Aubin Lambert says Champagne on bord of the Golden Eagle to New France

Aubin Lambert says Champagne

On board the Golden Eagle

Aboard Eagle Golden Brouage. Departure from La Rochelle on 05.13.1665; Arrived in Quebec on ​​08/18/1665

(according Viateur Boulet / Bosher)

August 8, Lieutenant of The Eagle D 'or sometimes having left the ship and the captain Guillon Moulinbault (Moulin Baude near Tadoussac) he returned after obtaining 4 pilot of Mr. Tracy.

Sources: Relationship, mail Jean Talon and Register of JesuitsQuebec.

Year1665 ARM

The Golden Eagle Brouage en route to

 

    N ° 00 DEPARTMENT of La Rochelle 

Rolle of the ship's crew The Eagle Golden Brouage built in 1661Le Havre

From the port of 400  / 900 barrels draft loaded 12 unloadedfeet 10 feet two bridges, two guys,
belonging to King Louis ...... ......... Armed ..Canons

Under the command of Sieur Villepars to Quebec City

 

From La Rochelle on 13/05/1665

Arrival in Quebec  08/18/1665

Return Departure19/09/1665

ArrivalLa Rochelle on 6/11/1665

Note: Ship which was built shipyards of Brest, construction beginning in 1658, floated in 1660 and commissioned in 1661 .

Ship of Mr Fouquet in 1661 and seized by the King in 1663. He was armed Brouage for the campaign of 26 February 1664 to 15 May 1664. In Brouage Cayenne with the following ships: The Breze, St. Sebastian and the Ste Anne and flutes. Justice, Peace and the Garden of Holland with 650 settlers at their edges

Fort Chambly

Then from July 3, 1666 to August 2, 1666 from La Rochelle to Lisbourne with 8 other ships they escort Louise Françoise Elizabeth Savoie Duchesse de Nemours and Aumale who has just married by proxy the King of Portugal

He Campaign in the Americas February 9, 1667 with the St Sebastian. He retired in 1670.
 

Fort Ship Tonnage (900Tx)

What appears from the documents below
it would not be unthinkable to see six companies to its board
ship belonging to Sieur Pierre Gaigneur armed by King

Aubin Lambert says Champagne

 

Naturepassengers

200soldiers. Carignan:

Companies: GRANDFONTAINE; Salt shakers; The Frédière; La Motte with Captain Villepars

Aubin Lambert says Champagne

GRANDFONTAINE Co. (Quebec)	and Mr of Salt (27 August)
Hector Andigné Grandfontaine		Captain
Provost		Lieutenant
Stone Joybert Sieur de Soulange and Marson		Lieutenant
Pierre Bécard Sieur de Granville		Teaches
Claude Renard	said Deslauriers	Drum
Jean Soucy	said the Vine
Andre Badel	Dit La Marche
Pierre-André Renaud	says Locas
Jean Bergevin	said L'Angevin
February Pierre	Dit La Croix
Pierre Hudon	Dit Beaulieu
Christmas Pourveu	Dit La Fortume
Aubin Lambert	Dit Champagne
René Dumas	Says Meeting
Jean Mérienne	Dit La Solay
PierreCOCQUIN	saidLatonnelle
Louis Boulduc	said Bosleduc
Julienkey	saidLaTouche
François Biville	Dit Le Picart
Pierre Richer	SaidLa Flesche
Jacques Desmoulins	said Des Moulins
......... ..	Holds The Valon
Roger la Touche	SaysLa Touche
Nicolas Barbotin	said Lamarche
RenéBruneau	Jolicoeur said
Jacques Delaunay	Dit La Croix
Etienne Forestier	said Fortune
Mathieu Gervais	said Le Parisien
Jean Merienne	Dit La Solaye
Nicolas Sylvestre	Dit Champagne
John of Vacherie	said Floridor
....................	Dit St Laurens
.....................	Holds The Will

Hector Andigné GRANDFONTAINEof

Officerthe Carignan Regiment (1665-1668), governor of Acadia (1670-1673), baptized at Ruillé-Froid-Fonds, Mayenne, May 17, 1627, born Hector and Anne Andigné Grandfontaine, who died in Brest on July 6th 1696.

Grandfontaine belonged to a family of ancient Angevin nobility. His paternal grandfather, Gaston Andigné, acquired (before 1565) the land of Grandfontaine whose descendants also took the name. The youngest of four son in a family that included several military Hector naturally took a military career and became a Knight ofMalta.

On August 17, 1665, he arrived in Quebec as captain of a company of the Carignan-Salières. He ran in October following the construction of a road on the Richelieu River betweenFort Saint-Louis (Chambly) and St. Therese. After a winter in Quebec, he took part in the campaign MM. Prouville of Tracy and Rémy de Courcelles against the Mohawks and signed on 17 October, the minutes of taking possession of their territory (BRH, XIII (1907). 350s). Talon recommended him among the "officers who deserve to be distinguished" and probably remmena in France in the fall of 1668.

The following year, when it came to organizing maritime companies for the defense of Canada, Grandfontainewith four former officers of Carignan, offered his services to raise a company with the intention to make a concession and to Canada. The offer was accepted, but Grandfontaine, instead of returning to the St. Lawrence, was intended to Acadia, the retrocession to France, decided by the Treaty of Breda (1667) had previously been delayed by opposition of Sir Thomas Temple.

Appointed by the King's Commission July 22, 1669 to receive the refund, though he could not leave immediately. The following spring, February 20, 1669, he received a Governor appointed for three years and sailed from LaRochelle,with his company on the St. Sebastian. He was the first French governor in Acadia after the English occupation of 1654-1670.

As the English governor Temple resided in Boston, Grandfontaine went there and was courteously received. He presented the letters of Charles II and Louis XIV which he had been provided and signed with Temple, July 7, 1670, an agreement governing the terms of restitution. Then he came to receive restitution Pentagouet Richard Walker (July 17) and sent his lieutenant, Pierre de Joybert Saucer and Marson, receive strong Jemseg (27 August) and those of Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotland) and Port-La-Tour (2 September).

While leaving free to establish its main station where he thought proper, his first instructions written by the intendant of Rochefort, Colbert deTerron,showed clear preference for Pentagouet to form barrier to English.encroachments Grandfontainewill therefore established his capital.

Port Royal, NB

The choice of this place, located in disputed territory and separated from the main establishment of Port Royal by the French Bay (Bay of Fundy), would create serious difficulties; Grandfontaine but was just following instructions received.

Upon installation, it brought the king and to the Minister by sending several maps and memories. Colbert replied, March 11, 1671, by drawing it carefully program and reminding them to act only according to the orders of the governor and intendant of Canada. This submission to multiple authorities in France and Canada made ​​it difficult to share, and it was not easy to please all counts. The intendant Talon fortunately interested in Acadia and there was then share and on the other, a serious concerted effort to regain control and develop this colony.

Talon

The most urgent was to restore order and to meet the needs of residents. For 20 years, disputes between Charles de Menou d'Aulnay heirs, Emmanuel Le Borgne and Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour, and the absence of Governor had caused a kind of anarchy. The population of Port-Royal, left to itself, managed to live on his crops and his herds, but lacked clothes and tools. Isolation had also developed the spirit of independence.

Grandfontaine first revoked the authority of the Lord Alexandre Le Borgne de Belle-Isle, whose abuses caused complaints, and advised people to live in peace, until, a representative of the king can go settle their conflicts and give them the regulations. Supplies he had brought from France and those he got from Quebec or Boston parèrent the basic necessities. He also dealt to build boats, while Talon asked for them looms.

The main effort fell on the stand. In addition to the soldiers came and engaged with the governor, the Orange led the following year to 60 passengers, including a woman and four daughters, and the court paid 100 pounds for the passage and installation of each. The soldiers seemed to please the country, because, over the following years, fifteen were thinking of settling there. It is impossible to say how many new settlers settled in Acadia while, but it was certainly the most significant contribution since the time of Razilly and Aulnay. The establishment of Penobscot, too exposed and poorly equipped arable land, did not last long, but later finds many of its inhabitants settled in Port Royal and Beaubassin (Chignecto).

Talon, to better ensure mutual defense of Acadia and Canada, had planned to establish a direct connection between the French Bay and the St. Lawrence, opening a route by land and by founding a series of homes, as relay stations. Two roads were open, that of the Kennebec and that of the Saint John River. To recognize, Talon sent his secretary Pétoulet Quebec and two teams controlled by Daumont St. Lusson and Louis de Niort La Noraye.

In turn, Grandfontaine sent two French and two wild to Quebec and establishes a first group of settlers Kidiscuit to port. The road from the Kennebec to the boiler proved difficult and insecure. They preferred him that of the Saint John River, already crowded, and since 1672, the government of New France gave it lordships to Joybert brothers and Jacques Potier of Saint-Denis, while Martin Aprendestiguy, Mr. of Martignon, at the mouth of the river, received confirmation of his rights.

The minister Colbert had requested an annual census of the population.

Grandfontaine commissioned this survey Father Laurent Molin, friar, priest of Port Royal. This is the first list that we remained Acadian settlers. It says about 400 people established in Port Royal, Cape Sable and the coast of the East, but did not mention the new settlers of Penobscot and St. John River, so that the total population of the Acadia was reached in 1671, with the garrisons, about 500 souls. Although this figure reveals the weakness of the colony.

The Treaty of Breda had decided that the return of strong, without specifying the boundaries of Acadia. Grandfontaine put these limitations in St. George River and flattered to win the French allegiance by his courtesies, the English settlers below. He sought to maintain good relations with Boston, he needed to get supplies. He bought a caliche Temple, sent carpenters in New England and granted fishing licenses to Bostonians ships.

However, it tried to prevent the English merchants to come to barter furs in French territory, was repairing the fort Pentagouet and it maintained a garrison of thirty men, commanded by Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin. Small detachments of about ten soldiers guarded the forts of Port Royal andJemseg.The only French-English incident was taking a French ship, from Jamaica, about which Grandfontaine sent his lieutenant filed claims in Boston. The Minister had also recommended the establishment of sedentary fisheries but Grandfontaine occupied by the installation of its settlers and the reorganization of the colony, had no time to deal with it.

In sum, the brief government Grandfontaine Acadia was constructive. But its action was hampered by serious disagreements with his lieutenant Peter Joybert Marson, who lodged a complaint against him. Colbert de Terron accused, moreover, be interested. Grandfontaine was receiving in fact that low salaries: # 1200 in 1670 and 2400 the following year. It is possible that he does business to increase revenue and meet the duties of his office. We know for example that in 1672 famine in Penobscot and the governor had to send men wintered at Port Royal.

Recalled May 5, 1673 and replaced by Chambly, Grandfontaine returned to France in December of the same year. Soon after, he presented the steward of a claim Rochefort 13000 books for Acadia service expenditures. Terron, while admitting that Grandfontaine Rochefort had received funds for two years and made ​​the colony survive for 36 months, refused to pay it back, but proposed to the king to grant it, by way of consolation, a position in the Navy.

The former governor so got a job in Rochefort, became a lieutenant and then captain. He served on the Intrepid in 1675 and took part in the expedition of the Glorious Cayenne in 1676. He conducted himself bravely entered first into the place and was wounded in the arm. The following year, he participated in the expedition against the DutchTobago andbroke his arm he could not serve the rest of his life. He then remained in Brest and received a pension of 800 #. Included in the first class of the Knights of St. Louis in 1693, he died in Brest 6 July 1696 without issue.

© Alain Laprise May 22, 2014