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	tonty-a (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Alphonse was born in 1650 (his father Lorenzo de Tonti fled Italy for France) and died 10 nov.1727 at Detroit (brother of Henri).
		He married first on 17 feb.1689, Anne Picotte de Belestre (of Montreal) and had eight children, one of which (Marie-Josephe) was baptised 27 may 1713 in Montreal and married in 1760 to a Pierre.
		Alphonse and Henri were said to have been cousins of Daniel Greysolon Du Luth and his brother La Tourette and also either a cousin or uncles to Pierre de Liette.
	users.usinternet.com /dfnels/tonty-a.htm (176 words)

	History Detroit 1701-2001
		Pierre Alphonse de Tonty was born in 1659 to Laurent and Angelique (de Liette) de Tonty.
		Tonty was the Captain of Cadillac's party which founded Fort Ponchratrain du Detroit in 1701.
		Tonty was personally responsible for all expenses at the fort, including salaries for a missionary, surgeon, soldiers and interpreters, presents for Native Americans, and clothing.
	www.historydetroit.com /people/alphonse_tonty.asp (522 words)

	Henri de Tonti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was the son of Lorenzo de Tonti, a financier and former governor of Gaeta.
		Alphonse de Tonty, one of the founders of what is now Detroit, was his younger brother.
		Tonti experienced several financial difficulties in the 1690s and in early 1700 he commenced a journey down the Mississippi to make contact with Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville who had established the Louisiana colony.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henri_de_Tonty (531 words)

	CADILLAC'S VILLAGE or DETROIT UNDER CADILLAC.
		Alphonse Tonti and their children from Montreal to Detroit, and at the same time to accompany Francis Mary Picote de Belestre and equipages on the same trip.
		Alphonse Tonti accompanied Cadillac, as captain of the military expedition, to establish Fort Pontchartrain at the Detroit, in 1701.
		Alphonse Tonti was commandant of Fort Pontchartrain of Detroit, from 1720 to 1727, in which year he died, and was buried at Detroit November 10.
	mlloyd.org /texts/cadillac.htm (18498 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		TONTY, ALPHONSE (de), Baron de Paludy, commandant at Forts Michilimackinac, Frontenac, and Pontchartrain (Detroit), captain in the colonial regular troops, younger brother of Henri Tonty; b.
		In 1684 Alphonse quarrelled violently with René-Robert Cavelier* de La Salle over the wages he was to be paid if he sailed with the explorer to the Gulf of Mexico.
		Alphonse’s income as a lieutenant in the colonial regular troops was a mere 720 livres per year, but he was not unaware of the potential profits to be made in the fur trade and gave his attention to the west, hiring men and outfitting canoes for the Illinois country.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=35251 (1525 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Tonty spent the next two years exploiting his licence to trade in the Illinois valley and towards the southwest and tried to persuade the authorities in France that he should resurrect La Salle’s old concept of siphoning off the wealth of the Mississippi basin through the Mississippi’s mouth.
		Perhaps not a giant of his age, Tonty is nonetheless a significant figure in the history of French development of the west.
		Legler, Chevalier Henry de Tonty’s exploits in the valley of the Mississippi (Milwaukee, 1896).
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=35252 (2589 words)

	Alphonse de Tonty at AllExperts
		Lorenzo de Tonti was the inventor of the form of life insurance known as the tontine.
		Tonty was commanding the fort in Detroit by 1717, but by 1727 numerous complaints, including those by the Huron led to his dismissal.
		Tonty was involved in numerous scandals and disreputable activities before he was eventually dismissed from his post as commandant of Fort Ponchartrain.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/al/alphonse_de_tonty.htm (288 words)

	The Historic Ebenezer A.M.E. Church \| 136 years of God's Grace in Detroit, Michigan
		Frontenac, de Buade, St. Joseph of Miami, and St. Louis of Illinois, were to remain open only as long as needed by the military.
		De Buade and St. Joseph were abandoned immediately by their garrisons; St. Louis was abandoned by 1702, leaving only Fort Frontenac.
		Two other men, Robert Chevalier de Beauchene (whose adventures were published by Le Sage in 1745) and his brother, were also with the party at first.
	www.stoneofhelp.com /aboutdetroit.htm (2779 words)

	WebRoots Library U.S. History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Tonty was here two years afterwards, and mentions the curious custom of washing the faces of guests.] At the village of another tribe, farther on their way, they met with a welcome still more oppressive.
		Undeterred by this accident, Tonty made his way to the village where Hiens and those who had remained with him were said to be: but no trace of them appeared; and the demeanor of the Indians, when he inquired for them, convinced him that they had been put to death.
		Tonty, it is to be observed, had but a small fraction of this number; and Sagean describes the fort in a manner which shows that he never saw it.
	www.webroots.org /library/usahist/tdotgw06.html (15252 words)

	Home Page for Tontine Cellars
		Lorenzo de Tonti (1602?-1684?) was a governor of Gaeta, Italy and the Neapolitan banker that invented the tontine.
		Shortly afterwards, Tonti was involved in a revolt against a Spanish viceroy in Naples and had to seek political asylum in France.
		In Paris, the family gave birth to their second son, Alphonse de Tonti (Alphonse de Tonty), who helped establish Detroit, Michigan.
	www.tontinecellars.com (400 words)

	METIS CULTURE 1685-1699
		Alphonse Tonti Baron of Paludy (born 1759) passed through the Detroit River to join Duluth de Greyzelon who built a stockade called Fort St. Joseph at the mouth of Lake Huron aka The Great Lake La Mer Douce (the calm Sea), later called Fort Gratiot.
		Pierre de Liette is at an Illinois village with Francois Dauphin/Daupin, sieur de Laforest (1649-1714).
		Alphonse de Tonty (Tonti) de Paludy (1650-1727) is hiring men for the Illinois Country.
	www.agt.net /public/dgarneau/metis3b.htm (12487 words)

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		Despite the fact that De Monts was a Huguenot and thus a shining target for the shafts of bigotry, these protests had for three years failed to move the King; but now they had gained their point, and the monopoly had come to an end.
		The Sieur de Maisonneuve, a gallant soldier and a loyal devotee of the Church, was the active leader of the enterprise, with Jeanne Mance, an ardent young religionist of high motives and fine character, as his principal coadjutor.
		Tonty, Du Lhut, La Forêt, La Mothe-Cadillac, and others were all in Frontenac's favor, and all had his vigorous support in their work.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/2/5/2/12523/12523-8.txt (23034 words)

	EXPLORERS AND PIONEERS - Italian American Heritage and Pride - Care2.com
		Henry Di Tonti, known as "Tonti the Iron Hand" because he lost a hand in battle, accompanied Robert La Salle, a Frenchman, and explored for the first time the Great Lakes in The Griffin, a ship he built in 1679.
		Tonti also founded the first European settlement in Illinois in 1680, and the first French settlement in Arkansas in 1683.
		The co-founder of Detroit, Michigan in 1704 and its colonial governor for 12 years was Alphonse Tonty, the younger brother of explorer Henry Tonti.
	www.care2.com /c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=6454&pst=274765 (549 words)

	Western New York Heritage Magazine
		Cadillac was the organizer of the expedition, engaging an escort of experienced French Canadian voyageurs to guide her canoe flotilla, she must share the "first woman" distinction with her companion, Marie-Anne Picote Belestre, the 30 year-old wife of Alphonse de Tonty.
		Alphonse was Cadillac's second in command at Detroit.
		He was also the younger brother of the famed Henri de Tonty, the "iron hand" lieutenant of La Salle.
	wnyheritagepress.org /magazine/summer02/summer2002a.htm (589 words)

	Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac Summary
		Antoine Laumet, dit de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac (March 5 1658 – October 15 1730), a French explorer, was a colourful figure in the history of New France.
		After troops were withdrawn from Michilimackinac, he convinced the comte de Pontchartrain to found a colony at Detroit, which he commanded 1701-1710.
		Cadillac's wife along with the wife of his lieutenant, Alphonse de Tonty arrived in spring the next year.
	www.bookrags.com /Antoine_Laumet_de_La_Mothe,_sieur_de_Cadillac (2634 words)

	ACADIAN ANCESTRAL NEWSLETTER
		Henri Tonty was lieutenant to Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle the great explorer, in charge of building Fort Conti at the base of the great Falls named Niagara and the ship the "Griffin," that would take them on their exploration, for Louis XIV, King of France.
		Henri Tonty, having lost his hand in a European war, was known to the Indians as "Bras-de-fer" (Copper Hand or Brass Hand), since he had been fitted in Europe with such a replacement.
		The godfather was Clement de Sabrevois, squire, Sieur of Bleury.
	www.newsletter.acadian-home.org /newsletter-issue-3.html (11072 words)

	[Alphonse de Tonty] \| [All the best Alphonse de Tonty resources at karaoke.velocityincome.com]
		Find Economy State WyomingMarie, Michigan, first European settlement in Michigan 1701 Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac, with his lieutenant Alphonse de Tonty, established a trading post on the Detroit River which they named Fort Pontchartrain; present site of Detroit...
		Pierre Alphonse de Tonty, or Alphonse de Tonty, Baron de Paludy (c.
		Henri de Tonti, involved in LaSalle's exploration of the Mississippi River and the establishment of the first settlement in Arkansas, was his older brother.
	karaoke.velocityincome.com /Alphonse_de_Tonty (493 words)

	LookUpDetroit.com - Connecting to a Family Friendly Detroit
		The settlement was originally called Fort Pontchartrain d'Étroit after Louis Phélypeaux, the comte de Pontchartrain, minister of marine under Louis XIV and for the river that connects Lakes St. Clair and Erie.
		Born at Les Laumets in the hamlet of St. Nicolas de la Grave, in Gascony, he arrived in 1683 at Port-Royal, Acadia, where Governor Frontenac made him a lieutenant and later a captain.
		His lieutenant, Alphonse de Tonty, became the new fort commandant.
	www.lookupdetroit.com /information_misc/information.htm (9423 words)

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	METIS CULTURE 1721-1725
		Francois Marie Picote, sieur de Belestre (1677-1729), temporary commander (1721-1722) of Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), married to Marie Catherine Trottier Beaubien (1676-1731) daughter Antoine Trottier (1640-1706) and Catherine Lefebvre (1648-1705); Marie Catherine married 1714 Francois Marie Picote Belestre.
		July 3: Etienne Venyard, sieur de Bourgmont (1680-1730) was being accompanied by Larenaudiere, Bellerive, d'Estinne, Roulot, Derbet, Hamelin, Gaillard, 100 Missouri with 9 chiefs and 64 Osage with 4 chiefs.
		May 31: Permit to Madame de Vercheres for five men and Monsieur Vercheres, an officer as soon as troops are detached to Post Caministigouya and she dispatched three canoe and five men crews June 12.
	www3.telus.net /public/dgarneau/metis6.htm (6338 words)

	METIS CULTURE 1721-1725
		Francois Marie Picote, sieur de Belestre (1677-1729), temporary commander (1721-1722) of Fort Detroit, New France (Michigan), married to Marie Catherine Trottier Beaubien (1676-1731) daughter Antoine Trottier (1640-1706) and Catherine Lefebvre (1648-1705); Marie Catherine married 1714 Francois Marie Picote Belestre.
		July 3: Etienne Venyard, sieur de Bourgmont (1680-1730) was being accompanied by Larenaudiere, Bellerive, d'Estinne, Roulot, Derbet, Hamelin, Gaillard, 100 Missouri with 9 chiefs and 64 Osage with 4 chiefs.
		May 31: Permit to Madame de Vercheres for five men and Monsieur Vercheres, an officer as soon as troops are detached to Post Caministigouya and she dispatched three canoe and five men crews June 12.
	www3.bc.sympatico.ca /public/dgarneau/metis6.htm (6338 words)

	A Brief History of Michilimackinac - Mackinac State Historic Parks
		Antoine de la Mothe Sieur de Cadillac assumed command in 1694; Alphonse de Tonty relieved him in 1697.
		Villiers and Commandant Jean-Baptiste-René Legardeur de Repentigny assembled at Michilimackinac a force of French, Ottawa, Menominee, and Chippewa warriors and paddled on to Green Bay.
		Pierre Gautier de Varennes de la Vérendrye and his sons outfitted at Michilimackinac some of their exploring excursions into the northwest between the 1720’s and 1740’s.
	www.mackinacparks.com /parks/a-brief-history_580 (3616 words)

	Késsinnimek - Roots - Racines
		The reason for Marguerite’s presence at Detroit in October of 1732 could be as simple as her desire to see her daughter and grandson; or perhaps she wished to minister to her sick daughter, since Magdeleine died of an unidentified cause in November.
		De Noyelles would not contribute as much as the two others, and an adjustment was to be made at the end of the contract.
		Nicolas-Joseph Noyelles (de), sieur de Fleurimont, lieutenant in 1721, married Marie-Charlotte Petit (Charles and Marie-Madeleine Gauthier) 8 August 1718 at Montréal.
	www.leveillee.net /roots/suzanne6-3.htm (6157 words)

	Késsinnimek - Roots - Racines
		The reason for Marguerite’s presence at Detroit in October of 1732 could be as simple as her desire to see her daughter and grandson; or perhaps she wished to minister to her sick daughter, since Magdeleine died of an unidentified cause in November.
		De Noyelles would not contribute as much as the two others, and an adjustment was to be made at the end of the contract.
		Nicolas-Joseph Noyelles (de), sieur de Fleurimont, lieutenant in 1721, married Marie-Charlotte Petit (Charles and Marie-Madeleine Gauthier) 8 August 1718 at Montréal.
	www.kateritekakwitha.org /roots/suzanne6-3.htm (6157 words)

	Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Some historical controversy clouds the achievements of Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac (1658-1730), a French adventurer who in 1701 founded the first significant European post west of the Allegheny Mountains and named it Detroit.
		In Cadillac's day, the exploits of the men who had first claimed these lands were legendary--such as Samuel de Champlain's founding of Quebec in 1608-and perhaps he saw for himself similar glory as a conqueror of the unfamiliar territories.
		Madame Cadillac, along with the wife of his second-in-command, Alphonse de Tonty, made an arduous trek of almost a thousand miles in open canoe to become the first European women settlers in Detroit.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/antoine-de-lamothe-cadillac (1901 words)

	Thereupon the latter went to France to secure the restitution
		He was a close adherent of La Salle and devoted much time and energy to the support of the cause of his early friend and patron.
		After the death of La Salle, La Foret was given the command of Fort St. Louis, to which post he was accompanied by La Salle's old companion, Henry de Tonty.
		The first of these was Alphonse de Tonty, who went out with Cadillac on his original expedition to Detroit as second in command, a position which he continued to hold for several years.
	www.pure-michigan.com /michigan6/12.php (377 words)

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		The said Lelat has declared that he does not know how to write or sign when interrogated after the document was read in accord with the ordinance.
		Cabazie Adhemar, notary May 10, 1690 Engagement of Le Boeuf1 to Monsieur de Tonti.
		Before, etc., were present Alphonse de Tonti, esquire, lieutenant of a detachment of the marine, at present in this city, on the one pai% and Pierre Le Boeuf, residing ordinarily at Quebec, 1A Pierre Le Boeuf, baptized May 17, 1672, seems to have lived in Montreal after his marriage in 1695.
	memory.loc.gov /master/gc/gcmisc/gcfr/0006/02400218.txt (102 words)

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