My Family History by Kevin Lajiness

My Farthest non native ancestor in the Americas was Louis Hebert , he is known as the father of farming in Canada and was an apocrathy for Champlain, is said to be the first permanent settler in Canada. and as a result of Champlain's influence with the Algonquin natives a robust fur trade happen in New France with the center at Detroit about 1750 , stretching from Montreal to New Orleans. These traders and there Native partners would to strengthen the bonds of there relations by inter marriage. it is said at places like Detroit they were encouraged, these trading dynasties would in turn marry other Trader Interpreter families and there offspring would be a new indigenous group in America with there own language and ways, they would come to be know as Metis. As new pioneers began to flood the Ohio and tensions over the trade between the French and English and the American Rebels the French and Indians found themselves split as to the victors of the American revolution, Detroit found itself under three flags in a matter of years the French Traders not wanting war between the Indians and American rebels were to side with English and were known as loyalist, they saw it as an Anglo problem but in time the Rebels would force the hands of everyone the English kept what is Canada, the French and Traders would fade into history as did the Metis way of life and the once inviting Detroit was to remove the Indians to the west, places like Oklahoma and Kansas under the force of the U S Gov under people like President Andrew Jackson. The old French families that remain many related and stem from the first hundred at Quebec were to eventually marry into the New generation of German and Scot-Irish settlers that lived as a Buffer from the Founding Father of English and Welsh of Philadelphia, once the 2nd largest English speaking city in the world. This is my story, My dads people were for the most part French Canadian with the Trace of Native Blood and Influence with his Metis history where Pierre Roy his ancestor at Detroit with Cadillac , Fur Trader married Margaret Ouabankikove , Miamis Native that lived on Lake Erie. to My Mothers Ancestors Beginning with the Quaker Powelton founding Family (William Powell) of Penn's Philadelphia and Peter Bond Abt. 1650 in Cornwall, England Death: Abt. 28 May 1705 in Baltimore Co., MD to the Powell's and Aaron Bond of Hancock co (Aaron was friends with Buffalo Bill) Ohio where in route to this co these English family's would Marry into German and Scot-Irish families. My Mothers Mother a Keeran, My Mother is a Bach Born in that Co would move to near Luna Pier Michigan were she meet my dad as a young girl eventually to marry and have me one of 4 children Growing up in Luna Pier Mich on Lake Erie, I now have spent the last 32 years living and raising a family in New Jersey USA