Ancestry of
Marie Josephe Phaneuf

(1715–1789)

Claude-Mathias Phaneuf-Farnsworth

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• • Father of Marie Josephe Phaneuf — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Mathias Farnsworth Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Nutting   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Aug 1690 
  • Birth Location:
  • Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 10 Jan 1706 
  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Aug 1773 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
  • 8 Aug 1773 
  • Burial Location:
  • St-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Marie Catherine Charpentier
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Oct 1713 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Rivière-des-Prairies, Montréal, Québec, Canada 
  • Child:

  Marie Josephe Phaneuf (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Claude Mathias Phaneuf-Farnsworth was captured by a war party of Abenaki Indians in 1704. He was taken to Quebec and adopted by the Sulpicians who converted him to the Roman Catholic faith. He changed his name from Farnsworth to Phaneuf and nine years after his capture married Catherine Charpentier.

• Sources for Claude-Mathias Phaneuf-Farnsworth

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Groton, Vol. 1, p. 78, Birth record for Matthias Farnsworth.
  • ² Butler, Caleb, History of the Town of Groton, Including Pepperell and Shirley, from the First Grant of Groton Plantation in 1655, Boston: Press of T. R. Marvin (1848), 395.
  • ³ Chambers, Colonel Ernest J., ed., The Canadian Parliamentary Guide 1923, Ottawa, Canada: The Mortimer Co., Limited, Printers (1923), 380.
  • ⁴ Université de Montréal, Programme de recherche en démographie historique database (PRDH).