Jacques Hugues Picard dit Lafortune — Voyageur Grandfather

Jacques Hugues Picard dit Lafortune (1618-1707) 9th great-grandfather

son of Gabriel Picard dit LaFortune (1590-1660) and Michelle Clavier (1598-1660)

Birth ABT 1618 • St Columbin, Nantes, Bretagne, France

Death 22 DEC 1707 • Our Lady of Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Marriage 1660 to Antoinette Liercourt (1634-1707)

• 1653, arrived as part of La Grande Recrue de Montréal

• 1677, voyageur transporting goods to Fort Frontenac…

Frontenac took a census of Fort Frontenac: 7 September 1677 – Frontenac took a census of Fort Frontenac. Many of the men who would accompany La Salle on his future voyages were residents of the Fort. By this time, La Salle had made most of his improvements to the fort. Following are names of the individuals recorded in the census: La Salle (governor), François Daupin, sieur de LaForest (major), Louis Hennepin (a Récollet), Luc Buisset (a Récollet), Sieur Jean Péré. Soldiers: La Fleur (sergeant), Duplessis, La Boise, Jean Baptiste Fafard dit Macons/Macouce, Meunier/Meusnier dit Laliberté, Jean Michel, André Hunault, Deslauriers, Antoine Brossard (ordered to go to meet the Onondaga), Lévéille (gone down to Montréal to bring up the carpenter disembarked lately), Gabriel Barbier dit LeMinime/Mimine (ordered into the brigantine), Jacques Bourdon, sieur d’Autray (ordered into the brigantine), Maheu (ordered into the brigantine), Jean la Rouxelière/ Rouxcel de Larousselière (surgeon absent on duty), Cauchois/Cochois (a servant of sieur de La Salle, ordered into the brigantine), Fontaine (a pilot of the barque called Le Frontenac). Workers: Olivier Quesnel (an armorer), Moïse Hilaret (ship’s carpenter gone down to make a shallop in Lac St. Sacrament), Jean Fontaine (ship’s carpenter gone down to make a shallop in Lac St. Sacrament), Laforge (the blacksmith gone to take them), Pierre Lecellier, Jolycoeur, Louis Méline, Jean Baptiste Brossard, Dubois (tailor gone down to Montréal ten days ago, sick), Joseph (joiner gone down to Montréal ten days ago, sick), Louis Douceregnié, Larose/La Rosée (mason), Jean Baptiste Caron/Colon/Coron dit La Violette de Paris (mason), Thomas Brésil (mason), René Gervais (mason), Pierre Perrault/Perot (carpenter), Pierre Perrault/Perot (his son), Jean Barraud, Antoine Alain. Habitants: Curaillon, Jean Michaud (has his wife and four children), Jacques de LaMétairie, Mathurin Grégoire (wife and three children). In addition to the individuals named in the census, the following men brought supplies to Fort Frontenac: Lavigne, Bourbonnais, Charles Diel, [Jacques Hugues? not stated] Picard, Pigoret, Larivière de Tours, Charles Ptolomée, Nicolas Bonhomme, Nicolas Gagné/Gaigner, Laforge, and Charlier.44 

Source: French-Canadian Exploration, Missionary Work, and Fur Trading in Hudson Bay, the Great Lakes, and Mississippi Valley During the 17th Century – Part 6 – 1674 to December 1681 Diane Wolford Sheppard© 2010, 2014, FCHSM member (bluecolumbine@comcast.net) 

• 1688, 23 Jul - Jacques Hugues Picard engagement to Francois Balan dit Biron. No destination was given.

In the 1690s it appears that Hugues Picard is acting as a merchant trader and is hiring voyageurs. The archives of Quebec also list records of Jean-Gabriel and Jacques, two of his sons, engaged as voyageurs. 

• 1691, avril 29, Engagement de Jean Pottier à Hugues Picard—Antoine Adhémar.

1691, 29 Apr Engagement of Jean Pothier to Hugues Picard—Antoine Adhémar. P140

• 1691, 4 nov Engagement de Toussaint Pothier à Hugues Picard—Antoine Adhémar.

1691, 4 Nov, Engagement of Toussaint Pothier to Hugues Picard—Antoine Adhémar. P148

• 1693, 29 Apr — Eustache Prévost (1), Jean Sauviot, and their unnamed associates hired Jacques Picard to make a voyage to the 8ta8ois (Ottawa Indians), notary Antoine Adhémar. P200

(1693, 29 avril.—Engagement de Jacques Picard à Eustache Prévost, Jean Sauviot et autres associés, pour faire le voyage des 8ta8ois—Étude Adhémar.) 

(1) Eustache Prévost soldier (compagnie de La Motte) régiment de Carignan.  One of the fourteen trading colleagues, Eustache Prévost, hailed from Contrecoeur, which was located about halfway between Trois-Rivières and Montreal. According to researcher and author Timothy Kent he was a trading partner with Jean Dupuis and Antoine Bazinet.

LINEAGE:

Jacques-Hugues Picard dit Lafortune (1618 - 1707) -- 9th great-grandfather

Marie Anne Picard (1663 - 1697) -- Daughter of Jacques-Hugues Picard dit Lafortune

Charles Diel (1688 - 1734) -- Son of Marie Anne Picard

Marie Anne Diel (1727 - 1760) -- Daughter of Charles Diel

Marie Anne Dupuis (1753 - 1807) -- Daughter of Marie Anne Diel

Marie Angelique Barette dit Courville (1779 - 1815) -- Daughter of Marie Anne Dupuis

Marie Emélie Meunier Lagacé (1808 - 1883) -- Daughter of Marie Angelique Barette dit Courville

Lucy Pinsonneau (aka Passino) (1836 - 1917) -- Daughter of Marie Emélie Meunier Lagacé — 2nd great-grandmother