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 1604 - 1688 (84 years)
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| Name |
Jacques Archambault |
| Born |
1604 |
Lardillierre, Dompierre-sur-Mer, Aunis (Charente-Maritime), France  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth |
1604 |
| Died |
15 Feb 1688 |
Montreal, Canada |
| Person ID |
I05709 |
Tombeau Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
24 Feb 2007 |
| Family |
Francoise Tourault, b. 1599, Sparme, Aunis (Charente-Maritme), France , d. 9 Dec 1663, Montreal, Canada (Age 64 years) |
| Married |
24 Jan 1629 |
Saint-Philibert du Pont-Charault, Chantonnay, LaRoche-sur-Yon, Vendee, France |
| Children |
| + | 1. Anne Archambault, b. Aft 1630, Dompierre-sur-Mer, Aunis (Charente-Maritime), France , d. 29 Jul 1699, Montreal, Canada (Age < 67 years) |
| + | 2. Jacquette Archambault, b. 1632, Dompierre-sur-Mer, Aunis, France , d. 17 Dec 1700, Quebec, Canada (Age 68 years) |
| + | 3. Marie Archambault, b. 24 Feb 1636, Dompierre-sur-Mer, Aunis, France , d. 6 Aug 1719, Pointe-aux-Trembles, Montreal, Canada (Age 83 years) |
| + | 4. Marie Archambault, b. 1644, Dompierre-sur-Mer, Aunis, France |
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| Family ID |
F2125 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- See Thomas J. LaForest "Our French Candian Ancestors", Vol XIX, Chap 3. pp. 28-38 for a biographical sketch.
The following information was obtained from Sadie Greening Sparks (home.inu.net/sadie/urbaintessier.htm)
Jacques Archambault was born about 1604, Lardillier, CharenteMaritime, parish of Dompierre-sur-mer, Aunis, France, son of Antoine Archambault and Renee Ouvrard. He died Feb 15 1688 at Trois Rivieres. He was a tiller in France before coming to Canada in 1645 with his family. He had been married on January 24, 1629 in Vendee, Lucon, St Philibert du Pont, Charrente, France, to Francois Toureau.
Francoise Toureau was born about 1600 in Sparme, Aunis, France, the daughter of Francois Touraude and Marthe Noel. Francoise died
December 9, 1663 in Montreal.
See Tanguay, Genealogical Dictionary, Vol. 1, p. 11.
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Jacques Archambault
Ancestor on the Clement and Madore lines: http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/madore/bio/Jacques_Archambault.html
Jacques and Francoise were married in France and had 7 children before coming to New France. Only Louise did not cross, because she died before her family left France.
Upon his arrival (1645-1646), it appears that he was a servant of Pierre Legardeur de Repentigny, at Quebec but by 1654 he was with Maisonneuve in Montreal. In 1658 Jacques contracted with Paul de Chomedey to dig a well, inside the fort at Ville-Marie, at the place d`Armes. He had found his calling.
One of his wells is an historic site in Montreal, still giving sweet water to this day!
"On May 6, 1651, Jean Chicot and the mason Jean Boudart were surprised by ten or so marauders. Chicot hid under a tree, while Boudart went back towards his house to take refuge there with his wife, but she had carefully barred the door. It was too late: the couple fled. The Iroquois quickly caught up with Madame Boudart. Her husband came back to try and save her, but it was a futile effort, and he died under the Iroquois` blows. His wife was spared "to make a cruel meal of her"- the Iroquois tried to take as many prisioners as possible for the pleasure of slowly burning them to death.
Three settlers ran to the scene: Charles Le Moyne, Jacques Archambault and a third whose identity we dont know. Some forty of the Iroquois fell upon them. They retreated to the hospital - it was open and Jeanne Mance was there alone. Le Moyne (whose cap had been pierced by a bullet) and his companions endeavoured to bring her to the fort; then they went out looking for Chicot. Chicot had defended himself so vigerously to keep from being captured, that they scalped him right there, even taking a piece of his skull. The Iroquois left him for dead but he survived, living sixteen more years after this cruel experience."
This last from: MONTREAL A History by Robert Prevost (translated) and translated from the website of Robert Rochon, "Liste des Patronymes":
JACQUES ARCHAMBAULT Archambaldus, Latinized Germanic first name, which means indigenous daring. Jacques Archambault and Francoise Tourault are the only ancestors of this great Archambault family of the same patronym. Jacques and Francoise are both natives of Dompierre-on-Sea, in the area of the Small rock, in Charente-Maritime, formerly French province of Aunis. Son of Antoine Archambault and Renee Ouvrard, Jacques was born in 1604. As for Francoise, she was born towards 1599. Both lived in Dompierre, in a hamlet called Lardilliere. Jacques and Francoise married on January 24 1629, in Saint-Philibert of the Bridge-Charault, in old Poitou, in France. Jacques is a ploughman then also vine grower. From 1630 to 1644, Francoise gives him seven children, two sons and five girls.
Towards 1645, with Pierre Legardeur de Repentigny, director of the new Company of the Inhabitants, the couple embarks for New-France, accompanied by six children.
In 1647, the farmer Jacques Archambault becomes tenant of a ground of the seigniory of Lachenaie. September 15 1651, he becomes dealer of a ground in the Cape Rouge. In 1654, the colonist agrees to fix himself definitively in the island of Montreal, on a plot of land close to current Place of Weapons.
One allots to Jacques Archambault the merit to have dug the first well of the Island of Montreal, October 11 1658, for Paul de Chomedey.
December 9 1663, one buries the body of Francoise Tourault, 64 years old.
In 1666, Jacques Archambault signs at Three-Rivers, a marriage contract with Marie Denot of Martiniere, he even widowed twice. With the census of 1681, Jacques and Marie, live at the stronghold of Verdun, in suburbs of Montreal. The ancestor Jacques Archambault is buried, in Montreal, February 15 1688, at 84 years age.
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