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Toussaint Hunault dit Deschamps Variations: Hunaut, Hurault
Toussaint nait vers 1625 à Saint-Pierre-es-Champs[1] (St-Pierre), évêché de Beauvais, en Picardie (ar. Beauvais, Oise 60592)[2], fils de Nicolas Hunault et de Marie Benoist.[3]
Toussaint est engagé le 18 avril 1653 par contrat devant le notaire Lafousse à La Flèche, comme défricheur.[4][3] Il fait partie de ce qui est connu comme La Grande Recrue; il arrive à Montréal le 16 novembre 1653.[5][6]
Le 24 juillet 1654, Maisonneuve concéda une terre de 30 arpents à Toussaint sur le coteau Saint-Louis.[7] Il la vendra à Pierre Chauvin en 1665 devant le notaire Nicolas de Mouchy pour 1 300 livres, dont plus de la moitié est dûe ailleurs.[7]
Mariage
Anno Di 1654 die 23 Novembris, denunciationibus pramissis, fesbris continuis dicbus festis, inter Missarium solemnia, nulloques legitimo impedimento detecto, ego Claudius Pijart Sacerdos soc(ieta)s Jesu, vice agens actus Parochi Montisregalensis, Toussannim Hunault filius Nicolai Hunault et Maria Benoist parochia St Petri diocesis Billovachesis, et Mariam Lorgueil urbis de Coignac filiam Petri Lorgueil et Maria Bruyere interrogavi, eorumque mutuo consensu habito, solemnitia per verbo de praesenti matrimonio coniiugri, per praesentibus fistibus notis de Paulo di Chomedey, gilberto Barbier et alys plurimis. Postea es ex ritu Scta Romana Ecclesia in Missa celebratione benedicor…[8][9][10][11]
Enfants du mariage (tous les actes sont à Notre-Dame de Montréal sauf tel que noté) (orthographe originale)
Après avoir vendu sa terre du coteau St-Louis, Toussaint achète une terre à la côte St-François.[7]
Recensement 1666: MONTRÉAL
Toussaint Hunault, 38, habitant ; Marie Lorgueil, 28, sa femme ; Thérèse, 11 ; André, 8 ; Jeanne, 7 ; Pierre, 5 ; Marie, 3 ; Mathurin, 1.[14]
Recensement 1667: ILE DE MONTRÉAL DE LA NOUVELLE-FRANCE
Toussaint Hunault (dit Deschamps), 42 ; Marie Lorguevil (Lorgueuil), sa femme, 28 ; Tècle, 11 1/2 ; André, 10 ; Jeanne, 8 ; Pierre, 5 ; Marie-Thérèse, 3 1/2 ; Mathurin, 2 ; 3 bestiaux, 4 arpents en valeur.[14]
Recensement 1681: HABITANTS DE LA VILLE DE MONTRÉAL
Toussaint Hurault 56 (sic); Marie Lorgueuil, sa femme, 45 ; enfants : Pierre 19, Françoise 13, Toussaint 9, Charles 4 ; 4 fusils ; 4 bêtes à cornes ; 19 arpents en valeur.[15]
En 1683 devant le notaire Cabazié , les Sulpiciens donnent une concession à son fils André qui est voisine de la sienne, sur la côte St-François, En 1684 c'est Toussaint qui reçoit une concession de 4 arpents au même lieu. En 1687 il vend sa concession de 30 arpents sur la côte St-François à son fils André et en achête une de 80 sur la côte St-Dominique. Les Sulpiciens lui renouvelleront la concession à ce lieu en avril et il achète une concession additionnelle au même lieu de Pierre Leroux de 60 arpents.
En 1689 devant Claude Maugue il prend un bail à ferme de Jacques Thuillier pour 3 ans, il est dit de la côte St-François sur l'acte. En 1688 il achête l'habitation de Nicolas Desroches à Rivière-des-Prairies, et emprunte 700 livres de Charles de Couagne devant Antoine Adhémar. Il vend sa terre de la côte St-Dominique à Michel Desrosiers sieur des Ilets en 1689.[7]
Décès
Toussaint Hunault est assassiné le 13 septembre 1690 à Montréal par le lieutenant Gabriel Dumont de Blaignac. On l'apprend par une acte notarial de Bénigne Basset du 10 octobre 1690, où la famille donne pouvoir à Charles de Couagne pour qu'il puisse poursuivre ledit Dumont de Blaignac en dommages et de par ce fait, se payer lui-même pour les dettes de Toussaint envers lui. On ne sait pas la suite de l'action. Dumont de Blaignac s'est sauvé et n'a jamais été retrouvé.[7][13] La sépulture de Toussaint demeure introuvable aussi.
Marie Lorgueil devra composer avec les dettes du mariage.[7]
TOUSSAINT HUNAULT dit DESCHAMPS & MARIE LORGUEIL
Hainault; Hénau, Hénaud, Henault, Héneaux, Haineault, Hunaut et Hunault are different ways of spelling the descendants names of Toussaint Hunault dit Deschamps. In certain cases and for various reasons, the surname was changed to Deschamps, Deshaw, Dishaw, Dechant among others.
Toussaint's parents were Nicolas Hunault and Marie Benoist, residents of the small area of Saint-Pierre-es-Champs; today a small division in the district of Le Courdray- Saint-Germer, a subdivision of Beauvais in the l'Oise Department, territory of the ancient province of Picardie.
I assume the Deschamps surname comes from és-Champs or des Champs. Toussaint was born between 1625-28 but his baptismal registration has not yet been found. From census dates, his birth year is probably 1625. He had at least 2 brothers, and one sister. The use of Deschamps apparently began in the first “Canadian” born generation, and I have found notary documents in the Deschamps name as early as 1717.
Ville Marie
Ville Marie (Montréal) was only ten years old when Paul de Chomeday decided to recruit more settlers. Due to the hostilities with Iroquois Nation, the situation in New France was very risky. In the fall of 1651, Maisonneuve left for France with the promise to bring 200 men to defend the villages.
In the spring of 1653, only 120 of the 154 men recruited with Toussaint Hunault honoured their commitment. Toussaint presented himself as a pioneer and was to receive a salary of 75 livres a year for a period of five years. In order to defray his expenses, he was advanced 120 pounds.
On 18 April 1653, he was hired at La Flèche, France, with Jérome Le Royer de La Dauversière as witness in front of the Notary Lafausse.[4]
On June 20 1653, Toussaint sailed from Saint-Nazaire, a port in Nantes on the mouth of the Loire. Hunault and his fellow travellers embarked on the Saint-Nicolas, apparently a very poor ship. After 350 Leagues, they had to turn back from the open sea. Sister Marguerite Bourgeois wrote that everyone would have died without the help of the coastal people who helped save them. On July 20, the Saint-Nicolas was replaced on Saint Marguerite's feast day, and the voyage continued.
On September 22, 1653, the ship landed in Quebec City. Eleven passengers had died while at sea. Many of those hired were sick during the voyage and some spent time in the Quebec hospital before continuing their journey to Montréal. Toussaint Hunault, Urbain Jetté, Jean Gervais, Paul Benoit dit Nivernois were among the survivors, all of whom are my own, Jack's, or Lachance ancestors.
On 16 November 1653, Toussaint and his friends set foot at Ville Marie. As winter was coming fast, the newcomers were lodged with welcoming families or in the fort. We don't know where Toussaint lived or worked during this time. He may have been occupied cutting wood for heating and building in the spring.
Toussaint must have worked hard because on 24 July 1654, Maisonneuve ceded to Toussaint his first piece of land, 30 acres deep, by one acre wide, on the hillside of Saint-Louis: today Iberville Street at Saint- Laurent Boulevard. His neighbours were Jean Lemarché dit Laroche and Pierre Chauvin (another of our ancestors). (Translation of document)
Marie Lorgueil
Marie Lorgueil also arrived on the St-Nicolas in 1653 under the sponsorship Sister Marguerite Bourgeois. She was fifteen years old, the daughter of Pierre Lorgueil and Marie Bruyère from the city of Cognac in Saintonge; today the chief town of Charente. Although they sailed aboard the same ship they either met onboard or upon arrival in Canada and/or while travelling from Quebec to Montréal.
The Jesuit missionary, Father Claude Pijart, who had been living in New France since 1637, officiated at Toussaint and Marie's marriage in Montréal on Monday, 23 November 1654, in the presence of witnesses Paul de Chomedey, Governor, and Gilbert Barbier, master carpenter. This sixteen year old woman, Marie Lorgueil, would become the martiarch of many families. [8]
Life in New France
Toussaint and Marie must have cleared the land they had received from Paul de Chomedey. We know this work was hard and arduous. They had to move the forest back, hoe the ground, sow wheat and vegetables between stumps, feed domestic animals and live on the isolated land, at the same time raising a family.
On 16 September 1665, the Hunaults sold their farm to Pierre Chauvin, a miller neighbour.
In the 1667 census, the Hunaults were in Montréal with six children. They owned three horned beasts (oxen?) and four acres of cultivated land.[14] I haven't found from whom they obtained their new property. At the beginning of 1669, Toussaint lived on the slope of Saint-Francois-de-la-Longue-Pointe, where the parish of Saint-Francois d'Assise would be founded in 1724.
On 19 October 1680, Catherine Hurault, wife of Jean Lemarché died at the age of forty years. She had come to Canada with her husband with the recruits of 1653 and they must have been friends of the Hunaults. Their youngest two little girls; Catherine, five years old, and Marie Madeleine, three years old, were taken in by the Hunaults for a short time but were no longer there at the 1681 census. Catherine Lamarche married in Quebec on 26 October 1695 to Nicolas Dautour. Marie Madeleine was killed by a shot-gun wound by a soldier and was buried in Montréal on 5 September 1691.
The census of 1681 shows Toussaint Hunault, fifty-six years old, Marie Lorgueil, forty-five years old, with four children still at home. They owned 19 acres of developed land, four horned beasts and four guns.
A notarial document dated 15 November 1683, states that Toussaint owed his son, Andre, the amount of 370 pounds. On 22 February 1684, the Sulpiciens, proprietors of the island since March 9, 1663, granted a piece of land - four acres frontage, on the slope of Saint-Francois, to Toussaint.
Now Toussaint began an almost fevered attempt at acquistion and the building of what was hoped to be wealth. On April 5,1687, he sold 30-acres to his son, Andre, on the site called Saint-Francois. Two days later, he bought from Claude Tardy, a merchant in town, an 80-acre concession on the slopes of Saint Dominique along the Riviere des Prairies. On that occasion, the Notary Cabaize also testified that Toussaint Hunault was a resident of that town. The next day, April 8, 1687, the Sulpiciens granted a continuation of the 80-acre claim granted the night before. Furthermore, Pierre Leroux (who was later killed by Iroquois on 26 May 1691 at Lachenale) gave up a 60-acre concession on the slopes of Saint Dominque to Hunault. On 30 May 1688, he again spent money on a small 28 acre piece of land belonging to Nicolas Desroches, widower of Anne Archambeault.
The many deals before the notaries continued. On May 30, 1688, four contracts were conducted in the presence of Antoine Adhémar, in particular establishing the settlement of funds to the creditor Charles de Couagne from Berry, France, Merchant. Lastly, on June 25, 1689, Toussaint surrendered to Michel Desrosiers, the land that he had obtained from Claude Tardy, two years previously.
First Generation Canadians
Toussaint and Marie had an average (for then) sized family: Thècle, André, Jeanne, Pierre, Marie-Thérèse, Mathurin, Francoise, Toussaint, Toussaint and Charles. All were born in Montréal between September 1655 and 25 July 1676 and all were baptized and registered at Notre-Dame-de-Montréal.
Charles Lemoyne and Jeanne Mance were godparents to Thècle Hunault, who was baptized 23 September 1655, by Claude Pijart, Jesuit. At the age of fourteen, she married Thomas Chartrand, January 29, 1669 and became the mother of Thomas who became the progenitor of this family, and Toussaint who died in infancy. Thècle died at age 19, leaving her husband, son on March 12, 1674.
The oldest of Hunault sons was named for his godfather, Andre Charly dit St-Ange; baker. He was baptized 03 August 1657. On 23 December 1683, Andre received a land grant of acres frontage on the slopes of Saint-Francois. It was situated at the end of his father Toussaint's land. In November 1686, Andre was ready to establish his own home with Marguerite Langlois, daughter of Honoré and Marie Pontonnier, a couple living at Pointe-aux-Trembles. There were thirteen witnesses at their wedding, one of whom was Sidrac Dugué, Sieur of Boisbriant, Sieur de Saint-Thérèse Island. Andre and Marguerite had two children .* Andre died at age fifty and was buried July 6, 1707, at Varennes.
Jeanne Hunault 's godmother was Jeanne Rousselier on November 2, 1658. She was less that fourteen years old when she married the Norman, Adrien Quevillon; They were parents of seven children. After Adrien's death, Jeanne married a second time on an unknown date to Jacques Corval and gave him one son; Louis-Augustin. (According to one report she was an Indian captive. There is little known about Jacques so he may have been a native, or in captivity with her.) After the sudden death of her second husband, Jeanne married again on May 7, 1699, at Montréal, Pierre Taillefer, Norman soldier of de LaGrois Company. Their only son, Pierre, also married and had a family. Thus, Jeanne through her nine children earned the enviable title of matriarch of the Quevillon, Courval and Taillerfer families. Jeanne died 05 September 1748 at Riviéres-des-Prairies at age 89.. Her son, Pierre Taillefer and Jean-Baptiste Rapin were witnesses to her burial.
God-child of the miller Pierre Chauvin, Pierre, was baptized on November 07, 1660. Pierre married Catherine Beauchamp, daughter of Jacques Beauchamp and Marie Dardenne on December 7, 1686, at Pointe-aux-Trembles. On May 13, 1695, Pierre and his brother, Toussaint, were engaged to go west for the merchant, Pierre Perthuis dit Lalime. Pierre and Marie had ten children and most of the Hunault/Deschamps descendants are from this couple. There was a Pierre (I believe this Pierre and Toussaint (his brother) recorded at Detroit in 1706.
Baptized on February 12, 1663, Marie Thérèse married Guilliaume Leclerc on November 24, 1676 at age thirteen. Among her seven children, quite a few founded their own families. Tragically, she was killed by the Iroquois in their barn at Lachenaie and was buried on August 17, 1689, the same year as the Lachine massacre. Thus she is the matriarch of many of the Leclerc & Leclair, families of North America.
Mathurin Hunault, born on December 24, 1664, God-child of Mathurin Langevin, was buried June 25, 1671, before the age of seven. His was the second family death for the Hunaults: Toussaint, baptised 11 May 1671, died before his second birthday.
Françoise was baptized 5 December 1667. Nicolas Joly, native of Bosc-Guerard-Saint-Adrien near Rouen, married Françoise, fourteen years old, in December 1681. After his death, the widow, mother of four children, married a second time to Jean Charpentier at Riviére-des-Prairies on 22 April 1691 and became the mother of eleven more. Françoise was the second longest living of the first generation of Hunaults. She was buried at Lachenaie on May 2, 1748 at 81 years of age
Toussaint, named after his father and deceased brother, was baptized on 25 August 1673. He was much travelled and his progeny spread throughout western Canada and the US. His first marriage, July 2, 1691 at Québec, was to Etiennette Paquet, daughter of Etienne Paquet and Henriette Rousseau. Toussaint and Etiennette were parents to ten children. After Etiennette’s death he married a second time to Elisabeth Baudreau dit Graveline at Rivière-des-Prairies on May 24, 1717. They had no children in their ten year marriage and Elisabeth died in July 1727. Toussaint married again on 30 September 1727, Marie Françoise Auger and they had five children.
The youngest of the family, Charles, godchild of Charles Barbier, the last of his generation. There is no record of him after 30 May 1695 when he was Godfather to his nephew, Gabriel (his brother Toussaint's son).
The Ultimate Tragedy
The tragic deaths of infant Toussaint at age two, and the brutal killing of Marie-Thérèse on August 17, 1689, were not the only ones for this family. A year after Marie-Thérèse's death, on September 13, 1690, her father, Toussaint was brutally murdered by Gabriel Dumont de Blaignac, lieutenant of a marine company detachment. Toussaint was mortally wounded by a sword thrust, and de Blaignac immediately ran away. His escape was successful and he was never found or tried in court.
In February 1685, Gabriel Dumont, baron de Blaignac had signed in Québec a marriage contract with Catherine Nolan, daughter of Pierre Nolan and Catherine Houart. The contract was canceled on the April 5, 1685.[16][17]
The Hunault family tried to get justice by giving up their civil rights to Charles de Couagne, the merchant to whom Toussaint owed money. The intention was for Couagne to sue and hopefully obtain compensation for Toussaint's murder, and so the debts would be paid. He paid the widow a sum of money in lieu of settlement but unfortunately, a trial in abstentia is a difficult matter to resolve. Neither the Hunault family nor Charles de Couagne gained any compensation from the suit. I have not found the reason for Toussaint's murder but will continue to search for it.
Marie went to reside with her eldest son André, until her death on Monday, November 29, 1700. Father Claude Volant de St-Claude presided at her funeral the following day at Varennes. Witnesses were Louis Petit and Jean Gaultier.
Throughout his life in Canada, Toussaint bought and sold land quite frequently, almost feverishly at times. We can only suppose his desire was to acquire a means of supporting his family and becoming a man of substance. Instead, over the years the debts appear to have accumulated to the point where Marie was left an impoverished widow. A sad ending to a founding family of Canada.[18]
Notaire Nicolas de Mouchy (Vol II)[17]
Vente par Toussaint Hunault et sa femme à Pierre Chauvin et sa femme d’une terre de 30 arpents (16 septembre 1665). pg 250
Notaire Antoine Adhémar (Vol V)[17]
Notaire Claude Maugue (Vol IX)[17]
Notaire Pierre Cabazié (Vol X)[17]
Notaire Bénigne Basset (Vol I) (Succession)[17]
Cession et transport de droits civils par les héritiers de Toussaint Hunault à Sr. Charles de Couagne (10 octobre 1690). pg 293
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