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- It is in a judgement of the Souverain consulting of News-France on April 3 1664 that one announces for the first time the presence of Pierre Hudon in America. At the time, Pierre was a domestic servant of Sieur Nicolas Marsolet (companion of Samuel de Champlain in 1613). Pierre gained his cause against another servant, called St-Martin, following consecutive wounds with a brawl. On this date, it is approximately 15 years old. When did it unload with the Juste in News-France? Several assumptions are plausible: 1. Nicolas Marsolet, lord of Bellechasse, would have gone on a journey in France into 1661 from where it returns into 1663. Did it bring back with him of the operations suited to all the trades? 2. In 1663 (on June 13), two ships coming from the Small rock arrive to Quebec with 300 passengers. Parmis these passengers, a hundred young people who had never worked. 3.En 1665, it would have arrived to Quebec as a soldier of the regiment of Carignan. But this assumption, however the most spread, does not hold if one takes account of the judgement mentioned above. Pierre would have rather engaged like volunteer in the regiment of Carignan towards 1666. In a second document which informs us about Pierre Hudon, that is to say the list of the soldiers of the regiment in question, it is voluntary soldier of the Company of the knight of Grand fontaine. It is named Pierre Hudon-known as-BEAULIEU..... To the census of 1666, one announces a Pierre Hudon in Quebec practicing the trade of baker. He has 18 ans(...). Then, between 1666 and 1676, no document or census announces its presence. He... "r
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