Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay
| Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay | |
|---|---|
| Born |
4 September 1708 Chateau de Ramezay, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | 7 May 1777 (aged 68) Blaye, France |
| Service/branch | Marines |
| Years of service | 1719–1759 |
| Rank | Captain |
| Battles/wars | Battle of the Plains of Abraham |
| Awards | Order of Saint Louis |
| Other work | Colonial Administrator, New France |
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch, seigneur de Ramezay, born 4 September 1708, in Montreal, and died 7 May 1777, in Blaye (France), was an officer of the marines and colonial administrator for New France during the 18th century. Joining as an ensign at the age of eleven, he fought campaigns against the Meskwaki tribe in Illinois and the British in Acadia. As the King's lieutenant, he signed in the name of Louis XV the Articles of capitulation of the city of Quebec, in 1759, during the Seven Years' War, an action for which he was later criticised.
Jean-Baptiste Nicholas Roch was the youngest son of Claude de Ramezay and Marie Charlotte Denys de la Ronde. He was born on 4 September 1708 and raised in the family chateaux in Montreal. He joined the colonial regulars as an ensign on 7 May 1720, where his older brother, Charles Hector de Ramezay was already a lieutenant. When his brother died in August 1725, Jean's mother purchased the lieutenancy for him.
After his promotion was confirmed, on 23 April 1726, he served under Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Lery, an engineer employed in the rebuilding of Fort Niagara. The fort, near Youngstown was designed to protect French interests from the British, who had recently settled at Oswego. Ramezay spent the spring of 1728 campaigning against the Fox tribe in Illinois under Constant le Marchand de Lignery and in 1731 he was sent to make peace with the Ojibwas tribe by Governor Beauharnois. He was promoted to captain in 1734 and in 1742 was commanding a fort at the mouth of the Onaman river.
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