Jean-Baptiste Meunier (Mignier, Minier) Lagasse (Lagacé) (1776-1835) (4th great-grandfather)
son of Jean-Baptiste Mignier (Meunier) Lagasse (Lagace) (1749-1828) and Marie Judith Gravel Brindeliere (1757-1779)
Birth 24 APR 1776 • Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada
Death BEFORE 1835 • St-Laurent (St-Laurent), Québec
Marriage 1799 to Marie Angelique Baret (Barette) dit Courville (1779-1815)
• 1800, Feb 14, James & Andrew McGill hired Jean-Baptiste Meunier voyageur de Chambly to go to Mississippi, and spend the winter, notary Louis Chaboillez.
Length of Contract: 1
Parish (Standardized): Chambly
Destinations: DEPENDANCES DU MISSISSIPPI (LE NORD EXCEPTÉ)
Functions: MILIEU
Company Representative: JAMES & ANDREW MCGILL [aka North West Company]
Notary Name: Louis Chaboillez
Wages: 500 LIVRES
Advance at Signing: 30
Contract Notes: DEUX COUVERTES DE 2 1/2 POINTS & DE TROIS POINTS, 6 AUNE DE COTTON, 2 PR. DE SOULIER, 1 COLLIER - S’OBLIGE DE CONTRIBUER AU FOND DES VOYAGEURS
[English]: TWO COVERS OF 2 1/2 POINTS & THREE POINTS, 6 COTTON AUNE, 2 PR. OF SOULIER, 1 NECKLACE - OBLIGATES TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE BACKGROUND OF TRAVELERS. The translation doesn’t make sense, maybe they are blankets and trade beads for his own trade? Perhaps he had been to this area at an earlier date with his father?
Archive Source: BANQ, Greffes de notaires, Microfilm Number: M620/1200
• 1803, Oct 6, McTavish, Frobisher & Co. (North West Company) hired Jean-Baptiste Meunier voyageur de St-André-d’Argenteuil to go to Lac De La Pluie (Rainy Lake), notary Louis Chaboillez). From the Archives of Quebec.
CONTRACT NOTES (ABOVE):
Last Name Standardized: MEUNIER
Given Names: Jean-Baptiste
Contract Date: 1803, Oct 6
Contract Place: Montréal
Parish: Eboulies
Parish (Standardized): St-André-d’Argenteuil
Destinations: LAC DE LA PLUIE [aka Rainy Lake]
Functions: MILIEU
Function Notes: passer par Michilimakinac s’il en est requis, faire deux voyages du Fort de Kamanatiguià au Portage de la Montagne, et donner six jours de corvée - et aider à porter les Canots à trois dans les terres
[English]: go through Michilimakinac if required, make two trips from Kamanatiguia Fort to Portage de la Montagne, and give six days of drudgery, and help carry the three canoes in the land.
Merchant Company: MCTAVISH, FROBISHER & CO. [aka North West Company]
Notary Name: Chaboillez, Louis
Wages: 450 LIVRES
Advance at Signing: 150 LIVRES
Contract Notes: équipement ordinaire - s’oblige de contribuer d’un par cent sur ses gages pour le Fonds des Voyageurs - payer au dit engagé un mois après son retour à Montréal, de laquelle somme cent cinquante livres est pour le voyage de Kamanitiguiâ au Lac de la Pluie - aura trente livres dans le mois de Decembre
[English]: ordinary equipment - undertakes to contribute one per cent on his wages for the Voyageurs Fund - to pay to the said hired one month after his return to Montreal, of which one hundred and fifty pounds is for the trip from Kamanitiguia to Lac de la Rain - will have thirty pounds in the month of December.
Archive Source: BANQ, Greffes de notaires, Microfilm Number: M620/1201
.• 1803, 6 octobre—Engagement de Jean-Bte Meunier, des Eboulies, A McTavlsh Froblsher G Co. pour aller au Lac de la Pluie.—Étude Ls Chaboillez.
• 1816, Feb 21, Jean Mignier Engagement to Jean Bte Cadieu. I’m not 100% sure this is our grandfather.
This original notary page predates the Notary Records published later, and I could not locate this file in the (1945-46) Archives of Quebec (1805-1821) pages 227-340.
NOTES:
Name Jn Mignier
Record Date 21 Févr 1816
Record Place Beauharnois, Québec, Canada
Notary François-Georges Lepailleur
Notarial Act Number 1432
Record Description Engagement
Others Name: Jean Bte Cadieu
LINEAGE:
Jean-Baptiste Meunier Lagacé (1776 - 1840) -- 4th great-grandfather
Marie Emélie Meunier Lagacé (1808 - 1883) -- Daughter of Jean-Baptiste Meunier Lagacé
Lucy Pinsonneau (aka Passino) (1836 - 1917) -- Daughter of Marie Emélie Meunier Lagacé -- 2nd great-grandmother
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