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- ! Voyageur and fur trader! <http://gapellet.brinkster.net/francois.htm>2 - Fran?ois Pelletier-dit-Antaya (abt1635 - bef1689) - sieur d'Antaya - sieur d'OrvilliersParents: Nicolas Peltier - Jeanne de VoisyBorn: abt1635 - Gallardon, FranceDied: between 1685 and 1688 - Seigneurie d'Antaya, QC, CanadaMarried:1 - Apr 1660 - Poste du Domaine du Roi, Tadoussac, QC, CanadaSpouse: Doroth?e La Sauvagesse (?? - 1661)Children:2 - 26 Sep 1661 - Mission St-Joseph, Sillery, QC, CanadaSpouse: Marguerite-Madeleine Morisseau (circa1637 - 15 Dec 1707)Children:Marie-Ang?lique (1662- 1741)Fran?ois-Xavier (1663 - 1697)Joseph (1665 - ??)Marguerite-Agn?s((1666 - ??)Genevi?ve (1668 - ??)Catherine (1672 - 1743)Michel (1674 -1744)Jean-Baptiste-dit-Pierre (1676 - 1757)Elisabeth (1677 - bef1681)Louise (1678-1703)The following was submitted by Beno?t Shoja Pelletier,one of Fran?ois' descendants:Now for Fran?ois Pelletier. Based on his given ages in 1662 and 1667 we place his date of birth about 1635. Hecrosses the Atlantic ocean when no more than an infant, grows up in Qu?bec City and, at the age of about ten, moves to Sillery.Amerindians were surely not strangers to him in Qu?bec and Sillery, so it should surpriseno one that he marry a so-called"Sauvagesse."According to the Association des familles Pelletier, early in 1659, Fran?ois accompanies his brother-in-law, No?l J?r?mie-dit-Montagne, on a voyage to the vast "Domaine du Roy", a trade area encompassing the great Saguenay-Lac St-Jeanarea.We don't know exactly how long Francois stays there, or his motivation for going there in the first place.J?r?mie was authorized to trade inthe Domaine, but was Fran?ois? Perhaps he was abusing his brother-in-law's position to trade illicitlywith the Indians; perhaps he sought no more than adventure. We can only guess.Some time before the autumn of 1659, Fran?ois has returned to Qu?bec; the Journal des J?suites says that on November21, Fran?ois accompanies the Jesuit Albanel to Tadoussac, stating that he is not at their expense, but is under their name.Here again we are unsure of Fran?ois' motivations. Is he no more than a hiredhand, or has he devoted himself to missionary work? Tadoussac is the site of a mission and a tradingpost, afact further obscuring his motives.When the Journal mentions Albanel's return from Tadoussac the following April 24, however, Francois' reasons for returning to Tadoussac become a little clearer: the Journal indicates that Albanel has married Fran?ois to a Christian Amerindienne, without publication of banns, or permission from his parents, the bishop, or the governor, noting that thishas caused quite a controversy.At this point, Fran?ois' reasons for travelling to the Domaine duRoy with J?r?mie early in 1659 are no clearerthan before, but we are in a better position to assume why he returnedthere later that same year with Albanel: for the affectionof the "savaugesse," whose Christian name we later learn is Doroth?e. Lettingour imaginations stray a little into the realm of possibility, we might humbly assume that there was too little time during his first expedition to marry her, andFran?ois returned to Quebec determined to revisit Tadoussac and make Doroth?e his bride. This would explain their hasty marriage, as well as why they publish no banns and consult neither family members nor local officialsAlbanel was undoubtedly sympathetic to Fran?ois and Doroth?e's situation, or else he certainly would not have taken uponhimself to marry them without their having gone through the propers channels and necessary steps.In the end, if Fran?ois and Doroth?e do trulymarry for love, their happiness is short-lived: she dies April 13, 1661, at Quebec's generalhospital, leaving no children.Shortly after Doroth?e's death, Fran?ois betroths Marguerite-Madeleine Morisseau; they publish three banns in the parish of Sillery before their marriage, September 26, 1661. (We might wonder how Fran?ois was able tomove onso quickly afterthe death of his first bride.)They settle in Sillery, first on the land of his father, and later on their own property,granted Fran?oisby the Jesuits in 1667......In 1669 Fran?ois leases his property to Denis Ruette and heand his family head to Sorel, where he has apparently received a concession from Pierre Saurel; their relationship dates to at least 1666 when Saurel led a group of some three hundred men West to avenge the Iroquois massacre of two Frenchmen and to rescue four otherscaptured by the Iroquois.On October 22, 1675, Fran?ois purchases an estate from Philippe Gauthier, sieur deComporte; the frontage runs one "demi-lieue" (1.5 miles) along the St-Lawrence River across from Sorel between the Autray and Berthier estates,and it extendsinland one "lieue"(3 miles).Fran?ois and Marguerite now merit the titles "sieur" and "seigneuresse", not to denote their nobility, but to reflect the esteem oftheir peers.Fran?ois renames his land "Antaya," discontinuing "Dorvilliers" and "Comporte," names it has borne in the past, but in some laternotarized and baptismal actswe see "Dorvilliers" is sometimes used. Two years after this purchase the Pelletier family establishes itself at Antaya, Fran?ois havingsold his 80-arpent property in Sorel to Pierre Coutois, September 17, 1777.From the 1681 census ofNewFrance we see thatFran?ois maintains sixteen arpents of arable land, owns ten heads of cattle, and possesses three muskets with which todefend his family and homestead. The census places Fran?ois at Autray, but what is most likelythe caseisthat Antaya, which neighbors Autray, was simply counted under Autray. From Deshaies' 1686 map we see that "Antaia" is a separate estate sitting between Autray and Berthier,as described in the 1675 billof sale....Fran?ois is cited for the lasttime at the wedding of his dauther, Marguerite-Agn?s, May 7, 1685, in Berthier-en-Haut. He is not mentionned again until August 1, 1688, in Montr?al: Antoine Adhemar notarizes acontract between a Jean Bougueran (i.e., Beaugrand) and Marguerite Morisseau, "widow of Francois Pelletier Ontaya of Dorvilliers."Some time after Fran?ois' death, Marguerite moves to Sainte-Famille, where the families offourofherchildren have lived since the 1690s; when she witnesses the marriagesof two of her children there in 1703, Ste-Famille is her stated residence. She dies at Qu?bec's general hospital December15, 1707.Possession of the seigneurie d'Antaya transfersto Pierre Pelletier-Antaya, who eventually sells the land to LouisBalthazar Keberio, December 3, 1754.
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vers 1635 - avant 1693 (< 58 ans)
