La Prairie.

La Prairie-de-la-Magdeleine.

In 1710 François sold the Longueuil farm and bought land from Louise Lebreuil in La Prairie. The move would establish them as one of the founding families of the town were they sought to secure their children's future.

And other of our ancestors made their home there as well including the Dupuis, Boutin dit LaRose, Leriger, Leber, Deniger and Saint-Yves families. Their son Jacques married into the Bourassa family in 1712.

In 1716 they sold their son François a section of land 1 arpen by 25 arpens for 400 livres. Notarial documents provide a clue to their desire to evenly distribute the assets they had among their offspring. Before the notary Bassette is a 1714 document affirming that Pierre, Jacques, François, and Anne (Nicolas Brazeau) and Marguerite (Pierre Senecal) had each received 150 livres from their parents.

François, 76 and Anne, 75, decided to divide their farm equally between their children in 1722 expecting a small pension from them to help them subsist. This was followed in 24 July 1724 with them giving the remainder of their property, the furniture, the tools, to the children in return for "ten minots of corn, two cords of wood" and clothes and linens. The couple by this time had been married over 50 years.

On 26 January 1731 François Pinsonneau passed away around eight o'clock in the evening. He was buried the next day in La Prairie. At 85 he lived a long life. Anne Leper was also 85 (about 83 it says in this record) when she passed away the following year on 29 January. Among the witnesses to her record was our ancestor Moise Dupuis.