Gilles Dupont
Abt 1637 - 1683 (46 years)-
Name Gilles Dupont [1] Born Abt 1637 [2, 3] Gender Male Immigration 1660 [4] - He arrive in Canada in 1660, possibly as the indentured servant of Rene Besnard.
Legal Matter 21 Oct 1662 Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada 
[5] - He pressed a claim against Rene Besnard dit Bourjoly, who had been summoned to court "to pay off his debts following a judgement against him".
Land 19 Sep 1664 Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada [5] - Notary la Touche drew up papers for Gilles to buy a lot measuring 2 X 40 arpents on the Saint Marc coast at Cap de la Madeleine. The seller was Benjamin Anseau, Sieur du Berri. His neighbors would be Anseau to the southwest and Louis Boudor to the northeast. This sale was ratified on the following first of February by Louise Poisson, wife of the Sieur du Berri.
Census 1667 Comte de Champlain, Quebec, Canada [6]
Gilles Dupont, 30 years
Residence 1667 Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada [4] Property 18 Feb 1666/67 [5] - Dupont signed a contract with Claude Houssart, in which he agreed to live in Claude's house.
Land 11 Apr 1667 [5] - Benjamin Anseau sold his house and lot on the Saint Marc coast to Gilles.
Land 23 Mar 1668/69 Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada [5] - Gilles sold a strip of land to Claude David, 3 X 40 arpents, situated on the Cap. Notary Guillaume de Larue.
Land 16 Jul 1669 Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada [5] - He sold a piece to Pierre Juneau, 2 X 40 arpents. Notary Guillaume de Larue.
Land 6 Oct 1669 [5] - He aquired property at Arbre a la Croix from Martin Foisy, but the contract was canceled on the following 12 December.
Land 1670 [5] - He accepted a plot in the fief of Nicolas Marsolet, but he sold an arpent of meadowland to his neighbor Martin Foisy.
Land 8 Feb 1673/74 [5] - Dupont sold to Claude David, a section of the Arbre measuring 3 X 40 arpents. This land, according to Abbot Prosper Cloutier, was situated between that of Pierre Durand and of Etienne Gelineau. It was acquired on 13 Feb 1668 in a contract recorded by Severin Ameau, but never entered in the official records.
Land 28 Feb 1673/74 [5] - Gilles acquired a building lot from Michel David, four arpents wide, in the seigneury of Champlain.
Land 6 Mar 1678/79 [5] - He accepted a grant of three arpents of land from Francois Hertel de Lafresniere, seigneur of Arbre-a-la-Croix. The Hertel fief in 1681 was inhabited by only five familes: Pierre Durand, Gilles Dupont, Pierre Proust, Martin Foisy and Nicolas Millet de Marandais.
Census 1681 Champlain, Quebec, Canada [7]
Gilles Dupont, habitant, 45 years
Francoise Michelle, 26 years
Marie Dupont, 10 years
Anne Dupont, 9 years
Barbe Dupont, 5 years
Marie Joseph Dupont, 3 years
Jeanne Dupont, 1 year
They owned a gun, bull, and had four arpents of land under cultivation.
Le redacteur a inscrit Joseph Plutot que Marie Josephe, comme la reconstitution des familles nous l'indique.
Birth - Born about 1636 in Biencourt or Bourcourt, Brittany.
Residence 1681 Champlain, Quebec, Canada [8] - They lived in the Hertel fief.
_UID 9CE33F3F767D480696C84D5D1501D8578BC4 Died 24 Dec 1683 Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada [9] Buried 25 Dec 1683 Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada [9] Person ID I4014 Lirette Family Tree Last Modified 4 Aug 2020
Father Guillaume Dupont, d. Bef 1670 Mother Marguerite Ferraut, d. Yes, date unknown Family ID F1701 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Francoise Michel, c. 18 Aug 1649, Sennevoy-le-Haut, France , d. Aft 17 Nov 1698 (Age ~ 49 years) Married Aug 1670 Quebec, Quebec, Canada [10] Marriage Ceremony Aug 1670 Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada [8] Marriage Contract 10 Aug 1670 Quebec, Quebec, Canada [4, 10] - Notary Ameau drew up a marriage contract at Cap de la Madeleine, though neither spouse could sign it.
Children 1. Marie Francoise Dupont, b. Abt 1671, d. Yes, date unknown 2. Marie Anne Dupont, b. Abt 1672, d. 19 Jun 1756, Chambly, Quebec, Canada (Age 84 years)3. Marie Barbe Dupont, b. Abt 1676, d. Yes, date unknown 4. Marie Josephe Dupont, b. Abt 1679, d. 27 Oct 1729, Nicolet, Quebec, Canada (Age 50 years)5. Jeanne Dupont, b. Abt 1680, d. 8 Feb 1701/02, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Age 22 years)6. Jean Baptiste Dupont, c. 26 May 1683, Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada , d. 1753 (Age ~ 69 years)Last Modified 6 May 2014 Family ID F1698 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - (Research):PRDH #94422
Gilles residence: Arbre-a-la-Croix, from: Bourg de Cour, Bretagne.
- (Research):PRDH #94422
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