Rene Alexandre LeMoyne
René-Alexandre Lemoine,[1] dit Despins,[2] (1668 – December 21, 1727) was a Canadien merchant.[3]
Biography[edit]
René-Alexandre Lemoine was born in 1668 [4] to Jean Lemoyne (1634-1706) and Marie Madeleine de Chavigny de Berchereau[5][6][7] in Québec, Canada. His father was a shareholder in the Compagnie de la Colonie and a small trader in the region of Trois-Rivières.[7] His mother was the daughter of François de Chavigny de Berchereau, one of the members of the Sovereign Council.[7]
He migrated towards Montréal[7], where the center of fur trade activity was. The voyagers would leave from Montréal towards the "High Country". He acquired an arrière-fief on Ile St Joseph, in the seigneury of Boucherville (an island just off the eastern part of the island of Montreal) on October 12, 1702. In the book Vie de Madame Youville he is described as "an honest bourgeois that lives off the product of his land".
In 1704, when he was 36, he asked for Barbe Margane de La Valtrie's hand in marriage. She accepted and the announcement was already published when LeMoyne backed out. Barbe's mother brought the affair in front of a tribunal in the name of her daughter. The ruling of October 25, 1704, ordered LeMoyne to pay the sum of ₤600 to the young girl. Barbe married Etienne de Bragelongue fifteen years later.
He married Marie-Renée Le Boulanger on February 2, 1712, in Montréal.[4] On his certificate are the names: Chevalier Claude de Ramezay (Governor of the Island of Montréal), Alexis de Fleury (Conseiller du Roi) and Louis D'Ailleboust (Escuyer (Squire), Sieur d'Argenteuil). At this time his title was Sieur des Pins et Seigneur de Ste. Marie.
A document of July 9, 1717, called him Sieur des Pins de Boucherville; and mentioned him returning from a trip by canoe to Montréal after having successfully concluded his treaty, which doubtless was in connection with the fur trade in which he was engaged. There are also notarized documents that indicate he was involved in land management and fur trade.
He was Captain of the Militia. Captains of the Militia were responsible to execute the orders of the Governor and Intendant of the Colony. They were not only involved in military aspects where they enrolled and drilled all capable of war, but were involved in recruitment and the establishment of public works such as road making.
He also worked in the fur trade, documents cite expeditions that were sponsored to Outaouais (the Ottawa Indians) and to the Michilimackinac.
In 17(?)[8] he formed a partnership with the Governor of Montreal, Claude de Ramezay. He was also one of the five stockholders of the Compagnie de la Nord (n.b. this indicates possible involvement with the Longueil family as Pierre d'Iberville was also involved with this company).
He died on December 21, 1727, according to the death registry of Boucherville, where he is buried.
His children[4] include René (1715-1775), Jean Baptiste I (?), Ignace (?), Marie-Anne (1717-1718), Jacques-Joseph (1719-1787),[3] Marie Marguerite (1721-?), Marguerite-Thérèse (1722-1792),[9] Élisabeth (1723-1723), Antoine (1724-?), Jean Baptiste II (1725-?) and Marie Catherine (?).
Notes and references[edit]
- ↑ Sometimes spelled LeMoyne.
- ↑ Sometimes spelled Despain.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Igartua, José E. (1979). "LEMOINE DESPINS, JACQUES-JOSEPH,". Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 4. University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Tanguay, Cyprien (1888). Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu'à nos jours. vol. 5. Eusèbe Sénécal & fils. p. 337. Retrieved 18 July 2019. Search this book on
- ↑ Tanguay (1888). Dictionnaire... (op. cit.). vol. 5. p. 336. Retrieved 18 July 2019. Search this book on
- ↑ Tanguay (1871). Dictionnaire... (op. cit.). vol. 1. p. 379. Retrieved 18 July 2019. Search this book on
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Dechêne, Louise (1974). "LEMOINE, Monière, ALEXIS,". Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 3. University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
- ↑ Date 1732 erroneously cited in a text by Roger LeMoine, as he died in 1727.
- ↑ Lacelle, Claudette (1979). "LEMOINE DESPINS, MARGUERITE-THÉRÈSE,". Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 4. University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
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