Pierre Simon Lafond
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Pierre Simon Lafond (1753 - 1795)

Pierre Simon Lafond
Born in Baie-du-Febvre, Québecmap
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Husband of — married 28 Nov 1781 in Schenectady Barracks, Schenectady, Schenectady, New York, United Statesmap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 41 in Ile-aux-Noix, Bas-Canadamap
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Biography

1776 Project
Private Pierre Simon Lafond served with First Canadian Regiment, Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Pierre was born in December 1753 at Baie-du-Febvre, Québec the son of Claude Lafond and Marie Anne Geoffrion

He joined the American forces in the fall of 1775 [1] as a private in the Régiment of Col. Gansewoort, Col. James Livingston of the 1st Canadian Canadian Régiment.

He was married the 28th of November 1781 at the military encampment in Schenectady, New York by Lt. Alexander Ferriole with Marie Charlotte Chartier and Pierre Roberge as witnesses to the marriage. Following the marriage we find them living in Champlain, New York.

In 1783 they were living in Chazy, New York and were listed as a family of four. Some time before the 1790 U.S. Census the family returned to Canada and his marriage was blessed at L’Acadie, Québec on the 23 Jun 1792. “We have received the mutual consent of marriage from Simon Lafond and Louise Chartier, promised thirteen years previously before witnesses in the colonies for lack of a priest and this in the presence and in the form prescribed by Our Mother the Holy Roman Church, who declared he did know how to sign. N. P Lanctot, priest. ” [2]

He received land as a refugee of the Revolutionary War in the Canadian and Nova Scotia Refugee Tract. He drew lot No. 121 of the 80 acre lots and lot No. 42 of the 420 acre lots. He cleared the land, settled on it and later sold it.

He passed away in 1795. Following his death his widow received a pension. [3]

Children

  1. Pelage Lafond was born while her parents lived in Clinton County, New York circa May 1786.
  2. Pierre Lafond was born while his parents lived in Clinton County, New York circa 1787.
  3. Jean Baptiste Lafond was born while his parents lived in Clinton County, New York on the 8 Sep 1789.
  4. Jean-François was born in L’Acadie, Québec on the 1 Sep 1792 soon after they moved back to Québec.
  5. Hilaire Lafond was born circa 1794 and was married before 1842.

Sources

  1. DeMarce, Virginia Easley. Canadian Participants in the American Revolution
  2. "Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8993-CS15?cc=1321742&wc=9RLD-7M4%3A14556201%2C14556202%2C18232503 : 16 July 2014), L'Acadie > Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie > Index 1784-1876 Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1784-1795 > image 376 of 521; Archives Nationales du Quebec (National Archives of Quebec), Montreal.
  3. U.S. Pensioners 1818-1872




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