Jean Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay
JeanBaptiste Nicolas Roch, seigneur de Ramezay, bornSeptember 1708, in Montreal, and diedMay 1777, in Blaye , was an officer of the marines and colonial administrator for New France during the 18th century. Joining as an ensign at the age of eleven, he fought campaigns against the Meskwaki tribe in Illinois and the British in Acadia. As the Kings lieutenant, he signed in the name of Louis XV the Articles of capitulation of the city of Quebec, in 1759, during the Seven Years War, an action for which he was later criticised.
JeanBaptiste Nicholas Roch was the youngest son of Claude de Ramezay and Marie Charlotte Denys de la Ronde. He was born onSeptember 1708 and raised in the family chateaux in Montreal. He joined the colonial regulars as an ensign onMay 1720, where his older brother, Charles Hector de Ramezay was already a lieutenant. When his brother died in August 1725, Jeans mother purchased the lieutenancy for him.
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