Ancestor on the
Clement, Madore, Pitt and Presse lines.
In
1628, Pierre Gareman of Bagneux, Picardie married Marguerite Charlot. Their
first child arrived in 1629 and their second in 1631, they were girls, Florence
and Nicole. This little family migrated to Quebec before the birth and baptism
of their third daughter, Marguerite, in 1639. They had, Charles, their only son
in 1643. They baptized Charles in Trois-Rivieres.
In
10-06-1653, when he was living at Cap Rouge with his family, Pierre and his son
Charles, 8 years old, are captured by the Iroquois. In the Histoire De
Notre-Dame de Ste.Foy, the priest H.-A. Scott writes (pp.295-296):” the
10-06-1653, Francois Boule, called Petit Homme, was working in his field, which
bordered on that of Rene Mezerets, when he was hit by three gunshots, one in
the stomach, in the groin, and in the thigh, then scalped. His other neighbor,
Pierre Gareman, called the Picard, had a consequence even more sad, as he was
taken alive with his son Charles, of eight years, and a young man named Hugues
Couturier, and reserved to these terrible tortures so often written about.
The
Jesuit Journal also tells about the attack on 10-06-1653 by the Onieda tribe of
the Iroquois on Cap Rouge. The Journal refers to ten year old son, Charles. The
Iroquois did not approve of men letting themselves be captured. They usually
tortured and killed them, as they did with our Pierre Gareman.
Sources include:
Ref: Ancetres by Jacques Saintonge #162; "One Hundred
French-Canadian Families", p. 167-168, by Phillip Moore; and Jette