Re: Claude Salois, name variants & Indians
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Re: Claude Salois
1/21/02
Hello,
Here's a little more on Claude Salois-de-St.Paul: He was born in Remi, St. Paul, Normandy (northern France -- Celtic roots here). He came to Quebec via Lille Flandre, northern France, with the Monteil branch of the Carignan Regiment, the highly trained and skilled "Green Berets" of their day. Sent over by the King of France to back off the Iroquois, who unlike the other Indians of New France, were their sworn enemies, and who were killing off the few French colonists at an alarming rate. The regiment was quite successful in driving the Iroqoius back away from Quebec.
The soldiers were offered inducements to stay on and become colonists, not least of which was the promise of potential wives to be sent over as "Les Filles Du Roi," or "Daughters of the King," who would come with a dowry to bring to the wedding, courtesy of the King. The men would also receive use of some land for turning into farmland, tools,stipends and supplies to get started, and a bounty for every child.
Claude obviously did stay on, and found his bride in Anne Mabille. They had fourteen children that I can find so far, so the bounties must have kept rolling in!
For some reason Claude was hospitalizd at the Hotel Dieu, the first hospital in North America, I believe, on June 15, 1689. The records say he was 52 years old then. However, they also say he was 62 when he died at St. Laurent,Ile d'Orleans in 1709. As you can see these dates don't compute.If he was really 52 in 1689, then he died when he was 72, not 62. Does anyone have his actual birth date?
Salois is a rare name, relatively speaking, and he seems to have been one of about 3 who came over from France. As far as I can learn, he is the only one who either had children, or male children who carried on the name; so that all of us with that name or one of several variants, are related in some degree ot other.
Other variants I have come across are Saloue, Salouer Salois-dit-Caya, Caya, Caille, Salter,Saultis and Saultus (in Vermont), Salway (in NH), Saulis (in the Maliseet tribe in New Brunswick, and in the Passamaquoddy tribe in Maine.
We have plenty of Indian relatives in the northeasst, in the Great Lakes area, and in the plains tribes, espcially Sioux. Probably this connection started with the marriage of one of Claude's grandsons, Ignace, to Marie-Louise Catherine Prevost in 1715. Her father, Jean-Baptist Prevost, was 1/2 Indian, child of the first French-Indian Catholic marriage in New France. This Salois line was married and buried for several generations at St-Francois-du-Lac, then an Abenaki mission near Quebec. I suspect some of these later Salois marriages were between "Metis," part Indian, part French. Many of these Metis from St-Francois-du-Lac became involved with the fur trade andtraveled west to the Great Lakes, plains, etc. Probably that is how the Salois and Salways ended up in the western tribes.I met a Rosebud Sioux Salway here in Albuquerque 2 years ago, and she was a very Indian Indian! She said the family oral history said the name came from Quebec, and used to be Salois. Her nephew was the chief at Rosebud. She said they had many relatives in other plains tribes, too.
I have piced together quite a bit lately on the Salois/Salways who came to New Hampshire in the late 1800s, and am happy to share with anyone looking for this line.The more recent generations came from Compton, Quebec to Coaticook, Quebec, to Littleton, NH, and thence to other places in New England.
Happy Spring to all my cousins!
Sue Stevens
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Re: Claude Salois, name variants & Indians
3/13/02
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Re: Claude Salois, name variants & Indians
Susan Stevens 3/13/02
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Re: Claude Salois, name variants & Indians