Publisher's Synopsis
Jean-Baptiste Reaume, a voyageur and interpreter, and Symphorose Ouaouagoukoue dit Thomas were married in the manner of the county about 1710. They had five children: Marie Madeleine, Judith (no issue), Marie Josephe, Suzanne and Jean Baptiste Reaume. Eight generations of descendants are included in this book. The majority of the descendants stayed in the Michigan area. Their Red River Settlement descendants begin in generation five and are the result of the c1796 country marriage near Prairie-du-Chein (Wisconin) of their great-great granddaughter Madeline Gauthier dit Verville and Henry Munro Fisher, a North West Company employee. Madeline Gauthier dit Verville is also the great granddaughter of Daniel-Joseph Amiot dit Villeneuve and Marie Domitilde Kapiouapnokoue or Oukabe. (See Volume 7) Madeline's children were all called half breeds.
