accepted questioning, even before a notary, about what he had seen on his voyages; the monk and historian André Thevet
the absence of a notary by Jean Guyon Du Buisson, senior, is the oldest marriage contract preserved
Quebec.
There is one last document that does seem to refer to Adrien Du Chesne. This is a notary’s deed from Dieppe, dated 17 Jan. 1656
DUQUET DE LA CHESNAYE, PIERRE, explorer, royal notary, attorney-general
June 1494 between Spain and Portugal to settle conflicts arising from Columbus’s first voyage]. On 13 March 1521, he had a Lisbon notary duly record his discoveries, made during a recent
Pierre Dubois Davaugour, clerk of the seneschal’s court and of the Conseil Souverain, deputy to the attorney-general, seigneurial attorney, seneschal judge, and royal notary; b. c
arrived at Quebec before 1640. They went in for business, and worked in partnership. A number of notarial documents of the period bear as a signature “Sieurs Mathurin, Jehan, and Pierre Gangnon, brothers
Trois-Rivières. The marriage contract, drawn up before the notary Séverin Ameau
GLORIA, JEAN, clerk in charge of stores, procurator of the Communauté des Habitants, royal notary, and merchant; b. shortly
GODET, ROLLAND, soldier, notary and clerk of court 1651–53.
In 1651
seneschal’s court and from 1662 a notary. Gourdeau de Beaulieu was assassinated on 29 May 1663 by one of his servants, who to hide his crime set fire to the house
able to act as a notary public. In fact, the council had jurisdiction over everything that concerned the fur trade and the general interest of the country
four different notaries and provided four different residential addresses. All indications are that the efforts to launch a professional practice of good standing did not meet expectations
.
The fifth of nine children, Jogues was born in a prosperous family that included notaries, lawyers, apothecaries, and merchants. He began his studies in the family home under the direction of a private
of their preparations and settled certain matters with the notary Rageot. They probably left Quebec the next day, two days after the appointed date
: on 21 March, in the presence of Teuleron, a notary at La Rochelle, Noël Juchereau Des Chatelets purchased in his brother’s name the fief of Saint-Michel, owned by M. de
Prouville de Tracy in 1665. By a notarial contract drawn up on 26 Aug. 1667 at Quebec, he purchased from Dominique Lefebvre Du Guesclin, for the sum of 500 livres, a
a command in the French armies.” A document of 1660, in the registry of the notary Audouart
. We have no space here to discuss the errors of the Factum; we shall merely outline what happened. On 17 Aug. 1612 La Saussaye undertook, by a notarial contract, to charter and
France.
The inventory of Charles Le Moyne’s possessions, which was drawn up shortly after his death by the notary