Jean Sabourin was listed as dying on 14 April 1681 at Montreal, Quebec, Canada and buried on 28 Sept. 1721 at Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada.
Marriage Notes for Jean Sabourin and Etiennette JOINAUX-343267
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Nicokas Charron dit Charon.
Marie Catherine Pillard was christened on 30 March 1646 at Notre Dame, LaRochelle, Aunis, France. She was buried on 23 July 1717 at Montreal, Ile de Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Pillard or Pilliot, according to A.C. Emery.
Marriage Notes for Nicolas Pierre Charon and Marie Catherine PILLARD-343287
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Dit LaPointe. His death date was listed as 1699/1702.?
Dit Chartran and Charreton. Her birth date was listed as 1643/1653. ?
Marriage Notes for Jean Robin and Jeanne CHARRETON-343271
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The Robin dit LaPointe Family
The 10th of October, 1967, marked the 300th marriage anniversary of the ancestor Jean Robin dit LaPointe in Canada. The History and genealogy of the LaPointe family could fully serve as a text for several volumes. We shall give a brief summary of them.
Jean Robin dit LaPointe, diocese of Auxerre in France. Having arrived in Canada in the Carignan Regiment, he married at Quebec, Jeanne Charreton, daughter of Claude, and Madeleine Dumont, of St. Pierre de Guillot, diocese of Bourges, France.
Jean Robin had been well educated, because he was a notary; he signed his name each time he was requested to do so. His flourish is especially noteworthy at the foot of his marriage contract drawn up by Antoine Adhemar (who was to become one of the most important notaries of Mpntreal) October 9, 1667, in the presence of Gilles Rageot. Curiously enough, however, he did not sign his marriage act on October 10, 1667 at Quebec. The evening before, he had transacted his marriage contract in the presence of the notary Gilles Rageot in which, however, we can correctly read his signature as well as that of his future wife in the contract.
The Carignan Regiment
The lure of adventure and the thirst for the unknown intrigued him. The famous Carignan Regiment had just covered itself with glory, which was a suffient inducement to attract the young Robin. Jean was mustered into the company of Monsieur de Saurel. The Atlantic crossing was accomplished on the vessel called La Paix. This vessel ,actually, had set sail on May 13, from LaRochelle, with another, l'Aigle d'Or.
"The Soldier", wroteFr. Germain Lesage, "had hardly arrived at Quebec, that is Wednesday August 19 to be specific, when they started devotional exercises. On August 21 and 22, 1665, at 8 o'clock in the morning, Pere Claude Dablon, S.J. preached on penance, in order to prepare for confirmation a large number of soldiers and inhabitants. The ceremony took place the 24th". Among the participants was the young Jean Robin dit LaPointe, whose age was 22, according to the confirmation registry. This is the first mention of him in the country.
Like all the others, Jean Robin had a surname as soon as he arrived in Canada. It was, moreover, the fashion of the times, and sobriquets were also obligatory in the armies. In Canada, we know at present, five families of Robins, whose sobriquets are as follows: Robin dit LaPointe; Robin dit Babin; Robin dit LaCroix; Robin dit Desforges; Robin dit LaTouche.
The companies of the Carignan Regiment were generally composed of three officers: Captain, Lieutenant and Ensign. There were also other subordinate officers for the imposing number of soldiers who made up the 24 companies. There were only two ensigns really so titled, inasmuch as there were only two white flags; meanwhile the young Robin served as an Ensign.
What advantage did Canada derive from the presence of the Carignan Regiment? It was sent to primarily the Iroquois in their marauding, devastation, and massacres of the colonists. Canada undoubtedly profited from it, because a large number of soldiers remained who became colonists in 1668. A large majotity of the French-Canadian population is descended from soldiers of the Carignan Regiment. Hense there remained in Canada more than four hundred soldiers from the 24 companies, at the time of their return to France in the Autumn of 1667 and 1668, and an approximate number of 250 soldiers that had died, either from natural causes or killed by the Iroquois.
In temporal matters, just as Msgr. de Laval was the key figure in the spiritual domain, so Jean Talon was the soul of the colony; he has been given the glorious title of Colbert of Canada. The impetus had been given to New France, which in less than ten years, witnessed a doubling of the number of its colonists; in 1675, it had 7,833 Frenchmen.
Talon has left an indelible mark in the history of our country, which will remain engraved forever because, he said, who can undertake anything greater and more useful than a colony? Is it not by this means, more than by any other, that it is possible, in all justice, to become greater and to grow?
A family of numerous priests
Jean Robin dit LaPointe, of France, married to Pierrette Gauterio, has given to all of Canada, by his son who came and settled in New France, a large and splendid group of priests; actually his Eminence Cardinal Begin of happy memory, seventeen other archibishops and bishops, including Msgr. Edmond-Hyppolite Langevin, P.A., who was vicar-general to his brother, the first bishop of Rimouski; Msgr. Calixte Canac-Marquis, P.A., born in 1821, who in 1892 brought from Rome, the largest relic of good St. Anne, preserved in the basilica at Beaupre. Also, Msgr. Cyprian Tanquay, author of the genealogical dictionary, and a large number of secular priests, religious and sisters.
Jean Robin becomes a colonist
After having been mustered out of the army in 1668, Jean Robin and his family left Quebec to settle in Boucherville. He raised a numerous family, eight daughters and two sons; like all the other colonists, he cleared the few arpents of land which were given him.
It was also at Boucherville that his son, Jean, married M. Claude Sergeant. His wife, Jeanne, died there june 6, 1703. Subsequently, he lived in Longueuil and its finally at Terrebonne that the family permanently settled.
The Terrebonne census dated February 16, 1721, shows that there were only sixteen inhabitants that were permanent householders, and nine who "are not residents there at all".
In the Archives at Ottawa, we have found numerous documents concerning Terrebonne, because the Robin family always lived there, but in 1843, the family name was definately changed to LaPointe.
Today, the Robin dit LaPointe family, which took root at Quebec, extends as far as Abitibi, and also westward. We know that there are several families who live in the United States. At present, the family is composed of not less than ten generations. Jean Robin, thus endowed the country with numerous progeny, of whom some names are given below, which may perhaps be found helpful.
The Robin-LaPointe's in Terrebonne
The first mention of the name, Terrebonne, in the archives goes back to December 23, 1673. We have read the act of one of the first grants. It is dated May 10, 1710 and concerns the sale of a lot belonging to Jean Robin dit LaPointe to L.B. Dupre and Claire Febvrier, his wife. (Judicial Archives of Montreal). This was not the first grant made at Terrebonne, because dating back to June 14, 1707, the intendant Jacques Raudot, with the consent of sieur Dupre, permitted the inhabitants of Milles-Isles seigniory, otherwise known as Terrebonne, to construct "a mill in said location of the said seigniory which will consider suitable, for which they will be released in perpetuity from the banality right and they are permitted to construct it to their profit".
From this revealing text, we see that as far back as 1707, there were colonists in Terrebonne. Then, on October 1, 1718, the seigniory was sold to Francois Marie Bouat, Lieutenant of Montreal; the Bouat couple did not take much interest in colonists and sold their property to Abbe Louis Lepage of Sainte-Claire, pastor of the parish of l'Isle de Jesus, for the sum of 10,000 livres, French money. (Montreal Judicial Archives). Terrebonne was to witness an unheard-of development. We recognize the pastor Lepage as being the true founder of Terrebonne. As soon as he arrived, the pastor started the extensive work of colonization, which permitted him to see the parish proper at a rate which was exceptional in New France.
The pastor's first concern was to build a chapel which would be suitable for Catholic worship. He named his parish, "Le Bois", doubtless because of the thick forests which covered Terrebonne at that period.
In a request to Msgr. de Sainte Vallier, September 28, 1723, he had petitioned that his seigniory be constituated as a parish, under the patronage of Saint Louis, King of France, which was granted him. On September30 of that same year, the seigneur and pastor of Terrebonne celebrated the first Mass in his new church.
From a restored standpoint, we quote from a document kept in the Archives, the first and most ancient found in the rectory, and which concerns a sale of pews of the first church, dated January 1, 1724. We read in it that "the pews were awarded January 1, 1724": Here, we find the names of Pierre Robin dit LaPointe, (grandson of Jean), Baptiste Maisonneuve and eighteen other names.
French Canadian and Acadian Genealogical Review
The first chapel was of stone, as is vouched for by the text of an assembly of the fabric dated January 1, 1734. Moreover, the Monseigneur de Saint-Vallier, bishop of Quebec at that period, scarcely ever authorized the construction of "religeous buildings" unless they were made of "good and sturdy masonry".
The site of the church must have been at a point jutting out in the rapids of the river, because it is indicated furthor on in the document that: "the lot is too limited to contain a church as well as a rectory". Then, the Abbe Lepage continues his report, writing "......the church thus proposed, on a hillock".
It was therefore near this church that the Robin families lived, because in the census, we find here the families which inhabited the Grande Cote de Terrebonne.
Terrebonne was therefore the cradle of several generations of the descendants of Jean Robin dit Lapointe, at least from the early 1700's. At Boucherville we find interesting documents also, concerning the family, and likewise at Varennes.
Mme. M. Blanche LaPointe-Michaud
journalist, Ottawa
(Extract from the newspaper Le Droit, Ottawa, October 17, 1967)
Vol. II, No. 1, Spring 1969
Marriage Notes for Jean Robin and Perrette GAUTERIO-343273
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Claude Charton or Charreton was listed as born about 1611/1617. ?
Madeleine DuMont was listed as born on 1615/1621. ?
Marriage Notes for Claude Charreton and Madeleine DUMONT-343275
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Marriage Notes for Pierre Charron and Judith MARTIN-343330
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Pierre Pillart dit Pillat, Pilliot and Pillard.
Dit Maulinet.
Marriage Notes for Pierre Pilliot and Marguerite MOULINET-343305
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Marie Charron was christened 5 Jan. 1701 at St. Antoine, Longueuil, Chambly, Quebec, Canada. She was buried 18 Dec 1762 at Vercheres, Vercheres, Quebec, Canada.