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About Marie-Francoise Nestyus dit St-Yves (Katherine Stevens)
(Probably) not the same as Katherine Stevens, who was born in New Hampshire on April 23, 1676
Katherine was captured and taken by Abenaki Native Americans led by Baron de Saint-Castin in a deadly raid on the English settlement at and around Fort Charles (later, Fort William Henry), Pemaquid, Bristol, Maine-Massachusetts territory August 2-3, 1689. [3]
Marie was born 1681 [1678] in Maine, USA. Her parents were Nestius Stevens and Mary Meray ( Murrey). At age 8 during a raid on Pamaquid ( Woodwich,Me) near Fort William Heney,she was captured and carried off to Canada. In 1696, she was no longer with the Indians. Many captives were sold to French trapers. Prehapes this is how she came to be with Paquet! She married Aug 1, 1697, Jasques Paquet. He was about 22 or 23 and she was 16. She had no memory of her family in Maine. Infact records show there's a good chance her first name was really katherine. She had no memory of even her name.This perhapes explains how woman from Englishh/American backgound up with a very French name.Don't , further research needed, but perhapes she was re names and baptisted Catholic in order to marry him. Whatever , happened they had 13 children.
Mother of Pierre Paquet, Maurice Paquet, Marie Louise Paquet, Elisabeth Paquet and Louis Paquet.
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/214705888/marie-francoise-nesty...
Marie-Francoise is the daughter of unknown Nestyus and Marie Meray. She was born in about 1678. She married Jacques Paquet dit Pasquier on 1 August 1697, in Notre-Dame-de-Québec. They are the parents of the following (verified with PRDH):
- 1) Pierre (1698-1766) md Marie-Angelique Bourque dit Lachapelle
- 2) Maurice (1699-1780) md Marie-Therese Drapeau
- 3) Marie-Louise (1701-1703)
- 4) Marie-Louise (1703-1746) md Martin Langlois dit Germain
- 5) Philippe (1705-1731)
- 6) Jacques (1707-1777) md Marie-Anne Richard dit Tallard
- 7) Martin (1709-1760) md Marie-Louise Chapeau
- 8) Francois (1710-1784) md Marie-Genevieve Giroux
- 9) Jean-Baptiste (1712-1788) md Marie-Francoise-Agnes Penisson
- 10) Marie-Elisabeth-Isabelle (1714-1774) md Louis Belanger
- 11) Pierre (1717-1772) md Marie-Agnes Chalifoux
- 12) Marie-Louise (1719-1771) md Jean-Baptiste Depocat dit Joannis
- 13) Louis (1722-1781) md Marie-Madeleine Vandandaigue dit Gadbois
She was buried on 6 June 1741.
In August of 1689, the Abenaki Indians, accompanied by the Baron de Saint-Castin, marched toward the English settlement of Pemaquid, located at the mouth of the Kennebec River in territory under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts (this territory in now in Maine). The raiding party surprised the settlers outside of the fort and killed anyone who tried to defend themselves. The garrison at Pemaquid put up a vigorous resistance for more than two days, but they were finally forced to surrender to the Abenakis who burned the fort and destroyed their houses. The Indians returned with a rich booty of supplies and many prisoners. Among them was Katherine Stevens, age 13, and her two brothers. The Abenakis continued to raid and destroy more than ten English settlements on their march back to Canada, killing over 200 settlers along the way.
No one knows what happened to all of the prisoners taken to Quebec. The prisoners who were given to the French were put into domestic service. They were encouraged to give up their faith and embrace Catholicism. Once they did this and received the Sacrement of Baptism, they were included into the community and permitted to marry a French colonist. After spending 8 years as a captive, Katherine Stevens was given the name "Marie Françoise". She was adopted by a Monsieur St-Yves. She married Jacques Paquet in 1697. The fate of her two brothers remains a mystery.
Reference: "New England Captives Carried to Canada" by Emma Lewis Coleman. Found at < GeneanetTree >
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!Source: Jette p 869; d'Absquodois, Nouvelle-Angleterre; 19 ans en 1697; prise en guerre par les Amerindiens 1687. Capture in American War.
19 ans 1697; prise en guerre par les Amérindiens 1687
!BIRTH-MARRIAGE: Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes, L'Abbe Cyprien Tanguay; by Province of Quebec 1924; Volume 1 Page 465. Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles du Quebec; by Universite de Montreal & Rene Jette; Page 869. Notre Dame of Quebec church directory by Pontbriand Vol 2 page 212,329. All it said that she was English and her last name was Nestyus, Estias, Stibre. Here it says she was english speaking, she was 19 in 1697 and she was taken prisonner in a war by the American Indians in 1687 also she was married by contract (ct 28-07 Chambalon) Quebec.
!Book: Old Salisbury & Amesbury Families pg 325
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!BIRTH: Information from Jette, Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles du Quebec, page 869; Montreal, University of Montreal Press, 1983; available at the Library of Congress, Local History and Genealogy Room, open stacks area, call number CS81.Q4J47 (1983)(this source says this person was captured by Indians in New England in 1687, and presumably brought to Quebec by them). !CHRISTENING: Information not researched. !MARRIAGE: Information from Jette, Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles du Quebec, page 869; Montreal, University of Montreal Press, 1983; available at the Library of Congress, Local History and Genealogy Room, open stacks area, call number CS81.Q4J47 (1983). !DEATH: Information not found, so assumed to be the day before burial. !BURIAL: Information from Tanguay, Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes, Volume 6, Page 209; Montreal, 1887 (republished by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1967); available at the Library of Congress, Local History & Genealogy Room, open stacks area, call number CS81.T312 (1967).
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Full Name: Katherine Marie Françoise Stevens Dit St-Yves
All it said that she was English and her last name was Nestyus, Estias, Stibre. Here it says she was english speaking, she was 19 in 1697 and she was taken prisoner in a war by the American Indians in 1687 also she was married by contract (ct 28-07 Chambalon) Quebec.
GEDCOM Note
- aussi appelée Estias-Nestyus-Stibre
- anglaise
References
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stevens-4412 cites
- Entered by Joe Fitzgerald, Sunday, November 3, 2013.
- http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogie=Jacqu...
- Emma Lewis Coleman. New England Captives Carried to Canada Between 1677 and 1760. Heritage Books, 1989, p. 175. < GoogleBooks > Katherine, John and Samuel Stephens / Stevens, captured at Permaquid, were probably the children of Thomas, who was in Permaquid in 1685, and who later lived in Scituate and Boston.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Pemaquid_(1689) “ The siege of Pemaquid (August 2–3, 1689) was a successful attack by a large band of Abenaki Indians on the English fort at Pemaquid, Fort Charles, then the easternmost outpost of colonial Massachusetts (present-day Bristol, Maine). The French-Abenaki attack was led by Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin and Father Louis-Pierre Thury and Chief Moxus.[4] The fall of Pemaquid was a significant setback to the English. It pushed the frontier back to Casco (Falmouth), Maine. …”
- List of Captives: List of Canada Prisoners 1600, taken from: New England Historical and Genealogical Registers, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Samuel G. Drake, Publisher, ©1847 Vol - 1 - 50 ( Jan 1852) as transcribed by C. Parziale, Mar 2001.(http://files.usgwarchives.net/nh/strafford/history/captives.txt) 1695: Names of those remaining still in hands of the french at Canada. … John Stephins, boy Pemaquid [John Stephens] …. Kattn Stephens, do. do. [Katherine Stephens] Pemaquid [John Stephens] …. Kattn Stephens, do. do. [Katherine Stephens]
- Neill De Paoli, Life on the edge: Community and trade on the Anglo -American periphery, Pemaquid, Maine,1610--1689, University of New Hampshire Scholar's Repository, 2001.(https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/215514462.pdf)
- John Johnston, A History of the Towns of Bristol and Bremen in the State of Maine, Including the Pemaquid Settlement, Joel Munsel, 1873. < GoogleBooks >
- Millennium File: Nathaniel Stevens Nestyus (1645-1689). Spouse: Mary Meray Murray (1647 - 1678). Daughter: Katherine M. Stevens (1678 - Jun 6, 1741).
- https://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogie=Nest... lists as Thomas Stephens-Stevens, wife Merry Caswell, daughter Marie-Francois Nestyns [formerly Katherine Stevens]
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/214705888/marie-francoise-nesty...
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Prise en guerre par les amérindiens en 1687
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Marie-Francoise Nestyus dit St-Yves (Katherine Stevens)'s Timeline
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November 22, 195
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1678
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of, Pemaquid, Lincoln County, Maine
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1681
Age 3
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L'Islet Sur Mer, L'Islet, QC, Canada
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1687
Age 9
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Absquodois, Nouvelle-Angleterre
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1687
Age 9
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Absquodois, Nouvelle-Angleterre
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June 13, 1698
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Québec, Québec, Canada, Nouvelle-France
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June 13, 1698
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September 16, 1699
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Eglise Notre Dame Des Anges, Capitale Nationale, Quebec, Canada
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February 28, 1701
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