Marriage of Michel Lecourt and Louise Leblanc
(Paul Vachon, Royal Notary, December 27 1666)
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In the presence of Paul Vachon, notary of the seigneuries of
Beauport ,
of Notre-Dame-des-Anges and of the Island of Orleans
who were present in person, Léonard Leblanc, Marie Ritton,
his wife, authorized by him for the effect of these, in the
name of
and providing in this part for Louise Leblanc, their
daughter,
present and consenting, from the coast and seigneur of the
said
Jeanne Leval, his father and mother, the father deceased and
his mother living
from the parish of Livarreau, bishopric of Lisieux (France),
for him and in his name,
for the other part; which parties willingly in the presence
and
with the consent of their parents and friends gathered for
both sides, namely on the part of the said Léonard Leblanc
and
the said Marie Ritton his wife and their said daughter, of
Noël Leblanc
her brother, of Mister Pierre Vallée, surgeon at the said Beauport
and brother-in-law, and Marie-Thérèse Leblanc, his wife, of
Marguerite
Leblanc, Jeanne Leblanc and Marie Leblanc her sisters
and of Nicolas Juchereau, esquire, Sieur of Saint-Denis, and
Miss
Marie Juchereau of Saint-Denis
his daughter, of Miss Louise
Juchereau of La Ferté, and of René Chevalier, and on the
part of the said
future husband of Messire Noël Langlois, of Guillaume Lisot
and of Jean
Pelletier, all relatives and friends of the said future
husband, Recognized
and confessed having made treaty and promise of marriage
that
follow, namely the said Leblanc and his wife having promised
and promising to give and to lease their said daughter in
the name of the law
of marriage to the said Michel Lecourt who promised to take
her as his wife
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and spouse, as also the said girl promised to take him for her
husband
and spouse, and the said marriage to be held and solemnized
in the Holy Church
Catholic Apostolic and Roman as soon as possible,
and that it will be advised and deliberated between the said
parents and friends, if
God and our said mother Holy Church
they will be in joint estate moveables and acquisitions
following the French law of Paris (Costume de Paris). In
which future marriage
and to get there the future bride will bring in dot namely a
cow, given by the said Leblanc and his said wife within two
years,
and two pigs next autumn, one ready to breed
and the other ready to feed. Neither will be liable for the
debts and mortgages
contracted by the other before their
marriage, and if such exist they will be paid by who
will have created them. And the future bride
will be gifted of the regular dower or the amount of two
hundred pounds of France
of prefixed dower in one time, as she choose. The preciput
will
be two hundred pounds of France . The future bride could,
if the Community (marriage) is dissolved, renounce to it
and thus take back what she will have brought with her said
future husband, her dower and preciput as above and all
what,
during the said marriage, she might have had by
succession, donation or otherwise, all that
without paying any debt of the said Community, unless she
is obliged or condemned. In favor of which marriage the
future spouses
by the present do an irrevocable donation to each other and
to their
survivors of moveables, annuities, lands
and others buildings they are now owning
proprietarily; even those that they could
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have either by acquisition or otherwise,
so that in any manner
places these belongings might
be, to benefit the survivor in full freehold
as if his own, provided that on the day of the
dissolution of the said marriage they had no children,
and to register the presents within four month in agreement
with the law. Thus was the accord between the parties,
promised and obliged by both and by law, done
and passed in the house of the said Léonard Leblanc in the
borough of Fargy (Beauport )
on December the 27th 1666. And the said Leblanc,
his wife, the said Louise Leblanc, future bride, Noel, Marie-Thérèse,
Marguerite, Jeanne et Marie Leblanc declared themselves
unable to sign, and as asked
also declared the said future husband, who put his ordinary
mark,
witnessed by the undersigned on this day and this place.
mark X of the said Lecourt
P. Lavallée
Juchereau of St-Denis
Marie-Anne Juchereau
Louise Juchereau
R. Chevalier
mark X of the said Langlois
P. Vachon, notary
