Joseph-François Hertel de la Fresnière

He managed to escape and make his way home, where his family had thought him dead.

He was briefly imprisoned by French authorities on allegations of illegal fur trade in 1678.

Upon the outbreak of King William's War in 1689, he was chosen by Governor Frontenac to lead an expedition in 1690 that successfully raided Salmon Falls on the Maine-New Hampshire border, and then contributed to the massacre and destruction of a settlement on Falmouth Neck (site of present-day Portland, Maine).

Upon his return to Canada, he participated in the defense of Quebec when it was attacked by New England colonists under Sir William Phips.

In 1716, after many years of requests by New France's governors on his behalf, he was elevated to local nobility.