My Pelletier pioneers
Hi, I am posting the data and notes that I have for some of my pioneer ancestors, in hopes that they may be of interest to some of you that are doing research on your ancestors.
Descendants of Eloi Pelletier
Compiled by Janet Manseau Donaldson
Generation No. 1
1.Eloi1 Pelletier was born about 1575 in Perche, France.He married Francoise Matte.She was born about 1575 in Perche, France.
Notes for Eloi Pelletier:
He was a (marchand de bois) wood merchant.
The name PELLETIER comes from the Latin pellis, which means furrier, one who buys, sells, or prepares furs or pelts, or one in the fur trade. The ancient Greeks and Romans regarded the wearing of furs as barbaric, but by the fifth century, the taste for rare and valuable fur-lined coats had taken the West by storm.In France, for in-stance, Charlemagne used to wear a doublet lined with otter skins during the winter. Moreover, by 1346, the fur merchants of Paris had their own special status and privi-leges.
It comes as no surprise, therefore, that these many tradesmen adopted and passed along the Pelletier family name.
The Pelletier Family Association website (where I got most of my Pelletier information) offers its readers a summary of the lives and times of the Pelletiers who came to settle in New France. Many of the descendants of these first pioneers still bear the Pelletier name, while other lines disappeared after only a few generations.
Children of Eloi Pelletier and Francoise Matte are:
2 i. Antoine2 Pelletier, born about 1599 in St. Pierre de Bresolettes, Tourouvre, Perche, France; died 02 Oct 1647 in Montmorency Falls, QC.He married Francoise Morin 19 Aug 1647 in Notre Dame de Québec City, QC; born about 1620 in St. Jean of Perrot, La Rochelle, France; died Bet. 25 Feb 1663 - 1666 in Sillery, Québec. Canada.
Notes for Antoine Pelletier:
Françoise Morin and Antoine Pelletier did not have any children before tragedy struck only weeks after their marriage. Antoine drowned 02 October 1647 at the Montmorency Falls, near his home, when his canoe overturned. He was buried the next day at Québec City.
In 1648 Antoine's widowFrancoise Morin she married Etienne Demers.
+ 3 ii. Guillaume Pelletier-dit-Gobloteur, born about 1598 in St. Pierre des Brésolettes, Tourouvre, Mortagne, Perche, France; died 27 Nov 1657 in Côte de la Montagne, QC.
Generation No. 2
3.Guillaume2 Pelletier-dit-Gobloteur (Eloi1 Pelletier) was born about 1598 in St. Pierre des Brésolettes, Tourouvre, Mortagne, Perche, France, and died 27 Nov 1657 in Côte de la Montagne, QC.He married Michelle Mabille 12 Feb 1619 in St. Jean de Tourouvre, Mortange, Perche Region, France, daughter of Guillaume Mabille and Etiennette Monhe.She was born 18 May 1592 in St. Aubin de Tourouvre, Mortagne, Chartres, Perche Region, France, and died 21 Jan 1665 in Québec City, QC.
Notes for Guillaume Pelletier-dit-Gobloteur:
I used his "dit" (aka) name Gobloteur only because it is used in Jette.Since PRDH (University of Montréal) does not use it, I did not apply it to his descendants.
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Coal Merchant
Like his father Éloy, Guillaume was a charcoal merchant. An act dated 1630 testifies to this fact: “Macé Guyot… yields to Jehan Maunoury and to Guillaume Pelletier, coal merchants, living in said Tourouvre, 106 cords of wood for the purpose of making coal. In exchange, Maunoury and Pelletier will deliver 175 coal pipes and will pay 4 gold coins.” It may be, however, that Guillaume had more than one job. From the Jesuit Journal of 1646, we know that he is “a logger, sawyer, carpenter, coalman, etc.” As we can see, Guillaume had so many wood related occupations that the Journal writer did not even complete the list!
His Children
According to the research of P.-A. Godbout, Mrs. Pierre Montagne found no more than three children in the Tourouvre archives born to Guillaume Pelletier and Michelle Mabille: Claude, born February 11, 1622, who was named in honor of his godfather, Claude Mabille, his mother’s brother; Guillaume, born February 26, 1624; and Jean, born June 12, 1627, whose godparents were Jehan Loyseau and Michelle Bahère, wife of Claude Mabille. In addition to these three children, Monsignor Tanguay mentions a daughter, Marie, who apparently married Julien Perreault in 1647. The two eldest children, Claude and Guillaume, apparently died at an early age; we find no further mention of them in the archives. Furthermore, at the time of their emigration from France, Guillaume and his wife only had one child with them, their youngest son, Jean.
The Gobloteur
Guillaume Pelletier had a nickname, “Gobloteur,” but whether he had this name in France or earned it in Canada, we do not know; the Jesuit Journal of 1646 mentions “the Gobloteur, named Guillaume Pelletier.” Use of this byname has not perpetuated to the 21st century, so we must consult the 1762 edition of Trévoux’s Dictionary, in which we find the word “gobelotor.” Coming from the word “gobelot” or “goblet,” meaning drinking mug, “gobelotor” means one who drinks often and, by extension, one who likes to laugh and sing. The English version of the Jesuit Journal translates “Gobloteur” as “Tippler,” or drunkard, but, even if this translation draws us to the same conclusions about Guillaume, it lacks the French nuances! Instead, we prefer the Trévoux definition, found also in Bélisle’s General Dictionary of the French Language in Canada, which recognizes the Gobloteur as a happy man who likes to drink, laugh, and sing!
Guillaume Pelletier passed his byname along to his son, Jean, who in turn transmitted it to some of his descendants. Léon Roy, in his “Terre de l’Île d’Orléans,” mentions Jean Pelletier Gobleteux, who owned parcel number fifty-three in the parish of Saint-Pierre. This land, later conveyed to his son, René, was located between René Goubleu and Jacques Nolin. Roy comments, “We believe that this René Goubleu was none other than René Pelletier himself, son of Jean Pelletier, nicknamed “Gobloteux.” To our knowledge, “Gobloteur” is nowhere to be found among the names of Quebec today.
Emigration in Canada
Despite the fact that no written documents attest explicitly to how and why these pioneers left Perche, it seems obvious that Guillaume Pelletier, like many of his compatriots, came to Canada to answer to the call of Lord Robert Giffard, the first professional in the colony to come from that region. Guillaume was most likely hired by one of the Juchereau brothers, either directly or by one of their representatives; at the time, Noël and Jean Juchereau, associates of Giffard and members of the Company of New France, were making an increasing number of trips between Canada and Perche to recruit more and more colonists. In their absence, their half-brother, Pierre Juchereau, recruited settlers and signed contracts on their behalf.
On March 8, 1641, Guillaume Pelletier and Michelle Mabille, residents of La Gazerie, sold a portion of their land to Robert Loyseau, and entered into a five-year lease agreement with Jean Rousseau, their brother-in-law, which included “any houses and all inheritance rights belonging to Michelle Mabille as well as those rights from the late Guillaume Mabille and Étiennette Monhée, her father and mother, to be in the possession of the said Rousseau during the said time, in consideration of fifteen pounds, which they have already received from the said Rousseau and of which payment they discharge him.” The context of the act is clear, and it is obvious why the Pelletiers called upon a notary to draw up these provisions: having liquidated all their assets – house, inheritances rights, and titles – they meant to depart. Familial obligations seem to have kept them from settling these matters sooner, but Michelle’s parents having died, the couple was free to leave. We can thus conclude that Guillaume Pelletier, Michelle Mabille, and their fourteen-year-old son, Jean, left for Canada in the spring of 1641. If, however, this is a miscalculation, it is not considerable, given that a notarial act dated October 5, 1642, establishes that the Pelletier family had indeed settled in New France some time before that date. Guillaume’s brother, Antoine, likely accompanied his brother to Canada; we know that Antoine drowned when his canoe capsized at Montmorency Falls in 1647.
Hired hand or Habitant?
Even if Guillaume did not come to New France under contract, evidence indicates that he was at the very least a hired hand, or engagé, commissioned for thirty-six months of service; having arrived in the colony in 1641, it was not until late 1644 that he purchased a parcel of land. Earlier, on April 17 of that year, Lord Robert Giffard had granted a concession measuring six arpents wide to Martin Grouvel, who, that autumn, sold the property to Guillaume Pelletier, who in turn gave it to his brother, Antoine; when Antoine died in October 1647, ownership of the land transferred back to Guillaume. It is easy to interpret Guillaume’s actions as those of an engagé who had decided to invest his earnings in some property. It seems, however, that even after this transaction, Guillaume continued an as engagé, as he immediately gave the land to his brother, instead of settling there himself. It is only after his brother’s death in 1647 that Guillaume seems to finally decide to establish himself on his property and, undoubtedly, exploit it himself.
A Jack of All Trades
It is easy to believe that, in the beginning, Guillaume worked in the colony as an artisan, as this would have merely been an extension of his occupation in France; his native Bresolettes, let us not forget, was situated in the very heart of an area populated by “coalmen, ironworkers, and loggers.” In short, even if it were only by an oral agreement or under a private contract, Guillaume was undoubtedly an engagé, and it is safe to assume that it was in large part because of his expert woodworking skills that he had been recruited. At that time, everything in the colony was still under construction. Speaking only about the Jesuits, we see in their Journal that they were in the process of building a residence and parish church at that time; the Jesuits are a prime example of a group hiring Guillaume Pelletier for his expertise as an artisan. In any case, the priests seem to have known him particularly well, as their Journal identifies him as a “logger, sawyer, carpenter, coalman, etc.”
In Beauport
In 1647, Guillaume Pelletier reclaimed possession of his land in the area of Montmorency Falls, which he had given to his brother, Antoine, in 1644. The Falls had not favored this younger Pelletier, and one might ask if he had dared tempt fate by getting his little canoe as close to the Falls as possible: on October 3, 1647, “Antoine Peltier, brother of Guillaume Peltier the Gobloteur, drowned when his canoe capsized close to his house in Saut de Montmorency.” The loss of his brother was undoubtedly difficult for Guillaume to accept, and even more so for Françoise Morin, whom Antoine had married only two months before, on August 17; the couple had had no children. Jesuit Barthélemy Vincent buried Antoine in Quebec on day of his death.
Guillaume’s property in Beauport, by the Montmorency Falls, consisted of six arpents along the Saint Lawrence River; the Montmorency River limited his concession to thirty-four arpents in depth. In fact, because of the particular way in which Lord Giffard had chosen to distribute his concessions, each was limited in the south by the Saint Lawrence and in the north by the Montorency River. And, as the two rivers approached to meet at the end of the seigneury, the first concession, closest to the Falls, was only twenty arpents deep; the land of Guillaume Pelletier was second, and only extended inland thirty-four arpents; the concessions continued this way down the line until reaching the property of Jean Langlois, which was 116 arpents deep. Now, Guil-laume did not keep all of his land, and by 1655, Jean Mignaux had in his possession two arpents, part of which had been taken from Guillaume’s land.
About Guillaume’s time at Beauport, we know little. In 1646, his nineteen-year-old son, Jean, volunteered for service with the Jesuits; he probably returned to his father that next year. In 1649, Jean married the young Anne Langlois, after which he settled on his father’s property in Beauport. In 1654, Anne presented Guillaume his first grandson, Noël Pelletier, the first Canadian-born descendant of this line of Pelletiers from Tourouvre; two years later, Guillaume saw the birth of his first granddaughter, Anne.
A Respected Citizen
Again turning to the Jesuit Journal, we see that on August 9, 1653, Guillaume is named assistant trustee in the Communauté des Habitants of Beauport; the priests spoke of it, mentioning that the group falls under their jurisdiction. This nomination is at once a great honor for Guillaume and an expression of the trust his fellow citizens of Beauport have in him. Thus, Guillaume Pelletier not only served the colony with his masterful woodworking skills, he was also productive, more or less anonymously, by his contributions to the Communauté des Habitants, where he gave freely of himself to further the economic life and policies of the young colony. Moreover, Guillaume was an educated member of his society, and, as Mrs. Montagne notes, he had a “good signature,” which she has found on a document among the archives in Tourouvre. Finally, Guillaume’s knowledge and experience as a former charcoal merchant undoubtedly entitled him to supervise the interests of the Communauté, whose foremost economic activity was to manage the fur trade in New France.
His Death
Four years after his appointment to the Communauté des Habitants, Guillaume Pelletier died at his home in Beauport at the age of 59, and on November 28, 1657, he was buried in Quebec. His widow, Michelle Mabille, died in Beauport and was buried in Quebec eight years later, on January 21, 1665, at the age of 73. At the time of his death, Guillaume did not leave a very large Canadian progeny; his son, Jean, had only given him two grandchildren. However, Jean and his young wife, Anne Langlois, eventually added seven children to their family, not counting two who died at birth; all but one of these children were born in the house in Beauport that Jean received from his father.
Taken from “Histoire et généalogie de Guillaume Pelletier 1598-1657 et son fils Jean,” by Maurice Pelletier, s.j. (Montréal: Société généalogique Canadienne-Française, 1976; 24 pp).
English translation by B.J. Shoja. 2003
Children of Guillaume Pelletier-dit-Gobloteur and Michelle Mabille are:
4 i. Claude3 Pelletier, born 11 Feb 1622 in St. Aubin de Tourouvre, Mortagne, Perche Region, France; died Bef. 1641 in St. Aubin de Tourouvre, Mortagne, Perche Region, France.
5 ii. Guillaume Pelletier, born 26 Feb 1624 in St. Aubin de Tourouvre, Mortagne, Perche Region, France; died Bef. 1641 in St. Aubin de Tourouvre, Mortagne, Perche Region, France.
+ 6 iii. Jean Pelletier-dit-Gobloteur, born 12 Jun 1627 in St. Aubin de Tourouvre, Mortagne Orne, Perche Region, France; died 24 Feb 1698 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC.
Generation No. 3
6.Jean3 Pelletier-dit-Gobloteur (Guillaume2, Eloi1 Pelletier) was born 12 Jun 1627 in St. Aubin de Tourouvre, Mortagne Orne, Perche Region, France, and died 24 Feb 1698 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC.He married Anne Langlois 09 Nov 1649 in Chapel of Seigneur Giffard, Québec City, QC, daughter of Noel Langlois and Francoise Garnier/Grenier.She was born 02 Sep 1637 in Notre Dame de Québec City, QC, and died 16 Mar 1704 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC.
Notes for Jean Pelletier-dit-Gobloteur:
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In 1641 at age 14 he he left Tourouver and arrived in New France with his parents and uncle Antoine.
At age 19, inAugust 1646, according to the well kept diary of the Jesuit superior, Father Jean Lalemant, Jean becomes a "donné" of the Jesuits, that is, he gives his services to the Jesuit missionary cause. In return, the Jesuits promise to pay Jean's family 100 francs for the first year of his service. Late in the month of August, 1646, Jean and many others leave Trois-Rivières in a fleet of eighty canoes bound for "Sainte-Marie aux pays des Hurons". This Jesuit outpost is a major fortress as well as a retreat house for the Jesuits on Georgian Bay on Lake Huron. The compound included a church, housing for the French settlers and the Jesuit missionaries, lodges for visiting Hurons, workshops, warehouses, and even a medical dispensary. Jean spends almost a full year at Sainte-Marie, a fact that is noted in the documents of the restored outpost, and returns to Beauport in 1647.
On a mission he changed his decision and became engaged to Anne Langlois.In June and July, 1647, the bans of marriage are published three times at Québec between Jean Pelletier and Anne Langlois, daughter of Noël Langlois and Françoise Garnier/Grenier, neighbors at Beauport. The wedding was delayed however anddid not take place for another two years because someone realizes that Anne, Jean's fiancée, is only ten years old in the summer of 1647, and the Church does not allow a marriage for anyone under the age of twelve. The wedding ceremony finally took place at Beauport, in the Seigneur Giffard's manor home on November 9, 1649. Jean, age 22, and Anne, age 12, wed without a formal notarized marriage contract. The young couple moved in with the groom's parents rather than with the bride's family.This is probably due to the fact that the Langlois home, in 1649, already housed ten individuals: eight children in addition to the parents. The Pelletier homestead, on the other hand, has only a total of three people: Jean and his parents.
In 1655, while still living at Beauport with his parents, Jean and his brother-in-law, René Chevalier, purchase a small parcel of land along the St-Lawrence River just below the high cliffs of the upper city of Québec. The parcel measures only 30 feet by 30 feet. This parcel was never put to commercial use. The small parcel is eventually sold in 1674 to Louis Levasseur-Lesperance.After his father's death in 1657, Jean inherits his father's half of the family homestead, as in customary under communal property laws. His mother later gives up her half of the inheritance to her only son. In 1665, Jean rented out part of his land, giving rights to two acres of frontage to Guillaume Lizotte. Later he rented out more land to Guillaume Lizotte and Robert Gallien.
In 1664, Jean and two of his brothers-in-law purchase land on Ile d'Orléans. Jean, however, does not move his family to the new home until after his mother's death in 1665. His mother-in-law, Françoise Garnier/Grenier, also dies in 1665, apparently as a result of an accident. The new property on Île d'Orléans has a two acre frontage on the St-Lawrence River and extends back to the road that crosses the island from north to south. It is located in what is today the western portion of St-Pierre parish on the northern side of the island. Jean and his family remain on Île d'Orléans for only two years.
He was 35 years old in the Isle D'Orleans 1666 census with his wife Anne Langlois 24.These ages differ a little from their birth dates, this was normal for no one really cared about their exact ages.He was listed as a"charpentier" carpenter.
The 1667 census reports that Jean's property has five acres cleared and that the family has a hired hand living with them, seventeen year old Guillaume Lemieux.On December 28, 1667, Jean sold his property on the island to his neighbor and brother-in-law, Jean Langlois, for 75 pounds and one suit.
In the Spring of 1668, Jean and his family return to the original homestead at Beauport, the lease with Lizotte and Gallien having run out. It is during this period, in 1670, that Jean's wife Anne, at the age of 33, receives the sacrament of confirmation from the bishop at Québec City. In 1672, Jean and Pierre Grosleau are asked by Nicolas Juchereau to go to Grande-Anse to evaluate the property of Juchereau's deceased son-in-law, François Pallet. The trip to the new area stirs in Jean's mind the idea of moving again to a newer territory. Two years after his return to Beauport, in 1670, Jean became tied down in a series of court battles over property boundaries between himself and his two neighbors to the east, Jean Migneault and Charles Cadieu-de-Courville. Both had previously purchased land from Jean, and the original dispute is between these two only. However, Jean becomes involved because of his previous land sales. Court decisions are made, appealed, counter-appealed, and the bitter process drags on for six years, until 1676.Immediately after the final decisions were handed down on the land controversies, Jean sold the remainder of his father's original land to Charles Cadieu-de-Courville in 1676, and moved from his homestead in Beauport.
Jean, his wife Anne and the five youngest children move to Île-aux-Grues.In 1669, Jean sold his property to Guillaume Lemieux, the family's former hired hand at Île d'Orléans.Lemieux was now Jean's brother-in-law, having married Jean's wife's younger sister, Elisabeth Langlois Cote, widow of Louis Cote.
During the 1681 census we findJean Pelletier at Beaupre 56; Anne Langlois sa femme 44, enfants: Rene 25, Jean 18, Marie 15, Charles 10, Marie 7, 1 fusil (a riffle); 9 betes a cornes (horned animals); 5 arpents en valeur (about 7.5 acres of land under cultivation).
Jean and the remainder of his family make their final move to the Grande-Anse area. This area includes the villages of Rivière-Ouelle, Ste-Anne-de-la-Grande-Anse (later renamed Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatière), and St-Roch des Aulnaies. The whole territory had been ceded to Nicolas Juchereau as Seigneur.Jean and his family acquire a parcel of land at Les Aulnaies in the virgin forest which had a five acre frontage on the St-Lawrence River.Son Charles remained with his parents at Les Aulnaies and inherited the property at the time of his father's death.Later Charles purchased his mother's share of the property on January 12, 1704, shortly before her death.
In 1690, General Phips left Boston with his fleet to attack Québec City. As he sails up the St-Lawrence River, he sent raiding parties ashore to terrorize French settlements along the coast. Forewarned by coastal patrols, the settlers at Grande-Anse, under the leadership of their priest, Abbé Francheville, prepare their defense and repulse Phips' raid on Rivière-Ouelle in the summer of 1690, killing many of Phips' raiders. Among those listed as brave defenders is Jean Pelletier.Whether it is Jean Pelletier, father, now age 62, or his son Jean who lives in neighboring Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, age 27, is not clear from the archives.It was most likely the younger Jean.
Memorial Monument:
On October 28, 1998, Denis Pelletier, president of the Association des Familles Pelletier, Inc, unveiled a monument and plaque in St-Roch-des-Aulnaies, QC, in honor of Jean Pelletier's settling in the Grande-Anse area. In 1679, Jean Pelletier and Pierre St-Pierre were the first settlers in this area of New France on land granted to them by Nicolas Juchereau. Some of the original land granted to Jean Pelletier is still owned by his descendants.The plaque reads (English translation):
The Pelletier
The Pelletiers were one of the two founding families
of St-Roch-des Aulnaies.
Jean Pelletier (1627-1698), son of Guillaume, who arrived at Beauport in 1641,
established himself at St-Roch-des-Aulnaies in 1679,
with his spouse, Anne Langlois (1637-1704). They are both buried in
the Rivière-Ouelle cemetery.
The land ceded to Jean Pelletier by Nicolas Jucheraeu in 1679,
in the territory of the Aulnaies, remains to this day
property of his direct descendants.
L'Associations des Familles Pelletier, Inc.
August 7, 1998
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©Association des Familles Pelletier Inc. 2010
(1627-1698)
The "Canadian" Ancestor
Guillaume Pelletier (1598-1657) and his wife, Michelle Mabille (1597-1665), who were already 43 and 44 years old when they arrived in New France in 1641, did not leave an heir of Canadian birth. It was their son, Jean, who traveled across the Atlantic with his parents from France, who would eventually perpetuate the Pelletier name in Canada. Although French by birth, Jean Pelletier deserves to be regarded as the first “Canadian” ancestor of this branch of the Pelletier family; his progeny has settled in great abundance throughout Canada, especially in the area of Quebec City, and more still in the “Bas Saint-Laurent” region of the Province. Having arrived in the colony in 1641 at the age of fourteen, a youth uprooted from his home and transplanted in a foreign land, it was in this rich Canadian soil that he truly took permanent root. Young Jean undoubtedly savored the sense of adventure while traveling west across the Atlantic, but a greater adventure awaited him: to settle in this new country and grow along with it.
Jean Pelletier and Religious Devotion:
It did not take long for Jean to seek adventure in New France: in 1646, he volunteered with the Jesuits as a “donné”, a sort of missionary in training. At that time, Jean was nineteen years old, and he worked with his father at different construction sites in the area, mostly in Quebec City, where the Jesuits had established their missionary center; Guillaume and Jean were in constant contact with members of the order. Father Jérome Lalemant wrote in the Jesuit Journal on August 28, 1646, “I left alone in a canoe to go to Trois-Rivières. I brought with me in a rowboat two men and a child. One of the men was the son of the gobloteur, named Guillaume Pelletier, logger, sawyer, carpenter, coalman, etc. Although he volunteered with us suddenly, we promised his par-ents one hundred francs for his first year.” Somehow young Jean had learned of Lalemant’s departure for Trois-Rivières, perhaps from the good Father himself, and in an unexpected manner, he offered to accompany him, and volunteered with the Jesuits.
Fort Sainte-Marie-des-Hurons:
To establish that Jean Pelletier was a Jesuit volunteer is one thing, but to conclude that, as such, he went as far as the Huron country at the edge of Georgian Bay, is another; no archives or rosters from the period in question provide us with a list of those laymen assigned to work at Fort Sainte-Marie-des-Hurons there. At most, a letter from Father Paul Raguemeau, dated May 1, 1647, tells us that the preceding fall, the Fort housed fifteen “donnés,” five hired hands, and four children. It is only by combining and consulting different texts that historians have been able to reconstruct, with any degree of exactitude, the lists of names corresponding to each on the these categories. With regard to Jean Pelletier, therefore, we have only the information that the Jesuit Journal provides, an extract of which is quoted above, telling us that Jean accompanied Lalemant on his voyage to Trois-Rivières. As Trois-Rivières was the site of a mission of great significance in New France, it is not surprising that this is where Jean went to serve the Jesuits as a “donné.” However, after a more attentive reading of the account, even if the name of Jean Pelletier is nowhere else mentioned explicitly, we can conclude that in 1646, he did not stop at Trois-Rivières, but instead accompanied a Huron convoy to Fort Sainte-Marie-des-Hurons.
A Difficult Wedding
If Jean did really go to Huron country, there is no way to tell how long he stayed there. Historian Jean Côté has concluded that Jean would have had to return from Fort Sainte-Marie in 1649, given that he wed Anne Langlois in Quebec City on December 9 of that year. Jean Pelletier had had to wait to marry the young Anne, but not because he was serving the Jesuits at Fort Sainte-Marie; he had been forbidden to marry her earlier. Speaking of Jean’s volunteering with the Jesuits in 1646, Léon Roy indicates, “He was not meant for a life of vocation. The next year, he pledged himself in marriage to Anne Langlois.” In fact, Jean wanted to marry her that very year, 1647, but he had to wait two more years. The laws of the Church prevented their marriage because, at that time, Anne was only 10 years old! The three marriage banns had been published on three different feast days in June and July, but when the wedding day arrived, someone had discovered the canonical law preventing the union. Born September 2, 1637, Anne was not even technically ten years old! To be in order with the law of the Church, Anne and Jean had to wait until after her twelfth birthday to marry.
Admittedly, Jesuit volunteers of this time, like Jean, were not bound by a vow of perpetual celibacy, but within this particular order, his having attempted to marry Anne ended Jean’s contract as a “donné”. One might wonder also if Jean had not outlasted the probationary period to which all such volunteers were subject; Father Lalemant, to convince his reluctant superior general to maintain the institution, had introduced a one-year probationary period for all candidates before considering them for a more permanent engagement. We do not know exactly how long this period lasted, but we do find an indication in the Jesuit Journal, which mentions that Jean Pelletier’s parents would receive one hundred Francs for their son’s “first year” of service; this “first year” was probably the probationary period. On December 20, 1648, Jean Pelletier was godfather to the son of his soon-to-be brother-in-law; this child was christened Jean Langlois.
His children:
On December 9, 1649, Jean Pelletier and Anne Langlois married in Quebec City. The young couple settled with Guillaume Pelletier, Jean’s father, in Beauport. Anne, daughter of Noël Langlois and Françoise Grenier, was herself from Beauport; her father’s land was the sixth tract to the west from that of Guillaume. Anne’s being only twelve years old at the time of her marriage, her first child was born five years later; seven of the couple’s nine.
Living in Beauport
After Guillaume Pelletier’s death in 1657, Jean Pelletier inherited his father’s land in Beauport. His rambling youth, marked by crossing the Atlantic at 14 and by his evangelic calling to the missionaries at 19, had poorly prepared him for his future life as a sedentary colonist. His future travels, which would lead him to change homes at least four times, seem to confirm this hypothesis. However, the census of 1667 reveals that his land included twenty-five arpents of arable land, implying that he had been active throughout the years. This is a good average of land cleared, but we should also point out that by this time, Jean was the land’s third occupant, after his uncle and father. We are left to wonder, therefore, how many of these arpents belonged to Jean.
A Brief Stay on the Isle of Orleans
In 1665, Jean Pelletier and his family temporarily left their home in Beauport. On January 21 of that year, Jean lost his mother, Michelle Mabille, who died at the age of 73. Later that same year, Anne’s mother, Françoise Grenier, was killed in an accident on October 31. It is almost as if Jean, previously tied to Beauport through familial obligations, could now realize an old dream: to move to the Isle of Orleans, where he had acquired property some two years before. This parcel of land was situated in the so-called “arrière-fief de la Chevalerie,” conceded to Jean by the Juchereau brothers, sons of Lord Jean Juchereau de Maure. Jean Pelletier’s brothers-in-law had preceded him to the Isle: Jean Langlois dit Boisverdun and Noël Langlois dit Traversy owned and cultivated the two parcels closest to Jean. In 1666, the census does not mention the number of arpents Jean had cleared; we learn only that his daughter, already eight days old, had not yet been baptized, and that he had a servant, Guillaume Lemieux, whom he paid monthly. A year later, a second census reported that Jean cultivated five arpents of land.
That same year, on December 8, 1667, Jean sold his rights to the land on the Isle of Orleans to his sister’s brother, Jean Langlois dit Boisverdun, and the next spring, he and his family returned to Beauport, to his father’s land. The reason for this sudden departure is unknown, but we might assume that the impetus was related to the fact that most of his land in Beauport had been yielded to him in consideration of his farming it, which is to say, for a limited time, and if he did not farm it, he would forfeit his rights to it. It was undoubtedly in the Pelletier home in Beauport that, two years later, Guillaume Lizot proposed to Anne Pelletier, Jean’s daughter; indeed, only two years later, notary Paul Vachon drafted their marriage contract. Like her mother, Anne Pelletier married young, at the age of 13. In 1674, another wedding was celebrated, when the eldest son, Noël, married Madeleine Mignot. That same year, another joyous event greeted Jean, as his wife, Anne Langlois, although already a grandmother, became a mother for one last time, giving birth to a girl, Marie-Charlotte.
Île-aux-Oies
Now the father of seven, including a baby girl, at this point Jean Pelletier seemed resolved to finish his days in Beauport, on the land he had inherited from his father. Nevertheless, in 1675, he decided to leave Beauport again, this time moving to Île-aux-Oies; his wife and children joined him the following year. In 1678, we find the family on a parcel of land measuring six arpents across and limited in depth by the Île itself, totalling approximately twenty-six arpents at the east-end of the isle, across from L’Islet. His eldest children, Noël, husband of Madeleine Mignot, and Anne, wife of Guillaume Lizot, had remained in Beauport; in 1676, these two families established themselves at the Grande-Anse (Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière), an area that Jean had already investigated on behalf of the Juschereau brothers. At this point, Jean was faced with a decision: either stay on the Île-aux-Oies, or join his children and their families at Grande-Anse.
Jean did not stay longer than four years on the Île-aux-Oies. Selling his property there to Guillaume Lemieux, his former servant on the Isle of Orleans who had since become his brother-in-law, Jean departed for new land where to again clear a home for his family. Léon Roy, remarking that Jean Pelletier had thus occupied four different territories before finally settling permanently, asks, “Should we praise him as a valiant pioneer clearing land, or, on the contrary, should we wonder if these inconsistencies were not somehow detrimental to him?” Although it is true that if Jean Pelletier had resolved to die poor, he could not have taken better means to achieve his goal, that his movements were “inconsistent” is hardly the case. Speaking only of his moving from one place to another, we can say that Jean was not unlike many of his peers. At its beginning, Grande-Anse was populated by colonists once well-established in Beauport; it was a time of great expansion in the colony, and at the instigation of Intendant Jean Talon, new fiefs were established all over New France, and their seigniors were encouraged to grant as many concessions as possible. The Juchereau brothers, who controlled Grande-Anse and its surrounding area, wanted to populate their domain, so they solicited compatriots who, like themselves, originated from Perche. Be-sides, it was in the blood of these first Canadians to make their way in life by breaking new ground. At 52, Jean Pelletier, if he did indeed lack consistency, he certainly did not lack courage. Instead of settling near his children and family at Grande-Anse, he chose to start this new chapter of his life in a nearby concession, Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, an isolated dominion in the middle of the forest, where he had but one neighbour, Pierre Saint-Pierre.
The Grande-Anse Era
From 1675 to 1680, seven colonists from Beauport established themselves and their families in the seigneury of Marie-Anne Juchereau, in La Pocatière. They were:
1.Noël Pelletier, son of Jean Pelletier, husband of Marie-Madeleine Mignot
2.Guillaume Lizot, husband of Anne Pelletier, Jean's daugther
3.Nicolas Lebel, husband of Thérèse Mignot, daughter of Jean
4.Jean Mignot, husband of Louise Cloutier and father of Marie-Madeleine and Xaintes
5.René Ouellet, who later wed Thérèse Mignot, widow of Nicolas Lebel
6.6. Nicolas Huot-Saint-Laurent, husband of Marie Fayet
7.7. Jean Grondin, husband of Xaintes Mignot
We need not look far to find the familial relationships linking the members of this group! On March 16, 1676, Guillaume Lizot, son-in-law of Jean Pelletier, sold his land in Beauport to move to Grande-Anse-de-la-Pocatière (Sainte-Anne) with three of his brothers-in-law, Noël Pelletier, Nicolas Lebel, and Jean Grondin; Lizot and Anne Pelletier went on to have nine children. While he and Anne settled at the western end of the seigneury, close to Saint-Roch, Noël Pelletier chose to settle at the opposite end, close to Rivière-Ouelle; Noël eventually had eight children of his own.
Pionneer of Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies
In 1679, instead of settling in La Pocatière, near his children who had established themselves there three years before, Jean Pelletier chose to settle in the seigneury of Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, where Nicolas Juchereau had conceded him five arpents of forest. At the same time, another colonist, Pierre Saint-Pierre, received a concession of land next to him; as Léon Roy comments, Jean Pelletier and Pierre Saint-Pierre were the first two colonists of Saint-Roch-des-Aulaies. Indeed, two years later, the census ordered by Monsignor Laval reported that Saint-Roch included “only two family: eleven souls”; Roy believes that for the next fifteen years, Jean and Pierre were the only two colonists of Saint-Roch, the two families living approximately fifteen arpents from each other. It was only in 1694 that their first neighbor, Joseph Oullet, son of René Ouellet, joined them.
At 52, Jean Pelletier was thus starting a new life from scratch, but, admittedly, he was not alone. He could count on the assistance of his two young sons, René, 23, and Jean, 16, the youngest, Charles, being still but eight years old. After two years, again citing the census of 1681, Jean and his sons had cleared five arpents of arable land; he had nine cows and owned one musket. He would, however, soon lose the assistance of both his sons. In 1682, René left Saint-Roch and purchased his father’s old land on the Isle of Orleans; he was the only one of Jean’s children to not settle in the “Bas Saint-Laurent” region of Quebec. In 1686, twenty-three-year-old Jean decided that his time had come to leave his father’s house, and he settled in Grande-Anse-de-la-Pocatière, close to his brother, Noël; about 1688, he married Marie-Anne Huot-Saint-Laurent, with whom he had eight children. That same year, 1686, Jean Pelletier also saw his daughter, Marie, marry Jacques Gerbert, of Cap-Saint-Ignace, leaving with him only his son Charles, age 15, and daughter Marie-Charlotte, age 12. By now Jean was almost sixty years old. We might imagine him alone on his small land in the middle of the dense forest, with only one neighbour, Pierre Saint-Pierre, and with only one route connecting his him and his family in Grande-Anse, the Saint Lawrence River.
His death at Saint-Anne-de-la-Pocatière;
From 1690 to 1698, the year of his death, Jean Pelletier is not cited in the annals of New France. We have, however, been able to establish that Jean did not die at Saint-Roch, but at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière (Grande-Anse), in late February 1698, at the age of 71 years. We believe that Jean, old and sick, did not want to be a burden to his young son, Charles, who, now married to Marie-Thérèse Ouellet, daughter of René Ouellet, could manage on his own at Saint-Roch; Charles and Marie-Thérèse had five children, and with his second wife, Marie-Barbe Saint-Pierre, he would eventually have ten more. Undoubtedly, Jean felt it more suitable to go and live the rest of his days with one of his other children in Sainte-Anne. Given that his widow, Anne Langlois, died some years later at the home of her son, Noël Pelletier, it is almost certain that Jean died there as well. As Noël was the couple’s first child, a pioneer of Sainte-Anne, and undoubtedly well-established, it is possible that he supported his father and mother in their old age.
Having died at Sainte-Anne, Jean Pelletier was buried in Rivière-Ouelle, the only cemetery and church in the area of Grande-Anse. As for his widow, Anne Langlois – referred to as “the good woman Pelletier” by Father Bernard de Roqueleyn –, on January 12, 1704, she went “to the farm of Monsieur d’Auteuil with her son, Charles Pelletier, to declare having sold to him, her son, a portion of land, given her according to her right as widow to choose, that she has declared having taken in the northeast [of the property], consisting of two and a half arpents of frontage…” (Cf. notary Janneau, 1710). Anne thus sold to Charles his share of the family land, which was due to him after his father’s death; the same notaries registry reports that she also sold to him her furniture. Anne Langlois died at the age of 65 on March 16, 1704, and was buried in Rivière-Ouelle. At the time of his death, Jean Pelletier had been able to see all his children marry and settle: Noël, Anne, Jean, and Charlotte in La Pocatière, René on the Isle of Orleans, and Marie in Cap-Saint-Ignace. Charles, the youngest son, had succeeded his father on his land in Saint-Roch. On the day of his death, in addition to his wife and children, Jean also left twenty-six grandchildren, and he had even had the pleasure of knowing some of his great-grandchildren, as Noël Pelletier, Jr., had a daughter, and Nicolas-Claude Mignot, eldest son of Anne Pelletier, had two children as well.
Having been uprooted from its native Tourouvre in 1641, Jean Pelletier and his family quickly prospered greatly in North America.
Taken from “Histoire et généalogie de Guillaume Pelletier 1598-1657 et son fils Jean,” by Maurice Pelletier, s.j. (Montréal: Société généalogique Canadienne-Française, 1976; 24 pp).
English translation by B.J. Shoja. 2003
Notes for Anne Langlois:
I did not record all of Jean Pelletier and Anne Langlois's grand children or great grand children.Because my file is quite large already.I recorded only the families of my ancestors and the ones that married my great+++ grand uncles and aunts.The others can all be found in Jette or at PRDH.
Children of Jean Pelletier-dit-Gobloteur and Anne Langlois are:
+ 7 i. Noel4 Pelletier, born 03 May 1654 in Québec City, QC; died 31 Aug 1712 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC.
+ 8 ii. Anne Pelletier, born 01 Oct 1656 in Québec City, QC; died 01 Oct 1696 in Québec City, QC.
+ 9 iii. Rene Pelletier, born 02 Mar 1659 in Québec City, QC; died 13 Jan 1713 in St. Pierre de l'Île d'Orléans, QC.
10 iv. Antoine Pelletier, born 11 Dec 1661 in Beauport, QC; died 26 Dec 1661 in Québec City, QC.
+ 11 v. Jean Pelletier, born 19 Apr 1663 in Beauport, QC; died 12 Mar 1739 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.
12 vi. Marie-Delphine Pelletier, born 29 Jan 1666 in Beauport, QC; died 27 Feb 1666 in Québec City, QC.
+ 13 vii. Marie Pelletier, born 04 May 1667 in Ste. Famille de l'Île d'Orléans, Montmorency, QC; died 06 Nov 1725 in Cap St. Ignace, Montmagny, QC.
+ 14 viii. Charles Pelletier, born 25 Sep 1671 in Beauport, QC; died 30 Dec 1748 in St. Roch des Aulnaise, Kamouraska, QC.
15 ix. Marie-Charlotte Pelletier, born 29 Sep 1674 in Beauport, QC; died 02 Sep 1699 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC.She married Andre Migner/Mignier-dit-Lagace 10 Nov 1693 in Notre Dame de Liesse, Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; born 04 Oct 1669 in Québec City, QC; died 04 Feb 1729 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.
Generation No. 4
7.Noel4 Pelletier (Jean3 Pelletier-dit-Gobloteur, Guillaume2, Eloi1 Pelletier) was born 03 May 1654 in Québec City, QC, and died 31 Aug 1712 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC.He married Marie-Madeleine Migneault-dit-Chatillon 21 Oct 1674 in Unknown, QC, daughter of Jean Migneault-dit-Chatillon and Louise-Marie Cloutier.She was born 13 Jun 1654 in Québec City, QC, and died Aft. Feb 1714 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC.
Children of Noel Pelletier and Marie-Madeleine Migneault-dit-Chatillon are:
16 i. Charles5 Pelletier, born 02 Jun 1679 in La Pocatierre, QC; died 07 Oct 1713 in Québec City, QC.He married Marie-Anne Soucy-dit-Lavigne 24 Nov 1701 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; born 15 Feb 1675 in Île aux Grues, Québec City, QC; died 01 Feb 1755 in St. Michel of Yamaska, QC.
17 ii. Guillaume Pelletier, born 15 Mar 1681 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 11 Dec 1734 in Kamouraska, QC.He married Marie-Louise Pinel-dit-Lafrance 15 Feb 1706 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; born about 1688 in Unknown, QC; died 12 Oct 1752 in Ste. Anne de la Pocatière, QC.
18 iii. Noel Pelletier, born 05 Dec 1676 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC; died Bef. 28 Nov 1713 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC.He married Marie-Anne Thiboutot 09 Jan 1708 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; born 11 Apr 1685 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC; died 16 Mar 1721 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC.
19 iv. Jean-Francois Pelletier, born about 1684 in Unknown, QC; died 20 Nov 1743 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.He married (1) Marie-Madeleine Lavoie 21 Jan 1710 in Notre Dame de Liesse, Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; born 18 Dec 1691 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 23 Nov 1721 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.He married (2) Marie-Madeleine Morin 18 Feb 1722 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC; born 25 Oct 1697 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 28 Jun 1760 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.
8.Anne4 Pelletier (Jean3 Pelletier-dit-Gobloteur, Guillaume2, Eloi1 Pelletier) was born 01 Oct 1656 in Québec City, QC, and died 01 Oct 1696 in Québec City, QC.She married Guillaume Lizotte 19 Jan 1670 in Beauport, QC (ct 12 May 1669, Vachon), son of Robert Lizotte and Catherine Joanne.He was born about 1643 in St. Pierre of La Gravelle, Lisieux, Normandie, France, and died Bet. 12 Jan 1705 - 16 Aug 1707 in Rivere Ouelle QC.
Notes for Guillaume Lizotte:
He was born about 1645 in the parish of Saint-Pierre in La Gravelle (today: Montviette, near the diocese of Lisieux), Normandie, the son of Robert Lizotte and Catherine Joanne. He was confirmed as being in Québec City on 03 June 1664 and can be found in the 1666 census as the 25 year old servant of Jean Pelletier (his future father in law) at Beauport.In the 1681 census, he was 36.
He had no children with his second wife Marguerite Peuvrier, one of the King's Daughters.
Three of his children married Rene Ouellet's children and two of his children married the children of Jacques Neneu-dit-Chateauneuf's children.In those days, one quite often married the neighbor's children since it was difficult to travel and meet other young people.
Guillaume Lizotte died at Rivière Ouelle between 12 January 1705 and 16 August 1707.
Contract of marriage of Guillaume Lizotte and Anne Pelletier
12 May 1669
Pardevant Paul Vachon notaire Royal et gardenotes du Roy nostre sire...
The marriage contract between Guillaume Lizotte (Lizzot) and Anne Pelletier is a four-Page document detailing the laws pertaining to community property and the fair division of it. It also lists the dowry of items Anne will be bringing to the marriage. Lastly, it lists all the witnesses and there were many. The contract is a very important document.Anne was just twelve years old at the time, so she is represented by her parents, Jean Pelletier and Anne Langlois.
Guillaume was about 25 years old, his parents, if they were still alive, were in Normandie.
Family and friends witness this document in the Beauport home of Jean Pelletier, Anne's father.Of course, this would be Anne's home as well. It could very well have been the home of Guillaume, also, since he was employed by Jean Pelletier. Guillaume might not have built his own house yet because it would be a while before he would actually live with his young bride. They would be married in January 1670, their first child not born until April of 1672. It was quite likely that Anne remained with her parents until the summer of 1671.
Gathered around the table to sign the document were: Guillaume Lizotte... Anne Pelletier... her mother Anne Langlois... her father Jean Pelletier... her 28-year old uncle Jean Langlois, whose signature is in strong, even script... her grandfather Noël Langlois, who signs with a mark... surgeon/doctor (chirugien) Pierre LaVallée... Martin Prevost... Jean Bourdon Romainville, with a signature befitting his rank (Hussier Royal) as an official representing the king in New France... Paul de Rainville... and the notary who prepared the document, Paul Vachon.
A large group, but they were not the only ones present. More people are listed in the contract as being witnesses--young people like Jean (called St. Jean) and Noël Langlois, uncles of the bride, aged 20 and 17, her aunt Marguerite Langlois, her brothers, Noël, aged 15, and René Pelletier, aged 10, are mentioned in the document as unable to sign their name, as well as friends, the butcher Michel LeCours and Jacques LeHoux.
The promised dowry:
A cow to be delivered the day before the wedding... two young bullocks of the age of two years to be delivered in the year 1671... a pig ready to be butchered... a dozen towels, four napkins, two blankets, a dozen handkerchiefs, a dozen headdresses (bonnets) and an outfit on the first day of the wedding.(Guillaume would be expected to provide the house and furniture, and enough cleared land to plant a garden and graze the animals.)
At the end of the document are all the signatures: Guillaume Lizzot (with a flourish at the end).Anne Pelletier made a mark. It appears her mother, Anne Langlois, wrote her name over it. Barely visible with a circle made by the notary is the notation: Marque de la future espouse (mark of the future bride).Anne's father, Jean Pelletier.Anne's grandfather made a mark. The notary circled it and wrote: Marque du dit Langlois père (mark of the said grandfather Langlois).Anne's uncle, Jean Langlois.
This is how the signatures appear on the document. Below the crease is the notary's signature: P. Vachon, then a flourish, then the word, notaire.Dated 12 May 1669.
One can see a copy of these signatures on the web.He was born about 1645 in the parish of Saint-Pierre in La Gravelle (today: Montviette, near the diocese of Lisieux), Normandy, the son of Robert Lizotte and Catherine Joanne. He was confirmed as being in Quebec City on 03 June 1664 and can be found in the 1666 census as the 25 year old servant of Jean Pelletier (his future father in law) at Beauport.In the 1681 census, he was 36.
He had no children with his second wife Marguerite Peuvrier, one of the King's Daughters.
Three of his children married Rene Ouellet's children and two of his children married the children of Jacques Neneu-Chateauneuf's children.In those days, one quite often married the neighbor's children since it was difficult to travel and meet other young people.
Guillaume Lizotte died at Rivière-Ouelle between 12 January 1705 and 16 August 1707.
Contract of mariage of Guillaume Lizotte and Anne Plletier
12 May 1669
Pardevant Paul Vachon notaire Royal et gardenotes du Roy nostre sire...
The marriage contract between Guillaume Lizotte (Lizzot) and Anne Pelletier is a four-Page document detailing the laws pertaining to community property and the fair division of it. It also lists the dowry of items Anne will be bringing to the marriage. Lastly, it lists all the witnesses and there were many. The contract is an important document.
Anne was just twelve years old at the time, so she is represented by her parents, Jean Pelletier and Anne Langlois.
Guillaume was about 25 years old, his parents, if they were still alive, were in Normandy.
Family and friends witness this document in the Beauport home of Jean Pelletier, Anne's father.Of course, this would be Anne's home as well. It could very well have been the home of Guillaume, also, since he was employed by Jean Pelletier. Guillaume might not have built his own house yet because it would be a while before he would actually live his young bride. They would be married in January 1670, their first child not born until April of 1672. It was quite likely that Anne remained with her parents until the summer of 1671.
Gathered around the table to sign the document were: Guillaume Lizotte... Anne Pelletier... her mother Anne Langlois... her father Jean Pelletier... her 28-year old uncle Jean Langlois, whose signature is in strong, even script... her grandfather Noël Langlois, who signs with a mark... surgeon/doctor (chirugien) Pierre LaVallée... Martin Prevost... Jean Bourdon Romainville, with a signature befitting his rank (Hussier Royal) as an official representing the king in New France... Paul de Rainville... and the notary who prepared the document, Paul Vachon.
A large group, but they were not the only ones present. More people are listed in the contract as being witnesses--young people like Jean (called St. Jean) and Noël Langlois, uncles of the bride, aged 20 and 17, her aunt Marguerite Langlois, her brothers, Noël, aged 15, and René Pelletier, aged 10, are mentioned in the document as unable to sign their name, as well as friends, the butcher Michel LeCours and Jacques LeHoux.
The promised dowry:
A cow to be delivered the day before the wedding... two young bullocks of the age of two years to be delivered in the year 1671... a pig ready to be butchered... a dozen towels, four napkins, two blankets, a dozen handkerchiefs, a dozen headdresses (bonnets) and an outfit on the first day of the wedding.(Guillaume would be expected to provide the house and furniture, and enough cleared land to plant a garden and graze the animals.)
At the end of the document are all the signatures: Guillaume Lizzot (with a flourish at the end).Anne Pelletier made a mark. It appears her mother, Anne Langlois, wrote her name over it. Barely visible with a circle made by the notary is the notation: Marque de la future espouse (mark of the future bride).Anne's father, Jean Pelletier.Anne's grandfather made a mark. The notary circled it and wrote: Marque dudit Langlois pere (mark of the said grandfather Langlois).Anne's uncle, Jean Langlois.
This is how the signatures appear on the document. Below the crease is the notary's signature: P. Vachon, then a flourish, then the word, notaire.Dated 12 May 1669.
One can see a copy of these signitures on the web.
Children of Anne Pelletier and Guillaume Lizotte are:
20 i. Anne-Josephe-Marie5 Lizotte, born about 1676 in Unknown, QC; died 08 Feb 1716 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.She married Gregoire Ouellet 05 Mar 1696 in Notre Dame de Liesse, Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; born 07 Oct 1672 in Ste. Famille de l'Île d'Orléans, Montmorency, QC; died 09 Mar 1718 in Ste. Anne de la Pocatière, QC.
Notes for Gregoire Ouellet:
In the 1681 Cap St. Ignace's census, he was a domestic for Noel Pelletier.
21 ii. Francoise Lizotte, born 27 Apr 1672 in Québec City, QC; died 20 Oct 1699 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC.She married Joseph Ouellet 12 Feb 1691 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; born 14 Apr 1667 in Ste. Famille de l'Île d'Orléans, Montmorency, QC; died 29 Jul 1740 in Rimouski, QC.
22 iii. Nicolas Lizotte, born 07 Feb 1674 in Beauport, QC; died 27 Oct 1708 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC.He married Marie-Madeleine Migner-dit-Lagace 18 Jan 1701 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; born 24 Aug 1679 in Charlesbourg, QC; died 18 Apr 1733 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.
23 iv. Noel Lizotte, born 19 Sep 1677 in Québec City, QC; died 12 Feb 1740 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.He married Marie-Catherine Meneu-dit-Chateauneuf 28 Feb 1702 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; born 23 Oct 1682 in Ste. Famille de l'Île d'Orléans, QC; died 12 Dec 1751 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC.
24 v. Marie-Anne Lizotte, born 24 Mar 1679 in Québec City, QC; died 15 Nov 1743 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.She married Joseph Meneu-dit-Chateauneuf 12 Jan 1705 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; born 23 Jul 1671 in Ste. Famille de l'Île d'Orléans, QC; died 27 Jun 1751 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.
25 vi. Marie-Francoise Lizotte, born 25 May 1681 in L'Islet, l'Islet, QC.She married (1) Gabriel Bouchard 12 Jan 1701 in Notre Dâme de Liesse, Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; born 08 Nov 1675 in Québec City, QC; died 01 Nov 1731 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.She married (2) Nicolas-Jean Olide-dit-DeKervergo 25 Nov 1736 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC; born about 1681 in Unknown, QC.
Notes for Gabriel Bouchard:
On 8 November 1675, that Gabriel, the seventh child of the family was born. The missionary Thomas Morel, travelling through this barely inhabited coast on 22 January 1676, baptized the child and recorded the act at Québec. There was no registry or church at Riviere-Ouelle yet. They would only come ten years later.
26 vii. Marie-Madeleine Lizotte, born about 1683 in Unknown, QC; died 16 Mar 1765 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.She married Sebastien-Bastien Ouellet 16 Aug 1707 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; born 16 Apr 1685 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 14 Jan 1756 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.
27 viii. Joseph Lizotte, born 12 Apr 1685 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 20 Apr 1768 in Ste. Anne de la Pocatière, QC.He married (1) Marie-Francoise Dancosse 24 Nov 1710 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; born 26 May 1691 in Québec City, QC; died 15 Nov 1741 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.He married (2) Marie-Therese Lebel 09 Feb 1750 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC; born 1716 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC; died 19 Jun 1787 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.
28 ix. Catherine Lizotte, born 16 Apr 1687 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC.
9.Rene4 Pelletier (Jean3 Pelletier-dit-Gobloteur, Guillaume2, Eloi1 Pelletier) was born 02 Mar 1659 in Québec City, QC, and died 13 Jan 1713 in St. Pierre de l'Île d'Orléans, QC.He married (1) Marie-Madeleine Leclerc 05 Nov 1691 in St. Pierre de l'Île d'Orléans, QC, daughter of Jean Leclerc and Marie Blanquet.She was born 09 Jul 1672 in Ste. Famille de l'Île d'Orléans, Montmorency, QC, and died 24 Oct 1702 in St. Pierre de l'Île d'Orléans, QC.He married (2) Marie-Jeanne-Anne Godbout 23 Jul 1703 in St. Laurent de l'Île d'Orléans, QC, daughter of Nicolas Godbout and Marie-Marthe Bourgouin.She was born 11 Aug 1665 in Québec City, QC, and died 07 Jul 1732 in St. Laurent de l'Île d'Orléans, QC.
Children of Rene Pelletier and Marie-Madeleine Leclerc are:
29 i. Marie-Madeleine5 Pelletier, born 11 Aug 1694 in St. Pierre de l'Île d'Orléans, QC; died 18 Mar 1776 in St. Pierre de la Rivière du Sud, Montmagny, QC.She married (1) Jacques DesTroismaisons-dit-Picard 30 Oct 1710 in St. Pierre de l'Île d'Orléans, QC; born 02 Sep 1688 in Cap St. Ignace, Montmagny, QC; died 19 Apr 1756 in St. Pierre de la Rivière du Sud, Montmagny, QC.She married (2) Jacques DesTroismaisons-Picard 30 Oct 1710 in St Pierre I.O. QC; born 02 Sep 1688 in Cap St. Ignace, QC; died 19 Apr 1756 in St. Pierre de la Rivière du Sud, Montmagny, QC.
30 ii. Marie-Therese Pelletier, born about 1698 in Unknown, QC; died 10 Mar 1779 in St. Pierre de la Rivière du Sud, QC.She married Pierre-Noel Morin-dit-Valcourt 25 Jun 1719 in Unknown, QC; born 26 Jan 1698 in Montmagny, QC; died 01 Oct 1768 in St. Pierre de la Rivière du Sud, QC.
11.Jean4 Pelletier (Jean3 Pelletier-dit-Gobloteur, Guillaume2, Eloi1 Pelletier) was born 19 Apr 1663 in Beauport, QC, and died 12 Mar 1739 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.He married Marie-Anne Huot-dit-St.Laurent 08 Jan 1689 in Notre Dame de Liesse, Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC (ct 3 Nov 1688, Gilles Rageot), daughter of Nicolas Huot-dit-St.Laurent and Marie Lafaille/Fayet.She was born 08 Jan 1666 in Château Richer, Montmorency, QC, and died 25 Oct 1734 in St. Anne de la Pocatière, QC.
Notes for Jean Pelletier:
He was 3 years old in the Isle D'Orleans 1666 census with his parents and siblings.
Children of Jean Pelletier and Marie-Anne Huot-dit-St.Laurent are:
31 i. Jean-Baptiste5 Pelletier, born 18 Oct 1689 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 04 Sep 1769 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.He married Angelique-Marguerite Ouellet 16 Apr 1714 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; born 16 Oct 1690 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 04 Jan 1756 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.
32 ii. Marie-Anne Pelletier, born 02 Sep 1692 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC.She married Guillaume Cloutier 06 Nov 1713 in Notre Dame de Liesse, Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; born 31 Dec 1682 in L'Islet, l'Islet, QC; died 25 May 1731 in L'Islet, l'Islet, QC.
33 iii. Joseph Pelletier, born 14 Sep 1694 in Rivère Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 23 Jun 1753 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.He married Marie-Anne Boucher 03 Feb 1721 in Notre Dame de Liesse, Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC (ct 08 Jan, Janneau); born 02 Jun 1701 in Rivère Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 04 Mar 1797 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.
Notes for Joseph Pelletier:
His son Andre was married at Fort Vincennes, Indiana in 1773.To understand just what this Frenchman was doing in Indiana here is a bit of history.
---------------The French in Indiana:
In the early 1500s a French explorer, Jacques Cartier, discovered the St. Lawrence River.Because he was the first to discover the area around the St. Lawrence River, Cartier claimed all of the land for France.The French government named this new land New France.
In 1603 Samuel de Champlain arrived to govern this new territory and founded the city of Québec.He also spent a large amount of his time exploring the land around the St. Lawrence River.Champlain encouraged the French already in New France to learn Indian languages and to live in the forests.These Frenchman became known as Voyagers.Many of them lived among the Indian tribes.
Catholic priests also came to New France.They work on behalf of the Catholic church to teach their religion to the Indians.Often priests and French Voyagers traveled together.
---------------Robert Cavalier Sieur de La Salle:
La Salle sailed to New France in 1666.Once in North America he started to learn the ways of the local Indians.His main desire was not to stay and settle in New France but to travel and explore the western regions and claim any new lands he found for France.
In 1669 La Salle started to explore the areas around the Great Lakes. He traveled south of Lake Erie until he found the Ohio River.La Salle named the river "Ohio" after the Iroquois word for "beautiful water."
La Salle set out to explore more territory in 1679.His main purpose in undertaking this journey was to set up frontier trading posts.His first goal was to have a ship built.When the ship was completed (named the Griffon) La Salle and his party sailed as far as Green Bay on Lake Michigan.After departing from the Griffon, La Salle's party used canoes to explore the southern shores of Lake Michigan.They eventually found the mouth of the St. Joseph River, which emptied into Lake Michigan.La Salle made camp waiting on the Griffon to return with more supplies not knowing it had sunk.
Not wanting to spend the winter at the mouth of the St. Joseph River, La Salle and his men paddled up the river in 8 canoes.In December of 1679, they camped along the St. Joseph River's south bend.This place later became the city of South Bend.Robert La Salle was the first white man to visit Indiana.
La Salle went on to travel from the St. Joseph River down the Kankakee and eventually out into the Mississippi River.He claimed all of the land around the Mississippi and its tributaries for France.La Salle named this new land Louisiana after the French king Louis.Indiana was part of this new land named Louisiana.
---------------French Fur Trading and Forts in Indiana:
After the death of La Salle many Europeans, especially of French descent, came into the new area La Salle had claimed for France.His wish of having trading posts set up in this new land became a reality.Trading posts and forts began to be founded throughout Indiana.
The first fort thought to be established in Indiana was named Fort Miami.It was built around 1715 on the Maumee River portage.The portage that Ft. Miami was located on was a path that connected the Maumee and Wabash Rivers.The city of Fort Wayne is located there now.Within Ft. Miami log homes were constructed that housed the families of the soldiers and traders that lived and worked at the fort.
Another fort was constructed in Indiana around 1720.It was built where the Tippecanoe River flows into the Wabash River.This fort was named Fort Ouiatenon.It was located in present day West Lafayette.
In 1732 a very large fort was constructed at a French village on the Wabash River in the southern part of Indiana.The fort was named Fort Vincennes after the French officer in command.
A church was soon built in Vincennes around 1708 and French settlers had cleared land for orchards and gardens.Settlers built log cabins and settled into 'city' life.Vincennes had an early population of 300 people which made it the largest French town in Indiana.It is also the oldest settled town in Indiana.
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Fort Vincennes, later known as St. Vinennes and eventually Vincennes, Indiana, was established in 1732. It was renamed Fort Sackville after being captured by the British. George Rogers Clark renamed it Fort Patrick Henry, for the Governor of Virginia. Although part of the original expansive Illinois Country, as part of the Northwest Territory it was the seat of a separate county.
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FORT VINCENNES, on the Wabash, is a work erected during the year 1787, and has four small brass cannon. It is garrisoned by a major and two companies. It is established to curb the incursions of the Wabash Indians into Kentucky county, and to prevent the usurpation of the Federal lands, the fertility of which has been too strong a temptation to the lawless people of the frontiers, who posted themselves there, in the year 1786. Brigadier General Harmar, by order of Congress, formed an expedition in August, 1787, for the purpose of dispossessing them, but previous to his arrival, most of the intruders had abandoned their settlements."
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The recorded history of Indiana begins with French Jesuits and trappers in the 17th century. Moving westward from the Saint Lawrence valley, the French hoped to establish a profitable fur trade and to convert the Indians to Christianity. Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, was the first European to explore the land that is now Indiana. He and his party reached the south bend of the Saint Joseph River (now the city of South Bend) in 1679 and portaged to the Kankakee River on their journey from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River. The Wabash-Maumee River route, which used a portage near the present location of Fort Wayne, was the shortest route between Lake Erie and the Mississippi River and became a primary artery for French influence and trade. To protect their trading interests against English competition and English settlers, the French built several forts along this route in the early 18th century: Fort Miami (now Fort Wayne), Fort Ouiatenon or Ouiatanon (near Lafayette) and Fort Vincennes (Vincennes). Fort Miami and Fort Ouiatenon took their names from the Indian tribes that lived in the vicinity of each site. Long the headquarters of the Miami Indians, the site of modern Fort Wayne was Known at different times as Kekionga, Kiskakon, Omee Town, Twightee Village, Frenchtown, or Miami Town. The name Fort Wayne honors General Anthony Wayne who defeated the Miami Indian Confederacy at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. The city of Lafayette was so named in 1824 by its founder, William Digby, for the Marquis de Lafayette.His son Andre was married at Fort Vincennes, Indiana in 1773.To understand just what this Frenchman was doing in Indiana here is a bit of history.
founder, William Digby, for the Marquis de Lafayette.
34 iv. Jean-Francois Pelletier, born 17 Feb 1697 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC.
35 v. Marie-Madeleine Pelletier, born 17 Feb 1697 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 22 Dec 1760 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.She married (1) Ignace Dessaint-dit-St.Pierre 15 Jun 1717 in Unknown (presumed St. Roch des Aulnaies), QC (ct Janneau); born 01 Jan 1688 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 06 Sep 1772 in Ste. Anne de la Pocatière, Champlain, QC.She married (2) Ignace Dessaint-St.Pierre 15 Jun 1717 in Unknown, QC (ct Janneau); born 01 Jan 1688 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 06 Sep 1772 in Ste. Anne de la Pérade, Champlain, QC.
36 vi. Charles Pelletier, born 27 Mar 1699 in Rivère Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 11 Jan 1769 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.He married Marie-Anne Boucher 08 Jan 1726 in Ste. Anne de la Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC (ct 07, Janneau); born 07 Feb 1708 in Rivère Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 17 Apr 1766 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.
37 vii. Francois Pelletier, born 28 Jun 1701 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC.
38 viii. Angelique Pelletier, born 19 Oct 1703 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 10 May 1743 in Cap St. Ignace, Montmagny, QC.She married Francois Guimond 04 Feb 1743 in L'Islet,QC; born 28 Oct 1690 in Cap St. Ignace, Montmagny, QC; died 27 May 1773 in Berthier en Bas, Montmagny, QC.
Notes for Francois Guimond:
He was a major of the militias on the south coast in 1730.
13.Marie4 Pelletier (Jean3 Pelletier-dit-Gobloteur, Guillaume2, Eloi1 Pelletier) was born 04 May 1667 in Ste. Famille de l'Île d'Orléans, Montmorency, QC, and died 06 Nov 1725 in Cap St. Ignace, Montmagny, QC.She married (1) Jacques Jalbert/Gerbert-dit-LaFontaine 05 May 1686 in Cap St. Ignace, Montmagny, QC, son of Mathurin Jalbert/Gerbert-dit-LaFontaine and Elisabeth-Isabelle Targer.He was born 31 Oct 1665 in Château Richer, Montmorency, QC, and died 24 Jul 1699 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC.She married (2) Mathieu Guillet 26 Nov 1700 in Cap St. Ignace, Montmagny, QC, son of Mathieu Guillet and Louise Meter.He was born about 1670 in La Rochelle, Aunis, France, and died 12 Dec 1757 in L'Islet, QC.
Child of Marie Pelletier and Jacques Jalbert/Gerbert-dit-LaFontaine is:
39 i. Marie-Anne5 Jalbert/Gerbert-dit-LaFontaine, born about 1687 in Cap St. Ignace, Montmagny, QC.She married Jean-Baptiste Cloutier 26 Apr 1706 in Cap St. Ignace, Montmagny, QC; born 05 Feb 1681 in L'Islet, l'Islet, QC; died 05 Sep 1756 in L'Islet, l'Islet, QC.
Child of Marie Pelletier and Mathieu Guillet is:
40 i. Genevieve5 Guillet, born 06 Jan 1706 in Cap St. Ignace, Montmagny, QC; died 17 Jul 1733 in Cap St. Ignace, Montmagny, QC.She married Ambroise Fournier 17 Aug 1729 in L'Islet, l'Islet, QC; born 03 Aug 1696 in Cap St. Ignace, Montmagny, QC; died 14 Jan 1745 in Cap St. Ignace, Montmagny, QC.
14.Charles4 Pelletier (Jean3 Pelletier-dit-Gobloteur, Guillaume2, Eloi1 Pelletier) was born 25 Sep 1671 in Beauport, QC, and died 30 Dec 1748 in St. Roch des Aulnaise, Kamouraska, QC.He married (1) Marie-Therese Ouellet 07 Jan 1698 in Notre Dame de Liesse, Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC (ct 27 Oct, Chambalon), daughter of Rene Ouellet and Marie-Therese Migneault-dit-Chatillon.She was born about 1679 in Unknown, QC, and died 25 Jul 1707 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC.He married (2) Marie-Barbe Dessaint-dit-St.Pierre 12 Jan 1711 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC (ct 03, Janneau), daughter of Pierre DesSaint-dit-St.Pierre and Marie Jalbert/Gerbert-dit-LaFontaine.She was born 11 Feb 1685 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC, and died 30 Aug 1752 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, Kamouraska, QC.
Children of Charles Pelletier and Marie-Therese Ouellet are:
41 i. Jean-Baptiste5 Pelletier, born 11 Oct 1698 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 19 Aug 1719 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.
42 ii. Charles Pelletier, born 19 Dec 1700 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 19 Oct 1776 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.He married Marie-Louise Chouinard 25 Nov 1726 in L'Islet, l'Islet, QC; born 28 Jan 1704 in L'Islet, l'Islet, QC; died 08 Jan 1783 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.
43 iii. Joseph Pelletier, born 30 Sep 1702 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 07 Apr 1756 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.He married Marie-Ursule Dessaint-dit-St.Pierre 20 Nov 1728 in Ste. Anne, La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC; born 05 Feb 1702 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 16 May 1777 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.
44 iv. Dorothee Pelletier, born 17 Nov 1704 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC.
45 v. Marie-Therese Pelletier, born 17 Nov 1705 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 09 Nov 1783 in L'Islet, QC.She married Jacques Belanger 21 Jan 1726 in L'Islet, l'Islet, QC; born 07 Apr 1699 in L'Islet, l'Islet, QC.
Children of Charles Pelletier and Marie-Barbe Dessaint-dit-St.Pierre are:
46 i. Bernard5 Pelletier, born 10 Jan 1712 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 18 Oct 1803 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.He married (1) Marie-Marthe Brisson-dit-Dutilly 02 Nov 1738 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC; born 05 Dec 1719 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC; died 14 Jan 1788 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.He married (2) Judith-Elisabeth-M. Roy-dit-Desjardins-Lauzier 26 Jan 1789 in La Pocatière, QC; born about 1735 in Unknown, QC; died 08 Nov 1795 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.
47 ii. Francois Pelletier, born 22 Apr 1713 in Rivière Ouelle, Kamouraska, QC; died 06 May 1777 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.He married Marie-Genevieve Morneau, (Franc.& M.Ang.Bernier) 13 Nov 1741 in L'Islet, l'Islet, QC; born 15 Dec 1723 in Cap St. Ignace, Montmagny, QC; died 15 Apr 1777 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.
48 iii. Marie-Barbe Pelletier, born 17 Feb 1715 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC; died 16 May 1772 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.She married Jean Morin 07 Apr 1739 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC; born 28 Feb 1715 in St. Antoine, Charlesbourg, QC; died 24 Feb 1787 in St. Rochdes Aulnaies, L'Islet, l'Islet, QC.
Notes for Jean Morin:
Their son Jean Roch had a relationship with a Therese on 22 Mar 1773 at Fort St. Joseph des Illinois.
49 iv. Gabriel Pelletier, born about 1718 in Unknown, QC; died 13 Feb 1756 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.He married (1) Catherine-M.A.-Jeanne Roy-dit-Desjardins-Lauzier 22 Feb 1751 in Ste. Anne de la Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC; born 29 Nov 1729 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC; died 28 Jun 1753 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.He married (2) Marie-Elisabeth Caron 10 Feb 1755 in L'Islet, l'Islet, QC; born 04 Dec 1735 in L'Islet, l'Islet, QC.
50 v. Jacques Pelletier, born about 1720 in Unknown, QC; died 12 Oct 1788 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.He married Marie-Anne Roy-dit-Desjardins-Lauzier 07 Aug 1747 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC; born 24 Oct 1727 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC; died 20 Nov 1801 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.
51 vi. Rosalie-Marie-Rose Pelletier, born 16 Jan 1722 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC; died 20 May 1799 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.She married Joseph Martin 21 Nov 1740 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, l'Islet, QC; born about 1713 in Unknown, QC; died 04 Oct 1773 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.
52 vii. Marie-Francoise Pelletier, born 03 Nov 1723 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC.
53 viii. Marie-Anne Pelletier, born 27 Jan 1725 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC; died 06 May 1773 in St. Jean Port Oli, QC.She married Pierre Chouinard-dit-Lariviere 04 Nov 1743 in St. Roch des Aulnaies,L'Islet, l'Islet, QC; born 28 Feb 1702 in Cap St. Ignace, Montmagny, QC; died 07 Jan 1790 in St. Jean Port Oli, QC.
54 ix. Marie-Reine Pelletier, born about 1726 in Unknown, QC; died 08 Jun 1814 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.She married Jean-Francois Morneau, (Francois &M.Ang.Bernier) 16 Nov 1745 in St. Roch des Aulnaies,L'Islet, l'Islet, QC; born 06 Feb 1716 in Cap St. Ignace, Montmagny, QC; died 07 Feb 1799 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.
55 x. Pierre Pelletier, born 21 Feb 1731 in La Pocatière, Kamouraska, QC; died 04 Aug 1783 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.He married Marie-Madeleine Lebel 27 Jun 1757 in St. Louis de Kamouraska, QC; born 26 Mar 1734 in Kamouraska, QC; died 13 Sep 1811 in St. Roch des Aulnaies, QC.
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My resources are limited because I live in Oregon. I hope that you use this information only as a guide. I welcome corrections and additions from anyone that has access to the original files.
Originally I paid a genealogy society to trace the direct lines for 6 of my 8 great grandparents. They used the books that were compiled by volunteers for each parish. Because so many individuals had the same name, I eventually found some errors in these books. Then I used Tanguay and found out that he may be about 75% right and Jette (that goes to 1730) is about 90% right. Then just as I thought that I was finished, I found PRDH (University of Montreal) and I believe that they may be 98% right and still make corrections to their records. They go up to 1799 for marriage contracts and 1850 for some deaths. Some people have the luxury of having the original records at their disposal. I do not have that and with 17,000 individuals in my data base, I can not afford to pay for copies of all the originals. At that point I confirmed every that I had with the records at PRDH. Whenever I say “about” for a birth date it means that PRDH did not find it or if it is in the 1800s, I did not look it up because of my lack of resources.
PRDH uses the most common spelling variation for the names. This makes it easier to trace the families. They do not always use the original name that appears on the contracts or birth records. That is ok with me, because many individuals before the 1900s could not sign their names and did not even care how others spelt it. As a result the same person’s name took on a variety of spellings. I also kept the “dit” (aka) names because eventually brothers from the same family, picked a different aka name.
As for the pioneers, I also used Peter Gagné’s English books on the single girls that arrived in New France between 1634 & 1662 and his book on the single girls that are referred to as the King’s Daughters that arrived between 1663 & 1673. These girls were recruited and paid by the King to go to New France (Québec) to get married and colonize the area.
Most of my information for the 1800-1900s comes from people on the web. The program that I use does not allow for baptismal dates, so if I don’t have a birth date, I use the baptismal date. The same goes for death vs. burial dates and actual wedding vs. contract dates. The newer programs have these features, but I will not be going through 17,000 records to make the changes.
It is like I said in the beginning; use this information as a guide only. I view genealogy as a hobby and not as pure science.
As for the stories, I got them all in French on the web and I translated them for my grandchildren. I had not read or spoken French in over 40 years, so it was difficult and may not be the best translation.
Enjoy, Janet