Sources: Arsenault, Vol. 2, page 544; Frazier, Ronald Forrest, "The
deForest Family Early History: the 14th through the 18th centuries".
Arsenault's footnote 41, ibid. says "Abbe Jean Forest, originally from
Bonaventure, the Gaspe Peninsula, died around 1670. Under the name of
Father Vincent de Lerins, of the Cistercien Abbey in Rougemont, near
Montreal, published in 1955 Histoire de la famille Forest, where he
traced the origins back to 1383, when they lived in Avesnes, in French
Flanders (modern Belgium).In the 1678 census of Port Royal, Michel Forest is a widower living
on four acres with three cows, two calves, one gun, and four boys ages
12, 10, 8, and 3 (born in 1666, 1668, 1670, and 1675, respectively) and
two girls, ages 6 and 4, born in 1672 and 1674.
Michel Forest (de Forest) married for the second time around 1686,
therefore I conclude his first wife had died before that date. After I
wrote the note above, I received Ronald Forrest Frazier's paper, "The
DeForrest Family Early History: 14th through 18th century" which gives
1677 as Marie's death year.