1661 INVENTORY OF POSSESSIONS

OF THE LATE

LOUIS GASNIER

AND OF

MARIE MICHEL

(Auber, Notary July 14, 1661 No. 85)

Today, Monday, the fourteenth day of July, One Thousand Six hundred Sixty One, at Chateau Richer, by verbal order of Monsieur the Governor, we, Jean Cochon, tax collector in the coast and manor of Beaupre, aided by our clerk,

have taken inventory of the property and possessions remaining after the decease of the late Louis Gasnier,

represented to us through Marie Michel, widow of said Louis Gasnier

and estimated by Sir Francois Bellanger and Julien Fortin, Lord in part of the said coast and manor.

Thus there is as follows:

Livre=

Sou=

Denier=

Franc

5c

1/12sou

Item:

Two dairy cows estimated at 120 Francs

120

Item:

Two heifers, two years old, past age for veal est at 100f

100

Item:

One ox for service, est at 120f

120

Item:

Two young bulls, at end of usefulness for veal, est at 60

60

Item:

Two veal calves born this year est at 40f

40

Item:

4 large pigs est at

60

Item:

5 other small suckling pigs est at 100s each

25

Item:

1 plow equipped with a pair of wheels, total est at

45

Item:

1 old boat with its sail, cord and anchor, est at

60

Item:

3 beds, bolsters and pillows with a night stand, total est at

100

Item:

2 bedcovers est at 40

40

Item:

3 old covers est at 12f

12

Item:

2 old tablecloths and six napkins est. at 12f

12

Item:

2 pots, 1 frying pan, 1 grill, 1 skewer, 2 ladles - total est at

100

Item:

1 plate with a burner est at 10f

10

Item:

1 ripsaw and 1 crosscut saw, both with handles est at 155s

5

15

Item:

One old thresher est at 40s

2

Item:

Two small rifles and one pistol est at 50f

50

Item:

Several small axes and a hoe with a large axe, total est at 20f

20

Item:

A suit, already old and 4 shirts all for men's use, used by said deceased, total est at:

30

Item: Declared that the widow has ten minots (39 liters = 1 minot) of grain (wheat) left as food for her and her children until the next harvest.

Item: All possessions have been left with the widow to produce them on demand. She has been approved and guaranteed for this by Claude Bouchard, son-in-law of the late Louis Gasnier and said widow. For this, each shall be responsible for all their possessions and inheritances, present and future and those of their heirs.

In the presence of Simon Guion, living in said manor and Annet Villain, called LaMeneyre as witnesses.

(signed)

Villian

Simon Guion

F. Bellanger

Cochon

X of said Sir Fortin

X of said widow

Auber, notary

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Marie doit survivre malgré l’horreur de l'assassinat de son mari par les Iroquois. Elle se remarie avec Paul de Rainville, un veuf, père de 5 enfants et huissier de la seigneurie de Notre-Dame-des-Anges. À la fin de sa vie, Marie reviendra vivre chez sa fille , à Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré, pour y mourir. C’était en 1687.

Loose translation of above: Marie must survive in spite of the horror of l' assassination of his/her husband by Iroquois. It remarie with Paul de Rainville, a widower, father of 5 children and usher of the seigniory of Our-Lady-of-Angels. At the end of her life, Marie will return to live in her daughter, with Co.-Anne-of-Bowsprit, to die there. It was in 1687