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• 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.

Family/Spouse: Anne Maricourt. Anne and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Marguerite Richer was born about 1650 in Saint Martin sur Renelle, Rouen, Normandy, France; died before 1700.
2. Marie Marthe Richer was christened on 5 Jan 1652/53 in Saint Martin sur Renelle, Rouen, Normandy, France; and died.