Sieur Charles de Langlade

Augustin Grignon's recollections included the following regarding his grandfather, Sieur Charles de Langlade:

Also Braddock Fort Cumberland Information

Regarding Captain Donald Cameron

From the Archibald McMillan and family fonds : H-1099 (Image 251 and 252):

Montreal

10th September 1807

My Dear Sir

I had the pleasure of writing to you on the 17th ulto to which please be referred--I am sorry to have to advise at this time that the bill for L 550 (550 pounds) drawn upon Captain Cameron upon which I am indorser was protested for non acceptance in London and will returned here for payment at maturity the provision made for taking it up having been too late and in part defective.  As I wrote to you before I am not likely ultimately to be a sufferer in this transaction but in the first instance I must make provision for retiring it on its return and it's unfortunately in the hands of a person from whom no indulgence? can be expected. This being the case may I beg of you to convert into cash the small shipments I made to you and remit the proceeds after deducting commission and charges--Pray do you think I should send you down two pipes more of the Madira could you get a ready market for them -- The small keg shrub I mentioned to have sent you in a former letter was sent onboard the ship Augustin.

If you should have occasion to ship anything for me hereafter let me beg of you never to employ Starns who has used me ill the last time and before -- The chest drawers was entirely injured and the former article was much embezzled, not content with that the Gentleman was disposed to be impertinent.

There are from 50 to 60 of the settlers intended for the Grand River in this city and its vicinity, the chief part of whom are enrolled in the companies of militia most contiguous to them-. Some of them can neither talk French or English by which they find themselves awkwardly situated and they think they would have a better opportunity of manifesting their zeal and loyality to government should occasion require them in service by being enrolled in one company of with officers of their own number and they have applied to me in order to make their wish be known to his honor the President whose sentiments upon the subject I hope you will learn and let me known.

I hope by this time the tedious business of Granville is about being finished its long delay will I am afraid keep back the ___ this fall yet with usual best wishes believe me.  Dr Sir yours since

John Munro Esq.

Cross-posted at Cameron Collections

Williams College Members

Lower Canada, declarations of aliens : H-1154:

Image 76

27 July 1794

We the subscribers, members of Williams college in Williamstown in the county of Berkshire, & state of Massachusetts, departed from said town on the 15th of July 1794 to come to Montreal solely for the purpose of requiring a knowledge of the french language.

John Collins and Dan Stone

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French Soldiers In 1755

Narrative and critical history of America, Volume 5

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What About Us? (The French On Belle Isle)

Source (Belle Isle Upper Right In River)

"On May 4, 1768, King George III...gave to Lieut. George McDougall, of the Detroit Garrison, permission to occupy Ile aux Cochons (Belle Isle) so long as Detroit remained a military post, or so long as he was there stationed."

Detroiters who were living on the island at the time, including Jacques Campau...[and] Eustache Gamelin wrote a letter to the Commandant of the Detroit Garrison, to no avail. [Source]

Anable Chetay Probate

Michigan, Probate Records, Wayne Probate packets 1811-1815...:

Wayne County, Michigan

Probate File 84

Image 299

Anable Chetay (Aimable)

Late of Malden, in Upper Canada, deceased at Detroit

...died at Gabriel Menard's in the City of Detroit 30? Dec 1813

Others mentioned: Bet Cecile Souillier the widow of Pierre Campau...George McDougall...(and more)...Gabriel Menard, Yeoman, of Plaisance (Fleursante) in the District of Erie...Joseph Clement dit La Riviere, of Detroit...Territory of Michigan...Langlois, a blacksmith

"...that he had sent for his Relations (said he) on the other side of the River, but inasmuch as they do not come, as I know I am going to die, I now bequeath all the property of every kind that I am possessed of, to the said Gabriel Menard....".

French Document In The Henry File

Wayne County, Michigan

Probate File# 149

Image 904 In French

Campau Probate File 139

Michigan, Probate Records, Wayne Probate packets:

Image 418, File 139

[Image 421] Campau

Image 423 & 425 and Image 429 in French

Three Kinds Of Clergy In Canada Around 1806

There were three kinds of clergy in Canada: the Jesuits, the Priests, and the Recollets. The first were considered so much superior to the rest, that the Canadians had the following proverb to show how much the one surpassed the other .---Pour faire un Recollet, il faut une hachette, pour un Pretre un ciseau, mais pour un Jesuite, il faut un pinceau. "--" To make a Recollet you must have an axe, for a Priest a chisel, but for a Jesuit you must have a pencil." [Source]

Principal Actions Of The French And Indian War

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French Soldier, 1745

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Witnessed Unconditional Surrender

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From The magazine of American history...:

"Escaping from this defeat [Battle of Sainte-Foy also called the Battle of Quebec], the benefit of which was snatched from the French by the timely arrival of reinforcements, he was found among the twenty-four hundred effectives who embarked July 15 for the attack on Montreal, to which Haviland was advancing from Crown Point and Amherst from Oswego."

"He [Maunsell] took part in the joyful reunion of the war-worn veterans of Quebec with the comrades from whom they had been so long and so far separated, and with them witnessed the close of the dominion of the French in Canada by the capitulation of the city, September 8, 1760, almost the anniversary of the victory that had so signally initiated it. He witnessed the unconditional surrender of the enemy by laying down their arms, upon which General Amherst had insisted, 'for the infamous part the troops of France have acted in inciting the savages to perpetrate the most horrid and unheard of barbarities in the whole progress of the war, and for other open treacheries and flagrant breaches of faith, to manifest to all the world by this capitulation his detestation of such practices. 'Alas for human inconsistency! the British commanders sanctioned the same barbarities during the Revolution."'


See more about John Maunsell here

Gamelins In Saint-Francois

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Transcription [Source]

"Lot No. 72 on the southwest bank of the Saint-François river, opposite the village of Odanak....Pierre Gamelin dit Châteauvieux fur trader and caterer (and militia captain). The...land of Pierre Gamelin was excluded from the cession of territory made to the Sokokis and Abénaquis on August 23, 1700, by Marguerite Hertel, widow of Jean Crevier... ."

"Pierre Gamelin's land was where the village of Saint-François is today. His name and the land appears on the Son of Michel Gamelin and Marguerite Crevier map. On November 15, 1735, Pierre Gamelin was said to be 'late Sr. pierre gamelin marchand and Bourgeois of the said place of St. françois' on his son Pierre Gamelin-Maugras' marriage contract in Montreal."

Note: Ancestors Of Family Members (not my ancestors)

From The Register Of Fort DuQuesne, 1754-1756

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1,000 Or More Canadians At Detroit

"...[the last French Governor of Canada] Vaudreuil's capitulation and a letter by him directing Detroit to be given up in accordance with the terms agreed upon between him and General Amherst, Rogers finally ordered Captain Beletre to surrender or he would attack the [Detroit] fort... .  Beletre acquiesced on November 29, 1760, and the *fleur de lis was lowered from the flagstaff and the cross of St. George was raised in its place."

Source

"The 1,000 or more Canadians at Detroit were allowed to retain their farms and houses on the condition that they swear allegiance to the English Crown. The Canadians readily complied, if for no other reason than that they had 3,000 packs of furs that they were anxious to sell, as they had no opportunity of selling them since Fort Niagara was taken in 1759." [Source]

*Depiction of the Fleur de lis Flag 

Campau Tutelle

Michigan, Probate Records, Wayne Probate packets 1815-1816...:

Image 557  #145 (probably)

Image 555  Campau [in French]

Eustache Gamelin Letter To Colonel Bouquet

A letter from The papers of Col. Henry Bouquet....:

[TRANSLATION] 

Detroit, June 24, 1761. 

Sir : 

I received the letter you have done me the honor of writing, about which I am very appreciative of your good information. 

In return, I have the honor to write you the present letter, to assure you of my very humble respect, and to thank you for all the kindness you have shown me. 

I beg that you may be willing to continue these kindnesses. 

I shall always try to do everything, as far as it depends on me, to merit your esteem. 

I am wishing with all my heart, to be able to contribute to the sale of Mr. Hamback's goods, as much in consideration of you as of him. But I think he will, manage very well, having plenty of intelligence and a good partner. I am sending you by him a beaver robe and a small sack of [pocannej] (porcelain?). I wish, Sir, that I had something worthy of being presented to you. I should give it with keen pleasure. But, alas, where there are only barbarians, one cannot obtain anything very valuable. 

I have the honor to be with a very profound respect, 

Sir, 

Your most humble and most obedient servant. 

EUSTACHE GAMELIN 

Captain Richmond And The Brig Fame

Lower Canada, declarations of aliens : H-1154:

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Captain Richmond

Written in 1794

Brig Fame

Fame (Brig) Logbook by Fame (Brig)

The logbook of the brig Fame details multiple voyages between Stockton [i.e. probably, Stockton-on-Tees], England...Québec, Québec; Montréal, Québec...(Aug. 1779 to Dec. 1783). Home port was [Stockton?]; master was Robert Richmond; log keepers were Robert Richmond, et al. 

A View Of Detroit Circa 1835

Plat Map of Detroit (The Old Place)

Ohio History, Volume 15, Cyrus P. Bradley Journal, 1835

15 Monday We arrived at Detroit... 

Many are here with their families having improvidently left their homes without knowing for whither or for what; many are here on business many to look on and catch a spark of the general glow of life which seems to animate everything and everybody in the place.

I knew it was a very old place it having been founded by the French about the time of the landing of William Penn... . ...Yankee spirit predominates and Detroit is in effect a new city. 

Persistent Neglect

See John Maunsell, A Soldier Of Wolfe's for more information of Lieutenant-General Maunsell (1724-1795).

"The persistent neglect of the home government to provide any defense for the American colonies against the attacks of the French in Canada, and their Indian allies, can only be excused on the ground of its own unsettled state and the wars on the Continent into which the accession of William of Orange drew it. For a century and a half they were left to defend themselves, garrison their forts, and protect their frontiers, each for itself, as best it could, without any substantial aid from the mother country or from each other. So disaffection grew, and the Dutch at Albany secured their own safety by giving the French at Montreal information and a lucrative trade."

French Habitants

"In 1746 Louisbourg, the key to the St. Lawrence, had been captured by the soldiers of New England and New York, aided only by a squadron under Sir Peter Warren; but it was recklessly given back to France, to the humiliation and disgust of the colonies, the untold misery of the French in Acadia, and to the disgrace and confusion of the government, for they were compelled to retake it in 1758 at an enormous cost of blood and treasure."

The French In The Upper Mississippi Valley

"At last, after France had established herself solidly along the St. Lawrence and the great lakes, and in the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, and inclosed the English colonies with a chain of strong fortresses which seemed to defy any attempt to take them, the lion aroused himself to see the foe on every side of him."

British Military (Near Braddock's Gravesite)

"Virginia moved first on her own account in 1754, when young Washington first gave token of the valor, fortitude, and prudence which made him the foremost man-of his own and every age. The next year Braddock was sent against DuQuesne, Johnson against Crown Point, while Shirley prepared to attack Niagara; but all that they gained was a rout and massacre, a fruitless victory, and a knowledge of the strength of the French in position and resources. The three following years were spent in getting rid of incapables, with incredible suffering and useless bloodshed."   [Source]