_____________________ | _____________________|_____________________ | _____________________| | | | | _____________________ | | | | |_____________________|_____________________ | _Samuel Gill ________| | m 1678 | | | _____________________ | | | | | _____________________|_____________________ | | | | |_____________________| | | | | _____________________ | | | | |_____________________|_____________________ | _Samuel Joseph Gill _| | (1687 - 1752) m 1715| | | _____________________ | | | | | _____________________|_____________________ | | | | | _Lionel Worth _______| | | | (1620 - 1667) m 1648| | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | | | |_____________________|_____________________ | | | | |_Sarah Worth ________| | (1656 - 1715) m 1678| | | _Matthew Whipple ____+ | | | (1550 - 1618) m 1580 | | _John Whipple _______|_Joan _______________ | | | (1596 - 1669) m 1621 (1562 - 1612) | |_Susanna Whipple ____| | (1622 - 1692) m 1648| | | _Stephen Clarke _____+ | | | m 1588 | |_Susanna Clarke _____|_Elizabeth __________ | (.... - 1661) m 1621 | |--Joseph-Louis or Joseph Orono Gill | (.... - 1798) | _____________________ | | | _____________________|_____________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | |_____________________|_____________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | | _____________________|_____________________ | | | | | | |_____________________| | | | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | |_____________________|_____________________ | | |_Rosalie James ______| (1700 - 1738) m 1715| | _____________________ | | | _____________________|_____________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | | _____________________ | | | | | | |_____________________|_____________________ | | |_____________________| | | _____________________ | | | _____________________|_____________________ | | |_____________________| | | _____________________ | | |_____________________|_____________________
In 1719, the Samuel Gills had their first son, Joseph-Louis, the central character of this article. Among "Rebel Partisans" who ranged against King George the Third in Canada, 1775-1783, the man who gave the British authorities the most grief was this son of Yankee captives. Although "of pure English blood ... Joseph-Louis (like his parents) was raised among the St. Francis Abnakis and their French neighbors; he fought under the French flag in de Beauharnais' 1747 campaign against the Miamis; and ... he suffered greatly at the hands of ... Major Robert Rogers' "British Rangers" in 1759 ...Joseph-Louis was brought up like an Indian, dressed like an Indian in his early years ... so it is not strange that when he was about twenty-one, he married a daughter of the abnaki head-chief. (Her name was given in parish registers as Marie-Jeanne .... --"The White Chief of the St. Francis Abnakis—Some Aspects of Border Warfare: 1690" by John C. Huden, in Vermont History, July 1956 (24:3), p. 200.
!SOURCE: Find a Grave web site memorial 53828949, cited 4 Jul 2021.
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