Joseph Petrus Langlois (1750)

Born 23 Feb 1750 in Saint-Pierre, Île d'Orléans, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Biographie

Joseph Langlois est né et a été baptisé le 23 février 1750 à St-Pierre, Île d'Orléans, Canada, Nouvelle-France (QC). ^[1]

Il était le fils de Pierre Langlois et de Marie-Marguerite Turcot.

Premiers ancêtres en Nouvelle-France:

Noël Langlois (1606-1684) et Françoise Garnier (~1604-1665).

Biography

Joseph was born in 1750.

He is the son of Pierre Langlois and Marie-Marguerite Turcot.

Gabriel Langlois was born in 1747. He was the son of Louis Langlois and Ursule Côté. He passed away in 1793.

An excerp from, Quebec During the American Invasion, 1775-1776, pages 21-23.

St Pierre—Île D’Orléans, Thursday, May 30

All winter they went to where the guard stood at the end of the island to encourage the young men on the spirit of rebellion. They did not stand guard because of their old age.

Joseph Langlois [Langlais], “Crooked Neck,” and Gabriel Langlois found the parish officers named by Mrs. Mabane, Grant, and Boisseau in Mr Desghly’s rectory. They assembled the parish at the door. The two men helped the parishioners remove the officers to ensure that they [the people] would not have to carry out orders these men might issue.

Also present were the said Pierre Choret, the son, Jean Goulet, Baptiste Nolan (deceased) and a few others that Monseigr d’Orilé’s authority stopped.

Most of the parishioners did not want to get involved in this incident and left without saying anything.

Pierre Naulin, the son, Louis Grégoire, the son, and André Goulet enlisted in the rebel army for 4 months at 40 # per month, but did not receive this pay. Each one only received a pair of cowhide shoes.

The said Joseph Petrus Langlais, “Crooked Neck,” kept visiting the rebels’ camp during the winter to lodge complaints against several people, especially Monseigr d’Orilé. He did everything he could to prove his zeal for the rebels and to make trouble for loyal subjects. He and his cousin, Gabriel Langlais, were the instigators of having Joseph Cauté, presently capt., taken to the rebels’ camp where he was held for ten days. These two are the most dangerous men in this parish; one is 28 years old and the other is 30. They have not stood guard often, being more useful to the rebels in other ways. ...

Sources

1. ↑ Registres paroissiaux, collection Drouin, Île d'Orléans, St-Pierre, 1749-1750, image 5 (g), B-22.

• Canadian Participants in the American Revolution, An Index by Virginia Easley DeMarce; p146

• Généalogie du Québec et d'Amérique française (father)

• Gabriel, Michael, Editor. Quebec During the American Invasion, 1775-1776: The Journal of François Baby, Gabriel Taschereau, & Jenkins Williams. Michigan State University Press: East Lansing, Michigan; 2005:21-23

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