Pierre LEGARDEUR DE REPENTIGNY

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10 March 1657 , Québec, Canada, New France

Died

18 November 1736 , Montréal, Canada, New France

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Jean-Baptiste LEGARDEUR Marguerite NICOLET

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Born: 10 March 1657 in Québec, Canada, New France

Father: Jean-Baptiste LEGARDEUR

Mother: Marguerite NICOLET

Paternal grandparents: Pierre LEGARDEUR DE REPENTIGNY , Marie FAVERY DE POMEAU

Maternal grandparents: Jean NICOLET , Marguerite COUILLARD

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Pierre married Agathe CHAMPOUX dite SAINT PERE 26 November 1685 in Repentigny, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Agathe CHAMPOUX dite SAINT PERE was born 27 February 1657 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Agathe was the child of Jean CHAMPOUX dit SAINT PERE and Mathurine GAUDET (GODET).

Pierre LEGARDEUR DE REPENTIGNY died 18 November 1736 in Montréal, Canada, New France .
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Recorded occupation: military officer and seigneur

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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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

Pierre LEGARDEUR DE REPENTIGNY 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)

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Pierre LEGARDEUR DE REPENTIGNY married

Agathe CHAMPOUX dite SAINT PERE
Marriage date: 26 November 1685
Marriage place: Repentigny, Canada, New France
Agathe CHAMPOUX dite SAINT PERE was the child of Jean CHAMPOUX dit SAINT PERE and Mathurine GAUDET (GODET)

Children of Pierre LEGARDEUR DE REPENTIGNY and Agathe CHAMPOUX dite SAINT PERE

Marie-Jeanne-Madeleine LEGARDEUR

Born: 31 January 1698, Montréal, Canada, New France
Died: 25 February 1739, Québec, Canada, New France

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Birth — 1657
10 March 1657
Québec, Canada, New France

Baptism
Pierre LeGardeur
10 March 1657
Notre-Dame-de-Québec
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Biography
LEGARDEUR DE REPENTIGNY, PIERRE, military officer and seigneur; b. 10 March 1657 at Quebec, eldest son of Jean-Baptiste Legardeur de Repentigny and Marguerite Nicollet; d. 18 Nov. 1736 at Montreal.

Pierre Legardeur de Repentigny began his military career as a “petty officer”; in 1685, after serving for some years in this capacity, he was made an ensign in the colonial regular troops; he is thought to have served as such for two years. In April 1687 he obtained a commission, granted by Brisay de Denonville, as a militia captain. It was probably in this capacity that he took part in the expedition against the Iroquois in the summer of 1687. In 1688 he received a commission as half-pay lieutenant which the king ratified on 16 March 1691.

At the time when the Iroquois were taking their revenge, spreading terror throughout the colony with the Lachine massacre, Denonville decided to abandon Fort Frontenac, which was vulnerable to Iroquois attacks. Legardeur de Repentigny offered his...Read full story

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

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)
The French In North America: 1500-1783

1685 Marriage / Partner
Pierre LEGARDEUR DE REPENTIGNY and Agathe CHAMPOUX dite SAINT PERE 26 November 1685, Repentigny, Québec, Canada (La Purification-de-Repentigny) (St-Paul-l'Hermite)

He was 28 years old.

1698 - The steam engine is invented (Thomas Savery, England)

1698 Birth of Child
Marie-Jeanne-Madeleine LEGARDEUR was born 31 January 1698, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

Pierre was 40 years old.

1715 - September 1 - Louis XV becomes King of France

1718 - Pierre LeGardeur, son of Jean-Baptiste, granted many lands to settlers mainly from Pointe-aux-Trembles.

Visit Repentigny, Québec, Canada (La Purification-de-Repentigny) (St-Paul-l'Hermite)

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1720 - June 10 - Mrs Clements of England markets first paste-style mustard