Lériger and Saint-Yves.

Charles-Clément Lériger sieur de LaPlante.

Charles-Clément was born in 1734 in LaPrairie on the 3rd of March, the son of Paul Lériger and Barbe Dupuis. Barbe had died when he was in his teens and his father remarried Agathe Saint-Yves. As a young man, he would serve in the militia to defend New France in the French and Indian War. Ultimately he witnessed la Conquête, or the conquest, as the French turned over Montréal to the British on 8 September 1760.

Marriage to Marie-Véronique Saint-Yves.

It was perhaps a hopeful nod to the future then, that at age 26, he married the 18-year-old Marie-Véronique Saint-Yves a month later in Saint-Philippe de LaPrairie. She was the younger sister of Charles' stepmother, Agathe Saint-Yves. Their first child Veronique born on 11 March 1762 was only a month old when she died. Our ancestor Marie-Charlotte was born 19 May 1769 and baptized in Saint-Constant, one of about a dozen children born to the couple.

Do to his age, 78, he was exempt from service, but he lived to experience the War of 1812 declared against the British Empire by the Americans. It was also the year his granddaughter Charlotte Pinsonneau married Joseph Petelle.

Marie-Véronique died in Saint-Constant on 13 May 1808. In some compiled sources there is mention of a second marriage of Charles-Clément to Marie-Joseph Madran, date unknown.

He died at the age of 83 on 24 August 1817 in Saint-Constant. His long life was twice that of the life expectancy of 40 years for that time.