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Guillaume David may have been born
somewhere in France PR1, although René Jetté stated
that his origins were unknown JE4. Guillaume was the brother of Claude David and
the brother-in-law of Suzanne de Noyon PE15, JE4, TR8. Claude
David was born in 1621 TA4, TA11 and
was twenty-five during his first documented appearance in Trois-Rivières, Québec in 1646; he obtained or was granted land on June 2,
1647 TR8. Suzanne de Noyon immigrated to Trois-Rivières, Québec from
Normandy in 1649 when she was twenty-three TR8. Claude married Suzanne de Noyon (or “Denoyon”), the daughter of Edouard de Noyon and Catherine
Chevalier, in or by the year 1649 TA4, TA11, TR8.
Claude David and Suzanne de Noyon were the parents of Michel, baptized on April
9, 1650 at Trois-Rivières (Three Rivers), Joseph, baptized on June 4, 1652,
Etienne, baptized on July 21, 1653, Claude, baptized on December 22, 1656, Barthélemy, baptized on September 10, 1659, Thérèse,
baptized on September 4, 1664, and René, baptized on April 24, 1676 TA4, TA11. He was
an armorer who set out for Lake Superior in 1660 and may not have returned to
Québec until 1663 TR8. Suzanne (de Noyon) was still alive in 1681 TR8. Claude
was buried at Cap-de-Madeleine on December 2, 1687 TA4, TA11, TR8. Cap-de-Madeleine is just north
of Trois-Rivières on both the St. Lawrence and the Saint-Maurice rivers.
A
fleet of five ships began to arrive in Québec
on May 27, 1657, which included the Vierge,
the Taureau (which arrived on June 22, 1657),
the Armes-d’Amsterdam (which arrived on August
20, 1657), the Saint-Sébastien, and the Nantois
TR8. Guillaume married Marie Armand TA4, PR1, PE15, TA11,
perhaps in about the year 1656 in Trois-Rivières in Québec JE4, TA11. Guillaume
David was first noted as living in Québec in
1657 when he was twenty-one; on October 23, 1657 his son was baptized at Trois-Rivières
TR8.
Guillaume David was confirmed in Québec on August 10,
1659 at the age of twenty-three QU1,
JE4, PR1, TR8, indicating that his
birth occurred in about the year 1636. The record explained that this list was
a register of names of persons who have been confirmed in the parish
Church of Our Lady of Québec, and others of this Diocese, by Monsignor The
Illustrious and Most Reverend Bishop of Peter, Vicar Apostolic in the whole
country of New France (“Registre Des Noms des Personnes qui ont esté Confirmées en L’Eglise Paroissiale
de Nostre Dame de Quebec, et autres
de ce Diocese: Par Monseigneur L’Illustrissime
et Reverendissime Evesque
De Petrée, Vicaire Apostolique dans tout le pais de
la nouvelle France”) QU1. Guillaume David was named in a baptismal record of Guillaume
Masse, the son of Pierre Masse and Marie Pinette, at Notre-Dame-de-Québec on September 21, 1660 PR1.
On
April 3, 1663, Guillaume David was mentioned in a list of landholders TR5, TR8 which
stated that since the previous March (in 1662), he held a parcel of forty acres
of land in the seigneurie (lordship)
of Sillery, which was two acres wide and twenty acres
deep TR5. The deed of this concession of land on St. Ignace Road from the
Jesuits to Guillaume David, located in the seigneury of the Sauvages
(Sillery), was signed by Hierosme
Lalemant, superior of the Jesuit Fathers BI7. Guillaume David’s name was mentioned, likely as a witness, to
the marriage of Adrien Blanquet and Anne LeMaistre at Notre-Dame-de-Québec on November 11, 1663;
this ceremony was officiated by Henri de Bernieres PR1. Guillaume David and René Branche were mentioned in a document
pertaining to a beef market which was notarized by Gilles Rageon
in Québec on July 2, 1667 BI8.
In a
document of a statement of account between Guillaume and the Sieur d'Auteuil notarized by Romain Bequet
on August 5, 1668, the residence of Guillaume David and his wife, Marie “armdd” was within the seigneurie of Dombourg
BI6. Guillaume David and his wife, Marie Hermant,
still residents of the seigneurie of Dombourg, were
mentioned in a sale to Denis Joseph Ruette d’Auteuil in a document notarized by Romain Bequet on September 22, 1668 BI6. The seigneurie of Dombourg was located
on the northern coast of the St. Lawrence River, southwest of Québec, where the
town of Neuville is presently situated. For clarification, Denis-Joseph
Ruette d’Auteuil was the
Sieur d’Auteuil whose mother-in-law was Anne Gasnier, the second wife of Jean Bourdon EC1. Guillaume David, Jean de la Londe,
and Jacob L’Heureux were called residents of the
seigneurie of Autray in a document dated October 19,
1668 by the notary Romain Bequet which detailed a
memorandum of their debts to Anne Gasnier, who was
then a widow of Jean Bourdon BI6. Like
the seigneurie of Dombourg, the seigneurie of Autray was also on the northern (or western) side of the
St. Lawrence River, but it was much further south of Québec, and was nearly
opposite of Sorel HA12.
On December 2, 1671,
Guillaume David and Marie Armand were mentioned in the marriage contract
between his nephew, Michel David (the son of Claude and Suzanne David) and
Françoise Raclos PE15.
While the signatures or marks of Guillaume and Marie were absent from the
document, their presence in Champlain, Québec, the location in which the contract
was created, was indicated by the phrase, “Lesquelles parties déclarent... en
la présence de leurs
parents et amis pour ce
[faire] assemblés, [à] savoir, de la part du dit Michel David… de Guillaume David, de Marie [Armand, sa femme]” PE15.
This can be translated as “Which said parties
declare... in the presence of their
relatives and friends for this [purpose] assembled, namely on the part of said Michel
David... Guillaume David, Marie [Armand, his wife]”. Five additional names
preceded the names of Guillaume and Marie PE15.
He
was probably the man called “Gylion Davis” who, along
with Peter “Montray”, were mentioned in a letter
written to Captain Anthon Brockholes of James Fort in New York, by Captain
Sylvester Salisbury of Fort Albany, on May 24, 1678 CH13. It seems as though Gylion Davis and Peter Montray were entrusted with the task of delivering this
letter to Captain Brockholes CH13. A portion of that letter has been
reproduced below CH13:
The bearers if this
Letter being tow [two] of the Company that Came from Cannda
haith: a: Desire to Goe to New Yorke and to speake with you, which Have a desire to Come and Live in
these partes, soe you may
give them what answer you see Conveanent there Names is as folloeth – Gylion Davis: Peter: Montray
It
can be inferred that “Gylion Davis”
and “Peter Montray” were actually Guillaume David and
Pierre Montras, because they were called “Guillaume
Davy” and “Pierre Monseray” in a letter from
Commander Brockholes to Governor Frontenac, which was dated June 6, 1678 CH13. Commander
Brockholes wrote that these men were “two of your servants who accompanied
Captain du Lusigny to Orange when he was escorting
back the Englishmen who had been taken prisoner by the savages and came here,
on their way back to see their wives’ relatives” CH13. On the same date,
Anthon Brockholes replied to Captain Sylvester Salisbury CH13. The letter from
Brockholes to Salisbury stated in part CH13:
Yours of May 24th… I received by the
two frenchmen who are returning back to meete their Comerades as they
shall come from Boston so to accompany them home They have beene
so kindly entertained by their friends here, that they intimate a great Inclinacion to returne and bring
their familyes with them, which I tell them if they
have Leave from their Governor, they shall bee welcome
to, (that is if there bee peace) but either in peace
or warre they will not obtaine
such Leave I know few or none comming from thence but
by stealth; They goeing up by themselves in a birchen
Canooe I have given them a Passeport,
that they may not bee molested, They have likewise a
Letter from mee to the Governor of Canada in answer to his Complementall
one brought by them…
According
to a letter written by Sieur de Saurel (this was
probably Pierre de Saurel) to Jacques Du Chesneau (Duchesneau), the Intendant
of New France, which was received by Du Chesneau on
November 14, 1679, Guillaume David lived in the area of
Lake Champlain in about 1677, but then moved to New Netherland, where he
resided in 1679 OC6. Sieur de Saurel stated that the information and news from Orange
which he communicated to Duchesneau was told to him
by a man called Lafleur, who had heard it from Guillaume David OC6. Lafleur added that he later verified the information which had
been told to him by Guillaume OC6. A
portion of this letter, which had already been translated from French, has been
reproduced below OC6 (a
copy of the original letter, written in French, can be located on the Library
and Archives Canada website LI6):
Having
gone to Lake Champlain to hunt for Ranontons, he [Lafleur] met Guillaume David, who resided
about two years ago in these parts, and who went with a big boy, his
son-in-law, his wife and several small children to New
Netherland, where he lives at present. Lafleur inquired the news from his
country; to which David answered him that Mde. the
Governess of Manatte dining at one Mainvielle, a French Merchant’s, told him that news had
come of a French fleet having entered the Thames and captured the English
Admiral, and sunk a number of ships in sight of London; that the French have no
longer freedom to trade at Orange, and that as soon as they arrive there they
are sent to Manatte and thence to Barbadoes.
Lafleur was at Orange to learn the confirmation of this news, which he found to
be true.
According to René Jetté, Guillaume was a resident of Sorel in 1674, was briefly in New York in 1677, and was an inhabitant of La Rochelle in 1711 JE4. La Rochelle is located on the Bay of Biscay in France, yet he was mentioned in a contract dated October 26, 1711 by Le Pailleur JE4. Michel Le Pailleur was a royal notary who lived in Québec and Montreal TA4.
Guillaume died outside of Québec PR1.
Marie Armand was also called Marie “Harman” QU1,
“Harmans” QUI, or “Hermant” QU1, but was more frequently called Marie
Armand TA4,
PR1, JE4, GA1. Peter J.
Gagné stated that Marie Armand was one of many filles à marier, or marriageable girls, whose origins and
parentage in France were unidentified GA1.
Filles à marier
sailed to New France between 1634 and 1663, were of marriageable age, and were
accompanied neither by a husband or by both parents GA1. Some of these
women traveled with one parent, but many made the voyage alone GA1. Unlike the Filles du Roi who were sponsored by King Louis XIV and who sailed
to New France between 1663 through 1673 for the purpose of populating the area,
the Filles à marier
were not enlisted by the state, nor was their passage funded by the king GA1. James L. Hansen took an opposing view to
her origins, stating that it is conceivable that she was not French HA12. A person named Armand, whose surname is
not known, was in Québec in November 1646
TR8.
This person may have been amongst seventy-three identified immigrants who
arrived by ship in September and October 1646 to the Québec and Trois-Rivières area; these individuals travelled in a
fleet of ships which included the Cardinal, the Saint-Sauveur or Neuf, the Notre-Dame, or the Petit-Saint-Christophe
TR8.
Marie Armand was
pregnant when she arrived in Québec at age nineteen in 1657 TR8 and she was
twenty-one years old when she was confirmed at Notre-Dame in Québec on
August 10, 1659 QU1, JE4, TR8. She was the mother of Jacques, Anne,
Marguerite, Marie Anne, Madeleine, may have been the mother of Charles and David, and she was the mother of
Marie-Angélique.
Jacques David, the son
of Guillaume David and Marie (unknown) was baptized at Trois-Rivières,
Québec on October 23, 1657 in a ceremony
officiated by Pierre Bailloquet and witnessed by Jacques LaFontaine, Suzanne
Denoyon, and Claude David PR1, QU1, JE4, TA4. Jacques David was confirmed at Sorel about the year 1676, and
likely sometime during the summer months (the date of this record was omitted,
but it was located between confirmations which occurred in Montreal in May 1676
and in Québec in August 1676) PR1, QUi. The marriage of Jacques David and Cathrine Lussyé (or Catherine L’Huissier) occurred on October 11, 1690 in Boucherville, Québec PR1, QU1. Jacques was called a
master toolmaker (“maistre taillandier”)
of Varennes who was about 30 years old and the son of Guillaume David and Marie
Herman (or Armand), parents who at that time lived in Trois-Rivières QU1. In a ceremony officiated by Pierre Rodolphe Guybert de la Saudrays, Jacques married
Cathrine Lussyé, the
daughter of Jacques Lussyé and Cathrine
Clerice (or Jacques L’Huissier
and Catherine Clerice), who was then about 25 years
old and resided in Varennes in the parish of Ste-Famille-de-Boucherville
PR1, QU1.
Prior to the ceremony, banns had been published on September 29th and on October 1st and 8th, 1690 QU1. In his death record, Jacques was
called a blacksmith (“forgeron”) who died in
Boucherville on October 29, 1708 QU1.
Anne
David, the daughter of Guillaume David and Marie Harmans, was born on
November 29, 1659 and was baptized the following day at Notre-Dame-de-Québec in
a ceremony officiated by Jean Torcapel and witnessed
by Philippe Nepeu, Suzanne Bothfer,
and Mathieu Hubout PR1. Anne died the following month QU1, TA4, JE4. A record for Anne David, with no parents listed, indicated that
this Anne David died at the age of eight days (“Anne David aageé
de huiet jours”) and was
buried on December 21, 1659 at the cemetery in Québec
QU1.
Marguerite
David, the daughter of Guillaume David and Marie Harman, was born on
April 12, 1661 and was baptized at Notre-Dame-de-Québec the following day at in
a ceremony officiated by Henri de Bernieres and
witnessed by Charles Amador Martin, Marguerite Boucher, and (unknown) Touppin PR1.
She was the mother
of Marie Anne, born in Québec on December 15, 1663 and baptized the
following day at Notre-Dame QU1, JE4, TA4, PR1. Marie Anne David, the daughter of Guillaume David and Marie Harmans, was
born on December 15, 1663 and was baptized at Notre-Dame-de-Québec on
December 16, 1663 in a ceremony witnessed by Denis Roberge, Anne Gasnier, and (unknown)
Bourdon and performed by Henri de Bernieres PR1. Marie David of Sorel, the daughter of
Guillaume David and Marie Arman of Sorel, entered into
a marriage contract on December 8, 1674 with Pierre Gerardeau
of Sorel, the son of Louis Gerardeau and Suzanne Billaud; this contract was notarized by Antoine Adhemar and was cancelled on April 4, 1675 PR1. Marie Anne was confirmed in 1678 at
Sorel QU1.
She
was the mother of Madeleine, who was born and baptized on February 15,
1666 at Notre-Dame QU1, JE4, TA4, PR1. Madeleine
David, the daughter of Guillaume David and Marie Harmans, was born on February
15, 1666 and was baptized at Notre-Dame-de-Québec by Henri de Bernieres on the same day in a ceremony witnessed by Rene
Branche, Denise Sevestre, Philippe Neveu, and Helene Desportes, who
was the midwife PR1. Madeleine married
Jacques LePage about the year 1688 TA11.
She later married Jean Poussard in Montreal. The
marriage record of Madeleine David to Jean (called “bon apetit”)
Poussard, the son of Gabriel Poussard,
on November 8, 1711 at Basilique Notre-Dame in
Montréal mentioned the death of Jaques le Page QU1. Madeleine David was buried on February 3, 1715 at
Notre-Dame-de-Montréal QU1.
Her death record stated she was the wife of Jean Poussard
“called Bonapetit” QU1.
It has been
hypothesized that Marie may have been the mother of Charles, who was
born about 1672 HA12 and married Antje Lent at the Tarrytown
Dutch Church on April 10, 1706 HA31, and David, who was born about 1675 HA12 and married Jannitje
Springsteen HA31.
Lastly,
she was the mother of Marie-Angélique, who was
born on March 8, 1678 JE4, PR1, HA31 and was baptized on May 1, 1678 in Sorel,
Québec QU1, JE4, TA4, HA31, on
the St. Lawrence and the Richelieu rivers. The baptism of Marie
Angelique (“Marie-Angélique” QU1) David, daughter of Guillaume (“Guilloaume”
QU1) David and Marie Hermant, was witnessed
by Laurent Philippe, Marguerite Artel, and Jean Crevier, and was performed in
Sorel by Benoit Duplein on May 1, 1678 PR1. Marie Angelique was confirmed in 1676 at “St francois”, which was probably the
church at Saint-François-du-Lac QU1. She
may have been the “Angelica” who was also called “Engeltje
Davidse” in the record of her marriage in the Old
Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow (later called the First Reformed Church of
Tarrytown) on October 10, 1708 to Paulus Rutan CO2. The marriage record indicated that Engeltje
was born “at Laval in Canida” and that Paulus was
born in the Pals, which may have meant either the Palatinate in Germany or New
Paltz, New York CO2. Engeltje,
the wife of Paulus Rutan, was named as the mother of Jacob in a baptismal
record with dates of May 25 and 26, 1714; witnesses or sponsors to the baptism
were Carel Davidze and his
wife, Antje CO2.
Marie was still alive in 1666 TR8 and she was said to have died outside of Québec PR1.