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[59] Had at least nine children. After birth of son Pierre in Quebec, thefamily moved to Grande-Riviere, Gaspe, New France. Had at least eightmore children. Son Abraham was the fifth of the family.
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[851] Marie-Jeanne and Jean Baillargeon had four children 1684-1693; Jeanwas the second. Marie-Jean remarried in 1703 Rene Pelletier; they hadthree children 1704-1709.
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!BIRTH: Information not researched, so assumed to be the same date asthe baptism.
!CHRISTENING: Information from the IGI for Quebec (March 1992edition), page 15,428; available on microfiche at any LDS FamilyHistory Center.
!MARRIAGE: (Two Marriages) Information on both marriages from theLoiselle Index of Quebec Marriages; available on LDS FHL microfilm#1571061 through any LDS Family History Center (gives dates and placesof marriages and parents' names).
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Following are three major items about Jean Nicolet.
1. The following is from Relation of Occurrences in New France, inthe Year 1642 and 1643, by Father Barthelemy Vimont, S.J. (It waswritten in the early autumn of 1643, in time for the vessel returningto France.)
... I will now speak of the life and death of Monsieur Nicollet,Interpreter and Agent for the Gentlemen of the Company of New France.He died ten days after the Father (Raymbault), and had lived in thisregion twenty-five years. What I shall say of him will aid to a betterunderstanding of the country. He came to New France in the yearsixteen hundred and eighteen and forasmuch as his nature and excellentmemory inspired good hopes of him he was sent to winter with theIsland Algonkins, in order to learn their language. He tarried withthem two years, alone of the French, and always joined the Barbariansin their excursions and journeys, -- undergoing such fatigues as nonebut eye witnesses can conceive; he often passed seven or eight dayswithout food, and once, full seven weeks with no other nourishmentthan a little bark from the trees.
He accompanied four hundred Algonkins, who went during that time tomake peace with the Hyroquois, which he successfully accomplished; andwould to God that it had never been broken, for then we would not nowbe suffering the calamities which move us to groans, and which must bean extraordinary impediment in the way of converting these tribes.
After this treaty of peace, he went to live eight or nine years withthe Algonquin Nipissiriniens, where he passed for one of that nation,taking part in the very frequent councils of those tribes, having hisown separate cabin and household, and fishing and trading for himself.He was finally recalled and appointed Agent and Interpreter.
While in the exercise of this office, he was delegated to make ajourney to the nation called People of the sea, and arrange peacebetween them and the Hurons, from whom they are distant about threehundred leagues Westward. He embarked in the Huron country, with sevenSavages; and they passed by many small nations, both going andreturning. When they arrived at their destination, they fastened twosticks in the earth, and hung gifts thereon, so as to relieve thesetribes from the notion of mistaking them for enemies to be massacred.
When he was two days' journey from that nation, he sent one of thoseSavages to bear tidings of the peace, which word was especially wellreceived when they heard that it was a European who carried themessage; they despatched several young men to meet the Manitouririnou,-- that is to say, "the wonderful man." They meet him; they escorthim, and carry all his baggage. He wore a grand robe of China damask,all strewn with flowers and birds of many colors. No sooner did theyperceive him than the women and children fled, at the sight of a manwho carried thunder in both hands, --for thus they called the twopistols that he held.
The news of his coming quickly spread to the places round about, andthere assembled four or five thousand men. Each of the chief men madea feast for him, and at one of these banquets they served six scoresbeavers. The peace was concluded; he returned to the Hurons, and sometime later to the three Rivers, where he continued his employment asAgent and Interpreter, to the great satisfaction of both the Frenchand the Savages, by whom he was equally and singularly loved. In sofar as his office allowed, he vigorously cooperated with our Fathersfor the conversion of those peoples, whom he could shape and bendhowsoever he would, with a skill that can hardly be matched.
Monsieur Olivier, Chief Agent of the Gentlemen of the Company, havinggone to France last year, sieur Nicollet came down to Quebec in hisplace with joy and lively consolation at the sight of the peace anddevotion at Quebec; but his joy was not long. A month or two after hisarrival, he made a journey to the three Rivers for the deliverance ofa Savage prisoner; which zeal cost him his life, in a shipwreck. Hesailed from Quebec, toward seven o'clock in the evening, in theshallop of Monsieur de Savigny, bound for three Rivers. Before theyreached Sillery, a gust of wind from the Northwest, which had raised ahorrible storm upon the great river, filled the shallop with water andcaused it to sink, after two or three turns in the waves. Thepassengers did not immediately sink, but clung for some time to theshallop. Monsieur Nicollet had leisure to say to Monsieur de Savigny,"Sir, save yourself, you can swim. I cannot; as for me, I depart toGod. I commend to you my wife and my daughter."
One by one, the waves tore them all from the shallop, which wasfloating overturned against a rock. Monsieur de Savigny alone plungedinto the water, and swam amid the billows and waves, which were likesmall mountains. The shallop was not very far from shore, but it wasnow black night, and there prevailed a severe frost which had alreadyfrozen the borders of the stream; so that the sieur de Savigny,perceiving his heart and strength fail, made a vow to God, and, soonafterward striking with his foot, he felt ground. Drawing himself outof the water, he came to our house at Sillery, half dead, and remaineda long time without strength to speak; then at last he told us of thewoeful mischance, which, besides the death of Monsieur Nicollet, sogrievous for all the country, had lost him three of his best men, andgreat part of his furniture and stores. He and Madamoiselle his wifeendured this notable affliction in a barbarous country with greatpatience and without abating a jot of their courage The Savages ofSillery, at the noise of Monsieur Nicollet's shipwreck, ran to thespot, aud manifested unspeakable grief to see him appear no more.
This sad news was augmented by other tidings....
[The following is a footnote in the Relations; it was written byReuben Gold Thwaite, editor and translator of the Relations.] JeanNicolet, a native of Cherbourg, France, came to Quebec in 1615,probably at the age of about 20 years. Like Marsolet, Brule, andothers, he was sent by Champlain to live among the Indians, that hemight acquire a knowledge of the country, of the natives, and of theirlanguage. For this purpose, Nicolet went (1620) to the Algonkins ofAllumettes Island, where he remained two years; while among thistribe, he accompanied a large body of their warriors to the Iroquoiscountry, in order to arrange a treaty of peace -- an enterprisesuccessfully accomplished. He then spent some nine years among theNipissings, during which time he wrote an account of these savages,their customs, etc., as Le Jeune informs us in the Relation for 1636.
In June, 1634, Champlain sent him on an exploring expedition westward-- partly in the hope of finding the "sea of China" which was at thattime supposed to lie not far west of the regions of America thenknown, and thereby discovering the long-looked-for short passage toAsia; partly to become acquainted with the savage tribes lying beyondthe "Mer deuce" (Lake Huron), and to extend the French trade forpeltries. Upon this trip (accompanying Brebeuf as far as AllumettesIsland), Nicolet went to his old abode, Lake Nipissing. Thence, with abark canoe and an escort of seven Hurons, be voyaged by French Riverinto Lake Huron, and Northward to St. Mary's Straits and Mackinac; andthence by Lake Michigan, Green Bay, and the Fox River, as far as avillage of the Mascoutins, probably in what is now Green Lake county,Wisconsin. He was thus the first white man who, so far as it isrecorded, had entered this region. From the Mascoutin village hejourneyed southward to what is now northern Illinois, -- afterwardreturning to Canada by the same route on which he had set out; hereached Quebec early in the autumn of 1635.
Nicolet, after his return to Canada, resumed his employment (begun in1633) as clerk and interpreter at Three Rivers. Oct. 7, 1637, hemarried Marguerite (then aged eleven years), second daughter ofGuillaume Couillard. . . . Nicolet died Oct. 29, 1642, being drownedat Sillery. -Ibid., viii., note 29.
2. Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 1. University of Toronto,1966, pp. 516-8. Jean Nicolet entry by Jean Hamelin.
NICOLLET DE BELLEBORNE, JEAN, interpreter and clerk of the Compagniedes CentAssocies, liaison officer between the French and the Indians,explorer; b. c. 1598, probably at Cherbourg (Normandy), son of ThomasNicollet, king's postal courier between Cherbourg and Paris, and ofMarie de Lamer; drowned 27 Oct. 1642 at Sillery.
Nicollet arrived in Canada in 1618, in the service of the Compagniedes Marchands de Rouen et de Saint-Malo. Like Marsolet and Brule, hewas intended to live among the Indian allies in order to learn theirlanguage and customs and explore the regions they inhabited. Nothingis known of his education or temperament, except this remark of FatherVimont in 1643: "his disposition and his excellent memory led one toexpect worthwhile things of him."
Champlain, at the time of his explorations, had established relationswith the Algonkins in the upper reaches of the Ottawa (Outaouais)River. It is presumed that, in his desire to strengthen the alliancethat was only just taking shape, it was Champlain who instructedNicollet, the year he arrived, to go and spend the winter on AllumetteIsland. This place was the rallying-point of the great Algonkin familycommanded by Tessouat (d. 1636). The island was located at a strategicspot on the Ottawa River, the fur-trade route. It was important, forthe sake of trade, that the tribes living on the shores of the Ottawashould be friendly with the French. Nicollet stayed two years atAllumette Island, and carried out his mission very well. He learnedthe Huron and Algonkin languages, lived the precarious existence ofthe natives, came to know their customs, and explored the region. Theywere not long in accepting him as one of their own. They made him achief, allowed him to attend their councils, and even took him amongthe Iroquois to negotiate a peace treaty.
Nicollet returned to Quebec in 1620. He made a report on his missionand was given another: to make contact with the Nipissings who livedon the shores of the lake of the same name. These Indians were eachyear assuming a more important role in the fur trade, acting asintermediaries between the French and the Indian tribes of the westand of Hudson Bay. It was Nicollet's task to consolidate theiralliance with the French, and to see that their furs did not findtheir way to Hudson Bay.
In the summer of 1620, Nicollet went to the country of the Nipissings.For nine years he was to live among them. He had his own lodge and astore. By day he traded with the Indians of the various tribes thatwere on their way to the shores of Lake Nipissing, and questioned themabout their country; at night he noted down what he had gleaned. These"memoires" of Nicollet, unfortunately lost today, have come to usindirectly through the Relations. Father Paul Le Jeune, who was ableto consult them, drew upon them in order to describe the customs ofthe Indians in that region.
When Quebec was captured by the English in 1629, Nicollet, who wasloyal to France, took refuge in the Huron country. He thwarted all theEnglish plans to get the Indians to trade with them.
Nicollet appeared at Trois-Rivieres and Quebec in 1633. He askedpermission to set himself up at Trois-Rivieres as a clerk of theCompagnie des Cent-Associes, and his wish was readily granted. Beforetaking up his new duties, however, he was requested, no doubt byChamplain, to undertake a voyage of exploration and pacification amongthe Gens de Mer, also called Puants, Ounipigons or Winnebagoes. TheseIndians lived at the far end of Green Bay (Baie des Puants),surrounded by Algonkin tribes with whom their relationship wassomewhat cool, where the fur trade was concerned. An alliance betweenthe Gens de Mer and the Dutch of the Hudson River region was to befeared. It was necessary to restore peace as soon as possible in thisarea. Nicollet was also supposed to use the trip to check theinformation that he had gathered concerning the China Sea, whichaccording to the Indians was near to Green Bay. Nicollet thereforeprovided himself, before his departure, with a robe of Chinese damask,liberally strewn with flowers and multi coloured birds.
Nicollet set out in the summer of 1634, probably in mid-July. Hefollowed the traditional Ottawa River route, branched off at AllumetteIsland in the direction of Lake Nipissing, then went down the FrenchRiver (Riviere des Francais) to get to Lake Huron. On the way herecruited an escort of seven Hurons. He headed for Michilimackinac,entered Lake Michigan, and reached Green Bay. Attired in his damaskrobe, he momentarily struck terror into the Winnebagoes, who took himfor a god. He assembled 4,000 or 5,000 men, grouping together thedifferent tribes of the region, and, while smoking their long-stemmedpipes, they concluded a peace.
Nicollet had attained the first objective of his journey.Unfortunately, he had not found the China Sea. In a fruitless attemptto do so, he went down the Fox River (Riviere aux Renards) as far asthe village of Mascoutens, three days' distance from the WisconsinRiver, a tributary of the Mississippi. A thrust southward, towards theIllinois River, was scarcely more rewarding. Probably disappointed bythe incomplete success of his mission, he returned to Quebec in theautumn of 1635. It is none the less true that he was the first whiteman to explore the region now known as the American Northwest.
Nicollet settled finally at Trois-Rivieres, as a clerk of theCompagnie des Cent- Associe's. He received, "in common with OlivierLetardif, a grant of 160 acres of wooded land in the outskirts, 23 May1637." It may have been at the same period that he obtained, inco-ownership with his brother-in-law Letardif, the Belleborne fief,which was probably on the Plains of Abraham, at Quebec. In October1637 he married Marguerite, daughter of Guillaume Couillard andGuillemette Hebert, by whom he had a son and a daughter. The latter,whose first name was Marguerite, became the wife of Jean-BaptisteLegardeur de Repentigny, a member of the Conseil Souverain. Until hisdeath, Nicollet stood out as a leading figure in the little town ofTroisRivieres. The noteworthy services that he rendered to the colony,and his knowledge of Indian languages and customs, earned him therespect of everyone.
The Jesuit Relations often speak warmly of his exemplary conduct;unlike the majority of the coureurs de bois of his day, Nicolletappears always to have lived according to the principles of hisreligion. In 1628, however, he did have an illegitimate daughter,probably born of a Nipissing Indian woman. In 1633 he asked permissionto stay at Trois-Rivieres, "to assure his salvation," wrote Father LaJeune, "by the use of the sacraments." His greatest joy, in the sparemoments that his duties allowed him, was to act as an interpreter forthe missionaries and to teach religion to the Indians.
Nicollet died prematurely in 1642 at Quebec. While he was temporarilyreplacing the head clerk of the company, his brother-in-law Letardif,he was asked to go with all speed to TroisRivieres to save an Iroquoisprisoner that the Hurons were preparing to torture. The shallop thatwas taking him to Trois-Rivieres was overturned by a strong gust ofwind, near Sillery. Being unable to swim, he was drowned. JeanHamelin
Sources: ASQ, Documents Faribault, 7; Registre A, 560f.(carriesNicollet's signature). Champlain, Oeuvres (Laverdiere), V, VI. JR(Thwaites), VIII, 247, 257,267, 295f.; XXIII, 274-82; et passim. C.W.Butterfield, History of the discovery of the north-west by JohnNicolet in 1634, with a sketch of his life (Cincinnati, 1881).Godbout, Les pionniers de la region trifluvienne. Auguste Gosselin,Jean Nicolet et le Canada de son temps (Quebec, 1905). Lionel Groulx,Notre grande aventure: l'empire francais en Amerique da Nord(1535-1760) (Montreal et Paris, [1958]). Gerard Hebert, "Jean Nicolet,le premier blanc a resider au lac Nipissing" (La Societe historique duNouvel-Ontario, Documents historiques, XIII, Sudbury, 1947), 8-24.Henri Jouan, "Jean Nicolet (de Cherbourg), interprete-voyageur auCanada, 1618-1642," RC, XXII (1886), 67-83. Benjamin Suite, "JeanNicolet," Journal de l'Instruction publique, XVII (1873), 166f.: XVIII(1874), 28-32; "Jean Nicolet et Ia decouverte du Wisconsin, 1634," RC,VI (1910), 148-55, 331- 42, 409-20; "La nom de Nicolet," BRH VII(1901), 21-23; "Notes on Jean Nicolet" (Wisconsin Hist. Soc. Coll,VIII, Madison, 1879), 188-94.
3. Francis Parkman, France and New England in North America, Vol. 1,pp. 725-6, says the following about our ancestor Jean Nicolet:
"A century passed after DeSoto's journeyings in the South, before aFrench explorer reached a northern tributary of the great river [theMississippi].
This was Jean Nicolet, interpreter at Three Rivers on the St.Lawrence. He had been some twenty years in Canada, had lived among thesavage Algonquins of Alumette Island [in the Ottawa River betweenQuebec and Ontario], and spent eight or nine years among theNipissings, on the lake which bears their name. Here, he became anIndian in all his habits, but remained, nevertheless, a zealousCatholic, and returned to civilization at last, because he could notlive without the sacraments. Strange storys were current among theNipissings, of a people without hair or beard, who came from the West,to trade with tribes beyond the Great Lakes. Who could doubt thatthese strangers were Chinese or Japanese? Such tales may well haveexcited Nicolet's curiosity; and, when, in 1635, or possibly in 1638,he was sent as an ambassador to the tribe in question, he would nothave been surprised if on arriving he had found a party of mandarinsamong them. Perhaps it was with a view to such a contingency that heprovided himself, in a dress of ceremony, with a robe of Chinesedamask embroidered with birds and flowers. The tribe to which he wassent was that of the Winnebagos, living near the head of Green Bay ofLake Michigan. They had come to blows with the Hurons, allies of theFrench; and Nicolet was charged to negotiate a peace. When heapproached the Winnebago town, he sent one of the Indian attendants toannounce his coming, put on his robe of damask, and advanced to meetthe expectant crowd with a pistol in each hand. The squaws andchildren fled, screaming that it was a manito, or spirit, armed withthunder and lightning; but the chiefs and warriors regaled him with sobountiful a hospitality that a hundred and twenty beavers weredevoured at a single feast. From the Winnebagoes, lie passed westward,ascended Fox River, crossed to the Wisconsin, and descended it so farthat, as he reported on his return, in three days more he would havereached the sea. The truth seems to be, that he mistook the meaning ofhis Indian guides, and that the "great water" to which he was so nearwas not the sea, but the Mississippi."
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