TENTH GENERATION

898. Jean HAYET dit Saint Malo @ was born between 1639 and 1649. He died in 1721 in Ile-Ste-Therese, Varennes, P.Quebec. He was buried on 21 Dec 1721 in Varennes, Vercheres, P.Quebec. <From Our French Canadian-Ancestors" by Thomas J. Laforest. vol.26 pg.122-130>

Hayet, Hayier, Hayot are all surnames linked to the old French word Hay, the masculine form of Haie. The caretaker of lahaie or des haies (hedge) was called a hayet.

Our Canadian Ancestor Jean Hayet, son of Gilles and of Jeanne Hereau, born in 1649, was originally from Saint-Malo, hence his "dit" name of Saint-Malo, which was changed by his descendants in the second generation to Malo. Saint-Malo, an historic city in Brittany, a great fishing port and a point of departure for expeditions to the New World, appears almost like an island of rock and granite defying the At-lantic and connected to the continent by a narrow strip of land called le Sillon. Such was the grandiose homeland of Jean Hayet.

At Saint-Malo, Sébastien Hayet had married Madeleine Hereau. What kinship existed between Sébastien Hayet and our ancestor Jean? The daughter of Sébastien, Marguerite Hayet, was married at Trois-Riviêres on 25 November 1646, to Jean Veron, Sieur de Grandmesnil. The latter fell under an Iroquois hachet on 19 August 1652. Marguerite was remarried on 24 August 1654, to Médard Chouart, Sieur Des Groseilliers, and was the mother of three daughters and one son.

To find one's way through the maze, let's add that the widow of Sébastien Hayet, Madeleine Hereau, was remarried, in her turn, to Pierre-Esprit Radisson. They had two known daughters and one son: Françoise Radisson, widow of Claude Volant, Sieur de Saint-Claude, mother of nine Canadian children; Elisabeth Radisson, married to Claude Jutras on 5 November 1657, at Trois-Rivières, and mother of a long line of descen-dants; and Pierre Radisson, famous explorer and coureur des bois.

A fortunate researcher will establish with more accuracy the lines of almost certain kinship between Jean Hayet and the enviable descendants of Sébastien, two genuine citizens of Saint-Malo.

ARRiVAL IN NEW FRANCE

Before entering a house, it is customary to knock at the door. It is necessary to do the same thing before crossing the threshold of another country. The port of entry to New France was so large, wide open and welcoming, that it was sufficient to enter to have one's own home. No surveillance camera! No radar! The immigrant only had to hold out the flag of friendship, of good will and bravery.

The first official mention of Jean Hayet is found in the registry of Notre-Dame de Montréal. On Tuesday, 30 August 1672, he was godfather to Marie Beauchamp, daughter of Jacques and of Marie Dardenne. Accompanying him as god-mother was Francoise Guillin, wife of André Trajot. Were the Trajots and the Beauchamps living in Montréal or perhaps at Pointe-aux-Trembles, that year? A reasonable question since we know from their subsequent history that the Beauchamps and the Trajots certainly lived in the latter place. The minister at the baptism, Father Gilles Perot, a priest from Saint-Sulpice, was at that time responsible for the construction of the new parish church of Ville-Marie. The first stone was set in place on 30 June 1672, two months before the baptism of Marie Beauchamp.

This first appearance of Jean Hayet proves that he was al-ready in the country for some time, and that perhaps he worked out-side of Montréal. In 1672, he was already 33 years old and ex-perienced. Why had he waited so long to come to this country? Who was his employer? For these questions, we have no answer.

THE ILE SA1NTE-THERESE

Michel-Sidrac Dugue de Boisbriand, a Breton by birth, Lieutenant in the Regiment of Montagu, came to New France in 1665 as a captain of a Company in the Carignan-Salières Regi-ment. In 1670, at Montréal, he was military commander in the absence of the governor. In October 1672, he obtained possession of the seigneury of the Ile Sainte-Thérèse, on the east end of the island of Montréal. In 1667, it seems, Dugué was given per-mission by Jean Talon to work at clearing the land. Doris Hor-man, a serious writer, even states that Jean Hayet dit Saint-Malo, long sawyer, was hired by Frontenac to chose and cut oak trees on the Ile Sainte-Thérèse. However, I am searching for proof.

One fact is certain. When Dugué obtained his concession, he was ordered to save oak wood suitable for building ships, not only on his domain but on the lands which he would cede.

Here an unexpected light flashed, On 23 August 1677, "Jean Joyet dit S. Malo long Sawyer, habitant of the island of Ste Thérèse presently of this city of Montréal", in the presence of Francois Laforest, lieutenant of René Cavalier, Sieur de Lasalle, Seigneur of Fort de Frontenac, promised "to make and saw all the wood planking which Would be Necessary and Useful for Cer-tain ships which the said Seigneur de LaSalle was building on the island of Ste-Thérèse". The work would begin on 5 September with the aid of one or two men to help him. Promised salary: 12 livres 10 sols per 100 feet of sawed wood. To saw oak, what a job!

Remember that Jean Hayet was living on the island and that he was a long-sawyer.

On 5 December 1678, we are surprised to learn that Jean had received from the Sieur Dugué, on an undetermined date, a concession of 2 arpents by 15 deep, on the Ile Sainte-Thërèse, ad-joining on one side the landowner Nicolas Ragurenéau, and on the other side Jean Beaudoin. Jean had done almost no work on his lot. On that day, he sold it to Jacques Biart, master tanner and currier, for 30 livres. But where did Jean live?

A HOME

Jean Hayet had passed the age of 40 and was an ex-perienced and mature man when he finally decided to set up a home. Did he sign a marriage contract? If yes, it remains undis-covered. His hearts preference was Catherine Galbrun, a 14-year old girl who was baptized on 10 October 1667, at Montréal. Her father was Simon Galbrun, who arrived at Ville-Marie with the great recruitment of 1653. He died prematurely and was buried on 20 May 1669, at Montréal. Her mother was Françoise Duverger, a Parisian, mother of two daughters who survived. This widow of Simon, was remarried, to Jean Baulin dit Léveillé, on 29 June 1671.

The truth is sometimes difficult to express completely. Catherine was also motherless and consequently in dire straits. Françoise Duverger was not only accused of having collaborated with a certain Laliberté in the murder of her first husband, but also in the disappearance of her new-born child, the day after her second marriage. Jailed in Québec, after the inquest she was sen-tenced and executed on 17 November 1671. "Whatever may have happened", wrote Robert-Lionel Seguin, "this unfortunate mother had been sentenced on circumstantial evidence, which a contem-porary court would not take into consideration ". May I add: cir-cumstances inflamed by malicious tongues?

The wedding ceremony, presided over by the Sulpicien Francois Séguenot on 30 December 1680, drew attention, be-cause of the number of impressive witnesses in the first chapel of Pointe-aux-Trembles. Sixteen witnesses were reported in the registry: Sidrac Dugue and his wife Marie Moyen, Honoré Langlois dit Lachapelle, André Trajot and his wife, Françoise Guillin, and others, so that it is difficult to distinguish the person or family who stood up for Catherine Galbrun.

The census of 1681 indicates that Jean Hayet and his wife Catherine, by now 15 years old, were residents of the Ile Sainte--Thérèse, between neighbors Jacques Venne and Mathurin Masta; they had but three arpents of land under cultivation.

FARMER

We must wait until 21 November 1693 to meet Jean Hayet with a notary. On that day, Nicolas Brazeau, master cartwright, sold him a concession on the Ile Sainte- Thérëse, a concession with 45 arpents of land "adjoining on one side the widow Masta on the other Jacques Voyne", in other words the one on which Jean Hayet had lived since at least 1681. Purchase price: 300 livres and 20 minots of wheat.


Did Jean pay his debt? On 17 November 1698, the widow Masta, Catherine Eloy, seems to have sold him the same property which he had bought in 1693 and located on the "channel of the barges". . Jean paid 300 livres cash and promised to give the same to Sieur Pierre Perthuis dit Lalime, a merchant from Ville-Marie.

On 18 February 1708, Francois Delpé dit Pariseau, ad-mitted having received 100 livres from Jean Hayet and his wife "for money lent". Ten years later, on 27 March 1718, Pierre Gauthier dit Landréville, stated that Catherine Galbrun, in her husband's absence, had just loaned him "in playing card money" 800 livres, a considerable amount. Further, on 22 May of the same year, Catherine agreed to lend 260 livres to Louis Des-lauriers, habitant of Cap Saint-Michel, near Varennes.

We must conclude that the Hayets had acquired a certain prosperity. However, the master of the house was getting older witness that it was his wife who administered their property. On 13 August 1719, René Messier dit Duchesne stated that he owed 187 livres 10 sols to Jean Hayet and Catherine Galbrun. In his turn, on 24 November 1720, Jean Hayet, junior, admitted to a debt of 562 Iivres for money lent to him by his parents.

THE HEDGE

Six persons made up a hedge of honor before the first Hayet dit Malo, generation: Marie-Catherine, Genevieve, Jean-Baptiste, Louis, Jeanne and Joseph, all born on the Ile Sainte--Therèse; the first four were baptized at Pointe-aux-Trembles, the last two at Varennes. Only the youngest, Joseph, born on 25 March 1696, did not live for more than four days. The five others married at Varennes with the exception of Genevieve, who was first married to Marc-Antoine Chapelain at Pointe-Aux-Trembles on 20 April 1705, and in a second marriage, at Varennes, to Antoine Troy, on 19 May 1711.

1. François Delpé dit Pariseau, took Catherine Hayet as his wife on 20 August 1699. She made him a gift of nine children.

2 & 3. Jean-Baptiste Hayet and Louis Hayet dit Malo, together assured the survival of their surname of Ayet, Hayet and Malo, the first by marrying Marie-Madeleine Petit; the second, by marrying Marie Emery dit Coderre. They each had seven children.

4. On 27 November 1713, Jeanne Hayet agreed to marry Claude Masse dit Martin, and was a mother seven times before being buried at Montréal on 24 October 1726.

NEW STAGE

Jean Hayet had sawn a lot of fine boards, cultivated the fertile island land and raised a worthy family. One day it was necessary for him to leave his loved ones and his island dedicated to the great Saint-Thérèse.

"On the twenty-first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one died in the communion of our Holy mother Church, after having received all the sacraments, Jean-Baptiste Ayet and has been buried in the church of this parish with the ceremony prescribed by our Holy mother Church, in the presence of Michel Petit and Etienne Girard who stated not to know how to write ".

The pastor Michel Poulin de Courval (1688-1760), responsible for the parish of Varennes, signed his death record.

Catherine Galbrun continued to manage the inheritance for 23 years more. On 29 April 1722, she signed a lease for a pew with Father Poulin, from Varennes. Ten years later, on 27 August 1732, in the presence of notary René Chorel de Saint-Romain, she sold a piece of land to her son Jean. It measured one arpent and one perche in frontage by seven deep and it had a stone house upon it.

Catherine died on her island at the age of 77, on Thursday, 9 January 1744. She was buried in the cemetery of Varennes.

On the following 14 January, son-in-law Claude Martin, master edge-tool maker, ordered an inventory of the property left by the deceased. The total was valued at 2,776 livres. Ob-viously, Catherine did not die a beggar. In order to pay for the services of the priest, the verger, the two choristers, the 17 can-dles and the burial, 34 livres was paid out of the estate.

On Sainte-Anne's Day 1745, Louis Hayet sold his share, one-fifth, of the ancestral land to his brother Jean-Baptiste, for 300 livres.

Thus told, is the story of our chosen Ancestors Hayet dit Malo.

FAMILY NAME VARIATIONS

The introductory paragraph to this Chapter mentioned Hayler and Hayot as variations of Hayet. Additionally, we are aware of Ayet, Dayet, Malo, Marticotte and Saint-Malo. Also, Hayot has become Aillot, Aiot, Ayot and Haiot.
He was married to Catherine GALBRUN @ on 30 Dec 1680 in Pte-aux-Trembles, Montreal, P.Quebec.

899. Catherine GALBRUN @ was born in 1667. She was baptised on 10 Oct 1667 in N.-D.-de-Montreal, P.Quebec. She died on 9 Jan 1744 in Ile-Ste-Therese, Varennes, P.Quebec. She was buried in Varennes, Vercheres, P.Quebec. Children were:

449 i. Marie Catherine HAYET @.