Sault-St-Louis, Québec, Canada (Kahnawake)
1679 - Charles Ptolomée drowned

Lake St. Louis Old and New, Illustrated : and Cavelier De La Salle, 1893, p. 59 - 60

"Suffice it to state that a few of his Lachine settlers followed him in some of his far off expeditions : amongst others, Jean Michel, a saurgeion, Olivier Quesned, gunsmith, Jean Boursier dit Lavigne, Frs. Brunet dit le Bourbonnais, Vivien Magdelaine dit La Douceur, François Prud'homme, and Charles Ptolomée. This Ptolomée was drowned on the 30th April, 1679, at Sault St. Louis, befor3e the eyes of Jean Beslot, "Mr. de La Salle's clerk," says the register of Villemarie. No stress need be laid upon the perils of these expeditions, undertaken in small bark canoes or the like, in charge of a handful of men and directed through vast unknown lands, peopled by numerous wild and warlike tribes partly supplied, even then, with firemans."

In 1879, at the time of his death, Charles Ptolome was accompanying René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, fur trade magnate and explorer, and his retinue, in his intended expedition down the Mississippi River. By August of that year, rhe de la Salle expedition had built a fort on the Niagra River on the Montreal side.However, extant documentation records that Charles Ptolomée drowned 30 Aoril 1679 at Sault St. Louis which was located on the St. Lawrence River, across from Montreal, which, at the time, was the territory of the Kahnawake Mohawk Nation.

Lake St. Louis Old and New, Illustrated : and Cavelier De La Salle, 1893, p. 59 - 60; Biography.com

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