Antoine Jacques Boyer — Voyageur Grandfather

Antoine Jacques Boyer (1671-­1747) (8th great-­grandfather)

son of Charles Boyer (1631­-1698) and Marguerite Ténard (1645­-1678)

Birth 10 APR 1671 • La Prairie, Quebec, Canada

Death 27 MAR 1747 • La Prairie, Quebec, Canada

Marriage 1690 to Marie Perras (1673­-1736)

c1690s — Antoine was a coureur de bois who bought land with 600 livres from the sale of beaver pelts.

• 1694, 17 septembre.—Engagement de Anthoine {Antoine}Boyer au sr Le Gardeur de L’Isle pour faire le voyage des 8ta8ois {Ottawa Indian}—Étude Adhémar. 

English: 1694, September 17—Engagement of Anthoine {Antoine} Boyer to Sr. Le Gardeur de L'Isle for the voyage of the 8ta8ois {Ottawa Indians} -Notary Adhemar.

• 1737, 1er mai.—Engagement de Antoine Boyer aux srs Nicolas Rose et Jean Garreau pour faire le voyage à la Baye des Puants—Étude Lepallieur. 

English: 1737, May 1st.—Antoine Boyer's engagement to Sr. Nicolas Rose and Jean Garreau to make the trip to Baye des Puants {Green Bay}—Lepallieur Notary.

• 1742, 20 avril.—Engagement de Antoine Boyer à César Dagneau, sr de Quindre, pour aller au poste de la rivière St-Joseph—Étude Blanzy.

English: 1742, April 20.-Antoine Boyer's engagement to César Dagneau, Sr. of Quindre, to go to the post of the St. Joseph-Blanzy River.

• 1744, 3 mai.—Engagement de Antoine Boyer au sr Philippe Leduc et Compagnie pour aller au poste du lac Bourbon—Étude Porlier. 

English: 1744, May 3.—Engagement of Antoine Boyer with Sr. Philippe Leduc and Company to go to the post of *Lake Bourbon—Porlier Notary.

*Fort Bourbon was one of the forts built by La Vérendrye during his expansion of trade and exploration west from Lake Superior.

• 1746, 17 juin.—Engagement de Antoine Boyer à M' La Pérade pour aller au Détroit—Étude Simonnet.

English: 1746, June 17.—Antoine Boyer's cengagement to M 'La Pérade to go to *Strait—Simonnet Notary.

*Straits of Mackinac

• Ten members of the Boyer family, including Antoine Boyer are listed on 31 voyageur trips. These lists do not include the trips these same men made on their own as coureurs des bois.

I have been collecting documents and/or archive notes for my voyageur grandfathers, and will be posting new pages for each of them -- one grandfather at a time.  SEE: https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2019/01/timeline-of-my-french-canadian-great.html for my list of voyageur grandfathers.