Richard Nason (alias Jacques Ritchot)

• Son of Richard Nason & Shuah Douglass.
• Not the same as Richard Nason, who was the son of Jonathan Nason & Sarah (Jenkins) [Nason] Key.

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Jacques NASON-RITCHOT

• Born as Richard Nason, died as Jacques Ritchot
• Birth: Jan 6 1680 / abt 1682 Kittery or South Berwick, York, Maine, Etats-Unis / or about 1680 in Hampton, New Hampshire
• Baptized: January 6, 1691 - St. Francois-du-Lac, Quebec, New France
• Death: Apr 8 1729 - Yamaska, Quebec, Canada
• Parents: Richard NASON, Shuah COLCORD
• Wife: Elisabeth DUBOIS
• Children: Jacques RITCHOT, Angelique RITCHOT, Jean Baptiste RITCHOT, Marie Claude RITCHOT, Pierre Louis RITCHOT, Francois Joseph RITCHOT, Jean Baptiste Michel RITCHOT, Marie-Joachim RITCHOT, Marguerite RITCHOT, Marie Genevieve RITCHOT, Marie Joachim RITCHOT, Charles Joseph RITCHOT, Charlotte Josephe RITCHOT, Dorothee RITCHOT, Madeleine Angelique RITCHOT
• Siblings: Sarah NASON, Jonathan NASON

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Biography

“Richard was captured by Indians and sold to a Frenchman near Montreal, whose daughter he married and lived to an advanced age.”

From “Descendants of Jacques NASON known as RITCHOT in New France.” WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 2007 by Dominique Ritchot. < link > (google translation from French)

Contrary to what Marcel Fournier suggests in his book From New England to New France (about Anglo-American captives) Richard Nason (Neilson) did not fade into the indian community. He is the same captive who became Jacques Ritchot, married to Elisabeth Dubois dit Brisebois in 1703 at St-Francois-du-Lac. He obtained his French citizenship in May 1710, along with many other captives, and settled into his society of adoption. He was among the founders of the parish of St-Michel d'Yamaska, where he was buried on April 8, 1729.

Elisabeth Dubois survived her husband 14 years, as she died and was buried January 17, 1742 in St-Michel d'Yamaska. On her mother's side, Elisabeth Dubois descends from Anne-Julienne Dumont, born in Notre-Dame du Maixe (ar. Lunéville, Meurthe-et-Moselle), in the old French province of Lorraine. Which is partily correct with the oral tradition that sets our ancestry is in the East part of France.

Jacques Ritchot and Elisabeth Dubois had 12 children:

• 1. Jacques born c. 1704 St-Francois-du-Lac (his baptism record was distroyed along with the early register in the Rogers' Rangers attack of 1759), bur. 11-07-1780 St-Michel d'Yamaska, never married
• 2. Angélique aka Madeleine born c. 1705 St-Francois-du-Lac, m 1723: Michel Pinard
• 3.Jean-Baptiste bpt. 30-09-1708 St-Francois-du-Lac, bur. 14-08-1710 id
• 4. Marie-Claude bpt. 18-03-1711 St-Francois-du-Lac, bur. bet. 17-07 and 18-09-1712 id
• 5. Joseph-François bpt. 05-06-1713 St-Francois-du-Lac, m 1737: Marie-Anne Giroux
• 6. Pierre-Louis bpt. 15-03-1715 St-François-du-Lac, m 1742: Marie-Claire Lefebvre
• 7. Michel-Jean-Baptiste bpt. 10-01-1717 St-François-du-Lac, m 1750: Marie-Anne Brouillard
• 8. Dorothy bpt. 05-07-1719 St-Francois-du-Lac, bur. 13-07-1770 St-Michel d'Yamaska, never married
• 9.Marie-Joachim bpt. 26-12-1721 St-Francois-du-Lac, bur. 18-03-1730 St-Michel d'Yamaska
• 10. Marguerite bpt. 24-06-1723 St-François-du-Lac, m 1749: Antoine Bibeau
• 11. Charlotte-Josèphe bpt. 10-08-1724 St-François-du-Lac, bur. 17-02-1781 St-Michel d'Yamaska, never married
• 12.Geneviève bpt. 16-08-1727 St-Michel d'Yamaska, m 1758: Joseph Carry

The name Ritchot survived through this day by the marriages of two of Jacques' five sons (Jean-Baptiste-Michel had a posthumus son who died infancy). The descendants of Joseph-Francois were mainly found in the county of Yamaska, and many of them migrated in New England in the mid-1850's, where many branches of the family can still be found. Other branches are now living in the industrial towns of the Monteregie and Eastern Township areas of Quebec. Another branch is in the Outaouais area.

Family

Summary

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141853474/jacques-ritchot (birth showing of 6 Jan 1690
Saint-François-du-Lac, Centre-du-Quebec Region, Quebec, Canada is baptism date & place)

Info provided by Dominique Ritchot:

Jacques Ritchot was the son of Richard Nason and Shuah Colcord. He was born in South Berwick ME in 1682.

His father was killed in a raid before 1687. His mother married John Douglas and lived in Elliot ME when a party of French militiamen and Abenaki indians raided the village. John Douglas (?) was killed on his doorstep and the Shuah Colcold's son, aged 8 years-old, was taken along with other captives.

Taken from "The Genealogist" vol. 17 #2 Issue No. 48 Spring 1991 - American Canadian Genealogical Society - New Hampshire. There is more in the article.

“… Richard Nason is said to have been taken captive at Sturgeon Creek (now Eliot) Maine. His father, Richard Nason sr., was killed in the doorway of his home during the Indian attack [sic: perhaps not, Richard Nason was living in 1685]. Richard was 7 years old when he was brought to St-Francois-du-Lac, Quebec. The date of capture was guessed at as about 1675, probably by Stackpole and repeated by Coleman, but was likely about 1689/90.

On 6 Jan 1691, Jacques Ritchot, age 9, was baptized at St-Francois-du-Lac, his parentss were "Ritchot" and Suzanne Calquet. This information was probably from Jacques himself or fellow captives. The parents of Richard Nason were Richard Nason sr and Shuah Colcord. Ritchot was the only name given for the father and was a mistake for Richard, while Shuah Colcord became Suzanne Calquet. Considering the fact that Richard/Jacques father had died when the son was 7 at his capture and that he was 9 at his baptism, it is understandable that he may have been confused about names. Since there is no baptism record found for Richard Nason, the record for Jacques Ritchot seems to belong to Richard. He is called by the name Ritchot, Ridechot, Richtot, Nason, Naason and Nielson, at various times in Canadian and American Records.

In May 1710, he was naturalized a citizen of Canada. In the record he is listed as Richard Neilson of New England, resident of St-Francois, married to a French woman and having children. …”

Abducted

From https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/non-vitals/LKGX-KJ4

Roger W. Lawrence "NASON dit RITCHOT", in The Genealogist, Manchester NH, AFCGS, vol. 17, no. 2 (issue 48) Spring 1991

27 March 1690 a party of 60 Abenaki warriors and French militiamen led by < Hertel de Rouville > raided Sturgeon Creek, abducting about twenty captives, including Richard Nason III. He was brought to the Abenaki mission of St-François-du-Lac before being bought by the Sieur de Rouville, and placed in the Crevier family of St- François-du-Lac.

From “True stories of New England captives carried to Canada during the old French and Indian wars” [microform] by Baker, C. Alice (Charlotte Alice), 1833-1909. (1897). Page 311. < Archive.Org >

On the 28th of March, 1690, we find Francois Hertel leading the attack at Salmon Falls (1) and performing prodigies of valor at Wooster River. …

• 1. According to some writers, this attack on Salmon Falls was led by Hertel de Rouville, son of Francois Hertel.
• < Wikipedia Joseph-François Hertel de la Fresnière > “… Upon the outbreak of King William's War in 1689, he was chosen by Governor Frontenac to lead an expedition in 1690 that successfully raided Salmon Falls on the Maine-New Hampshire border, … “

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From http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogy=Jacque...

Jacques Ritchot was the son of Richard Nason and Shuah Colcord. He was born in South Berwick, ME. In 1682 [SIC - 1690], a group of French militiamen and Abenaki Indian warriors raided Sturgeon Creek where the Nason family lived and brought many villagers to Canada as hostages. Jacques was among them. His father was killed, his mother later remarried to John Douglas in ME. He was baptised Jacques Ritchot in 1691 (he was about 8 or 9 years old). His name was a french translation of his father's first name. His mother was called Suzanne Calquet in the baptism record.
He grew up in St. Francois-du-Lac, probably in the Crevier family who employed him and married Elisabeth Dubois-dit-Brisebois.

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Origins

Identified in Maine

From Old Kittery and her families : Stackpole, Everett Schermerhorn, 1850-1927. (Publication date: 1907) Page 161. < Archive.Org >

The Indians went south at least as far as Sturgeon Creek. Tradition says that at this time Richard Nason, Jr., was slain in his own door and his son Richard was taken to Canada never to return.

[Note: Stackpole’s identification was not accepted by GDMNH, but has been by later researchers, who also adjusted the dating of these raids]

Disputed identification

“Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire” by Sybil Noyes (1878-1967) and Charles Thornton Libby (1861-1948) and Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966) published by The Southward Press, Portland, Maine, 1928. (2012 reprint) Borrow from < Archive.org > Page 504-505 “Nason.”

… Ch: Richard, as eldest s. inherited 2/8 of his fa.’s est. but d.s.p., prob. an Indian victim, about 1696. See Emery v. Nason, Com, Pleas 8, 172, in 1730. A Kit. tradition, wrongly attached to a non-existent son of Richard(6), states that a R. N., captured and taken to Canada, m, his French master’s dau. and lived to old age. …

6 RICHARD (5), m. Shuah Coleord(1) who m. 2d 16 Sept. 1687 John Douglas(2). Trad. states that he was shot by Ind. in the entry of his ho. in 1675, but his fa. was called ‘Sr.’ in 1676 and the yr. of his w.’s birth (1662) necessitates advancing the year of his death some years. Conclusively, R.N. ‘Jr.’ was absent from meet, in 1685. Stackpole must have guessed, and badly, at the birth yrs. of his ch: Sarah, m. Nathaniel Sanborn bef. 1709 and had a ch. as late as 1719. Jonathan, Hampton, m. 17 Oct. 1705 Huldah Sanborn who was bp. and adm. to full com. (Hamp. Falls) in 1727 and d. 7 Oct. 1758. His will, 1741—1750, direets that his mo, be maintained out of his est. and names his w. and ch: …

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Identified in New France

Programme de Recherche en Démographie Histoire lists him as Jacques Ritchot dit Nason born abt. 1682 in nouvelle-angleterre son of Richard Ritchot dit Nason and Suzanne Marthe Calquet. Baptized 6 Jan 1691 (location not given) burial 8 Apr 1729 Yamaska. Married Marie Elisabeth Isabelle DuBois dite Brisebois 23 Sep 1703 at St-Francois-du-Lac. https://www.prdh-igd.com/Membership/en/PRDH/Individu/65382

“Jacques Ritchot, fils de __ Ritchot et de Suzanne Calquet, âgé de 9 ans, fut baptisé dans la chapelle domestique de M. Crevier le 6 janvier 1691, à St-François-du-Lac. Son parrain fut Jean Baptiste René Crevier dit Manoche, sa marraine Marguerite Crevier.[3]”. Naturalized as a Citizen in 1710 in New France.

Comment from Dominique at http://gen-familleritchot.blogspot.com/2007/07/descendants-of-jacqu... on SEPTEMBER 18, 2011 AT 11:02:00 UTC−7 (google translation from French)

… the genealogies edited by Drouin and the Genealogical Dictionary produced by this house, like any other secondary sources, are not entirely reliable. It is clear that the compilers of this dictionary did not consult the primary documents (civil status certificates, marriage contract, naturalization list) and have turned the round corners on a few occasions.

However, the original documents confirm in full that the common ancestor of the Ritchot is indeed a descendant of Anglo-American settlers and that his origins date back to England.

I have a copy of these documents that confirm that the missionary (and not the parish priest) did not lie. I invite you to consult these documents, which are available online via Ancestry.ca or FamilySearch or to visit a center of the National Archives of Quebec.

From http://saint-francois-du-lac.com/13-chronologie-jean-crevier/ (Google translation from French)

Children from the English colonies captured and taken to Saint-François.

-1691-01-06: Saint-François, Jean Crevier, his wife Marguerite Hertel and their son Joseph Crevier sieur de Saint-François, and present at the baptism of Georges Gray 16 years old, son of Georges Gray and Sarah from England . Prisoners of war brought back from New England.

That same day Jean-Baptiste-René Crevier "Manoche", Marguerite Hertel and Crevier are present at the baptism of Jacques Ritchot 9 years old, son of Ritchot and Suzanne Calquet, from the English colonies on the Atlantic.
Also on the same day Jean-Baptiste-René Crevier de Saint-François and Marguerite Hertel, wife of the lord, are godfather and godmother of Jacques Ritchot, captured in New England:

“Then 1691, the 6th of January , I, the undersigned, < Louis André,> of the company of Jesus performing the curial functions for the Franks and the savages, baptized there with the ceremonies of the church in the chapel of the sieur Crevier, lord of the place Jacques ritchot son of ritchot (naxonx- word added between the lines of the act) and of Suzanne calmet. The godfather was Jean-Baptiste René Crevier dit Menoche and the godmother was Marguerite Crevier who did not know how to sign Louis André of the company of Jesus .

In French:

«Lan 1691, le 6 de janvier, je soussigné louis andré, de la compagnie de Jésus faisant les fonctions curiales pour les francs et les sauvages ay baptisé avec les ceremonies de leglise dans la chapelle du sieur Crevier seigneur du lieu Jacques ritchot fils de ritchot (naxonx) et de Suzanne calquet. Le parrain a esté Jean-Baptiste René Crevier dit Menoche et la marraine a esté Marguerite Crevier qui ne savent pas signer Louis André de la compagnie de Jesus.»

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/non-vitals/LKGX-KJ4

6 January 1691 Saint-François-du-Lac, Nicolet-Yamaska, Canada, New France.

Louis André, from the Jesuit Compagny, acting as parish priest for the french and the savagages ( indians) baptized with the church ceremonies in the chapel of the Sieur Crevier, seigneur of the said place Jacques Ritchot son of Ritchot and of Suzanne Calquet. The godfather was Jean Baptiste René Crevier dit Menoche and the godmother was Marguerite Crevier who could not sign.

Louis André from the Jesuit Compagny
Church register of St-François-du-Lac (county Yamaska)

GEDCOM Note

Jacques Ritchot was the son of Richard Nason and Shuah Colcord. He was born in South Berwick, ME In 1682, a group of French militiamen and Abenaki Indian warriors raided Sturgeon Creek where the Nason family lived and brought many villagers to Canada as hostages. Jacques was among them. His father was killed, his mother later remarried to John Douglas in ME. He was baptised Jacques Ritchot in 1691 (he was about 8 or 9 years old). His name was a french translation of his father's first name. His mother was called Suzanne Calquet in the baptism record. He grew up in St. Francois-du-Lac, probably in the Crevier family who employed him and married Elisabeth Dubois-dit-Brisebois.

Father: Richard Nason b: 1649 in South Berwick, York, ME Mother: Shuah Colcord b: 12 JUN 1660 in Hampton, Rockingham, NH, Infos provenant de Ginette Arpin, participante NosOrigines}

References

1. Image from the Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968. < AncestrySharing >; < AncestryImage > Name [Jacques Richot ] [Jacques Ritechotte ] [Jacques Ridechot ] Jacques Ritchot Event Type Baptême (Baptism) Baptism Date 1687-1719 Baptism Place St-François-Du-Lac, Québec, Canada. document attached
2. Drouin Institute - PRDH- IGD < link > “Pionneer Jacques RITCHOT NASON. Status: Immigrant. Birth: Vers 1682 nouvelle-angleterre Baptism: 1691-01-06 …”
3. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Paroisse Saint-François-du-Lac, Saint-François-du-Lac, Québec Canada Image 163 < FamilySearch >
4. Jacques Richot in the Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968. < AncestryImage > Name: Jacques Richot [Jacques Ritchot] [Jacques Ritechotte] [Jacques Ridechot] Gender: homme (Male) Event Type: Mariage (Marriage) Marriage Date: 1687-1719 [23 Sep 1703] [1703 23 Sept] Marriage Place: St-François-Du-Lac, Québec, Canada Marriage Church: St-François-Du-Lac Spouse: Elisabeth Dubois
5. Canada, Quebec Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979 Saint-François-du-Lac Saint-François-du-Lac Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1687-1790 image # 163 < FamilySearch > 1703 23 Sep Marriage de Jacques Ritchot Anglican avec Elizabeth DuBois fille de Desent(sp?) Piere Debous & de Anne Dumont [So he was Anglican.]
6. “Old Kittery and Her Families : Stackpole, Everett Schermerhorn, 1850-1927 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive. (Publication date 1903) Lewiston, Me. : Press of Lewiston journal company, January 1, 1970. https://archive.org/details/oldkitteryherfam00stac_0/page/624/mode/...
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   1. “Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire” by Sybil Noyes (1878-1967) and Charles Thornton Libby (1861-1948) and Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966) published by The Southward Press, Portland, Maine, 1928. (2012 reprint of the 1928-39 ed., which was originally published in five parts; with a new foreword by David Curtis Dearborn, FASG) Page 504-505 “Nason.” Borrow from < Archive.org >
   2. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. Author: Noyes, Sybil, Charles T. Libby, and Walter G. Davis (Publication Date: 1928-1939) (2002 reprint) Pages: 795 pp. “Nason.” Page 505. < AncestryImage >
8. ”Libby’s Genealogical Dictionary” Page 6. < Archive.Org > casualty lists; none listed for 1691.
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11. American-Canadian Genealogist American-Canadian Genealogical Society of New Hampshire (Originally called The Genealogist) Vol 17, #3,4, (Nos. 49-50) Summer, Fall 1991.
12. “The Canadian-American Genealogist” Vol. 42, No. 3, Issue # 147, 2016 - ISSN 1076-3902 Official Journal of American-Canadian Genealogical Society. “Edward Colcord” by Dennis Taylor (page 130-137); “Jacques Ritchot a.k.a. Richard Nason” by Jeanne Boisvert (page 137-140) < PDF >
    1. “Roger’s publication of “English Captives & Prisoners Remaining in New France” (Roger Lawrence) is his lifetime work and research where, Jacques Ritchot/ Richard Nason, my ancestor and Janine’s was revealed. This revelation was food for discussion in my family, especially to some of my older relatives who were astonished to learn that our blood had been tainted by an Englishman.“
       1. ”English Captives & Prisoners Remaining in New France: Their Story of Capture and Survival in Quebec.” Roger William Lawrence. American-Canadian Genealogical Society, 2015 - Indian captivities - 484 pa. < GoogleBooks >
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18. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141853474/jacques-ritchot [birth date & place is baptism data] info provided by Dominique Ritchot (2015): “Jacques Ritchot was the son of Richard Nason and Shuah Colcord. He was born in South Berwick ME in 1682. His father was killed in a raid abt 1685. His mother married John Douglas and lived in Elliot ME when a party of French militiamen and Abenaki indians raided the village. John Douglas was killed on his doorstep and the Shuah Colcold's son, aged 8 years-old, was taken along with other captives.”
19. Joseph P. Donnelly., “ANDRÉ, LOUIS,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed October 6, 2022, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/andre_louis_2E.html. … “ In 1690, at the advanced age of 60, Father André again became a missionary to the Indians, this time on the Saguenay, physically one of the most difficult mission areas in New France. After two years at Chicoutimi (1690–92), André spent the next six years (1692–98) at Montreal and Quebec, devoting himself to the Indians in those areas. Some of his time during those years was spent with the Indians on the Sept-Îles below Tadoussac. Records regarding André during his last years of active life are somewhat confusing. It is believed that from 1698 to 1700 he was at the mission of Saint-François-de-Sales on the Chaudière River. Father André apparently ended his active work about 1705. He died at Quebec on 19 Sept. 1715, having spent 46 years in New France.”
20. Mooney, J. (1912). “Saint Francis Mission.” In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved October 6, 2022 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13348a.htm … “Saint Francis Mission (Properly Saint François de Sales, Quebec). A noted Catholic Indian mission village under Jesuit control near Pierreville, Yamaska district, Province of Quebec, Canada. It was originally established (1683) at the falls of the Chaudiere, on the south side of the St. Lawrence, above Quebec, as a refuge for the Abnaki and Pennacook Indians who were driven from New England by the wars of that and the subsequent colonial period: these tribes were French in sympathy and, especially the Abnaki, largely Catholic in religion through the efforts of the Jesuit missionaries. The Algonquin, Montagnais, and Micmac of Canada as well as the Nipmuc and others of southern New England were also largely represented, but from the final preponderance of the Abnaki their language became that of the mission. In 1700 the mission was removed to its present situation. …”
21. ”The first Indian "Reserves" in Canada” George F. G. Stanley Volume 4, Number 2, septembre 1950 URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/801634ar < PDF > Page 187-189
22. “Genealogy of the French in North America: Captives (preliminary version)” (2006?) < link > …. 107 RITCHOT, Jacques & Élisabeth DUBOIS dit BRISEBOIS (1703) 9/232 (2001) [1825] (Descendants) Less than 240,000 persons” [comment: origins not noted] mtDNA available.
23. “Ritchot-Lefebvre Tree” (2007) < PDF >
24. “New Englander brought to New France as a child needs parents verified“ < Wikitree discussion > (last updated Aug 1, 2021) “Jacques Ritchot gets baptized here in 1691, given the age of 9 on the record, son of __ Ritchot and of Suzanne Calquet. Note that these are phonetic renderings, not necessarily correct spellings. He is attached to parents whose names differ from the above, and there is no source attached that explains that. Can someone from New England projects take a look please.” WikiTree profile: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ritchot-28
25. 12 – Chronologie : Jean Crevier 1642-1693 (texte mis à jour 2020 le 17 oct.) < link >
26. New England Historical and Genealogical Registers, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Samuel G. Drake, Publisher, ©1847 Vol - 1 - 50 - (publication Jan 1852 pgs 87). “LIST OF CANADA PRISONERS 1600”. Furnished by frederic Kidder [Note.--The original spelling of the names is retained.] < link > Names of those remaining still in hands of the french at Canada … Richd Nason, do. [Casco] [Richard Nason]
27. Lawrence, Roger W. “English Captives & Prisoners Remaining in France - Revised Edition.” Their story of capture and survival in Quebec. (2022)

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