Claude-Nicolas-Guillaume de Lorimier was born in
Lachine,
Quebec, New France in 1744, the son of
a French army officer, Le Chevalier Claude-Nicolas de Lorimier de La Rivière, Seigneur des Bordes and Marie-Louise Lepailleur de Laferté. Following in the footsteps of his father, grandfather and great-grandfather, he was commissioned as an officer in the French army of Louis XV and was serving as a junior officer when the
British conquered New France. Following the conquest and brief spell in France, Lorimier returned to Quebec and joined the British army. He became one of the leading officers of the "British Indian" warriors, recruiting primarily Mohawk Iroquois Confederacy native warriors during the
American Revolution and taking part in the defence of Fort St Johns (later
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu). He was wounded during an expedition led by Major-General
John Burgoyne into
New York state in 1777. In 1783, he married an
Iroquois woman by the name of Marie-Louise Schuyler and the couple moved to
Kahnawake, where he became resident agent. Shuyler died in 1790. Claude was elected to the
1st Parliament of Lower Canada as the Member for Huntingdon in 1792. In 1793, Lorimier married Marie-Madeleine-Claire, the daughter of
seigneur Joseph Brassard Deschenaux. In 1801, Claude remarried a third time, this time to Iroquois woman and
Kahnawake resident Anne Skaouennetsi (also known as McGregor or Gregory) with whom he had four children, including Antoine-George de Lorimier. Claude served as resident captain for the Iroquois forces at Caughnawaga during the
War of 1812 and fought at the
Battle of Châteauguay. One of his sons, Guillaume-François, was killed at the
Battle of Crysler's Farm, and another,
Jean-Baptiste de Lorimier, was wounded at the
Battle of Beaver Dams. Lorimier was named deputy superintendent of the Embodied Indian Warriors in 1814. He died in Kahnawake in 1825. ==Descendants==