Mapping the Route: Québec to Waterford, NY

A Different Route; a Different Livelihood 
While Solyme Beauvais was making his way to the industrial city of Cohoes in the 1860s via the Central Vermont Railroad, the Rutland Railroad, Troy Salem and Rensselaer Rail, the Poissant-Glode Family took a very different route.  This family "eased" across the northern border from Québec into Clinton County, first as farmers and but eventually as Champlain canalers.  For several generations the physical border was as fluid as the waters of the lakes and rivers they navigated.
This was not the typical French Canadian immigrant family who came to work in textile mills of New York or New England.

According to census information, Luc Glode was probably born in Clinton County in 1837.  The earliest census where his father, Jacob-Jacques Glode, appears is in the 1850 census of Champlain.  There, his name is spelled Jocks Glade.  Jacques was the great great grandson of Jacques Poissant dit LaSaline, a Huguenot and Sargent in the Franche Marine company of de Noyan.  John Fisher has detailed the early Poissant family in France and Québec here.

 Descendants of Poissant dit LaSaline's son Claude used "Claude" as a "dit name" eventually dropping the Poissant and keeping the Claude. The Claude name morphed into Glaude, Glade and Glode. 


The 1850 census heading in Champlain, Clinton County, New York:

Jocks and his six children - with very misspelled names!

Jacques Jacob, was a famer and laborer but his son Luc Glode became a canalman and "straddled" the border navigating Lake Champlain and the Richelieu. In the 1860 US census he is living in Champlain, Clinton County, NY. with wife and first child.  HOWEVER,  in the 1901 Canada census he can be found in St. Jean/Iberville, Québec!!  

Luc Glode probably grew up in and around the town of Champlain, NY.

Luc Glode likely spent his years navigating the Chazy River ..

and Lake Champlain.....

 and the Richelieu River....

He knew St Jean sur Richelieu....

 and probably the port of Montréal too.

Jacob Glaude - circa 1845

Jacob Glaude was born in LaPraire, Québec in 1812 and baptized in St. Constant as 

Jacques Poissant dit Glaude. 

Exactly when he moved into northern New York is still unknown but he raised his family in Champlain, NY.

He was a participant in a Plowing Match at a Cattle Show

circa 1845 in Clinton County, NY

featured in The Plattsburgh Republican Newspaper

Jacob was the great great grandfather of Milo, Edgar and Arthur Mylott through their mother, Edith Glode.

A First Nation Mother: Marie Miteouamegoukoue

Marie Miteouamegoukoue, an Algonquin woman, is a mother in the Mylott (Millot)-Glode family. Here is a brief lineage starting with my father, Arthur Homer Mylott:

• Arthur Homer Mylott, 1918- 2006, son of 
• Edith Lida Glode or Glaude, 1889-1965, daughter of
• William Alexander Glode or Glaude, 1859-1933, son of
• Luc Poissant dit Glaude, 1837- 1922, son of
• Jacques Jacob Poissant dit Glaude, 1812-1867, son of
• Marie Marguerite Lapoterie, 1786-1854, daughter of
• Marie Elizabeth Boileau, 1748 - ?, daughter of
• René Boileau, 1707-1772, son of
• Marie Marguerite Ménard, 1683-1763, daughter of
• Marie Madeleine Couc LaFleur 1669- 1763, daughter of
• Marie Miteouamegoukoue, 1631- 1699, and Pierre Couc LaFleur

Some things are known about Marie.  She was born about 1631-1632 into an Algonquin band of First Nations people. She was baptized in Montréal on  November 6th, 1650, when she was 18 or 19 years old.  Her first marriage was to Assababich, an First Nations person; they had two children.  Assababich was killed in the wars with Iroqouis.  Widowed, Marie married Pierre Couc dit LaFleur on April 16th, 1657.   This information and much more is on Nomand Léveillée's Site.

Here are links to the stories of two other of First Nation mothers noted on this blog:

Marie Aubois - mother of Rivets 

Catherine Anenotha - a mother of Wills-Bissonnette-Beauvais