2I. PIERRE (JEAN 1)
bpt. 23 Dec. 1630 St. Jean de Mortagne, Perche
m. 10 Nov. 1659 Notre Dame de Quebec, JEANNE DROUIN (bpt. 2 May 1647 Quebec, bur. 24 June 1732 Beauport)
bur. 3 May 1717 Notre Dame de la Misericorde, Beauport
Eglise Saint-Jean, Mortagne-au-Perche
On 22 May 1651 Nicolas Hublin, Jacques Nourry and Pierre Maheu signed on as servants to Jean Juchereau, Sieur de Maure before notary Choiseau. The three of them agreed to go: to the country of New France to begin on the day of embarkment which will be made in this year...to terminate with the embarkment which will be made at the end of the said five years in the said place
Pierre was to be paid 45 livres per year and given a pair of shoes as well as a free round trip and food. Pierre was listed as being a weaver from Feings, a village bordering Mortange-au-Perche.
Pierre then appears 8 Sept. 1655 at the office of Notary Guillaume Audouart in Quebec with his friend Jean Trudel. The two of them agreed to work for three years as farmers for Nicolas Juchereau, Sieur de Saint-Denis, husband of Marie Therese Giffard, owner of Le Chenay, 52 arpents of land in the Seigneurie of Beauport on the Montmorency River. The farm had a stable, barn, house, 2 oxen, 4 cows, 3 sheep, and farming implements. The tenant farmers would have for their use, turnips, half the harvest of cabbage, 50 minots of wheat and 25 of peas. They each would recieve 60 livres for each new arpent of land they put into cultivation. The following year, on 12 Sept., they were again in notary Audouart's office signing another agreement with Sieur Juchereau, and this time they would pay 40 minots of wheat, 25 of peas and 20 of corn yearly. The contract was in effect until Oct. 1658. Also during this time they signed an agreement with Germain Le Barbier on 3 Dec. 1655 to log 5 arpents of land and to cut them into 8' lengths for the large trees and 10' for the smaller ones. Germain promised to pay them 25 livres per arpent.
Pierre purchased his own place on 29 Sept. 1657 from Jean Baptiste Le Gardeur, Sieur de Repentigny, 2 2/3rd arpents of land in the fief of Charlesville, near his friend Jean Trudel and Jacques Vauclin. This farm is now in the town of Boischatel about 31 arpents east of Montmorency Falls.
On 8 Sept. 1659 at the home of Zacharie Cloutier at Chateau Richer he signed the marriage contract with Jeanne Drouin who came with a dowry of 300 livres, one milk cow, and some clothes. They were married on 10 Nov. at the church of Notre Dame de Quebec by Father Ragueneau.
On 18 Oct. 1664 Pierre, along with Raymond Paget and Jacques Goulet were elected the first church wardens of L'Ange Gardien. In 1667 the first church was built there. On 23 Apr. 1669 Fr. Fillon and the churchwardens leased some glebe land to Isaac Pasquier.
At the time of the 1667 census Pierre and Jeanne had two children at home, 4 cows, and 10 arpents of land under cultivation.
Pierre was involved in a dispute over the estate of Robert Drouin, Jeanne's father. On 25 Mar. 1675 Pierre and Robert Drouin agreed to go to arbitration with Notaries Jean Baptist Peuvret and Romain Becquet as arbiters. Pierre wasn't satisfied with the settlement and on 10 June the Sovereign Council settled the litigation. Pierre obtained rights to 1 1/2 arpents of land from the Drouin farm or the total value of 386 livres, 6 sols, 9 deniers. This judgement was again contested and on 21 Oct. 1675 they were summoned again and were back in arbitration on 25 Nov. with a final settlement on 5 Feb. 1676.
At the time of the 1681 census Pierre and Jeanne were still living in L'Ange-Gardien and owned one gun, five cows and had 25 arpents of land under cultivation.
On 20 June 1700 Pierre gave his livestock to his sons Charles and Pierre who were still living with them on the farm. On 6 Sept. they purchased the neighboring land of Rene Brisson for 4,000 livres. Pierre Jr. and his brother in law Joseph Garnier died in the small pox epidemic of 1703 and brother Charles then died in 1704. Charles' widow, Marie Charlotte Garnier, inherited the land at Beauport and the land at L'Ange Gardien went to Pierre's widow Louise Garnier. On 3 Feb. 1717 Pierre and Jeanne, who had retired to Beauport to their daughter Jeanne's home, gave her and her husband Paul Belanger, the 1 1/2 arpents of land which they had obtained from the estate of Robert Drouin at Chateau Richer. Pierre then died on 2 May 1717 and had lived to see 33 grandchildren and 38 great-grand children. Jeanne took the inventory of the estate on 7 July 1717, she had 400 livres of liquid assets, half of which she spent to have prayers said for her dead husband. On 23 Oct. the children left her in possession of the land in L'Ange Gardien and an annual pension of 14 minots of wheat, 4 of peas, 2 of oats, 50 bales of straw, 50 of hay, and 16 pounds of oakum (to chink holes in the cabin I suspect?). After her death they would have 24 low masses celebrated for her. Jeanne lived until Saint-Jean's day, 24 June 1732, she was 85 years old.
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