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Jacques Archambault

Male Abt 1604 - 1688  (~ 84 years)


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  • Name Jacques Archambault  [1, 2] 
    Born Abt 1604  [3, 4, 5] 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1637  [6] 
    laborer and wine maker 
    • He as a first a laborer and also probably a wine maker, since he sold three barrels of white wine to Jerome Bonnevie on 15 Aug 1637.
    Residence Bef 1646  Saint Pierre, Dompierre sur Mer, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    First mentioned in Canada 1646  Quebec, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8] 
    • The family arrived at Quebec, with Pierre Legardeur de Regpentigny, director of the Compagnie des Habitants; perhaps on 5 Aug 1645 but more probably on 23 Sept 1646.
    Occupation 22 Jul 1647  Repentigny, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    farmer 
    Legal Matter 2 Oct 1647  Quebec, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    • Pierre Legardeur de Repentigny entrusted Jacques with the development of his farm. The 5 year lease provided Jacques with 1 dwelling, 2 oxen, 2 cows, 1 heifer, pigs, all appraised at a value of 732 livres. Jacques already owed Legardeur 898 livres, 10 sols, upon the return of the ships from France. In addition, "in 2 years" Jacques must pay 500 livres "for half of the land which he will leave him the first year". The tenant could cut or sell all the firewood that he wanted by paying 10 sols a cord. This complicated contract was signed by notary Lecoustre.
    Legal Matter 19 Aug 1649  [6] 
    • After the death of Pierre Legardeur in 1648, Jacques and Jean Juchereau, Sieur de Maure, set up thier statement of accounts. Jacques owed his creditor 384 livres, 7 sols.
    Land 15 Sep 1651  Quebec, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    • Governer Louis d'Ailleboust ceded to Jacques 4 arpents of frontal land "on the river of the great river Saint Laurent in the place called le Cap rouge". This was at Fort Saint Louis in Quebec. His neighbors were Nicolas Pinel and Pierre Gallet. This act was confirmed by Jean de Lauzon, new governor, on 17 nov 1652.
    Land 18 Nov 1652  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    • Monsieur de Maisonneuve, governor, gave Jacques 30 arpents of land joining the city, between son-in-law Urbain Tessier and Lambert Closse, more than an arpent in the city to the north of Rue Saint-Joseph.
    Legal Matter 15 Feb 1653/54  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    • Jacques committed himself to live at Ville-Marie according to Father Archange Godbout. He would have obtained a bonus of 400 livres.
    Property 23 Nov 1654  Quebec, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    • Jacques bought from Etienne Dumets a house which Etienne had built on Jacques concession. The price was 71 liivres.
    Legal Matter 1655  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    winter 
    • Jacques and several residents of Ville-Marie made a deal with master surgeon Etienne Bouchard. Bouchard was hired on 30 March "to dress and give medications for all sorts of things, illnesses both natural and accidental, except for the plague", to the signers and their family for the yearly amount of 100 sols or 5 livres.
    Land 13 Feb 1656/57  [6] 
    • Jacques gave a proxy to Father Jean de Quen, S.J., permitting him to transfer his property in the region of Quebec. The land passed to Gilles d'Anjou before 1662 according to Marcel Trudel.
    Occupation 11 Oct 1658  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    • He was a well digger. Jacques made a transaction with Paul de Chomedey. He dug a well, 5 feet in diameter, inside the for of Ville-Marie, at the Place d'Armes. He guaranteed at least 2 feet of stable water in the bottom of this well. He was promised 300 livres.
    Employment 8 Jun 1659  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    • Father Gabriel de Queylus contracted Jacques to dig a well "in the garden of the hospital of the said place". Jacques guaranteed "two feet of stable water at least...in the presence of a current of water". The clerc provided 8 feet of wood, twenty planks, the stone, the lime, the sand, etc. But Jacques took care of the ropes and received 300 livres and 10 pots of eau-de-vie in exchange for spring water. Jean Aubuchon and Jacques Millot signed as witnesses.
    Employment 16 May 1660  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    • Jacques Leber asked Archambault to dig a well for the use of the community. The depth would be 15 to 18 feet. The payment would be 300 livres and 10 pots of eau-de-vie.
    Land 15 Dec 1663  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    • Jacques leased his farm for 3 years to Pierre Dardenne. Jean Gervaise was a witness.
    Census 1667  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 

    • Jacques Archambaut, habitant, 62 years
      Marie Denot, 60 years
    Land 3 Dec 1675  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    • Father Gilles Perot (Sulpicien Fathers) gave Jacques 100 livres for a portion of his land. This piece was 5 perches and 3 feet in length by 12 feet in width, all abutting Rue Saint-Jacques, near Urbain Tessier.
    Legal Matter 26 Nov 1676  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    • Jacques was still owed a portion of money for digging a well on 10 May 1660 for citizens Leber, Le Moyen and Testard. Jacques Testard paid his share of the debt which was 100 livres and 3 1/3 pots of eau-de-vie.
    Legal Matter 16 Oct 1679  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    • Jacques made Pierre Marchand and Francoise Pugnet his proxies so that they would pay the 152 livres owed from 280 livres borrowed from his nephew in La Rochelle, the son of Denys Archambault, his brother.
    Census 1681  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 

    • Jacques Archambault, 77 years
      Marie Desnos, 62 years
    _UID A91D2DFCD3AE430481BE1406263DBFB4E6F6 
    Buried 15 Feb 1687/88  Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5] 
    • noted age 84 years
    Person ID I10531  Lirette Family Tree
    Last Modified 4 Aug 2020 

    Father Antoine Archambault,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Renee Ouvrard,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F4355  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Francoise Toureau,   b. Abt 1599,   bur. 9 Dec 1663, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 64 years) 
    Married Abt 1629  Dompierre sur Mer, La Rochelle, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 13] 
    • * information from "Our French-Canadian Ancestors" VOL XIX, Chapter 3
      Both are natives of Dompierre sur Mer, a village in the canton and arrondissement of La Rochelle, in the Charente Maritime, previously the French provice of Aunis.
    Children 
     1. Denis Archambault,   c. 12 Sep 1630, Saint Pierre, Dompierre sur Mer, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Jul 1651, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 20 years)
     2. Anne Archambault,   b. Abt 1632, Dompierre sur Mer, La Rochelle, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Jul 1699, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)
     3. Jacquette Archambault,   b. Abt 1634, Dompierre sur Mer, La Rochelle, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 17 Dec 1700, Quebec, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 66 years)
     4. Marie Archambault,   c. 24 Feb 1635/36, Saint Pierre, Dompierre sur Mer, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 16 Aug 1719, Pointe aux Trembles, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 83 years)
     5. Louise Archambault,   c. 18 Mar 1639/40, Saint Pierre, Dompierre sur Mer, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1646  (Age ~ 5 years)
     6. Laurent Archambault,   c. 10 Jan 1641/42, Saint Pierre, Dompierre sur Mer, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 19 Apr 1730, Pointe aux Trembles, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 88 years)
     7. Marie Archambault,   b. Abt 1642,   bur. 8 Aug 1685, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 43 years)
    Last Modified 6 May 2014 
    Family ID F3439  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Marie Denot,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 26 Jan 1665/66  [14] 
    Marriage Contract 26 Jan 1665/66  Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10, 14] 
    • The marriage contract signed in the presence of Severin Ameau, notary, is lost.
    Marriage Contract 26 Jan 1665/66  [15] 
    • Notary Ameau drew up the contract.
    Last Modified 6 May 2014 
    Family ID F4360  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S8] R.A.B. du PRDH, Charbonneau, Hubert, and Jacques L, (Ga), Possession of Irene Lirette Gauthier., #47208 (Reliability: 4), 2 Apr 2005.

    2. [S8] R.A.B. du PRDH, Charbonneau, Hubert, and Jacques L, (Ga), Possession of Irene Lirette Gauthier., #66379 (Reliability: 4), 13 Feb 2010.

    3. [S8] R.A.B. du PRDH, Charbonneau, Hubert, and Jacques L, (Ga), Possession of Irene Lirette Gauthier., #49276 (Reliability: 4), 2 Apr 2005.

    4. [S11] Fichier Origine, Le Federation quebecoise des societes de genealogie and la Federation francoise de genealogie, #240071 (Reliability: 4), 14 Feb 2010.

    5. [S29] Our French-Canadian Ancestors, Thomas J. Laforest, (Palm Harbor, Florida: The LISI Press, 1985), Vol. XIX, pages 29-38 (Reliability: 4), 14 Feb 2010.

    6. [S29] Our French-Canadian Ancestors, Thomas J. Laforest, (Palm Harbor, Florida: The LISI Press, 1985), Vol. XIX, pages 29-38 (Reliability: 4), 11 Mar 2006.

    7. [S11] Fichier Origine, Le Federation quebecoise des societes de genealogie and la Federation francoise de genealogie, #240071 (Reliability: 4), 2 Apr 2005.

    8. [S8] R.A.B. du PRDH, Charbonneau, Hubert, and Jacques L, (Ga), Possession of Irene Lirette Gauthier., Vol. XIX, pages 29-38 (Reliability: 4), 11 Mar 2006.

    9. [S8] R.A.B. du PRDH, Charbonneau, Hubert, and Jacques L, (Ga), Possession of Irene Lirette Gauthier., #357602 (Reliability: 4), 14 Feb 2010.

    10. [S29] Our French-Canadian Ancestors, Thomas J. Laforest, (Palm Harbor, Florida: The LISI Press, 1985), Vol. XIX, pages 29 -38 (Reliability: 4), 11 Mar 2006.

    11. [S8] R.A.B. du PRDH, Charbonneau, Hubert, and Jacques L, (Ga), Possession of Irene Lirette Gauthier., #96619 (Reliability: 4), 14 Feb 2010.

    12. [S8] R.A.B. du PRDH, Charbonneau, Hubert, and Jacques L, (Ga), Possession of Irene Lirette Gauthier., #98155 (Reliability: 4), 14 Feb 2010.

    13. [S29] Our French-Canadian Ancestors, Thomas J. Laforest, (Palm Harbor, Florida: The LISI Press, 1985), Vol. XIX, pages 29-38 (Reliability: 4), 2 Apr 2005.

    14. [S8] R.A.B. du PRDH, Charbonneau, Hubert, and Jacques L, (Ga), Possession of Irene Lirette Gauthier., #94273 (Reliability: 4), 2 Apr 2005.

    15. [S8] R.A.B. du PRDH, Charbonneau, Hubert, and Jacques L, (Ga), Possession of Irene Lirette Gauthier., #94273 (Reliability: 4), 14 Feb 2010.


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