colony began on 28 April 1720 and the records show few who served as faithfully or as long. In 1725 he was appointed a notary public and deputy collector of customs for Annapolis Royal, and in
ADHÉMAR DE SAINT-MARTIN, ANTOINE (baptized Anthony), royal notary, clerk of court, process-server, and prison
ADHÉMAR, JEAN-BAPTISTE, clerk of court, court officer, royal notary; baptized 16 March 1689 in Montreal, son
.
Nothing is known of Jean-Baptiste-Amable Adhémar’s childhood or education. As royal notary in Montreal, the centre of the fur trade, his father was called upon to draw up numerous hiring contracts for the
royal notaries, and may himself have trained as a physician. He married Geneviève Blondeau at Montreal on 17 Oct. 1768, and shortly after their marriage he and his wife moved to Detroit (Mich
Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye. Official correspondence and notarial acts show that he was involved in the fur trade from 1699 up to the year of his death, 1709, when he was sentenced to pay
AO, Hiram Walker Hist. Museum coll., 20–138; RG 1, A-I-6: 303–4, 638–39. DPL, Burton Hist. Coll., Detroit notarial papers, 1737–95 (transcripts
. r.r.g.]
Baylis Public Library (Saint Ste Marie, Mich.), Mackinac notarial records (photocopies at DPL, Burton Hist. Coll.). Private arch
Numerous important notarial instruments concerning Charles Alexander are at the ANQ-M in the minute-books of Hugh Brodie (CN1-58, 1864–98), James Stewart Hunter (CN1-208, 1869–1910), and Charles Cushing (CN1
AMEAU, dit Saint-Séverin, SÉVERIN, soldier, royal notary, clerk of court, court officer
documents reveal that Amiot thought more highly of the silversmith’s art and its creators than did Quebec silversmiths before him. In 1816 a notary, at Amiot’s dictation, termed him a “Maître ès Art
at Tonnerre (dept. of Yonne), France, son of François André, a lawyer in the parlement, and Marie Turin; m. in 1694 Claude, daughter of Gabriel Fredin, king’s counsellor, notary, and
spending his summer holidays there, and Félicité’s older brother Élie Angers, a notary who wrote poetry when the spirit moved him and who had been a friend of Octave
ARCHAMBEAULT (Archambault), LOUIS, notary and politician; b
*, a notary and politician, and Marguerite-Élisabeth Dugal; brother of Sir Horace
Edward Carritt, but, dissatisfied with that profession, he became a pupil of William Sutherland, a leading barrister in the city. Archibald was commissioned as a notary public in 1836 and as an attorney in
routine problems. His inconsistency, as usual, made his work more difficult than necessary. He had always believed in using Acadians as rent-gatherers and notaries, and as far back as 1727 had appointed
Peter Diehl (incorrectly named John Justus Diehl), should be treated cautiously. A notarial act (ANQ-M, CN1-29, 5 Feb. 1800) indicates that this nephew was placed with surgeons as an apprentice
AUBER, CLAUDE, royal notary, clerk of court then judge of the provost court of the seigneury of Beaupré; b
military governor of Picardy. Charles’ godfather was Charles Parmentier, the Duc’s maitre d’hôtel. Mention is also made, in a notarial deed of 1695, of a second son, Louis, who was residing in