One of the earliest Richelieu ancestors was Marin Richard dit Lavalle (1641-1715) who was born in Normandy, France and immigrated to Quebec in Canada. He married Marie Madeleine Grangeon and they eventually settled in Portneuf, Quebec. They were the parents of Jacues Richard dit LaRichardiere (1676-1741). His great-grandson, Dominique Richelieu (1829-1854) was the first to move to the United States and was also the first to use the surname Richelieu. He settled in New York where he married Catherine M. Foster. Descendants live in the United States.
A fascinating personal memoir of underwater combat in World War II, told by a man who played a major role in those dangerous operations. Frank and beautifully written, Submarine Commander's breezy style and irrepressible humor place it in a class by itself. This book will be of lasting value as a submarine history by an expert and as an enduring military and political analysis. In early 1943 the submarine USS Scorpion, with Paul R. Schratz as torpedo officer, slipped into the shallow waters east of Tokyo, laid a minefield, and made successful torpedo attacks on merchant shipping. Schratz participated in many more patrols in heavily mined Japanese waters as executive officer of the Sterlet and the Atule. At war's end he participated in the Japanese surrender, aided the release of American POWs, and had a key role in the disarming of enemy suicide submarines. He then took command of the revolutionary new Japanese submarine I-203 and returned it to Pearl Harbor. But this was far from the end of Schratz's submarine career. In 1949 he commissioned the ultramodern USS Pickerel, the most deadly submarine then afloat, and set a world's record in a 21-day, 5,200-mile submerged passage from Hong Kong to Honolulu. With the outbreak of the Korean War, the Pickerel was immediately sent to Korea to participate in secret intelligence operations only recently declassified and never before revealed in print. Schratz's broad military experience makes this a far from ordinary memoir.
Louis Tetreau was born in about 1635 in Louin, France. He immigrated to Canada in the 1650s. He married Noelle Landeau 9 June 1663 in Trois Rivieres, Quebec. They had nine children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Leonard Pilote (d.1665) married Denise Gauthier in LaRochelle, France and immigrated to Quebec, Quebec Province, Canada. Descendants and relatives lived in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and elsewhere. Many descendants immigrated to Michigan and elsewhere, and their progeny now live throughout most of the United States.
