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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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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.

1. Francois Verdon was born on 5 Mar 1673/74 in LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 6 Mar 1673/74 in LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada; died on 1 Apr 1674 in LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 1 Apr 1674 in LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada.
2. Marie Marguerite Verdon 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.
3. Pierre Verdon was christened on 28 Nov 1678 in LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada; died on 17 Feb 1763 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 18 Feb 1763 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada.

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

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