Pierre Ayotte

Pierre Ayotte was a French-Canadian soldier and fur trader who served with American revolutionary forces during the American Revolutionary War. Ayotte, who was an inhabitant of Kamouraska,

Both Ayotte and Gosselin were Canadian volunteers who first served with General Richard Montgomery, then went on to become recruiters and agitators for American revolutionary groups on the south shore of the lower portion of the Saint Lawrence River. Following Montgomery's death at the Battle of Quebec, the two became captains in Colonel Jeremiah Duggan's Canadian regiment. The Continental Congress subsequently transferred command of the regiment to Moses Hazen. Ayotte helped to raise troops for the American cause and fought at the Battle of Saint-Pierre.