Joseph HÉBERT

(b. 1 October 1636 , Québec, Canada, New France d. 15 June 1661 , Québec Province, Canada )
Cause of Death: killed by Iroquois

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Joseph HÉBERT was born 1 October 1636 in Québec, Canada, New France

Joseph HÉBERT was the child of Guillaume HÉBERT and Helene DESPORTES and the grandchild of: (paternal) Louis HÉBERT and Marie ROLLET (maternal) Pierre DESPORTES and Françoise LANGLOIS

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Joseph married Charlotte-Marie POITHIER (POITIERS) dite DUBUISSON 12 October 1660 in Québec, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 1 child. Charlotte-Marie POITHIER (POITIERS) dite DUBUISSON was born abt. 1641 in Davenescourt, Picardie, Somme, France. Charlotte-Marie died 9 February 1717 in Neuville, Portneuf, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-de-Sales). Charlotte-Marie was the child of Pierre-Charles POITIERS (POITHIER) and Hélène BELLEAU.

Joseph HÉBERT died 15 June 1661 in Québec Province, Canada.

Capitaine. Il fut tué par les iroquois à l'Ile d'Orléans en 1661

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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
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Joseph HÉBERT married

Charlotte-Marie POITHIER (POITIERS) dite DUBUISSON-- Date: 12 October 1660 Place: Québec, Canada, New France
Charlotte-Marie POITHIER (POITIERS) dite DUBUISSON was the child of Pierre-Charles POITIERS (POITHIER) and Hélène BELLEAU

"Marie-Charlotte (de Poitiers) was married on 12 October 1660 to Joseph Hebert, son of Guillaume and Helene Desportes."

Thomas J. Laforest
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Children of Joseph HÉBERT and Charlotte-Marie POITHIER (POITIERS) dite DUBUISSON:

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1636 Birth
1 October 1636
Québec, Canada, New France

Baptism
Joseph Hebert
3 November 1636
Notre-Dame-de-Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Biography
HÉBERT, JOSEPH, grandson of Canada’s first settler, only son of Guillaume Hébert and Hélène Desportes; b. Quebec 3 Nov. 1636; d. 1661 or 1662.

Joseph Hébert’s father, only son of Louis Hébert, died in 1639. On 12 Oct. 1660, Joseph married Marie-Charlotte de Poytiers. Not long afterwards he was captured by the Iroquois, perhaps by the same band who killed his cousin Nicolas Couillard and six other Frenchmen on the Île d’Orléans in June 1661. A letter written by a companion in captivity states that, wounded in the arm and shoulder, he was given to the Iroquois of Oneida. After the usual tortures, he was finally stabbed to death by drunken members of the tribe. His death was not definitely known in Quebec until the summer of 1662.

Meanwhile on 5 Oct. 1661 his wife had borne a son, Joseph. Since the records contain no further mention of this child, it is assumed that he died in infancy. In that case, Canada’s first settler has no direct descendants bearing the Hébert name. There...Read MORE...

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1636 Baptism
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
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1643 - May 14 - Louis XIV becomes King of France

1656 - The pendulum clock is invented (Christiaan Huygens, Netherlands)

1660 Marriage / Partner
Joseph HÉBERT and Charlotte-Marie POITHIER (POITIERS) dite DUBUISSON 12 October 1660, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

He was 24 years old.