Chapter Six - Ancestors in 1600s Fur Trade Timeline

CHAPTER SIX - Voyageur Ancestors in 1600s Fur Trade Timeline

1755 map of the Great Lakes drawn by Jacques Nicholas Bellin

NOTE: Most of the voyageur entries following are from obscure, single line, Archives of Quebec, notary records. 

They were in French, so they have been translated in the best manner possible. A few additional records were sourced from reading books about the fur trade in North America (SEE Bibliography). 

My voyageur ancestors are inserted into a Fur Trade Timeline for New France, and later Canada, so you may discover what was happening in history during their time as voyageurs.

1600s

1608 - Sponsored by King Henry IV , Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec City on July 3.

1609 - Champlain joins a military expedition against the Iroquois. The Hurons and their French allies are victorious.

1610s

1610 - Étienne Brûlé is sent by Champlain to live among the Hurons to learn their language.

1612 - October 15, Champlain is made lieutenant of the vice-roi in New France.

1613 - Acadia is taken by the troops of Samuel Argall.

1615 - Arrival of the Récollets from Rouen on June 9.

1620s

1625 - Arrival of the Jesuits.

1627 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu founds the Compagnie de la Nouvelle France on April 29. King Louis XIII of France will grant them the monopoly on fur trade in return for their help in colonizing the St. Lawrence valley.

1627 - King Louis XIII of France introduces the seigneurial system and forbids settlement in New France by anyone other than Roman Catholics.

1629 - On July 16, three brothers, David, Louis, and Thomas Kirke take Quebec.

Jean Godefroy de Linctot, Sieur (1607-1678) (10th great grand uncle)
• 1626, arrived in New France with Samuel de Champlain, and served in the capacity of interpreter.
• After 1629, and the capture of Quebec by the Kirkes (England), he stayed on in the colony, living in the woods with the Indians.

Thomas Godefroy de Normanville (10th great grand uncle)
• 1626, arrived in New France with Samuel de Champlain, and served in the capacity of interpreter.
• After 1629, and the capture of Quebec by the Kirkes (England), he stayed on in the colony, living in the woods with the Indians.
1630s Furs were regularly leaving New France for Europe. These furs were mainly supplied by Indian traders, especially the Huron and Ottawa tribes. In Wisconsin the Winnebago tribes blocked the fur trade routes. They were attacked and defeated by the Ottawa and Huron. New tribes such as the Sauk, Fox, Potawatomi, and Ojibwe began moving into the area that is now Wisconsin.

1632 - Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye on March 29. Acadia and Quebec are givenback to France.

1632 - The Couillard-Hébert family receives the colony’s first slave. He is a black boy from the West Indies. See Slavery in Canada.

1632 - Gabriel Sagard publishes Le Grand Voyage au pays des Hurons (The Great Voyage in Huron country) and a dictionary of the Huron language.

1634 - Sieur de La Violette founds a fur trading post and a fort, which later becomes the town of Trois-Rivières.

1634 - Hurons begin to drive out the Jesuits as disease decimates the Hurons.

1634 - Jean Nicolet traveled through the Great Lakes to Green Bay on what is now Lake Michigan, and claims all the land in this area for France.

1635 - The Jesuits found the Collège de Québec.

1635 - Samuel de Champlain dies on December 25.

1636 - Arrival of the new governor Charles Huault de Montmagny on June 12.

1639 - Foundation of the Société de Notre-Dame de Montréal.

1639 - Arrival of the Ursulines and the Hospitalières in the colony.

Zacharie Cloutier (1590-1677) (10th great-grandfather)
• 1634, hired to assist Samuel de Champlain in “inhabiting, clearing, cultivating and planting” New France.

Philippe Amiot (Amyot) dit Villeneuve (1602-1639) (9th great-grandfather)
• 1636, Coureur de bois near Trois-Rivières.

Robert Caron (1612-1656) (9th great-grandfather)
• Not much is known of Robert Caron, other than the fact that he arrived in New France on June 11, 1636.

Louis Sédillot dit Montreuil (1601-1672) (9th great-grandfather)
• 1637, Louis arrived in Québec, where he obtained work from the "Company of One Hundred Associates" clearing and planting land. 

Denise Sevestre (1632-1700) (9th great-aunt)
• Denise Sevestre arrived in Quebec 1636, and became a Mother of several Voyageurs.
Denise married twice…
Marriage (1) 1646 to Antoine Martin (1620-1659)
Children of Denise Sevestre and Antoine Martin:
i. Charles Martin dit Montpellier 1651-1715
ii. Antoine Martin dit Montpellier Beaulieu 1654-1715
iii. Jean-François Martin dit Montpellier 1658-1674
Marriage (2) 1659 to Philipe Neveu (Nepveu) (1634-1720)
Children of Denise Sevestre and Philipe Neveu (Nepveu):
i. Jacques Nepveu (Neveu) 1667-1722
ii. Charles Neveu 1671-1705
iii. Jean Baptiste Neveu (Nepveu) 1676-1754

1640s

1641 - Beginning of the French and Iroquois Wars on June 13.

1641 - Arrival of Jeanne Mance on August 8.

1642 - Joe Chomedey de Maisonneuve and Jeanne Mance found Ville-Marie , today Montréal on May 17.

1643 - Arrival of Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge et d'Argentenay , officer and military engineer.

1647 - Creation of the Conseil de Québec on March 27.

1648 - Beginning of the genocide of the Huron peoples by the Iroquois confederacy.

1648 - Louis d'Ailleboust becomes governor of New France after the refusal of Maisonneuve to take the position.

1648 - The Huron country is destroyed and fleeing Hurons are relocated to Ile d'Orleans with the help of governor d'Ailleboust. Wyandot people|

Jean Mignault dit Chatillon (1622-1680) (9th great-grandfather)
• 1648, Governor Montmagny sent Jean Mignault to the (le pays des Hurons) "Huron's Country" to invite them to the fur trade.

Jean Amiot (Amyot) (1630-1648) (9th great-uncle)
• 1640s, Interpreter and indentured employee of the Jesuits he spent several years in the Huron country.

Mathieu Amiot (Amyot) Sieur de Villeneuve (1628-1688) (8th great-grandfather)
• 1640s, Interpreter and fur trader for the Jesuits in the Huron country.

Mathurin Gagnon (1606-1690) (11th great-uncle)
• 1645-63, was a member of Communauté des habitants (Compagnie des habitants), colonial merchants who held the fur trade monopoly in New France.  He and his bothers Jean and Pierre operated a general store and became outfitters in the Lower Quebec. Arrival 1635, Quebec, Canada.

Philippe Foubert (1616-1661) (10th great-grandfather)
• 1649, Sep 12 -- engagement of Philippe Foubert to Charles Sevestre. Charles Sevestre was a clerk in the fur trade monopoly company's storehouse at Quebec, and eventually the general manager of the storehouse. He was also financier and outfitter for investors and traders based at Quebec, Trois-Rivières, and Montreal.

1650s

1651 - Jean de Lauzon becomes governor of New France.

1653 - The population of Quebec now stands at 2,000.

1657 - Arrival of the Roman Catholic Sulpician Order in Montreal.

1657 - Pierre de Voyer d'Argenson replaces Jean de Lauzon as governor of New France.

1659 - François de Laval becomes the first bishop of New France.

1659 - Radisson and Grosseiliers made an unlicensed trip into the interior. They built a trading post at Chequamagon Bay on Lake Superior and claimed to have found a portage into the west. Was this Grand Portage?

Denis Duquet (1605-1675) (8th great-grandfather)
• 1659, member of the "Traite de Tadoussac," the first fur-trading post in European North America (established in 1600, eight years before the founding of Québec City)

Charles Amiot (Amyot) (1636-1669) (9th great-uncle)
• 1650, fur-trader and merchant; educated at the Jesuit college and accompanied Father Bressani as a servant to the Huron country.

1660s

1660 - Dollard des Ormeaux dies at Long Sault on the Ottawa River.

1661 - Louis XIV puts his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert in charge of reorganizing the administration of New France on March 16.

1661 - Pierre DuBois, baron Davaugour becomes governor of New France.

1663 - New France becomes a royal province under Louis XIV. The Sovereign Council is created to administer the colonies under the absolute authority of the King.

1663 - François de Laval founds the Séminaire de Québec, now known as the Université Laval.

1663 - Arrival of Augustin de Saffray de Mézy , first governor named by the King, Monseigneur Laval, royal commissioner Louis Gaudais-Dupont and 150 colonists and craftmen on September 15.

1663 - Election of Jean-Baptiste Legardeur de Repentigny , the first mayor of Quebec City on October 17.

1665 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert appoints Jean Talon as intendant of New France.

1665 - The new governor de Mézy dies of sickness in Quebec City.

1665 - Daniel de Rémy de Courcelle becomes governor of New France.

1665 - Arrival of the Carignan-Salières Regiment of 1,300 soldiers on June 19.

1665 - The Carignan-Salières Regiment destroys five Mohawk nation villages, weakening Iroquois resolve to keep fighting.

1666 - A census conducted by Jean Talon in the winter of 1665-1666 showed a population of 3,215 French inhabitants residing in New France.

1666 - During the autumn, the soldier of Carignan-Salières, led by Alexandre de Prouville , the “Marquis de Tracy” and the governor, invade the Iroquois territory to the south, burn their villages and destroy their crops. See French and Iroquois Wars.

1667 - Signing of a peace treaty with the defeated Iroquois

1667 - The first Filles du roi (“King’s Daughters”) arrive in New France during the summer.

Charles Diel dit Le Petit Breton (1652-1702) (8th great-grandfather)
• 1665, arrived in New France as a soldier in the La Fouille Company of the Carignan-Salières Regiment.
• 1677, voyageur with Frontenac at Fort Frontenac
• 1684, Leger Hebert of Cap de la Trinite has a trade permit and hires Charles to go to the Outaouais (Ottawas) country with Pierre Lefebvre and Antoine Caille on 20 September 1684 for the sum of 630 livres.

Jeanne Testard (1642-1723) (8th great grandmother)
daughter of Jean Testard dit Lafontaine (1612-1705) and Anne Godefroy (1615-1678)
• Jeanne was a Fille à Marier, arriving in New France by 1662.

Charles Boyer (1631-1698) (9th great-grandfather)
• 1660s, ten members of the Boyer family, including his son Antoine Boyer (husband of Marie Perras) are listed on 31 voyageur trips. These lists do not include the trips these same men made on their own as coureurs des bois.

Andre Robidou dit Lespagnol (1643-1678) (9th great-grandfather)
• 1666, working as a voyageur for Eustace Lambert, a prominent fur trader.

Jeanne Denote (1647-1701) (9th great-grandmother)
• Jeanne, a "filles du roi," came to Quebec in 1666 and resided at a house on the grounds of the Ursuline monastery until she married Andre Robidou dit Lespagnol on June 17, 1667. In 1771, Andre and Jeanne moved to the village of La Prairie with their first daughter, Marie Romaine, most likely because of his involvement in the fur trade.

Pierre Duquet de La Chesnaye (1643-1687) (8th great-uncle)
• Explorer, first Canadian-born royal notary, attorney-general, and seigneurial judge.
• 1663, Accompanied Guillaume Couture on expedition to the Northern Sea - reached the Rupert River.

François Pinsonneau dit Lafleur (1646-1731) (7th great-grandfather)
• a soldier in the Saint-Ours Company of the Carignan-Salières Regiment, arrived on the ship La Justice 14 September 1665.

Jean Baptiste Desroches (1621-1684) (8th great-grandfather)
• 1667, formed a trading company with Nicolas Perrot, Toussaint Baudry, and Isaac Nafrechoux. Together they traveled west to Ottawa Country, and to Green Bay in 1668.

André Mignier (Migner) (Meignier) dit Lagacé (1641-1727) (8th great-grandfather)
• a French Sharpshooter in the Berthier Company of the Carignan-Salières Regiment, arrived on the ship Le Brézé 30 June 1665.

Marguerite Leboeuf (1636-1671) (9th great-grandmother)
• 1665, ran a cabaret in Quebec, and was accused of adultery and of keeping a "maison close."
Marriage 1658 to Gabriel Lemieux (1626-1700)

Gabriel Lemieux (1626-1700) (9th great-grandfather)
• 1690, Voyageur and courier de bois to Michilimackinac and Sault Ste. Marie.

Jacques Leber (Lebert) dit Larose (1633-1706) (9th great-uncle)
• 1669-1687, partner in Lachine's first Fur Trading Post.
Marriage 1658 to Jeanne Le Moyne (1635-1682) (sister of Charles Le Moyne Sieur de Longueuil (1626-1685) his trading post partner.

Charles Le Moyne Sieur de Longueuil (1626-1685) (brother-in-law of 9th great-uncle)
• 1669-1687, partner in Lachine's first Fur Trading Post.

1670s - The Hudson Bay Company was chartered. They claimed all the lands that drained into Hudson Bay as their trading area. Their post were located on Hudson Bay and the Indians brought their furs there. About this time the Dakota Sioux attacked and drove the Huron and Ottawa out of the western Great Lakes. After this time many Frenchmen moved into the region and began trading directly with the Indians.

1670 - Jean-Baptiste Legardeur de Repentigny establishes Repentigny, Quebec.

1672 - Louis Buade de Frontenac becomes Governor of New France on April 7.

1673 - Marquette and Joliet used the Fox and Wisconsin rivers to reach the Mississippi. After this the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers became a major transportation route to the western trading regions.

1674 - Creation of the Roman Catholic diocese of Quebec. François de Laval is made Bishop.

1675 - The expression coureur des bois is coined to name those who bypass Royal officials and deal directly with the First Nations in the fur trade.

1675 - Arrival of the new intendant Jacques Duchesneau de la Doussinière et d'Ambault.

1679 - Daniel Greysolon, Sieur Du Luth used the Savannah Portage to reach the interior of Minnesota and Mille Lac. He claimed all the lands for France. He returned to Lake Superior and traveled up the northwest shore and built a post on the Kaministikquai River.

The Ojibwe were moving from eastern Lake Superior to the area around Chequamagon. They took the place of the departed Huron and Ottawa. They even allied themselves with the Dakota with whom they traded goods.

Pierre Peras dit La Fontaine (1616-1684) (9th great-grandfather) and his wife Denise Lemaitre
• 1670s, Pierre, his three sons and sons-in-laws involved in the fur trade as Coureurs des bois.

Pierre Poupart (8th great-grandfather) and his wife Marguerite Perras (8th great-grandmother)
• 1670, Voyageur for Daumont de Saint-Lusson and Nicolas Perrot when they claimed the Great Lakes for France.

1680s

1682 - Arrival of governor Joseph-Antoine Le Febvre de La Barre and intendant Jacques de Meulles

1682 - René Robert Cavalier de La Salle takes possession of the basin of the Mississippi river for the king of France.

1684 - Pierre-Esprit Radisson , a coureur de bois , is employed by Britain to explore the north for furs.

1685 - Jacques-René de Brisay, marquis de Denonville becomes governor of New France.

1685 - Louis XIV of France decrees the Code noir (Black Code) that ordered all Jews out of the French colonial empire , defined the rules for slavery ,
restricted the activities of free Negroes , and forbade the exercise of any religion other than Roman Catholicism.

1689 - Frontenac is reappointed governor of New France.

1689 - August 5. Fifteen hundred Iroquois warriors attack the settlement of Lachine, killing or torturing most if its inhabitants. This incident would become known as the Lachine massacre.

1689 - War broke out between France and England. It interrupted trade as far west as Minnesota.

Denise Lemaitre (1635-1691) (9th great-grandmother)
• AFT 1684, conducted fur trade with the Catholic Iroquois to make ends meet.
• 1691 Oct 29, in the village of Côte St-Lambert, she was killed and massacred by the Iroquois.

Francois Leber (Lebert) (1626-1694) (8th great-grandfather)
• 1688, voyageur to Ottawa Country. Francois and his three sons were Coureurs des bois and became known as the fathers of the fur trade.

Francois Bourassa (1659-1708) (7th great-grandfather)
• 1686, François Bourassa made a voyage to Hudson Bay for the Compagnie du Nord.
• 1688, René Legardeur, sieur de Beauvais, hired François Bourassa and Joachim Jacques Leber to make a voyage des 8ta8ats (Ottawa Indians).
• 1690 René Legardeur hired Pierre Bourdeau, André Babeu, François Bourassa, and Joachim Leber for a voyage to Michilimackinac.
• 1690, Pierre Bourdeau consented to a debt for merchandise from André Babeau, Joachim Leber, and François Bourassa, voyageurs, for their voyage to the Ottawa.

Marie Le Ber (1666-1756) (7th great-grandmother)
• her father Francois Leber was active in the fur trade. Marriage 1668 to Francois Bourassa.

Louis Duquet sieur Duverdier (1657-1691) (8th great-uncle)
• 1689, voyageur engagement de Louis Duquet Sr Duverdier et Louis Provencher au Sr Nicolas Perrot, Michililmackinac.

Jean Duquet dit Desrochers (1651-1710) (7th great-grandfather)
• 1680s "bourgeois" - headman of a fur brigade to pays d’en haut.

Anne Leber (1656-1694) (8th great-aunt)
• wife of Fur Traders in Albany, Nouvelle-Hollande (New York)
Marriage (1) 1672 to Jean Baptiste Barrois (1647-1689) (2) 1689 to Hillebrand Lootman (1650-1689)

Jean Baptiste Barrois (Lotman) dit Albrin (1650-1689)
• Fur Trader in Albany, Nouvelle-Hollande (New York)
Marriage 1689 to Anne Leber (1656-1694) in Nouvelle-Hollande

Joachim Jacques Leber (1664-1695) (8th great-uncle)
• 1685, Engagement of Joachim Lebert to noble man Claude Grizonneau (Greysolon), sieur de la Tourette, go to the 8ta8ats (Ottawas). Notary Bourgine.
• 1686, François Bourassa made a voyage to Hudson Bay for the Compagnie du Nord.
• 1688, René Legardeur, sieur de Beauvais, hired François Bourassa and Joachim Jacques Leber to make a voyage des 8ta8ats (Ottawa Indians).
• 1690 René Legardeur hired Pierre Bourdeau, André Babeu, François Bourassa, and Joachim Leber for a voyage to Michilimackinac.
• 1690, Pierre Bourdeau consented to a debt for merchandise from André Babeau, Joachim Leber, and François Bourassa, voyageurs, for their voyage to the Ottawa.
• 1692 captured and interrogated by Governor Benjamin Fletcher of New York, at Albany.

Daniel Joseph Amiot (Amyot) Dit Villeneuve (1665-1725) (8th great-uncle)
• 1686, took part in Henri de Tonti’s search for La Salle and descended the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.
• 1690, François Garconnes de Boisrondel/t, acting for François Daupin sieur de LaForest, hired Daniel Joseph Amiot, Joseph Bénard, Joseph Fafard, Louis Fafard frères, and Jean Lat for a voyage to the Illinois. Notary Antoine  Adhémar.
• Many more voyageur trips thru 1710. Marriage 1719 • Mackinac Island, Mackinac, Michigan to Domithilde Oukabe Nepveuouikabe LaFourche (1690-1782) daughter of an Ottawa chief. Death 1725 • Michillimackinac, Michigan, United States.

Laurent Barette (1666-1725) (8th great-uncle)
• 1686, voyageur to louisiana and the gulf of mexico with Henri De Tonty
• 1687, engagements of Dumay and Laurent Barette to La Forest, to go to Fort St. Louis in the country of the Illinois

Jacques Barette (1668-1691) (8th great-uncle)
• 1680s, reported to have been a voyageur and fur trader in Illinois.

Charles Marin Deneau dit Destaillis (1663-1708) (8th great-uncle)
• 1685, Antoine Bazinet hired Charles Deniau dit Destaillis (8 great uncle) for a voyage to Sault Ste. Marie. Notary Bourgine.

Jacques Deneau (Deniau) dit Destaillis (1660-1720) (7th great-grandfather)
• 1685, Antoine Bazinet hired Charles Deniau dit Destaillis for a voyage to Sault Ste. Marie . Notary Bourgine.
• 1688, 5 July, Claude Greysolon, Sieur de LaTourette, hired Charles Deniau and Jacques Deniau for a trip to the 8ta8ois (Ottawa Indians). Notary Antoine Adhémar.
• from: Minnesota, eh? -- Jacques Deneau, his brother Charles and a total of 19 Deneau family members are listed on 69 voyageur trips.

Jacques Nepveu (Neveu) (1667-1722) (1st cousin 9x removed) son of Denise Sevestre.
• 1684, Sep 27, Engagement by Henri de Tonty, governor of Fort St. Louis de la Louisianne under the authority of De La Salle, and two voyageurs, Jacques Nepveu (Neveu), and Anthoine Duquet Madri to go to Fort St. Louis.
• 1716, May 2, Engagement of Julien Baritteau, Jean Baptiste Neveu and Jacques Neveu to go to Détroit. Notary Adhémar.
• 1730, May 29, Engagement of Jacques Neveu and Charles Nolan Lamarque to go to Michilimackinac. Notary Adhémar.

Nicolas Desroches (1652-1737) 8th great-uncle
• 1682, François Hazeur, marchand, de Québec, engages Denis Turpin, Ignace, Hébert et Nicolas Desroches, for exploration and trade with 8ta8ats (Ottawa Indians).

Joseph Boyer (1669-_) (9th great-uncle)
• 1688, 3 July ‒ René Legardeur, sieur de Beauvais, hired Joseph Boyer (9 great uncle) for a voyage to the 8ta8ois (Ottawa Indians). Notary Antoine Adhémar.

1690s

1690 - Sir William Phips appears with several ships near L'Isle d'Orleans and demands the surrender of the Fort of Quebec. Frontenac refuses and Phips
withdraws.

1690 - July 2 : One-hundred Iroquois are attacked in the Battle of Coulée Grou resulting in Canadian pioneer Jean Grou and others being burned alive.

1690 - New France falls after losing 600 men in war.

1692 - Marie-Madeleine Jarret de Verchères becomes a hero in New France for defending a fort against the Iroquois while waiting for French Army reinforcements.

1696 - During King William’s War French troops seized the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and burned the city of St. John’s.

1696 - By Royal Edict, New France closed all its western fur posts. Trade was officially abandoned for 20 years. However, illegal traders kept up their operations.

1696 - René Lepage de Ste-Claire founded what will become the city of Rimouski later. He installed all his family in the Lower St. Lawrence. He obtained this Seigneurie from Augustin Rouer de la Cardonnière in exchange of a ground which he had on the Île d'Orléans.

1698 - Louis-Hector de Callière is made governor of New France after the death of Frontenac in November.

1699 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville establishes France 's first permanent settlement in Louisiana in what is now the southernmost portion of Alabama.

Antoine Jacques Boyer (1671-1747) (8th great-grandfather)
• 1690, Coureur de bois who bought land with 600 livres from the sale of beaver pelts. 
• 1694, Charles Legardeur, sieur de L’Isle, hired Antoine Boyer to make a voyage to the 8ta8ois (Ottawa Indians).

Jean Cusson (1630-1718) (9th great-grandfather)
• Jean Cusson had six sons, Jean, Michel, Charles, Ange, Nicolas and Joseph who were all active as fur-traders from 1690 to 1713. All having all received permission to travel to the west.
• 1690, Voyageur for Nicolas Perrot to the 8ta8ois (Ottawa Indians) 
• 1704, July 4, Jean Cusson's engagement to Jean Baptiste Bissot de Vincennes to go to the land of the Outaouais. Notary Michel Lepallieur.

Michel Cusson (1667-1690) (9th great-uncle)
• 1690, Nicolas Perrot hired Jean Cusson, and Michel Cusson, frères, for a voyage to the 8ta8ois (Ottawa Indians), notary Antoine Adhémar.
Antoine Duquet dit Madry (1660-1733) (8th great-uncle)
• 1691, voyageur engagement of Antoine Duquet dit Madry to François de Laforest, for a trip to Michililmackinac.

Moïse Dupuis (Depuis) (1673-1750) (7th great-grandfather)
• 1692, courier de bois and trader at Schenectady, NY)
• from "Narratives and ldentities in the Saint Lawrence Valley, 1667-1720": He was linked to large fur trading families, and may have been among the French who attacked Schenectady in 1692." He seems to have remained in Schenectady, either as a trader, a wounded soldier or as a prisoner, long enough to find a spouse.

Jacques Hugues Picard (1618-1707) (9th great-grandfather)
• 1693, Eustache Prévost, Jean Sauviot, and their unnamed associates hired Jacques Picard (9 great grandfather) to make a voyage to the 8ta8ois (Ottawa Indians), notary Antoine Adhémar.

Gabriel Lemieux (1663-1739) (8th great-grandfather)
• 1690, Voyageur and courier de bois to Michilimackinac and Sault Ste. Marie.
• 1692, Aug 9, Engagement by Joachim Germano, Notary Antoine Adhemar dit Saint-Martin.
• more from: Michigan’s Habitant Heritage (MHH), Vol. 35, #2, April 2014 - 17th Century Engagé Contracts to the Great Lakes and Beyond - 15 June 1690 to 23 May 1695 - Part 2:
Above: "19 August 1692, Joachim Germaneau hired Gabriel Lemieux and Laurent Glory dit LaBrière to make a voyage to the 8ta8ois (Ottawa Indians) specifically to Michilimackinac and Sault Ste. Marie [Antoine Adhémar"
• 1734, May 28, Ustache Gamelin hired Gabriel Lemieux  voyageur to go to poste des associes [Kamanistigouia???], notary Lepailleur de LaFerté)
• 1737, May 6, Engagement de Gabriel Lemieux à Charles Ruet Dauteuil pour faire le voyage au Détroit. Notary Lepallieur.

Jean Perras dit Lafontaine (1668-1736) (9th great-uncle)
• 1692 - Jacques de Lamarque, acting for Nicolas Laurens dit Lachapelle hired Jean Perras to make a voyage to the 8ta8ois (Ottawa Indians), notary Antoine Adhémar.
• 1694 - Charles Legardeur, sieur de L’Isle, hired Pierre Mallet, Pierre Tessier, Jean Brunet dit Létang, and Pierre Perras dit Lafontaine to make a voyage to Michilimackinac, notary Antoine Adhémar.

Antoine Martin dit Montpellier (1654-1715) (1st cousin 9x removed) son of Denise Sevestre.
• 1694, May 21, Louis Rouer de Villeray, acting for the ancient company of Jean Oudiette and Pierre Benac, in the name of Charles Catignon, reached an agreement with Antoine Martin dit Montpellier, of St Bernard, Charles Cadieux, of Beauport; Charles Neveu/Nepveu and François Dumesny, of Québec; to go to Michilimackinac to hunt for the furs that Nicolas Perrot had sent sieur Amiot (probably Daniel Joseph) to bring to the Jesuit warehouse in the name of Jacques Charles Patu/Pattu, manager of the ancient company of Oudiette. Source: Chambalon and Roy, Vol. 18, p. 72.
Charles Neveu/Nepveu (1671-1705) (1st cousin 9x removed) son of Denise Sevestre.
• 1694, May 21, Louis Rouer de Villeray, acting for the ancient company of Jean Oudiette and Pierre Benac, in the name of Charles Catignon, reached an agreement with Antoine Martin dit Montpellier, of St Bernard, Charles Cadieux, of Beauport; Charles Neveu/Nepveu and François Dumesny, of Québec; to go to Michilimackinac to hunt for the furs that Nicolas Perrot had sent sieur Amiot (probably Daniel Joseph) to bring to the Jesuit warehouse in the name of Jacques Charles Patu/Pattu, manager of the ancient company of Oudiette. Source: Chambalon and Roy, Vol. 18, p. 72.

René Dupuis (Dupays) (1671-1738) (8 great uncle)
• 1695, 3 June - Sieur Charles Deniau hired René Dupuis to make a voyage to the 8ta8ois (Ottawa Indians). Notary Claude Maugue.

Joseph Moreau (1672-1708) (9th great-uncle)
• 1693, Sep 11, Engagement of Joseph Moreau, voyageur, to Augustin Legardeur, Sr. de Courtemanche, to go the 8ta8ats (Ottawas). Notary Adhémar.
• 1694, Sep 14, Engagement of Mathurin Roy and Joseph Moreau to Jean-Baptiste Maret,, to go the 8ta8ats (Ottawas). Notary Adhémar.
• 1696, Joseph Moreau and Louis Durand engaged by Marie-Therese Guyon, the wife of Antoine de Lamothe-Cadillac to go to Michilimackinac.
• 1697, Joseph Moreau brought a lawsuit against Antoine de Lamothe-Cadillac and won.
• 1704, Jul 28, Engagement de Anthoine Pinard, de la Baye S'-Anthoine sur le lac S'-Pierre, Pierre Benoist dit La forest, des Trois-Rivières, An th. Salvay, de Saurel, René Beaujean, Pierre Desautels, de S'-Martin en cette île, Pierre Bou-gret Dufort, de Boucherville, Pierre Le Bœuf, de cette ville, Robert Rivard, Charles Le Scieur, Joseph Moreau, Jean Moreau, Franc. Frigon, Joseph Couturier, An th. Thunay Dufresne, Julien Le Scieur, Mathurin et Simon Rouillard, Joseph Rivard, de Batiscan, Louis Baribau, Ignace Guyon, Jean et Charles Ricard, Edmond Roy Chatellereau, Pierre Richer, de S'«-Anne, Anthoine Donnay, Pierre et Denys Bour-gerie, François Robert, Robert Lafontaine, Jacques et François de Noyons, Pierre Puybarreau de Boucherville, Albert Bosne Lafranchise de La Chine, Gaspard Maignan de Mouille Pied, Pierre Edeline, Jean Cadieux, de Longueuil, Jacques Cardinal, de la Coste S'-Pierre en cette lie, Adrien Senécal de Varennes, Pierre Mauriceau, de Repentigny, Jean David, de la Rivière Becancourt, Paul Dumouchel, Toussaint Dardenne, Jean et Jacques Campot, Pierre Garro Xaintonge, Jacques Vaudry, de cette ville, Michel Messier, Allexandre Petit du Cap S'-Michel, Jean Tousignan Lapointe, Ignace Le May, de Losbinières, Pierre Guignard Dollone, de Lanoray, Jacques Lemelin, des Grondines, Louis Fafart, Estienne Bosne, Jean Mandeville, de Berthier, Joseph Sarrasin, de Charlebourg, Pierre Villier, de Québec.


Jean Gabriel Picard (1669-1735) (9th great-uncle)
• 1691, Claude Greysolon, sieur de LaTourette, hired Jean Gabriel Picard to make a voyage to the 8ta8ois (Ottawa Indians). Notary Antoine Adhémar.
• 1718, Sep 26, Engagement of Gabriel Picard and Jean François L'arche to make a voyage to the 8ta8ois (Ottawa Indians). Notary Antoine Adhémar.

Joseph Farfard (Fafart) (1645-1666) (1st cousin 9x removed)
• 1690, 5 May, 7 May, and 8 May (four contracts), François Garconnes de Boisrondel/t, acting for François Daupin, sieur de LaForest, hired Daniel Joseph Amiot, Joseph Bénard, Joseph Fafard, Louis Fafard, frères, and Jean Lat for a voyage to the Illinois. Notary Antoine Adhémar.

Joseph Bénard dit Carignan (1662-1735) (1st cousin 9x removed)
• 1690, 5 May, 7 May, and 8 May (four contracts), François Garconnes de Boisrondel/t, acting for François Daupin, sieur de LaForest, hired Daniel Joseph Amiot, Joseph Bénard, Joseph Fafard, Louis Fafard, frères, and Jean Lat for a voyage to the Illinois. Notary Antoine Adhémar.

Francois Leber (1673-1746) (8th great-uncle)
• 1693, Voyageur to the 8ta8ois (Ottawa Indians.

Maurice Bénard dit Bourjoli (1666-1751) (1st cousin 9x removed)
• 1694, Amador Godefroy, sieur de St. Paul, and Antoine Lepellé hired Maurice Bénard dit Bourjoly for a voyage to the 8ta8ois (Ottawa Indians). Notary Antoine Adhémar.

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