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- Pierre Parenteau dit Lafontaine was from the parish of St-Martin de Bazauges. Pierre Parenteau arrived in New France as a soldier in the summer of 1666 at the age of 16 or 17. Between the ages of approximately 17 and 22, he earned his living clearing land. On September 12, 1673, in Quebec, he married Madeleine Tisseran, who was 23 years old and originally from Liancourt, in the French province of Picardy, north of Paris. They settled in the seigniory of St-Fran?ois-du-Lac, which belonged to Jean Crevier on ?le Saint-Joseph. Starting in 1688, the Iroquois, who were at war with the First Nations peoples who had allied themselves with the French, attacked the French settlements along the St. Lawrence River. During this conflict, Pierre Parenteau died in 1690 or 1691.
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