Individual Details

The first mention of Francois Noel in our national history is found in the census for the year 1666. Francois, 22 years old, worked as a "hired servant" at the home of ancestor Gabriel Gosselin. Pierre had arrived in the previous year, that is 1665. He was the son of Pierre Noël and Elisabeth Augustin.

In 1668, the Seigneur de Mesnu had ceded 3 arpents of frontal land to Francois Noel. The latter had a voracious appetite for land. On March 2, 1670, he obtained 6 more arpents of frontage "joining on one side the said tenant on the other side Jacques Dubois". On this concession, there were about 15-20 arpents of low and high land ready to be cultivated with a shed "erected on it". Instead of 3 livres and 3 capons, Francois would in the future pay 9 livers and 9 live capons in seigneurial rent. In addition, he promised "to pay the said lessor" 55 livers annually, both in silver and in grain. In France, the owner of such an expanse of land would consider himself to be a small king.

Francois also discovered the generous forest of his vast domain. On March 16, in the company of the "nobleman Jean Baptiste Patulet", he appeared in the study of the notary Becquet at Quebec. Patoulet, secretary to Intendant Jean Talon, in the name of the government, ordered him to deliver 150 good pine boards to the sand-bank before the city of Quebec on the first days of the month of June. Francois received "from the hands of the Sr de Comporte" 75 livres cash. An identical amount would be paid to him after the delivery. The terms of the deal did not specify the length of the boards nor the width. Francois improvised as a long-sawyer.

Records also show that on January 26, 1673 an act passed in front of the notary Becquet forced François and his wife Nicole Legrand to pay reparation for making false and malicious accusations regarding the reputation of their neighbour Anne Jeanne Bardé married to Jean Paulin.

Birth	1639	Chiré-en-Montreuil, Vouillé, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou, France
Marriage	22 Oct 1669	Ste-Famille, Iles-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada - Nicole Legrand
Death	26 May 1725	St-Laurent, Iles-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada
Reference No		M192
Miscellaneous		Filles du Roi / King's Daughters

Spouse	Nicole Legrand (1640 - 1713)
Child	Philippe Noël (1670 - 1736)
Child	François Noël (1675 - 1703)
Child	Pierre Noël (1677 - 1748)
Child	Marguerite Noël (1679 - 1691)
Child	Ignace Noël (1681 - 1766)
Child	Jean-Baptiste Noël (1685 - 1691)
Child	Madeleine Noël (1687 - 1749)