... Quant aux noms de lieux et de personnes, ils reproduisent fidèlement la graphie d’origine ; c’est le cas particulièrement des noms amérindiens dont l’écriture varie souvent d’un passage à l’autre… On notera les formes oi pour ai (françois pour français ...
Journaux de Pierre-Louis de Lorimier
... -1792 • Lorimier established himself at ‘Old’ Cape Girardeau to the displeasure of New Madrid Commandant Thomas Portelle, in whose district the settlement at Cape Girardeau was located. 1792 • Dans une lettre du 4 janvier, le gou verneur général François-Louis ...
... ., married Marie Berthiaume, the half Shawnee daughter of François Berthiaume, Lorimier’s gunsmith to the Shawnee on Apple Creek. The marriage was unsuccessful. ...
... François-Thomas de Verneuil was born in 1730 and fought in the French and Indian War. After the war he went to France, later returning and enlisting in the British service. In 1769 he married Marguerite de Sabrevois. ...
... Louis-François Largeau was born near Montreal in 1736, the son of Jacques Largeau, dit Saint-Jacques and his wife, Marie-Anne Gastineau, dit Duchêne. ...
... His wife, Marie Berthiaume, was the half Shawnee daughter of François Berthiaume, trader and gunsmith for the Shawnee at 62. Lorimier’s will. Copy in author’s possession. 63. HM, I, p. 231, II, p. 381. ...
... Je me fit l’honneur le 6e de Juillet de lui écrire pour le prévenir que je croyois que les Chaouesnons se fixeroient au Bois n June, 1787, I arrived in the lands of his Catholic Majesty, with a number of Shawnee whom I presented to Don François Cruzat ...
... I) Monsieur Don François Valle140 recommended the same course of action to cover the movements and plots that the Delaware could devise. 139. ...
... frequently held with me where I collected information which was of greatest interest to the government, and I informed my superiors of these facts and acted as their intermediary in all the places where they were called for service.144 A message from Don François ...
... I persuaded them by explaining that their valor and their bravery had repulsed their enemies and it seemed that this was a guarantee for their families, moreover their Father will take care of them.145 The 18th of March 1793, Monsieur Don François Vallé ...