BISET
Around 1669 in London, England, Jean Biset was born to James Bisset and Frances Collier. Between 1669 and 1697, for an unknown reason, Jean Biset moved to Montreal, Canada.
On February 18, 1697, at the age of twenty-eight, he married nineteen year old Catherine Quenneville of Lachine, Quebec, Canada. Catherine was the daughter of of Jean Quenneville and Denise Marie who themselves were married in 1674 in Quebec. Catherine Quenneville died on January 28, 1703, and on November 26, 1703, Jean married his second wife, Catherine LeGros, at St. Agnes Church in Quebec. Around 1697 in Montreal, Paul Bissette was born, son of Jean and Catherine.
At the age of thirty-five, Paul married his second wife, twenty-one year old Marie Charlotte Judith, on April 21, 1732. In 1730, location unknown, Francois Bisette was born to Paul and Marie. Francois, believed to be the first Bisette in Louisiana, married on November 14, 1752, in St. Charles Parish, marie Claudine Louis, daughter of Etienne Louis dit Champagne and Marie Jeanne Pelletier. Between 1752 and 1758, Francois and Marie moved to Pointe Coupee.
Francois served as a "fusillier" in the milita at the Post at Pointe Coupee under the command of Carlos de Grand Pre', capturing English posts at Thompson's Creek and the Amite, and later under Bernardo de Galvez, capturing Fort Manchac and Fort Richmond in 1779.
Francois and Marie had seven children. The fourth child, Julie, was born on March 5, 1762. She married on June 22, 1776, Joseph Roy. Francois died on February 11, 1780, and was buried along his wife, Marie, at St. Francis Catholic Church. Marie died in 1779.
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