Pierre
JARRET DE VERCHÈRES
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Born: abt. 1679 in Verchères, Canada, New France
Pierre JARRET DE VERCHÈRES died 29 August 1708 in Haverhill, Province of Massachusetts Bay .
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changesFrom 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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JARRET DE VERCHÈRES, PIERRE, officer; b. 1679 or 1680 at Verchères (Canada); son of François Jarret de Verchères and Marie Perrot; killed 1708.
His family came from the province of Dauphiné. An attempt has been made, wrongly, to link him with the Verchères de La Réole, from the region of Bordeaux. Pierre Jarret de Verchères’ father, who was born in 1641, was the son of Jean Jarret and Claudine Pécaudy, of, Saint-Chef, near the hamlet of Verchères in the archbishopric of Vienne. François arrived in New France at the age of 24 with the Carignan-Salières regiment, as an ensign in the company of his uncle, Antoine Pécaudy de Contrecœur. When the regiment was recalled to France in 1667, the young soldier decided to make his home in Canada, in accordance with the wish of the king, Louis XIV, who encouraged the settling of soldiers in the colony to increase the safety of its population. Two years later, on 16 Sept. 1669, at Sainte-Famille (Île d’Orléans), he married a young girl of...Read full story
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003
Death — 170829 August 1708
Haverhill, Province of Massachusetts Bay
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Last updated: 4/21/2016 4:32:19 PM
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