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CATHERINE QUEVILLON was born in early 1686 (baptized on 3/4/1686). She married first on July 30, 1703, to Guillaume Lacombe who was from La Cote Saint Michel where he had built a little house for him and his young bride. He seems to have died shortly after their marriage without issue and on June 16, 1704, she remarried to Samuel Papineau who was the forefather of the Papineau families of Canada. and the United States. He was born in Montigny in Piotou, France, not far from Bordeaux in 1670. He was the son of Samuel Papineau, Sr. and Mary Delair who were originally from Papiniere, France. Samuel was given the title of "De Montigny" in his early manhood before he came to Canada and used it, though it carried but very little value in Canada, throughout the rest of his life.

Nine children were born to Catherine in her second union., three daughters and six sons. Samuel, her second husband, died in April of 1737 and was buried in Sault-au-Recollet, Canada on April 23, 1737.

Catherine was the sixth child in the family of Adrien Quevillon and Jeanne Hunault and seemed to have followed the example of her mother by marrying four times. After her first two marriages, above, she remarried a third time to Jacques Daniel, widower of Madeline Barbeau, on April 3, 1742 when she was 56 years old. Her fourth and last union was with Jean Baptiste de Verac, called also "The Parisian" who was an upholsterer from Paris. They were married in Sault-au-Recollet on February 18, 1754 in her sixty-eighth year. The last two unions were, naturally, without issue.

She was captured and carried away by the Iroquois Indians during the massacre of La Chenaie in 1693 where she remained a captive until the late part of 1700 at which time she was brought back to her people by a gallant young Iroquois warrior who had been her protector, and suitor, throughout her captivity. It was because of his gallantry and pleading that her life was spared and certainly that was enough to gain her favors. She mothered a daughter for him during the early part of 1700 and as soon as it became known to them that a treaty between England and France was signed, he had taken her and the baby back to her people at La-Pointe-au-Trembles. The little girl's name was Van Katerine Tekakwitha....Van, after him, Katerine after her and Tekakwitha for his family's name. Little Van Katerine grew up well versed with the doctrine of her mother's church and as she rose to young womanhood she chose to dedicate her life to the service of God by serving in missionary work with the Iroquois of the village of Caughnawaga in Southern Quebec.

Catherine had witnessed at the time of her capture, the assassination of her sister, Francoise Angelique who was then in her twelfth year. Angelique was burned at the stake, alive, before her mother and sister's eyes and they were made to eat of her charred flesh. She also was forced to witness the rape and adultery imposed upon her mother by the chiefs of the group. In spite of all the turmoil and fierce ordeals she had experienced, she lived a full life and died at a very old age, ninety-five, on 3/30/1781, and was buried on August 2, 1781--four months and a few days after her death in Notre Dame de Montreal by Pere Hadry. (Records of Notre Da of Montreal)

Birth	1686	Montréal, Canada
Marriage	26 Jun 1704	Rivière des Prairies - Samuel Papineau dit Montigny
Death		Montréal, Canada

Spouse	Samuel Papineau dit Montigny (1670 - 1737)
Child	Marie Papineau dit Montigny (1705 - 1758)
Child	Catherine Papineau (1706 - 1781)
Child	Marie Louise Papineau (1709 - )
Child	Francois Papineau (1712 - )
Child	Pierre Papineau (1714 - )
Child	Jean Baptiste Papineau (1716 - )
Child	Joseph Papineau (1719 - )
Child	Michel Papineau (1722 - )
Child	Jean Louis Papineau (1726 - )

Father	Andre Quevillon (1641 - )
Mother	Jeanne Hunault (1658 - 1749)