Claude de Ramezay
Claude de Ramezay, (15 June 1659 – 31 July 1724), was an important figure in the early history of New France.[1] In 1690, Ramezay married the daughter of Pierre Denys de La Ronde (1631 - 1708)[1] and thus was joined to one of the elite families of New France.In 1711 his eldest son, 19-year-old Claude junior, an ensign in the French navy, lost his life in an attack on Rio de Janeiro.His second son, Louis, Sieur de Monnoir, was killed by the Cherokees during the campaign of 1715 against the Fox Indians.La Gesse, the elder of the surviving sons, died on 27 Aug. 1725 in the wreck of the Chameau off Île Royale.