Location of the Ancient Wyandot (Huron) and Maumee River valley Indians, Just East Of Lake Erie

Potawatomi Warriors Missions and Métis

Potawatomi Warriors Missions and Métis Compiled By Kevin Lajiness 1660-1750. 1660 the Potawatomi were agricultural, and their movement south after 1680 was most likely motivated by a desire for better soil. Nicolas PERROT d’ ABLANCOURT (1606-1664) was made member of the Academie Francaise in 1637 in Seat 20. In 1670 he was sent to the West by Frontenac to take formal possession for France. The Algonkin remained important French allies until the French and Indian War (1755-63) and the summer of 1760. By then, the British had captured Quebec and were close to taking the last French stronghold at Montreal. In 1665 Father Allouez , the founder of the principal western missions. By 1665 all of the Potawatomi were living on Wisconsin's Door Peninsula. About the year 1665 the French made peace with the Iroquois, and Lake Ontario and Lake Erie were opened up to settlers. French estimated there were about 4,000 in 1667 . All Potawatomi bands had gathered into four villages near Green Ba...

Pierre Roy, was at Detroit before Cadillac (Pontiac was a Typo) and he married a Miami named Margaret Ouabankikoue

Kevin Lajiness 1 min · Linwood, NJ · It was Said That Pierre Roy, My Ancestor, was at Detroit before Cadillac (Pontiac was a typo) and he married a Miami named Margaret Ouabankikoue, this was told to me by my father as a child and the marriage was confirmed to me much later in life , now i have found the evidence that shows he was at Detroit before Cadillac. From the evidence below it is clear to me that the father of the Detroit Pierre Roy traveled to the Detroit area more than once and probably brought his son, who would of been old enough to get involved romantically, my father did mention Belle Isle but said "our people came from the Island just south of there" This is further substantiated by the record of M. Louis Joliet (the first explorer who passed up Detroit River) his account also below "1668. — Claude Dablon and Jaques Marquette established a permanent mission at Sault St. Marie, ...

Pontiac Decomps-Labadie, Marie Saulteuse Indian conection clues

Louis Antoine [middle name?] (Antoine Louis) Decomps dit LABADIE Born 1732 in Detroit, MI Son of Jean Baptiste Decomps dit LABADIE and [mother?] [brothers or sisters?] Husband of Angelica (Campau) Campeau — married 26 Feb 1759 in Détroit, (Ste-Anne-de-Detroit), Pays-d'en-Haut, Nouvelle-France Husband (may have not maried but had up to 8 children) of Marie Saulteuse Indian - — married 1768 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Husband of Charlotte Barthe — married 18 Oct 1784 in Détroit, (Ste-Anne-de-Detroit), Pays-d'en-Haut, Nouvelle-France Father of Joseph Decomps dit Labadie Badichon , Angelica Labadie Badichon , Therese Labadie Badishon and Antoine Decomps dit Labadie badichon Marie Angelique (Descomps) Drouillard , Jean Baptiste Labadie Descomps , Elizabeth Descomps ...

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