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• Education: Chateau Richer, Quebec, Canada
• Name: Jean Cochon
• Occupation: Chateau Richer, Quebec, Canada
• _UID: 9C6284BE35414E488016DED972E21AD0D7B4
• First mentioned in Canada: 1639
• Land: 22 Sep 1643, Beaupre, Quebec, Canada
• Land: 6 Jul 1652, Chateau Richer, Quebec, Canada
• Debt: 9 Sep 1657, Chateau Richer, Quebec, Canada
• Court: Jun 1661, Chateau Richer, Quebec, Canada
• Occupation: 1652-1662, Chateau Richer, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 1666, Comte de Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
• Census: 1667, Comte de Montmorency, Quebec, Canada
• Death Certificate: 11 Jul 1673, Chateau Richer, Quebec, Canada
• Distribution of Property: 2 Jul 1674, Chateau Richer, Quebec, Canada

Notes:

Education:
"It seems that our ancestor received a rather advanced education in France. He signed with a very fine signature, with flourishes, with or without his first name."

Occupation:
Jean was a church warden for the parish of "Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle du Chasteau Richer".

First mentioned in Canada:
He came with his family.

Land:
Jean sold 5 arpents of frontage to Jacques de Launay. The payment was 200 livres for the land and an identical amount for the grain, the house and the furnishings.

Land:
Jean received a deed of concession for a piece of land six arpents of frontage by 126 in depth from Jean de Lauson.

Debt:
Jean owed Robert Pare 126 livres and 4 sols. This was the price asked by the Sieurs Le Gagneur and Mace for the fare for a man of service from France. The debt could be paid in silver or beaver skins.

Court:
Jean agreed to provide housing for his neighbor Olivier Letardif (he being very ill), including his young sons Charles, Guillaume and Olivier Michel.

Occupation:
He became the fiscal administrator at Chateau-Richer. His role was to defend the rights of the inhabitants and to also see that the inhabitants paid their rents to the local seigneur.

Census:

Jean Cochon, pere, habitant, 75 years
Jeanne Abraham, 63 years
Pierre Cochon Lafontaine, 35 years

Census:

Jean Couchon, habitant, 76 years
Jeanne Abraham, 60 years
Pierre Couchon, 34 years
Jacques Couchen, 33 years
Barbe Letardif, 18 years
Jacques Cochon, 4 years
Marie Cochon, 3 years
Olivier Michel, domestique, 23 years
Charles Letardif, 16 years
Guillaume, 12 years

They had twenty arpents of land that were cultivated and six head of cattle.

Death Certificate:
Jean's death certificate was recorded in the registry of Chateau-Richer:
"The year of Our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy three on the eleventh of July died Jean Cochon widower, after having received the Holy Sacraments of penitence and the eucharist in viaticum and was buried in the cemetery of Notre Dame de la Visitation on the twelfth of the same month." Signed: F. Fillon, missonary priest.

Distribution of Property:
At the home of Jacques Cochon, son of Jean, notary Paul Vachon described the distribution of the property of Jean Cochon to his heirs. Present the children of Jean and Marguerite Cointerel and Jacques Sieur de la Motte, their half- brother, son of Jeanne Abraham.
The concession at Chateau-Richer consisted of 6 arpents of frontage on the river, by a league-and-a-half deep. On the property was a house with two rooms, an attic and a cellar; a barn-stable, a yard and garden, workable lands, meadows, woods and prairies. The Seigneur de Beaupre collected 6 sols for the cens and two live capons payable each year on Saint-Martin's day (11 November). The deed was free of all debts and mortgages and the cens and rent were paid up to date.
The children of Marguerite Cointerel ceded Jacques their portion on the Sieur Granderie's side as he ceded them his half on the other side. Jacques took possession of the buildings, garden, yard and the workable lands. He agreed to pay two-thirds of the deed of the concession and to bring the grain from the three other arpents in order to develop the portion falling to Jean and Marguerite.

Jean married Marguerite Cointerel about 1619. Marguerite died on 9 Jan 1632/33 in St. Jacques, Dieppe, France; was buried on 10 Jan 1632/33 in St. Jacques, Dieppe, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Marguerite Cochon was born about 1620 in Dieppe, France; died on 24 Jun 1699 in Hotel Dieu de Quebec, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 24 Jun 1699 in Hotel Dieu de Quebec, Quebec, Canada.
2. Jean Cochon was born about 1622 in Dieppe, France; died on 2 Sep 1693 in Chateau Richer, Quebec, Canada; was buried on 3 Sep 1693 in Chateau Richer, Quebec, Canada.
3. Guillaume Cochon was christened in Jan 1623/24 in St. Remy, Dieppe, France; and died.
4. Pierre Cochon was christened on 17 Jul 1631 in St. Jacques, Dieppe, France; and died.
5. Nicolas Cochon was christened on 9 Jan 1632/33 in St. Jacques, Dieppe, France; was buried on 12 Jan 1632/33 in St. Jacques, Dieppe, France.

Jean married Jeanne Abraham on 2 Apr 1633 in St. Jacques, Dieppe, France. Jeanne and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]