Jacques Archambault
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Jacques Archambault (1605 - 1688)

Jacques Archambault
Born in Lardillière, Dompierre-sur-Mer, Aunis, Francemap
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married about 1629 in Poitou, Francemap
Husband of — married 6 Jun 1666 in Trois-Rivières, Canada, Nouvelle-Francemap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 83 in Ville-Marie, Canada, Nouvelle Francemap
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Biographie

Jacques Archambault a des origines françaises.

Jacques Archambault (~1605 - 1688)

Père et mère:
Il est le fils d'Antoine Archambault et d'Renée Ouvrard.[1]

Naissance:
Vers 1605, il naît à L'Ardillière, près de Dompierre-sur-Mer, évêché de La Rochelle, en Aunis (Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes), France.

1° Mariage:
Vers 1629 en France, Jacques Archambault âgé de ~24 ans épouse Françoise Tourault âgée de ~30 ans, fille de François Toureau et de Marthe Noire dite Noël.

Enfants connus / Known children: Jacques Archambault & Françoise Tourault

  1. Denis Archambault (1630 - 1651)
  2. Jacquette Archambault (1630 - 1700)
  3. Anne Archambault (1632 - 1699)
  4. Marie Archambault (1636 - 1719)
  5. Marie Anne Archambault (1638 – 1685)
  6. Louise Archambault (1640 - ) Sa fille Louise est baptisé le 18 mars 1640.[1]
  7. Laurent Archambault (1642 - 1730)
  8. Marie Anne Archambault (abt.1644-1685)

Migration en Nouvelle-France:
Vers 1645, il immigre en Nouvelle-France avec son épouse et 6 de ses enfants; première mention au pays: 1646. Il est laboureur et vigneron.

Le 6 mai 1651, à Ville-Marie, Île de Montréal, Canada, Jacques Archambault et Charles Le Moyne se portent au secours de deux colons, dont un certain Jean Chicot, surpris par une dizaine de maraudeurs Iroquois. Une balle perce la coiffure de Le Moyne et les Iroquois scalpent Chicot, lui arrachant un morceau de crâne dans leur hâte; celui-ci devait survivre seize ans à sa cruelle expérience.[2]

On comprendra qu'en face d'autant de déprédations de la part des Iroquois, le sieur de Maisonneuve ait voulu retenir les colons déjà installés. Il décida de leur verser des allocations allant de 400 à 1000 livres tournois, à la condition de s'engager à persévérer dans la mise en valeur de leur concession. Dès le 15 janvier 1654, Jacques Archambault et son gendre s'y engageaient.[3]

Le 18 septembre 1651, il obtient une concession de 30 arpents joignant les terres réservées pour la ville, à Ville-Marie.[4] [5] Ville-Marie n'existait que depuis neuf ans lorsque, le 18 septembre 1651, on lui octroya une concession de 30 arpents "joignant les terres réservées pour la ville". Or, le même jour, son gendre, Urbain Tessier dit Lavigne, se voyait octroyer une terre de même superficie, jouxtant la première, côté ouest. Sept ans plus tard, côté est,[6] il allait avoir pour voisin immédiat nul autre que Lambert Closse, le major de Ville-Marie.[4][7]

Le 28 octobre 1652, Jacques Archambault est présent au mariage d'Anne Hayot avec Étienne de Nevers dit Bretigny à l'église Notre-Dame de Québec: Acte de mariage: Le 28 oct 1652. après publication de deux bancs de mariage le 29 de Sept et le 6 d'oct et dispense obtenu pour le troisième, ne s'étant trouvé aucun empêchement, le Père le R.P.Pierre Bailloguet à ce député, a interrogé Estienne Tenevers fils d'Estienne Tennevere et d'Agnès Luosbisec ses père et mère de la paroisse d'Espinay en Champagne; Et Anne Hayaut fille de Thomas Hayot et de Janne Boucher ses père et mère habitant de ce pays, lesquels ayant donné‚ leur mutuel consentement par parole de présent, il a solennellement mariés dans l'Eglise de Sillery en présence de témoins connus. René Méseré dit Nopce, Jacques Archambault, Charles Gandier.[8]

Le 15 janvier 1654, il obtient une allocation située entre 400 et 1000 livres tournois, à la condition de s'engager à persévérer dans la mise en valeur de sa concession.

En 1658, il est puisatier, le premier puisatier de Ville-Marie, Il creuse un puit à la demande du sieur de Maisonneuve, aujourd'hui tout près de l'actuel Musée d'archéologie et d'histoire. Une plaque de bronze en indique l'emplacement au temps de Ville-Marie. Portrait de familles pion. I - page 18: Lorsqu'on procéda à des recherches archéologiques sur la pointe à Callières, on a retrouvé le puits que l'ancêtre creusa en 1658, à la demande du sieur de Maisonneuve. Tout près du nouveau Musée d'archéologie et d'histoire inauguré à l'occasion du 350 ème anniversaire de Montréal, une plaque de bronze en indique l'emplacement.[9]

2° Mariage:
La date et le lieu du mariage de Marie Denot et de Jacques Archambault sont indéterminés.

Le 6 juin 1666, Marie Denot âgée de~54 ans et Jacques Archambaultâgé de~61 ans signent un contrat de mariage par devant Sévérin Ameau, à Trois-Rivières. [10][11]
Contrat de mariage de Jacques Archambaultt, de Montréal, veuf de Françoise Toureau, de Dompierre en Aulnis, fils d’Antoine Archambault et de Renée . . . (effacé) (Renée Ouvrard) ; et Marie Denot, veuve de Louis (Ozanne) Ozanne dit Lafronde, de Porcheresse en Angoulmois, fille d ’Helias Élie Denot et de Marie-Marguerite (Delafond (6 juin 1666). (No. 154.) Notaire Séverin Ameau Vol XI pg 80[12]

Recensement de 1667:
Jacques Archambault, 62 ; Marie Denot, sa femme, 60 ; 30 arpents en valeur. |Marie Denot de Lamartinière et Jacques Archambault vivent sur l'Île de Montréal, Canada. [13]

Recensement de 1681:
Jacques Archambault 77 ; Marie Desnos. sa femme, 62. Ils habitent au fief Verdun, Île de Montréal, Canada.[14]

Décès:
Le 15 février 1688, âgé de ~83 ans, Jacques Archambault décède et est inhumé le même jour à la paroisse Notre-Dame, Montréal.[15]

Biography

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Jacques Archambault migrated from France to New France.
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Jacques Archambault: The family resided in Lardillière, parish of Dompierre-sur-Mer, La Rochelle diocese, France.

Jacques and Françoise were married in France and had 7 children before coming to New France. Only Louise did not cross, because she died before her family left France.

Upon his arrival (1645-1646), it appears that he was a servant of Pierre Legardeur de Repentigny, at Quebec but by 1654 he was with Maisonneuve in Montreal. In 1658 Jacques contracted with Paul de Chomedey to dig a well, inside the fort at Ville-Marie, at the place d'Armes. He had found his calling.

At a reenactment Fair at nearby Fort #4 in Charlestown, N.H. in the summer of 1995, I met a reenactor from Canada who was also a descendant of Jacques Archambault. He told me that one of his wells was a historic site in Montreal, still giving sweet water to this day! GJR

There is also a short biography of Jacques in "Our French-Canadian Ancestors by Laforest -GJR

On May 6, 1651, Jean Chicot and the mason Jean Boudart were surprised by ten or so marauders. Chicot hid under a tree, while Boudart went back towards his house to take refuge there with his wife, but she had carefully barred the door. It was too late: the couple fled. The Iroquois quickly caught up with Madame Boudart. Her husband came back to try and save her, but it was a futile effort, and he died under the Iroquois` blows. His wife was spared " to make a cruel meal of her"- the Iroquois tried to take as many prisioners as possible for the pleasure of slowly burning them to death. Three settlers ran to the scene: Charles Le Moyne, Jacques Archambault and a third whose identity we dont know. Some forty of the Iroquois fell upon them. They retreated to the hospital - it was open and Jeanne Mance was there alone. Le Moyne (whose cap had been pierced by a bullet) and his companions endeavoured to bring her to the fort; then they went out looking for Chicot. Chicot had defended himself so vigerously to keep from being captured, that they scalped him right there, even taking a piece of his skull. The Iroquois left him for dead but he survived, living sixteen more years after this cruel experience.

This last from: MONTREAL A History by Robert Prevost (translated) and translated from the website of Robert Rochon, "Liste des Patronymes":

JACQUES ARCHAMBAULT Archambaldus, Latinized Germanic first name, which means indigenous daring. Jacques Archambault and Francoise Tourault are the only ancestors of this great Archambault family of the same patronym. Jacques and Francoise are both natives of Dompierre-on-Sea, in the area of the Small rock, in Charente-Maritime, formerly French province of Aunis. Son of Antoine Archambault and Renee Ouvrard, Jacques was born into 1604. As for Francoise, she was born towards 1599. Both lived in Dompierre, in a hamlet called Lardillière. Jacques and Francoise married on January 24 1629, in Saint-Philibert of the Bridge-Charault, in old Poitou, in France. Jacques is a ploughman then also vine grower. From 1630 to 1644, Francoise gives him seven children, two sons and five girls. Towards 1645, with Pierre Legardeur de Repentigny, director of the new Company of the Inhabitants, the couple embarks for New-France, accompanied by six children.

That which interests us, it is Jacquette Archambault, born towards 1632, she is 13 years old on her arrival. She marries on September 28 the 1648 ancestor Paul Chalifou(r), widower of Marie Jeannet. She runs out her life in the area of Quebec and presents to her husband 14 children, including three girls who continue a descent to us. The grandmother of Chalifou(r) is buried on December 17, 1700, in Quebec.

In 1647, the farmer Jacques Archambault becomes tenant of a ground of the seigniory of Lachenaie. September 15 1651, he becomes dealer of a ground in the Cape Rouge. In 1654, the colonist agrees to fix himself definitively in the island of Montreal, on a plot of land close to current Place of Weapons. One allots Jacques Archambault the merit to have dug the first well of the Island of Montreal, October 11 1658, for Paul de Chomedey. December 9 1663, one buries the body of Francoise Tourault, 64 years old. In 1666, Jacques Archambault signs at Three-Rivers, a marriage contract with Marie Denot of Martinière, he even widowed twice. With the census of 1681, Jacques and Marie, live at the stronghold of Verdun, in suburbs of Montreal. The ancestor Jacques Archambault is buried, in Montreal, February 15 1688, at the 84 years age.

In 1647, they rented a farm in Québec. Between 1651 and 1653 they seem to have alternated between Montréal and Québec. The family was in Montréal during the terrible summer of 1651. Jacques barely escaped the massacre. Their son Denis was killed that summer by the cannon which he was getting ready for the third blow against the Iroquois.

With his son-in-law Urban Tessier, Jacques Archambault was chosen among those to defend the stronghold known as "l'Enfant Jesus" in Montréal. This small fort was situated at the extremity of Tessier's grant. Its defenders, who were also its proprietors, were responsible for its being guarded 24 hours a day.

In 1678, when Jacques was 74 years old, his three sons-in-law and his son Laurant granted a life pension to him "a septuagenarian and quite unable to work and to earn his living and clothing, for the natural friendship they bear him, as they always have." He died 10 years later.[16]

Tanguay p 11 says Jacques came from France with his family. He was 84 when he died.

Jacques Archambault, born 1604 to a farmer, married Francoise Thoureault in 1629 in France. In 1645, they went to New France -- now Quebec-- with six of their children, a seventh having died young. They lived first in Repentigny, then Lachenaie, then Cap Rouge, then Quebec City and Montreal. After 1654, they were on the island of Montreal for good. Jacques Archambault wasn't very good at agriculture per se -- he was deeply in debt at one point -- but as a dowser he seems to have been rather gifted. He dug the first well on the island of Montreal on Oct.11, 1658; it was the firs

Jacques Archambault. [17][18][19][20][21]

Born MAR 1602. La Rochelle, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France. [22][23][24][25][26] 1604 Lardilliere, La Rochelle, Aunis, France.


Died 15 FEB 1688. Montréal,. [27]

Christening: 1604 Dompierre, La Rochelle, Aunis, France.

Event: Arrival: probable date -1645 - first mention: 1646 Quebec, Canada. Record for RENEE Ouvrard Link:[28]

Immigration: To Canada. 1646

Occupation: Laborer. Vine Grower.


Marriage Husband Jacques Archambault. Wife Françoise Toureau ou Tourault. Child: Marie Archambault. Child: Jacquette Archambault. Marriage 24 JAN 1629. Dompierre, La Rochelle, Aunis, France.

Husband Jacques Archambault. Wife Marie Deneau dit de La Martiniere. Marriage 6 June 1666. Trois-Rivières, Canada.

Husband Antoine Archambault. Wife Renée Ouvrard. Child: Jacques Archambault. Marriage BEF 31 DEC 1604. Dompierre-sur-Mer, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, [29]

Notes

According to the Chalifoux Family Tree, 1971, Jacques Archambault came to Quebec in 1645 with his wife, Francoise, and four children. One daughter, Jacquette, married Paul Chalifoux, the original ancestor of all Chalifoux' in North America. Another daughter, Marie, married Urbain Tessier dit Levigne based on a geneology tracing his descendant, Maurice Napolean Bricault dit LaMarche, who married Emma Chalifoux in 1884. Jacquette & Paul, and Marie & Urbain, respectively, were married on 9/281648 in Quebec.

Found on Internet at http:/www.crossmyt.com/hc/genchfmclc4.html#cx4526.

"Children of Jacques Archambault and Francoise Tourault:

4526-1 Denis Archambault.

bapt 12 Sep 1630 Dompierre sur Mer, Lardilliere, Charente-Maritime, France.

killed 25 Aug 1651 Montreal.

4526-2 Anne Archambault.

born 1621 or 1631.

married Michel Chauvin at Quebec on 27 Jul 1647; this marriage was annulled, as he already had a wife in Paris. secondly on 3 Feb 1654 Jean Gervaise.

4526-3 Jacquette Archambault.

born 1631 or 1632.

married Paul Chalifou at Quebec on 28 Sep 1648.

4526-4 Marie Archambault.

bapt 24 Feb 1636 Dompierre sur Mer, Lardilliere, Charente-Maritime, France.

married Urbain Tessier at Quebec 28 Sep 1648.

4526-5 Louise Archambault.

bapt 18 Mar 1640 Dompierre sur Mer, Lardilliere, Charente-Maritime, France.

died bef. 1663.

4526-6 Laurent Archambault.

bapt 10 Jan 1642.

married 4 Dec 1659 to Catharine Marchand of Paris.

2263 Marie Archambault ".

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 Fichier origine 240071 Jacques Archambault 2022 Fédération québécoise des sociétés de généalogie//Québec Federation of Genealogical Societies
  2. Jean Boudart et Jean Chiquot
  3. Portrait de familles pion. I - page 17
  4. 4.0 4.1 Carte Montréal 1655 #328
  5. Référence à la carte de Ville-Marie en 1665.
  6. Carte Ville-Marie 1665 #329
  7. Portrait de familles pion. I - page 16
  8. Family Search - Mariage/Marriage Estienne Tennevere - Anne Hayaut FamilySearch
  9. Image - 1° puit - Île de Montréal - wikipedia.
  10. Note: la date du 26 janvier 1666 avait été inscrite comme la date du mariage, Jetté fait la même erreur, le contrat est daté du 6 juin. La date du 26 janvier est en 1655, le mariage de Marie avec Louis (Ozanne) Ozanne dit Lafronde.
  11. 1666 Marriage Contract, Ameau, Severin, (Actes de notaire, Dossiers, FamilySearch, Film # 008272732, Image 750 of 2436)
  12. BAnQ Notarial acts index Inventaire des greffes des notaires du régime français, par Pierre Georges Roy et Antoine Roy; 27 Vol + index 1-8
  13. Wikisource: Recensements 1666-1667 Censuses selon Benjamin Sulte Histoire des Canadiens-français, Tome 4, chap. 4
  14. Wikisource Recensement 1681 Census selon Benjamin Sulte Histoire des Canadiens-français, Tome 5, chap. 4
  15. Sépulture / Burial Jacques Archambault - FamilySearch
  16. [nancyfayette.FTW]
  17. Source: #S11 Database online. Record for RENEE Ouvrard Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=-628660924&indiv=try
  18. Source: #S56
  19. Source: #S57
  20. Source: #S59
  21. Source: #S60 Vol I, Page 11 Certainty: 3
  22. Source: #S11 Database online. Record for RENEE Ouvrard Link: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=-628660924&indiv=try
  23. Source: #S56
  24. Source: #S58
  25. Source: #S59
  26. Source: #S60 Vol I, Page 11 Certainty: 3
  27. Source: Database online. Record for RENEE Ouvrard Link: Ancestry - Renée Ouvrard.
  28. Ancestry - Renée Ouvrard.
  29. Ancestry Renée Ouvrard.
  • Portrait de familles pion. I - page 15, 16, 18
  • Tanguay - Volume 1, p. 11, 111, 123, 178, 205, 265, 300, 353, 561, 570
  • Traité de Généalogie - 112 (René Jetté)
  • Portrait de familles pion. I - page 15 Le 24 janvier 1629, à Saint-Phibert-du-Pont-Charrault, il épousait Françoise Tourault; ce bourg du Poitou est situé dans l'actuel arrondissement de La Roche-sur-Yon, département de Vendée. Elle était également de Dompierre-sur-Mer.
  • À Travers les Registres - p.33 (Tanguay)
  • Archambault, PREFEN (Programme de Recherches sur l'Émigration des Français En Nouvelle-France) par / through Wayback Machine.




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There is a wikipedia page on Jacques Archambault and Francoise Toureau at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Archambault and he is mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Montreal.
posted by Ann Seurer
thanks, you already posted this on his wife's profile. There are inaccuracies in the Wikipedia article, unfortunately.
posted by Danielle Liard
I don't know where Jessie Robertson's comment disappeared to but concerning Jacques's first marriage listed as 24 Jan 1629 in Saint-Philbert-du-Pont-Charrault, the information is incorrect. I've just went and checked the Vendée archives and there is no such marriage for this couple on that date.

Source: Archives Departementales de Vendée, Etat civil, Saint-Philbert-du-Pont-Charrault / 1621-jan.1663 / AC263 / Mariages (https://etatcivil-archives.vendee.fr/ark:/22574/s005dd29fc50ae57/5dd29fc513069)

posted by Andréa Boudreau
edited by Andréa Boudreau
Don't know where her comment went either, I just checked Fichier origine, they give that date of 26 Jan 1629, but they give no location for the marriage. A marriage contract? Am going to write to them and ask.
posted by Danielle Liard
In view of comments I was about to mark the first marriage as uncertain and add a research note but did Fichier Origine have any additional information?
posted by Tyler Benoit
Fichier corrected the file to around 1629 in France. Am going to change the date and place on that marriage. The original date and place came from the PREFEN article on the family, linked on the profile, via Wayback machine.
posted by Danielle Liard
edited by Danielle Liard
Thanks Danielle - that place made its way in as Jacques' parents' place of marriage as well - now corrected.
posted by Tyler Benoit
I also checked. The Vendee Archives and could not find the marriage. The same information is in Jette.
posted by Peter Geary
Is there a reason that the French flag, which did not come into existence until 1790, is used on this profile? Would seem the Bourbon flag, the Royal Banner, would be a more appropriate primary photo for the 1600s. That is the flag used by the Quebecois Project.
posted by Jim Morin USN Ret
hi Jim, it's decorative only as far as I can tell. The royal banner wouldn't really apply to him, he's not royalty, the project uses a small flag only. Somebody decided they wanted the flag, no idea who.
posted by Danielle Liard
corrected date of second marriage, the marriage of his 2nd wife Marie Denot in 1655 was on 26 Jan, and authors have attributed the date of 26 Jan to the 1666 marriage with Jacques Archambault, whereas the marriage contract is on 6 June 1666, image uploaded.
posted by Danielle Liard
Archambault-36 and Archambault-615 appear to represent the same person because: Same name, same father, spouses of Archambault-36 are described in the bio of Archambault-615. Same for the children. Both reference a fichierorigine and there is only one for Jacques Archambault (not two different people of the same name). Same death date and place.
posted by Cindy (Bourque) Cooper
Please do Ann.
posted by Gaston Tardif
Outside the Pointe-à-Callière Museum in Old Montreal, the well he built has a cap on it with an inscription. I have a photo of it, if anyone would like me to upload it.
posted by Ann Royal
Archambault-469 and Archambault-36 appear to represent the same person because: Due to the lack of so much lack of information in one of the merge possibilities, it appears as though these could be the same person.
posted by [Living Rivet]
Archambault-469 and Archambault-36 do not represent the same person because: Archambault-36 born in 1605, Archambault-469 father of Archmbault-468 born in 1520
posted by Guy Warner
Archambault-469 and Archambault-36 appear to represent the same person because: Same individual represented, married to Francoise Tourault. Became obvious duplicates when Francoise Tourault was just merged with her duplicate. Archambault-36 has the most information attached to it however.
posted by Dorothy Barry
Michael, this site has a collaborative vision. Feel free to add.
posted by Gaston Tardif
Archambault-306 and Archambault-36 appear to represent the same person because: same man, wife etc
posted by Danielle Liard
Refer to profile and space containing...Husband of Marie Denot — married January 26, 1665 in Ameau, Cap de Madeleine, Quebec

I believe Ameau was the notary of the marriage contract

posted by [Living Gauvin]