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Jean Baptiste Charron Dit LaFerrière 

Occupation: Master Blacksmith and Taillandier (edge tool maker). 

Military: A soldier in the Carignan-Salières Regiment, LaFouille Company and a Taillandier (An artisan who makes and sells cutting tools like scissors, chisels, shears, etc.). Records indicate he continued as a Master Edge-Tool Maker and Blacksmith.

Carignan-Salières Regiment Lineage 1636-1816

Link to an image of the actual roll. Note the name is spelled LaFeriere (missing one "r") Carignan Roll

If I understand the information correctly, he received "8 Grounds in Value" at the age of 30 for staying in Quebec. He also received 100 pounds as an allowance to colonize New France.

Carignan-Salières Regiment, LaFouille Company Rolls
(Listed as Charron, Jean-Baptiste (LaFerrière)

The La Fouille Company came across from France on the ship La Justice which departed La Rochelle 24 May 1665 and arrived on 12 September 1665 accompanying the Saint Sébastien. From these two ships which sailed together, more than 20 men had died at sea and 130 were too weak to make it ashore by themselves. The Saint Sébastien also carried Jean Talon and Daniel de Rémy de Courcelle respectively the new Intendant and new Governor of New France.

Fort Chambly, Quebec, was built in 1665 by a Captain in the Carignan Regiment.

In 1666 The Carignan-Salières regiment destroys five Mohawk villages, eventually leading to peace between the Iroquois and the French.

In 1668 The Carignan Regiment is recalled to France, but several hundred choose to remain behind, many in return for local seigneuries (property grants).

In 1701, Hector de Callière, governor of New France, signed the "Peace of Montréal", a treaty between the French and the Iroquois.

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