Brisson

Dustin Brisson led off the fifth inning with his third home run of the year for Portland, which improved to 14-11 away from home.

USATODAY.com 2003

PORTLAND, Maine (Ticker) -- Dustin Brisson forced home the game-winning run to help the Portland Sea Dogs edge the

USATODAY.com 2003

When M. Brisson had fallen from office after initiating the Revision proceedings, M. Zola had said to me: 'Brisson's present fall does not signify; it was bound to come.

With Zola in England Vizetelly, Ernest A 1899

His mother, Phoebe Brisson Proulx Maloney Carpentieri, married three times: a French Canadian (Proulx), an Irishman (Maloney) and an Italian (Carpentieri) from Napoli who taught my father to make spaghetti sauce—a sauce which I and my sisters all make today, our best, perhaps our only, gift from a hard-to-know father.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Rémi was very close to the Mohawk Kahnawake Reservation perhaps the Brisson family had friends there, and “because of this somehow the notion of an Indian connection arose.”

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Levi Brisson died five months after the interview, and the Windham County Transcript ran the following obituary:

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Rémi area—Sebastien Brisson dit Laroche, and according to the genealogist Richard De Gruchy, who worked on our problem, all the Brissons of St.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

My grandmother, Phoebe Brisson, was also descended from the LaBarges.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

Although several of his descendants, including my grandmother, my father and his cousin, Richard Brisson a collector of Indian artifacts, believed in an Indian ancestor, the idea that Levi Brisson was a “half-breed” is not substantiated.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

At the time of the interview Levi Brisson was reputedly between eighty and ninety years old.

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011