"Jehan Gorry, You Have Been Put In Irons For My Sake
And I Affronted!
I raise your wages of ten half crowns (dix ecus), let us
only reach Montreal; no one there will prevent us from firing." [178]
Bravo!
M. de Maisonneuve! Peace, however, was restored, and His Excellency
Governor Montmagny headed in person the expedition which, on the 8th May
following, sailed from St Michael's Cove, Sillery, to found at Montreal
the new colony. Monsieur Puiseaux accompanied M. de Maisonneuve, to take
part also in the auspicious event, but his age and infirmities compelled
Him soon after to return to France, where he died a few years
subsequently, and by his last will, executed at LaRochelle on the 21st
June, 1647, he bequeathed his Ste. Foye property to the support of the
future bishops of Quebec. "The walls of the Sillery Chapel," says the
historian of Canada previously quoted, "were still standing about thirty
years ago, and the foundations of this edifice, of the hospital and of the
missionary residency are still perceptible to the eye on the spot now
occupied by the offices and stores of Hy. LeMesurier, Esq., at the foot of
the hill, and opposite the residence of the Honourable Mr. Justice Caron."
"Amongst the French gentlemen of note who then owned lands at Sillery may
be mentioned. Francois de Chavigny, sieur de Berchereau qui," adds
Abbe Ferland, "occupait un rang eleve dans le colonie. En quelques
occasions, il fut charge de remplacer le Gouverneur, lors que celui-ci
s'absentait de Quebec." Now, dear reader, let it be known to you that
you are to look with every species of respect on this worthy old denizen
of Sillery, he being, as the Abbe has elsewhere established beyond the
shadow of a doubt, not only the ancestor of several old families, such as
the Lagorgendieres, the Rigaud de Vaudreuils and Tachereaus, but also one
of the ancestors of your humble servant the writer of these lines.
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