12154. Jarret de Beauregard, André, né le 9 août 1642 à Le Rual de Chapeau Cornu, commune de Vignieu (Saint-Babil), Isère, Rhône-Alpes, fils de Jean et de Perrette Sermette. Arrivé le 19-08-1665 sur La Paix. Lieutenant de la compagnie de Contrecoeur au régiment de Carignan-Salières, marié à Montréal le 1201-1676, contrat Basset du 12-01-1676, avec Marguerite Anthiaume, migrante, née en 1653 à Paris, Seine. Décédé le 00-09-1691 au Canada, 49 ans, 7 enfants. Ménage établi à Contrecoeur. Seigneur. (FO, n o 242140) (DGFQ, p. 593) (CS, pp. 363-364)
Lieutenant de la cie Contrecoeur
(CT 12 Basset) avec Marguerite Anthiaume
Probablement parent de François marié à Marie Perrault
Arrivé le 17-8-1665, lieutenant de la compagnie de Contrecoeur au régiment de Carignan
Confirmé le 15-6-1681 Verchères
Concession des trois Iles Beauregard le 17-8-1674 près de Verchères
sieur de Beauregard, baptisé 1642-08-09 Vignieu (Saint-Babil) (Isère : 380546), France, décédé entre 1691-03 et 1691-09-22, Infos de Ginette Arpin, participante de NosOrigines
13This monument of Marie-Madeleine Jarret dit Verchères is my distant cousin from the 1600s and was the niece of my great grand father many generations back, Andre Jarret dit Beauregard also from the 1600's who is from my actual great grandmother's (Anna Brazeau) side of the family. This monument was erected in Verchères, Quebec in Madeleine's honor for her heroic deed and is still there today. In the late 1600s, the Iroquois regularly mounted attacks on the settlers of New France, looting and burning their homes. One year after her Uncle, Lieutenant Andre Jarret's death by the hand of the Iroquois in the same village, Madeleine's parents left the fort on business and to gather winter supplies on 22 October 1692. Madeleine and her brothers and sisters stayed behind at the fort. At fourteen years of age, Madeleine was in charge of the fort, with one very old man and few soldiers.
One morning, some settlers left the fort to tend to the fields along with eight soldiers. Madeleine was in the cabbage garden, quite close to the fort. Suddenly, the Iroquois descended on the settlers. The men, caught off guard, tried to flee to safety. However, the Iroquois were too quick for them and they were easily caught and carried off. Madeleine, working only 200 paces from the fort, had a head start on the Iroquois who were chasing her. One Iroquois caught up to her and grabbed her by her kerchief which quickly untied itself. Madeleine running at a full pace made it to the fort shouting, "Aux armes! Aux armes!" (To arms!)
Madeleine ran to the bastions, tied her hair up and put on a soldiers headdress and fired a musket while encouraging the people to make as much noise as possible so that the Iroquois would think there were many soldiers defending the fort. Then Madeleine fired the cannon to warn other forts in the area of the attack and to call for reinforcements. The Iroquois had hoped a surprise attack would easily take over the fort but were proven wrong, so for the time being, they retreated into the bushes with their prisoners.
During the siege, Madeleine noticed a canoe approaching the landing site with a family named Fontaine. The soldiers inside the fort refused to leave, so Madeleine ran to the dock and led the family quickly inside, pretending to be reinforcements.
Later on in the evening, the settlers' cattle returned to the fort. She knew that the Iroquois could be hiding with the herd covered in animal skins. She had her two brothers wait with her to check the cattle for warriors but none were found and the cows were brought inside the fort.
Reinforcements from Montreal arrived just after the Iroquois left. Tired but relieved, Madeleine greeted the French lieutenant, "Mon seigneur, I surrender to you my arms." The reinforcements caught up with the Iroquois and returned the kidnapped settlers. By this time, Madeleine's parents had returned and news of Madeleine's heroism had spread through the colony. As a few years passed, many questioned Madeleine's story even though it was verified by two men at the fort during the attack. Madeleine then received backlash for her actions at the fort as it was said to be outrageous for a woman to take on the persona of a warrior. In reality it was Catholic priests that were touchy about a woman changing her appearance to look like a male. They believed a woman was to always look and act like a woman even if it should cost them their lives. One priest went as far as calling Madeleine a whore, yet many others called her the Joan of Arc of New France. Madeleine went on to marry and have two children. She passed peacefully at 69 years of age and was buried under the pew she sat in at her Catholic church. A great number of Catholic priests came to Madeleine's funeral to pay her homage. In 1923, Canada officially named Madeleine "A Person of National Historic Significance".