[John McGillivray]

There is another ancestral home, dating from 1726, in Oka Quebec. This one was build by my Puritan English ancestors, Josiah Rising (s/o John Rising and Sarah Hall) and Abigail Nims (d/o Godfrey Nims and Mehitable Smead) . They were children living in Deerfield Massachusetts when on the 29th of February, 1704 the French and Indians raided the settlement. About 50 were killed and 112 taken prisoner, including Josiah (age 9) and Abigail (age 3). They were both adopted by the Mohawk (Iroquois of the Mountain) near Lake of Two Mountains, Abigail was given the name Kanawkwa (Kenaskwa) while Josiah was named Shonatakakwani. They were both baptized in the Catholic Church with the names Ignace Raizenne Shoentakouani and Marie Elisabeth Nimbs Touatoguach. They were married in 1715 and I am descended from their third daughter Marie Catherine Raizenne Shoentakouani.

Marie Catherine married Jean Baptiste Seguin in 1742. Their daughter Elisabeth Seguin married Antoine Quesnel (my 4x great grandfather) in 1762.

The first photo dates from about 1890.