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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 ...She had at least two children, possibly three.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 200169234, cited 4 Jul 2021. "Body donated to medical science."
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