Jean Verdon

Abt 1642 - Bef 1678  (36 years)

• Name	Jean Verdon
  Born	Abt 1642	Souvigne, France
  Gender	Male
  Residence	Bef 1667	Souvigne, France   [1]
  	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	1667	Montreal, Quebec, Canada   [1, 2]
  	He is found in the household of Jacques LeBer at Montreal. Jean Vredon is a servant and 25 years of age.
  Occupation	1672	Quebec, Quebec, Canada   [1]
  	He was a plowman.
  Land	24 Jul 1673	LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada   [3]
  	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	Bef 20 Dec 1678  [3]
  	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.
  Name	Jean Vredon  [4]
  Died	Bef 20 Dec 1678  [3]
  Occupation	1689	Lachine, Quebec, Canada   [5]
  	He was a "labourer".
  Residence	1689  [5]
  	Prairie de la Madeleine
  _UID	857B6B7EB52C43FC90E2BD2A4FADAA38405C
  Person ID	I5859	Lirette Family Tree
  Last Modified	4 Aug 2020

  
  

  Father	Francois Verdon,   d. Bef 1672
  Mother	Anne Mathieu,   d. Bef 1672
  Family ID	F2408	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marguerite Richer,   b. Abt 1650, Saint Martin sur Renelle, Rouen, Normandy, France ,   d. Bef 1700  (Age 49 years)
  Marriage Contract	10 Sep 1672	Quebec, Quebec, Canada   [1, 3]
  	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.
  Married	19 Sep 1672	Quebec, Quebec, Canada   [1, 3, 6]
  Marriage Ceremony	19 Sep 1672	Quebec, Quebec, Canada   [7]
  	Present at the ceremony were Pierre Richer, Pierre Caille dit LaRochelle, Jacques Doublet, Nicolas Durand and Gabriel Berard.
  Children	1. Francois Verdon,   b. 5 Mar 1673/74, LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada ,   d. 1 Apr 1674, LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada  (Age 0 years)   2. Marie Marguerite Verdon,   b. 10 Jan 1676/77, LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada ,   d. 17 Feb 1757, Hopital General de Montreal, Quebec, Canada  (Age 80 years)   3. Pierre Verdon,   c. 28 Nov 1678, LaPrairie, Quebec, Canada ,   d. 17 Feb 1763, St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada  (Age ~ 84 years)
  Last Modified	6 May 2014
  Family ID	F2406	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

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