Vercheres Marie-madeleine Jarret


Born in 1678 in the fort on her

father's seigniory on the St. Lawrence River, twenty miles below

Montreal. In 1692 she heroically defended this fort, with the assistance

of her two young brothers, two soldiers, and an old man of eighty. When

the settlers were working in the fields, a band of Iroquois suddenly

appeared and began their work of slaughter. Madeleine had barely time to

reach the fort. She found everyone, in
luding the two soldiers,

demoralized, and, taking command, she ordered the little band to keep up

constant firing. The Iroquois beseiged the fort for two days, but

finally retired discomfited; and relief came from Montreal in another

week. In 1706 she married Thomas Tarien de la Naudiere; and in 1722 De

la Perrade. In her later years she received a pension for life. The date

of her death is not known. =Index=: (Count Frontenac era) Defends fort against Iroquois,

319. =Bib.=: Parkman, Frontenac; Richard, Supplement to Report on

Canadian Archives, 1899.



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