Engagé Contracts to Détroit 1714 to ------------

Engagé Contracts to Détroit – 5 April 1721 to 22 May 1731 – Part 2
Diane Wolford Sheppard, FCHSM member ([email protected])
Continued from October 2012, 208-211
The following index to engagé (hiring) contracts was translated and transcribed from E.Z. Massicotte, “Répertoire
des engagements pour l’ouest conservés dans les Archives Judiciares de Montréal (1670-1778),” Rapport de
L’archiviste de la Province de Québec pour 1929-1930 (Québec: Rédempti Paradis, 1930), pp. 231- 281. Whenever
possible, names have been standardized per Jetté.1 In a few cases I have added a “?” following the name for one of
the following reasons: (1) the notary and Massicotte recorded a common dit name in the record without recording
the surname; (2) the spelling of the surname may be a misreading of the original; (3) the surname does not appear in
Jetté. Information added appears in brackets. The name of the notary appears in brackets at the end of the entry.
Researchers can order the microfilms for most notaries at your local Family History Center. French summaries of
many, but not all, of the contracts included in Massicotte’s reports are summarized in the Voyageur Contracts
Database, a project compiled by the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Ottawa. See
http://shsb.mb.ca/en/Voyageurs_database. See http://voyageurs.shsb.mb.ca/en/AdvSearch.aspx for the advanced
search form. Researchers can use this database to search for individuals hired for voyages to other locations.
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5 April 1721 – Jacques Testard de Montigny hired François Fortier to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques
David]
5 April 1721 – Jacques Testard de Montigny hired Joseph Fortier to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques
David]
5 April 1721 – Jacques Testard de Montigny hired Simon Réaume to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques
David]
5 April 1721 – Charles Nolan de Lamarque hired Nicolas Thibault to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques
David]
9 April 1721 – Jacques Testard de Montigny hired Pierre Vaudry to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques
David]
9 April 1721 – Charles Nolan de Lamarque hired Joseph Brault dit Pomainville to make a voyage to Détroit
[Jacques David]
18 April 1721 – Charles Nolan de Lamarque hired Jean Baptiste Cardinet to make a voyage to Détroit
[Jacques David]
18 April 1721 – Jacques Testard de Montigny hired Joseph Beaujean to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques
David]
18 April 1721 – Jacques Testard de Montigny hired Joseph Gerbert? to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques
David]
6 August 1721 – Alphonse de Tonty hired Léonard Paillé dit Paillard to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques
David]
6 August 1721 – Alphonse de Tonty hired Pierre Juneau and Louis Joseph Moreau, of Québec, François
Émery dit Coderre, of Contrecoeur, and Jean Baptiste Lacoste dit Languedoc? to make a voyage to Détroit
[Jacques David]
6 August 1721 – [Alphonse de Tonty] hired Pierre Picard, of Contrecoeur, and Charles Legardeur dit
Quinze Roquilles to make a voyage to Détroit2 [Jacques David]
10 August 1721 – Sieur Charles Chesne hired Jean Boyer to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
10 August 1721 – Sieur Charles Chesne hired François Lafleur [a dit name that cannot be tied to a specific
individual] to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
10 August 1721 – Alphonse de Tonty hired Louis Chaput to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
16 August 1721 – Sieur Alphonse de Tonty hired Pierre Blondin to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
23 August 1721 – Sieur Jacques Desmoulins dit Philis hired Nicolas Réaume to make a voyage to Détroit
[Jacques David]
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René Jetté, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles du Québec des origines à 1730 (Montréal: Les Presses de
l’Université de Montréal: 1983).
2
Jacques David and Antoine Roy, editor, Archives of Québec, Inventaire des Greffes des Notaires du Régime
Français (Québec, 1944), hereafter, David and Roy, Vol. 12, 134 [The name of the engageur is missing from
RAPQ. The name of the engagé is recorded as Delisle; he was a panis and his name is recorded as Legardeur in
Jetté].
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6 September 1721 – Sieur Alphonse de Tonty hired Jean Baptiste Robert dit Lafontaine? to make a voyage
to Détroit [Jacques David]
8 September 1721 – Sieur Alphonse de Tonty hired Charles Bonhomme dit Beaupré to make a voyage to
Détroit [Jacques David]
10 September 1721 – Sieur Alphonse de Tonty hired Michel Baribeau to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques
David]
12 September 1721 –Sieur Alphonse de Tonty hired Jean Mesny to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
8 May 1722 - [Sieur François Volant3] hired Pierre Cadieux to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
10 May1722 – Sieur François Volant hired François Bellec to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
16 May 1722 – Sieur Nicolas Sarrazin hired Nicolas Brault dit Pomainville to make a voyage to Détroit
[Jacques David]
26 May 1722 – Sieur Nicolas Millet hired François Campeau to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
26 May 1722 – Sieur Jacques Cardinal hired Jean Baptiste Neveu to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques
David]
26 May 1722 – Sieur Nicolas Millet hired Jacques Monet to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
27 April 1723 – Sieur Louis Gastineau hired François Lafleur [a dit name that cannot be tied to a specific
individual], Jacques Demers, Jean Boyer, and René Perrier to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
27 April 1723 – Sieur Louis Gastineau hired Joseph Beauvais to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
27 April 1723 – Sieur Louis Gastineau hired Simon Cardinal to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
27 April 1723 – Sieur Louis Gastineau hired Christophe Ledoux to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
27 April 1723 – Sieur Louis Gastineau hired François Ménard dit Bellerose to make a voyage to Détroit
[Jacques David]
27 April 1723 – Sieur Louis Gastineau hired André Lacoste dit Languedoc to make a voyage to Détroit
[Jacques David]
29 April 1723 – Sieur Louis Gastineau hired Jean Baptiste Deniau to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques
David]
30 April 1723 – Sieur Louis Gastineau hired Charles Dupuis to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
3 May 1723 – Sieur Louis Gastineau hired Jacques Lemieux to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
3 May 1723 – Sieur Louis Gastineau hired Philippe Étienne to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
3 May 1723 – Sieur Louis Gastineau hired Jean Mesny to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
3 August 1723 – Jean Baptiste Douaire de Bondy hired Dominique Saint-Ange to make a voyage to Détroit
[Jacques David]
5 August 1723 – Sieur Jean Verger dit Desjardins hired Jean Papilleau dit Périgny to make a voyage to
Détroit [Jacques David]
21 August 1723 – Charles Chesne hired Jean Bayard or Baillard to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste
Adhémar]
23 August 1723 – Jacques Godefroy dit Mauboeuf hired Paul Desforges dit Saint-Maurice to make a voyage
to Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
27 August 1723 – Charles Chesne hired Joseph Poupart to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
21 February 1724 – Sieur Charles Nolan de Lamarque hired Charles Auger dit Lemaistre to make a voyage
to Détroit [Jacques David]
21 February 1724 – Sieur Charles Nolan de Lamarque and Company hired Étienne Auger dit Lemaistre to
make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
21 February 1724 – Sieur Charles Nolan de Lamarque hired Pierre Lefebvre to make a voyage to Détroit
[Jacques David]
15 March 1724 – Sieur Charles Nolan de Lamarque hired Claude Philibert Bergeron to make a voyage to
Détroit [Jacques David]
21 April 1724 – Louis Prudhomme and Étienne Petit hired Jean Baptiste Dupuis to make a voyage to
Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
22 April 1724 – Étienne Petit and Louis Prudhomme hired Jean Baptiste Deniau to make a voyage to
Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
24 April 1724 – Louis Prudhomme and Étienne Petit hired Joseph Pepin dit Descardonnets to make a
voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
David and Roy, Vol. 12, 157.
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24 April 1724 – Louis Prudhomme and Étienne Petit hired Antoine Daunay to make a voyage to Détroit
[Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
29 April 1724 – Jean Tabault hired François Marie Cardinal to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste
Adhémar]
30 April 1724 – Sieur Simon Réaume hired Simon Cardinal to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
30 April 1724 – Sieur Simon Réaume hired Jean Baptiste Caron to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
1 May 1724 – Nicolas Catin hired André Janot dit Lachapelle to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste
Adhémar]
1 May 1724 – Nicolas Catin hired Robert Brouillet to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
1 May 1724 - Sieur Simon Réaume hired Jean Baptiste Roy to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
8 May 1724 – Nicolas Catin hired Jean Baptiste Bertrand dit Saint-Arnaud to make a voyage to Détroit
[Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
8 May 1724 – Étienne Petit, acting for himself and for Louis Prudhomme, hired Étienne Bransard dit
Langevin to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
10 May 1724 – Étienne Petit de Boismorel, voyageur, acknowledged that he owed 6171 livres, 10 sols, 6
deniers to Charles Nolan de Lamarque for equipment for his voyage to Détroit [Raimbault père]
12 May 1724 – Étienne Petit, acting for himself and for Louis Prudhomme, hired Louis Laverdure [a dit
name that cannot be tied to a specific individual] to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
13 May 1724 – Étienne Petit, acting for himself and for Louis Prudhomme, hired François Dumont dit
Laviolette to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
16 May 1724 – Étienne Petit, acting for himself and for Louis Prudhomme, hired Pierre Lefebvre to make a
voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
13 August 1724 – Jacques Hubert dit Lacroix hired Pierre Beauchamp to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean
Baptiste Adhémar]
13 August 1724 – Jacques Hubert dit Lacroix hired Jacques Beauchamp to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean
Baptiste Adhémar]
19 August 1724 – Pierre Réaume and Jean Chapoton acknowledged that they owed 2,262 livres, 15 sols, and
3 deniers to Ignace Gamelin, merchant, for equipment for their voyage to Détroit [Raimbault père]
30 August 1724 – Sieur Louis Thierry Nolan hired Michel Arseneault to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques
David]
31 August 1724 – Sieur Louis Thierry Nolan hired Jean Baptiste Debien to make a voyage to Détroit
[Jacques David]
3 September 1724 – Sieur Alphonse de Tonty hired Jacques Gauthier dit Landreville to make a voyage to
Détroit [Jacques David]
3 September 1724 – Sieur Alphonse de Tonty hired Joseph Gouin to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques
David]
7 September 1724 – Monsieur Alphonse de Tonty hired Jacques Grignon to make a voyage to Détroit
[Jacques David]
7 September 1724 – Monsieur Alphonse de Tonty hired Joseph Gauthier to make a voyage to Détroit
[Jacques David]
7 September 1724 – Monsieur Alphonse de Tonty hired Joseph Baribeau to make a voyage to Détroit
[Jacques David]
8 September 1724 – Monsieur Alphonse de Tonty hired Jean Leblanc to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques
David]
8 September 1724 – Monsieur Alphonse de Tonty hired Jacques Monet to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques
David]
14 April 1725 – Sieurs Jean Marie Nolan and Pierre Cosme dit Saint-Cosme hired Joseph Cadieux to make
a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
14 April 1725 – Sieurs Jean Marie Nolan and Pierre Cosme dit Saint-Cosme hired Pierre Deniau to make a
voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
14 April 1725 – Sieurs Jean Marie Nolan and Pierre Cosme dit Saint-Cosme hired Jean Baptiste Favreau
to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
14 April 1725 – Sieurs Jean Marie Nolan and Pierre Cosme dit Saint-Cosme hired Antoine Lacoste dit
Languedoc to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
24 April 1725 – Joseph Douaire de Bondy, acting for himself and for Jean Baptiste Celoron Sieur de
Blainville, hired Louis Marie dit Sainte-Marie to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
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24 April 1725 – Joseph Douaire de Bondy, acting for himself and for Jean Baptiste Celoron de Blainville,
hired Pierre Dumont dit Laviolette to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
12 May 1725 – Joseph Blondeau, voyageur, acknowledged that he owed 4,250 livres to Pierre de Lestage for
equipment for Blondeau’s voyage to Détroit [Raimbault père]
13 May 1725 – Jacques Godefroy and Charles Chesne hired Jean Baptiste Pepin to make a voyage to
Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
14 May 1725 – Jean Marie Nolan and Pierre Cosme dit Saint-Cosme, voyageurs and associates,
acknowledged that they owed 18,132 livres, 19 sols, and 2 deniers to Charles Nolan de Lamarque, merchant,
for equipment for their voyage to Détroit [Raimbault père]
28 May 1725 – François Marie Picoté de Belestre, Dame Catherine Trottier, and Sieur Alexis Trottier
DesRuisseaux acknowledged that they owed 4,461 livres, 12 sols, 4 deniers de France for equipment for their
voyage to Détroit [Raimbault père]
3 August 1725 – Louis Roy acknowledged that he owed 150 livres to Julien Trottier Desrivières for
equipment for Roy’s voyage to Détroit [Raimbault père]
7 August 1725 – Denis Jean dit Denis and Michelle Perrin, his wife, acknowledged that they owed 432 livres
French money to Jacques Paumereau/Pommereau, merchant, for equipment for his voyage to Détroit
[Raimbault père]
7 February 1726 – Sieur Étienne Rocbert hired Jean Bizet to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
25 April 1726 – Jean Tabault hired Christophe Ledoux to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
25 May 1726 – Sieur Louis Gastineau hired Charles Lizot to make a voyage to Détroit [Jacques David]
23 July 1726 – Pierre Perthuis LaJanvry hired Joseph Rivard to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste
Adhémar]
21 August 1726 – Jacques Hubert dit Lacroix and Joseph Blondeau acknowledged that they owed 2285
livres, 1 sol, 1 denier to Pierre de Lestage for equipment for their voyage to Détroit [Raimbault père]
16 May 1726 – Charles Nolan de Lamarque hired François Juneau to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean
Baptiste Adhémar]
6 June 1727 – Jacques Campeau hired Claude Latulippe [possibly the Native American whose son, Claude,
was baptized 12 October 1737 in St-Sulpice] to make a voyage to Détroit [Raimbault fils]
16 August 1727 – Charles Chesne hired Jean Baptiste Leroux, fils, to make a voyage to Détroit [Raimbault
fils]
27 August 1727 – Pierre Godefroy de Vieuxpont de Roquetaillade acknowledged that he owed 673 livres, 18
sols to Eustache Lambert de Dumont for equipment for his voyage to Détroit [Raimbault fils]
9 June 1728 – Jean Baptiste Hervieux hired Pierre Bertrand dit Toulouse to make a voyage to Détroit
[Michel Lepailleur]
19 August 1728 – Pierre Mallet hired Charles Élie to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
3 September 1728 – Jean Dagneau Douville and Dame Marie Élisabeth Raimbault, his wife, acknowledged
that they owed 3,665 livres, 10 sols, 6 deniers to Julien Trottier dit Desrivières for their voyage to Détroit
[Raimbault, fils]
9 September 1728 – Sieur Jean Marie Nolan hired Charles Letard dit Saint-Onge, voyageur to make a
voyage to Détroit [Raimbault fils]
9 September 1728 – Joseph Séguin dit Ladéroute, voyageur, acknowledged that he owed 5,075 livres, 6 sols
and 3 deniers to Charles Nolan de Lamarque for equipment for his voyage to Détroit [Raimbault fils]
19 April 1729 – Joseph and Jean Baptiste Douaire de Bondy hired Ignace Tessier to make a voyage to
Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
19 April 1729 – Joseph and Jean Baptiste Douaire de Bondy hired Pierre Tessier to make a voyage to
Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
29 April 1729 – Joseph and Jean Baptiste Douaire de Bondy hired François Bigras to make a voyage to
Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
25 May 1729 – Joseph and Jean Baptiste Douaire de Bondy hired Jean Baptiste Lambé/Lembé? to make a
voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
25 May 1729 – Dame Marie Catherine Trottier dite DesRuisseaux, wife and agent for François Marie
Picoté de Belestre and Delle Angélique Girard, wife and agent for Sieur Antoine Cuillerier, associate of Sieur
Belestre, acknowledged that they owed 797 livres, 4 sols, 6 deniers to Julien Trottier dit Desrivières for the
business that they would conduct at Détroit [Raimbault fils]
25 May 1729 – Dame Marie Catherine Trottier dite DesRuisseaux, wife and agent for François Marie
Picoté de Belestre and Delle Angélique Girard, wife and agent for Sieur Antoine Cuillerier, associate of Sieur
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Belestre, acknowledged that they owed 5,067 livres, 2 sols, 6 deniers to Julien Trottier dit Desrivières for the
business that they would conduct at Détroit [Raimbault fils]
27 May 1729 – Nicolas Millet acknowledged that he owed 1,475 livres, 2 sols, 7 deniers to Joseph Gouin for
the business that they would conduct at Détroit [Raimbault fils]
14 September 1729 – Gilbert Parent, Jacques Grignon, and Louis Chapeau, voyageurs, acknowledged that
they owed 271 livres, 3 sols, 5 deniers to Alexis Lemoine de Monière for their voyage and the business that
they would conduct at Détroit [Raimbault fils]
31 March 1730 – Charles Nolan de Lamarque hired Louis Haguenier to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean
Baptiste Adhémar]
31 March 1730 – Charles Nolan de Lamarque hired Philippe Dagneau to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean
Baptiste Adhémar]
5 April 1730 – Charles Nolan de Lamarque hired Michel Petit to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste
Adhémar]
14 April 1730 – François Auger dit Lajeunesse hired Pierre Antoine dit St-Martin to make a voyage to
Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
14 April 1730 – François Auger dit Lajeunesse hired Jacques Charpentier dit Sansfaçon to make a voyage
to Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
14 April 1730 – François Auger dit Lajeunesse hired Guillaume Guyon to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean
Baptiste Adhémar]
22 April 1730 – François Auger dit Lajeunesse hired François Lamarque to make a voyage to Détroit
[Jacques David] [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
28 April 1730 – Antoine Cuillerier hired François Robert to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste
Adhémar]
28 April 1730 – Marie Catherine Trottier dite DesRuisseaux, Madame de Belestre, hired Louis Édeline to
make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
30 April 1730 – Antoine Cuillerier hired Jean Baptiste Goguet? to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste
Adhémar]
26 May 1730 – René Roy hired Joseph Massicot to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
1 June 1730 – Barthélemi Métivier and Marguerite Descaries, his wife, acknowledged that they owed 1,585
livres to Sieurs [Jacques and Louis] Charly, frères, for the voyage that Métivier would make to Détroit
[Raimbault fils]
2 June 1730 – René Roy, voyageur, acknowledged that he owed 2,426 livres, 19 sols, 4 deniers to Sieurs
Jacques and Louis Charly, frères, for the voyage that he would make to Détroit [Raimbault fils].
3 June 1730 – Jacques Boutin, voyageur, associate of Navarre [probably Robert Navarre], acknowledged that
he owed 1,938 livres to Jacques Quesnel dit Fonblanche for the voyage that he would make to Détroit
[Raimbault fils].
14 August 1730 – Paul Mallet acknowledged that he owed 1,133 livres, 10 sols to Jacques Quesnel dit
Fonblanche for the voyage that he would make to Détroit [Raimbault fils].
20 August 1730 – Jacques Roussel hired Gabriel Giroux to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste
Adhémar]
23 August 1730 – Antoine Cuillerier, associate of Dame Marie Catherine Trottier dite DesRuisseaux,
widow of the deceased Monsieur François Picoté de Belestre, acknowledged that they owed 8,912 livres, 2
sols to Sieur Julien Trottier de Desrivières for equipment for their voyage to Détroit [Raimbault fils]
21 April 1731 – François Auger dit Lajeunesse hired Antoine Saint-Martin to make a voyage to Détroit
[Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
1 May 1731 – Pierre Hunault hired Michel Baugis to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste Adhémar]
4 May 1731 – François Auger dit Lajeunesse hired Jean Pinard to make a voyage to Détroit [Jean Baptiste
Adhémar]
21 May 1731 – Sieur Joseph Blondeau hired Charles Linctot to make a voyage to Détroit [René Chorel de
Saint-Romain]
21 May 1731 – Sieur Joseph Blondeau hired Charles Lizot to make a voyage to Détroit [René Chorel de
Saint-Romain]
22 May 1731 – Sieur Joseph Blondeau hired Joseph Cusson dit Desormiers? to make a voyage to Détroit
[René Chorel de Saint-Romain]
To be continued
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