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[Rigaud*] and Intendant Jacques Raudot* informed the minister that they were sending him “a bag full of mineral samples found at Lake Champlain
 
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
 
commandant of the Îles de la Madeleine, where he served for two years. In 1724 he was sent to Lake Champlain at the head of a detachment in order to prevent smuggling there
 
, La Pérade, Batiscan, L’Assomption, Berthier-en-Haut (Berthierville), Champlain, and Pointe-aux-Trembles (Neuville). In 1734 he contracted for the
ignored. He did persuade the minister to construct Fort Saint-Frédéric at the headwaters of Lake Champlain after learning of an English plan to settle on
the settlement of the Lake Champlain region. This construction was begun in the spring of 1748 under the direction of the ensign Gaspard-Joseph
 
, who was to bear him 19 children; in May of that year he set himself up in Champlain, near Trois-Rivières, and stayed there for more than a year, since his first child was baptized in that parish on 24
 
led a supporting land force to the borders of Lake Champlain. News of the disaster along with orders to abandon the attack on Montreal came as a bitter blow, but a righteous anger which led him, so the
 
Hazeur* de L’Orme, parish priest of Champlain, before the provost court of Trois-Rivières. Both of them laid claim to the tithes paid by the inhabitants of Arbre-à-la-Croix and the Prairies Marsolet
 
-la-Madeleine, Champlain, Batiscan, and Sainte-Anne, living at Batiscan.” Perhaps he never received a commission granting him the title of royal notary, but the authorities allowed conscientious
 
Niagara peninsula were the Neutrals; south of Lake Ontario and as far east as Lake Champlain were the Five Nations Confederacy comprising, in past to west order, the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas
 
settle in Canada and lived for about two years with Thomas Lanouguère* at Champlain, at the home of the seigneur of the region, François
almost continuous waterway consisting of the Richelieu River, Lake Champlain, Lac Saint-Sacrement (Lake George), and the Hudson River. The French claimed all the territory whose waters found an outlet in
 
Tracy’s expedition against the Iroquois in 1666. On 8 Jan. 1668 Saint-Ours married Marie Mullois, daughter of Thomas Mullois, at Champlain
 
colony against Francis Nicholson, who was attacking via Lake Champlain. That same year Governor Rigaud de
 
at Montreal and a fief on Lake Champlain called La Moinaudière. Raimbault was a man of some culture. The inventory of his possessions drawn up
 
records his name appears. In 1686 he replaced the parish priest of Trois-Rivières, M. de Bruslon. From October 1687 to November 1688 he carried out the duties of parish priest at Champlain
 
Carpentier from Champlain and was sentenced to pay damages and legal costs. The amusing thing was that Pottier had been attacked himself by Étienne Pézard de La Tousche in 1704, and had been so roughly
 
Madeleine, daughter of Ildebon Raclot and Marie Viennot. While still continuing to take an interest in the fur trade, he settled at Champlain, and on 2 Dec. 1677 he went to live on the river Saint
 
Daniel Normandin, 1684–1729; Registre d’état civil de Batiscan. Jug. et délib., IV, V, VI. Cloutier, Histoire de la paroisse de Champlain, I. J.-E. Roy
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