Denis-Joseph JUCHEREAU

Born

20 June 1661 , Québec, Canada, New France

Died

abt. 1709 , Québec, Canada, New France

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Father

Jean JUCHEREAU

Mother

Marie-Françoise GIFFARD

Grandparents of Denis-Joseph JUCHEREAU

Paternal grandparents

Jean JUCHEREAU Marie-Catherine LANGLOIS

Maternal grandparents

Robert GIFFARD Marie RENOUARD

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Recorded occupation: half-pay lieutenant

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Baptism

Notre-Dame-de-Quebec
20 June 1661

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Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Biography

JUCHEREAU DE LA FERTÉ, DENIS-JOSEPH, half-pay lieutenant; baptized 20 June 1661 at Quebec, son of Jean Juchereau* de La Ferté and Marie Giffard; died a bachelor; buried 9 Aug. 1709 at Quebec.

La Ferté’s presence among the fur-traders of Lake Superior in the autumn of 1683 is referred to in a letter of 12 April 1684 from Daniel Greysolon Dulhut to Governor Le Febvre* de La Barre. La Ferté went down again to Quebec the following spring, no doubt, since he took part in the governor’s expedition against the Senecas. He is mentioned as captain of the Cap-Rouge militiamen at the review which was held on 14 Aug. 1684 at Fort Frontenac. On 7 Aug. 1685 he took on Laurent Glory for a journey to the Ottawa country; in 1686 he was to be found at Michilimackinac, whence he was preparing to return to Quebec. He was apparently a member of Brisay de Denonville’s expedition against the Senecas in 1687, which included “La Ferté’s company.” It was apparently to this Juchereau that Buade* de

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