Documents & Sources
Notarial Acts — Greffe Marien Tailhandier
Royal notary resident in the bourg of Boucherville · nine acts, 1710–1724
7 June 1710 · Boucherville
Marriage contract
Passed in the presbytery. The bride’s parents give a milch cow, a filly rising two and two pigs; douaire 150 livres, préciput 100. Groom, bride and Jeanne Petit could not sign; Jean Barbot and the curé signed.
2 February 1713 · Boucherville
Obligation to Pierre Chaperon
160 livres lent to Jean-Baptiste « en cinq cartes de trente deux livres », his brother Simon as guarantor, payable eight days after Saint-Michel, without prejudice to what he already owed on running account in money and grain.
15 September 1715 · Boucherville
Lease of Jean Giasson’s farm
Three years and three harvests; house, bakehouse, barn and stable; a horse, four oxen, six cows, six pigs, ewes and poultry. He carts Giasson’s half of the grain to Montréal. Witnesses Charles de Philbert and Gilles Papin.
11 October 1717 · Boucherville
Sale to his brother Pierre
Sixty arpents on the north shore of Île Jésus with a small cedar house, sold for 350 livres in card money. The title recites the Senet purchase of 5 February 1713. Pierre signed; Jean-Baptiste and Geneviève could not.
11 October 1719 · Boucherville
Obligation to Gilles Papin
105 livres in hard money at the value of France, payable at Saint-Michel 1720. Domicile elected « la maison de la veuve Dufort ou ils demeurent ».
18 June 1720 · Boucherville
Lease of the seigneur’s home farm
Pierre Boucher, seigneur de Boucherville, to Baptiste Ceguain and Geneviève Barbot at half profit from Saint-Michel 1719. Buildings: barn, stable, henhouse. Part of the stock belonged to the seigneur’s mother.
21 June 1720 · Boucherville
Concession to Nicolas Laframboise
Fifty arpents in the fourth range granted to a blacksmith. Jean-Baptiste appears only as a neighbour — the one record of a concession of his own in the fourth range.
31 October 1722 · Boucherville
Purchase from René Boucher de la Perrière
Fifty arpents in the third range, Côte Saint-Jean, for 400 livres: 100 within a year, 300 as a rente of fifteen livres. No wood to be cut until the first hundred was paid. Domicile « en la maison de la ferme a Mr de Boucherville ».
21 March 1724 · Boucherville
Sale to Joseph Guibord
The Côte Saint-Jean land passed on for exactly the unpaid price and one year’s arrears, all of it payable to La Perrière. The sellers « demeurant en ce bourg de Boucherville ».
Notarial Act — Greffe Nicolas Senet
Royal notary at Pointe-aux-Trembles · one act, 1713
5 February 1713 · Pointe-aux-Trembles
Purchase from Jean-Baptiste Leclerc
A concession of three arpents by twenty on the Île Jésus, fronting the Rivière Jésus, held by Leclerc from the seigneurs of the island. Price 200 livres: 150 paid in card money, 50 within a year. Three days after the Chaperon loan. Neither party could sign.
Notarial Acts — Greffe Joseph-Charles Raimbault
Royal notary at Montréal · two acts, March 1734
8 March 1734 · Montréal
Inventory of the community
Taken six years after his death, in Geneviève’s room on the Place Notre-Dame, at her request as guardian, Simon Séguin attending as subrogé tuteur. Goods 56 livres 10 sols; debts 187 livres 10 sols to seventeen creditors.
18 March 1734 · Montréal
Declaration on the Chambly land
Louis Hertel de Saint-Louis, Jean-Baptiste Boucher de Niverville, seigneur of Chambly, and Father Michel Levasseur, chaplain at Fort Chambly: the land had been sold on a spoken agreement, 315 livres were unpaid at the death, and Saint-Louis let it be sold for the widow’s benefit.
Parish Registers
Sainte-Famille de Boucherville · Notre-Dame de Montréal
12 November 1688 · Boucherville
Baptism of Jean-Baptiste
Born 10 November around four in the afternoon; baptized at Sainte-Famille. His father signed the register.
7 June 1710 · Boucherville
Marriage
Jean-Baptiste Séguin, 22, son of the late François Séguin dit La Deroute, and Geneviève Barbot Boisdoré, 21, with a dispensation from the banns.
24 November 1717 · Boucherville
Baptism of Joseph
The curé’s style for the father ties the Giasson lessee of 1715 to the husband of Geneviève Barbot.
29 November 1724 · Boucherville
Baptism of Jean-Louis
Godfather Jean-Louis Bougret dit Du Fort; godmother Marie Besnard, wife of Gilles Papin. The family’s last record at Boucherville.
2 September 1725 · Chambly
Godfather at Chambly
Baptism of Joseph, son of Jean Saintonge and Thérèse Laloitte; godmother Madeleine Ménard, wife of Reneaudet. The same form of name, in the same parish, as Jean-Baptiste’s burial in 1728.
14 May 1728 · Montréal
Burial
Died the day before at the hospital of Montréal; buried in the cemetery outside the walls.
Published Source
The Vaudreuil declaration of 1725
2 March 1725 · Québec
Aveu et dénombrement of Vaudreuil
The seigneur’s declaration of the holdings in his fief, in order along the shore. The entry gives a dit only; its holder is not identified.
Sources & Finding Aids
Repositories
- Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Montréal. Fonds Cour supérieure, District judiciaire de Montréal, Greffes de notaires (CN601). Fonds creator: Montréal (Québec : district judiciaire), Notariat.
- FamilySearch, Montréal notarial records: image group 008327233 (Senet, 7 Jan 1711 – 6 Oct 1723); image group 008272947 (Tailhandier, 14 Aug 1699 – 4 Feb 1718) and 008272948 (Tailhandier, 8 Feb 1718 – 6 Aug 1730), catalog 529348; image group 008327823 (J.-C. Raimbault, 4 Jun 1731 – 7 Aug 1735).
Finding aids
- Association des Séguin d’Amérique, member fiche no. 6577 (Jean-Baptiste Séguin and Geneviève Barbeau dit Boisdoré), with abstracts of the notarial acts.
- Raymond Séguin, with research by Gilles Birtz, “Jean-Baptiste Seguin and Geneviève Barbeau (1688–1773),” La Séguinière 12, no. 1 (March 2002), English edition, trans. Réjean E. Séguin.
- Index leaves filmed with each Tailhandier reel, and the typed index filmed with the J.-C. Raimbault reel.
Other sources
- Adhémar Jeannotte, ptre, L’histoire de Vaudreuil (rev. ed., 2015).
- PRDH-IGD, Université de Montréal: family 10660; baptism 3518.
The case study summary sets out the argument; the methodology explains how each act was found and tied to Jean-Baptiste; the evidence timeline places every record in sequence.
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