Jean Baptiste BISSOT

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19 January 1668 , Québec, Canada, New France

Died

28 October 1719 , Indiana Territory

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François BISSOT DE LA RIVIÈRE Marie COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY

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Born: 19 January 1668 in Québec, Canada, New France

Father: François BISSOT DE LA RIVIÈRE

Mother: Marie COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY

Maternal grandparents: Guillaume COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY , Marie-Guillemette HÉBERT

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Jean Baptiste married Marie-Marguerite FORESTIER 19 September 1696 in Montréal, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Marguerite FORESTIER was born 8 August 1675 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Marie-Marguerite died 27 September 1748 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Marie-Marguerite was the child of Antoine FORESTIER and Madeleine CAVELIER dite DESLAURIERS.

Jean Baptiste BISSOT died 28 October 1719 in Indiana Territory.

Died at Ches les Miamis, Riviere Maumee, pres de fort Wayne, Indiana

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Recorded occupation: second ensign in the colonial regular troops, agent of New France among the Miami Indians

Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Jean Baptiste BISSOT married

Marie-Marguerite FORESTIER
Marriage date: 19 September 1696
Marriage place: Montréal, Canada, New France
Source: Le Programme de recherche en démographie historique - Univeriste de Montreal

Marie-Marguerite FORESTIER was the child of Antoine FORESTIER and Madeleine CAVELIER dite DESLAURIERS

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Marie-Louise Bissot 21 Jun 1697 14 Jun 1766 m. Boisseau Nicolas

Francois-Marie Sieur de Vincennes 17 Jun 1700 25 Mar 1736 m. Philippe Marie

Children of Jean Baptiste BISSOT and Marie-Marguerite FORESTIER

François Marie BISSOT

Born: 17 June 1700, Montréal, Canada, New France
Died: 25 March 1736, , Mississippi Territory

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Birth — 1668
19 January 1668
Québec, Canada, New France

Biography
BISSOT DE VINSENNE (Vincennes), JEAN-BAPTISTE, second ensign in the colonial regular troops, agent of New France among the Miami Indians; b. 19 Jan. 1668 in Quebec; d. 1719 among the Miamis near the present site of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Bissot de Vinsenne was one of 12 children of François Byssot* de La Rivière and Marie Couillard. Claire-Françoise, a daughter of this marriage, married Louis Jolliet*, the discoverer of the Mississippi. Jean-Baptiste entered the seminary of Quebec in 1676 but, being unfit for the ecclesiastical state, left this institution in 1680. On 20 Oct. 1687, as he was preparing to leave for France to seek employment, he asked the Conseil Souverain to grant him his letters of majority so that he might have the right to administer his property.

We next hear of Vinsenne in 1694. At that time he had returned to Canada and had apparently decided to make his career in the west. In 1694 and 1695 he sold the properties which he owned in the colony, consisting of...Read full story

Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003

1696 Marriage / Partner
Jean Baptiste BISSOT and Marie-Marguerite FORESTIER 19 September 1696, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

He was 28 years old.

1698 - The steam engine is invented (Thomas Savery, England)

1700 Birth of Child
François Marie BISSOT was born 17 June 1700, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

Jean Baptiste was 32 years old.