La Tour - d'Aulnay - Belisle -
Damours - D'Entremont - LeBorgne - Mius
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"WE WERE THERE! ... Genealogy & Roots:
Tome 2: "ST.CASTIN, BRIDGING TWO WORLDS"
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In 1704,
Now Charles Latour had seen the rich potential of the trade in furs and was determined to supply the wealthy merchants of La Rochelle with the precious commodity. Also, he had many children from First Nations women, hardy boys, including Stephen Latour, helping him in in fur trade and as his contacts, as was reported in 1625:
"Charles Latour travelled the woods with 18 or 20 men, mingled with the savages and lived an infamous and libertine life, without any practice of religion, not even bothering to baptize the children they procreated and instead abandoned them to their poor, miserable mothers as the coureurs de bois still do today. These half-breed children, called METIS by the French, became some of the staunchest allies of the first French families of Acadia. Many of them were baptized by French missionaries and clung to the faith of their fathers. They diligently pursued the trade in furs that sealed the relationship between the worlds of their fathers and their mothers."
The local Indians' efforts with the Fur trade made it all possible. So Claude Latour was made a baronet of Nova Scotia by Sir William Alexander in 1631. Charles went along, he was already a "seigneur d'Acadie" by de Bienville's will. Also in 1631, Louis XIII of France grants Charles LaTour a concession at the mouth of the St.John River, now in New Brunswick, where he builds Fort Ste-Marie in Jemseg. In 1634 he is Governor of Acadia, but a feud has developped with d'Aulnay which culminates in 1645 when, as we will see below, d'Aulnay burns down his property, kills his men and is responsible for his second wife's death. Charles, at this point is effectively ruined (but not for very long!).
His natural ennemy and contender was
In 1635 or 1636, when Isaac de Razilly died, his brother Claude de Razilly assigned his rights in Acadia to d'Aulnay who had chased the New Englanders and occupied Pentagoet, while his personal ennemy, Charles de La TOUR had a place further up on the St.John River, Fort Latour (a.k.a. Fort Ste-Marie), of which his second wife, Francoise-Marie Jacquemin, of Mans in France, whom he married in 1640, became the heroine. The had one son. In 1645 after LaTour's wife had gone to France to help her husband's request at Court, she succeeded to returned to Fort LATOUR, via a ship detour in the St-Lawrence for which she was awarded 2,000 pounds in damages. Knowing her husband was in France, d'Aulnay attacked the Fort. Francoise-Marie held on with determination. Twice he attacked and was repelled. Finally, he convinced her to capitulate under guarantee to let everyone live. When she did so, only she and a man (a Swiss spy) used as a hangman were spared, she was paraded with a noose around her neck and still wearing it, she watched each of her people killed. She died three weeks later, it is said of grief and shame, but it was only d'Aulnay words, who knows what experiences were hers, she was his prisoner. He admitted taking 55,000 $ of worth of furs and probably got her 2,000 pounds also. D'Aulnay also had the decency of sending her baby back to France after her death.
Five years later, when d'Aulnay died in 1650 Charles Latour married his widow, Jeanne Motin (with whom he had five children who grew to marry: Marie, Jacques, Charles, Anne and Marguerite) and got all his property, though LeBorgne arrived from France, a creditor of D'Aulnay, to enforce his claims becoming Governor in 1667, but also later on, becoming his son-in-law, marrying his daughter Marie de LA TOUR.
LEBORGNE de BELLE ISLE from Acadia & Louisiana, 17th century
As per the "Dictionnaire biographique du Canada, vol.1":
Early stories in Acadia We see there the political situation at the time of
The stories of heroism (as depicted in Longfellow's novel of Evangeline) in these years were screenplays on our heart which remembers. "...Remember, so slow were the days, fraught with anxiety and insecurity and so fast were the nights gone, alone together in the warm blankets, so secure, and yet with such an early daybreak standing behind the window...
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Charles de Menou de Charnizay, known as Chevalier d'Aulnay,
a friend of Nicholas Denys and Isaac de Razilly, Governor-in-chief of Nova Scotia, settled at La Heve.
Some Leborgne are also known as Belisle in Canada & the United States
Alexandre LEBORGNE de BELLE-ISLE was one of fourteen children of Jeanne FRANCOIS and Emmanuel LEBORGNE, sieur DU COUDRAY, rich merchant of La Rochelle, originally from Calais, who financed expeditions for Acadia, in return for becoming Governor of Acadia in 1657. He sent his son Alexandre to represent him. Alexander LeBorgne was wounded at La Hève in 1658 became prisonner of the English in London, but became Governor of Acadia in 1667 then simple "seigneur de Port Royal" (today Annapolis Royal,Nova-Scotia), having married Marie de St-Etienne de La Tour, daughter of Charles de La Tour and his third wife, Jeanne Motin. Alexandre died in Port-Royal around 1693.
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1. Emmanuel LEBORGNE b.1675 married in 1697 Cécile THIBODEAU
2. Marie LEBORGNE b.1677 married 1696 Alexandre GIROUARD, son of Jacques & Marguerite GAUTEROT
3. Alexandre LEBORGNE b.1679 married 1707 Anastasie de ST-CASTIN
4. Jeanne LEBORGNE b.1680-d.1711 married 1698 Bernard d'AMOURS
5. Marie Françoise LEBORGNE (soeur Ste-Elisabeth, Hospitaliere)
6. Charles LEBORGNE b.1684
7. Anne LEBORGNE b.1690 married 1707 Jean de FONDS dit RODRIGUE
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FIVE CHILDREN OF CHARLES de LA TOUR and JEANNE MOTIN:
- Marie de Latour b. 1654, which was the year before Jeanne de LaTour, her half- sister got married Martin d'Apprendisteguy, married Alexandre Le Borgne of Belle-Isle, son of Emmanuel Le BORGNE & Jeanne FRANCOIS, Governor of Acadia 1667.
- Jacques de Saint-Etienne de LATOUR, b. 1661, m. Anne (Dugas)Melancon and they had seven surviving children: Jeanne (1688), Marie (1690), Agathe (1691), Jean (1693), Francois (1695), Philippe (1696),Charles(1697)
- Charles, b. 1663 married c. 1688 Jeanne-Angelique LAUREAU.
All his life he fought in the troups of New France, including being wounded at the fall of Port Royal in 1710. He was made Chevalier St-Louis in 1728
and was buried in Louisbourg in 1731. Angelique, his widow was still alive
in 1762, still living in France in Chalais, Saintonge.
- Anne, b.1664, married Jacques Mius d'Entremont, de Pobomcoup, (brother of Abraham) both sons of Philippe Mius d'Entremont and Madeleine Elie.
Their son Philippe Mius married Therese de St-Castin, daughter of Jean-
Vincent d'Abadie de St-Castin and Matilda Pedicwanmiskwe, daughter of
the Great Chief Madockawando (or Matakando), Therese was the cadette
of Bernard-Anselme who was married to Charlotte (Guyon) d'AMOURS, and Therese's younger sister, Ursule de St-Castin married Charlotte's cousin, Louis (Guyon) d'Amours, son of Mathieu (Marsolet) d'AMOURS.
- Marguerite Latour, b.1665, married twice:
1st: Abraham Mius dit d'Azit, son of Philippe Mius d'Entremont & M. Elie
Second: Francois Villate in Port Royal in 1705.
LeBorgne faded in the picture until 1667. LaTour died in 1666. Vincent de St-Castin made his appearance in Acadia in 1665: A new leaf was turning.
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as depicted on the Ne-Do-Ba website
for Western Maine Abenakis at www.avcnet.org/ne-do-ba/or94_02.html
where we can read:
"...Sir Edmund Andros, Governor of the Dominion of New England, sailed the H.M.S. Rose into the harbor at the mouth of the Penobscot River. Once anchored, Andros sent his lieutenant ashore at Pentagoet to summon the Baron de St. Castin.
St. Castin was a French army officer, who had established a trading post at Pentagoet near the mouth of the Penobscot. He married a daughter of Madockawando, the highly respected principal chief of the Indians living along the Penobscot River. As the son-in-law of Madockawando, St. Castin enjoyed considerable influence among the Indians. The English, not wholly without merit, blamed the current Indian troubles on St. Castin. When the lieutenant returned with word that St. Castin had fled, Andros promptly seized the trading post. All movable goods were conveyed to the Rose, leaving behind only the vestments in St. Castin's chapel. Many historians point to this raid as the beginning of King William's War in the colonies." It was the prelude of the 1694 Oyster River Plantation Massacre, as researched by Craig J. Brown at www.avcnet.org/ne-do-ba/menh_or94.html
Vincent de St castin's early years in Pentagouet.
Much Info taken from: BACK TO INDEX
"Columbia Encyclopedia" (1942),
"Histoire de l'Acadie"
by Bona Arsenault (1978)
Maine, Resources, Attractions and it's People, a History"
Compiled by Harrie B. Coe, The Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1928)
"Historical Geography of the British Dominions: Vol.5 Canada"
by Sir Charles Lucas
Oxford, 1923
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NOTE FROM THE AUTHORI have been to beautiful Castine in Maine,
the long narrow peninsula filled with stately New England homes,
where the low shores, bays and the river are as peaceful
as they could have ever have been in times of peace.
It is still as beautiful.
The abundant apple trees, everywhere, are the only true reminiscence of the old days, left behind by the French, first the Jesuits and d'Aulnay, then St-Castin.
If you are interested in the First Nations of the Abenakis which were living at one time in the Penobscot Bay area (it was their winter residence), you can find them in Old Towne, just above Bangor in Maine, where they have reproduced faithfully their Pentagouet/Castine village setting when they were forced to leave it, or in Odanak, Quebec, where many re-settled after 1675.
About myself what can I say but that I love this planet and it's people, it's plants, forests, children and animals. I know it may sound corny, but I relish every breath and also hope to have a long fruitful life.
Apart from writing I do love to travel, read and watch movies, observing the world.
Another of my interests is filming videos of Community events, people, animals and places, especially those with ethnic flavour, for I have a great thirst for knowledge and its dissemination. After all, our heritage helps us in it's stead.
I am a French-Canadian born in Montreal.
My Mother is Olga Drouin Obry
and my Father is Salluste Duval LeMyre.
I am also a French-English Translator.
I divide most of my time between Quebec, Sutton, Montreal, Vancouver, Sherbrooke and Maine.
If you are interested in buying one of my books
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"We were there! Canadian, American... Roots"
about the History of the New World in the 17th-18th century which starts with
"Nicholas Marsolet(1587-1677), the French interpretor to the Montagnais First Nation of Tadoussac",
and follows with
"St-Castin (1685-1728) and Charlotte Guyon Damours, Bridging two worlds"
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Danielle Duval LeMyre
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I have been to beautiful Castine in Maine,
the long narrow peninsula filled with stately New England homes,
where the low shores, bays and the river are as peaceful
as they could have ever have been in times of peace.
It is still as beautiful.
The abundant apple trees, everywhere, are the only true reminiscence of the old days, left behind by the French, first the Jesuits and d'Aulnay, then St-Castin.
If you are interested in the First Nations of the Abenakis which were living at one time in the Penobscot Bay area (it was their winter residence), you can find them in Old Towne, just above Bangor in Maine, where they have reproduced faithfully their Pentagouet/Castine village setting when they were forced to leave it, or in Odanak, Quebec, where many re-settled after 1675.
About myself what can I say but that I love this planet and it's people, it's plants, forests, children and animals. I know it may sound corny, but I relish every breath and also hope to have a long fruitful life.
Apart from writing I do love to travel, read and watch movies, observing the world.
Another of my interests is filming videos of Community events, people, animals and places, especially those with ethnic flavour, for I have a great thirst for knowledge and its dissemination. After all, our heritage helps us in it's stead.
I am a French-Canadian born in Montreal.
My Mother is Olga Drouin Obry
and my Father is Salluste Duval LeMyre.
I am also a French-English Translator.
I divide most of my time between Quebec, Sutton, Montreal, Vancouver, Sherbrooke and Maine.
If you are interested in buying one of my books
from the 9 volumes Serie
"We were there! Canadian, American... Roots"
about the History of the New World in the 17th-18th century which starts with
"Nicholas Marsolet(1587-1677), the French interpretor to the Montagnais First Nation of Tadoussac",
and follows with
"St-Castin (1685-1728) and Charlotte Guyon Damours, Bridging two worlds"
you can put your name on the waiting list
by going on the Internet at
http://www.oocities.org/daniellla.geo/achat.html
Danielle Duval LeMyre
Messages (604)682-3269 ext. 9017
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