Pierre-Julien Lefebvre

Versatile and omnipresent are the words which best describe Pierre Lefbvre. Founder of the oldest Lefebvre family in America. This ancestor left his heritage with the families of the Denoncourt, Descoteaux, Lemerise, Lassisseraye, and with neville Families. he came from France during the early 1640's, and soon was counted among the notables of Trois Rivieres; he was a land clearer, builder, mayor, surveyor, church warden and arbiter. TheCitizens of Cap de la Madeleine may also claim him among the pioneers of their town since Pierre and his family lived there for several years. He probably died there about 1668. A Parisian Transplanted to Trois Rivieres: Endowed with an uncommonly sharp intellect, this remarkable builder came from the Paris region. The son of Pierre Lefebvre and of Jeanne Cutiloup, Pierre had come from Sceaux by 1642. His prsence was first noted at Trois Rivieres on 11 April 1643, in a case opposing the brothers Michel and Jacques Leneuf against Guillaume Isable. The former were accused of kicking and beating the latter. The fact of his having been a witness to the charge must not have left the Leneuf's with any rancor, because Jacques and Marie Marguerite Leneuf were godfather and godmother to Pierre Lefebvre's eldest son, jacques, on 12 January 1647. Certain genealogists assert that ancestor Lefebvre arrived in New France already married to Jeanne Aunois/Auneau, but it is more likely that their marriage was celebrated at Trois Rivieres about 1646. neither the civil nor marriage record have been recovered, However, a contract recorded by Severin Ameau, dated 2 Sep 1663, indicates that our ancestor was a native of Sceaux and that his father was also named Pierre. Pierre acquired his first land grant from Governor Charles Hualt de Montmagny on 15 Aug 1644. According to historian Marcel Trudel, this plot had an area of thrity arpents and was bordered by land belonging to the heirs of Etienne Vien, to Jacques Aubuchon dit le Loyal and a third piece to the "savages." A Large Land Owner: On 16 April 1647, teh COmpany of New France ceded to Pierre Lefebvre, at the same time as to Nicolas Marsolet, a grant of a quarter league in frontage by a league in depth, whose southwest boundary extended to the mouth of the Gentilly River. The Marsolet domain, situated upstream of Lefebvre's was alotted to him en fief et seigneurie with the right to dispense justice; for Pierre However, it was a matter of une simple censive, as confirmed by le papier terrier de 1667-1668. These two pieces of land where joined into a single fief in 1676. On 1 June 1674, Governor Montmagny, bestowed another favor on the tireless Pierre Lefebvre. Along with Guillaume Pepin, Guillaume Isable and Sebastien Dodier, he allowed him to clear the Ile de Mileau, across from their homes. Captured by the Iroquois: The Journal of the Jesuits reported that on 4 July 1648, our ancestor was captured by the Iroquois. In his report of that year, Father Jerome Lallemant descibed this incident as follows: "The next day. the fourteenth of the same month of July, an Algonquin having discovered the trail of teh enemy, advised Monsieur de la Poterie of it, who warned the inhabitants by the alrm bell and by a volley of cannon, the ordinary signal to be on one's guard; five Hurons nearest to the place where the enemy were already grappling with two of our Frenchmen who were guarding the cattle, ran to the voices asnd the clamor of the combatant's, they joined them, resisting the effort of more than eighty men. Due to this noise, two armed boats were sent by water, but before they arrived at the place of combat, teh Hiroquois had already killed a Frenchman and a Huron, and took two Fench and two Huron prisoners; they were nevertheless frightened, having seen several oftheir men killed and wounded by the Frenchmen, so that they fled, evern though they were at least ten against one. One of the Fench prisoners was the nephew of Monsieur de la Poterie, who was out hunting a little wasy off and found himself taken without knowing how it happened; the Huron was a good Christian, he had made his confession on the presceding sunday as did the Fenchman; the two captive Hurons were not baptized; as for the Fench prisoners, we may render testimony to their good life, even if they were at fault to be so exposed with the knowledge that they had of the enemy." Pierre Lefebvre spent three long months as a captive among the Iroquois and returned in October in the company of one of the latter, who ahd managed to escapte his guards at Trois Rivieres some time earlier. On 14 Jun 1650, Pierre acquired a peid a terre in Trois Rivieres. is measuered twenty toises in frontage by the same in depth, near the palisade, between rue Saint Francois Xavier and the place of Bertrand Fafard dit Laframboise. On this land stood a hosue shared by him and Fafard. Thriteen years later in a lawsuit brought by our ancestor agaisnt Jacques and Rene Besnard, it was inferred that this hosue, which today would be on Turcotte terrace, had had not roof for the past two eyars and was in a state of decay. A bit later Pierre became the proprietor of a small island named I'Islet, situated at the mouth of the Saint Maurice River between the mainland and the Ile de la Trinite' (Saint Quentin).

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