Jean-Baptiste-Melchior Hertel de Rouville, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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- Jean-Baptiste-Melchior Hertel de Rouville (October 21, 1748 – November 30, 1817) was a seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born in Trois-Rivières, the son of René-Ovide Hertel de Rouville, and served in the French Régiment du Languedoc.
- He returned to Quebec in 1772.
- He helped in the defence of Fort St.
- Johns (later Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu) on the Richelieu River against the Americans in 1775; he was taken prisoner and released twenty months later.
- In 1783, he was named a justice of the peace for Montreal district.
- He settled at Chambly, on his father's seigneury, in 1789 and was named a colonel in the local militia the following year.
- After his father died in 1792, he received half of the seigneury of Rouville and part of Chambly; he later purchased the remainder of Rouville.
- Also in 1792, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Bedford.
- In 1812, he was named to the Legislative Council. He died in Chambly.
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| Date of birth/death | 10 December 1744 | 5 February 1813 | |
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