Jean Cusson — Voyageur Grandfather

Jean Cusson (1630-1718) (9th great-grandfather)

son of Jean Cusson (1605-1656) and Jacqueline Pepin (1606-1663)

Birth 1630-11-11 • Ste-Marguerite, Rouen, Normandie, France

Death 1718-04-08 • St-Sulpice, Québec, Canada

Marriage 1656 to Marie Foubert (1640-1715)

• Jean Cusson had six sons, Jean, Michel, Charles, Ange, Nicolas and Joseph who were all active as fur-traders from 1690 to 1745. All having all received permission to travel to the west.  See: http://laprairie-voyageur-canoes.blogspot.com/2017/03/ripples-chapter-four-cusson-family.html

• Jean Cusson and Marie Foubert had 15 children. Six of his sons, Jean, Michel, Charles, Ange, Nicolas and Joseph were all active as fur-traders from 1690 to 1745, having all received permission to travel to the west. The west, in this case, was probably no further than the Great Lakes. 

To control the fur trading and collect appropriate taxes, the French government issued passports (permits), a form of license. They were difficult to acquire since in many years, only 25 were issued. To conduct fur trading or to travel west without a passport was considered illegal and subject to punishment, most often fines or the confiscation of furs.

They travelled with Nicolas Perrot and Bissot de Vincennes, noted fur-traders and interpreters, to distant places like Indiana, passing by Detroit, Lake Erie and Lake Superior.

From Trails of the Pathfinders by George Bird Grinnell, 1911

• 1690, 11 mai.—Engagement de Jean et Michel Cusson frères au sr Nicolas Perrot pour faire le voyage des 8ta8ois—Étude Adhémar. 

SOURCE: Archives de Quebec — Notary ANTOINE ADHEMAR (original file).

* Also from the biography of Nicolas Perrot (c.1644–1717), a French explorer, fur trader we find, "In 1690, Nicolas Perrot and Louis de la Porte de Louvigny (commander of Michilimackinac 1690-1694) led a vital supply convoy from Montreal to Michilimackinac. 

Their success in breaking the Iroquois blockade of the Ottawa River and in resupplying the western Indians loyal to the French may have saved New France from the Five Nations."

• 1704, July 4, Jean Cusson's engagement to Jean Baptiste Bissot de Vincennes to go to the land of the Outaouais. Notary Michel Lepallieur.

(1929-30) Archives de Quebec (1670-1745)  P209

LINEAGE:

Jean Cusson (1630 - 1718) -- 9th great-grandfather

Marie Cusson (1658 - 1732) -- Daughter of Jean Cusson

Marie Rivet (1673 - 1705) -- Daughter of Marie Cusson

Marie Francoise Deneau (1698 - 1751) -- Daughter of Marie Rivet

Marie Madeleine Duquet (1734 - 1791) -- Daughter of Marie Francoise Deneau

Gabriel Pinsonneau (Pinsono) (1770 - 1807) -- Son of Marie Madeleine Duquet

Gabriel Pinsonneau (1803 - 1877) -- Son of Gabriel Pinsonneau (Pinsono)

Lucy Pinsonneau (aka PASSINO) (1836 - 1917) -- Daughter of Gabriel Pinsonneau -- 2nd great-grandmother

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.