Notes for Etienne dit Limousin Campeau

Notes for Etienne dit Limousin Campeau

Source: Dictionnaire Biographique des Ancetres Quebecois (1608-1700), Volume 1, A-C, pg. 342:
(Translated from French text by John Margraf)

The son of Leonard Campeau and Francoise Maugue, from Brive-la-Gaillarde, region of Limogues or Limousin, he agreed to marriage before the notary Basset on Tuesday November 13, 1663, with Catherine Paulo, daughter of the late Pierre Paulo and of Renee Cordetelle, from the parish of Notre Dame-de-Cougnes of La Rochelle en Aunis, and married her in Montreal on Monday November 26, 1663. They had 15 children. He came to Canada around 1660 considering that he arrived as a volunteer. October 21, 1663, he joined with Francois Leber and rented from Jeane LeMoyne for one year and in return for 55 bales of wheat, a parcel of land belonging to Jacques LeMoyne, at la Pointe-Sainte-Charles. May 11, 1664, he was confirmed in Montreal and, on May 2, 1665, Paul Caomedey de Maisonneuve gave him a parcel of land of 2 arpents frontage on la Riviere Saint-Pierre, also called Argoulets. In the 1667 census, he owned 2 horned animals and 6 arpents of valuable land. October 9, 1667, he purchased from Pierre Richaume for 135 pounds, and ox about 4 or 5 years old. He also agreed to build a wall next to his chimney. 2 years later, July 28, 1669, Jean Roy sold him his land in the Argoulets for the price of 200 bushels of wheat and a milk cow valued at 110 pounds on the open market. An order from the quartermaster Duchesneau, June 20 1680 forbid him from sowing the prairie adjacent to his land. The follwoing November 17 he commited his oldest son Etienne for 3 years of service to Marin Masse and Michel Poirer. In the 1681 census, he had a rifle, 7 horned animals, and 25 arpents of valuable land. October 23, 1682, he came to an agreement with Jean Admee in which he had his hair cut for fun. He publicly apologized and paid 40 sols in expenses to the notary Maugre who was charged with writing this statement of atonement. The Sulpicians gave him 100 near arpents of land as an extension to his estate on Feburary 4, 1684. 2 years later he agreed to supply his son-in-law, Francois Bleau, with all the wood necessary to build a home of 20 by 30 feet, from which he deducted the 100 pounds promised at the time of his marriage agreement. 6 days later he promised the innkeeper, Vincent Dugas, to produce all of the masonry from his house. Juen 22, 1688, he came to an understanding on the sum of 110 pounts that Vincent Dugas owed him, and settled all of his accounts with him on June 14, 1689. Dugas gave him another 300 pounds 3 months earlier, March 15, he had agreed to produce the masonry for the home of Adrien Betourne dit Laviolette. He supplied the stone, the lime and the sand and did it all of the sum of 900 pounds. April 14, he also rented for 3 years the land of the merchant Jean Millot at the rate of 30 bushels of wheat per year. It's an association with Urbain Brossard that he agreed to on July 12, 1692, that they build the chiney and stone workings for the house of Pierre Legardeur of Repertigny. He was not able to honor this last deal, because he died on September 24, 1792 at the moment that the notary Maugre made in his company the summary of his debts and assets.