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Comment by James P. LaLone on January 20, 2016 at 6:04pm

Indian slaves in New France - http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2016/01/an_...

Comment by Couture on January 13, 2016 at 4:55pm

Going to Bed Canadian; Waking Up American

Details in the Deposition!

If you are fortunate enough to have French-Canadian or Acadian ancestors who lived in the Upper St. John River Valley on the Maine/New Brunswick border, then this episode's for you.

George Findlen returns to Maple Stars and Stripes to share the history and geography of this area, as well as to explain how to access depositions our ancestors filled out to prove land ownership. These depositions are filled with genealogy goodies!

Check it out now at www.MapleStarsandStripes.com/42

Comment by Couture on January 11, 2016 at 11:30am

Great article. Have been totally immersed in Metis research. Most U.S. citizens don't know what the word means. Most in US that are Metis, in my small sample, had no idea that they were. Good friends with last names Demers and Durand have so many Metis ancestors you cant count them all.

I am searching for the ultimate Metis research golden ring...the Metis family that Guillaume Couture started while being held at Tionnontoguen (Mohawk Okwaho Wolf Clan castle).

Comment by James P. LaLone on January 10, 2016 at 10:27am

Interesting article on Metis: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/The-Metis-question-291731281...

Comment by Couture on January 8, 2016 at 1:53pm

Wow, they think she was First Nation. Very intriguing.

Comment by James P. LaLone on January 8, 2016 at 9:18am

Regarding PILLARD see the following podted on the French-Canadian Hedritage Society of Michigan's Facebook site -

Diane Sheppard

July 26, 2014

Starting in April 2008, a number of articles have been published in English about Catherine Pillard or Le Plat, wife of Pierre Charron. Three of these articles were published in Michigan’s Habitant Heritage (two of these articles were also published in French by the SFOHG) and one for the newsletter of the Charron Family Association. The French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan feels that people should have the English language articles available to readers in one place. All of these articles have been uploaded to the French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan website on our Medical Issues, DNA Page: http://habitantheritage.org/french-canad…/medical_issues_dna

The Assocation des Charron et Ducharme has adopted a formal position on the origins of Catherine Pillard. You can read their position on their website: http://www.charron-ducharme.org/…/87-catherine-pillard-s-or…

Readers are also invited to read the articles by Suzette Leclair (http://www.geninfo.org/Pillard/DNA.htm), (http://www.geninfo.org/Pillard/index.html), (http://www.geninfo.org/Pillard/DNA-Genealogy.htm) one of the co-authors of the 2009 article.

Comment by Couture on January 8, 2016 at 4:40am

Gail Morin's works can be purchased at Amazon. I scooped them up because I think it may be a long time before the 2nd print of this book comes around and those dealers only had a handful of copies. 

Volume three was all I needed to link the Coutures to Marie Olivier Sylvestre Manitouabewich. She is the 3rd great-grandmother of wife of 3rd cousin 8x removed.

The Coutures are also linked to Madeleine dite Euphrosine Nicolet in numerous instances.   The daughter of the great Jean Nicolet was the maternal grandmother of the husband of our 9th great-grandmother.  Thank you Ancestry.com.

Comment by Jayne Ireland on January 8, 2016 at 3:29am

Thank you, William, for these web links. Catherine Pillat's name is indeed on the list of King's Daughters.

Pierre CHARON was confirmed in the Catholic church of Montreal, May 1664 [source PRDH]. So it would seem he converted in order to continue living in New France.
But there are also inconsistencies in names and ages. The 1665 marriage certificate lists couple as Pierre CHARRON and Catherine PILLIAT; 1667 Montreal census lists Pierre CARON age 31 and wife Catherine PLATTE age 18 (born abt. 1649); 1681 Longueuil census lists Pierre CHARON age 42 and wife Catherine PILLAR age 30 (born abt 1651). If these are same persons, Catherine would then have been 14-16 years old at marriage.

Martin Provost and Marie Manitouabeouich: I do not have the book by Gail Morin - is it available online?  Another source for descendants of this couple: Robert Prévost, Témoin de nos commencements. Les Éditions Archonte (available through the Association des Prévost-Provost d'Amérique, http://www.prevost-provost.org) 

Comment by Couture on January 7, 2016 at 6:00pm

To Jayne Ireland:

It would seem that a young 19 year old Catherine Pillat would seem like an orphan girl sent over by the King, but since they were sponsored by the King and were sent to live in a convent until they found a husband, do you think they would have let her marry at Protestant Calvenist?

Protestant, son of Pierre Charron, master tanner, and Judith Martin.

First mention in New France 1662

Meaux, very active city in terms of Protestantism or hundreds of Protestants were massacred during the religious wars.

1615 the Quebec branch of Pierre Charron converted to Calvinism.
Pierre Charron was therefore Calvinist.

BAPTIZED OCTOBER 28 IN PROTESTANT. SOURCE: FILE ORIGIN PRDH

Comment by Couture on January 7, 2016 at 5:35pm

Martin Prevost or Provost arrived in Quebec before 1639.  He settled and farmed near Beauport, Quebec.  He married on 3 November 1644 at Quebec.  Marie-Olivier was the daughter of Roch Manithabewich, a Huron Indian, and adoped daughter of Olivier Letardif.  Together Prevost and Marie had eight children whose descendants continue to the 21st Century.

Martin Prevost remained in Quebec.  His wife Marie-Oliver died on 10 September 1665 when her youngest child was only 3 months old.  Martin married Marie d'Abancourt two months later. They had no children.  This Marie was the widow of Jean Jolliet and of Godfroy Guillot dit Lavallee.  She died beween 1678 and 1681, and Martin remained unmarried until his death in 1691 at Beauport.  His surviving children and grandchildren all lived near Beauport.  They were farmers, laborers and merchants and appear to have assimilated into the non-Indian culture.  In the seventh generation the Prevost descendants are living in the Oregon Territory, Alberta, and Manitouabeouich, father-in-law of Martin Prevost, include Jean Baptiste Lepine, Stephen Liberty, Louis Provo, Joseph Ualois, and Joseph St. Germain. 

Introduction of First Metis Families of Quebec, Volume 3

Martin Prevost and Marie Olivier Sylvestre Manitouabeouich.

Compiled by Gail Morin

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