When Clement Claude Besset was born on February 29, 1728, in Chambly, his father, Francois, was 42 and his mother, Marie-Claude, was 35. He married Marie Charlotte Lamoureux on June 18, 1753, in his hometown. They had 17 children. He died on August 22, 1789, in Pointe-Olivier, at the age of 61, and was buried there.
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Surname spelling "Besset" is cited in the birth record attached to Besset-30