Born 19 Jan 1700 in Quebec, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Jeanne Legris — married 2 Nov 1721 in Quebec, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died about 1777 at about age 76 in Quebec, Province of Canada, Colonial British America

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Biography

Joseph Payant a vécu
au Canada, Nouvelle-France.

Joseph Jacques Payant dit Saintonge The Admiral of Lake Champlain L'Admiral du Lac Champlain

He was born in Québec City in 1700. His mother died when he was ten years old but his father, a shoemaker, quickly remarried. Joseph was not left motherless. As a young man he learned to pilot and navigate on the St Lawrence River. Married at 21, he had a wife, family, home on Rue St Flavian in Québec and a blacksmith shop where he worked in winters. In spring when the ice on the river opened up, Joseph kissed his wife and children "adieu" was off to the Champlain Valley where he piloted ships along the Richelieu and Champlain: Fort Frederic, Ile aux Noix, Fort Chambly and probably Fort Carillon too. The ships, built in St Jean, carried troops and supplies from Montreal and Chambly to the forts south and back again. When the Swedish naturalist, Petr Kalm, traveled in Lake Champlain region, it was Joseph Payant who escorted him. It is said Joseph transported General Montcalm from Fort Carillon to points north after Montcalm's victory and they became well acquainted. Later, one of Joseph's grandsons was named Montcalm in honor of the general. Dominique, Joseph's son and our ancestor, was listed as a sailor with his father on Lake Champlain and married Marie Louise Laporte in St Joseph's Church in Chambly. Their marriage contract stated Dominique owned land on Lake Champlain in the area across from Ile aux Noix close to where Lake Champlain enters the Richelieu River.

Birth and Baptism

Baptism Québec (Notre-Dame-de-Québec) 1700-01-19 ^[1]

Birth : 1700-01-19

PAYAN, JOSEPH JACQUES male

PAYAN, JACQUES Father

MORIN, LOUISE Mother

MORIN, JOSEPH GAULTIER, MARGUERITE POCQUET

Marriage

Marriage Québec (Notre-Dame-de-Québec) 1721-11-02 ^[2]

PAYAN, JOSEPH Mar. status single

LEGRIS, MARIE JEANNE Mar. status single

PAYAN, JACQUES Father of the groom

MORIN, LOUISE Mother of the groom

LEGRIS, JEAN Father of the bride

SEDILOT, MARIE GENEVIEVE Mother of the bride

Others present: MORIN, JOSEPH; FLAMAN GUILLAUME; FLAMAN, JACQUES; THIBOULT

Joseph-Jacques was born in 1700. He passed away in 1777.

Sources

1. ↑ Institut généalogique Drouin, "Le LAFRANCE," database with images, Généalogie Québec (https://www.genealogiequebec.com/en/lafrance). Joseph Jacques Payan, Baptism, 19 January 1700: accessed 1 April 2017
2. ↑ Institut généalogique Drouin, "Le LAFRANCE," database with images, Généalogie Québec (https://www.genealogiequebec.com/en/lafrance). Marriage #68308 Jospeh Payan and Marie Jeanne Legris. 2 November 1721. https://www.genealogiequebec.com/Membership/LAFRANCE/acte/68308. accessed 1 April 2017.