5,13Tuée par les Iroquois

5Jean arrived on 27 December 1672, on the feast of the apostle by the same name. On the following first of January, Jean Dupuis served as his godfather, accompanied by Marie Vara, wife of Louis Bariteau. Son Jean grew up and worked mostly in the vicinity of Montréal. It was there in 1691 at St—Lambertthat he was surprised by the Iroquois, scalped and lived to tell the tale. What unusual luck! Marie—AnneBenoit, widow of Jean Bourdon, mother of three children, daughter of Paul dit Livernois and twin sister of Barbe, caused his heart to spin. Ancestor Besset vigorously opposed this marriage and showed his "dit Brisetout" character. He didn't even want to explain himself to the grand-vicar, Dollier de Casson. In order to avoid "the threats” of Brisetout, the local priest, Onophre Godfroy, a Récollet, "went to the church of Ville-Marie at six o'clock in the morning" to perform the marriage on 16 May 1695, according to the registry of Laprairie. Jean and MarieAnne had a daughter, buried on 25 May 1697. In August of the same year, the Iroquois tried to take Marie—AnneBenoit captive. She must have defended herself like a lioness, but succumbed to her wounds. She was buried on 9 August 1697. What misfortune! Jean was remarried a year later to Madeleine Plamondon,

13Tué par les Iroquois.

“The communities surrounding Montréal continued to suffer the brunt of the English and Iroquois assaults. On December 3, 1690, Iroquois massacred eight men at La Prairie at a place called The Fork. Among them were the habitants Jean Duval, Jean Bourbon, and Jean Briault dit Barreau. Jean Duval left his wife Marie-Madeleine Lemaitre with four young children. Jean Briault dit Barreau was survived by his wife Marie-Jeanne Cusson and three children, and Jean Bourbon left his wife Marie-Anne Benoît dite Livernois with three young daughters to raise.”

— The Women of Ville-Marie: Pioneers of Seventeenth-Century Montréal by Susan McNelley
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5Jean arrived on 27 December 1672, on the feast of the apostle by the same name. On the following first of January, Jean Dupuis served as his godfather, accompanied by Marie Vara, wife of Louis Bariteau. Son Jean grew up and worked mostly in the vicinity of Montréal. It was there in 1691 at St—Lambertthat he was surprised by the Iroquois, scalped and lived to tell the tale. What unusual luck! Marie—AnneBenoit, widow of Jean Bourdon, mother of three children, daughter of Paul dit Livernois and twin sister of Barbe, caused his heart to spin. Ancestor Besset vigorously opposed this marriage and showed his "dit Brisetout" character. He didn't even want to explain himself to the grand-vicar, Dollier de Casson. In order to avoid "the threats” of Brisetout, the local priest, Onophre Godfroy, a Récollet, "went to the church of Ville-Marie at six o'clock in the morning" to perform the marriage on 16 May 1695, according to the registry of Laprairie. Jean and MarieAnne had a daughter, buried on 25 May 1697. In August of the same year, the Iroquois tried to take Marie—AnneBenoit captive. She must have defended herself like a lioness, but succumbed to her wounds. She was buried on 9 August 1697. What misfortune! Jean was remarried a year later to Madeleine Plamondon, daughter of Philippe and of Marguerite Clément. She gave him seven children. Jean and Madeleine were buried at SaintMathias: she on 5 May 1750; he on 18 May 1751.