Richard Jacques (military officer)
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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.
Jacques was the son-in-law of the leader of the expedition Johnson Harmon.[1] Jacques married Harmon's daughter five months before they served together at Norridgewock.[2] He settled in Harpswell, Maine at Merriconeag Neck (1727). He served in the Siege of Louisbourg (1745).[3][4][5][6][7][8] He was the commander of the 8th Company of the Second Massachusetts Regiment under Samuel Waldo.[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. Jacques there.[11][12]