Individual Details
Nicolas PERROT
(Abt 1644 - 13 Aug 1717)
PERROT or PERRAULT
Jetté and Tanguay
Marriage date given is that of the contract, notarized by LaRue.
Leg #V232
Biographical info in Jetté, DCB, LaForest, Drouin, Douville & Casanova, Costain
Engageur Ouest 14 May 1688 to 21 August 1691
Explorer, Interpreter, and Coureur des Bois
"Donne des Jesuits 1660-1663, des Sulpiciens 1666-1667"
Commandant at Green Bay (Baie-des-Puants) 1683-1695
Index to Nicolas Perrot in Wisconsin Historical Collections (State Historical Society of Wisconsin):
Perrot (Perrauit), Nicolas, explorer, 3 102, 6, 65, 66, 7, 108, 8, 200, 203, 204, 9, 119, 10, 60, 61, 299, 330, 360, 364, 11, 27, 28, 18, 272, 273, 16, xvl, 32-37, 101- 105, 133-141, 143-161, 165, 199, 407, 18, 33, 86; Indian titie, 16, 41, 143, 144; posts, e, 226, 9, 468, 10, 61-63, 300, 309- 313, 321, 330, 333, 358, 361-363. 360- 368, 505, 13, 273; takes possession of Northwest, 8, 203, 10, 310, 360-363, 11, 35, 36, 16, 205; at the lead mines, 10, 301, 330-333, 13, 274, 14, 302, 16, 151; presents ostensorium to Green Bay mission, 3, 108, 6, 111, 8, 200, 204, 205, 9, 112, 127, 16, 10, 142; robhed by Mi aml, 16, 160, 167, 170; speech, 16, 45; Memoire, cited, 8, 129, 134, 6, 112, 7, 177, 8, 18, 203, 10, 61, 301, 360, 13, 404, 433, 18, xl, xv, 10-21, 23-31, 236; Draper's sketch of, 5, 110-112 ; cited, 1, xxlx, 12. 21, 16, 386.
Author: "Memoires sur les Moeurs des Sauvages de l'Amerique Septrentrionale," ed. 1864 at Paris.
Germain LeSage, "Histoire de Louiseville":
--p. 48 (translation): This contract was the last official act made by the Seigneur (Sieur Le Chasseur?): the following May 15 (1688), he sold his fief to Nicolas Perrot, an explorer and coureur des bois of great renown.
The birthplace of the new proprietor is unknown, as is the date of his arrival in Canada. In 1660, he was in the service of the Jesuit missionaries at the Baye des Puants (Green Bay). In 1666, he resided at Montreal, as a domestic servant in the home of Charles Testard de Folleville, husband of the celebrated Anne la Marque. Afterwards, he threw himself into his travels, visited various Indian Tribes, then married, in 1671, Marie-Madeleine Raclos. The 1681 Census shows him at Becancour, age thirty-seven years and the father of six children. He possessed two guns, five horned beasts, and eighteen arpents of cultivated land. All the same, there is no doubt that he much preferred the life of an interpretor and trader to that of a farmer. Having become the seigneur of the Riviere-du-Loup, he did not change his habits. As early as the day after he signed the contract, he departed for the region of the Ottawas and left his wife the responsibility to go and take possession of the fief and to see to assessing the value of his new domain. Moreover, he did not pay one bit of the four thousand livres promised as the purchase price, and contented himself to require, at some time or another, the rentes of several censitaires. In brief, one can hardly consider him to be a true seigneur; in fact most of his titles (or rights or claims) would later be annulled.
--p. 56: Conclusion of account of how Perrot lost his seigneury at Riviere du Loup -- must get previous pages for whole story! Gist is that Perrot still owed Le Chasseur all or almost all of the money, so he was giving the choice of paying up in full or giving up the seigneury. This occurred in 1700.
Jetté and Tanguay
Marriage date given is that of the contract, notarized by LaRue.
Leg #V232
Biographical info in Jetté, DCB, LaForest, Drouin, Douville & Casanova, Costain
Engageur Ouest 14 May 1688 to 21 August 1691
Explorer, Interpreter, and Coureur des Bois
"Donne des Jesuits 1660-1663, des Sulpiciens 1666-1667"
Commandant at Green Bay (Baie-des-Puants) 1683-1695
Index to Nicolas Perrot in Wisconsin Historical Collections (State Historical Society of Wisconsin):
Perrot (Perrauit), Nicolas, explorer, 3 102, 6, 65, 66, 7, 108, 8, 200, 203, 204, 9, 119, 10, 60, 61, 299, 330, 360, 364, 11, 27, 28, 18, 272, 273, 16, xvl, 32-37, 101- 105, 133-141, 143-161, 165, 199, 407, 18, 33, 86; Indian titie, 16, 41, 143, 144; posts, e, 226, 9, 468, 10, 61-63, 300, 309- 313, 321, 330, 333, 358, 361-363. 360- 368, 505, 13, 273; takes possession of Northwest, 8, 203, 10, 310, 360-363, 11, 35, 36, 16, 205; at the lead mines, 10, 301, 330-333, 13, 274, 14, 302, 16, 151; presents ostensorium to Green Bay mission, 3, 108, 6, 111, 8, 200, 204, 205, 9, 112, 127, 16, 10, 142; robhed by Mi aml, 16, 160, 167, 170; speech, 16, 45; Memoire, cited, 8, 129, 134, 6, 112, 7, 177, 8, 18, 203, 10, 61, 301, 360, 13, 404, 433, 18, xl, xv, 10-21, 23-31, 236; Draper's sketch of, 5, 110-112 ; cited, 1, xxlx, 12. 21, 16, 386.
Author: "Memoires sur les Moeurs des Sauvages de l'Amerique Septrentrionale," ed. 1864 at Paris.
Germain LeSage, "Histoire de Louiseville":
--p. 48 (translation): This contract was the last official act made by the Seigneur (Sieur Le Chasseur?): the following May 15 (1688), he sold his fief to Nicolas Perrot, an explorer and coureur des bois of great renown.
The birthplace of the new proprietor is unknown, as is the date of his arrival in Canada. In 1660, he was in the service of the Jesuit missionaries at the Baye des Puants (Green Bay). In 1666, he resided at Montreal, as a domestic servant in the home of Charles Testard de Folleville, husband of the celebrated Anne la Marque. Afterwards, he threw himself into his travels, visited various Indian Tribes, then married, in 1671, Marie-Madeleine Raclos. The 1681 Census shows him at Becancour, age thirty-seven years and the father of six children. He possessed two guns, five horned beasts, and eighteen arpents of cultivated land. All the same, there is no doubt that he much preferred the life of an interpretor and trader to that of a farmer. Having become the seigneur of the Riviere-du-Loup, he did not change his habits. As early as the day after he signed the contract, he departed for the region of the Ottawas and left his wife the responsibility to go and take possession of the fief and to see to assessing the value of his new domain. Moreover, he did not pay one bit of the four thousand livres promised as the purchase price, and contented himself to require, at some time or another, the rentes of several censitaires. In brief, one can hardly consider him to be a true seigneur; in fact most of his titles (or rights or claims) would later be annulled.
--p. 56: Conclusion of account of how Perrot lost his seigneury at Riviere du Loup -- must get previous pages for whole story! Gist is that Perrot still owed Le Chasseur all or almost all of the money, so he was giving the choice of paying up in full or giving up the seigneury. This occurred in 1700.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1644 | Darcey, Autun, Bourgogne, France | |||
| Marriage | 11 Nov 1671 | Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Champlain, Québec, Canada - Marie Madeleine RACLOS | |||
| Death | 13 Aug 1717 | Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada | |||
| Burial | 14 Aug 1717 | Bécancour, Nicolet, Québec, Canada | |||
| Reference No | BR7-8 |
Families
| Spouse | Marie Madeleine RACLOS (1650 - 1724) |
| Child | Pierre PERROT ( - ) |
| Child | Michel PERROT (1677 - ) |
| Child | Marie Françoise PERROT (1678 - ) |
| Child | Marie Anne PERROT ( - ) |
| Child | Marie Magdeleine PERROT ( - 1683) |
| Child | Claude PERROT (1684 - ) |
| Child | Jean Baptiste PERROT (1688 - ) |
| Child | Jean PERROT dit DUCHESNE (1690 - ) |
| Father | François PERROT ( - ) |
| Mother | Marie SIROT ( - ) |