Jean Baptiste (Boucher) Boucher de Niverville (1673 - 1748)

Born 6 Dec 1673 in Boucherville, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Husband of Marguerite Therese Hertel — married 10 Feb 1710 in Chambly, Canada, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died 1 Apr 1748 at age 74 in Boucherville, Canada, Nouvelle-France

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Biography

Biography Jean-Baptiste Boucher

BOUCHER DE NIVERVILLE, JEAN-BAPTISTE, officer in the Navy troops, Lord, born in Boucherville (Québec) December 6, 1673, son of Pierre Boucher * and Jeanne Crevier, who died in 1748 in Boucherville.

      Jean-Baptiste Boucher de Niverville was initiated very early in his military career. He first became part of the militia and he enlisted in the Navy troops. Ensign 1695, he took part, it seems, in the years 1690 and 1696 on shipments of Frontenac [Buade *] against the English and Iroquois. In a letter to the Minister of Marine, Pontchartrain, November 12, 1707, Governor Vaudreuil [Rigaud *] and Intendant Jacques Raudot * Minister announced they were sending him "a bag full of samples of minerals found in Lake Champlain by Messrs Niverville, Graveline and Destailly, ainsy a map of Lake Champlain. " However, we do not know the circumstances of this expedition was conducted that suggest the passage of the letter. Boucher, who had been promoted to lieutenant in 1705, was reformed in 1711.

      Boucher de Niverville married in 1710 Margaret Theresa, daughter of Joseph-François Hertel * de La Fresnière and Margaret of Thavenet *. Nine years earlier, in 1701, Boucher had received from his father a 60-acre stronghold back in the lordship of Boucherville he exchanged on March 14, 1719, against the rights and claims which his brother-Zacharie -François Hertel de La Fresnière on the lordship of Chambly. September 28, Boucher signed an agreement with the other members of the Hertel family, who had rights to the lordship to obtain the majority of the shares. Thus in 1721 he attended, as Lord of Chambly, the meetings held by the Attorney General, Mathieu-Benoît Collet *, for the redistribution of parish districts of New France. It is also for this reason he paid fealty and stood confession and enumeration of the lordship in 1723.

      Boucher was interested in the settlement and development of its domain. In 1721 he asked and obtained the canonical erection of Chambly parish, and in 1724 he granted the Charon brothers concession of 640 acres. However, it seems that it was difficult for him to attract his tenants to care for their land. July 27, 1732, he had to meet in their area of ​​Chambly 19 of the land of them who had not concerned exploit them or to settle there. On March 10, 1740, he issued an order by Intendant Hocquart * to force five other inhabitants of the lordship "to hold hearth and home [...] if there will be combining their land area of ​​John the Baptist Boucher de Niverville. "

      Boucher died in 1748 in Boucherville. 14 children from his marriage, at least six survived him, including Joseph-Claude *, officer in the Navy troops, who became lord of Chambly in 1754 after buying the units returning to the other heirs of his father.

Roland-J. Auger

Sources

• Roland-J. Auger, “BOUCHER DE NIVERVILLE, JEAN-BAPTISTE,” 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_niverville_jean_baptiste_3E.html.
• Genealogy of Canada April 21, 2015 http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogy=Boucher_Jean-Baptiste&pid=28659&lng=en