Re: ALLARD & ANGUILLE theory ???
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Re: ALLARD & ANGUILLE theory ???
10/02/00
Been following your discussion and find it is pretty much the same information that I mayself have hashed over for years, even asking myself the same questions.
By the way we have Tanguay Vol 1, p. 17 to thank for attaching Jeanne & Guillaume Longpre to François Allard.
Jette does not list Jeanne in that family.I am not sure at all of the Deerfield connection as there was no primary source listed in the book for this information.I believe that I inadvertedly started that rumour by suggesting that possibly Longpre and Long Meadow were the same when talking with reasearchers.(Long Meadow being very near Deerfield and part of the infamous massacres of 1704.)I have written to no avail to the auther to ask for more information. The people at Deerfield helped me to search all day for any link to their people.We did not find any clues as to where this information came from.
It has been suggested that there were many English with French Canadian wives who lived between Montreal and Deerfield in the Connecticut River drainage and that William was one of those Englishmen.
Incidently, It does say New England and not just England as the origin of the Williams.
I think that we need to find out if notories always listed if a person was a captive or not.It seems to me that they did in the ones that I have seen.If Guillaume who married Catherine was a captive, it seems that it would have been noted and not just that both he and his father were "English from New England."
I have been looking in the captives for Humphries and nothing.There are several Marriages in the Boston area of Humphries that would have given children of the right age.I am looking into the Humphries family tree but not found anything to chew on as of yet.
Let's just keep throwing out what we find.I think that I gave Nicole about all I have and she posted it here so we are all caught up for now.
Later, Gaylene