Jean NICOLET

(b. abt. 1598 , France d. 27 October 1642 , Québec, Canada, New France )

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Jean NICOLET was born abt. 1598 in France

Jean NICOLET was the child of ? and ?

Jean was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1637.

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Jean married Unknown UNKNOWN . The couple had (at least) 1 child. Unknown UNKNOWN was born abt. 1598 in Canada.

Jean married (2) Marguerite COUILLARD 7 October 1637 in Québec, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 2 children. Marguerite COUILLARD was born 10 August 1626 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Marguerite died 20 April 1705 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Marguerite was the child of Guillaume COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY and Marie-Guillemette HÉBERT.

Jean NICOLET died 27 October 1642 in Québec, Canada, New France .

son of Thomas Nicolet and Marguerite Lamer

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Jean NICOLET married

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NOTE: Not certain there was a marriage, but this couple did have a daughter (see below)

Children of Jean NICOLET and Unknown UNKNOWN:

Euphrosine Madeleine NICOLET (b.abt. 1628, , Canada d. 30 September 1689, Québec, Canada, New France )
m. Jean LEBLANC 21 November 1643 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
m. Elie DUSSAULT dit LAFLEUR 22 February 1663 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Jean NICOLET married

Marguerite COUILLARD-- Date: 7 October 1637 Place: Québec, Canada, New France
Marguerite COUILLARD was the child of Guillaume COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY and Marie-Guillemette HÉBERT

Jean Nicolet, who lived among the Nipissing for seven years as a clerk, interpreter and intermediary for a company of wealthy French merchants, first married a Nipissing woman. Their daughter was named Euphrosine Madeleine Nicolet. Euphrosine (also known as Madeleine) was born circa 1628. When Jean Nicolet returned to the French settlement of Québec around 1637 and married a French woman, it seems he brought Euphrosine with him. She was literate and could sign her name which she spelled UFroisine.

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Children of Jean NICOLET and Marguerite COUILLARD:

Ignace NICOLET (b.abt. 1639, , Québec Province, Canada d. 4 December 1640, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France )

Marguerite NICOLET (b.1 April 1642, Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France d. 21 January 1722, Montréal, Canada, New France )
m. Jean-Baptiste LEGARDEUR 9 July 1656 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

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NICOLLET DE BELLEBORNE, JEAN, interpreter and clerk of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, liaison officer between the French and the Indians, explorer; b. c. 1598, probably at Cherbourg (Normandy), son of Thomas Nicollet, king’s postal courier between Cherbourg and Paris, and of Marie de Lamer; drowned 27 Oct. 1642 at Sillery.

Nicollet arrived in Canada in 1618, in the service of the Compagnie des Marchands de Rouen et de Saint-Malo. Like Marsolet and Brûlé, he was intended to live among the Indian allies in order to learn their language and customs and explore the regions they inhabited. Nothing is known of his education or temperament, except this remark of Father Vimont in 1643: “his disposition and his excellent memory led one to expect worthwhile things of him.”

Champlain, at the time of his explorations, had established relations with the Algonkins in the upper reaches of the Ottawa (Outaouais) River. It is presumed that, in his desire to strengthen the alliance that was...Read MORE...

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