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• Name: Bastien Provencher
• _UID: 0AEA9CA6675742EF8DE7D8447520F76AAB81
• Residence: Jun 1661, Ile Saint Joseph, Quebec, Canada
• Debt: 6 Jun 1661
• Land: 15 May 1662, Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada
• Land: 4 Jun 1665, Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada
• Land: 30 Jun 1666
• Census: 1667, Comte de Champlain, Quebec, Canada
• Land: 25 May 1672
• Land: 18 Sep 1672
• Land: 12 Sep 1676
• Census: 1681, Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada
• Occupation: 1681, Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada; ropemaker
• Inventory of assets: 5 Apr 1691

Notes:

Residence:
Sebastien was a farmer for Pierre Boucher on the Ile Saint-Joseph.

Debt:
Sebastien acknowledged before notary Claude Herlin a debt of 145 livres 6 deniers for merchandise and other items that Pierre Boucher, Sieur de Grosbois sold to him. He promised to pay the debt in three installments of 48 livres 6 sols 10 keniers in beaver pelts and grain.

Land:
Sebastien received two arpents of frontage by forty in depth from Father Claud-Jean Allouez, the Jesuit Superior. He must make a home on the property and would be allowed to hunt and fish on the land. The rent was two bushels of wheat, two deniers and a capon, to be paid each Feast of Saint-Martin or 11 November.

Land:
Sebastien leased the house and land of Louis Lefebvre dit Lagroix for four years. Lefevbre would include two beasts, a cow and male calf. Sebastien had to clear an arpent of land each year and would be paid forty-five livres for labor. The rent was 20 minots of French wheat and 5 minots of Indian corn to be paid each year.

Land:
Quentin Moral, partial seigneur of Abre-a-la-Croix, ceded two properties to Sebastien. Each measured two arpents by forty. He must build a house and had to right to hunt and fish. Payment of a bushel of French wheat, two live capons and four deniers were to be paid each year.

Census:

Sebastien Provencher, 33 years, married
Marguerite Manchon, 30 years, married
Marie Provencher, 4 years
Marguerite Provencher, 2 years
Francois Morni, domestique, 17 years

They lived at Petit-Cap-de-la-Madeleine and had twelve arpents of land under cultivation.

Land:
Sebastien sold his double lots to Martin Foisy for ten minots of Indian corn, plus twenty minots of wheat due the next Christmas.

Land:
Antoine Baillarge agreed to lease a three arpent piece of land to Sebastien for nine consecutive years. Sebastien would give Baillarge eighteen minots of wheat each year.

Land:
Sebastien took "temporary lodgings" on the south bank of the river on four arpents of frontage in the seigneury of Charles Legardeur de Villiers.

Census:

Sebastien Provencher, cordier, habitant, 53 years, married
Marguerite Manchon, 44 years, married
Madeleine Provencher, 17 years
Marguerite Provencher, 15 years
Louis Provencher, 13 years
Sebastien Provencher, 11 years
Jean Provencher, 8 years
Aubin, domestique, 33 years

They had 15 arpents of land under cultivation, three head of cattle and a gun.

Inventory of assets:
Notary Jean Cusson drew up a inventory of Sebastien's property. It described their house as measuring 25 by 16 feet, covered with straw, with framework?i? a la gaspande?/i?. At the end of the house was a two room partition with a chimney made of mud. Sebastien had a fifty foot barn and a new stable. He also had another smaller, older, straw-covered house. The upstairs was made of half pine planks and the other half of covered beams. All the buildings were in good condition.
His assets were estimated to be worth 2,321 livres and 15 sols. His debts were 639 livres and 14 sols.

Sebastien married Marguerite Manchon on 22 Jan 1662/63. Marguerite was born about 1637; died on 28 Jan 1687/88 in Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 28 Jan 1687/88 in Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marriage Contract:
Notary Louis Laurent drew up the contract.

1. Marie Madeleine Provencher was born about 1664; was buried on 19 Jun 1731 in Yamaska, Pierre De Saurel, Quebec, Canada.
2. Marguerite Provencher was born about 1666; was buried on 29 Oct 1739 in Ile Dupas, Berthier, Quebec, Canada.
3. Louis Provencher was born about 1668; and died.
4. Sebastien Provencher was born about 1670; died on 17 Feb 1738/39 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 18 Feb 1738/39 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
5. Jean Provencher was born about 1673; and died.
6. Jean Francois Provencher dit Ducharme was born on 1 Feb 1673/74 in Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 2 Feb 1673/74 in Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada; died on 2 Feb 1733/34 in Becancour, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 3 Feb 1733/34 in Becancour, Quebec, Canada.
7. Marie Catherine Provencher was born on 23 Apr 1678 in Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada; was christened on 24 Apr 1678 in Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada; and died.

Sebastien married Marie Catherine Guillet on 14 May 1691 in Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada. Marie died about 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]