Capt.Louis de La Porte, sieur de Louvigny:
Louis was born in 1652 to Jacques-Jean de La Porte dit Saint George(abt.1626-1702)(son
of Jacques dit St.George Laporte & Marie Hamelin-married Jun.1626)
& Nicole DuChesne(abt.1636-?) in 1652 & married Marie Nolan in
Quebec on 26 oct.1684. Siblings were Paul(b.abt.1659, m.abt.1683 to Marguerite
Matou); Antoine(b.abt.1660); Georges(b.abt.1662, m. to Madeleine Guertin);
Catherine(b.abt.1658, m.abt.1675 to Philibert dit Rocquebrune Couillaud);
Jacques(b.1666, m.1687 to Madeleine Paviot); & Suzanne(b.?).
In late summer of 1690 he arrived at Michilimackinac as it's commander
replacing LaDurantaye, remaining there til he resigned in the fall of 1694
and was replace by Cadillac. Marie (his wife) in June of 1694 hired at
Montreal Louis Dupuis dit Parisien & Jean Seguin to go to the Michilimackinac/Sault
Ste.Marie area (whether for traveling west herself or to send her husband
supplies is open to speculation). In 1699 he was in the east as commander
of Ft.Frontenac (Kingston, Ontario), but by 1703 he was implicated in illegal
activities. Louis Philippe de Rigault, Marquis de Vaudreuil writes of him
in his report of 8 nov.1711: "The Sr. de Louvigny, My Lord, has not gone
up to Michilimakina; I have had too much need of him here and he is too
good a
man for me to have dispensed with at a time when I learnt from so many
different sources that I was to be attacked. This
summer I sent him up to Montreal while the tribes that had come down
from the upper countries were there; they were really
glad to see him, and were truly pleased when I told them that it was
His Majesty's intention to give him to them as a
Commandant." [Consoidated
Docket] [Consoidated
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Docket] . In 1712 Louis is back at Michilimackinac as it's commander
and on 14 mar.1716 left Quebec on a punitive campaign [CAMPAIGN]
against the Fox, with a force of 800. A battle took place about 37 miles
above Green Bay and Louis arrived back in Quebec by 12 oct. of the same
year. The next year he was back in the west establishing Fort St.Francois
at Green Bay. Louis was at one time Governor of Trois-Rivieres & Major-Aide
for the Kings troops. Louis died in on 27 aug.1725, shipwrecked near Louisburg.
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