Notes for Marie "Otter" Neshkeek

Notes for Marie "Otter" Neshkeek

From Midwest Pioneers: Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Vol 14, pg. 40:
"Her (Madame Laframboise) mother was of chiefly blood, being the daughter of Ke-wi-na-quot (Returning Cloud), one of the most powerful chiefs of the Ottawa tribe."

From Wisconsin Historical Collections, Volume xix, pg. 44, Mackinac Baptisms, 1695-1821:
May 9, 1756, I solemnly baptized an outaouaise catchumen, daughter of neskes and granddaughter of kinoncharnee, sufficiently instructed and desiring holy baptism, who took the name of marie (afterwards the wife of Jean Baptiste Marcot, see Id., xviii, pg. 484); the godfather as Mr. l'anglade, the elder, and the godmother m de langlade, the younger. Signed: P. Du Jaunay, miss. of the society of Jesus. Langlade; Charlotte Bourassa Langlade; Joseph Barthelemi Blondeau.