Richard Jacques (military officer)

Capt Richard Jacques (1704, Newbury, Massachusetts – 1745, Louisbourg, Cape Breton); an American colonial officer who served during Father Rale's War.

He was responsible for the death of Father Sébastien Rale in the Battle of Norridgewock.

[1] Jacques married Harmon's daughter five months before they served together at Norridgewock.

[9] Family oral tradition indicated that he returned from Louisbourg and died in battle in Maine.

[10] However contemporaneous sources indicate that he did not return from Louisbourg, and that on May 18, Mi'kmaw forces killed Capt.