Jeanne COUC dite LAFLEUR
1679 - murdered



"October 23: Trois Rivers, the unpunished murder this date of (III)-Jeanne Couc dit Lafleur, Metis, b-1657, Trois Rivers, daughter, (II)-Pierre Couc dit Lafleur and Marie Mitedmeg8k8e, Algonquine, by Jean Rattier dit DuBuisson, marks the beginning of the end of the peaceful coexistence between the French Administration and the Metis of the greater area of Trois Rivers. A farm laborer Jean Rattier says Dubuisson is the murder of Jeanne and wounds inflicted to his father. The lord of Saint-François of the Lake, close to Three-Rivers, Jean Crevier, and one of his servants are for their part marked of complicity after the fact. Jean Rattier undergoes two lawsuits. He is condemned each time to be hung. One offers however the life to him saves if he agrees to act as torturer."

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She was murdered by Jean Rattier dit DuBuisson on 23 Oct 1679 and was buried 24 Oct 1679 in Trois-Rivieres, Québec (Source: Don Rivara, History of the Cooper-Matheny-Hewitt Family, from "Our French-Canadian Ancestors", Vol. IX, p. 8.)



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