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Chief Henri Membertou (c.

Membertou is known mainly as the first chief of a First Nations community to be baptized, together with 20 members of his extended family.

MEMBERTOU, Henri, chief of a Micmac band, ally of the French; first native baptized in New France; d.

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^[1] From a reading of history one will learn that certain members of the de Monts expedition traveled south aboard their ocean going sailing vessel, in 1605, and were to meet up with the Armouchiquois who occupied territory beyond that area located in the present day State of Maine, Saco. They had with them "an Indian with his squaw" taken from those Acadian Indians which they had come to know during the winter of 1604/05. Now, its not likely that this was our Membertou, but who ever this couple was, they no doubt recounted their experiences to their family and friends upon their return to Acadia. These experiences are dealt with in some detail in Chapter 4, The Founding of Port Royal, sufficient to say that these Frenchmen participated in one of the first battles that Europeans had with the North American Indians, of the many that were to unfold in the bloody history between the two groups in the following 300 years. The point is, that French guns were turned on the Armouchi

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Anli-Maopeltoog (Mi'kmaq) Membertou (abt. 1507 - 1611)

ChiefAnli-Maopeltoog(Henri)"Sachem"Membertou formerly Mi'kmaq

Born about in Mi'kmaq Nation, North America

Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

Descendants

Father of Membertouchis (Mikmaq) Membertou, Actaudin (Mikmaq) Membertou, Actavdinech (Mikmaq) Membertou, Marguerite (Mikmaq) Membertou, Grace Marie (Mi Kmaq) Mi'Kmaq, Marguerite-Louise Membertou and Anne (Mi'kmaq) Membertou

Died at about age 104in Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

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Biography

Henri (Mi'kmaq) Membertou is Notable.

Henri (Mi'kmaq) Membertou was a Canadian First Peoples and member of the Mi'kmaq Nation.

Birth: 1507 - Micmac Nation, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada

Death: Sep 18 1611 - Port Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada

Parents: Fnu Membertou, Micmac Woman Membertou ^{[citation needed]}

Henri Membertou 1507 -

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MEMBERTOU, Henri, ledare of a Micmac grupp, ally of the French; first native baptized in New France; d. 18 Sept. 1611 at Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, N.S.).
According to Lescarbot, Membertou was already more than 100 years old in 1607. This fryst vatten probably an exaggeration. The old man stated that at a period when he was himself already married and the father of a family he had known Jacques Cartier. His eldest son Louis is supposed to have been 60 in 1610; and that also appears exaggerated, since all Louis’s children were then very young. The exploits attributed to Henri Membertou during a fighting expedition in 1607 are ill suited to a centenarian. In the same way the pompous titles conferred on Membertou bygd the French should not be taken literally. He commanded a small following of Micmacs who hunted and fished in the basin of the river and harbour of Port-Royal, and on the shores of St. Mary’s Bay in Nova Scotia. It would be oklokt to give to this band a precis