Jean Michel dit Michaud

Tué par les Iroquois lors du massacre de Lachine en août 1689.

Sépulture le 29/10/1694. A cette date, le curé de la paroisse fit exhumer les restes qui avaient été enterrés précipitamment ou laissés sur place au moment du massacre. Une sépulture décente leur fut alors donné.

Marie Fillion with 09 ct Marchesseau widower of Marie Richard Son of Louis and Nicole Revon

Buried on 29-10-1694 Lachine, killed by the Iroquois

The couple have five children between 1672 and 1681, three son and two daughters.

On the night of 4 to 5 August 1689, Jean Michel, said Michaud, with his son is killed by the Iroquois, in the "massacre of Lachine."

Indeed, on the night of 4 to 5, fifteen hundred Iroquois crossed Lake St. Louis, during a hail storm and rain that favors them, and landed in silence in Lachine, on the upper part of the Island of Montreal . Before the day they are placed in squads for all the houses in an area of ​​several leagues. The people are still buried in sleep. The Iroquois are waiting for the signal, it is given. Then rises a terrible cry of death. The doors are broken and the massacre begins. The savage slaughter first the men, they set fire to the houses that resist and when the flame is out the inhabitants, they drain on them all that the ferocity and fury can invent. They open the womb of pregnant women to snatch the fruit they bear, and forcing mothers to roast their children. Approximately two hundred people died. More than one hundred and twenty others are trained in the Eastern Townships for combustion. "

An extract of the records, written by the parish priest of the parish of Lachine, as of October 28, 1694, about Jean Michel: "In the house of the late Jean Michel, we found the bones of said Jean Michel and his son, Peter, aged 15, and Albert Boutin, age 18, son of his wife. "

The ancestor, Jean Michel, during the massacre, then aged 49 and his eldest son Peter, 15. By cons, another son and two daughters were saved from massacre. No mention is made about the grandmother, Marie Marchesseau surely dead massacred during that night in August 1689.

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