Source: Public Notary Archives, Quebec National Archives, Quebec City, Canada. |
April 13, 1675: The Ursulines (a religious order) sold Jean Baptiste Charron Dit LaFerrière a house with a yard, kitchen, brick oven, and a room without a fireplace on a 37x24' lot in the Lower Town of Quebec, across from the Magasin de Montreal (Montreal General Store). Jean Baptiste Charron Dit LaFerrière agrees to pay an annual rent of 60 pounds per year, paid in two installments. December 1, 1681: Jean Gauthier Larouche provided Jean Baptiste Charron Dit LaFerrière with a receipt "quittance" for the 200 pounds paid to his daughter Francoise Gauthier as part of a bequest by Francois Jacquet (deceased). The latter was his daughter Jacqueline's godfather, and had bequeathed his estate to her. Ce dernier lui cède une habitation de deux arpents de front par trente de profondeur au village Saint-Joseph de Charlesbourg. Au recensement de 1681, il possède un fusil, deux vaches et douze arpents de terre en valeur. Il donne quittance, le premier décembre 1681, à Jean Charron dit Laferrière, de la somme de 200 livres, que feu François Jacquet a léguée par testament à son fils François Gautier. This last yields to him a dwelling of two arpents face by thirty of depth at the village Saint-Joseph de Charlesbourg. With the census of 1681, he has a rifle, two cows and twelve arpents of ground in value. It gives receipt, December 1, 1681, to Jean Charron Dit LaFerrière, of the sum of 200 pounds, that François Jacquet bequeathed by will to his/her son François Gautier. Gauthier Family Genealogical Association April 29, 1687: Jean Baptiste Charron
Dit LaFerrière the house and lot he obtained as a part of the estate
against a lot owned by Lucien Bouteville near the Seminary of Quebec.
Lucien Bouteville promised to build a house on the lot, and is given
100 pounds. August 16, 1698: Jean Baptiste Charron Dit LaFerrière purchased a lot with frontage on "Cul de Sac" harbor for 270 pounds. |