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New York is full of some 70,000 British Loyalists seeking asylum.
1775
General Hospital, Montreal, death Charlotte Cote (1762-1775) age 13, slave of M. Cote, a voyageur.
Montreal, marriage, (III)-Albert Farly, Metis, b-1741, son (II)-Jacques Philippe Farly, b-1710 and (III)-Marie Joseph Dumouchel, Metis, B-1714; married 1775 (IV)-Marie Joseph Latour, b-1750.
Claire Mius, Metis, b-1775, Acadia, daughter Charles Amand Mius, Metis, b-1752, Acadia and Marie Josephte Mius, Metis; married (I)-Jean Blachard
Birth (V)-Marie Louise Prevost, Metis, died March 2, 1776, Ste Foye, daughter (IV)-Joseph Guillaume Prevost, Metis b-1734 and (III)-Marie Marguerite Marie (1708-1783)
Birth (III)-Marguerite Victoire Raizenne, Metis b-1775 daughter (I)-Ignace Raizenne, Metis and Elisabeth Steben Sauvagesse; married 1796 de Faucamp, Antoine Chevrier
Thomas Walker, a British Republican and a Montreal merchant, is selling seduction inciting the French Quebec Canadians to join in the New England Colony uprising against the British. The Roman Catholic Church, through the Bishop, decrees that anyone who takes up the rebellion will be denied the sacraments and a Christian burial. The Church has great fears that under New England control, the French language and religion will not survive. These revolutionaries are preaching rebellion everywhere and are raising hell. Even at the churches some French are praying for a New England victory, and the French loyalists consider this as a falling away from their faith.
In Acadia, Nova Scotia there are about fifteen to twenty thousand whites and about three thousand Natives. Two thirds are estimated to be Americans who had moved from the New England colonies, some as early as 1713 but most since 1758, who located about the Bay of Fundy and up the Saint John River. The remaining third are Acadian, Huguenots and Germans of Lunenburg County. About Minas Basin are some Ulstermen; originally from New Hampshire. There are some recently arrived Yorkshire settlers at Istmus, some Scots at Pictou and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and a scatter of British Army and navy veterans.
The Frobisher brothers joined James McGill and Maurice Regis Blondeau, 1734-1809, in outfitting an expedition to Grand Portage, Minnesota.
Guy Carleton is highly criticized by the British for not hunting down the fleeing New England (American) rebels, but he was well aware the Canadians would find no satisfaction in this activity and he lacked sufficient man power.
The Loyal Orange Order hated the French Catholics so much they issued an order to expel from the Order any man who married a Catholic.
January 30: Repentigny, marriage (IV)-Ignace Tessier, Metis, born February 25, 1750 St. Michel d'Yamaska son (III)-Ignace Tessier dit Lavige, Metis, b-1706 and (III)-Genevieve Forcier, b-1718; married January 30, 1775 Repentigny, Genevieve Char Dentier..
Ferbruary 15: Ste Anne de la Perade, birth (V)-Francois Baril, Metis, son (IV)-Jean Baptiste Baril and (IV)-Marie Joseph Morand, Metis
February 27: Longue Pointe. marriage (IV)-Joseph Carrier, b-1749 to (IV)-Marie Judith Baudreau, Metis, born May 2, 1754, Longue Pointe, daughter (III)-Urban Baudreau, Metis, d-1767 and (IV)-Marie Judith Dufresne, b-1731.
March 25: Montreal, birth (III)-Marie Joseph Guy, Metis, daughter (II)-Pierre Guy (1738-1812) and (IV)-Marie Joseph Hervieux, Metis (1743-1785).
April 6: Ste Anne de la Perde, death Jean Baptiste Negre, b-1770, slave Naudiere.
April 19: The New English Colonies declare war on the British and the New England colonists who have loyalty to the British. Their homes are looted, their houses and crops are burnt, and the men and boys are imprisoned- some for up to four years. Terrorism and mass discrimination, in epic proportions, grips the thirteen New England Colonies.
April 17: In Lexington, Massachusetts, the New England rebellion begins, and the rebel leader, George Washington, is determined to seize Quebec before Britain can use it as a spring board to invade the thirteen colonies. He also declares that he wants to possess all of Canada, not just an opposition to the British. Most Canadians want no part of this English family squabble over power. Most French Canadians refuse to take up arms; no more than 600 French Canadians in all of Quebec are prepared to support the British English from the American English.
May 1: In Montreal, Quebec, a bust of King George III was adorned with beads, a cross and miter inscribed with the words Pope of Canada, Sot of England. A reward of five hundred guineas did not lead to the culprit. An American description of rural French Quebec is that they are very stupid; not one in four hundred could read one word, but that they were very precise in saying their prayers, counting their beads and crossing themselves. Their fences were made of cedar stages, driven down into the ground about two inches from each other. All their farming tools and household furniture is very poor. They draw their oxen by the horn. Their houses and barns with thatched roofs are very poor. They sleep on straw beds, raised on bedsteads about two feet high. Their windows are chiefly paper but some are glass. A good chunked breed of horse, small cattle, poor hogs but very good fowls of all sorts. No chairs to set on, all set on blocks and stools. They are very kind and hospitable to us. All camped in the French homes. The army bought bread, milk, eggs, potatoes, rum, brandy, sugar, turkeys, fowls etc. Most French are indifferent to the American siege of Quebec as they didn't care if the English speaking people talked through their noses or their teeth- it was an English fight.
May 22: Jean Olivier Briand (1715-1794), Bishop of Quebec, ordered loyalty to Britain and forbade Canadian women to marry American soldiers.
June 9: Governor General Carleton declared martial law and suspended the administrative provisions of the Quebec Act. He also called for volunteers to augment the 800 British troops stationed in Quebec.
Summer: The rebel commander, George Washington, proposes a two prong attack against Quebec to restore liberty to Canada. This is an interesting remark as in no time in the last 175 years have the French had any form of liberty. Only the Coureurs des Bois, Metis and Indians have had liberty. One rebel army of a thousand men led by Richard Montgomery is to attack Montreal. The other army is to be the real surprise- an attack by land, of Quebec, being led by the rebel Benedict Arnold. Arnold also believes he is bringing liberty to the Canadians. The attack route through Maine is so difficult that even the Indians hadn't liked to use it in the past. Arnold is a good friend of Thomas Walker of Montreal- his spy.
July 9: Montreal, birth (II)-Pierre Hogue, Metis died April 23, 1697 Montreal, son (I)-Pierre Hogue dit St, Malo b-1648, and Catherine Nachita dit St. Malo (1654-1676) Puteotamite sauvagesse.
August 6: Terrebonne, birth (V)-Marie Forget, Metis daughter (IV)-Gabriel Forget (1741-1821) and (IV)-Therese Tessier Metis, b-1737.
August 27: Hopital General, Montreal, death, Charlotte Panis, b-1762, slave, Cote, a voyager.
September: The rebel Thomas Walker has raised an army of several hundred Canadians to join the invasion forces of Montgomery, and they are nearing Montreal. The only obstacle to Montreal is Fort St. John which is quickly surrounded. The Fort is only defended by a few hundred British regulars, a hand full of Canadians and 80 women and children, against some 1,200 British rebels. The siege lasts for seven weeks, and the rebel cannon finally pounds the Fort into surrender because of the state of the sick and wounded.
October 31: Lachenaye, birth (II)-Charles Maillou, Metis, son (I)-Pierre Maillou dit Larose (1779) and (IV)-Marie Rose Beauchamp, Metis b-1746.
November 3: Fort St. John surrenders, and Montreal is defenseless as most of the British Army are prisoners. The Canadians are told that they are free to stay or leave.
November 5: Fort Montreal surrenders without a fight. Some citizens welcome the rebels as liberators. Governor Guy Carleton (1724-1808), 1st Baron Dorchester and Governor of Quebec (1768-1778), flees Montreal at the last minute, headed for Quebec City. He is stunned to learn there is a second invading army heading to Quebec.
November 12: All of Canada, except Quebec City, is under American occupation.
November 12: St. Cuthbert, birth (V)-Marie Archange Prevost, Metis, died August 1777, St. Cuthbert daughter (IV)-Pierre Prevost, Metis, b-1723 and (III)-Marie Lesiege, b-1726
November 15: Benedict Arnold's Army advances on Quebec, but his Army is a wreck, having endured a passage the Indians shun. The map supplied by George Washington is 15 years old and it underestimated the distance to Quebec by 200 miles. Most of his boats and supplies are lost in the rivers. The survivors are in great hunger and are reduced to eating their soap and shoes. Five hundred men are lost before the fighting begins. Of his 1,200 man Army, less than 700 reach Quebec. None the less, Arnold demands the surrender of the Fort in the name of the rebel George Washington. Carleton is fully aware that Montgomery and his Army are also marching on Quebec, and some residents of the Fort support the rebellion. He orders all the residents who have not joined the defense of Quebec, to quit the town in four days, including wives and children, or be treated as rebels or spies. Montgomery and Arnold join forces on the Plains of Abraham to plan their siege of Quebec. Their major problem is that most of their Army had only agreed to serve until January 1 and then they were free to return to their farms and towns. A rebel deserter advised Carleton that the rebels would attack under cover on the first snowy night before January 1, 1776.
November 17: Charlottetown, P.E.I. is captured and pillaged by American privateers.
December 31: Snow falls and the attack begins on Quebec. The plan is to take the lower town first, then to rush the Fort. Montgomery attacks on one flank, leading a force of about 300 men against 30 Canadians and a few British seamen. In the driving snow storm, Montgomery never sees them. The Canadians fire one volley, cutting down Montgomery and most of his officers. The remaining men flee back to their camp. Arnold's Army of 700 attacks from the other side of Quebec town and runs a gantlet of fire from the city walls. Arnold is wounded, but his men fight on to the meeting place to join Montgomery. Carleton sends a Canadian Army to cut off Arnold's retreat, and the rebels lose the battle. The final street fighting see four hundred rebels surrender. Another 80 are dead and many of the bodies will not be found until spring.
1776
Prisque Labelle married (IV)-Marie Marguerite Botquin, Metis, daughter (III)-Joseph Botquin dit St. Andre, b-1712 and (III)-Marguerite Baudreau, Metis, b-1725.
Eustache Chartier de Lotbiniere (1716-1785), a Canadian priest, is appointed chaplain for the Canadians who joined the invading American Army. The U.S. Congress ratified his appointment on August 12, as the U.S. Army's first chaplin.
General Hospital, Montreal, death Charlotte Dauby (1752-1776) age 24, slave of M. Dauby.
General Hospital, Montreal death Claire Lemoine Despins (1769-1776) age 7, slave of Jacques Lemoine Despins.
Lazare Robichard, Metis, b-1776, Acadia, died October 16, 1834, Acadia son Pierre Robichard, b-1737 and Marie Rose Corporon, Metis, b-1752: married November 23, 1812 S.A.R., Marguerite Douchet.
In the spring, when the ice cleared the Saint Lawrence, the British ships arrived with reinforcements. The rebel George Washington's plans for the conquest of Canada has failed. The New Englanders are sharply divided over the rebellion. The revolution has become a bloody civil war. The rebels decree that any loyalty to Britain is a crime, punishable by the whipping post and the noose. It is estimated that 100,000 Loyalists are driven out of the New English's (American) Thirteen Colonies. About 50,000 refugees are fleeing north for sanctuary from persecution, the rest head south or back to Britain and some to their ancestral home country. The rebels confiscated all the lands and property of the Loyalists. Janette Shaw wrote: Farewell unhappy land for which my heart bleeds in pity, you are devoted to rune.
Acadia, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island have a population of about 20,000 of European ancestry. English Loyalists are denied the right to vote, sell land, sue debtors, and become lawyers, doctors or schoolmasters. Their homes are sacked and burned, many are tarred and feathered. Other Loyalists are beaten and lynched. Complaints of harsh treatment to George Washington received the reply that, in simple decency, all Loyalists should commit suicide.
By summer, the British and English are engaged in a bloody civil war.
January 2: I'lle Dupas, birth (III)-Marie Marguerite Chauvin, Metis son (II)-Jean Baptiste Chauvin, Metis b-1740 and Marie Agnes Denus.
March 24: IIe Dupas, birth (IV)-Marie Louise Cadet, Metia, daughter (III)-Joseph Cadet, b-1747 and (III)-Marie Charlotte Farley, Metis.
April 1: Longe Pointe, birth (III)-Marie Louise Guy, Metis, died August 31, 1776 Longe Pointe, daughter (II)-Pierre Guy (1738-1812) and (IV)-Marie Joseph Hervieux, Metis (1743-1785).
May 20: At Les Cedres, 40 miles (64 km) above Montreal, an American Army of 400 surrendered to 40 British and 200 Indians.
June 3: I'lle Dupas, marriage (II)-Joseph L'Europe, Metis, born March 23, 1735 Quebec son (I)-Pierre L'Europe and (III)-Marie Genevieve Michelon, Metis (1706-1757); married (III)-Madeleine Bouchard, Metis, daughter (II)-Jean Bouchard (1697-1747) and (III)-Marie Louise Tessier, Metis, b-1692
June 8: Arthur St. Clair (1734-1818) and his American Army are defeated at Trois Rivieres.
August 11: I'lle Dupas, death (IV)-Albert Farly, Metis, son (III)-Alberta Farly, Metis, b-1741 and (IV)-Marie Joseph Latour, b1750.
August 12: Hopital General, Montreal death Thomas Negres b-1768, slave Fortier.
September 2: Hospital General, Montreal, death Jean Negres b-1754 slave Auger a merchant.
September 20: Lachenaye, birth (V)-Marie Francoise Hubou, Metis, died September 17, 1777 Lachenaye, daughter (IV)-Charles Hubou, Metis b-1731 and (II)-Marguerite Dufour dit Latour b-1739.
September 30: Hopital General, Montreal, death, Marie Charlotte Panis, b-1752, slave, Dauby.
October 11: Governor Carleton attacked Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) at Valcour Island while chasing the Americans up Lake Champlain. Two days later, Governor Carleton defeated the American fleet at Crown Point.
December 26: Hopital General, Montreal, death, Claire Panis, b-1769, slave, Jacques Lemoine Despins.
1777
Prisque Labelle, Metis, b-1777, died November 4, 1789, Repentguy son Prisque Labelle and (IV)-Marie Marguerite Botquin, Metis.
General Hospital, Montreal death Marie Joseph Saint Luc La Corne (1747-1777) age 30, slave of M. Saint Luc La Corne .
The displaced Loyalists, with a price on their heads, form the British guerrilla militia known as the Royal Yorkers, Jessup's Loyal Americans and Butler's Rangers. They use the Indian style of hit and run warfare. The Connecticut prisons are among the worst for their lack of humane treatment.
June 24: Hopital General, Montreal, death, Marie Joseph Panis, b-1747, slave, St. Luc Lacorne (Lacorne).
June 30: John Burgoyne's (1722-1792) Army of 8,000 marched on Fort Ticonderoga, forcing the Americans to flee.
July 6: I'lle Dupas, birth (IV)-Philippit Farly, Metis, died August 30, 1777, I'lle Dupas, son (III)-Alberta Farly, Metis, b-1741 and (IV)-Marie Joseph Latour, b1750.
July 12: In Montreal the Orangemen paraded to honor King William of Orange's victory over the Catholic King James II in 1690. An Orangeman Thomas Hackett age 20 pulled a gun and was shot through the head and throat.
July 16: In Montreal, 1,200 Ontario Orangemen poured into Montreal for the funeral of Thomas Hackett. The Grand Master of the Orangemen proclaimed "We have come to protect the Orangemen of Montreal on this occasion and woe betide this city if we have to come again."
July 30: Montreal, birth (III)-Marie Louise Guy, Metis, daughter (II)-Pierre Guy (1738-1812) and (IV)-Marie Joseph Hervieux, Metis (1743-1785).
August 5: Lachenaye, birth (V)-Gabriel Forget, Metis, died November 23, 1787 Ste Anne des Plaines son (IV)-Gabriel Forget (1741-1821) and (IV)-Therese Tessier Metis, b-1737.
August 6: St. Leger besieged Oswego and Fort Stanwix and defeated the Americans at Oriskany.
September: John Butler (1725-1796) is commissioned to raise a corps of provincial rangers called Butler's Rangers.
November 10: St. Cuthbert, marriage, Alexis Houde dit Houle, b-1757, son Joseph Houde; married (V)-Marie Louise Prevost, Metis, b-February 28, 1752 Lavaltre daughter (IV)-Pierre Prevost, b-1723 and (III)-Marie Lesiege, b-1726.
1778
General Hospital, Montreal, death Joseph Bernard (1764-1778) age 14, slave of M. Bernard (English).
General Hospital, Montreal, death Marie Joseph Adhemar (1770-1778) age 8, slave of M. (III)-Jean Baptiste Adhemar b-1736.
Marie Mius, Metis, b-1778, Acadia, daughter Charles Amand Mius, Metis, b-1752, Acadia and Marie Josephte Mius, Metis; married Anselme Hatfeild.
The newspaper, The Gazette, is started in Montreal, Quebec.
The Superior Court of Quebec annulled a by-election wherein two cures had threatened to withhold the sacraments from Catholics who voted for Liberals. Rome would support this decision but still spoke out against liberalism in the Church.
January 26: Terrebonne, marriage (III)-Antoine Gauvreau, Metis born April 3, 1757 Longue Pointe son (II)-Joseph Gauvreau noye a L'Le Perrot (1726-1763) and (IV)-Marie Joseph Tessier, Metis, b-1730: (V)-Marie Marguerite Goulet, b-1756 son (IV)-Antoine Goulet, born September 28, 1784 Lachenaye.
March 3: Hopital General, Montreal, death, Joseph Panis, b-1764, slave, Bernard an Englishman.
May 21: St. Cuthbert, birth (V)-Joseph Prevost, Metis, son (IV)-Pierre Prevost, Metis, b-1723 and (III)-Marie Lesiege, b-1726
June 28: Lachenaye, birth/death (II)-Angelique Maillou, Metis, son (I)-Pierre Maillou dit Larose (1779) and (IV)-Marie Rose Beauchamp, Metis b-1746.
July 3: In Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania some English Loyalists joined forces with the Indians and massacred two hundred rebels. The English American homes, barns and crops are put to the torch. Loyalist and Rebel families make war on each other. Previous savagery is met with new savagery. The Loyalists would later blame the savage acts on the Indians.
July 12: Montreal, the Parliament passed the Crimes of Violence Prevention Act, forbidding the carrying of dangerous weapons. Montreal police arrested several Orangemen leaders for violation of the Act and kept the rank and file pinned down in the Orange Hall.
July 13: Chateau Richer, marriage (IV)-Augustin Gagnon, Metis, born January 15, 1752, St. Joachim son (III)-Jean Baptiste Gagnon, b-1698 and Cecile Kaorate, Sauvagese; married (VI)-Marie Judith Gosselin.
August 30: Hopital General, Montreal, death, Marie Joseph Panis, b-1770, slave, Jean Baptiste Adhemar.
October 5: Longue Pointe, marriage (IV)-Francois Truteau, Metis son (III)-Pierre Joseph Truteau (1722-1773) and (III)-Marie Joseph Baudreau Graveline, Metis: married (V)-Elisabeth Pepin, b-1755
October 15: St. Cuthbert, birth Marie Archange Houde, Metis, daughter Alexis Houde dit Houle , b-1757 and (V)-Marie Louise Prevost, Metis, b-1752.
November 6: Ste Anne de la Perade, birth (V)-Marie Joseph Baril, Metis, died March 21, 1780 Ste Anne de la Perade, son (IV)-Jean Baptiste Baril and (IV)-Marie Joseph Morand, Metis
1779
January 14: I'lle Dupas, birth (IV)-Pierre Albert Farly, Metis, son (III)-Alberta Farly, Metis, b-1741 and (IV)-Marie Joseph Latour, b1750.
March 9: Longue Pointe, birth (III)-Marie Joseph Guy, Metis, died September 7, 1779 Longue Pointe, daughter (II)-Pierre Guy (1738-1812) and (IV)-Marie Joseph Hervieux, Metis (1743-1785).
June 17: Francis McLean, with 650 men, established Fort Castine (Maine) to provide refuge for loyalists and to block an attack on Nova Scotia from New England.
July 9: Lachenaye, birth (II)-Antoine Maillou, Metis, son (I)-Pierre Maillou dit Larose (1779) and (IV)-Marie Rose Beauchamp, Metis b-1746.
July 25: Fort Castine is under attack by the American rebels.
August 14: George Collier (1738-1795) came to the relief of Fort Castine, destroying the American ships.
December 19/24: Ste Anne des Plaines, birth/death (V)-Angelique Forget, Metis daughter (IV)-Gabriel Forget (1741-1821) and (IV)-Therese Tessier Metis, b-1737.
December 19/22: Terrebonne, birth/death (V)-Anonyme Forget, Metis child (IV)-Gabriel Forget (1741-1821) and (IV)-Therese Tessier Metis, b-1737.
December 19/22: Terrebonne, birth/death (V)-Anonyme Forget, Metis child (IV)-Gabriel Forget (1741-1821) and (IV)-Therese Tessier Metis, b-1737.
1780
The number of illegitimate (enfant du Roi) births recorded in Quebec from 1771 to 1780, was 407, legitimes are 56,049..
Louis Villebrune, b-1780, Lower Canada married Marie Anne Zhezhegweweg Ojibwa, nation of Collets.
March 20: Montreal, birth (III)-Joseph Ignace Guy, Metis, son (II)-Pierre Guy (1738-1812) and (IV)-Marie Joseph Hervieux, Metis (1743-1785).
July 13: I'lle Dupas, death (IV)-Joseph Farly, Metis, son (III)-Alberta Farly, Metis, b-1741 and (IV)-Marie Joseph Latour, b1750.
September 3: Lachenaye, birth (II)-Marie Charlotte Maillou, Metis, daughter (I)-Pierre Maillou dit Larose (1779) and (IV)-Marie Rose Beauchamp, Metis b-1746.
October 27: Sorel, marriage (III)-Pierre Lefebvre, Metis, son (II)-Pierre Lamy (1668-1757) and Catherine Badaillac; married (II)-Marie Elisabeth Colette, b-1729
1781
General Hospital, Montreal, death Marie Adhemar (1763-1781) age 18, slave of M.A. Adhemar.
(II)-John Clarke, was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1781, died 1852 Montreal, the son of (I)-Simon Clarke England a fur trader (1806) and Ann Waldorf: married first, to a Metis named Sapphira Spence, who died shortly afterwards; and second, in 1821, to Marian Tranclar, of Neufchatel, Switzerland, by whom he had four sons and four daughters.
(VI)-Nicolas Mius, Metis, b-1783, son (V)-Paul Mius, Metis, b-1751 Port Royal, Acadia and Marie Leblanc;
Illegitimate (enfant du Roi) births in Quebec are recorded as being 413 between 1781 to 1790.
January 8: Terrebonne, marriage, (IV)-Joseph Mercan, et Mercin, b-1755, son (III)-Joseph Mercan (1732-1780) and (III)-Marie Anne Quevillon, b-1728: married (IV)-Marie Therese Rouillard, Metis, daughter (III)-Jean Baptiste Rouillard, b-1734 and (IV)-Marie Madeleine Tessier, Metis, b-1728
February 26: Terrebonne, marriage (III)-Francois Gauvreau, Metis son (II)-Joseph Gauvreau noye a L'Le Perrot (1726-1763) and (IV)-Marie Joseph Tessier, Metis, b-1730: married (IV)-Marie Louise Forgot, b-1762 daughter (IV)-Francois Forget, born September 20, 1784 Lachenaye.
May 1: Hopital General, Montreal, death, Marie Panis, b-1763, slave, M.A. Adhemar.
July 16: Terrebonne, birth, (V)-Pierre Forget, Metis son (IV)-Gabriel Forget (1741-1821) and (IV)-Therese Tessier Metis, b-1737: first married Marie Forest; second marriage August 19, 1850, Ste Anne des Plaines, Felicite Latour.
July 23: Terrebonne, marriage (IV)-Jean Truchon, b-1761 to (III)-Archange Gauvreau, Metis, born July 8, 1762 Longue Pointe, daughter (II)-Joseph Gauvreau noye a L'Le Perrot (1726-1763) and (IV)-Marie Joseph Tessier, Metis, b-1730:
August 2: Ste Foye, birth (IV)-Francois Regis Derome, Metis son (IV)-Louis Derome (1744-1781) and (IV)-Marie Elisabeth LeMarie, Metis b-1742.
August 3: St. Augustin, birth Jean Baptiste Favron, Metis son Jean Baptiste Favon and (IV)-Marie Joseph Francoise Morin, Metis born October 12, 1758 St. Augustin daughter (III)-Joseph Morin b-1728 and (V))-Marie Abgelique Letarte, b-1732
August 13: Lachenaye, marriage (III)-Etienne Contant (1732-1781) to (V)-Marie Joseph Hubou, Metis daughter (IV)-Jerome Hubou, Metis b-1728 and (IV)-Catherine Brunet b-1733.
September 12: St. Cuthbert, birth Pierre Houde, Metis, son Alexis Houde dit Houle , b-1757 and (V)-Marie Louise Prevost, Metis, b-1752.
November 26: Lachenaye, marriage Francois Baret to (V)-Marie Marguerite Hubou, Metis daughter (IV)-Charles Hubou, Metis b-1731 and (II)-Marguerite Dufour dit Latour b-1739.
1782
(II)-Jean Baptiste Bigeot dit Nantais, Metis b-1759 likely Montreal, son (I)-Jean Baptiste Prudhomme, b-1733 and (II)-Marguerite Bigeot, Metis, b-1739; married 1st 1782 (II)-Marie Dellard, b-1756; 2nd marriage February 21, 1791, Detroit, (IV)-Archange de Marsac, b-1744.
General Hospital, death Charlotte Vien (1742-1782) age 40, slave of Mr. Jean Vien.
Guy Carleton (1724-1808) is Commander in Chief at New York. Here refused to leave until the English American Loyalists had been sent to safety, and he urged a friendly reception in Quebec and Nova Scotia.
January 19: Lachenaye, birth (V)-Marie Therese Mercan, Metis, daughter (IV)-Joseph Mercan et Mercin, b-1755, and (IV)-Marie Therese Rouillard, Metis.
February 21: Lachenaye, birth (V)-Marie Louise Guerin, Metis, daughter (IV)-Toussaint Guerin born September 7, 1747 and (III)-Marie Joseph Gauvreau, b-1751.
March 14: Hopital General, Montreal, death, Charlotte Panis, b-1742, slave, Jean Vienne.
August 11: Terrebonne, marriage (V)-Therese Forget, Metis daughter (IV)-Gabriel Forget (1741-1821) and (IV)-Therese Tessier Metis, b-1737: married Augustin Alary
November 21: Montreal, birth (III)-Marie Joseph Guy, Metis, daughter (II)-Pierre Guy (1738-1812) and (IV)-Marie Joseph Hervieux, Metis (1743-1785).
1783
New York is full of some 70,000 British Loyalists seeking asylum. About 200 British ships are in the New York harbor to assist in the evacuation. About 40,000 Loyalists fled north with most going to Nova Scotia. Saint John, New Brunswick was founded by the United Empire Loyalists. The Loyalists spurned earlier Nova Scotia settlers, calling them Bluenoses. They also spurned the Black settlers who were promised full security, their freedom and land for loyalty to the British. Many had to sell themselves back into slavery to survive. Others, some 1,200, were shipped off to West Africa. The majority, however, toughed it out in Nova Scotia. Many Loyalists spent their first winter in tents.
Butler's Ranger and his men settle in the Niagara peninsula to become farmers.
July 15: Lachenaye, birth (V)-Jean Henri Hubou, Metis son (IV)-Charles Hubou, Metis b-1731 and (II)-Marguerite Dufour dit Latour b-1739.
1784
(VI)-Angelique Mius, Metis, b-1784, daughter (V)-Paul Mius, Metis, b-1751 Port Royal, Acadia and Marie Leblanc;
(VI)-Monique Mius, Metis, b-1784, daughter (V)-Paul Mius, Metis, b-1751 Port Royal, Acadia and Marie Leblanc;
The part of Nova Scotia lying north of the Bay of Fundy
becomes a separate Province under the name of New Brunswick. The American
British Loyalists demanded their own colonial administration. Cape
Breton also became a separate province but later rejoined Nova Scotia.
Antigonish County (a Micmac name meaning broken branches) in Nova Scotia,
in 1784, began being settled by British soldiers. It was originally called
Dorchester and acquired the name Antigonish in 1821. (I)-McDougall from Arasack,
Scotland arrived about this time and first settled at Malignant Brook.
Malignant Brook runs into Malignant cove about nineteen kilometers from
Antigonish where the British Man of War, H.M.S. Malignant, was wrecked on the
way to Quebec during the American Revolution. McDougall is an anglicized
form of MacDhubhghaill; meaning son of Dubhghall or Dougall, that is, the
Black Strangers, the Foreigner; meaning not Celts or natives of the low
lands, and means the darker ones, probably from Scandinavian- the Danes.
Britain established Antigonish County, Nova Scotia.
The Province of New Brunswick is created and the Province of Cape Breton..
The British conducted a census of the Province of Quebec.
The first marriage in New Brunswick took place at Parr Town (St. John) when Lieutenant Andrew Stockton, formerly of New Jersey, took a Loyalist bride.
April 14: St. Augustin, birth Marie Marguerite Favron, Metis daughter Jean Baptiste Favon and (IV)-Marie Joseph Francoise Morin, Metis born October 12, 1758 St. Augustin daughter (III)-Joseph Morin b-1728 and (V))-Marie Abgelique Letarte, b-1732
April 29: St. Cuthbert, birth Marie Louise Houde, Metis, daughter Alexis Houde dit Houle , b-1757 and (V)-Marie Louise Prevost, Metis, b-1752.
May 10: Montreal, marriage V)-Jean Baptiste Melchior Hertel b-1748 to. (IV)-Marie Anne Hervieux, Metis, daughter (III)-Pierre Jean Baptiste Hervieux, Metis born April 29, 1706 and Charlotte Marin.
November 23: Montreal, marriage (I)-Jacob Fleischman et Flacshman to (II)-Francoise Normand, Metis, died April 22, 1793 Montreal, daughter (I)-Pierre Normand dit Jolicoeur an Iroquois Zorahk8anuen, and (II)-Marguerite Lehays b-1702; 1st married January 10, 1757 Quebec Jean Baptiste Pontas; 2nd marriage October 21, 1760, Montreal, Arnoux Dominique Mondy; 3rd marriage November 23, 1784 Montreal Jacob Fleischman
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