Jean BILODEAU
1677 A Concession from the Nursing Sisters to his Young Son

"ON 18 JULY 1677, OUR ANCESTOR (JACQUES BILLAUDEAU) WAS AGAIN AT QUÉBEC, THIS TIME IN THE PARLOUR OF THE CONVENT OF THE HOTEL-DIEU DE LA MISERICORDE DE JESUS. HE WAS ACCOMPANIED BY HIS NINE YEAR OLD SON JEAN. HE AND HIS BROTHER ANTOINE WERE EACH TO BE GIVEN A PIECE OF LAND "ON THE ILE DE SAINT-LAURENT FORMERLY CALLED ILE D'ORLÉANS". THESE CONCESSIONS CONSISTED OF THREE ARPENTS OF FRONTAGE ON THE RIVER, WITH A DEPTH EXTENDING TO THE CENTER OF THE ISLAND. THE LANDS WERE ADJACENT. THE NEIGHBORS WERE, ON ONE SIDE, JEAN GUYON DU BUISSON, AND ON THE OTHER SIDE, JEAN I PREMONT. THE TRANSACTION WAS CONCLUDED IN EACH CASE FOR AN ANNUAL RENT OF 60 SOLS IN SILVER AND THREE CAPONS. JEANNE-AGNES DE SAINT-PAUL, THE MOTHER SUPERIOR, AND JEANNE-FRANÇOISE DE SAINT-IGNACE, THE TREASURER, SIGNED THE DEEDS FOR THE NURSING SISTERS JEAN "BILLODAUX" SIGNED FOR HIMSELF (WHICH IS ASTONISHING, BECAUSE HIS PARENTS COULD NOT WRITE) THE BAILIFF GUILLAUME ROGER AND THE NOTARY BECQUET PLACED THEIR SIGNATURES."

SOURCE: OUR FRENCH-CANADIAN ANCESTORS BY THOMAS J. LAFOREST, VOLUME XIII



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