Jean (Boucher) Boucher de Monbrun (1667 - 1742)

Born 6 Feb 1667 in Trois-Rivières, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Husband of Françoise Claire (Charette) Boucher — married 24 Nov 1692 in Pointe-de-Lévy, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Husband of Françoise Michelle Godefroy — married 10 Nov 1729 in Trois-Rivières, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died 20 Oct 1742 at age 75 in Boucherville, Canada, Nouvelle-France

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Biography

Biography Jean Boucher (translated from French)

BOUCHER DE MONTBRUN, JEAN, militia commander, catering and explorer baptized at Trois-Rivières February 7, 1667, son of Pierre Boucher * and Jeanne Crevier, buried Oct. 20, 1742 in Boucherville, near Montreal.

      During his youth, Jean Boucher de Montbrun participated, probably as a militiaman in several campaigns against the Iroquois, whose lamentable shipping La Barre [Le Febvre *] in 1684 at Anse La Famine (Mexico Bay) on Lake Ontario. He also took part in the expeditions led by Denonville [Brisay *] and Frontenac [Buade *] during the Iroquois war. In 1692 he married in Pointe-Lévy (Lauzon) Françoise-Claire, daughter of Etienne Charest (father), Lord of Lauson. The couple seem to have lived some time in Pointe-Lévy since their first child was born there in 1693; they then moved to Boucherville when Jean Boucher seconded his father in the administration of his lordship, engaged in the milling and roads. He also obtained his father in 1693, together with his brother René Boucher de La Ferriere, a "noble fief without justice" six acres frontage on two leagues deep in the lordship of Boucherville.

      From 1715 to 1729, Boucher would have served as "commander of the militia in the southern coast," and it is for this reason that in 1715 he attended to the distribution of days of drudgery inhabitants of the manor . At the same time, Boucher participated in several expeditions of trafficking or exploration in the West. In 1727, he was, it seems, to the position of Nipigon (near the mouth of the Nipigon River, Ont.), Where he met Pierre Gaultier de Varennes and La Verendrye. Maybe even if he went that year to Lake Pepin (Wisc. And Minn.) With his two son, Jean-Baptiste and François, upon shipment of Boucher de La Perrière for the establishment of Fort Beauharnois.

      Jean Boucher de Montbrun died in 1742 and was buried in the church of Sainte-Famille de Boucherville. He was a very active man, part of expeditions of war, trafficking or explorations while attending the lordship of Boucherville. He was a nice trade with his entourage, especially with his family: his family relations were indeed cordial as evidenced by several deeds.

      Four years after the death of his first wife, who had given him some 13 children, Boucher had married November 10, 1729 in Trois-Rivières Françoise, daughter of Jean-Amador Godefroy * de Saint-Paul. Boucher's death in 1742 brought dispute in his family. The succession was difficult to adjust and Boucher widow had to compromise with the heirs, all from the first marriage of her husband, especially with René Boucher de Montbrun was both his and his son-in-law. The latter, owner since 1740 half of the fief of his father, had married in 1738 Madeleine Godfrey of Saint-Paul, sister of his stepmother. It is not even certain that death Francoise Godefroy in 1770 the dispute was settled. It was far from the spirit of harmony and cordiality had shown throughout his life Jean Boucher de Montbrun.

Roland-J. Auger

Sources

• Roland-J. Auger, “BOUCHER DE MONTBRUN, JEAN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 3, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed October 27, 2021, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/boucher_de_montbrun_jean_3E.html.
• http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?pid=28651&partID=28652
• http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/biography.aspx?name=Boucher_Jean&id=28651
• Website: Timothy Demonbreun -the history and the legacy at http://www.timothydemonbreun.com/ provides evidence of name.

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