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- Clement Leriger, Sieur de La Plante (son of Paul Leriget, Sieur de La Plante and Mauricette du Souchet)23 was born 1662 in Chezchadit, France, and died December 05, 1742 in Laprairie, Quebec, Canada. He married Marie Marguerite Roy on September 08, 1700 in Laprairie, Quebec, Canada, daughter of Pierre Roy and Catherine Ducharme.
Notes for Clement Leriger, Sieur de La Plante:
1. Parent, Roger D., de la Société Historique de Montréal. CLÉMENT LERIGÉ, Sieur de LA PLANTE, OFFICIER DES TROUPES DE LA MARINE: Ancêtre des familles Leriger, Dériger, de La Plante, La Plante et Laplante-Courville: SON ORIGINE ET SA FAMILLE EN FRANCE. Montréal: Imprimerie Arsene Gagne, 1912.
THE FIRST OF THE NAME IN CANADA.
Clément Lerigé, Sieur de La Plante, the Canadian ancestor of the families Leriger, Dériger, de La Plante, La Plante and Laplante-Courville arrived in the country [Québec] in 1685 (1) with Monsieur de Denonville, in his capacity as cadet with shoulder lanyard in the naval troops [troupes de la marine]. These troops were called this because in the colonies they came under the Minister of the Navy. (2)
In the days following the massacre at Lachine on the morning of the 6th of August 1689. La Plante found himself at Fort Rémy near the old church.
Monsieur de Vaudreuil, entrenched at Fort Roland near the quay of Lachine, gave the order to the garrison at Fort Rémy to join him. As these troops marched down the main road the Iroquois surprised them. Nearly all of the savages who took part were killed. Lieutenant La Rabeyre, La Plante and Villedonné were taken prisoner. The future baron of Longueuil, having broken his leg, escaped on his own thanks to some friendly savages who let him lean on their shoulders. (3)
The unfortunate captives, transported beyond Lake St-Louis, suffered all the rage of the cruel victors. Many of them suffered torture and were burned. The others were carried to Onnontagué (4) "where they were made to walk for a long time on a bed of burning coals." (5)
However, La Plante and Villedonné were spared. The enemy judged them more useful alive than sacrificed; the two young officers became slaves--servants and porters in the combat expeditions of the Indians. (6)
For the ancestor this servitude lasted more than two years. Of necessity he adapted himself to this new life and familiarized himself with the Indian language. (7)
A French party commanded by Monsieur de Beaucourt freed him in an attack on the Iroquois near the island of Tonihata in February 1692.
Charlevoix who reported the incident (9) wrote that "not having been recognized at first sight in his Indian clothes, (La Plante) was thought to have been killed as an Iroquois."
The same year Frontenac made him an infantry ensign. This nomination was confirmed by Louis XIV in an order dated the 1st of March 1693. (10)
On 25 July 1700 Clément Lerigé, in garrison at the fort at St-Lambert, acquired 150 arpents of land from Pierre Bourdeau in an area situated in the locality of "La Tortue" [The Tortoise] in the seigneury of la Prairie de la Magdeleine (11).
From then on he dreamed of settling down, because a few weeks later, on 8 September (1700) La Plante married Marie Roy, daughter of Pierre Roy and Catherine Ducharme, landowners at St-Lambert. The simple and discreet ceremony--we recall that the king's orders forbade officers from marrying a young lady without a dowry--took place in the chapel of la Ste-Vierge [the Holy Virgin] at St-Lambert.
Here is the entire document [it is not translated exactly as written and punctuation has been added because of its use of old French and other peculiarities]:
"On 8 September 1700, I the undersigned Louis de Lafaye, parish priest of St-François-Xavier at La Prairie de la Madeleine, certify that after having had from Monsieur Dolier, Grand-Vicar of the diocese [grand vicaire de monseigneur] the dispensation from all written banns of marriage, gave the blessing of marriage to Clément Leriger, officer of a detachment of the navy, otherwise known as La Plante, and to Marie Roy in the chapel of Ste-Vierge at St-Lambert, in the presence of Pierre Roy, landowner [habitant] of St-Lambert, André Babeu and Claude Chartier who have declared that they could not sign their names. The aforesaid Clément Leriger has signed his name on a copy, not having the register, which I affirm to be true, in faith of which I have signed this day 9 September of the present year 1700."
"Louis Delafaye." (12)
Marie Roy was only 19 at the time of the marriage: the husband moving into his thirties.
When the military authorities got wind of the affair, they informed Versailles.
The king cashiered La Plante but restored him in grade a short time later (13). (1702-1703)
During the following years the ancestor, living at Laprairie, raising there his large family.
It was not until 1720 that he was promoted to lieutenant.
Clément Lerigé received three concessions of land from the Jesuits, seigneurial lords of La Prairie de la Magdeleine. The first, on 4 February 1714, of an area of 60 arpents (16); the last and the more important, on 29 March 1727, of an area of about 250 arpents (17).
One sees the presence of the officer in several civil documents in Canada, whether he would appear as godfather or witness. Thus on 20 April 1705 at Laprairie, we see him at the marriage of his brother-in-law, Pierre Roy, with Angélique Faye. And at the marriage of René Bourassa with Agnès Gagné on 23 October 1710 at Laprairie (18). Etc.
He knew the joy of holding at the baptismal font his grandson, René-Clément, child of Catherine, and his granddaughter, Elizabeth, child of Pierre. The ancestor will also be the godfather of numerous children of the colonists, sometimes giving them his name: Clément Lafontaine, son of Jean and Madeleine Roay, baptised on 30 August 1711; Clément Hardy, son of Michel and Judith Laverdure on 15 May 1723. Etc.
After more than fifty years passed in the service of his king and for the glory of France in this distant colony, the first Leriger in Canada gently passed away in the peace of the Lord in December 1742. Surrounded by children of his children, in this immense and rich country of America, he could only see a future filled with promises. This venerable patriarch bequeathed to his descendants a heritage of Faith, of honor and of culture.
"On 7 December 1742 I the undersigned priest buried in the cemetery of this parish the body of Clement Lerigé, écuyer, Sieur de la Plante, former Lieutenant of troops [who] died two days previously at the age of about eighty in communion with our Holy Mother Church and fortified [muni] with the sacraments; in the presence of Etienne Bariteau and André Banlier who declared that they could not sign their names to this inquiry [de ce enquis]."
Jacques Desligneris Priest". (19)
The companion of his life, Marie Roy, lived on for numerous years. She was buried on 2 January 1758 at Laprairie, age also 80 years.
NOTES AND DOCUMENTARY SOURCES
1. A letter from the governor de Callières to the Minister (4 November 1702) reveals that La Plante has been in the country 17 years.
2. Le Jeune: DICTIONNAIRE GENERAL DU CANADA. vol. II, p. 242.
3. "Collection of what has happened in Canada on the subject of the war , as it pertains to the English and the Iroquois, since the year 1682". Published by la Société Historique et Littéraire de Québec, 1871, pp. 24 and 25. The author would be Gédéon de Catalogne, according to Mgr. Tanguay.
4. Country of the Iroquois situated in the state of New-York, south of Lake Ontario.
5. Father de Belmont (HISTOIRE DU CANADA). Manuscript conserved at the Biblioteque du Roi in Paris. Published by la Société Historique et Littéraire de Québec, 1st series 1838-40-43-61. See also La HONTAN, vol. I, p. 193.
6. La Plante was "enseigne réformé" since 1688. The notes of M. J.-B. René Laplante, present Clerk of the House of Commons in Ottawa, appeared in an article of Monsieur E.-Z. Massicotte, in B. R. H., 1927, pp. 729ff, and served as a point of departure for our work on the family Leriger.
7. "...where they (La Plante and de la Chauvignerie) learned the language so as not to need too much interpretation...[on ne scaurait avoir trop d'interprettes...]" Letter of the governor de Callières to the minister, 4 November 1702.
8. Between Brockville and Kingston, according to Monsieur E.-Z. Massicotte. B. R. H., 1927, p. 730.
9. CHARLEVOIX, vol. II, p. 112.
10. Archives of Ottawa. Colonies B, vol. 16, p. 16 v.
11. Office Antoine Adhémar.
12. REGISTRE DE LAPRAIRIE, 1700. According to a certified copy preserved in the Judicial Archives of Montréal.
13. Archives of Ottawa. Colonies F-3, vol 8, tome 3, p. 299 (COPY). Collection Moreau de St-Méry.
Archives of the Colonies. Vol 222, Alphabet Laffilard, p. 271. OTTAWA.
14. Archives of Ottawa. Colonies B, vol. 42, p. 432.
15. Office Barette.
16. Office Le Pallieur.
17. Office Barette. Our thanks to Monsieur Jean-Jacques Lefebvre for having informed us about this important document. We are also grateful to him for some directives he gave us and the help he provided in our research in the bureau des Archives judiciaires de Montréal.
18. René Bourassa will marry a second time, some twelve years later, Catherine, daughter of Clément Lerigé.
19. REGISTRE DE LAPRAIRIE, 1742.
20. Annuaire Général du Clergé de France, 1938.
21. Imprimerie F. Dubois at Ruffec (Charente).
22. This copy is now in the Bibliothèque Municipale in the city of Montréal.
23. The Rev. Father Archange Godbout was not able to locate the baptismal document of Clément Lerigé in the course of his research in France. Numerous gaps exist all the time in the records of this region.
24. REGISTRE DE LAPRAIRIE, 1706.
25. Godfather of Marie-Louise, daughter of his brother Pierre and Marie-Louise Lacroix, on 4 September 1729, he is named "Gilbert Courville (deformation of Gourville) Sr. de la Plante".
26. "Louis Gourville de Laplante, écuyer" a the burial on 9 March 1802 at Laprairie.
27. "St-Michel--Gourville". Tanguay, Vol. IV, p. 491.
28. B. R. H., 1940, pp. 227-228.
29. Ibid.
30. "Dernon" in the marriage contract on 12 February 1752 before Jean-Baptiste Adhémar. His son was also named Dernon and "de Renom"; his document of burial on 3 October 1833 at Laprairie, called him "Joseph Leriger de La Plante dit De renom".
On Michel Du Pont, Sieur de Renom and St-Pierre, see B. R. H., 1940, p. 236.
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