Jean
BOURDON
Born
abt. 1601
,
Rouen, France
Died
12 January 1668
,
Québec, Canada, New France
Parents & Family of Jean BOURDON
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Jean was an immigrant to Canada, arriving by 1634.
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Recorded occupation: seigneur, engineer, surveyor, cartographer, explorer, attorney-general in the Conseil Souverain
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 BOURDON 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.
Source: Canada in the Making (www.canadiana.ca/citm/index_e.html)
Spouses, Marriages & Children of Jean BOURDON
Jean BOURDON married 
Jacqueline POTEL
Marriage date: 9 November 1635
Marriage place: Québec, Canada, New France
Jacqueline POTELMarriage date: 9 November 1635
Marriage place: Québec, Canada, New France
Children of Jean BOURDON and Jacqueline POTEL
Jean-François BOURDON
Born: 2 February 1647, Québec, Canada, New France
Died: abt. 1690, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France
Died: abt. 1690, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France
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- Early 1600s–1760
- Canada, New France
- 1760–1763
- Canada
- 1763–1791
- Province of Québec
- 1791–1867
- Lower Canada
- 1867–present
- Québec, Canada
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BOURDON, JEAN (sometimes called M. de Saint-Jean or Sieur de Saint-François), seigneur, engineer, surveyor, cartographer, businessman, procurator-syndic of the village of Quebec, head clerk of the Communauté des Habitants, explorer, attorney-general in the Conseil Souverain; b. c. 1601 at Saint-André-le-Vieil in Rouen; d. 1668 at Quebec.
He arrived in the colony on 8 Aug. 1634, together with his friend Abbé Jean Le Sueur; he was a bachelor and had the title of engineer to the governor. As soon as he arrived he settled on the outskirts of Quebec, on the Sainte-Geneviève hill. On 5 April 1639 Governor Huault de Montmagny made him a commoner’s grant of the 50 acres of land that he had been occupying from the beginning, and that he had named “terre Saint-Jean.” He built a mill, and a chapel where his friend Jean Le Sueur was to officiate. Later, on 19 March 1661, the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France was to transform this first land concession into a noble fief.
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He arrived in the colony on 8 Aug. 1634, together with his friend Abbé Jean Le Sueur; he was a bachelor and had the title of engineer to the governor. As soon as he arrived he settled on the outskirts of Quebec, on the Sainte-Geneviève hill. On 5 April 1639 Governor Huault de Montmagny made him a commoner’s grant of the 50 acres of land that he had been occupying from the beginning, and that he had named “terre Saint-Jean.” He built a mill, and a chapel where his friend Jean Le Sueur was to officiate. Later, on 19 March 1661, the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France was to transform this first land concession into a noble fief.
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003
1635 Marriage / PartnerJean BOURDON and Jacqueline POTEL 9 November 1635, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
It was in 1637 that Jean Bourdon, the engineer – surveyor and cartographer, and Jacqueline Potel, his first wife, received part of Agochonda and named it d’Autray.
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grandquebec.com
grandquebec.com
1637 Birth of ChildJacques BOURDON was born 26 March 1637, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1638 Birth of ChildGeneviève BOURDON was born 24 November 1638, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1640 Birth of ChildMarie BOURDON was born 18 October 1640, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1642 Birth of ChildMarguerite BOURDON was born 12 October 1642, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1644 Birth of ChildAnne BOURDON was born 28 August 1644, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1647 Birth of ChildJean-François BOURDON was born 2 February 1647, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
www.mcq.org/ histoire/ filles_du_roi/ imgbourdon.html
1650 Birth of ChildHenri BOURDON was born 11 January 1650, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1652 Birth of ChildJacques BOURDON was born 30 September 1652, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
1654 Death of Spouse/PartnerJacqueline POTEL died 11 September 1654, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)
Death — 166812 January 1668
Québec, Canada, New France
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