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Martin Prévost (1611 - 1691) variante: Provost
Naissance:
Martin Prévost est né le 4 janvier 1611 à Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) et il est baptisé le même jour en l'église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Montreuil, Montreuil-sous-Bois, Bobigny, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. [1]
«L'an de Grace mil six cens et unze Le quatriesme jour de janvier a été baptizé Martin fils de Pierre prevost et Charlotte Vien sa femme nommé et tenu sur les sts (saints) fondz de baptesme par Germain Mainguet assisté de Raphael Cornu et de Thomasse Cambrey faict comme dessus».
Père et mère:
Il est le fils de Pierre Prévost et de Charlotte Vié (Vien). [2]
Migration en Nouvelle France:
Vers 1639. Martin Prévostl s’embarque pour le Canada.; il est maître valet, magasinier pour la Cie des Cent Associés. Sa présence est aussi signalée à Québec, dans les actes du notaire Martial Piraube.
1° mariage:
Ce mariage est le premier à survenir en Canada entre une personne autochtone et un européen émigré Canadien.
Le 3 novembre 1644, à la paroisse Notre-Dame, Québec, Canada, Martin Prévost âgé de 33 ans épouse Marie Olivier Sylvestre (Ouchistaouichkoue Manitouabe8ich) âgée de 20 ans, fille de Roch Manitouabe8ich et de Outchibahanoukoueou, en présence de Sieur Guillaume Couillard de l'Espinay, du Père Barthélemi Vimont et de Sieur Olivier Le Tardif de Honnefleur le parrain de la mariée. Ils s'installent ensuite dans la seigneurie de Beauport où ils ont neuf enfants, tous baptisés à Québec. [3] [4] (Bas de page droite et haut de page suiivante). [5]
Enfants connus / Known children: Marie-Olivier Sylvestre & Martin Prévost
Le 5 juin 1656, René Maheu vend une maison à Martin Prévost pour Jean Baillargeon (abt.1612-1694), à la basse ville de, Québec par devant Guillaume Audouart de Saint-Germain. Mais de curieuse façon. En effet, Martin Prévost se présente chez le notaire Audouart et achète la maison de René Maheu. Or dix jours plus tard, il déclare devant le même tabellion avoir agi "pour et au profit de Jean Baillargeon", et ce dernier s'engage à respecter toutes les conditions inscrites dans l'acte!
2° Mariage:
Le 8 novembre 1665, en la chapelle de Beauport, Canada, Martin Prévost âgé de 54 ans épouse Marie d'Abancourt "dite" Lacaille âgée de 47 ans, fille d'Adrien d'Abancourt "dit" Lacaille et de Simone d'Orgeville. [6] Mariage enregistré à la paroisse Notre-Dame-de-Québec. Aucune postérité de ce mariage.
Recensement 1666:
Martin Prevost, 55; habitant ; Marie d'Abancourt, 48, sa femme, veuve de GuillotGodefroi ; Louis,15 ; Jean, 6 ; Jean-Baptiste, 4 ; Thérèse, 7 mois ; Elizabeth, 9 ; Marie Houarlin, 33, domestique engagé ; Pierre Rouziliet, 27, engagé. Ils vivent à Beauport, Canada..
Recensement 1667:
Martin Prévost, 58 ; Marie Dabancour, sa femme, 48 ; Louis, 17 ; Jean, 8 ; Jean-Baptiste, 6 ; Thérèse, 3 ; Marin Arlin, 30 ; La Fontaine, 24 ; 9 bestiaux , 45 arpents en valeur. Ils vivent aux côtes de Beauport, Notre-Dame-des-Anges ou autres lieux,
Recensement 1681:
Martin Provost 71 ; enfants Jean Paschal 22, Jean 20, Marie 17 ; domestiques : Jean Proust 25 ; Antoine Lesieur 16 ; 2 fusils ; 10 bêtes à cornes ; 46 arpents en valeur. Ils vivent à la seigneurie de Beauport, Canada,
Décès:
Le 27 janvier 1691, âgé de 80 ans, Martin Prévost décède et est inhumé le lendemain à Beauport, Canada. [7]
Il est l'un des pionniers du Canada français et ancêtre d'une grande partie des Prévost / Provost d'Amérique du Nord.
Premier Canadien à épouser une Autochtone de la Nouvelle-France
PRÉVOST (Provost), MARTIN, un des pionniers de Beauport, près de Québec, né vers 1611, fils de Pierre Prévost et de Charlotte Vien, de Montreuil-sur-le-Bois-de-Vincennes (aujourd’hui Montreuil-sous-Bois), près de Paris, décédé à Beauport le 26 janvier 1691.
La présence de Prévost est signalée à Québec, dans les actes du notaire Piraube, dès l’année 1639. Le 3 novembre 1644, il y épousait Marie-Olivier-Sylvestre Manitouabeouich. C’est le premier mariage entre un Français et une autochtone dont fassent mention les annales du Canada. La jeune épouse avait été donnée par ses parents à l’interprète Le_Tardif-3|Olivier Letardif, qui l’avait fait élever à la française, chez les Sœurs Ursulines après lui avoir servi de parrain et plus tard, chez Guillaume Hubou et sa famille.
Après son mariage et jusqu’à sa mort, on voit Martin Prévost établi à Beauport comme habitant, c’est-à-dire résident permanent de Nouvelle-France, ce qui lui permis d’avoir un emplacement et une maison à Québec, en 1667.
Il épousa en secondes noces (1665) Marie d’Abancourt, veuve de Jean Jollyet (Jolliet) et de Godfroy (Guillot) Guillot dit Lavallée (abt.1619-bef.1665).
Vers la fin de sa vie, il signait Provost. Ses descendants ont adopté l’une ou l’autre orthographe.
Honorius Provost
JR (Thwaites), IX : 103 ; XI : 93.— Papier terrier de la Cie des I. O. (P.-G. Roy).— Jean Langevin, Notes sur les archives de Notre-Dame de Beauport (Québec, 1860)
PRÉVOST (Provost), MARTIN Martin Prévost, born January 4, 1611 in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) and death January 27, 1691 in Beauport ( Québec ), is a pioneer of French Canada and ancestor of a large part of Prévost's North America.
Pioneer of New France as Pierre Tremblay and Julien Mercier, Martin Prévost was born January 4, 1611 in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) and is baptized the same day in the church of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Montreuil 1. He sailed for Canada in 1638. On November 3,1644 he married in Quebec Marie-Olivier-Sylvestre Manitouabeouich a native Amerindian girl. They then settled in the Seigneurie of Beauport where they had eight children, all baptized in Quebec. Martin Prévost died January 27,1691 in Beauport ( Québec ).
PÉVOST (Provost), Martin: One of the pioneers of Beauport near Quebec; b. c. 1611, son of Pierre Prévost and Charlotte Vien, of Montreuil-sur-le-Bois-de-Vincennes (now Montreuil-sous-Bois), near Paris; d. 26 Jan. 1691 at Beauport.
Prévost’s presence at Quebec is referred to in the documents of the notary Piraube as early as the year 1639. On 3 Nov. 1644, he married, at Quebec, (baptised) Marie-Olivier Sylvestre (born) Manitouabeouich. This is the first marriage between a Frenchman and a native mentioned in Canadian historical records. The young bride had been given by her parents to the interpreter Olivier Le Tardif, who had been her godfather and had then had her brought up as a French girl in the home of Sieur Guillaume Hubou.
From the time of his marriage until his death, we find Martin Prévost settled at Beauport as an “habitant,” or farmer, which did not prevent him from having a piece of land and a house at Quebec in 1667. He was married a second time in 1665, to Marie d’Abancourt, the widow of Jean Jollyet (Jolliet) and of Gefroy (Godfroy) Guillot. Prévost had at least nine children by his first wife.
Towards the end of his life, Prévost signed his name “Provost.” His descendants have adopted one or other of the two spellings.
written by Honorius Provost
JR (Thwaites), IX, 103; XI, 93. Papier terrier de la Cie des I.O. (P.-G. Roy). Jean Langevin, Notes sur les Archives de Notre-Dame de Beauport (Québec, 1860).
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Marie Olivier Sylvestre was a native woman of the Algonguin nation (amérindienne de la tribu des Algonquins (selon le père Hierosme (Jérôme) Lalemant) whose name was Manitouab8ich. Her marriage to Martin Prevost was the first recorded marriage of a frenchman and a native woman in Canada. As a young girl she had been baptized with the consent of her father, and given the Christian name of Marie Olivier Sylvestre, to be raised and educated in the French manner; she was so named in honnor of her godfather, Olivier Le Tardif who came to Canada between 1618 - 1621. He was an interpreter for the Huron & Algonquin native languages. He was a close collaborator of Samuel de Champlain and he was one of the officials in the fur trade for the Cents Associés Company. He was a big help to the Jesuits in helping to evangelize the natives. (See:http://www.biographi.ca/fr/bio/letardif_olivier_1F.html) .
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In the early history of Canada, it was not until Olivier LeTardif became the personal representative and interpreter for Samuel de Champlain that we first hear the nameRoch Manitouabewich. This young Canada native of the Algonquin Nation, had been hired as LeTardif's own scout and traveling companion. Manitouabewich had been converted to Christianity by the French missionaries, and as part of the baptismal ritual, had been given the Christian name of Roch, in honor of St.Roch, the patron saint. Olivier LeTardif and Roch Manitouabewich traveled together for many years. After eight years in the field, LeTardif was promoted by Champlain and became the head clerk (equivalent to Secretary-Treasurer) of the fur trading company. It was then that Le Tardif settled down to a more normal way of life, conducting the "inner affairs" of the Company at the main office at Quebec (Basse-ville). Roch Manitouabewich also settled down to a more domestic way of life, but in his own environment of the Huron settlement at Sillery near Quebec. The bond off friendship, trust, and loyalty between these two men was very strong, and, although each lived in his own "milieu", they never lost contact one from the other. It was when Roch Manitouabewich and his wife had a daughter and had her baptized that LeTardif became "Godfather" for the baby girl, and in accordance with the custom of the times, LeTardif gave the girl his own name of Olivier. In addition, the missionary performing the baptism gave the girl the name Marie, in honor of the Virgin Mary, and he also gave her the name Sylvestre, meaning "one who comes from the forest" or "one who lives in the forest". When Marie Olivier Sylvestre was ten years old, Olivier LeTardif, in his generous way and because of his respect for his friend and servant, Roch Manitouabewich, adopted the young Indian girl as his very own daughter (she never carried the family name of LeTardif). This enabled her to be educated and reared in the same manner as a well-to-do French girl. First he placed her as a "live-in border" and student with the Ursuline Nuns at Quebec, and later he boarded her with a French family where she was privately tutored. It was in the atmosphere of this respected family of Guillaume Hubou and his wife Marie Rollet (when she married Guillaume Hubou, she was the widow of Louis Hebert) that Marie Olivier Sylvestre met and married Martin Prevost, friend of the Hubou family and a very personal friend of Olivier LeTardif. This marriage was to be the first marriage on record between an Indian girl and a French colonist. The marriage took place on the third of January 1644 at Quebec. Recorded as witnesses to the ceremony was Olivier LeTardif and Quillaume Couillard (father-in-law of LeTardif). Manit8eabe8ichit Roch Manitoueabeouichit was baptized on 14 Nov 1636. His wife was Outchibahanoukoueou. There is no record of their marriage. François Derré de Gand was his godfather, from whom he received French clothing. He put his daughter into the care of Olivier Letardif, who entrusted her to Guillaume Hubou, the second husband of Marie Rollet, Louis Hébert's widow. She was brought up as French by Guillaume. She was given the christian name of Marie Sylvestre Olivier at her baptism. She married Martin Prévost on 3 Nov 1644 at Québec. Martin & Marie had eight children. Marie is known legally by her father's name Manit8eabe8ichit or Manitoueabeouichit.
Note: It has been said that Marie Olivier Sylvestre was of the Huron nation: This isincorrect. Image 2 states that she was Algonkian - as stated by father Jérome Lalemand, in a sales contract, Further more, the area where Marie Olivier was living was not populated by Hurons, but by Algonkians. Moreover, the names of her parents are both Algonkian.
The first recorded marriage between a French Colonist and a Native
It was when Roch Manitouabewich and his wife had a daughter and had her baptized that LeTardif became "Godfather" for the baby girl, and in accordance with the custom of the times, LeTardif gave the girl his own name of Olivier. In addition, the missionary performing the baptism gave the girl the name Marie, in honor of the Virgin Mary, and he also gave her the name Sylvestre, meaning "one who comes from the forest" or "one who lives in the forest". When Marie Olivier Sylvestre was ten years old, Olivier LeTardif, in his generous way and because of his respect for his friend and servant, Roch Manitouabewich, adopted the young Indian girl as his very own daughter (she never carried the family name of LeTardif). This enabled her to be educated and reared in the same manner as a well-to-do French girl. First he placed her as a "live-in border" and student with the Ursuline Nuns at Quebec, and later he boarded her with a French family where she was privately tutored. It was in the atmosphere of this respected family of Guillaume Hubou and his wife Marie Rollet (when she married Guillaume Hubou, she was the widow of Louis Hebert) that Marie Olivier Sylvestre met and married Martin Prevost, friend of the Hubou family and a very personal friend of Olivier LeTardif. This marriage was to be the first marriage on record between an Indian girl and a French colonist. The marriage took place on the third of January 1644 at Quebec. Recorded as witnesses to the ceremony was Olivier LeTardif and Quillaume Couillard (father-in-law of LeTardif).
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First Canadian to marry a Native woman in New-France
1000-1700 (Volume I)
PRÉVOST (Provost), MARTIN, one of the pioneers of Beauport near Quebec; b. c. 1611, son of Pierre Prévost and Charlotte Vien, of Montreuil-sur-le-Bois-de-Vincennes (now Montreuil-sous-Bois), near Paris; d. 26 Jan. 1691 at Beauport.
Prévost’s presence at Quebec is referred to in the documents of the notary Piraube as early as the year 1639. On 3 Nov. 1644, he married, at Quebec, Marie-Olivier-Sylvestre Manitouabeouich. This is the first marriage between a frenchman and an Indian woman mentioned in Canadian historical records. The young bride had been given by her parents to the interpreter Olivier Letardif, who then became her godfather and had then brought her up as a French girl by the Urlulines Sisters.
From the time of his marriage until his death, we find Martin Prévost settled at Beauport as an “habitant,” or farmer resident, which did not prevent him from having a piece of land and a house at Quebec in 1667. He was married a second time in 1665, to Marie d’Abancourt, the widow of Jean Jollyet and of Gefroy Guillot. Prévost had at least nine children by his first wife.
Towards the end of his life, Prévost signed his name “Provost.” His descendants have adopted one or other of the two spellings.
Honorius Provost
JR (Thwaites), IX, 103; XI, 93. Papier terrier de la Cie des I.O. (P.-G. Roy). Jean Langevin, Notes sur les Archives de Notre-Dame de Beauport (Québec, 1860).
Generation One
1. Martin Prevost, son of Pierre Prevost and Charlotte Vien, was born between 1609 and 1611 (DGFQ Jette, Rene, "Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles du Quebec des Origines a 1730" (Montreal, Quebec, Canada: University of Montreal Press, 1983), page 944). He married Marie Olivier Sylvestre Manitouabewich, daughter of Roch Manitouabewich, on 3 Nov 1644 at Quebec (Ibid.) (DGFC Tanguay, Cyprien, "Dictionnaire Genealogiqe des Familles Canadiennes" (28 Felsmere Avenue, Pawtucket, Rhode Island 02861-2903: Quintin Publications, 1996 reprint), Volume 6, page 442.) [5] (DGFC, Volume 1, page 499.). A contract for the marriage to Marie Abancourt, daughter of Adrien Abancourt dit Lacaille and Simone Orgeville, on 28 Oct 1665 at Quebec (DGFQ, page 945.). He married Marie Abancourt ... on 8 Nov, 1665 at Quebec (Ibid.) (PRDH online, No. 66686). He died buried on 28 Jan 1691 at Beauport (DGFQ, page 944.) (PRDU online, No. 77616.). He was buried on 28 Jan 1691 at Beauport (DGFQ, page 944.) (PRDH online, No. 77616)(DGFQ, Volume 1, page 499).
He lived at Montreuil-sous-Bois, Bobigny (DGFQ, page 944).
Children of Martin Prévost and Marie Olivier Sylvestre Manitouabewich were as follows:
2 i. Marie-Madeleine Prévost was born on 21 Dec 1647 at Quebec (DGFQ, page 944.) (PRDH online, No. 57271). She was baptized on 28 Dec 1647 at Quebec (DGFC, Volume 1, page 499.) (PRDH online, No. 68742.). She was buried on 5 Feb 1648 at Quebec (DGFQ, page 944) (PRDH online, No. 68742)
Question: Tanguay says she is the wife of Michel Aubin (DGFC, Volume 1, page 499.) Error: she died aged 2 months.
+ 3 ii. Louis Prévost, b. between 1649 and 1650; m. Francoise Gagnon; m. Marguerite Carreau dit Lafraicheur; d. 12 May 1686; bur. 27 May 1686 at Beauport - later: m. Marguerite Carreau.
4 iii. Ursule Prévost was born on 13 Dec 1649 at Quebec (DGFQ, page 944.) (PRDH online, No. 57322.). She was baptized on 14 Dec 1649 at Quebec (DGFQ, page 944) (PRDH online, No. 57322) (DGFC, Vol 1, page 499.). She died on 1 Jan 1661 at Quebec at age 11 (DGFQ, page 944.) (PRDH online, No. 68899.) She was buried on 2 Jan 1661 at Quebec (DGFQ, page 944.) (PRDH online, No. 68899). (DGFC, Volume 1, page 499).
5 iv. Marie-Madeleine Prévost was born on 7 Jan 1655 at Quebec (DGFQ, page 945.) (PRDH online, No. 57488). She was baptized on 13 Jan 1655 at Quebec (DGFQ, page 945)(PRDH online, No. 57488) She died between 16 Mar 1662 and 16 Apr 1662 at age 7 (DGFQ, page 945) She was buried on 1 Apr 1662 at Quebec (PRDH online, No. 68934).
6 v. Antoine Prévost was born on 15 Oct 1657 at Quebec (DGFQ, page 945.)(PRDH online, No. 57638). He was baptized on 20 Oct 1657 at Quebec (DGFQ, page 945)(PRDH online, No. 57638)(DGFC, Volume 1, page 499). He was buried on 16 Mar 1662 at Quebec (DGFQ, page 945)(PRDH online, No. 68933)(DGFC, Volune 1, page 499).
+7 vi. Jean Prévost, b. 31 Jan 1660 at Quebec; m. Francoise Cadieux; d. 1694 at Quebec.
+8 vii. Jean-Baptiste Prévost, b. 16 May 1662 at Quebec; m. Marie-Anne Giroux; m. Genevieve Sedilot; d. 11 May 1737 at St-Augustin; bur. 12 May 1737 at St-Augustin.
+9 viii. Thérèse Prévost, b. 3 Jun 1665 at Quebec; m. Michel Giroux; d. 20 May 1743 at Beauport; bur. 21 May 1743 at Beauport.
He had no children with Marie Abancourt.
cf. Morin, Gail, "First Metis Families of Quebec 1622-1748, Volume 1: 56 Families": Printed for Clearfield Company by Genealogical Publishing Company; Baltimore, Maryland. 2012
Voir aussi / See also
Volume I (1000-1700)
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Source Citation Volume: Vol. 1 Sect. 2 : Hem-Zap; Page: 499 Description Volume : Vol· 1 Sect· 2 : Hem-Zap Source Information Ancestry.com. Quebec, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families (Tanguay Collection), 1608-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Tanguay, Cyprien. Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu'à nos jours. Québec, Canada: Eusèbe Senécal, 1871-1890. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Canada.