Rene Alexandre LeMoyne
Rene Alexandre LeMoyne (1668 – December 21, 1727) was born to Jean LeMoyne and Marie Madeleine de Chavigny in Quebec City.
Marriage and engagements
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 on February 2, 1712, in Montreal, on his certificate are the names: Chavalier Claude de Ramezay (Governor of the Island of Montreal), 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.
Travels
He migrated towards Montreal where the center of fur trade activity was. The voyagers would leave from Montreal towards the "High Country". He acquired an arriere-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".
A document of July 9, 1717, called him Sieur des Pins de Boucherville; and mentioned him returning from a trip by canoe to Montreal 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.
Jobs
He was Captain of the Militia. The Captain of the Militia was 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 the Michilimackinac. (I think this is the Makinaw Indians).
In 1732[1] 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 include Rene, Jean Baptiste I, Ignance, Marie Anne, Jacques Joseph, Marie Marguerite, Marguerite Therese, Elizabeth, Antoine, Jean Baptiste II and Marie Catherine.
Notes
- ↑ date erroneously cited in text of Roger LeMoine, as he died in 1727