Pierre Chauvet (1686 - 1750)

Born 25 May 1686 in Village de Grospin, Charlesbourg, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Husband of Marie-Madeleine Gaudin — married 15 Apr 1709 in Québec, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Husband of Marie-Magdeleine (Renarde) Chauvet — married 7 Nov 1726 in Beauport, Notre-Dame, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died 18 Jan 1750 at age 63 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Canada, Nouvelle-France

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Marriage

Pierre Chauvet, né 25 mai 1686 au village de Grospin, baptisé 26 à Charlesbourg^[1]; Pierre Chauvet dit Lagerne marié avec Marie Madeleine Godin 15 avril 1709 à Notre-Dame de Québec^[2]; Pierre Chauvel, veuf, remarié avec Marie Madeleine, Panisse de nation, le 7 novembre 1726 à Beauport.^[3]

Chauvet Pierre & Marie-Madeleine Renarde, Panis belonging to Pierre Thomas Tarieu lord of La Pérade^[4]Death of his wife- also states Marie Madeleine "Panis" was the widow of Pierre Chauvet.^[5]

"Ordonnance de l'intendant Bégon qui enjoint au capitaine de la côte de la Chevrotière, ou autre officier de milice sur ce requis, de retirer des mains du nommé Lagerne (Lajerne) une esclave Panis Renarde (Amérindienne) nommée Madeleine qu'il a enlevée furtivement la nuit de la maison du sieur de la Pérade (Tarieu), officier des troupes du détachement de la Marine, pour la remettre à son maître; en cas de refus de la part de LaGerne de remettre ladite Panis, ordre au capitaine de la côte ou autre officier de milice requis d'arrêter LaGerne et de le mener avec bonne et sûre garde dans les prisons de Québec" 17 juillet 1726,^[6]. For their family, see marriage of Nov. 11, 1726, RAB du PRDH, 77504; baptism of Oct. 12, 1729, Notre-Dame-de-Québec, FHL; baptism of Mar. 16, 1732, Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Nicolet, RAB du PRDH, 154291, and baptism of Feb. 13, 1735, 154312. The record of Chauvet's and Marie-Madeleine's marriage is a transcript, so "Channel" could be a transcription error..."^[7]

"Indian slaves obviously stood to benefit much more by marrying French colonists. More than three times as many marriages fell into this category as those occurring between slaves, reflecting slaves' predictable desire to ally themselves with those of a higher status. In addition to gaining access to family support networks and a measure of economic independence, a slave's marriage to a French colonist could sometimes grant a female slave her freedom. Enslaved men could not count on such measures to free them, but marriage to a French woman would at least guarantee the legal freedom of their children, since free women bore free children. French incentives to marry slaves are more difficult to discriminate. Some, like the petty merchant Pierre Chauvet dit La Gerne, might have just fallen in love. Sometime after the death of his first wife, Marie-Madeleine Gaudin, the forty-year-old Chauvet struck up a relationship with his neighbors slave, a much younger Fox woman named Marie-Madeleine. Unwilling to live apart from his lover, in 1726 Chauvet sneaked into the home of her master, Pierre-Thomas Tarieu de La Pérade, and helped her escape. Outraged at the loss of his slave and the insult of having a social inferior invade his home, La Pérade persuaded the intendant to send soldiers to retrieve Marie-Madeleiene and, if Chauvet resisted, to conduct him to prison in irons. It is difficult to imagine how, but the persistent Chauvet found a way to evade the order, marrying Marie-Madeleine only four months later in a rural parish near Quebec. Perhaps they did so by stealth—Chauvet apparently provided the priest a different last name (Channel instead of Chauvet)— but it is more likely that he paid La Pérade for her freedom. The fact that their four children were never referred to as slaves indicates that Marie-Madeliene became legally free by 1729 at the latest." ^[8]

Note: the name on his second marriage has been transcribed as Channel, by IGD at least, but there is a different reading of the records done by a priest who was curé of Beauport and made a study of the parish records. He lists this with Pierre's name recorded as Chauvel. Some writing from this era easily confuses the letters U, N and V.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ Bapt. Pierre Chauvet IGD
2. ↑ Mariage Pierre Chauvet dit Lagerne - Marie Madeleine Godin IGD
3. ↑ Mariage Pierre Chauvel - Marie Madeleine IGD
4. ↑ (Trudel: 259), Metis Unions and claims in Quebec 2006-2009,pg 19, https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/300/eric_pouliot-thisdale/metis_unions/Metis_Unions_and_claims_in_Quebec_2016_Eric_Pouliot-Thisdale.pdf, Researcher/Genealogist/E.Pouliot Thisdale, 2018/19 (consent to use to Arora-(See Arora's profile for details of this Professional Researcher & details of consent for use on wikitree given directly to Arora)
5. ↑ Marie-Madeleine, panise, veuve de Chauvet, inhumée le 29 juillet 1777 à Nicolet, L'Esclavage au Canada français : histoire et conditions de l'esclavage, BKPG-184, dig.img pg.-214 of 474, by-Trudel, Marcel, 1917-2011, Éd.-Québec :les Presses universitaires Laval,1960, permalink-http://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/3187835, accessed on 9 Aug 2020 by Arora, BAnQ Archives, Quebec Archives, numerique
6. ↑ 17 juillet 1726 Cote : E1,S1,P1749 Fonds Intendants - BAnQ Québec Id 87925
7. ↑ Brett Rushforth, Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France
8. ↑ Brett Rushforth, Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France
9. ↑ Notes sur les archives de Notre-Dame de Beauport, M. Jean Langevin, prêtre, ancien curé de cette paroisse, 2ème livraison, C. Darveau, imprimeur, 1863, (BAnQ PDF) see pg 147

• Actes d'état civil et registres d'église du Québec (Collection Drouin), 1621 à 1997 - Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection: Institut Généalogique Drouin IGD (membership) https://www.genealogiequebec.com