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- In 1643, Jean Mignault signed the Liste d'engages as Jean Mignaux and departed in April 1643 for New France. His enlistment as a soldier for a three-year duration was to the Sieur de la Reygnardiere, a director of the Compagnie General de la Mouvelle France. In April 1647, Jean Mignault dir Chatillon led an attack on an Iroquois village near Montreal where fellow Frenchmen were being held captive. In November 1648, Jean married a childless widow, Louise Cloutier, in Beauport. He met her in Trois-Rivières while preparing and equipping for his attack on the Iroquois village the previous year. They settled on land adjacent to the Montmorency River which Jean purchased from Guillaume Pelletier. In the census of 1666, Jean was listed as a farmer and a tailor. He died in 1680. In 1993, on the 350th anniversary of Jean settling in Beauport, the village of Beauport, at a site adjacent to Montmorency Falls, the highest waterfall in North America, dedicated a park in his honor. The dedication plaque reads "Jean Mignaux, Sieur de Chatillon, 1622-1680. Militaire Ponnier de Beauport. Hommage de ses Descendents." (from an article by Joseph W. Migneault in the Autumn 2005 [Vol. 28, Number 2] issue of "Je Me Souviens," a publication of the American-French Genealogical Society)
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Genealogy of the Bryan and Martin Families
1622 - 1680 (58 years)