Catherine ASSABABICH

(b. abt. 1647 , Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France d. abt. 1652 , Canada )

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Catherine ASSABABICH was born abt. 1647 in Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France

Catherine ASSABABICH was the child of Unknown ASSABABICH and Marie MITEOUAMIGOUKOUÉ (MITE8AMEG8K8E)

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Catherine ASSABABICH died abt. 1652 in Canada.
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From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
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1652
Baptised 1 Nov 1652 in Trois-Rivières. The witnesses for Catherine's baptism were Assababich, Marie Mite8ameg8k8e and Anne Duherisson. Father Joseph Duperon, Jesuit priest performed the baptism.

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April 1652 -- '...Several days before, a band of Iroquois warriors had attacked her village, the village to which Assababich, her husband, her two children and a very close cousin had fled when the Iroquois had pushed the Hurons, then the Algonkins from the fertile Ottawa River Valley (border between Ontario and Québec). Led by Sachem Pachirini, chief of the Weskarini Band of the Christian Algonquin people, the peaceful clan, along with the French Colonists at Trois-Rivières had fought valiantly. The women and children had fled into the forest while the remaining warriors and soldiers fought to save their peaceful village. During the flight into the woods, Assababich's two children were abducted and eventually adopted by the...Read MORE...

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