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- ! <http://biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?id_nbr=160>Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online1000-1700 (Volume I)DAVID, CLAUDE, voyageur, settler; b. 1621 in France; d. 1687 at Cap-de-la-Madeleine. Although one author has coupled the title of doctor with his name, there is no evidence that he practised medicine in Canada. On 2 June 1647 Governor Charles Huault de Montmagny granted him permission to clear the ?le aux Cochons (?le du Milieu, today ?le Maillet) situated at thejunction of the St. Maurice River and the St. Lawrence. In 1649, at Trois-Rivi?res, he married Suzanne de Noyon, born in 1633, daughter of ?douard de Noyon and Catherine Chevalier. Claude David had seven children, all of whom were baptized atTrois-Rivi?res. An act granting land and dated 20 Oct. 1654 speaks of ??le de Claude David,? next to the fief of ?le Saint-Christophe. In an act of 7 April 1660 he figures as the owner of a grantat Trois-Rivi?res, adjoining that of Mathieu and Charles Amiot. Claude David took part in a trading expedition, led by Chouart Des Groseilliers, which left Montreal in 1660 for Lake Superior; the voyage, which was to take a year, lasted three. In a letter dated 2 June 1661 and sentfrom the missionof Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours, which he calls ?Chassahamigan? (Baie Sainte-Catherine or Keweenaw Bay, Michigan), the Jesuit Ren? M?nard mentions his companion Claude David, ?who repairs the fire-arms.? On the occasion of a dispute with the Jesuits of Trois-Rivi?res, which was brought before the Conseil Souverain 30 Jan. 1664, Claude David and two of his fellow-settlers represented the inhabitants of thelocality. On 20 Jan. 1679 he granted a loan to MichelPelletier deLa Prade, seigneur of Gentilly.David died at Cap-de-la-Madeleine, nearTrois-Rivi?res, and was buried there 2 Dec. 1687.Antonio DroletASQ, Documents Faribault, 161; Fonds Verreau, VIII, liasse 1, f.3, p.4; f.7. JR (Thwaites),XLVI, 142, 301f.; LXXI, 86. Jug. et d?lib., I, 112. P.-G.Roy, Inv. concessions, I, 247; II, 29, 71. L. P. Kellogg, The French r?gime in Wisconsin and the Northwest (Madison, Wis., 1925), 115. P.-G. Roy, ?Mathieu Amyot Villeneuve,? BRH, XXV (1919), 323; Noms geographiques de la province de Qu?bec (L?vis,1906).
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