Jean-Paul LEGARDEUR

(b. 4 October 1661 , Québec, Canada, New France d. abt. 1724 , Québec Province, Canada )

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Jean-Paul LEGARDEUR was born 4 October 1661 in Québec, Canada, New France

Jean-Paul LEGARDEUR was the child of Jean-Baptiste LEGARDEUR and Marguerite NICOLET and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre LEGARDEUR DE REPENTIGNY and Marie FAVERY DE POMEAU (maternal) Jean NICOLET and Marguerite COUILLARD

Jean-Paul LEGARDEUR died abt. 1724 in Québec Province, Canada.

Occupation: officer, fur-trader, interpreter, seigneur

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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Québec Généalogie - The Seigneurial System (1627 - 1854)
The seigneurial system was a form of land settlement modeled on the French feudal system. It began in New France in 1627 with the formation of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés (or Company of 100 Associates), which was initially responsible for handing out land grants and seigneurial rights. The land was divided into five by 15 kilometer plots, usually along major rivers like the St. Lawrence. They were then further subdivided into narrow, but long lots for settlement. These lots were usually long enough to be suitable for faming, and they provided everyone who lived on them with equal access to neighbouring farms and the river. There were three main groups of people who lived off the land in this system: Seigneurs, Habitants and Engagés

Jean-Paul LEGARDEUR was a seigneur.
Seigneurs were the most important colonists, as they were usually in the military or aristocracy prior to being a settler. These seigneurs then were charged with the task of subdividing large parcels of land into five by 15 kilometer concessions, then renting this land to a habitant. Under regulations set up by the French government in France, the seigneur could also set up a court of law, set up a mill on his land and organize a commune.

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1661 Birth
4 October 1661
Québec, Canada, New France

Baptism
Notre-Dame-de-Quebec
8 October 1661
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The French In North America: 1500-1783

Biography
LEGARDEUR DE SAINT-PIERRE, JEAN-PAUL, officer, fur-trader, interpreter, seigneur, son of Jean-Baptiste Legardeur de Repentigny and Marguerite Nicollet; b. at Quebec, 3 Oct. 1661; d. winter of 1722–23, probably at Chagouamigon (Chequamegon Bay in Lake Superior). Often confused with his brothers and cousins, he was usually referred to as Saint-Pierre or Sieur de Saint-Pierre.

In 1688 Saint-Pierre became an ensign, and for the rest of his life was prominent in military affairs. After 1690 most of his career was spent in the western country. He was at Fort Frontenac in 1689, however, and assisted in an attack on the Iroquois near Rivière des Prairies in 1695. Callière, Frontenac [Buade*], and Vaudreuil [Rigaud] consistently praised Saint-Pierre and gave him difficult missions in the west.

Saint-Pierre figured prominently in the Le Pesant affair in Detroit, 1706–7. Le Pesant, after instigating the Ottawa-Miami brawl at Detroit, fled to Michilimackinac. Saint-Pierre was instructed by...Read MORE...

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1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1666 Quebec
Jean Baptiste legardeur .....................34 escuyer sieur d'Arpentigny
demoiselle Marguerite Nicolet ...............22 sa femme
pierre Legardeur .............................8 fils
Jean paul legardeur ..........................4 fils
Augustin legardeur ...........................2 fils
Allexandre legardeur ....................3 mois fils
pierre Martin ...............................22 domestique
Et francois tourmente .......................13 aussy domestique
The first census of New France (1666)
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1698 - The steam engine is invented (Thomas Savery, England)

1715 - September 1 - Louis XV becomes King of France