François-Joseph BISSOT

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19 May 1673 , Québec Province, Canada

Died

11 December 1737 , Québec, Canada, New France

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François BISSOT DE LA RIVIÈRE Marie COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY

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Born: 19 May 1673 in Québec Province, Canada

Father: François BISSOT DE LA RIVIÈRE

Mother: Marie COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY

Maternal grandparents: Guillaume COUILLARD DE L'ESPINAY , Marie-Guillemette HÉBERT

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François-Joseph married Marie LAMBERT 4 February 1698 in Québec, Canada, New France . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie LAMBERT was born 3 March 1682 in Contrecœur, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Trinité-de-Contrecoeur). Marie died 3 May 1745 in Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City). Marie was the child of Eustache LAMBERT and Marie Sophia VANNECK.

François-Joseph BISSOT died 11 December 1737 in Québec, Canada, New France .
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Recorded occupation: merchant and navigator, bourgeois of Quebec, co-seigneur of Mingan

A marchand, or merchant, was a trader who sold a specific type of merchandise or product. Merchants handled most of the supply and distribution of products that came from Europe.
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From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
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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

François-Joseph BISSOT 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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François-Joseph BISSOT married

Marie LAMBERT
Marriage date: 4 February 1698
Marriage place: Québec, Canada, New France
Marie LAMBERT was the child of Eustache LAMBERT and Marie Sophia VANNECK

Children of François-Joseph BISSOT and Marie LAMBERT

Charlotte BISSOT

Born: 30 April 1704, Québec, Canada, New France
Died: 21 November 1749, Québec, Canada, New France

Married: Jacques LAFONTAINE 24 October 1728 Place: Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

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Birth — 1673
19 May 1673
Québec Province, Canada

Biography
BISSOT, FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH, merchant and navigator, bourgeois of Quebec, co-seigneur of Mingan; b. 19 May 1673, son of François Byssot* de La Rivière and Marie Couillard; d. 11 Dec. 1737 at Quebec.

François-Joseph Bissot is known to us particularly through his efforts to develop the land grant of Mingan, which his father had received from the Compagnie des Cent-Associés in 1661 and which extended from “Île aux Œufs . . . as far as Sept-Îles and into Grande Anse, towards the Esquimaux country where the Spaniards usually fish.” On 9 Nov. 1695 he formed a company with Louis Jolliet* and his wife Claire-Françoise Bissot, Charles Jolliet, and Charles-François Bissot, to trade at Mingan for five years, but by the following year Jolliet was working alone there.

Bissot nonetheless spent several years at Mingan: at least two of his children were born there, in 1716 and 1718. He hunted seal and traded with the Indians, endeavouring, as he was later to emphasize to the minister, to make...Read full story

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