François-Guillaume Dagneau de Quindre dit Picanier (sieur de Picanier)

Personal and Family Information

François was born on 23 JUL 1747 in Montréal QC , the son of Louis Antoine Césaire Dagneau dit Fontenay and Marie-Anne Picoté de Belestre.

He died on 21 MAY 1823 in Sandwich, Essex Co ON .

His wife was Thérèse Boyer, who he married on 11 FEB 1779 in Détroit, Wayne Co. MI . Their seven known children were François (1780-?), Catherine (1782-?), Antoine (1784-1843), Thérèse (1787-1829), Julie (1790-1872), Ignace (1792-1793) and Charles (1794-1878).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

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Notes

Note 1

1789 living in Malden: Dequindre, François, Lieut., Indian Dept.

Note 2

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 3

Fort Sackville Campaign, land grants etc. - see notes on his brother Charles Stanislaus.

Note 4

1779/02/11: St Anne, Detroit, Marriage: Today, Feb 11, in the year of our Lord 1779 for? valid and legitimate reasons asserted to us by Sieur François Dequindre, Squire, Sieur de Picaniere, officer in the troops of his Britannic Majesty, oldest son of the deceased Sieur D'agneau Dequindre (JWP Note: his father Louis Cesaire died in 1767), former colonel of the of the militia under the government of the King of France as well as under the King of Great Britain, a businessman (bourgeois) living in this city on St Antoine Street and of the deceased Dame Louise Piquetté de Bellestre, the father and mother in a legitimate marriage. We the undersigned, the Vicar General, Monseigneur Brollind?, Bishop of Québec "illegible - authorized?" the dispensing of the reading of the three bans and Marie Thérèse Boyé, widow of Jean Baptiste Casse dit Saint Aubin, daughter of deceased? Ignace Boyé , master carpenter, living on lands on the northeast coast and of Dame Angélique Descardonnets, mother and father in a legitimate marriage and otherwise not having found any impediment etc and having received their mutual consents of marriage I gave the wedding benediction in the presence of Sieurs Beaubien Cuillerier, Anslide? Dufrense?, Fontenay Dequindre, Antoine Dequindre the brothers (of the groom), Ignace Boyé the father of the bride and several other relatives and friends etc. Signed: Fontenay Dequindre, C. Dubois. ? Beaubien (referred to as Beaubien Cuillerier in the record above), J.B. Barth, ? Dufresne?, Priest: F. Simpote? Basquet.

Note 5

François, Sieur de Picanier is recorded as the "fils majeur" the oldest son of Louis Cesaire but other records show he was the 5th son. Denissen records him as having been bpt. in Montréal 23-7-1747. In that case his mother would have been pregnant with him when she and her children left Michilimackinac in May 1747 to return to Montréal to avoid an Indian uprising. It is unlikely the Bishop was present but rather he had delegated the authority to give permission for the dispensing of the reading of the three bans. Fontenay Dequindre was Charles Stanislaus Dagneau de Quindre dit Fontenay and Antoine Dequindre (Sieur de Pontchartrain or Antoine-Cesaire?) were brothers of the groom. Beaubien Cuillerier would have been a relative. The grandmother of the groom was Marie-Catherine Trottier dit Beaubien who first married Jean Cuillerier and had several children who used the name Cuillerier dit Beaubien and later just Beaubien. She later married François Marie Picoté Sieur de Belestre and their daughter Marie-Anne was the grandmother of the groom. Denissen records J.B. Barthe as having married Geneve Cuillerier dit Beaubien who was the granddaughter of Marie-Catherine Trottier dit Beaubien. According to Denissen the mother of the bride was Angélique Pepin dit Descardonetts. Note: The Antoine Dequindre noted in the record did not sign - was he illiterate? It appears that Antoine (Pontchartrain) signed the record at the bpt of his son Louis 20-8-1786. Perhaps the Antoine present at the marriage of Picanier was Antoine Cesaire.

Note 6

1823/05/23: Assumption, Windsor, Burial: I the undersigned priest buried the body of François Dequindre who died the day before yesterday, aged about 74 years in the cemetery of this parish. Present were Simon Leduc who signed and François Marantette and others who did not know how to sign. Signed: Simon Leduc, Joseph Crevier, Priest. Sépultures Paroisse l' Assomption de Windsor, Ontario 1768 - 1985, Collection `Paroisses de l' Ontario français, Vol 12: p. 61.

Note 7

Burial Record: 23/5/1823: Assumption, Windsor, Burial: I the undersigned priest buried the body of François Dequindre who died the day before yesterday, aged about 74 years in the cemetery of this parish. Present were Simon Leduc who signed and François Marantette and others who did not know how to sign. Signed: Simon Leduc, Joseph Crevier, Priest. Sépultures Paroisse l' Assomption de Windsor, Ontario 1768 - 1985, Collection `Paroisses de l' Ontario français, Vol 12: p. 61.

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