Jacques Millot dit Laval

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Il immigre le 16 novembre 1653 Montréal

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Jacques came with the "La Recrue" (the recruits) in 1763. He was one of more than 100 men hired in France to bolster the settlement at Montreal to defend against the attacks of the Iroquois. The following is from the "La Grande Recrue de 1653, The Colonists Who Saved Montreal" by Roland Auger, translated by Dianne Little. FHL The citations have not been copied. pp. 98-9. "Millot dit Laval, Jacques, settler, from the parish of Crouzille, department of Maine, engaged himself for five years in return for 75 livres of wages on April 18, 1653. Crouzille, or Croixille and Grouxille is today in the department of the Mayenne, district of Laval, from where the surname of Jacques Millot originated. He received the sum of 120 lives as an advance on his wages. He signed his name, Millots. At the expiration of his five year contract, he chose to reside in the country, and made several transactions: ... On March 7, 1660, when Dollard des Ormeaux chose his troops, Jacques Millot wed at Notre-Dame of Montreal Jeanne Hébert, daughter of Augustin Hébert dit Jolicoeur, himself a victim of the Iroquois in Nov. 1653 and of Adriane Duvivier. ... He was a soldier of the 10th squad in the "milice de la Ste-Famille" [militia] and a benefactor towards the parish at Villemarie [original name of Montreal] on Aug. 17, 1663. We have several contracts of Jacques Millot" obligations to Francois Chartier dit Laforest on Feb. 25, 1668 ...; sale of a concession by Isaac Dodin on Feb 2, 1i679; a sale to Jean-Baptiste Migeon on Oct. 2, 1672; a sale of an "arpent" [.85 acre] of land near the site of M. Migeon to Robert LeCavelier on June 28, 1681; a lease of a cow by Robert LeCavelier for the term of five years in return for the sum of twenty livres per year on April 20, 1682; settled an account with the widow LeClos on Feb. 21, 1674; a setlement of endowment to the Seigneurs of Montreal on Feb. 18, 1675; a lease to farm by Laurent Archambault on April 20, 1677; a lease to farm for three years and a place of residence at the hill St-Louis by Paul Aguenier, sept. 8, 1682; agreements with Jean Gasteau on the subject of a certain quantity of boards which Millot promised and obliged to supply on May 3, 1682; an agreement with M. de Lamothe on Nov. 15, 1682; a concesion with claims of seigneurial cens and rentes of 100 "arpents" [85 acres] of land below the hill St-Louis from the clergy of the Seminary on Jan. 29, 1684; concessionaire another time on the following Feb. 2; a lease to farm for five consecutive years of a farm of 75 "arpents" [64 acres] by Paul Aguener on Oct. 14, 1685; a lease to farm to Louis Gervaise on April 12, 1689; an agreement with Paul Aguenir on July 9, 1691. ...He hired his son Jacques to Robert Janot, for the time of sowing on April 8, 1681. Jeanne Hébert died at the age of forty years, and was buried at villemarie [Montreal] on March 25, 1687. Jacques Millot survived her by a dozen years and was buried in turn at Montreal on Nov. 4, 1699. The inventory of their possessions was drawn up on July 7, 1701. His descendants were along the feminine line only.

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GEDCOM Note

<p>Red Drouins book pg.309</p>Source: Rene Jette--Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles du Quebec des Origines A 1730: Pg.407/815 Repository, AFGS, Woon.RI