Recorded occupation:officer, fur-trader, interpreter, seigneur
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-Paul LEGARDEUR 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.
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LEGARDEUR DE SAINT-PIERRE, JEAN-PAUL, officer, fur-trader, interpreter, seigneur, son of Jean-Baptiste Legardeur de Repentigny and Marguerite Nicollet; b. at Quebec, 3 Oct. 1661; d. winter of 1722–23, probably at Chagouamigon (Chequamegon Bay in Lake Superior). Often confused with his brothers and cousins, he was usually referred to as Saint-Pierre or Sieur de Saint-Pierre.
In 1688 Saint-Pierre became an ensign, and for the rest of his life was prominent in military affairs. After 1690 most of his career was spent in the western country. He was at Fort Frontenac in 1689, however, and assisted in an attack on the Iroquois near Rivière des Prairies in 1695. Callière, Frontenac [Buade*], and Vaudreuil [Rigaud] consistently praised Saint-Pierre and gave him difficult missions in the west.
Saint-Pierre figured prominently in the Le Pesant affair in Detroit, 1706–7. Le Pesant, after instigating the Ottawa-Miami brawl at Detroit, fled to Michilimackinac. Saint-Pierre was instructed by
Birth — 1661 4 October 1661 Québec, Canada, New France
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
Jean-Paul
LEGARDEUR
Québec Généalogie - The Seigneurial System (1627 - 1854)
Birth — 1661
1715 - September 1 - Louis XV becomes King of France
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