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François Séguin dit Ladéroute: Carignan Soldier, Weaver, and Settler of Boucherville
François Séguin dit Ladéroute came from the region of Bray, west of Beauvais, in the former province of Picardy. Orphaned at age six when his mother Marie Massieu died, he enlisted in the Carignan-Salières Regiment and arrived in New France aboard the Saint-Sébastien on September 12, 1665. After marrying Fille du Roi Jeanne Petit in 1672, he settled at Boucherville as a weaver, raising 11 children. Today, his descendants number between 1.89 and 2.31 million people.
Part of the Storyline Genealogy series: Carignan-Salières — From Soldiers to Settlers
Jean Perrier dit Lafleur
Jean Perrier dit Lafleur came to Quebec as a soldier in the summer of 1665 and stayed when the troops went home. Which company he served in is disputed: the 1668 roll of soldiers turned habitants places him under La Brisardière of the Régiment d'Orléans, a notarial act of the year before places him in a company of the Carignan-Salières. He took two arpents at Beauport in 1668, married the Fille du roi Marie Gaillard in 1669, and fathered six children in ten years. The 1681 census records one gun, no livestock and no cleared land. He died before he was forty-one, with no burial record. A single document, written a year after his death, calls him a master weaver — which explains the empty columns better than anything else in the record.
Part of the Storyline Genealogy series: Carignan-Salières — From Soldiers to Settlers