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• Name: Jean Claude Desforges
• Reference Number: 852
• _UID: 337DD896267640AEAFAB4490F72BA5892626
• Godparents: 6 Oct 1696, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Godparents:
His godparents were Claude Pothier and Louise Maignan dit Lesperence.

Died:
noted age 72 years

Jean married Marie Madeleine Menard on 3 Nov 1722 in Boucherville, Chambly, Quebec, Canada. Marie (daughter of Catherine Menard) was born on 7 Aug 1698 in Boucherville, Chambly, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 9 Aug 1698 in Boucherville, Chambly, Quebec, Canada; died on 26 Dec 1776 in Lachine, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 28 Dec 1776 in Lachine, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Marriage Ceremony:
Present at the ceremony were Jean Deforge dit St. Maurice, father, Marguerite Verdon, mother of Jean, Jean Beau, Francois Cesar, Pierre Bertin and Louis, frere, maitre d'ecole.

1. Francois Desforges dit St. Maurice was born on 11 Aug 1723 in Boucherville, Chambly, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 11 Aug 1723 in Boucherville, Chambly, Quebec, Canada; died on 25 Mar 1784 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 27 Mar 1784 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada.
2. Joseph Alexis Desforges was born on 6 Feb 1725/26 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 7 Feb 1725/26 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada; died on 27 Feb 1732/33 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 28 Feb 1732/33 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
3. Jean Baptiste Desforges was born on 28 Jul 1727 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 28 Jul 1727 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 17 Jul 1728 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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• _UID: 679EC61813D64FBEA7F3521AC34744447190
• Residence: Bef 1689
• Occupation: 1689

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Residence:
St. Georges, eveche de Perigord.

Occupation:
Soldat de M. Delorimier.

Buried:
noted age 80 years

Jean married Marie Marguerite Verdon on 14 Feb 1688/89 in Lachine, Quebec, Canada. Marie (daughter of Jean Verdon and Marguerite Richer) was born on 10 Jan 1676/77 in LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 10 Jan 1676/77 in LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada; died on 17 Feb 1757 in Hopital General de Montreal, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 18 Feb 1757 in Hopital General de Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Additonal information: Lachine, Quebec, Canada
• _UID: 01EC6ABE510D4388A0C47577AB7572C0E033
• Godparents: 10 Jan 1676/77, LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada
• Adopted: 24 Jun 1679

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Additonal information:
Marie Marguerite was living in Lachine, never having followed her adoptive parents to Bout-de-l'Isle (Saint-Anne-de-Bellevue). Her adopted father, Mathurin Lievre, died in 1683 and her adopted mother, Marguerite Jasselin, had remarried in 1684 to Nicolas Lemoine.

Godparents:
Her godparents were Pierre Poupar and Marie Mothier.

Adopted:
Marie Marguerite's father's death left his family without resources. On 17 June 1679 the following act of adoption was signed by Claude Maugue.

The year one thousand six hundred seventy-nine the seventeenth day of June appeared in our study in our presense Jean Baptiste Migeon bailiff of the island of Montreal, Mathurin Le Lievre of the upper island of Montreal and resident of the upper Island on his concession, who is motivated and driven by Christian and charitable desire, stated to us that because he saw Marie-Marguerite Verdon, daughter of the late Jean Verdon resident of the coast of Saint-Lambert belonging to Laprairie de la Magdeleine a young orphan being only about three years old and abandoned and relinquished by her mother in flight and nearly all others and having little property is in the care of Jean Magnan who has had the said minor at his home for five or six months, came to us to complain that he could neither feed her nor support her not having any sous and that he himself had a rather large family, that he was in the process of adopting her and keeping her in his house as if she were his own daughter permitting us to take care of raising her feeding and supporting and instructing her in our Catholic apostolic and roman religion and even if he could to send her to school in order to give her the best education that will be possible for her and that through this charity and also when she will have been separated from their care by marriage or otherwise to continue to provide for her so favorably that he will advance to her the old clothes and this as his own daughter and to treat her in this capacity until the said time since God did not give him any children for the three years that he is committed in the marriage and that he believes that his wife will not have any.
One week later, Marguerite Jasselin, thirty years old and wife of Mathurin Le Lievre, came to ratify the act of adoption herself and promised that she would take good care of Marguerite Verdon who until that day was in the care of the tailor Jean Magnan.

Died:
noted age 88 years

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Marriage Contract:
Notary Jean Baptiste Pottier drew up a contract between Marguerite and Jean Desforges dit Saint Maurice, a soldier in the Company of Captain de Lorimier.
"Marguerite was said to be the daughter of the late Jean Verdon and of Marguerite Richer, during their lifetime residents of the prairie St Lambert, her natural father and mother who having left her at an early age was adopted by the late Mathurin Lelievre, during his lifetime resident of Bout de l'isle and Marguerite Jasselin his wife as it appears in the act of adoption on the date of 17 June 1679 here-attached by virtue of the adoption, the said Jasselin remarried in a second marriage to Nicolas Lemoyne considering the said Verdon as his own daughter the he authorized for the purpose of the document in the presence and with the consent of the relatives and friends named below..."

Marriage Ceremony:
Present at the ceremony were Marguerite Jasselin, adoptive mother of Marguerite and wife of Mathurin Lelievre, Nicolas Lemoyne, Jean Fournier, Aime Cherier dit Laroze, Pierre Jamme, Pierre Barbary, Jean Baptiste Pottier, notaire, Marie Beauvais, wife of Pottier, Jean Michau and Francois Michau.

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• _UID: 07A6B4BAF3F846CD9106D869CA64FA5E77E6
• Occupation: 1689

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Occupation:
He was a master carpenter.

Jean married Anne Bernard. Anne and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Jean Vredon
• _UID: 857B6B7EB52C43FC90E2BD2A4FADAA38405C
• Residence: Bef 1667, Souvigne, France
• Census: 1667, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Occupation: 1672, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
• Land: 24 Jul 1673, LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada
• Death: Bef 20 Dec 1678
• Occupation: 1689, Lachine, Quebec, Canada
• Residence: 1689

Notes:

Residence:
His family was from Souvigne (either in the arrondissement and diocese of Angouleme, Angoumois or in the arrondissement of Niort, diocese of Poitiers, Poitou).

Census:
He is found in the household of Jacques LeBer at Montreal. Jean Vredon is a servant and 25 years of age.

Occupation:
He was a plowman.

Land:
The Jesuit Jacques Fremin, head of the administration of Prairie de la Magdeleine, granted to Jean Verdon an area of forty arpents, comprising about two arpents in frontage by twenty deep, beginning at the standing wood, His neighbors were Antoine Rolleau (Rousseau) and the south side and Jean Inard on the north.
Jean had to pay to the administration of Laprairie two liards (half -farthings) per year for each of the forty arpents, this being twenty sols in land rent and two live capons or their value, and two deniers for the cens for the whole concession. He had to build lodging, clear constantly and incessantly, maintain the public roads deemed necessary and to have his grain ground at the seigneurial mill. The administration also stated "and when the said Verdon asks for a day off work to cut wood in order to build we will give him permission with respect to the spot which he will mark and as there is a prairie between the standing wood and the great river all along the said coast to being at a place called the marigot, we give the said prairie to being at the said marigot in common into perpetuity to all the residents of the said coast of saint Lambert on condition that they pay us every years on the first day of december five sols per beast that they pasture there, the calves of seven or eight months excepted.."
The notary only indicated where it began; at "le marigot" or the small marsh formed by a stream whose mouth is lost in the middle of the fruit trees and wild oats, twenty-five arpents from the river Saint-Jacques.

Death:
It is indicated in a rider to a contract made by Pierre Richer dated 2 March 1705 and recorded in the margin of act written by Antoine Adhemar on 23 August 1699, that Jean Verdon died before 20 December 1678, the date of the inventory of his property.

Occupation:
He was a "labourer".

Residence:
Prairie de la Madeleine

Jean married Marguerite Richer on 19 Sep 1672 in Quebec, Quebec, Canada. Marguerite (daughter of Pierre Richer and Anne Maricourt) was born about 1650 in Saint Martin sur Renelle, Rouen, Normandy, France; died before 1700. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: BFD53ED80E6043CBA25AE444F39B8EF85E33
• Residence: Bef 1671, Saint Martin sur Renelle, Rouen, Normandy, France
• Immigration: 1672
• Emigration: Abt 1679; possibly

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King's Daughter

Residence:
Rouen (seine-Maritime) INSEE 76540

Immigration:
She came to Canada at about age 19 with and estimated dowry of 200 livres. Her father was living in Quebec and working as a tailor at the time.

Emigration:
A petition for adoption was signed on 17 June 1679 for Marie Marguerite Verdon. It stated that "Marie-Marguerite Verdon, daughter of the late Jean Verdon resident of the coast of Saint-Lambert belonging to Laprairie de la Magdeleine a young orphan being only about three years old and abandoned and relinquished by her mother in flight and nearly all others and having little property is in the care of Jean Magnan who has had the said minor at his home for five or six months..." No other record of Marguerite Richer was noted. Marguerite may have returned to France.

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Marriage Contract:
Neither spouse could sign the contract drawn up by notary Duquet. Jean gave is bride 300 livres, while she brought property valued at 200 livres. Pierre Pricher, Pierre Caille, and the witnesses Jean Baptiste Gosset and Nicolas Durand signed the record with the notary.

Marriage Ceremony:
Present at the ceremony were Pierre Richer, Pierre Caille dit LaRochelle, Jacques Doublet, Nicolas Durand and Gabriel Berard.

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• _UID: EBAE0B43041A4D98857EB3C41E97DD8C82AE

Francois married Anne Mathieu. Anne died before 1672. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: FCF68930A9E341B297A304AEAD084F627C08

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• _UID: A4A013BD78164111A7A76987A0B940AD78B2
• First mentioned in Canada: 22 Aug 1667, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
• Employment: 12 Dec 1667, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
• Legal Matter: 18 Apr 1668, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
• Legal Matter: 11 Aug 1670
• Land: 3 May 1674, LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada
• Land: 21 Dec 1676, Champlain, Quebec, Canada
• Land: 21 Jan 1678/79, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 1681, Champlain, Quebec, Canada
• Land: 29 Aug 1683, St. Lambert, Quebec, Canada
• Land: 21 Jan 1688/89, Champlain, Quebec, Canada
• Legal Matter: 27 Dec 1695, Champlain, Quebec, Canada
• Legal Matter: 12 Apr 1696, Champlain, Quebec, Canada
• Legal Matter: 14 May 1696, Champlain, Quebec, Canada
• Legal Matter: 15 Jul 1696, Champlain, Quebec, Canada
• Legal Matter: 23 Feb 1698/99, Champlain, Quebec, Canada
• Will: 14 Jun 1701, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Notes:

Occupation:
He was a tailor. It was also sometimes mentioned that he made clothes for women.

First mentioned in Canada:
He was first mentioned at the marriage of Jean Beaume dit Lafranchise. He seemed to be the friend of several soldiers. It is not known when he first arrived in the New France or if he was at one time a soldier.

Employment:
Pierre and Jacques Doublet wer ordered by the lieutenant general to deliver a suit to the wife of Francois Pelletier.

Legal Matter:
Claude Chasle, who had inflicted some wounds on Pierre, areed to make a reparation of 70 livres for food, bandages, and medicines until his victim was completely healed. The amount would be paid "every fifteen days by une pistole (ten livres) until the end of the payment".

Legal Matter:
Pierre brought a complaint before the Sovereign Council "for excesses committed to his person". The surgeon Jean Delaunay was ordered to verify the wounds. Delaunay reported and the Council ordered Gilles Rageot to pay the damages as well as the costs of the surgeon and the summons. Both also had to pay three livres in fines payable to the hospital.

Ten days later, the surgeon Delaunay petitioned that:
"the named Richer having had some dispute together in the house of the said Rageot, the said Rageot had greatly mistreated the said Richer in such a way that he had made several holes in the Richer head. The said Petitioner had to bandage and give medicine until the said Richer was entirely healed. Seeing that the said Richer was absent without knowing the place where he could be found, the said Petitioner had no salary to pay his penalties and medicines. Everything considered, the Council decided to charge the said medicines and salary to the amount of thirty livres, for which the said Rageot would be compelled by all means due and reasonable to make payments to the said Delaunay."

Land:
A piece of land, ceded by the Jesuit Jacques Fremin to Jean Inard on 29 June 1673, passed into the had of Pierre Richer on 3 may 1674. The land was 60 arpents, three in frontage by twenty deep. His neighbors were Marin Deneau on the north and Jean Verdon on the south. Pierre paid 360 francs, 50 of which were paid in beaver skins or in silver and the balance in local merchandise, wheat, peas, etc. He committed to complete the framework for a dwelling, while Inard agreed to build two rooms, one upstairs, and one below at his expense.

Land:
Pierre and Hilaire Limousin, also a tailor, contracted with Guillaume de la Rue for the construction of a frame for a house in the village of Champlain. La Rue agreed to square the beams himself and build the structure for 200 livres and a suit of clothes for his daughter. The contract was drawn up by notary Antoine Adhemar.

Land:
Before notary Claude Maugue, Pierre agreed to lease his land at Laprairie Saint-Lambert to Andre Marsil. The rental and the lease would be for three years and three harvests of all products coming from the land. The homestead measured three arpents in frontage by twenty deep. It included outbuildings and workable land. Marsil agreed to clear three arpents to the waters edge, to cut the wood so cleared, and to remove the part which was found next to neighbor widow Destaillis' land. Richer would pay, at the end of the lease, for work done by pickaxe on the said three arpents which had to be ready for seeding. Marsil also had to make the necessary repairs to make the house habitable and to pay the seigneurial rights as well as the rents and cens.

Census:
Pierre Richer was in the village of Laborde, at Champlain, where he was said to be 48 years old; he owned a gun and workd five arpents of this land there.

Land:
Pierre sold his land to Joseph Dumets and Charles Boyer represented him before notary Maugue at Montreal. The payment was for 400 livres in minted silver having legal tender or in beaver skins which the said buyer will keep in his hands until the deeds have been delivered. Pierre came from Champlain on 14 October to settle the sale.

Land:
Notary Daniel Normandin drew up a contract in the home of seigneur Etienne Pezard de La Tousche. Pezard acknowledged having given Pierre, master tailor of women's clothing, a concession located in the village of Laborde, an area of forty arpents having a half-arpent of frontage on the common road of the said village, to a width of four arpents on the east side, joining the depth of the lands not ceded, conforming to the alignments which had been drawn by the surveyor Jean Le Rouge. He was charged twelve minots of wheat, five live capons in non-redeemable seigneurial rent, and two deniers for the cens payable each year on the feast of Saint Etienne, the after Christmas. Richer had one year to build his residence which must be kept in good condition.

Legal Matter:
Pierre, at the age of 62 or 63, had notary Normandin draw up papers stating that he would give his land at Champlain to Michel-Ignace Disy, 34 years old, eldest son of ancestor Pierre, on the condition that the recipient feed, house, shelter and support him and upon his death have thirty masses said for the repose of his soul.

Legal Matter:
Before notary Normandin, Claude Drouet de Richardville, of Laborde, acknowledged owing Pierre 48 livres and 10 sols, for wheat and tobacco sold to him. He promised to pay by the next Christmas.

Legal Matter:
The agreement between Pierre and Michel-Ignace Disy was annulled and the same understanding was made with Pierre Mercereau, master surgeon also living in the village of Laborde. A house and two barns was included in the forty arpents of land.

Legal Matter:
Before notary Normandin terms of an agreement between Richer and Hilaire Limousin, "for all the expense damages and interests of a criminal judgment obtained against the said Limousin which judgment and other papers put in his hands in the presence of messire Claude Bouquin curate of Champlain who willingly signed the present receipt releasing the said Limousin discharging him generally and also of all other debts and obligations whatsoever until today wishing and agreeing that this present receipt serves him as right without my heirs or trustees ever able to bother him."

Legal Matter:
Heirs of his late wife contested the donation that he had made to Pierre Mercereau.

Will:
Pierre was hospitalized and had his will drawn up by Antoine Adhemar while in the ward of the Hopital General de Montreal.

"Present Pierre Richer, tailor resident living at Champlain presently ill in a ward of the hospital general of this city commonly call the ward of the poor of the said hospital seated on a chair in the same ward sound of mind and understanding as he appears to the undersigned notary and witness(s) and who considering the Uncertainty of all things and mainly the hour of death and fearing in anticipation of wishing not to die without leaving a will and without having settled and disposed of his property, After having provided for the salvation of his soul for these reasons He has made and dictated to the said notary his will and orders the said wishes in the name of the father the son and the Holy Ghost.
Firstly as a true Christian and Catholic command His soul when it departs his body to God the Creator father son and Holy Ghost begging his divine goodness through the merit of the passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ and by the intercession of the glorious virgin mary of St Pierre his patron and of all the Saints in paradise to put him and place him among the Number of the blessed in the kingdom of the Heavens.
Wants and Understand the said testament that the debts be paid and wrongs made by him if any are Found repaired by the Execution of the present will hereafter named.
And when at his Burial prayers and service He refers to the executor of his will.
Item Give and bequeath to the poor of the hospital General the amount of three hundred livres of the country with the charge that they will Say fifty Requiem masses for the repose of the soul of the said testator during the first year after his death and that the said poor will remember him in their prayers.
And in order to execute and accomplish his present will in order to add rather than to diminish His will has named Jean quesneville royal bailiff of the royal jurisdiction of the said Island of Montreal his good friend Lapree to take the trouble to add rather than diminish in hands of which He seize all his property Until the appraisal and completion of the present will wishing that it might be seized according to the Custom revoking all other wills and codicils which he could have made before this to which only he cam cease as being his last wishes.
This was thus made dated and named by the said Sr testator to the said notary present and found at the end named And by the said notary to the said testator we have reread This present will which he has said to understand well and wishes that it be executed According to its form and terms In the said ward of the poor at the said hospital general where He is ill seated on a chair in the year one thousand seven Hundred one the fourteenth Day of June in the afternoon In the presence of Srs Anthoine Hatanville bailiff royal and Louis Duplez mason witnesses living in the said ville marie undersigned with the said testator and the notary according to the ordinance.
Signed Pierre Richer--Louis duples--Hatanville and Adhemar

It is possible that he died at the Hopital General de Montreal" whose registries of baptism and burials was only begun in 1720.

Died:
It is possible that Pierre died at the Hopital General de Montreal whose registries of baptisms and burials was only begun in 1720.

Pierre married Anne Maricourt. Anne and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 7B9620CDECEA40BBA3A2A413C5D002AA0CC3