Geneviève HAYOT (AYOTTE)
Misc

"(1) A small "breaktrough" about Gabriel's last days comes from a document filed by Notary Barbel on behalf of Gabriel's widow, Genevieve Hayot, dated Dec 12, 1709. In her renunciation of debts, she notes that "her deceased husband having died in the service of deceased Monsieur Hazeur about five years ago." That would be Francois Hazeur who held the lease on the Tadoussac Region. Thus, it seems that Gabriel died while working at a post in the region or while on an expedition there on behalf of Francois Hazeur, and not while on an independent trading expedition. Good additional detail and a confirmation, of sorts, of his last days being in the Tadoussac region.

(2) In the same document, Genevieve notes that she owns "a 'mechant' (no-good) habitation located in the seigneury of d'Autray, which they had to abandon as much because the Iroquois killed all of their animals as because of a fire that happened to them." Interesting. Gabriel and his family left d'Autray in 1696, during the troubled years before the Indian peace of 1701. This is the first specific information of Gabriel and his family being a victim of the Iroquois raids. A later survey of 1724 shows that the widow and heirs of Gabriel Berard still own a farm at d'Autray.

(3) Gabriel's son, Gabriel fils (b. 1681) was later hired, on Sept 17, 1710, by Joseph Riverin (brother of Denis Riverin who was now living in France), who had acquired a sublease of the Tadoussac Region, to manage the Tadoussac Trading post for 4 years (Notary Chambalon). Riverin, on Sept 20 and Oct 24, also Notary Chambalon, hired workers to help Gabriel jr. at the post. Seems that Gabriel fils (jr.) carried on where his father left off.

During those 4 years managing the Tadoussac Post, Gabriel fils also spent much time in Neuville. He took possession of the family Neuville farm in 1711, attended a baptism in 1712, married in 1713 and his 1st child was born in early 1714. All of these transactions, though, were in the fall and winter months, when the post was much less active."

Source: boards.ancestry.com/ surnames.berard/ 163.1/ mb.ashx



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