Jean-François BOURDON

Born

2 February 1647 , Québec, Canada, New France

Died

abt. 1690 , La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France

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Jean BOURDON

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Jacqueline POTEL

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Baptism

Jean Francois Bourdon
2 February 1647
Notre-Dame-de-Quebec

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Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Biography

BOURDON DE DOMBOURG, JEAN-FRANÇOIS, seigneur and ship’s captain; baptized 2 Feb. 1647 in Quebec, son of Jean Bourdon, a seigneur and engineer-surveyor, and Jacquelin Potel; d. 1690 at La Rochelle.

Upon finishing his studies at the Jesuit college, he chose to be a sailor and became a captain in the merchant marine. His career led him to give up his rights to his father’s property, which he could not work. On 28 Aug. 1677 he let the Sieur Bazire, a Quebec bourgeois and merchant, have for 3,000 livres the share that he had inherited of the fiefs of Saint-Jean and Saint-François. On 12 Nov. 1680 he sold his seigneury of Dombourg to Nicolas Dupont*, Sieur de Neuville. It was probably at this time that he decided to go to live in France.

He settled at La Rochelle, where he married, on 1 April 1687, Jeanne Janier. Every year he sailed between Canada and La Rochelle, which was in control of trade with New France at that time. From there sailed the king’s ship and those of the merchants,

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