René DAMOUR (D'AMOURS)

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8 August 1660 , Québec, Canada, New France

Died

13 November 1710 , Acadia

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Mathieu DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) dit DESCHAUFOURS Marie-Marguerite MARSOLET

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Born: 8 August 1660 in Québec, Canada, New France

Father: Mathieu DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) dit DESCHAUFOURS

Mother: Marie-Marguerite MARSOLET

Paternal grandparents: Louis DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) , Elisabeth TESSIER

Maternal grandparents: Nicolas MARSOLET , Marie BARBIER

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René married Françoise-Charlotte LEGARDEUR 13 October 1689 in Québec, Canada, New France . Françoise-Charlotte LEGARDEUR was born 8 October 1670 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Françoise-Charlotte died 7 April 1706 in Laval, Québec, Canada (Saint François-de-Sales-de-l'Ile-Jésus). Françoise-Charlotte was the child of Charles LEGARDEUR and Geneviève JUCHEREAU.

René DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) died 13 November 1710 in Acadia.
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Recorded occupation: seigneur, and fur-trader

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

René DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) 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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Françoise-Charlotte LEGARDEUR
Marriage date: 13 October 1689
Marriage place: Québec, Canada, New France
Françoise-Charlotte LEGARDEUR was the child of Charles LEGARDEUR and Geneviève JUCHEREAU

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Birth — 1660
8 August 1660
Québec, Canada, New France

Baptism
Notre-Dame-de-Quebec
9 August 1660
Rene Damours
Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
The French In North America: 1500-1783

Biography
DAMOURS (d’Amours) DE CLIGNANCOUR, RENÉ, seigneur, and fur-trader; baptized 9 Aug. 1660 at Quebec, the son of Mathieu Damours* de Chauffours and Marie Marsolet; fl. 1684–1710.

On 20 Sept. 1684, René Damours received a grant of land in Acadia extending along both banks of the Saint John River from Medoctec (Meductic) to Grand-Sault (Grand Falls), a distance of over ninety miles. He devoted less attention than his brothers to farming, clearing only 15 acres in a dozen years. He seems to have preferred trade with the Indians, and it is believed that he kept retainers for this purpose at Medoctec, the largest Indian village on the Saint John. Some of the charges of licentiousness and failure to clear land, levelled by Governor Robinau* de Villebon against the Damours brothers, may have been true in René’s case during his first years on the Saint John, but positive proof is lacking.

On 13 Oct. 1689 at Quebec, Damours married Françoise-Charlotte, daughter of Charles Legardeur* de...Read full story

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

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1666 Quebec
Mathieu d'Amours, esr. Sr. de Chauffour......48 Coner aud. Coel.
demoiselle Marie Marsollet ..................29 sa femme
Louis d'Amours ..............................11 fils
Mathieu d'Amours ............................10 fils
Isabeau d'Amours .............................8 fille
René d'Amours ................................6 fils
Charles d'Amours .............................5 fils
Claude Louis d'Amours ...................3 mois fils
André Parmentier ............................25 chandelier Engaigé marié en France
Et Pierre Lonnac.............................22 Engaigé domestique
The first census of New France (1666)
The French In North America: 1500-1783

1689 Marriage / Partner
René DAMOUR (D'AMOURS) and Françoise-Charlotte LEGARDEUR 13 October 1689, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

He was 29 years old.

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