joseph’s brothers were barbers in Portland, Maine until the 1950s. We then
drove to St-Césaire, Rouville (now
3) Joseph Sevigny & Marie-Louise
Fontaine Bienvenu (m. 27 Nov
1775, Vercheres, Quebec).
4) Pierre Sevigny & Elizabeth
Isabelle Brissett (m. 30 Sep 1811,
St. Haycinthe, Quebec).
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Chambly) and found the baptismal record
of my great-great grandfather Joseph
Edouard, and then drove further back
through time to St-Hyacinthe where
Pierre Sevigny and Elizabeth Brisset
were married in 1811 and on to StAntoine-de-Tilly. This charming village is
situated across the St. Lawrence River
from Neuville. Julien-Charles and his
family lived there for several years. In
2002, a plaque was placed at the base of
the St. Antoine de Tilly church listing
Sevigny dit Lafleur as one of the
founders.
construction crew on the Sherbrooke
Eastern Townships & Kennebec
Railroad. Curiously, two of their sons
later worked as linemen on the Portland
Terminal Railroad and the Western
Pacific Railroad, and the two other sons
became a chef (my grandfather) and a
soldier who fought in two World Wars.
Rose, their only daughter, married into
the family who owned the Levee Meat
Market in Portland and later she and her
husband started a successful plumbing
business in Palm Springs, California.
As we drove west through the Eastern
Townships, we traveled back a generation for each 50 miles we drove until we
reached Québec City. In the years after
he arrived as a soldier from France,
immigrant Julien-Charles settled south
of Québec City in Neuville and later
across the St. Lawrence in Tilly. My
grandmother, Marie-Lea, came from
similar family stock and she had a direct
line back to the immigrant Clement
Lériger dit Laplante, a French soldier
who arrived in 1685 to fight in the war
with the Iroquois Nation…but that story
is for another time.
In Québec City, the Museum of Civilization: French America Exhibit expertly
documents the 200-year ‘eastward
migration’ of French pioneers from the St.
Lawrence River to the New England border, and beyond. These settlers cleared
the primal forest to develop the pioneer
farms, mined for copper, sulfur, and
asbestos and built canals and railroad
lines throughout the region and to Portland, ME. By the middle of the 1800s, the
industrial revolution was in full bloom
and many French Canadians crossed the
border to work in the lumber industry in
Maine and the mills on every river in New
England.
This is the story of my French-Canadian
ancestors. The Souviney family now
lives in Maine, New Jersey, Maryland,
Georgia, Florida and California and
everyone is comforted to know more
about where we came from…and we hope
that by knowing this history our children
will be better able to figure out where they
are going.
Thinking back to our trip, I imagine that
our trip began in 1890 when my grandfather was born in Scotstown. My greatgrandfather Joseph André had moved
there from his family home in Notre
Dame des Bois after marrying Marie-Lea
Lériger dit Laplante. He worked as a
barber for the granite workers and the
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Who is Marie Anne dit Gims, Jimes,
Barnes, Canady, Kennedy?
Michelle Murphy #9907 in collaboration with Muriel Chabot Normand #5706
Research@acgs.org
It was a clue to the long rumored Native
American in my family – that’s what got
me started. Just like many Americans of
French-Canadian descent, I had always
been told I was part Indian, Cree in fact,
and there had even been a NativeAmerican blanket passed down, that my
father vehemently swore he saw with his
own eyes as a child. I told myself I would
look into this and do the whole “genealogy thing” just until I found that connection as that was all I was interested in.
About one and a half years later, I have
over 1,300 people in my tree and almost
as many in my husband’s tree. But have I
solved the question of my NativeAmerican heritage? With the help of the
(ACGS) the answer is, well, maybe.
Grafton, MA), probably in the late
1800s/early 1900s, and decided that
someone had to go to Quebec and see if
they could claim this land. What happened next varies depending upon who
you talk to. Some say one of the brothers
went to inquire and came back without
the land but then quietly retired. Others
say the unpaid taxes were so much on the
land that it was not worth claiming. And
yet a third version is that the Boutiette
brothers hired a trustworthy scout to go
up to Canada and inquire about the land.
But he turned out to be not so trustworthy
as they never saw him or their money
again. What all the stories have in common is that eventually the Canadian government reclaimed the land (although
Muriel of ACGS later helpfully pointed
out that the Will actually left Ann Labrie
the rents, etc. from the land and not the
land itself). Regardless of all this, I realized the brothers believed they were
related to Ann Labrie, who was mentioned in the Will, and I needed to figure
out how. The letter from my cousin also
stated an intriguing conclusion – because
the Will also mentions Barnes’ wife
Isabella (nee Johnson) in England, my
cousin was of the belief that Barnes had
a child with a Native American while in
Canada and that child was Ann Labrie.
Armed with this information and access
to my mother’s World Ancestry.com
subscription, I was off.
Luckily my mother, who is of purely
Polish descent, had developed an interest
in genealogy and had the foresight to
gather family history information from
my father’s extended family while some of
the older generation were still alive. Once
I expressed an interest, she eagerly provided me with copies of letters my great
uncle had received from a cousin who had
been researching the family history a few
decades before. Among the letters was a
Last Will and Testament from 1810 of a
British Military Officer named John
Barnes.
The letter from my cousin, which accompanied the Will, stated that John Barnes
left land in Quebec to one Ann Labrie,
wife of Felix Labrie, of the borough of
William Henry. The story goes that my
2nd great grandfather, Nelson Boutiette,
and his brothers got together one summer
in central Massachusetts (most likely
With the information provided by my
mother, I was able to trace five generations from me to a Mary Ann Labrie who
married Edward Boutiette (see Figure
below), probably in the 1850s (frustratingly, I have yet to find their marriage
record). Additional information in the
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letters from my cousin, confirmed by
Mary Ann Labrie’s 1896 death record
and the record of her second marriage in
1885, provided me with her parent’s
names – John or Felix Labrie of Canada
and Mary A. R. Cole of New York. At this
point I cannot say enough about how
wonderful the Drouin Collection is. It is a
microfilmed collection of parish records,
including French Catholic parishes in
Quebec. I was able, with relative ease, to
find the marriage of Jean Felix Labrie
and Mary Cole and his parents – Jean
Felix Labrie and Anne Kennedy. But
after that I was a bit stumped.
Figure: Pedigree chart of Mary Ann Labrie leading up to John Barnes.
Jean Felix Labrie’s (the son) mother is
listed as Anne Kennedy on his marriage
record, and on his baptismal record in
1805 as “anne fille naturel de … Jean
Barnes Dept. Quartier maitre Général”
or Anne, natural daughter (implying born
out of wedlock) of John Barnes, Dept.
Quartermaster General. On her own marriage record to Jean Felix Sr. she is listed
as “marie anne dite gims” and actually
signed her name, “Marianne Jimese”. On
her death record she is listed as Marie
Anne Barnes. We have been unable to
locate her baptismal record. So based on
these records she has been called Anne
Kennedy, Anne, natural daughter of
Jean Barnes (which connected us nicely
to John Barnes and the Will), Marianne
Jimese or Gims, and Marie Anne
Barnes.
At this point I felt I needed some help to
sort through all this to figure out who
Marie Anne Kennedy/Jimese/Barnes
was and if her mother was in fact a Native
American. That is when I contacted the
ACGS and asked them if they could help
me sort this out. This is what the
Research Department found:
---------------Since Michelle’s packet included a copy of
John Barnes’ Will, research began by
retrieving the original Drouin image of
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Marie Anne’s marriage to Jean Felix
Naud Labrie in 1805. Marie Anne had
signed the document, which implied some
degree of education as very few habitants
were literate at that time. The witnesses
were Joseph Naud Labrie, brother of
the groom and representing his father,
François Ossan, his friend, Mr. Charles
de St Ours, écuyer, Gims Simpson representing the father of the bride and
many others. Charles de St Ours signed
along with Marie Anne.
lives and for the separate use of the
survivor of them the said Ann Simpson and Ann Labrie (Marie Anne)
and her assigns during her natural
life, exclusive of their present respective or any after taken husbands and
so that they respectively by any
writing under their respective hands
may effectually dispose of the same
and so that every receipt signed by
the said Ann Simpson and Ann
Labrie alone respectively shall be an
effectual discharge for the same rents,
issues and profits from time to time
after the death of the survivor of them
the said Ann Simpson and Ann
Labrie. Upon trust for all and every
child and children of the said Ann
Labrie lawfully begotten equally to
be divided between or among them
[…]
Charles de St Ours was also mentioned
in Barnes’ Will, as shown in this excerpt:
I give and devise unto Major Charles
Saint Ours, Seignor of the Parish of
St Ours on the River Richlieu in the
Province of lower Canada in North
America, and Isaac Winsloe Clark
of Montreal in lower Canada, aforesaid Esquire, all that farm or lot of
lands belonging to me situate, lying
and being in the Parish of St Ours
aforesaid and in the parish of Sorel
(now called William Henry) in the
same Province with the dwellinghouses, outhouses, barns, stables
[etc…] To hold unto and to use of the
said Charles St Ours and Isaac
Winslow Clark, their heirs and
assigns forever. Upon Trust Nevertheless, that they, the said Charles St
Ours and Isaac Winslow Clark
and the survivor of them and his heirs
do and shall apply the rents, issues
and profits thereof in equal parts,
shared and proportions for the separate use of Ann Simpson, the wife of
James Simpson, formerly a Gunner
in my company in the Royal Artillery
aforesaid but now residing in the
Parish of Saint Ours aforesaid,
Farmer and Ann Labrie, the wife of
Felix Labrie, of the Borough of
William Henry in lower Canada
aforesaid, and their respective
assigns during their joint natural
Based on my research thus far, I wondered if Ann Simpson from the Will was
the wife of Gims Simpson, who represented the father at Marie Anne’s wedding. I also wondered if her name was
also Anne Kennedy (since Marie Anne
was sometimes referred to with the surname Kennedy) and if, in fact, she might
be Marie Anne’s mother. Certainly, there
was not enough proof yet. The Programme de recherche en démographie
historique (PRDH), which is a database of
parish record information from the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in
Quebec, yielded a Jacques Simpson
married to Marie Anne Kennedy
Canada before 1789 at an unknown
location. Although we have been unable
to locate the marriage contract, Michelle
Murphy later located the marriage at the
Anglican Christ Church in Sorel, which
reads:
March 4, 1786, Gunner James
Simpson, of the Royal Artillery, to
the widow Ann Burrows: By permission of Cpt. Barnes, his officer.
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While we do not know who Burrows is, I
was able to find information regarding
Anne’s children by James Simpson.
They had at least five children, three of
whom survived into adulthood, Elisabeth,
Louis Jacques and Pierre Simpson listing the mother in each of these baptisms
as Anne Kennedy. I also found the baptisms for the children of Marie Anne
Jimese and Jean Felix Labrie in the
hopes of finding Marie Anne’s mother
listed as a godmother. Jean Felix and
Marie Anne, or Anne, as she was more
commonly known, had at least three children: Jean Felix Labrie, born 1805 in
Sorel, died 1840 in St. Ours; Pierre
Labrie born 1808 in Sorel and believed
to have died under the name Narcisse
Labry two months later in Sorel; and
Louis Naud Labrie, born 1809 in Sorel
and died in 1889 in Worcester, MA (the
death register indicates he was 20 years
younger than he really was, but the
parent’s names – Jean F. Labrie and
Annie Barns - match up).
treal and there in black and white: …..Et
Demoiselle (Marie)Anne Kenady
majeur, demeurante en la paroisse de St
Ours, fille de Ann Kenady……elevee par
Sr. James Simson lui servant de pere…
Translated: Anne Kenady of major age,
residing in the parish of St Ours, daughter of Ann Kenady…..raised by Sr.
James Simson, he representing her
father. So Anne Kennedy was indeed
her mother; so much for the Indian!
(Although Michelle maintains that since
we do not know who Anne Kennedy was,
you never know…)
We learn from the marriage contract that
although illegitimate, John Barnes had
established guardianship for the child
(Marie Anne) he had with Anne
Kennedy to be Charles St. Ours, the
Seigneur de St. Ours and James Sawers,
a sergeant in the Artillery. It is also noted
that John Barnes had leased the land
granted to him by the Seigneur in St Ours,
to James Simson, specifically so that he
and Ann Kennedy would provide for the
child. Her dowry consisted of a good cow,
a good horse four years old, a bull or ox of
3 years, a pair of 6 month old pigs and 2
sheep that were a year old; all contributed
by James Simpson. The groom, Jean
Felix, brought several lots of land in Sorel
and on Islands in the St. Lawrence River
to the marriage and his dowry to his
future wife was two thousand pounds;
should he die first, that money would be
given to Marie Anne before any distribution to the children or others specified in
a donation or Will. All possessions were
to be shared in common.
In the course of this, I noted that not only
was a Louis Simson listed as Louis
Naud dit Labry’s godfather in 1809 in
Sorel, but Louis Simpson is also mentioned as a witness to Louis Naud
Labry’s marriage in 1831 in St. Ours. In
fact, Louis Simpson is mentioned in the
marriage record as being the maternal
uncle of the groom, implying Louis
Simpson and Marie Anne, the groom’s
mother, were siblings and that perhaps
Anne Kennedy really was her mother.
At this point I was feeling pretty confident
that Marie Anne was most likely raised by
the Simpson family and that Anne
Kennedy, or the widow Burrows, was
her mother; but I felt that a look at the
contract for their marriage might yield
more definitive info. I was able to obtain
a copy of the marriage contract for Jean
Felix Neau dit Labrie and Anne
Kenady through the Archives of Mon-
Marie Anne lived a short life of approximately 28 years; she died September 27,
1810, five years into the marriage leaving
five year old Jean Felix and one year old
Louis. Following her death, on January
28, 1811, Jean Felix and James Simson
met with P.L. Planet, judge to sign a
tutelle or tutorship regarding the two
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1900; Vermont, 1760 to 1908; Massachusetts
marriages and births, 1840-1905; the Loiselle file of
Québécois marriages; the Moncton (Archdiocese)
file which contains church records of Westmorland
and Kent Counties, New Brunswick; and church
records of Charlevoix County, Québec to 1908.
Other Reference Materials
Tanguay’s Dictionnaire généalogique des familles
Canadiennes; Drouin’s Dictionnaire national des
Canadiens-français and Répertoire alphabétique
des mariages des Canadiens-français, 1760-1935;
Petit Drouin, Jetté’s Dictionnaire généalogique des
familles du Québec, Drouin Collection digital
images of original records, Arsenault’s Histoire et
généalogie des Acadiens, Bergeron’s Le grand
arrangement des Acadiens au Québec and Stephen
White’s Dictionnaire généalogique des familles
Acadiennes.
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St-Joseph, Schenectady, NY, 2,902 Marriages (28 Aug 1862 - 31 Dec 2000)
St-Raphael, Manchester, NH 2,491 Marriages (30 May 1888 - 31 Dec 2000)
St-Raphael, Manchester, NH 8,301 Baptisms (Mar 1888 - Apr 2001) 2 Vols.
St-Raphael, Manchester, NH 3,965 Burials (Mar 1888 - May 2001)
Sacred Heart, Schenectady, NY 3,750 Baptisms (25 Oct 1903-30 Jun 2001)
Sacred Heart, Schenectady, NY 2,071 Burials (Mar 1904 - Jul 2001)
St-Columba, Schenectady, NY 5,146 Baptisms (Dec 1907 - Nov 1974)
St-Columba, Schenectady, NY 2,028 Burials (May 1909 - Nov 1974)
Ste-Catherine of Siena, Manchester, NH 1,861 Marr. (Nov 1954-Dec 1999)
Ste-Catherine of Siena, Manchester, NH 5,212 Bapt. (Sep 1954-Jan 2000)
Ste-Catherine of Siena, Manchester, NH 1,787 Burials (Aug 1954-Feb 2000)
Visitation of BVM, Schuylerville, NY 3,589 Baptisms (Jan 1867-Nov 1987)
Notre-Dame de Lourdes, Schuylerville, NY 902 Marr. [Jun 1889-Dec 2001]
Notre-Dame de Lourdes, Schuylerville, NY 2,621 Bapt. [Nov 1889-Jan 2002]
Notre-Dame de Lourdes, Schuylerville, NY 1,304 Bur. [Nov 1889-Jan 2002]
Our Lady/Assumption, Rotterdam, NY 1,518 Marriages [Dec 1933-Jun 2002]
Our Lady/Assumption, Rotterdam, NY 4,406 Baptisms [Oct 1933-Jun 2002]
Our Lady/Assumption, Rotterdam, NY 1,981 Burials [Oct 1933-Jun 202]
St. Anne, Waterford, NY - 693 Marriages [Nov 1908-Jul 2002] & 791 Burials [Jan 1925- Jun 2002]
St. Anne, Waterford, NY/2,752 Baptisms [Jul 1887-Jun 2002]
St. Alphonsus, Glens Falls, NY/2,902 Marriages [Jul 1855 to Mar 2003]
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Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Holyoke, MA/ 3,409 Marriages [Jun 1890 to Jul 1991] 2 Volumes
St. François-Xavier, Nashua, NH/ 9,817 Baptisms [Jan 1885 to Feb 2003] 2 Volumes
St. François-Xavier, Nashua, NH/ 5,135 Burials [Jul 1885 to Mar 2003] 2 Volumes
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St. Peter, Farmington, NH 541 Marr; 1,492 Bapts; 487 Bur Feb 1920 - Dec 2000
St. Joseph, Cohoes, NY 14,308 Baptisms [Sep 1868 to Aug 2005] 3 Volumes
St. Paul, Hudson Falls, NY / 1,289 Marriages Dec 1883 – 20 Jun 1992
St. Paul, Hudson Falls, NY / 3,917 Baptisms Dec 1883 – 07 Jun 1992
St. Paul, Hudson Falls, NY / 2,396 Burials Dec 1883 – Jun 1992
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Manchester, NH /2,028 Marriages Dec 1911 - October 2005
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minor children. Jean Felix became the
tutor and James the subrogate tutor who
was entrusted with the value of the goods
coming to them from the death of their
mother.
appears he had a son, also named John
Barnes who was a member of the Royal
Regiment of the Artillery as well.
According to a vivid account from the
book The Life of General Sir Howard
Douglas, Bart., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., F.R.S.,
D.C.I. From His Notes, Conversations,
and Correspondence by S.W. Fullom, in
1795, a Lieutenant John Barnes was sent
from England aboard the ship Phillis to
bring British soldiers, women and children to Canada. But the Phillis did not
make it to its destination as it sank off the
coast of Newfoundland. While a few survived both the shipwreck and being
stranded in the cold on an uninhabited
island, Lieutenant Barnes was not
among them, having been swept out to
sea prior to the ship sinking. It is revealed
that this Lieutenant Barnes was John
Barnes' son when Lieutenant Howard
Douglas, who survived the ordeal, meets
with Prince Edward, who commanded the
forces in Nova Scotia, to recount the tale.
The Prince, "almost immediately inquired
for Lieutenant Barnes, and learnt his
fate with the deepest pain, knowing that
he was an only son, and that the blow
would be irreparable to his father, Colonel
Barnes, to whom His Royal Highness
was much attached." In 1795, John
Barnes was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the
Quebec region.
Three days later on January 31, 1811, the
inventory after death was held. This was
particularly necessary when they had to
divide the estate between the surviving
spouse and the children, especially when
the surviving spouse was going to marry
again. Present were Jean Felix Neaud
Labrie, James Simpson, Francois Paul
Hus Cournoyer, who sold Jean Felix
several properties inventoried in this
document, and Francois Aussant, his
friend, also present at the wedding. Both
were sworn to the task of assessing the
value of all property “according to their
souls and conscience based on the current
fair value of things at the present time.”
Also present were the two notaries who
signed the document, Gamelin Gaucher
and Henry Crebassa.
The marriage contract had established a
community of all possessions at the time
of the marriage and acquired after as well;
thus this was the content of the inventory.
The inheritance rights, according to the
marriage contract, were equal and reciprocal with the children receiving half to be
managed by James Simson. All debt was
to be paid off prior to the distribution and
goods other than the land concession,
which were auctioned off to facilitate the
distribution.
Whether this child of John Barnes was
born in England or Canada, I am not yet
sure, although I did find a record of a
John Barnes being born to a Marie
Franks and John Barnes in TroisRivières, Quebec in 1780; godparents
were Henry and Elizabeth Freder. The
record does not reference a legitimate
marriage, but the baptism was in a
protestant church where that language
was not consistently used. Also, there is
no mention of John Barnes’ rank or
position, which Muriel tells me is unusual; John Barnes was a CaptainLieutenant at that time. And finally there
On February 18, 1811, Jean Felix Neaud
Labrie married Marie Josephe Renois
in Sorel. He later married Marie Reine
Guillotte in 1828, also in Sorel, before
he died in 1839.
-------------While Muriel worked on translating all
these documents, I continued to dig
around regarding John Barnes. It
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comes the question of the child’s age and
military career. If this child, born in 1780,
is in fact the same Barnes that perished
in the shipwreck, then he would have
been 15 when aboard the Phillis and
ranked as a Lieutenant. According to The
Royal Regiment of the Artillery in Quebec
City 1759-1871 by Christian Rioux, the
minimum age of entry to Woolwich Academy in England, graduation from which
was normally required for all officer candidates, was 14. The average number of
years cadets stayed at the Woolwich at
that time was two years. During that time
period, many cadets received their commissions before completing their training.
Therefore, perhaps a case could be made
for this child to have been John Barnes’
son, sent to England for training at about
14 years old, trained at Woolwich a short
while then sent back to Canada to join the
forces there. But then again, it may not be
the same individual. Hopefully more
research will provide us with additional
information. Muriel has been unable to
find any further mention of this child in
any other document.
In summary, as with most genealogical
pursuits, while I have some answersMarie Anne’s parents were Anne
Kennedy and John Barnes, I am left
with new questions – who was Ann
Kennedy and who was the mother of the
Lieutenant Barnes who died in the
shipwreck? I am very grateful for Muriel
and her hard work tracking down and
deciphering the various difficult-to-read
documents. However, I have not given up
on my search for the long-rumored
Native-American ancestor – after all,
based on the DNA analysis of my sister,
there is 0.1% Native American in her
genes – so there must be some
connection, somewhere, right?
In the next issue of the Genealogist, we
will cover the rather interesting life of
Jean Felix Labrie prior to his marriage
to Marie Anne when he was 36 years old
and that of their son Jean Felix who participated in and was arrested for high
treason during what has come to be
known as the Papineau Rebellion of
1837-38.
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Ancestral Line of
Marie Anne Kennedy dit Gimes dit Barnes
Researched by: Michelle Murphy & Muriel Normand
Direct Line
Spouse
(Parents, if known)
Marriage/Notes
I
Major General John Barnes (had Anne Kennedy
many ranks before death, this was b. 1753 d. 1826
his final) b. 1746 d. 1810
Never married to each
other
II
Marie Anne Kennedy dit Gimes, Jean Felix Naud dit Labrie b. 1768
m. 1805- St Ours,
Barnes
d. 1839 (Jean Pierre Augustin Naud dit Richelieu
b. 1782 d. 1810
Labry & Anastasie Daigle)
III
Jean Felix Nault dit Labrie
b.1805 d.1840
Mary Ann Rebecca Cole
b.bet.1804-1807 d.1883
(John Cole & Philendy Guild/Guile)
m. 1833- St Ours, Richelieu
(also in the United States
before 1827)
IV
Mary Ann Rebecca Labrie
b. 1833 d. 1896
Edward Boutiellet b. 1832 d. 1877
(Pierre Boutillet & Sophie Paquet)
m. before 1858- (unknown
location)
V
Nelson Boutiette
b. 1858 d. 1928
Eliza Harper b. 1863 d. 1941
(Joseph Harper & Mary Wood)
m. 1880- Grafton, MA
VI
Nelson Joseph Boutiette
b. 1880 d. 1945
Mary Evangeline Desmarais b. 1892
d. 1974
(Adelard Desmarais & Mary Dumas)
VII
Gloria Marguerite Boutiette
b.1923 d.1959
John Joseph Murphy b.1920 d.1988
(John J. Murphy & Marie C. Mitchell)
VIII
John Joseph Murphy
b.1946 d.2001
Halina Marie Szajna
(Antoni Szajna & Janina Socha)
m. 1971-South Grafton, MA
IX
Michelle Kathleen Murphy
Jesse Donald Edmands
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m. 2007- Worcester, MA
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
1801-1820 (Volume V)
BARNES, John, army officer and politician;
b. c. 1746, probably in Great Britain; d. 30
April 1810 in Bath, England.
promoted second captain in 1779 and captain
in December 1782, and was put in command
of an artillery company stationed in Sorel.
Even though his company returned to
England in October 1783, Barnes remained
its captain until 1794, since his work at headquarters relieved him from the obligation of
accompanying his unit.
John Barnes entered the Royal Military
Academy in Woolwich (London) as a cadet on
16 August 1760. It was at this institution that
future engineer and artillery officers of the
British army received their technical training.
The following year he received a commission
in the Royal Artillery with the lowest rank that of lieutenant fire worker. He was promoted to second lieutenant in 1771 and first
lieutenant in 1774.
In 1783, after the War of American Independence, Barnes became the person responsible
for distributing supplies to the loyalists in
that part of the province east of Cataraqui
(Kingston, Ont.). He also had to assemble
loyalists for resettlement in such areas as
Baie des Chaleurs [see Nicholas Cox] and
Cataraqui [see Michael Grass]. Furthermore
Governor Haldimand entrusted Barnes
with the responsibility for making land grants
to a group of loyalists under Alexander
White which he had authorized to settle in
the seigneury of Sorel, on the south shore of
the St Lawrence River. In September 1784, in
accordance with the governor’s instructions,
Barnes set off on a tour to inspect the loyalist settlements in the eastern part of Québec.
His mission was to prepare a list of those who
were receiving supplies, to uncover abuses,
and to pick out those making no effort to
establish themselves. This tour took a year.
On its conclusion Barnes reported the loyalists’ satisfaction but recommended that
their allowances not be cut off on 1 June 1786
but instead be continued until 1 September to
enable them to subsist until the harvest.
Barnes came to the province of Québec in
the summer of 1776 with the military reinforcements sent to counter the American invasion [see biographies of Benedict Arnold;
Richard Montgomery]. He was probably an
officer in one of the four artillery companies
that, having left Woolwich in March 1776,
were dispatched to Chambly and Montréal.
Because of the state of war, the British army
in the province was increasing its headquarters staff. As a result, on 8 September
Barnes was appointed assistant to the quartermaster general, Thomas Carleton. The
quartermaster general’s department contained a deputy quartermaster general and
three other assistants also chosen from
among the officers. Barnes, who was
responsible for the Montréal sector, had to
organize the transport of troops, arms, and
supplies and to develop plans for billeting the
soldiers.
In October 1785 Henry Hope, who held the
post of quartermaster general, became commander-in-chief of the British troops,
replacing Barrimore Matthew St Leger. He
decided to entrust management of the quartermaster general’s department to Barnes,
who was given the title of deputy quartermaster general. This post carried with it the
task of supervising the Provincial Marine and
the office of the barrack master general. After
From the autumn of 1778 Barnes carried out
the same duties at Sorel. With the arrival of
the loyalists, however, his tasks were broadened to include quartering those who were in
the armed forces and putting up those who
were simply refugees. He also had to intervene to try to settle the problems caused by
the insubordination of the self-proclaimed
minister of the Church of England in Sorel,
Thomas Charles Heslop Scott. He was
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his promotion Barnes moved to Québec,
where military headquarters were located.
England and on 15 August, after 25 years in
the colony without a break, he departed. Officially he remained on the rolls as deputy barrack master general in North America until
September 1802, but he never returned to the
Canadas. He was promoted colonel in the
army in 1802, colonel of the Invalid Battalion
of the Royal Artillery in 1803, and finally
major-general in 1809. He died the following
year in Bath.
In the first elections to the House of Assembly
of Lower Canada in 1792 Barnes was elected
for the borough of William Henry. This riding
corresponded to the town of Sorel, which
since 1787 had been called William Henry. He
represented it until the end of the first parliament in 1796. His legislative career
amounted to supporting the English party.
During this period he was promoted to major
in 1794 and lieutenant-colonel the following
year. On 21 December 1795, at Québec, he
married 21-year-old Isabella Johnson from
nearby Belmont; Anglican minister Philip
Toosey officiated and Henry Caldwell, a
friend of Barnes, served as witness.
John Barnes was one of many staff officers.
Trained in the professional corps of the
British artillery, he spent the greatest part of
his career in administration and logistics.
Since promotions in the Royal Artillery were
made according to seniority, Barnes
received them periodically, even though he
was not serving with his regiment. His rise
was swifter in wartime, and he took
advantage of the expansion of the British
Empire in North America to carve out a place
for himself in the military hierarchy.
In 1799 the post of deputy quartermaster
general was transferred to Halifax, N.S.;
Barnes resigned from office but obtained the
post of deputy barrack master general, which
allowed him to remain at Québec. In 1801, as
the senior officer there, he commanded the
garrison. That year he obtained leave to go to
Christian Rioux
ANQ-Q, CE1-61, 21 Dec. 1795; CN1-256, 19 Dec. 1795. BL, Add. MSS 21697; 21699; 21700;
21714: 331–428; 21723: 14, 298–300; 21724: 251–56, 387, 399; 21744: 82; 21796–98; 21848:
219–20 (mfm. at PAC). PAC, RG 1, L3L: 43397; RG 8, I (C ser.), 29: 56–57; 209: 62; 512: 129;
744: 57, 63–64, 72, 74. PRO, CO 42/46: f.89; 42/48: ff.201–3, 215; 42/49, 6 April 1786; WO
17/1507: ff.7–12; 1711508: ff.1–9; WO 28/6: f.183; 28/7: ff.71, 73, 90, 94 (mfm. at PAC). “Les
dénombrements de Québec” (Plessis), ANQ Rapport, 1948–49: 16, 66, 119. Kingston before War of
1812 (Preston), 1, 71. Quebec Gazette, index. F.-J. Audet et Fabre Surveyer, Les députés au
premier parl. du Bas-Canada, 17–24. Battery records of the Royal Artillery, 1716–1859, comp.
M. E. S. Laws (Woolwich, Eng., 1952), 47–83. “Collection Haldimand,” PAC Rapport, 1887: 411,
413, 433, 440–41, 469, 471–75. Desjardins, Guide parl ., 143. Kelley, “Church and state papers,”
ANQ Rapport, 1948–49: 332, 339. List of officers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery . . . , comp.
W. H. Askwith (4th ed., London, 1900), 12. “Papiers d’État,” PAC Rapport, 1890: 173–74, 278.
Quebec almanac, 1792–1801. Quebec directory, 1790, 1791. Azarie Couillard-Després, Histoire de
Sorel de ses origines à nos jours (Montréal, 1926), 127, 133, 158–61. Earle Thomas, “The loyalists
in the Montreal area, 1775–1784” (paper presented to the annual meeting of the CHA, Halifax,
1981), 18–21. Hare, “L’Assemblée législative du Bas-Canada,” RHAF, 27: 371–73.
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French & Indian Raids in New England
Donald P. Chaput, #2867
When my wife, Mary-Jean (ACGS# 3047),
and I first compared our genealogies, we
discovered that we were ninth cousins
through captives taken from the Deerfield
raid of 1704. We have since found that
between us we have six ancestors from New
England who were involved in various
raids. For me, there has always been some
nagging curiosity concerning them and
luckily I came across a book titled: New
England Captives Carried to Canada
between 1677 and 1760 during the French
and Indian Wars, authored by Emma Lewis
Coleman (the Southworth Press, Portland,
ME - 1925). Although I had heard of several
raids, e.g. Oyster River, Dover, Deerfield,
Groton, Haverhill, Wells and Exeter, I
never really had a feeling for the total
number of raids and the vast number of
people affected
One of the leading factors in the instigation
of raids by the French-allied Indians was
the establishment of the Indian Missions
whose residents wanted to please the
French officials and their sometimes notso-Christian missionaries. These missions
were:
A. those that included primarily Huron &
converted Iroquois (or Maqua)
a) Lorette (later Ancienne Lorette) Huron only, 1650
b) Caughnawaga* - Iroquois
c) Sault-au-Recollet, 1696
d) Sault St-Louis, 1696 – 1715
e) Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes, 1721
f) St-Regis, 1752
B. those that included primarily Abenakis
a) Sillery, 1637
b) St-Francois-de-Sales, 1680
c) St-Francois-du-Lac
d) Bécancour
e) Jeune Lorette, 1697
f) Norridgewock (on the Kennebec
River), 1697
Before I get into the statistics that were
pulled from the book, a little background
would be in order.
The French and Indian Wars referenced (as
they are identified in the U.S.) were:
King Philip’s War, 1677 - 1760
King William’s War, 1688 - 1697
Queen Anne’s War, 1702 - 1713
Governor Dummer’s War - 1722 1726
King George’s War - 1744 - 1748 (in
Europe: The War of Austrian
Succession)
The French and Indian War, 1755 1763 (in Europe: The Seven Year’s
War)
* Caughnawaga was actually five different locations. The first was an Indian
village attached to LaPrairie in 1667.
The next four were founded by successive moves westward of the previous
village whose land was no longer suitable to grow Indian corn in 1676, 1690,
1696 and 1716. In the last four cases the
French referred to each one as Sault StLouis and the resident Indians as the
Sault Indians.
The people taken during these wars by
either side, British or French, were not considered prisoners of war but rather “captives of border warfare” and their disposition was not regulated by treaty.
After this, all of the North American area
was British and raids were no longer
necessary.
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The dates used in this book are all Old Style
and would seem to disagree with corresponding data from Jetté [Dictionnaire
généalogique des familles du Québec des
origins à 1730 by René Jetté] or Tanguay
[Dictionnaire généalogique des familles
canadiennes by Msgr. Cyprien Tanguay],
since Britain did not convert to using New
Style dates until September of 1752. To
convert to the more accurate French dates
one would have to add 10 days to the dates
in the 1600's and 11 days to the 1700's.
tomahawking to death her kidnappers on an island in what is today
Concord, NH (now identified by an
historic marker).
Connecticut - 5 raids and had 45 captives
taken
By far the fewest of any of the affected
future states was Connecticut.
Massachusetts - 35 raids affecting 483
captives.
One of the largest raids of all was at Deerfield 29 Feb 1704 when 165 people were
taken or killed. Haverhill, MA was another
town that was hit often with devastating
effects. Some of the lesser known areas
include Billerica, Worcester, Marlborough,
Westborough, Groton, and Lunenburgh.
Many of the “redeemed”, i.e. returned
captives, petitioned the General Court
(legislature) and were given “relief” in the
form of money for their time as captives.
One of my ancestors, Mathias Farnsworth, was taken in August 1704 from
Groton. He became the progenitor of all
those of the name Phaneuf when his name
was decimated by the French clergy.
The author has also included captives taken
at unknown locations and uncertain dates
as long as a captive could be identified.
Coleman does not include raids where a
captive can neither be identified nor a fate
determined, so there is no determining how
many more captives are not included.
Several of the dates and the specific number of captives are missing because the only
record of the event is in another town’s or
the General Court’s records indicating that
the event has occurred, so these are not
included in the figures below.
Some the facts that I found to be of
interest:
the first captive was taken on 19 Sep
1677 in a combined raid on Hatfield
and Deerfield, MA;
the Otis family of Dover, NH had 3
generations taken as captives;
John Stark, the future Brigadier
General of the Revolutionary War,
was taken at Rumney on 28 Apr
1752. The Indians brought him to
the mission St-François- du-Lac
where he was sold to the French for
40 pounds. He returned home 6 Aug
of the same year;
Hannah Dustin was taken from
Haverhill, MA 15 Mar 1697. For
those who don’t know, she became a
legendary figure for her escape by
Maine - 85 raids and 798 captives.
By far the most affected colony of all, not a
single civilized location was skipped over.
All colonization east of Wells was abandoned for ten “doleful” years after the 1620 May 1690 destruction of Fort Loyal
(Falmouth) when 70 were taken. Almost
without exception the captives from Maine
had been transplants from Massachusetts,
of which it was part.
New Hampshire - 62 raids, 486 captives.
During the majority of this period the colony’s civilization extend roughly in an arc
ranging from Rochester past Rumford (now
Concord) on to Keene. The western-most
part of the state, along the Connecticut
River, was settled by pioneers expanding
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north from Massachusetts. Settlement was
so swift that the towns were not even
named but rather were given a number, the
most famous of which was #4 (Charlestown
after 1753) which was settled by the
Farnsworth brothers of Groton, MA.
pants;
massacres - usually the result of
general attacks but much more
devastating to the target town in the
number killed and taken.
For example, the numbers specified above
are no doubt substantially lower than the
actual, if all data were to be known. Many
reports of the events list youngsters simply
as “children were taken,” or the head of the
household and “family,” or sometimes
“several men were . . .” In many reports
women and children are never mentioned.
The Most Raids The total number of raids was rather surprising with almost every British wilderness
outpost being hit at one time or another, if
only by passing Indian marauders on their
way to or from a larger event. In the four
colonies above, there was a total of 186
individual raids and although the colonies
themselves did suffer, the individual
settlements were affected even more. Those
experiencing the greatest number of incursions were:
Dover, NH (including Oyster River
which was a part of Dover until
1732) had 10 raids affecting 188
people
#4, 9 raids and 39 people
Saco-Biddeford, ME - 8 raids and 37
people
Deerfield, MA 7 raids and 197 people
York, ME 7 raids and 121 people
Haverhill, MA 6 raids and 103
people
Exeter, NH 6 raids and 26 people
Wells, ME 5 raids and 179 people
Groton, MA 5 raids and 45 people
The largest raids include:
1703 Wells, 168 people
1704 Deerfield, 165
1692 York, 121
1694 Oyster River, 94
1690 Casco, 70
1690 Salmon Falls (Maine), 52
1689 Dover, 52
1689 Pemaquid (Maine), 50
1697 Haverhill, 40
1708 Haverhill, 33
1677 Deerfield, 30
The majority of the raids were done by
small Indian bands, mostly from the
French mission towns. Most of the captives
were brought to these towns. The Indians
who participated in these raids were not the
classic savages as usually depicted in
novels. Before leaving their homes, they
attended a special mass dedicated to the
success of the venture, they had communion, and they prayed. On the return trip,
they often carried women and children who
were too weak to keep up. Although it is
true that some of the captives were killed
on route to Canada, in most of the cases it
must have seemed to the Indians to be the
more practical of solutions; to leave a
weakened person alone in the wilderness
insuring them of the inevitable slow death
The Largest Raids There were many degrees of raids from:
small - small bands or even single
Indians;
general attacks - made up of both
Indians and French troops, sanctioned (sometimes even initiated) by
the Canadian Government and led
by French commanders. There were
raids where over 700 Indians &
French participated. Even small
attacks might have over 100 partici28
as opposed to the swift hatchet may have
actually seemed to them to be merciful.
members;
were redeemed by relatives or
municipalities;
converted to Catholicism and became a part of the local community (our ancestors); or
were even transported to France.
In one well-known incident, Eunice Williams (the wife of Deerfield’s minister) had
her skull split open by a killing tomahawk
blow but, this was after she had fallen
through ice into freezing waters. There was
no way she could have survived having her
wet clothing sticking and freezing to her
body.
It is not known how many of the Indian
names found in Jetté and Tanguay could
actually be those of New Englanders who
had gone native. Some of the listed Native
Americans may not have been so “native”
after all. These could be some of the “lost”
captives whose fates were never determined.
Several of these pioneers were even wellknown by their captors and had been on
friendly terms with them. In one not exceptionally uncommon incident, the Indians approached a house they had often frequented, were invited in for breakfast, and
only afterwards secured their hosts as captives. Interestingly enough, many New
Englanders were taken captive more than
once, some even three times.
The records of the Ursuline nuns at Québec
make frequent mention of young English
girls being brought to them by the Indians,
but the records only indicate their French
baptismal names (many of these girls could
no longer speak their native tongue). Trying
to associate these with specific known captives would be impossible or at the very
best mere guesswork. Some have made
guesses as to origin of specific recorded
names, e.g., Braquil or Breaky could
possibly be Brackett; or Huilier could be
Wheeler.
There were various outcomes for these
many captives:
A. some were kept by the Indians. Of
these, their fates include:
going native, i.e., voluntarily
staying with and living the Indian
lifestyle;
becoming slaves;
being adopted by the Indian
family;
escaping;
being sold to habitants for
money or liquor; or
being sold to the government for
return to New England (usually
by trade agreement with the
individual colonial legislatures).
B. of those bought by Canadians and
sometimes even Priests, they:
became servants;
joined the family as full-fledged
In some Canadian records the captivebride’s parents were listed as the Indians
who were the adoptive parents effectively
ending any further search for ancestors. In
recent months we have learned that this
could also happen in reverse - an Indian
girl being brought to civilization by a father
working in the fur trade would have her
parents recorded as the trader and his
white-wife. This would explain how my
wife, Marie-Jean’s Mitocondrial (maternal)
DNA line is Native-American.
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Who Was General Bernado De Galvez And
Why Is He the Man We Honor With Our Color Guard
Ron Cormier #2553 - RONCTCAJUN@aol.com
A Connecticut Acadian
[Ed Note: From the author, Ron Cormier….. “This article will be in the Sons of the American Revolution publication, and The Naples Crier newsletter shortly. I thought you might
find it interesting and if you wish to publish it, you may” – pdc]
Here is the rest of the story.
On May 8 1779, Spain declared war on
the British Empire. They then directed
the Governor of Louisiana, Bernado de
Galvez (1746-1786), to raise an army to
help the American Colonies in the war.
River. All of this happened in 14 days of
fighting.
Judge Gayarre in his History of
Louisiana, writing of these battles, has
this to say:
"The Militia bore themselves with
indescribable zeal in every labor,
and in the service of the artillery they
gave constant proof of a perfect discipline, and they seized many opportunities to cast themselves upon
the enemy, especially the companies
of Acadians within whose breasts
spring up memories of the cruelties
perpetrated in the last war, wherein
they were forced by the King of
England, to abandon their homes in
Newfoundland." (Sic)
General Galvez immediately asked the
Acadians from Attakapas, Opelousas and
Pointe Coupee to join in the expedition.
Over 600 answered the call as this was
an opportunity to "get back" at the
British for their treatment of the Acadians in 1755-1763.
On 27 Aug 1779 Galvez left New Orleans
to attack Fort Bute at Manchac. By the
time he was in the attack, 7 September
1779, his army had grown to 1,200 men
and he overwhelmed the fort very
quickly.
Galvez himself, says:
“The same desire shown by the
people in the city was expressed by
all the individuals in the German
coast, Opelousas, Attakapas and
Pointe Coupee.
He then took his army to Baton Rouge on
13 September and attacked the fort on 21
September. His Acadian cannoneers
were so good and accurate that the Fort
surrendered that afternoon. There were
700 British troops and 100 local Militia
who were imprisoned. As part of the surrender Galvez insisted that the forts at
Fort Pamere, Natchez, Amite River and
Thompson Creek had to surrender also
which they did when they heard of the
cannon fire that Baton Rouge had taken.
Thus the British flag disappeared as did
the troops on the entire lower Mississippi
"The zeal, the activity and the
patience shown by our Acadian
militia cannot be expressed in
words , , . considering the zeal of
these men, their spirit, their bravery, their steadiness and good will
with which they defended their
Sovereign cannot be told in ordinary
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words; and, besides, their having
scorned with utmost valor all the
risks, they were the ones who had
the hardest labor in the artillery
service, and all other hardships."
Headquarters - Before Yorktown
October 12, 1781
To Don Francisco Rendon:
"I was greatly honored with your
favor of the 2nd. It gives me
pleasure to find so good a disposition in Don Bernardo de Galvez to
concert his operations in such a
manner against the common enemy,
that the interests of his Most Catholic Majesty (Spanish King) and
those of ourselves and our ally,
France may be mutually
benefitted.
Now we move to 1780 where Galvez and
his 2,000-man army move to Fort
Charlott on the Mobile River and then
went on to take Mobile on March 14,
1780.
Galvez then regrouped and refurbished
his men before attacking the British
stronghold at Pensacola. This was to be
the most difficult test of the little army
from Louisiana. After a bitter campaign,
the Old Fort San Carlos surrendered on 9
May 1781. This opened up Florida to the
colonies and defeated the British at their
strongest point thus making all of the
Mississippi and Florida an American
foothold prior to the battle at Yorktown
that ended the war.
"I am. Sir, etc,"—George
Washington (from Writings of
George Washington, Vol. 8)
Stories of the Acadians' bravery have
appeared in histories; others were
handed down from father to son for
generations and it would be impossible to enumerate the many brave
deeds credited to them.
Of the exploits of Galvez, General
George Washington had the following
to say:
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Queries and Answers
Mary Anna Paquette, #2378
queries@acgs.org
Each member is entitled to post three (3) queries per issue. Queries should be specific
rather than a request for ‘all data’ on a particular individual, however if space is available,
we will print general queries. It is more productive if you stay with one event per query.
Q. 3754 McCuane/McKeown/McCanon/McKeane, Catherine
Seek parents of Catherine McCuane (or McKeown, McCanon, McKeane). Tradition says
she was orphaned on her way to Canada from Ireland and was raised by a French family.
She married Thomas Croteau 6 Oct 1846 at St Nicolas, Levis, Quebec. Catherine died 13
April 1898, Lewiston, ME. (Beverly Cloutier, #5554)
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SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW!
Beginning with this issue, as space permits, we will re-publish some of the old Queries that have
never been answered. Perhaps the answers were found but never sent to be published. We only ask
that if you do find the answer to someone's Query that you send it to queries@acgs.org.
(from Issue #104)
Q. 3614 SPARK-MAROTTE/MAROTTE-LABONTE
Seek marriage date and place, and parents of John Spark-Marotte of St Hilaire, Rouville, PQ and
Ursule Marotte-Labonte. Their son, Dorile Spark-Marotte (known in Troy, NH as Dosithee
Marotte) m. Agnes Lapointe 13 Jun 1875, Adamsville, Brome, PQ. (Paul J. St. Pierre, #1919)
(from Issue #105)
Q. 3623 FORTIN, Bernard-Pierre
Seek date and place of marriage, and any children of that marriage, of Bernard-Pierre Fortin
[Louis/M.-Marthe Plante, m. 17 Jun 1734, I.O.] (Mary Plante, #3621)
(from Issue #105)
Q. 3624 FORTIN, Joseph
Seek date and place of marriage, and any children of that marriage, of Joseph Fortin [Louis/M.Marthe Plante, m. 17 Jun 1734, I.O.] (Mary Plante, #3621)
(from Issue #105)
Q. 3625 DECOTEAU/DESCOTEAU
Seek birth place of Moise Decoteau and Rosana Choiniere, parents of Elzear Decoteau. Elzear
was married 18 Jun 1898, and was 21 years of age according to the marriage application. The application also states that Elzear was born in Fall River, MA about 1877. (Albert H. Roy, #0008)
(from Issue #105)
Q. 3626 WHITNEY, Elias Isaac
Seek mother of wife of Elias Isaac Whitney, b. 1 Feb 1821, Onondaga, NY. Attended Onondaga Hill
School. (Lawrence E. Zipp, #8942)
(from Issue #105)
Q. 3627 WHITNEY, Peter
Seek mother of wife of Peter Whitney, b. 1787, Poughkeepsie, NY, d. abt 1883. Mother may have
been Dutch Mohawk. (Lawrence E. Zipp, #8942)
(from Issue #105)
Q. 3629 LECLAIRE, Charles
Seek parents of Charles LeClaire who was buried at Notre Dame de Lourdes Cemetery, Schuylerville, NY on 3 Jul 1912. His wife was Marie Poisson and the family is known to have been members of St Joseph Parish, Cohoes, NY in 1879 when a child was baptized. Family lore relates that the
couple was from St John's, Canada. (Dennis Breton, #1636)
(from Issue #105)
Q. 3630 BEAULIEU/VEILLEUX
Seek date (abt 1879) and place of marriage of Eugene Beaulieu b. 29 Sep 1860, l'Isle
Verte, Rimouski [Antoine/Marcelline Pettigrew] and Marie Veilleux, b. abt 1863
[François/Elmire Levesque]. (Carole Beaulieu, #7900)
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Answers to Queries
ACGS thanks our members who are able to find answers for those searching their elusive
ancestors. It would be helpful if the source of the information was also given. PLEASE
NOTE: Any member who has access to records, or may already have the answers can send
them in. Answers are submitted to the Queries Editor to be published in the next earliest
possible Journal. It is not the responsibility of the Queries Editor to do the research of
queries.
A. 3753 Demers/Leominster, MA (Issue #134)
The name of the order is "Daughters of the Holy Spirit". I confirmed it with the current pastor,
Monsignor Goguen. I found this wonderful history of the parish here:
http://www.clicktrinity.com/library/studio216/docs/history.pdf. The order has a website:
http://www.daughtersoftheholyspirit.org/heritage.html. Interesting is in the history a Msgr. Gravel
is named pastor of the church in September 1950. (Submitted by: Dennis M. Lyddy, Leominster,
MA)
In answer to your Query in the American-Canadian Genealogist, Vol 389, Issue 134, page 182, I
have this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_the_Holy_Spirit and
http://www.clicktrinity.com/library/studio216/docs/history.pdf and
http://www.fillesstesprit.org/site/english/716.html
(Submitted by: Norman J. Landry, #3444)
In regards to question Q 3753 in the last issue of the Genealogist, the nuns from Ste. Brieuc were
the Daughters of the Holy Spirit. My aunt, Sister John, was one of them. Her habit was all white
with a giant black rosary hanging at her side. She had a black ribbon around her neck which had a
dove on it (symbol of the Holy Spirit). She was bilingual in French and English. Her obituary
follows. St. Brieuc is in the present day dept. of Cotes-du-Nord, in the old province of Brittany,
France. (Submitted by: Helen Morin Maxson, # 960)
Norwich Bulletin (Norwich, CT) Wed. March 23, 1983 Jean Dupuis
Sister Jean du Divin Coeur, D.H.S., 80, a resident of Villa St. Joseph, 55 Gilman St., Putnam, for the past
year, died Tuesday at the villa.
She was born in Attawaugan [Killingly] Jan. 12, 1903, the daughter of Joseph and Demerise (Bissonnette)
Dupuis. She professed her religious vows as a member of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit on Sept. 9, 1925 at
the Mother House, Ste. Brieuc, France.She spent most of her religious life as a teacher. Her first assignment
was in Chicopee, Mass., 1925-1926. She then went to Waterbury 1926-1934. She returned to Putnam to St.
Mary and remained there from 1934 until 1955. She then returned to Chicopee, Mass., from 1955-1957. In
1957 she returned to the Holy Spirit Provincial House in Putnam and took on the duties as a sub-mistress at
the Novitiate where she remained until 1974. In 1974 she took on the duties of stamp collecting for the
missions and was living in the community of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit in Putnam. In 1982, she went to
Villa St. Joseph as a patient.
Survivors include one sister, Mrs. Alice Morin of Norwichtown, two brothers, Cyril Dupuis of West Hartford
and Jean C. Dupuis of Southington, one nephew, the Rev. Ronald Dupuis RSH of Woonsocket, R.I., and
several nieces and one sister-in-law, Mrs. Jeanette Luzi of Bristol. The Gilmore Funeral Home, 104 Church
St., Putnam, is in charge of arrangements.
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becoming more and more useful for us to also have an e-mail contact, especially if we send you
something by regular mail and it comes back to us. Thank you.]
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Donors’ List for the Building Fund
As of December 31, 2012
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Level
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David
Geoffrion
Guimont
St. Mary’s Bank
In Memory of
plaque
stone
stone
Ralph
Ronald & Evelyn
Arthur
Fleurette
Louise
Cecile
Richard
Albert & Constance
Dorothy
Linda
Elaine
George
Robert
Janine
Robert
Beaudoin
Blais
Boudreault
Coté
Desclos
Durocher
Eastman
Hamel
Jordan
Lambert
Latour
Laurence
Maurier
Penfield
Provencher
NH Volunteers
Clifford
Anne
Craig
Raymond
5th Regiment
Abbott
Ackley
Adams
Allain
Alpine Club
Amiot
Auclair
Autotte
Babineau
Beauchesne
Bedard
Belanger
Bernard
Bissaillon
Blais
Blake
Boisclair
Booth
David
Robert
Laurent
Robert
Hector
Robert
James
Sean
Gerald M.
Gary
Roderick
Marie Rita
Cecile
Poulin
Manchester
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Nancy
Dennis Charles
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Laura
Vivian
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Lillian
Robert F.
Elaine
Gail
Albert A.
Peter
Lauria
Linda
Shirley
Brendan
Suzanne
Vivian
Lorraine
Arlene
Robert F.
Mary
Glenn
Marguerite
Chris
Albert M.
Donald
Arthur
of American
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Gilbert
Rev. Raymond
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Virginia
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Lorette
Claire
Jay
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Alan R.
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Donna
Janet M.
Carol
Leonard
Edward
Paul
Rita
Roger & Donna
Margaret S.
Georgette
June
Donalda
Jeannine T.
Elaine
Dennis
Carolyn P.
Doris
Timothy
Richard B.
Michael A.
Michele
Margaret
William
Constance
Shirley
Mark
Jeffrey
Doreen
Roy
Thelma
Last name
Grigorenko
Groulx
Guilmette
Hall
Hathaway
Hennehan
Henrick
Hoffman
Holley
Huard
Jackson
Joyal
Kramer
Kuzel
Labrie
Lamarine
Lambert
Lambert
Lanctot
Langford
Lavalliere
LeClair
Lessard
Levesque
Libovicz
Lyddy
MacDonald
Manning
Mayville
McCarthy
McCauley
McKenzie
Meeks
Mercier
Messier
Mitchell
Morand
Morin
Murphy
Nepveu
NH Ball Bearings, Inc.
Nicastro
37
Middle/Other
Swaine
Maurice
Level
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
First name
Christopher
Robert G.
Daniel
Janet
Daniel
Donna
Margaret
Gerard F.
Michael
Hazel
Donald
Christine
Robert
Eugene
Denice
Pierre
Paul
Lawrence
Elaine T.
Edward
John L.
Suzanne M.
Peter
Jeanne Marie
Trefton
John
Michael
Ky
Donald
Mary Ellen
Ann P.
Christina
Andre
Adelard
Margot
Frank A.
Stephen
Vincent F.
Charles
Kathleen Mae
Allen
John A.
Shirley
Last name
Nolin
Norbut
O'Neil
Ouellette
Pelletier
Perry
Plummer
Poirier
Potaski
Potvin
Poulin
Pude
Rainville
Rheault
Roberge
Robitaille
Salvas
Sands
Scott
Shevlin
Sirois
Slack
Smith
Soderquist
Soucy
St. Louis
Stafford, Jr.
Stratoti
Suprenant
Swansburg
Taft
Talbot
Tellier
Thisdale, Jr
Thompson
Tremblay
Trudel
Tully, II
Turner
Voisine
Voisine
Whelan
White
Middle/Other
Bartlett
Roy
38
Level
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
other
Financial Analysis of the Building Fund Drive
Launched in September of this year.
AMERICAN CANADIAN GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
CONDENSED UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
12 Months Ended December 31, 2012
1/22/2013
INCOME
STATEMENT
12/31/2012
ACTUAL YTD
12/31/2011
ACTUAL YTD
FOLIO
REVENUE:
Membership Dues
Publication Sales
Library
Income
Research Income
Conference Fees
Building Fund Donations
Prior Year Bequest
Miscellaneous Society
Income
Rental
Income
Total
Revenue
DISBURSEMENTS:
Membership Renewal Costs
Quarterly Journal Publication
Publications For Sale
Library & Research Expenses
Conferences
Occupancy Costs
Miscellaneous Expenses
Total Disbursements
Net Earned Surplus
39
$44,366
$10,591
$49,850
$18,040
$2,887
$2,387
$1,761
$22,793
$0
$3,293
$3,901
$3,878
$3,745
$26,908
$1,842
$2,607
$10,500
$11,375
$97,127
$123,597
$1,057
$20,279
$3,538
$1,794
$1,392
$32,895
$8,819
$69,774
$683
$26,351
$8,021
$1,653
$957
$46,988
$9,187
$93,840
$27,353
$29,757
A
B
C
D
A
B
C
D
Timing differences in lapsed membership dues receipts and lost members.
Non-recurring item.
Paid for 5 journals in 2011 vs. 4 in 2012. Payment timing difference.
Energy efficiency measures, milder winter and capitalized repairs. See E, below.
BALANCE SHEET
12/31/2012
ACTUAL YTD
12/31/2011
ACTUAL YTD
FOLIO
ASSETS:
Checking & Savings
Inventory for Resale
Current
Assets
$20,799
$65,989
$58,371
$65,938
$86,788
$124,309
H.Q. & Library Building
Furniture & Fixtures
Library Holdings
2012 Capital
Improvements
Fixed Assets
$230,172
$131,741
$338,429
$230,172
$131,741
$335,123
$61,550
$761,892
$0
$697,036
Total Assets
$848,680
$821,345
$0
$0
$0
$0
$848,680
$821,345
LIABILITIES:
Liabilities
Total Liabilities
EQUITY:
Net Equity & Earned
Surplus
E
2012 Capital Improvements paid from the following sources:
2011
Bequest
$26,908
2012 Fund-Raising
$22,793 continuing
Prior Years' Earned Surplus
$11,849
$61,550
40
E
E
P. 0. Box 6478
Telephone: 603-622-1554
URL: www.acgs.org
E-mail: ACGS@acgs.org
Committees and their Members
Acquisitions:
Chair: Robert Maurier, #2068
Buildings, Grounds & Safety:
Chair: Herb Boyce, #8504
Conferences:
Chair: TBD
Computer Committee:
Chair: Sam Harris, #5996
Robert Paquette, #3262
Roland Marchand, #144
Editorial Board:
Chair: Pauline Cusson, #2572
From Other Publications:
Indexing: Constance Hébert, #5175
New Members: Bernadette Meunier,
#9489
Proofreading & Queries Editor:
Mary Anna Paquette, #2378
Finance Committee:
Auditor: Norma Boyce, #7655
Budget: Pauline Cusson, #2572 and
James Gaudet, #5381
Fundraising and Grant Writing
Chair: Ron Blais, #6271
Jim Gaudet, #5381
Muriel Chabot Normand, #5706
Gerry Savard, #4972
Research Services:
Chair: Constance Hébert, #5175
Jeanne Boisvert, #6394
James Gaudet, #5381
Lorette Leafe, #5384
Robert Neveux, #4604
Library Board:
Co-Chairs: Jeanne Boisvert, #6394 and
Jackie Watson, #7227
Constance Hébert, #5175
Pauly Labbe, #4261
Janine Penfield, #9134
Mailing:
Co-Chairs: James R. Gaudet, #5381
Richard Coté, #5973
Membership:
Chair: Bernadette Meunier, #9489
Ron Blais, #6271
Publications:
Chair: Pauline Cusson, #2572
David Bonitatibus, #5508
Kathy Pasko, #7741
Julie Smith, #3147
Publicity:
Coordinator: John Cooke, #8741
Web Site Liaison:
CD For Sale:
New Publications for Sale
‘Select’ Lowell Records CD
Holy Cross, Salem, NY
Baptisms-Marriages-Burials 1862-2003
RP142 - $75.00
18,730 Marriage records
1826 - 1997
13,590 Birth records
from 1798 - 2001
686 Death records
from 1889 - 2009
CD004
St. Patrick, Cambridge, NY
Baptisms-Marriages-Burials
RP143 - $100.00
$60.00
These are selected records and they do
not encompass all the data from the
years indicated above.
Order from:
ACGS-Treasurer
P.O. Box 6478
St Joseph, Cohoes, NY
7,770 Burials 1868-2003
RP144 - $95.00
St Christopher, Nashua, NH
Baptisms-Marriages-Burials 1950-2002
RP145 - $95.00

American-Canadian Genealogist Issue #135

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