Jean Lalonde dit Lespérance

Notes

• Lieux info: Normandie, France (naissance), Ville-Marie (mariage), Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue (décès)
• Pionnier de la Nouvelle-France. Arrive au Québec le 18 juin 1665 à bord du Brézé.
• Jean était soldat du Régiment de Carignan-Salières, de la compagnie Monteil (ou possiblement la compagnie Saurel). Il était également un habitant, laboureur et marguillier.
• Il fut tué par les Iroquois le 30 septembre 1687 à Baie d'Urfé) (Monument (double "L" en béton) + plaque) érigé et payé par les Lalonde d'Amérique - Baie d'Urfé en 1987) in Baie d'Urfé face au Lac Saint-Louis)..

More Notes

Jean Lalonde dit Lesperance was born in the Normandy region of France and had come to the colony of New France as a Carignan-Saliere (soldier). He had three marriage contracts that were annulled before finally marrying Marie Barbant, a "fille du roi", in 1669.

In 1687 he and nine other men were working together, and were attacked by an Indian raiding party. All the men in the group were killed. Jean and Marie were living in a most vulnerable spot at the point of Ile de Montreal. This attack preceded the Lachine massacre by two years.

Jean was reburied in 1866 - Église Saint-Anne-de-Bellevue (QC), Canada.

Jean had been the first church warden of the mission called St. Louis du Bout de l'Isle that had been established in the summer of 1685. Today outside Ste. Anne de Bellevue (commemorating the men who had been killed in that raid in 1687).

Killed in a Iroquois September 30, 1687 in Baie d'Urfé at the end of the day working on his land who was on his way home.

Jean de Lalonde dit l'Espérance married Marie Barbant (aka Brabant or Barbary) a Fille du Roy. Jean was 29 and Marie 30.

Marriage contract 14-11-1669 - with Notaire Adhémar in Québec City.

Source : Parchemin - and - Origines Québec.

After Jean's death - Marie married Pierre Tabault in Lachcine. Marriage contract cancelled less than 2 years later.

She was also employed for awhile by Nicolas Juchereau.

Jean and Marie had several children

• Married : Marie-Madeleine de Lalonde dit l'Espérance (husband Guillaume Daoust) .
• Married : Jean-Baptiste de Lalonde dit l'Espérance (land was given to him by Marie (husband to (1) Marguertie Masta first, then (2) Jeanne Gervais,
• Married : Guillaume de Lalonde dit l'Espérance - part of the militia that went to Massachusetts with French soldiers, Mohawks and Abenaki in Jan-Feb-March 1704 - adventurer and fur trader at first with brother Jean-Baptiste. Settled down and became a farmer to marry one of the captives of the Deerfield Raid of February 29, 1704 - Sarah Allen. They had 13 children.

There were two other children noted in Origines Québec - both named Jean - 1671-1674 - the other Jean - 1679-1682.

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Mar 4 2019, 15:09:48 UTC
• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Mar 4 2019, 15:12:40 UTC

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