Moïse Dupuis — Voyageur Grandfather

Moïse Dupuis (Depuis)(Dupuys)(Dupays) (1673-1750) 7th great-grandfather

son of Francois Dupuis (Dupays) (1634-1681) and Georgette Richer(1647-1799)

Birth 10 JULY 1673 • Québec, Quebec, Canada

Death 19 JAN 1750 • La Prairie-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec, Canada

Marriage 1699 to Marie Anne Christiansen (1676-1750)

• 1692, Courier de Bois and trader in the illicit trade between La Prairie, Quebec at Schenectady, NY

• from: Narratives and Identities in the Saint Lawrence Valley, 1667-1720, 

[page 186] Moise Dupuis was bom in 1673 in Québec and raised at Saint-Augustinde-Maure and at La Prairie. Moïse may have been involved in the fur trade as a young man. He was never issued a permit for travel? He may have been a soldier; however, since no muster rolls exist for Canada in this period. and he is not mentioned in accounts of military engagements, that possibility cannot be confirmed. He was linked to large fur trading families. however. 

Coureur des Bois by Remington

[page 187] Moïse may have been among the French who attacked Schenectady in 1692. He seems to have remained in Schenectady, either as a trader, a wounded soldier or as a prisoner, long enough to find a spouse. In the 1690s he married Marie-Anne- Louise Christiansen" Wans le pays des Flamands." This exogamy, or marriage outside the group, contrasts with the endogamy noted by Louis Lavallee in his study of La Prairie." Moïse moved, with a young daughter, to Canada, settling in La Prairie about 1699. Marie-Anne-Louise was probably Dutch and nominally Protestant, though the Dutch Reformed Church could not support a minister in Schenectady during this period.* When Marie-Anne-Louise moved to La Prairie she was baptized in Montréal.' Since at the time of her baptism her marriage was not revalidated, it is possible that they were married by a Catholic priest. At least one, perhaps three, of the couple's nine children were born outside New France, although most of them were baptized at La Prairie?

[page 188]

Most of MoÏse's children maintained a residence at La Prairie, or married spouses from La Prairie families. One daughter married a man who had been an engagé in the fur trade." Marie-Anne-Louise became a French citizen in 1710. Moïse and Marie-Anne-Louise died in La Prairie, in January and October 1750, respectively. Moïse is an example of a man who traveled the border region, married outside the colony, and returned to live on the banks of the St. Lawrence with a Dutch wife who eventually became a French citizen.

• 1697, 12 Jul — Marriage of Moyse Dupuis to Anne (Annetje) Christiansen in Schenectady (Albany), New York, United States.

SOURCE: US DUTCH REFORM Church Records, New York, Albany, Vol 1, Book 1; Family: Dupuis Moyse/Christian (F1328)

LINEAGE:

Moise Dupuis (Depuis) (1673 - 1750) -- 7th great-grandfather

Francois Moise ( François) Dupuis (Dupuy) (1709 - 1764) -- Son of Moise Dupuis (Depuis)

Marie Anne Dupuis (Dupuy) (1753 - 1807) -- Daughter of Francois Moise ( François) Dupuis (Dupuy)

Marie Angelique Barette dit Courville (1779 - 1815) -- Daughter of Marie Anne Dupuis

Marie Emélie Meunier Lagacé (1808 - 1883) -- Daughter of Marie Angelique Barette dit Courville

Lucy Pinsonneau (aka PASSINO) (1836 - 1917) -- Daughter of Marie Emélie Meunier Lagacé -- 2nd great-grandmother