Grizel Madeleine (Warren) Robitaille (1662 - 1750)

Born 6 Mar 1662 in Kittery, Yorkshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Richard Otis — married about 1685 in Dover, New Hampshire

Wife of Philippe Robitaille — married 15 Oct 1693 in Montreal, Notre-Dame, Quebec

Descendants

Died 26 Oct 1750 at age 88 in Montreal, Montreal, Canada, New France

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Biography

Grizel or Grisel Warren was born 6 March 1662 in Kittery, Maine, the daughter of James Warren and his wife Margaret.

About 1686 she married Richard Otis, a blacksmith from Dover, New Hampshire. ^[1]

On the morning on 27 June 1689, her husband Richard and their daughter Hannah were killed by Indians in the Dover Massacre. Grisel and her three month old daughter, Margaret were taken as captives to Canada.

In Canada she was instructed by French Catholic priests and baptized in the Catholic church, given the name Mary Madeline and her daughter's name changed to Christine.

Grisel, or Mary Madeline married a second time to Philip Robitaile on October 15, 1693. She lived the remainder of her life in Canada and died on October 27, 1750.

Her daughter, Margaret or Christine, married on June 14, 1717, a Frenchman, Sharrington Le-Bau or Le-Bean. After her husband's death on 20 Feb 1713 her children were taken from her and put into a convent. She then returned to Dover, New Hampshire and married a second time Captain Thomas Baker of Northampton, Massachusetts; they had seven children. ^[2]

Excerpt from True Stories of New England Captives

"Richard Otis, the blacksmith of Dover, occupied the next garrison house to Waldron's. He was of good family, and had removed from Boston to Dover in 1656. At the time of the attack he was well on in years, had married sons, and was living with his third wife, rizel Warren, a young woman of less than half his years. She had borne him two children. Hannah, the elder, was about two; but the delight of her old father's heart, was his three months old baby, Margaret, fair as a summer daisy. Otis was shot death as he was rising up in bed, or had reached the window, seeking the cause of the alarm. The savages killed his little daughter Hannah, by dashing her head against the chamber stairs. His wife and baby were dragged from their beds, and with more of his family, hurried with the other captives to the woods to begin the doleful march to Canada." ^[3]

Also see: Drake's "Tragedies of the Wilderness"

Research Notes

one source (unconfirmed) lists her mothers maiden name as Richards

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com, U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012), Ancestry.com, Record for Grizel Warren.
2. ↑ Warren Orin. Warren; a genealogy of the descendants of James Warren who was in Kittery, Maine, 1652-1656; Haverhill, Mass., The Chase press, 1902. [1]
3. ↑ True Stories of New England Captives (Carried to Canada During the French and Indian Wars), C. Alice Baker, Heritage Books, 2007, Page 19.

• genealogy of Canada

• Genealogy of Canada

• Baker, Charlotte Alice. True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada During the Old French and Indian Wars (Cambridge, 1897) Page 5-34, Page 333-5

• English Captives in Canada- William Appleton, NEHGR- Vol. 28, p. 160 (Apr. 1874)

• Otis Family of Montréal- Isaac Greenwood, NEHGR- Vol. 46, p. 211 (July 1892)

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