Jacques Baudry de Lamarche (
baptized 13 September 1676 – ''ca.'' 1738) was the son of a Canadian craftsman from
Trois-Rivières
Trois-Rivières (, – 'Three Rivers') is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from the city of ...
who moved to
France
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at some point in his youth.
There is little information about Jacques Baudry de Lamarche. He returned to North America about 1723 and acquired the rights to certain properties in Detroit. These were in the name of
Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac and consisted of several buildings and various other land. An attorney,
Étienne Véron de Grandmesnil,
from Trois-Rivières took the appointment to carry out the legalities of this extensive acquisition. Opposing major aspects of the transaction were
Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil
Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil (; c. 1643 – 10 October 1725) was a French military officer who served as Governor General of New France (now Canada and U.S. states of the Mississippi Valley) from 1703 to 1725, throughout Queen ...
and
Alphonse de Tonty.
In 1738, Baudry's name appears in
New France
New France (french: Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spa ...
in connection with a position as general and special attorney for the Frères Hospitaliers de la Croix, a charitable order in Montreal.
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People of New France
1676 births
1730s deaths
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