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John Otis

Male 1683 - 1760  (77 years)


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  • Name John Otis  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Born 1683  Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 28 Jun 1689 
    Captured by the Abenaki led by Kankamagus with Madokawando's Penobscots during the "Cochecho Massacre" at Dover (NH) and brought to Canada 
    Occupation 1697 
    Libéré des Abénaquis par Jean Baret et son épouse Jeanne Bitouset qui payent sa rançon 
    Baptism 10 Apr 1700  Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Montmorency, Qc. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Baptism 10 Apr 1700  Parrain: Jean Barette - Marraine: Marguerite Cloutier Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 11 Nov 1702 
    Sur la liste des Anglais qui vivent au Canada (à Cap-Tourmente), il reçoit 30 livres de l'intendant Beauharnois 
    Naturalization May 1710  Québec, Canada, Nouvelle-France (lettres de naturalité) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1702-1732 
    Fermier à St-Johachim, Qc. 
    Occupation 1733-1750 
    Contremaître de la ferme du Séminaire à Baie-St-Paul 
    Died 15 Sep 1760  Baie-St-Paul, Charlevoix, Qc. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 16 Sep 1760  Baie-St-Paul, Charlevoix, Qc. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5092  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father Richard Otis,   b. 27 Feb 1626, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jun 1689, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 63 years) 
    Mother Susanna Shuah Starbuck,   b. Abt 1640, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1683, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 43 years) 
    Married Bef 5 Nov 1677  Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2603  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Cécile Poulin,   b. 16 Jan 1676, Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Montmorency, Qc. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Apr 1731, St-Joachim, Qc. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years) 
    Married 4 Nov 1703  St-Joachim, Qc. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Contract 4 Nov 1703  Notaire Étienne Jacob Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2644  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Marie Françoise Gagné,   b. 22 Jan 1696, Baie-St-Paul, Charlevoix, Qc. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Jun 1778, Baie-St-Paul, Charlevoix, Qc. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years) 
    Married 9 Feb 1733  Baie-St-Paul, Charlevoix, Qc. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2645  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S32] New England Captives Carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760 during the French and Indian Wars, Emma Lewis Coleman, (The Southworth Press, Portland, Maine, 1925), Volume 1, pp. 122-125 & 156-158.

    2. [S196] NEHGR: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts), Volume 6 (January 1852), p. 87.

    3. [S669] The Northern Colonial Frontier, 1607-1763, Douglas Edward Leach, (Holt Reinhart & Winston, New York, 1966), 110.
      The Penacooks attacked Dover (on 28 June 1689) killing some two dozen people and taking 29 others captive (in retaliation for the 1688 attack by Sir Edmund Andros on Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin's Bagaduce River dwelling at Pentagouët)

    4. [S5] Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH), Université de Montréal.

    5. [S3] Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes, Cyprien Tanguay, (Éditions Eusèbe Sénécal, Montréal, 1871-1890), none., Volume 1, p. 10 & Vol. 6, p. 172.

    6. [S16] Dictionnaire généalogique des familles du Québec - des origines à 1730, René Jetté, (Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, 1983 & l'édition PRDH, Gaëtan Morin éditeur, 2003), none., 858.