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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
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.
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]
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]
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 ".
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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)
edited by Andréa Boudreau
edited by Danielle Liard
I believe Ameau was the notary of the marriage contract