Ann (Heard) Prévost (abt. 1681 - 1750)

Born about 1681 in Dover, New Hampshire

Ancestors

Wife of Sebastien Cholet — married 19 Oct 1705 in Montréal, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Wife of Claude (Sansart) Sansart dit le petit Picard — married 1 Aug 1730 in Saint-Joachim de Pointe-Claire, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died 2 Jan 1750 at about age 69 in Pointe-Claire, Canada, Nouvelle-France

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Biography

Marie Anne (Heard) Prévost lived
in Canada, Nouvelle-France.

Ann Heard (Marie Anne Herd dite Prévost) was born about 1681 in Cochecho, New England (now Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire). Her parents were Benjamin Heard and Elisabeth Roberts.

On a snowy January morning in 1692, natives attacked York, Maine, an event that became known as the Candlemas Day Massacre. The Candlemas Massacre took place during King William's War, when an estimated 150 Abenakis commanded by Chief Madockawando and Father Louis-Pierre_Thury, officers of New France, entered the town of York, killing about 100 of the English settlers and burning down buildings, taking another estimated 80 villagers hostage, on a forced walk to Canada.

The natives killed dozens of inhabitants and burned forty of the forty-five house to the ground. Ann Heard was captured on January 26, 1692, during the Candlemas Massacre and brought back to Montreal as a prisoner. She was entrusted to the master-gunsmith Pierre Prud'homme and his wife. She was baptized and confirmed on April 10th 1694 at the church of Notre-Dame in Montreal. Her godfather was the surgeon Jean Martinet dit Fonblanche and her godmother Anne Châles, the wife of Pierre Prud'homme. Her name was changed from Ann Heard to Marie Anne Prévost. Her new adoptive parents were Jean Prévost and Françoise Lamontagne.

She married Sébastien Cholet dit Laviolette on October 19, 1705. They had 11 children: Marie Anne (m. Jean Baptiste Legault Deslauriers), Jean Baptiste (m. Marie Anne Faucher Foucher), Marie Marthe (m. Jean Baptiste Theoret), Marie Josephe (died at 11 months), Joseph Sebastien, Marie Josephe (died at 3 weeks), Sebastien, Jacques Louis Sebastien (died at 12 years), Joseph Antoine (died at 1 month), Marie Josephe (died 1 month before 8th birthday), Jacques (m. Marie Antoinette Amable Legault Deslauriers). They remained married until his death on April 14, 1728. He was buried in Pointe-Claire. (children born to her and Sébastien Cholet, 4 are known to die young and 4 to marry)

Marie Anne then married Claude Sensar Picard on August 1, 1730. This union produced no children as Marie Anne was now 50 years old. Claude Sensar Picard died December 25, 1739, and was buried in Pointe Claire.

January 2, 1750, Marie Anne was buried in Pointe-Claire, Canada.^[1]. Her exact date of death is unknown; she was recorded as being approximately 70 years old and of English origins.

Name

Birth name: Ann Heard^[2]

Adoptive name: Marie Anne Prévost^[3]

Birth

Date: Unknown, estimated 1681

Place: Uncertain, near Dover, New England

Research notes:

• She was recorded as born 1681 on her baptism record of 1694^[4]
• She is given the age of 24 on her marriage record in 1705^[5]

Abduction

Location: York, Maine

Date: January 25, 1692^[4][2]

Abductors: "Loups", Abenakis tribe from Nouvelle-France

Baptism in Nouvelle-France

Date: 10 Apr 1694^[4][6]

Place: Montréal (Notre-Dame de Montréal), Canada, Nouvelle-France

Name: Anne HERD

Year of birth: 1681

Sex: Female

Occupation: "Au service de Pierre Prud'homme"

Father: Benjamin Herd

Mother: Elisabeth Roberts

Transcript: Le méme jour dixième d'Avril de l'an mil six cent quatre vingt quatorze Monseigneur l'Illustrissime et Reverendissime Evêque de Quebec a donné le sacrement de Bapteme et ensuite celui de Confirmation a une petite fille Anglaise nommée Anne Herd laquelle née à Chittho pres de Douvres en la Nouvelle-Angleterre du mariage de Benjamin Herd Cordonnier et d'Elisabet Roberts en l'an mil six cens quatre vingt un aient été prise par des Loups le vingt cinquième jour de janvier de mil six cens quatre vingt douze donc eure d'au service de Mtre Pierre Prud'homme maitre Armurier. Son nom d'Anne lui a été conservé. Son parrain a été Monsieur Jean Martinet dit Fanblanche. Sa marraine Anne Châles femme du dit Prud'homme.

Research Notes:

• "Loups" is the name of an Abénakis native tribe, also known as the Mohicans^[7][8]
• According to the record, she would become captive on January 25th 1692.
• "Chittho" is believed to be a spelling mistake for "Cochecho", and likely due to translation, so far there seems to be agreement that this location is nowadays referred to as Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA.

Marriage: Sebastien Cholet

Date: 19 OCT 1705

Place: Montréal, Notre-Dame^[9][5]

Spouse: Sébastien Cholet

Age: 26 y/o

Father: Sebastien Cholet, wheat salesman

Mother: Perrine Hilaire

Spouse: Anne Heard

Age: 24 y/o

Father: Benjamin Herd

Mother: Elisabeth Robberts

Children

• 1706-07-26 (f) Anne Marie Cholet-Laviolette
• 1707-11-04 (m) Jean Baptiste Cholet
• 1709-07-05 (f) Marie Marthe Josepte Cholet
• 1711-02-26 (f) Marie Josephe (died 1712-01-18)
• 1713-01-23 (m) Joseph Sebastien
• 1714-03-24 (f) Marie Josephe (died 1714-04-20)
• 1715-03-06 (m) Sebastien
• 1717-02-12 (m) Jacques Louis Sebastien (died 1729-07-12)
• 1719-04-18 (m) Joseph Antoine (died 1719-05-27)
• 1720-05-10 (f) Marie Josephe (died 1728-04-08)
• 1723-03-25 (m) Jacques Cholet

Marriage: Claude Sensar Picard

Date: 1 Aug 1730^[3][10]

Place: Pointe-Claire, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Spouse: Claude Sensar Picard

Origin: Paroisse de Cormont, France

Father: Claude Sensar Dumont

Mother: Marie Chenie

Spouse: Marie Anne Prevot

Adoptive Father: Jean Prevot

Adoptive Mother: Françoise Lamontagne

Ex-Husband: Bastien Cholet

Children

No known children

Death

Date: Day of, or few days before 2 Jan 1750

Burial: 2 Jan 1750^[1]

Place: Pointe-Claire, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Name: Marie Anne Prevot

Sex: Female

Age: Approximately 70 years old

Origine: English

Research Notes

Notable Descendants

• François Legault — Premier of Quebec
• Dan Aykroyd CM OOnt — Entertainer
• Mario Lemieux — Hockey Star

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Généalogie Québec - Registres du Fonds Drouin - Québec - Pointe-Claire - 1750 - Burial Marie Anne Prevot Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} History of York, Maine, successively known as Bristol v1. Banks, Charles Edwards, 1854-1931, pages 299, image 359/554 - The Massacre on Candlemas Day - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014575123&view=1up&seq=359
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} PRDH: Research Programme in Historical Demography (membership): Acte: 117987 Marriage of Claude Sensar Picard and Marie Anne Prevot 1730
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} PRDH: Research Programme in Historical Demography (membership): Acte: 210960 Baptism Anne HERD 1694
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Généalogie Québec - Registres du Fonds Drouin - Québec - Montréal - 1705 - Marriage of Sebastien Cholet and Anne Herd Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
6. ↑ Généalogie Québec - Registres du Fonds Drouin - Québec - Montréal - 1694 - Baptism Anne Herd Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)
7. ↑ Différentes tribus amérindiennes en Nouvelle France - http://histoiressingulieres.over-blog.com/article-differentes-tribus-amerindiennes-en-nouvelle-france-107351277.html (accessed 2019-07-06)
8. ↑ Les relations franco-amérindiennes en Nouvelle-France et Acadie - Publication des Affaires indiennes et du Nord Canada par Cornelius J. Jaenen - 1985 - http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/aanc-inac/R5-367-1985-fra.pdf
9. ↑ PRDH: Research Programme in Historical Demography (membership): Acte: 47897 Marriage of Sebastien CHOLET and Anne HERD 1705
10. ↑ Mariage Claude Sensar dit Picard - Marie Anne Prévost Collection Drouin, IGD (Membership)

• PRDH: Research Programme in Historical Demography (membership): Individu: 13611 Marie Anne HENER PREVOST HEARD
• PRDH: Research Programme in Historical Demography (membership): Famille: 17206 Family of Claude Sensar Picard and Marie Anne Hener Prevost Heard
• Death record: Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968 for Marie Anne Prevot; Pointe-Claire, St-Joachim, 1744-1763, image 30 of 94 (2 January 1750) - by Roger Brousseau 9 January 2018
• From yourfolks.com listing of parish marriages in Quebec, Canada
• A genealogical dictionary of families, 1621-1799 Quebec and French-Canada PRDH
• Location on Map of Parish Pointe Claire Map: accessed 27 Apr 2015).

• Raid on York (24 January 1692)
• Raid on York 1692 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_York_(1692) : accessed 27 Apr 2015).
• History of York, Maine....1692 Candlemas Day Massacure: Capt.Floyd's reports (http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/MA-BAY-COLONY/2003-02/1045624872 : accessed 27 Apr 2015).
• Indian Massacre at York, Maine (https://archive.org/stream/indianmassacreat00wigh#page/n3/mode/2up : accessed 27 Apr 2015).
• History of York, Maine, successively known as Bristol ... v.1. Banks, Charles Edward, 1854-1931. pgs. 295, 299, and 303 (http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014575123;view=2up;seq=354;size=150 : accessed 09 May 2015).