Charlotte Roussel had been orphaned in France and made a most likely candidate to be recruited to be sent to New France in order to make the colony grow. She was a "fille du roi". Most likely she was in an orphanage run by the church, and was concidered to be a girl that would make a good wife for a colonist...one of good moral training.

She and Pierre had 8 children together.

Then during a rainy night the Indians snuck in and attacked the settlement of Lachine. Charlotte and Pierre were taken captive on 5 Aug. 1689 and Charlotte was never heard from again. Pierre did make it back to the settlement after 8 1/2 years of captivity on 22 Jan. 1698, but Charlotte was not with him. It was most likely that she had died before that date during captivity. -------------------- Charlotte was captured by the Iroquois on August 4, 1689 in Lachine. She probably died in captivity. Source: Jetté, p. 475. -------------------- Charlotte ROUSSEL was born ABT 1646 in Notre-Dame-de-la-Ronde, Normandie, France, and died BEF 1699 in Died while a captive of the Iroquois. She was the daughter of 50. Thomas ROUSSEL and 51. Barbe POISSON.

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-------------------- Tuee, ou prise et morte en captivite, lors du massacre de Lachine, le 5 Aout 1689.

Pierre and Charlotte had eight children and on August the 4th, 1689 when the Lachine massacre occurred, Charlotte was abducted by Iroquois and was never seen again. She probably died in captivity.