Evidence Timeline
Boucherville: Birth and Marriage
1688–1710
1688
Born and baptizedBoucherville
Born at Boucherville « environ les quatre heures après midy »; baptized at Sainte-Famille. His father, François Séguin dit Ladéroute, signed.
Marriage contractBoucherville
In the presbytery. « fils de deffuns François Ceguain et de Jeanne petit ». A cow, a filly and two pigs from the bride’s parents; groom, bride and mother could not sign.
MarriageBoucherville
To Geneviève Barbot dite Boisdoré, at Sainte-Famille, with a dispensation from the banns.
Land and the Giasson Farm
1713–1717
Loan from Pierre ChaperonBoucherville
160 livres in five 32-livre cards, his brother Simon as guarantor; a running account in money and grain already open.
Buys land on Île JésusBoucherville
Three arpents by twenty from Jean-Baptiste Leclerc, at Pointe-aux-Trembles: 200 livres, 150 down in card money. « Jean Baptiste Seguin La deroute demeurant a Boucherville ».
Takes Jean Giasson’s farmBoucherville
Three years at half profit; house, bakehouse, barn and stable; he carts Giasson’s half of the grain to Montréal. Gilles Papin, merchant, witnesses.
Sells the Île Jésus landBoucherville
To his brother Pierre for 350 livres in card money; the land now carries a small cedar house. Pierre signs; Jean-Baptiste and Geneviève cannot.
« Fermier de Giasson »Boucherville
At the baptism of his son Joseph the curé styles him the tenant of Giasson’s farm.
The Seigneur’s Farm and the Lost Land
1719–1724
Begins on the seigneur’s farmBoucherville
Tenancy of Pierre Boucher’s home farm at half profit from Saint-Michel, as the lease of June 1720 records. Barn, stable, henhouse; no house named.
Debt for necessitiesBoucherville
« a leurs urgentes necessités »: 105 livres in hard money to Gilles Papin. Living « en la maison de la veuve Dufort » — very probably Marie-Charlotte Philippe-Étienne, widowed 1708.
The farm lease is writtenBoucherville
In the seigneur’s house; Geneviève co-lessee; neither can sign.
A concession of his ownBoucherville
Laframboise’s grant in the fourth range is bounded by « celle de Baptiste Ceguain La Deroutte ». How he came to hold it is not known.
Buys uncleared land on creditBoucherville
Fifty arpents of standing timber and meadow in the Côte Saint-Jean for 400 livres; no wood to be cut until 100 livres is paid. Living « en la maison de la ferme ».
Gives the land upBoucherville
Passed to Joseph Guibord for 415 livres — the 400 unpaid and fifteen of arrears — all payable to La Perrière. « demeurant en ce bourg de Boucherville ».
Last baptism at BouchervilleBoucherville
Jean-Louis, the parents « parroissiens de Boucherville »; godparents Jean-Louis Bougret dit Du Fort and Marie Besnard, wife of Gilles Papin.
Chambly
1725–1728
« Le nommé LaDeroutte » at VaudreuilUnidentified
The seigneur’s aveu et dénombrement lists a holder known only by the dit, with a house and fourteen arpents in use. Not identified; not tied to Jean-Baptiste.
Godfather at ChamblyChambly
« le parrain a esté Jean Baptiste La deroute » at the baptism of Joseph Saintonge.
Tenth child at ChamblyChambly
Marie Françoise Agathe, the only child not baptized at Boucherville.
1728
Death and burialChambly
Died at the hospital of Montréal; buried outside the walls as « Jean Baptiste La Deroute… habitant de la paroisse de Chambly ».
After the Death
1732–1734
A child of the second marriage buriedMontréal
Marguerite-Geneviève, aged two, daughter of Philippe-Charles Rolland and Geneviève Boisdoré — probably the burial for which the curé’s fee appears in the 1734 inventory.
Inventory of the first marriage’s goodsMontréal
Taken in Geneviève’s room on the Place Notre-Dame; Simon Séguin attends for the children. Goods 56 livres 10 sols; debts 187 livres 10 sols.
« Réduite à l’aumône »Montréal
The Chambly land had been bought by spoken agreement, 315 livres unpaid; Hertel de Saint-Louis let it be sold for the widow. The seigneur of Chambly and the fort’s chaplain attest her poverty.
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