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Jacques Babie
Male 1633 - 1688

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  • Birth  1633  Ranville(-Breuillaud), France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender  Male 
    Died  28 Jul 1688  Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation, Champlain, Quebec Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID  I37  Bâby Family of North America
    Last Modified  01 Nov 2008 
     
    Father  Jehan Babie, Seigneur de Ranville,   b. Abt 1590, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1670, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Isabeau Robin,   b. Est 1591-1614, Monteton, Agen, Guyenne, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Est 1636-1702 
    Married  1630  Monteton, Agen, Guyenne, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F192  Group Sheet
     
    Family  Jeanne Dandonneau Du Sable,   b. 29 Jul 1655, Trois Rivieres, St. Maurice, Quebec Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Jul 1703, Quebec, Quebec Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  1 Jun 1670  Contract Notaire Larue, Champlain, Quebec Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Marie-Jeanne Bâby,   b. 1671, Champlain Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Jan 1703, Quebec Find all individuals with events at this location
    >2. Jacques Bâby, II,   b. 1673, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Jun 1724
     3. Louis Bâby,   b. 1674,   d. Abt 1703
     4. Marie Louise Bâby,   b. Abt 1675,   d. Yes, date unknown
    >5. Pierre Duperon Babie,   b. 1676,   d. 8 May 1748, Champlain Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Antoine Bâby,   b. 14 Mar 1679,   d. 15 Aug 1683, Champlain Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Françoise Bâby,   b. 14 Mar 1681,   d. 10 Feb 1684, Champlain Find all individuals with events at this location
     8. Jean François Bâby,   b. 22 Nov 1682,   d. Yes, date unknown
     9. Marie Madeleine Bâby,   b. 20 Nov 1683,   d. Yes, date unknown
     10. Marie Anne Bâby,   b. 9 Jul 1686, Champlain Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Dec 1702, Quebec Find all individuals with events at this location
    >11. François Etienne Bâby-Chenneville,   b. 5 Aug 1687, Champlain, Quebec Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 01 Sep 1767, Montreal, Quebec Find all individuals with events at this location
    >12. Raymond Bâby,   b. 28 Dec 1688, Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation, Champlain, Quebec Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 May 1737, Montreal, Quebec Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified  03 Nov 2008 
    Family ID  F98  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • BABIE (in later generations spelled “Bâby,” and in Michigan historical collections “Baubee” or "Baubie"), JACQUES, soldier, farmer, and fur-trader, founder of the distinguished Canadian family of this name, son of Jehan Babie, Seigneur de Ranville and Isabeau Robin of the parish of Monteton, diocese of Agen; b. France c. 1633 (1639 according to the census of 1681); d. 28 July 1688 at Champlain.

      Jacques Babie came to Canada in 1665 as a sergeant in the Carignan-Salières regiment, sent by Louis XIV and Colbert to fight the Iroquois. After peace had been signed at the end of 1666 between the Iroquois and Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy, commander-in-chief of Louis XIV’s forces in North America, Babie obtained his discharge from the army and settled in Champlain on the St. Lawrence near Trois-Rivières, in a fertile region known as the “cradle of explorers and fur-traders.”

      He was attracted to fur-trading and farming and engaged in both. As early as 1668, and for many years thereafter, he traded with the Indians of the upper Saint-Maurice and upper Ottawa rivers, and was among the government-accredited merchants who participated in the great fur mart held annually at Montreal. In 1669, he bought two tracts of land in Champlain and farmed them. By the year 1681 he had acquired two more tracts of land in the same locality as well as another at Gentilly across the St. Lawrence. In 1670, he married Jeanne Dandonneau, daughter of Pierre Dandonneau*, dit Lajeunesse, Sieur Du Sablé, one of the substantial citizens of Trois-Rivières, who had settled in Champlain about 1660. Jacques Babie died in 1688, at the age of about 55, in Champlain, leaving a comfortable fortune. Very avid for profits, and a hard-headed businessman, he had numerous differences which frequently brought him before the Conseil Souverain.

      The youngest of his 11 children, Raymond Babie, who followed in his father’s footsteps as a fur-trader, was the father of Jacques Baby*, dit Dupéron, and François Baby*. Both distinguished themselves in the early years of British rule.

      Marine Leland
      Edited by Edward B. Baubie

      Used with Permission from Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

      AJTR, Greffe de Guillaume de La Rue, 1 juin 1670. APQ, Documents divers, I, Lettres de Jacques Babie et de son èpouse, Jeanne Dandonneau, à Antoine Adhémar. Additional ms material in Detroit Public Library, Burton Hist. Coll.; Ontario Hist. Soc.; Public Archives of Ontario; University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library; Université de Montréal, Coll. Bâby. Recensement de 1681. Jug. et délib., II, III, V, VI, passim. P.-B. Casgrain, “Jacques Babie,” BRH, X (1904), 329–32; Mémorial des familles Casgrain, Bâby et Perrault (Québec, 1898).
     
  

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