Jean-Etienne Waddens married Marie Josephe De Guire on November 23, 1761, in St Laurent near Montreal.
Another daughter, from a marriage "à la façon du pays" (in the style of the country), Marguerite Waddens married Alexander MacKay, a prominent fur trader.
[1] When MacKay was killed on the Tonquin, Marguerite married John McLoughlin, who is best known for serving as Chief Factor and Superintendent of the Columbia District of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver from 1824 to 1845.
Pond was examined in 1785 but was not brought to trial, most likely because Lac La Ronge lay in the territories of the Hudson's Bay Company, beyond the jurisdiction of the Province of Quebec.
Yet, Waddens succeeded in moving up the social ladder from a private in 1757 to a member of the bourgeois of 1782, although not to the rank of the trader-capitalists, like James McGill.