LEVASSEUR Marie-renee

Notes:

Marie-Renee, baptized 21 February 1694 at Lauzon, left no further
trace.

Marie-Renee Levasseur was only 14 when her wealthy uncle, Louis
Marchand, willed her, effective 19 June 1707, a piece of land of 240
square arpents at
Beaumont, located between that of Noel and of Pierre Boissel. It was
like a gift from heaven for the Levasseur family! The father of the
minor girl put the
domain up for sale. It was bought by Jean-Baptiste Nadeau for 1,000
livres, "600 of which would be paid in paper money now in
circulation." Later on,
the Church of Sainte-Etienne de Beaumont would be built on this
property. Louis Marchand had himself, on 2 December 1693, given to
Msgr de
Saint-Vallier, "an arpent of frontal land by two arpents in depth"
without counting the right to cut 20 cords of wood a year off the
land to heat the church
and rectory.