Marie Josephe Esther Sayward (Sayer)
(9 Mar 1685 - 17 Jan 1770)

Marie Josephe Esther Sayward (Sayer)  (9 Mar 1685,  York, York, Maine, USA  - 17 Jan 1770,  Montréal, Québec, Canada )  
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Marie Josephe Esther  was the child of Jonathan Sayward and Marie Madeleine Rishworth

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Ancestor's Life Events

Misc   True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada During the Old French and Indian Wars By Charlotte Alice Baker "...Our next meeting with Mary Rishworth Plaisted is at her baptism in Montreal The following is a free translation of the Parish record On the 8th of December 1693 there was baptized sous condition an English woman from New England named in her own country Marie who born at York on the 8th of January O. S. 1660 of the marriage of Edouard Rishworth and Suzanne Willwright both Protestants of Lincoln in old England and married last to Jacques Pleisted Protestant of New England was captured the 25th of January O. S. of the year 1692 with two of her children Marie Genevieve Sayer born the 4th of April OS 1681 and Marie Joseph Sayer born the 9th of March O. S. 1685 by the savages of Acadia and now lives in the service of Madame Catherine Gauchet widow of M. Jean Baptiste Migeon appointed by the King first lieutenant general of the bailiwick established by his Majesty in Montreal. Her name Marie has been kept and that of Madeleine added to it. Her god father was M. Jean Baptiste Juchereau lieutenant general of the Royal bailiwick of Montreal, and her god mother Madame Madeleine Louise Juchereau. Signed, Mary Magdalen Pleistead signs the record in a good handwriting. So also do her god parents Juchereau and Madame his wife Catherine Gauchet and finally Jean Fremont Cure all as clear as if written yesterday..." "Esther Sayward whom we know in Canada as Marie Joseph Sayer was educated by the nuns of the Congregation and probably remained under their protection till her marriage Naturalization was granted her in May 1710 On the 5th of January 1712 in the parish church of Montreal in presence of many relatives and friends of the parties she was married to the Seigneur Pierre de L'Estage merchant of Montreal The fact that the three banns were dispensed with hints that ambassadors from our government concerning an exchange of prisoners were then in Canada and it was thought best speedily to clip the wings of this captive bird. Marie Joseph the first child of Pierre de L Estage and Marie Joseph Sayer was born October 1 1712 The child's godmother was Marie hardin who could not sign the record on account of her great age This child died at the age of four Jacques Pierre the second child was born and baptized Aug 5 1714 Its godparents were Jacques Le Ber Seigneur de Senneville and Madame Repentigny. In the record the father is called Monsieur Pierre Lestage Marchand Bourgeois of this city and treasurer for the king. In 1715 he became the owner of the Seigniory of Berthier opposite Sorel on the north shore of the St Lawrence." "...At eight o clock in the morning of the 21st of December 1743 at the age of sixty three, the Sieur de L'Estage, husband of Marie Joseph Sayer, died in Montreal. The next day his body was carried to the church of Notre Dame where a solemn mass was said. From there it was borne to the church of the Recollet fathers and buried. Father Moreau writes that he left his wealth jointly to his widow Marie Joseph Esther Sayer, to his sister living in Bayonne France, and to a nephew of the same place. The death of her husband and children was a severe blow to Madame de L'Estage She naturally turned for sympathy and consolation to her beloved nuns who had befriended her girlhood. Doubtless by their advice, she purchased a house adjoining the convent and adopted two girls whom she educated at the convent. They afterwards became nuns and were known as Soeurs Sainte Basile and Sainte Pierre. The ladies of the convent having permitted Madame de L'Estage to cut a door between the two houses, she spent the recreation hours with her adopted children in the convent. One of these daughters died at the age of twenty five the other at eighty. Affliction and increasing age led her to sell the Seigniory of Berthier in February 1765 for a life annuity of 1500 livres, which with an annual income from her husband's estates in France handsomely supplied her wants. Tenderly cared for by the Sisters of the Congregation, she as perpetual pensioner, spent with them peacefully and happily the remainder of her days. The loving hands of those who so long had ministered to her needs closed her eyes at the last. The date of her death is as yet unknown to me. She was buried near her beloved Sisters of the Congregation under the chapel of St Anne in the old church of Notre Dame which stood in the middle of what is now Notre Dame St opposite the present cathedral. There all that was mortal of the New England captive Marie Joseph Esther Sayer..."

25 Jan 1692 - Captured   "January 25: Marie Risheoth born January 8, 1660 York daughter Edouard Rishwoth, English from Lincoln and Suzanne Wilright; captured January 25, 1692 along with Genevieve and Marie Joseph Sayer; 1st married Guillaume Sayer; 2nd marriage Jacques Pleisted. " Source: http:/www.telusplanet.net/public/dgarneau/french24.htm

Ancestor's Marriage(s) and Child(ren)

married Pierre Lestage -- Date: 5 Jan 1712 Place:  Montréal, Québec, Canada Source:  Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) [database on-line]. Original data: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin.  Marriage found at Notre Dame de Montreal in Drouin Collection Pierre Lestage and Marie Joseph Sayeres

Family Group Record for Marie Josephe Esther Sayward (Sayer) and Pierre Lestage

Children: Marie Josephe Lestage (1 Oct 1712, Montréal, Québec, Canada - ,  ) Jacques Pierre Lestage (25 Aug 1714, Montréal, Québec, Canada - 26 Aug 1788, La Prairie, Québec, Canada)

Ancestor's Death-related Information

Death recorded at Notre-Dame-de-Montreal, Montreal, Quebec


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