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- Pierre Miville was known as Pierre Miville dit le Suisse, because he was from Switzerland. He moved to La Rochelle, France in 1646, and he leased land on the terraces, near the walls of Saint-Nicolas and the gate of la Verite from Pierre Maloiseau (a master blacksmith).
Pierre left France on 29 May 1649, with his wife and six children who were between 9 and 16 years old. They sail on the Grand Cardinal on 5 October 1649. They became well established in Quebec, but Pierre traveled back to France in Oct 1655 and returned to Quebec on 20 May 1656.
They settled in Lauzon, on the banks of the St Lawrence River. They had been preceded to the coast of Lauzon only by Francois Bissot, Guillaume Couture, and the Jesuits. It was a dangerous area for settlers, because of problems with the Iroquois and the Hurons.
Pierre became a ship builder and was known for the quality of his ships. He wore himself out wanting to produce the best ships in New France. He died in his house on the Lauzon Coast, but his funeral and burial took place the next day in Quebec in the parish cemetery.
According to PRDH, by 1800, Pierre and Charlotte had 6,552 direct descendants (male and female).
Per "Our French-Canadian Ancestors" by Thomas J. Laforest, Vol XXVII, Pg 114:
An unfortunate incident occurred on the first of July 1664 at Quebec. Pierre Miville was imprisoned at the Chateau Saint-Louis and the next day the king's administrator had him appear and accused him of having "committed sedition and intentionally, through open force, accompanied individuals to kidnap passengers sent by the King, to the prejudice of the distribution which had been ordered by the Council".
After hearing nine witnesses and the statement of Sieur Giffard, the Sovereign Council ordered Miville to ask for the king's pardon (represented by the governor) and the Sovereign Council assembled at the Chamber and to be "banished in perpetuity from Quebec and relegated to his house located on the Coast and seigneurie of Lauson'. It was also "ordered that he keep his banishment and not leave the area of the said seigneurie of Lauson on penalty of the gallows. And for this purpose will be taken as far as the said seigneurie by two baillifs of this Council".
He also had to pay a 300 livres fine, along with the legal expenses.
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