of the 1730s and 1740s. Corbin had likely been trained as a carpenter by his stepfather, Joseph Rancour, and introduced to shipbuilding by Fabien Badeau, his brother-in-law

by his father-in-law, William Winniett, an important merchant of Annapolis Royal. The differences between

her captors were pro-French Iroquois. Ransomed by her brother-in-law Maurice Ménard, she accompanied him to Michilimackinac where he was an interpreter. While there, she apparently ran afoul of Cadillac

law with Alexandre-André-Victor Chaussegros de Léry. The young man was not cut out for legal studies and did not complete his articling. Preferring to become a doctor, he began his training with Samuel

brother-in-law, Daniel H. Pitts. Although subordinate to others in terms of shipping activity, Daniel Cronan excelled in the accumulation of wealth

College, he graduated in 1771 and settled at Hatfield, Mass., where he is said to have studied law. He joined the British forces in Boston at the outbreak of the American revolution and in September

martial law, had collected farmers at hay harvest time and marched them 50 miles “to do Duty as Soldiers,” and they protested that because he held so many commissions from Halifax he informed, judged

married in 1655 he settled at Trois-Rivières and was associated with his father-in-law’s shipping company. In 1657 he bought a farm at côte Sainte-Geneviève near Quebec and leased it. He moved from

common enough in 19th century Canada, the middle class English adventurer. He drifted through a number of careers in England before coming to Canada. First an ensign in the 82nd Foot, he then studied law

manufacture of sawn lumber. Having brought his son-in-law, T. G. Hazlitt, into the company in 1865 as assistant manager, Dickson apparently felt freer to plan new business ventures, to participate

Lévêque, who was soon to become his father-in-law. On 30 Jan. 1763 he married Véronique Lévêque, who was 26. At that time, in addition to owning the equipment essential for his work as a sailor

Bourgchemin, Marguerite Dizy’s brother-in-law, but this is not the place to recount the ins and outs of it. In March, Marguerite Dizy addressed a first petition to the

-law, but he was unable to carry out the scheme and he died in 1781 at Nantua, near his birthplace. Susan W. Henderson

: laws and treaties, comp. C. J. Kappler (5v., Washington, 1904–41

Guyart]: “He has settled all the affairs of the country. He has appointed officers to dispense justice according to the prescription of the law. He has also established an administration to take

in this region when his father died in December 1749 in Montreal. On 1 Oct. 1750 he was appointed a gentleman cadet in the colonial regular troops by Governor La Jonquière

 years, this plan was replaced by one for “educating and placing the Heathen Natives and their Children in English Families, in some Trade, Mystery or lawful calling.” Indians were induced to apprentice

), vol.1. Battery records of the Royal Artillery, 1716–1859, comp. M. E. S. Laws (Woolwich, Eng., 1952). G.B., WO, Army list, 1771–1820. List of officers of the Royal

, dated 2 March 1762. Besides protecting the British traders and maintaining a semblance of law and order at this frail outpost of empire, Gorrell’s main function was to try to secure good

 Dec. 1808 in Uxbridge Township, Upper Canada, near the present town of Uxbridge, the third of ten children of Jonathan Gold and Rachel Lee; m. 1 Jan. 1839 Mary James, and they had 11