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La SALAMANDRE et  La LIONNE

                                                                                                        1632
 
The colonists embarked in Honfleur on April 18, 1632, on the two boats of the royal navy: La SALAMANDRE and La LIONNE. The two boats weigning  each one 300 tons. One of the ship was a warship  and the other a "patache", of hight sea armed in merchantship. They went up in Le Havre to charge some passengers, of the provisioning of construction and the heavy armaments. They set out again of Le Havre on April 21, 1632. The documents of this period include invoices and payments of a thousand of "pounds" for forwarding. The orders of the Richelieu Cardinal in Caen indicated that the men to immigrate is catholics.
Are also voyage, immigrants who return to the country after the English occupation.
 

NOTAIRY JEHAN FRESQUET

April 8, 1632   Contract of undertaking

Contract of service for forty men for the establishment of a colony in News-France by Sieur Guillaume de Caën. The colonists will embark on the boats of Emery de Caën (one of the directors of the Co of Sieurs de Caën which has the monopoly of the draft of the furs in News-France since 1622) and its lieutenant Charles Du Plessis-Bochart to go to receive the town of Port-Royal of English. They embark on the ships La Salamandre and La Lionne,  the committed colonists must winter in Quebec and must work during three years for "the Company of News-France". They will receive each one an advance on their wages. The colonists who signed or put their mark in bottom of this collective agreement are:

Name Civil status Birth place Parish Residence Profession
CharlesLeroux                                        Unmaried

Dieppe

    Under clerk of Mrss of the News-France co
Adrien Duchesne   Dieppe     Surgeon
Paul Lejeune         Jesuit Father
Envoy by Richelieu
Père de Nou         Jesuit Father
Envoy by Richelieu
Brother Gilbert         Brother envoy by Richelieu
Nicolas Nau dit LaViolette   Unmaried Orléans      
Germain Goudart dit Saint-Germain   Rouen   Rouen  
Mathieu Drelenqué Unmaried Rouen   Saint-Pierre    
Robert Valle dit Sauvage   Unmaried

Crespin en Valois

  Havre  
Nicolas Saunat  dit Saint-Maurice Unmaried Paris
des Barres Saint-Gervais Street
Saint-Gervais    
Estienne Fremin    Unmaried Rouen  Saint-Martin-sur-Renelle Rouen  
Jean Thisserent Married Rouen Saint-Godard Rouen Carpenter
Guillaume Becquet Married

Mont-aux-Malades
near Rouen

    Carpenter
Jean Martin   Unmaried Compiègne   Compiègne Carpenter
Nicolas Lesage   Unmaried Rouen Saint-Godard   Carpenter
Martin Grounelle   Married Caumont near La Bouille     Carpenter
Jean Jollis   Sézanne en Brie     Carpenter
Michel Flet Unmaried

Rouen

Sainte-Croix-Saint-Ouen   Carpenter
Michel Talon Unmaried Rouen Sainte-Croix-Saint-Ouen   Carpenter
Louis Caron Unmaried Paris    Paris,
Du Louvre street
Rider
Léger Vermier   Married

Etouy near
Clermont en Beauvoisin

    "Scieu diaix"  sawyer
Jean Ducaux Married Rouen   Rouen "Scieu diaix"  sawyer
François Bourdarel   Cotentin     "Scieu diaix"  sawyer,
Carpenter and cartwright
Jean Gosse   Fécamp     "Scieu diaix" sawyer
Gabriel Le Cordier dit de Lhorme   Unmaried Lisieux Saint-Désir Lisieux  
Estienne Lefebvre Unmaried Saint-Maur-des-Fossés
near Paris
    Cooper
Simon Baugalla   Unmaried Rouen   Rouen Cooper
Daniel Feys   Unmaried Bruges     Edge tool maker
Nicolas François   Unmaried

Bruges

    Edge tool maker
Louis Le Febvre Unmaried Rouen Saint-Vivien    
Jacques Bérard Unmaried

Rouen

Saint-Godard   Mason
Nicolas Philippes Unmaried Rouen Saint-Maclou Rouen  
Adrien Dabancourt dit La Caille Married

Beauvais

Saint-Paul    
Nicolas Philippes   Unmaried

Rouen

Saint-Maclou Rouen  
Jean Leleu Unmaried

Grainville-sur-Ry
near Rouen

     
Mathurin Mérellet Unmaried Poitiers      
Guillaume Annot   Unmaried Le Mans      
Nicolas Le Signeure Unmaried Rouen Saint-Cande le Jeune    
Robert Quibert   Married Saint-Pierre
near Rouen
    Baker
Jacques Deportes Unmaried Rouen Saint-Maclou Rouen Shoe-maker
Guillaume Le Febvre Unmaried

Rouen

Saint-Martin-sur-Renelle    
 

Absent at the time of the signature of the act

Adrien Duchesne  

Dieppe

    Surgeon
Louis Caron Unmaried

Paris

  Paris,
Du Louvre street
Rider
Gabriel Le Cordier dit de Lhorme   Unmaried Lisieux Saint-Désir Lisieux  
Jean Jollis  

Sézanne en Brie

    Carpenter
Jean Gosse,  

Fécamp

    Scieux daix" sawyer
Jean Ducaux   Married        

François Bourdarel

         
Estienne Lefebvre   Unmaried        
Simon Baugalla   Unmaried        
Daniel Feys   Unmaried        
Nicolas François  Unmaried        
Louis Le Febvre  Unmaried        

Jacques Bérard 

Unmaried        
Nicolas Philippes Unmaried        
Adrien Dabancourt dit La Caille Married        
Jean Leleu Unmaried        
Mathurin Mérellet   Unmaried        

Guillaume Annot  

Unmaried        

Nicolas Le Signeure

Unmaried        

Robert Quibert  

Married        
Jacques Deportes   Unmaried        
 

 Also voyage of the immigrants returning to the countries after the English occupation

Jacques Couillard dit l'Espinay          
Thierry Desdames          
Pierre Leroy dit Dumé          
Pierre Desportes   Lisieux     Ancestor
Hélène Desportes veuve Morin   Lisieux     Ancestor
Pierre Desportes's daughter
Abraham Martin   Edimbourg Ecosse     Ancestor
Arrived to Quebec in 1619, passed to France after the catch of Quebec through English the Kirke brothers on July 24, 1629 and of return on this ship
Marguerite Langlois
épouse de Abraham Martin
        Ancestor
Eustache Martin     10 ans         Abraham Martin's child
Marguerite Martin  8 ans   Quebec     Ancestor
Abraham Martin's child
Hélène Martin         5 ans         Abraham Martin's child
Noël Juchereau des Châtelets          
Guillaume Guillemot          
Olivier Le Tardif   Etables-sur-Mer
diocese of St Brieuc
    Interpret, made draft of furs for the company of Hundred Associates
SOURCE:  Departmental records of Seine-Maritime;   Tabellionnage Series, 2E70
and  the book "Brève relation du voyage de la Nouvelle France", by the father Lejeune, published by S. Cramoisy, Paris, 1632)
 

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