Jean  CREVIER

1642 Birth
3 April 1642
Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

'Jean dit Bellerive et Saint-Francois (1642-1693), married Marguerite Hertel de la Fresniere in 1663. As the seigneur of Saint-Francois-du-Lac, he was harvesting with several of his habitants, in the fall of 1693, when they were set upon and captured by the Iroquois. They took the prisoners back to their base near Albany and proceeded to torture them. They tore out Creviers fingernails and were preparing to burn him at the stake when, Colonel Peter Schuyler, commander of Fort Albany, hearing the news, ransomed him for fifty louis: Crevier died in Albany from his ordeal soon thereafter.'

Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume VII, Pages 41-42

Biography
CREVIER DE SAINT-FRANÇOIS, JEAN, furtrader, a prominent person in the colony; b. 3 April 1642 at Trois-Rivières, son of Christophe Crevier dit La Meslée and Jeanne Énard; d. shortly after August 1693.

On 26 Nov. 1663, at Trois-Rivières, he married Marguerite, daughter of Jacques Hertel and Marie Marguerie. He fell foul of the law with respect to his fur-trading with the Indians who frequented Cap-de-la-Madeleine. He bought the Saint-François-du-Lac seigneury from his brother-in-law Pierre Boucher* in 1673. He obtained ordinances from the intendants Duchesneau and de Meulles*, forbidding anyone to hunt or fish throughout the area of his seigneury. He was one of the 20 principal settlers summoned to Quebec by Governor Buade de Frontenac on 26 Oct. 1678 to express their opinion on trading in spirits, and he voted in favour of it, attributing the crimes committed by the Indians to their savage disposition rather than to the use of liquor. He was carried off by the Iroquois during a...Read MORE...


Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003

1663 Marriage / Partner
Jean CREVIER and Marguerite HERTEL 26 November 1663 , Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

He was 21 years old.

1678 - Seigniory (St. Francois) Granted, Oct. 8, 1678, to Sieur Creviere
The seigneury of Saint-François, as sold by Pierre Boucher to Jean Crevier in 1673, had a frontage and a half leagues on the lake and a league deep inland. It extended on the left bank of the Saint-François river, but still included, on the right bank, along the Tardif channel, a strip where it touched the seigniory of Lussaudière. A few years later, in 1678, Jean Crevier had Governor Frontenac and Intendant Duchesneau grant him another league deep, behind his seigniory and also behind that of Lussaudière, i.e. two and a half leagues wide.
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1679 Birth of Child
Jean-Baptiste CREVIER dit DESCHENAUX was born 13 September 1679, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers)

Jean was 37 years old.

1683 Birth of Child
Marguerite CREVIER was born 18 September 1683, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Jean was 41 years old.

1686 Birth of Child
Marie-Anne CREVIER was born 25 July 1686, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Jean was 44 years old.

1690 Death of Child
Louis CREVIER died 27 March 1690, Salmon Falls, New England, USA

Jean was 48 years old.

1693 Death
12 April 1693
Albany, New York, USA (Fort Orange)

He died at the age of 51.