the Boucherville seigneury to his son, which La Perrière subsequently sold. The one royal grant he received, in 1734 – six square leagues on Lake Champlain – reverted to the crown seven
[Rigaud*] and Intendant Jacques Raudot* informed the minister that they were sending him “a bag full of mineral samples found at Lake Champlain
unable to follow up the victory, and the season ended with Bourlamaque standing on the defensive at the head of Lake Champlain with two regular battalions, working on the fort at Carillon (Ticonderoga
strategic location on Lake Champlain it could exercise military and diplomatic influence over the Iroquois and other Indians. It was also important as a barrier to the smuggling of furs into the English
Champlain. He owned a black slave, male, about 25 years of age, valued at 1,200 livres. The funeral expenses of Chaussegros de Léry amounted to 1,016 livres, 15 sols
, 1735, and yearly from 1739 to 1745 he sought out stands of oak and pine around Montreal Island, Lake Champlain, and elsewhere. He had to select and mark trees, and in 1740, 1744, and 1746 to supervise
. Langdon, Canadian silversmiths. Gérard Morisset, Le Cap-Santé, ses églises et son trésor (Collection Champlain, Québec, 1944). Traquair, Old silver of Quebec. Gérard Morisset
Bienville’s 1739 campaign against the Chickasaws; upon his return he was posted to Fort Saint-Frédéric (Crown Point) on Lake Champlain. In 1748 he was promoted lieutenant and two years later, because of his
commandant at Fort Saint-Frédéric (Crown Point) on Lake Champlain, the forward bastion of the colony’s defences. The following spring troop reinforcements and supplies had to be rushed to Detroit to quell an
on the east side of Lake Champlain.
He was eager, however, to return to the west. In 1753 he made several requests to accompany Paul Marin de La
DAZEMARD (Dassemat, Dazmard, Dazmat) DE LUSIGNAN, PAUL-LOUIS, captain in the colonial regular troops, commandant; b. at Champlain (Que
Champlain in Quebec’s Lower Town. They were at Lorette in the early 1730s and back in Quebec in the 1740s when Guillaume was employed as an expert estimator for the intendant. Just before his death he worked
, N.Y.) on Lake Champlain. Vaudreuil considered the former operation a greater danger and planned a countermove against Oswego to deprive the British of their base of operations on the Great Lakes
, probably at Champlain (Que.), youngest child of Pierre Dizy, dit Montplaisir, and Marie Drouillet (or Drouillard); buried on 14 March 1761 at Champlain
resigned 3 Nov. 1693. He had come to New France in 1688 and first served the parishes of Champlain and Batiscan until October 1694, when Bishop Saint-Vallier
(Collection Champlain, Québec, 1943). Traquair, Old silver of Quebec. Marius Barbeau, “Deux cents ans d’orfèvrerie chez-nous,” RSCT, 3rd ser., XXXIII (1939), sect
tribes who were to aid in the defence of Lake Champlain. In August Louis-Joseph sent Bourlamaque a
Montagnais, Samuel de Champlain* had to extend military assistance to win their friendship and their commerce. West of the Great Lakes, in the
Saint-Frédéric (Crown Point) on Lake Champlain. Through his efforts, and his promise of free provisions for its troops, New Hampshire raised her quota from 400 to 500 men. Hale offered a set of plans for
given the important task of supervising the construction of Fort Saint-Frédéric (Crown Point, N.Y.) on Lake Champlain.
Zacharie-François inherited one