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• Residence: 1620, New France
• Residence: 1628, La Ventrouze, France
• Land: 8 Feb 1641/42, La Ventrouze, France
• First mentioned in Canada: 1647
• Residence: 1647, Ste. Madeleine, La Ventrouze, France
• Residence: 4 Apr 1659, Beauport, Quebec, Canada
• Confirmation: 2 Feb 1659/60, Chateau Richer, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 1666, Beauport, Quebec, Canada
• Occupation: 1666; coal man
• Census: 1667, Beauport, Quebec, Canada
• Debt: 29 Mar 1677
• Death: 16 Feb 1679/80
• Burial: 17 Feb 1679/80

Notes:

Additional information:
Jacques used a mark to sign documents. The mark was a spindle for winding thread or a pair of butterfly wings.

Land:
"On 8 February 1642 he remitted to Noel Collet a piece of land in the town of la Vantrouze, adjoining Noel Juchereau, which he had acquired from the late Simone Ernou, widow of Joachim Collet, brother of the said Noel, on 14 March 1641, for the sum of 29 livres which Gilles Lefort owed to the said Collet in a contract of acquistions". The document was signed by notary Me Choiseau at Tourouvre in France.

Residence:
La Ventrouze is a community in the present-day department of Orne, arrondissement of Mortagne, canton of Tourouvre, in the for province of Perche, located between Maine and Normandie.

Residence:
Jacques had settled on 29 arpents of land in 1655. It was written that: "The said Lehoux had built a small house, barn and stable".

Confirmation:
Jacques was confirmed along with his son Jean.

Census:

Jacques Lehoux, charbonnier, habitant, 86 years
Jeanne Jahan, 60 years
Pierre Lemieux, domestique, engage, 14 years

Census:

Jacques Lehoux, habitant, 87 years
Jeanne Jahan
Pierre Lemieux, valet, 14 years
Louis Leparc, valet, 26 years
Denis Avis, valet, 34 years

They owned two head of cattle and had 8 arpents of cleared land.

Debt:
A contract was drawn up by notary Paul Vachon stating that Jacques owed 45 silver livres to Jean Picart, a merchant from Sainte-Anne du Petit-Cap. The document said that Jacques was "living in the parish of our lady of chasteau Richer". Jacques stated that he could not write or sign his name.

Death:
He died at the home of his daughter Francoise at Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre.

Burial:
The priest L. Soumande recorded the act:
"The year gbj, eighty, the sixteenth of February; died in the Communion of Our Holy Mother Chruch Jacques le houx age one hundred and seven years, after having received the Holy Sacraments of Penitence, communion and Extreme unction; And was the following day buried in the Cemetery of this parish, in the presence of Robert Paray, son-in-law of the deceased, claude poulain and Guillaume Morel friends, who with the exception of the said Paray, signed with me./thus signed Claude poullain, guillaume Morel, and L Soumande, priest.


Died:
Record states his age at death as 107 years.

Jacques married Marie Meilleur about 1619 in La Ventrouze, France. Marie and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Francoise Lehoux was christened on 9 Jul 1628 in Ste. Madeleine, La Ventrouze, France; died on 9 Apr 1685 in Ste. Anne de Beaupre, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 10 Apr 1685 in Ste. Anne de Beaupre, Quebec, Canada.
2. Madeleine Lehoux was christened on 16 Nov 1620 in St. Pierre, La Poterie, France; and died.

Jacques married Leonarde Chaline on 9 Feb 1632/33 in Ste. Madeleine, La Ventrouze, France. Leonarde and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jean Lehoux was christened on 27 Apr 1633 in Ste. Madeleine, La Ventrouze, France; was buried on 3 Apr 1698 in Ste. Famille, Ile d'Orleans, Quebec, Canada.
2. Noel Lehoux was christened on 11 Aug 1644 in La Ventrouze, France; and died.

Jacques married Jeanne Jahan about 1645 in Ste. Madeleine, La Ventrouze, France. Jeanne was buried on 11 Dec 1682 in Chateau Richer, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]