Career
He died, apparently in France, in 1779. He was director of the Saint-Maurice ironworks near the city of Trois-Rivières in Quebec in the mid-1770s. General Richard Montgomery met with him in December 1775 to discuss the establishment of a provincial convention for the purpose of electing representatives to the Second Continental Congress, a step Pélissier advised against until Quebec City was taken.
His ironworks supplied ammunition, bombs, and cannonballs for the siege of Quebec.
He also wrote a letter to the Second Continental Congress on January 8, 1776, to point out the measures they should take for a successful taking of Quebec. As the Americans retreated from Quebec in May and June 1776, Pélissier fled the province with them.
On July 29, 1776, he received an engineering lieutenant colonel"s commission in the Continental Army, and in October assisted in the improvement of the defenses at Fort Ticonderoga. He eventually returned to his family home in France.