Claude-Nicolas-Guillaume de Lorimier
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Claude-Nicolas-Guillaume de Lorimier (September 4, 1744 – June 7, 1825) was a businessman, official and political figure in Lower Canada. He was also known as Guillaume, Chevalier de Lorimier.
He was born in Lachine in New France in 1744, the son of Claude-Nicolas de Lorimier de La Rivière, and served as a junior officer when the British took control of the province. Lorimier aided the British in recruiting native warriors during the American Revolution and took part in the defence of Fort St Johns (later Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu). He was wounded during an expedition led by Major-General John Burgoyne into New York state in 1776.
In 1783, he married Louise Schuyler, an Iroquois woman, and settled at Caughnawaga; his wife died in 1790. He was elected to the 1st Parliament of Lower Canada for Huntingdon in 1792. In 1793, Lorimier married Marie-Madeleine-Claire, the daughter of seigneur Joseph Brassard Deschenaux. After the death of his second wife, he married Skaouennetsi (Anne Gregory). He served as resident captain for the Iroquois forces at Caughnawaga during the War of 1812 and fought at the Battle of Châteauguay. One of his sons, Guillaume-François, was killed at the # Battle of Crysler's Farm, and another, Jean-Baptiste, was wounded at the Battle of Beaver Dams. Lorimier was named deputy superintendent of the Embodied Indian Warriors in 1814.
He died at Caughnawaga in 1825.
