Pierre , the son of Pierre Lafleur and Angélique Lecompte, was born and baptized 23 May 1733 in Montréal. The parish register for Notre Dame identifies him as "Pierre ne de legitime mariage ce meme jour sur les trois heure et demi de matin, fils de Pierre Lafleur matelot demeurant actuelle meme en cette ville et de Angelique Lecompte ses pere et mere, le parrain a été Sieur Pierre Sorel du Marly concierge de Mr le General la marraine Marie Josephe [Harcil?]."[1]
Pierre drowned 10 years later on 9 May 1743 in Châteaguay. His 10 May burial record in the Saint Joachim parish register, which gives his age as 13, states that he drowned crossing the Saint Jean Rive: "Pierre Lafleur âgé de treize ans commencés, lequel s'est malheureusement noyé hier, ayant perdû pied dans la petite Riviere Saint Jean, laquelle il coulait traverse pour se rendre a sa maison paternelle; . . . en presence de Pierre Lebert Bedeau et de Joachim Primot."[2]
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