Antoine Dagneau de Quindre dit Pontchartrain (sieur de Pontchartrain)

Personal and Family Information

Antoine was born on 24 AUG 1751 in Détroit, Wayne Co. MI , the son of Louis Antoine Césaire Dagneau dit Fontenay and Marie-Anne Picoté de Belestre.

He died on 05 APR 1814 in Détroit, Wayne Co. MI .

He had two marriages/partners. His first wife is not known, but they were married on BEF 23 AUG 1778. The place has not been found. Their only known child was Angélique (?-?).

His second wife was Catherine Trottier dit Desrivières de la Morandière, who he married on 23 AUG 1779 in Montréal QC . Their ten known children were Antoine (1782-1843), Catherine (1782-1792), Julie (1784-?), Louis (1786-1829), Adélaïde (1788-?), Pierre Jean-Baptiste (1790-1856), Timothé (1792-1837), Benjamin (1793-1813), Catherine-Edesse (1797-1875) and Julie (1799-1835).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

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Notes

Note 1

Fontenay, Picanier and Pontchartrain were all officers in the Indian Department (See Haldimand Papers circa 1778), all three participated in the expedition to recapture Fort Vincennes in late 1778, Fontenay took part in the capture of Daniel Boone earlier that year and is reported to have been on a scouting mission with up to 300 Shawnees in Sept of that same year. Pontchartrain lead the attack on Boonsboro in the late summer of 1778 after Daniel Boone escaped and fled home.

Note 2

Circa 1766: Kaskaskia, Illinois: (1) Beauvais, Marie-Joseph. b. 15-04-1766, ne il y a deux mois, fille de Joseph & de Thérese, esclaves negres au Sr. Raphail Beauvais. Par. Antoine de Quindre; Mar. Marie-Louise Despines-Lemoine. L. Meurin, cure. (2) Beauvais, Thérese, b. 15-04-1766, née depuis 3 mois, fille de François and de Marianne, esclaves du Sieur Raphael Beauvais. Ondoyée (baptised privately) a sa naissance. Parrain: Antoine de Quindre, Mar: Marie-Thérese Lemoine-Despins. L Meurin, cure. Is this Antoine Cesaire or Antoine Pontchartrain.

Note 3

"Michigan in Four Centuries" Page 80" "In the spring of 1778 a party of Shawnee captured and brought to Detroit the most famous of Kentucky's pioneers, Daniel Boone. Hamilton offered 100 pounds for him, but the Indians were so proud of their illustrious prisoner that they rejected the offer. Taking him to their town at Chillocothe, Ohio, they adopted him into the tribe. When Boone heard that the Indians were planning to attack Boonesboro, he escaped and reached home in time to warn his friends. The invading force under the command of Captain Antoine Dequindre (Pontchartrain?) of Detroit was beaten off."

"A True, Brief History of Daniel Boone" by Rolla P. Anderson p 18 20. By 1778 Daniel had discovered a mineral salt deposit. Blue Lick it was called. (Note: It was apparently locate near the fort at Boonesboro.) On the 7th February, while Daniel was hunting to procure meat for the thirty men making salt, Daniel was capture by a band of 102 Indians and two Frenchmen (JWP Note: Charles Stanislaus Dagneau de Quindre and Charles Beaubien). etc etc. In June he (Boone) discovered preparations to attack Boonesboro, and on the 16th he managed to escape. etc On August 8 about 444 Indians and eleven Frenchmen surrounded Boonesboro. They were lead by Chief Blackfish (he was the one who captured Boone earlier) and Lieut Antoine Duquense (Pontchartrain), a French Canadian. Supplies were furnished by the British. etc"

Note 4

"John Askin Papers" "Dequindre (Antoine) was a man of ability and local prominence. He was a member of the grand jury which indicted Governor Hull in 1809. Antoine Dequindre, captain (later Major) of Detroit Militia in 1812, who distinguished himself in the Battle of Brownstown, was his eldest son.".

Note 5

"City of Detroit, Michigan 1701-1922 Volume II, Clarence M Burton, Editor in Chief" "There were two persons by this name, father and son. It is possible that the father did not live on the American side of the river. He had separated from his wife, Catherine Desrivières Lamorandière Trottier Dequindre, and she was occupying the land now called the Dequindre Farm, it being her property. They had five children: Antoine, Peter, Adelaide, wife of Joseph Campau, Catherine Edesse, wife of Peter Beaubien, Julia (born October 10, 1784), wife of Charles Moran."

Note 6

Historic Shawnee Names of the 1700ès, Dob Greene, www.shawnee-traditions.com/Names-5.html, Feb 2005:  Antoine Dequindre, Ottawa Metis b. abt 1743,  d.1784: Pontiac War, Bushy Run, raiding New Jackson Greenbrier River valleys 1763, raiding Ohio - Big - Sandy - Little Kanawaha River valleys 1772, Point Pleasant 1774, Boonesboro, raiding Oh KY VA 1780, husband of Shawnee woman, father of Angelique.

Note 7

Godfather: Antoine de Godefroy; Godmother Demoiselle Archange Dequindre (what is the relationship - could she have been the cousin of Antoine, i.e. the daughter of Guillaume Dequindre, Sieur de la Motte?)