Notes for Jacques (Marcot) Marcotte

Notes for Jacques (Marcot) Marcotte

Some information taken from the files of Anton (Tony) Klarich of Stoney Point, Ontario and Michael Marcotte of Oklahoma. Information taken from the books: Commentaries on some Avoyelles Families by William Nelson Gremillion, Sr. and Loucille Edwards Gremillion Library of Congress No. 82-082935 and Vol. 2 , No. 80-84469. The first property of Jacques in Quebec was across the river from Trois Rivieres in Becancour to the Northwest and not too far from the site of the present village church.

Source: Dictonnaire Biographique des Ancetres Quebecois 1608-1700, Vol J-M, pg. 361-362:
Jacques Marcot (1644 - died before March 16, 1717)
Baptised on Friday October 7, 1644 at Saint-Leger de Fecamp, archdiocese of Rouen in Normandy, son of the master butcher Charles Marcot and Jacqueline Baucher and brother of Nicholas (spouse of Marine Tavrey), he contracted marriage bfore the notary Ameau on Tuesday September 9, 1670 with Isabelle (Elisabeth) Salle, daughter of the palace's hardware merchant Pierre Salle and of Francoise Lupia, of the Saint-Medard parish of Saint-Marceau, suburb of Paris. Together they had 15 children. Immediately after their marriage, they settled in Neuville. In the 1681 census, he had one shotgun, 4 horned animals and 20 arpents of valuable land. July 25, 1683 Nicolas Duport granted him a parcel 3 arpents on front by 40 arpents depth next to that of his brother Nicolas. June 25, 1689 Jacques Suine rented him a piece of land 3 arpents on front by 40 arpents depth in Neuville for the price of 15 bushels of grain per year, for 5 years. The same day, with Francois Denevers, he passed on to the lord/seigneur Jacques-Alexis Fleury Deschambault a store for repairning fishing gear, in return for this obtaining them an exemption from going to war. They demanded from him only their food. November 20, 1698 Rene Robineau de Becancoeur and his wife Marie Anne Leneuf rented to him for 6 years the state land in Portneuf, with a portion of the house and all the buildings, furniture and animals, of which their were 4 cattle, in return for half the grain the first year and 500 pounds for each of the other years. She lowered the rent by 15 pounds in 1701 (March 14) because she kept the garden for herself. February 17, 1701, he sold his land in Neuville to Jean Leveille for 360 pounds. He then obtained a parcel of land in La Chevriotiere. He then sold that to Simon Arcand on April 17, 1712 for his son Joseph Arcand, age 17, and the deal was made official the follwoing October 24. The lord/seigneur Francois Chavigny of La Cheviriotiere(?) confirmed on February 20, 1714 the concession that he made on October 27, 1712 of a parcel of land of 3 arpents on front by 40 arpents depth in his domain. The exact date of death is unknown, but it's no later than March 16, 1717, the time of the marriage contract of his son Jean.