1575 - 1627

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• Birth	Abt 1575	St-Germain-L'Auxerrois, V. et Archev. Paris, Ile-de-France (Paris)   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Personal Information	Notes by Jane Goodrich:  [2]
  	Samuel de Champlain founded the city of Quebec in 1608, as a trading post for a company of merchants from Rouen and St. Malo. They allowed no families or farming, because they wanted a food monopoly. Food was to be shipped from France in their vessels. Champlain felt this was not the way to produce a viable colony. He knew Louis Hebert from his Acadian adventure, and thought he would be ideally suited to the task he had in mind. He persuaded Louis Hebert to sell everything in Paris and take his family to Honfleur. There Louis endured a protracted negotiation with the merchants association, having already burned his bridges behind him, he finally signed. They engaged him at half the salary Champlain had promised. He was to go as an apothecary, to provide free medical care for the inhabitants. This was acceptable to the merchants who did not know Champlain wanted him to farm and raise a family with permanent roots in the colony. Louis Hebert and his family sailed April 11, 1617, on " le Saint-Etienne" from Honfleur. About 60 leagues off Grand Banks their vessel encountered heavy weather. Everyone said confession and Madame Hebert raised her young son up through the hatch for blessing. They debarked at Quebec on July 15, 1617. Champlain gave Hebert ten acres of land in Quebec, on the cliff overlooking the little fort by the water's edge. Hebert constructed a stone house with wood gables, the house remained the only private residence in the colony until 1632. Louis Hebert and his family were Canada's first colonists. The personal party of Louis Hebert consisted of his wife Marie Rollet, her brother Claude Rollet, the Hebert children: Anne, Guillaume, and Marie-Guillaumette. The brother-in-law soon returned to France. The Compagnie Des Marchands prevented Louis Hebert from acquiring modern farming tools of the era, but he farmed anyway without a plow or a wagon. In 1621, he became Public Prosecutor. His signature appears on a petition August 18, 1621 to King Louis XIII asking for a charter for the City of Quebec. February 4, 1623 the duc de Montmorency gave Louis the fief du Sault-au-Matelot. February 28, 1626 the duc de Ventadour gave him a fief on the Saint Charles River, one league by four leagues. This elevated him to a noble rank, a first for Quebec. After a bad fall on an icy path, he died January 23, 1627. His two surviving children each inherited one half of his estate. In 1629 the Kirk brothers captured Quebec and returned most of the inhabitants to France. Marie Rollet stayed on with her children. She continued her work with the Indian children, teaching and Christianizing them, becoming an important person herself. When Champlain returned to Quebec in 1632, he found the Hebert family had also taken in a small Negro boy from Madagascar. Samuel de Champlain bequeathed Marie Rollet a pair of white fustian bodices, that his wife had probably left behind when she returned to Paris. All three of Louis Hebert's children lived to marry.
  Died	23 Jan 1627	Québec, Québec, Canada   [1, 2]
  	Died after a fall on ice
  Person ID	I45665	Linda's Tree
  Last Modified	15 Apr 2007 07:47:00
  Father	Nicolas Hébert
  Mother	Jacqueline Pageau ou Pageot, b. Abt 1543
  Family ID	F17741	Group Sheet
  Family	Marie Rolet ou Rollet, b. Abt 1588, St-Germain-des-Pres, V. et Archev, Paris, Ile-de-France (Paris)
  Married	1602	Paris, France   [1, 3]
  Children	> 1. Marie-Guillemette Hébert, b. Abt 1608, St-Germain-des-Pres, V. et Archev, Paris, Ile-de-France (Paris) > 2. Guillaume Hébert, b. Abt 1605   3. Anne Hébert, b. Abt 1603
  Last Modified	15 Apr 2007 07:47:00
  Family ID	F17735	Group Sheet

• Sources

  [S92] PRDH Website, Université de Montréal, (A subscription site that provides access to vital records and the genealogical encyclopedia for Quebec through the year 1799 PRDH) [S466] Jane Goodrich, Jane Goodrich, (The original information in this record was furnished by Jane Goodrich. Her family has researched this line for many years. Any additional sources noted are the ones I consulted to verify the information which Jane provided.) [S553] French Canadian Ancestors, Mark and Suzanne, (Homepage), Madame M. Jurgens, "New Findings on Louis Hebert, and His Fammily Before His Departure for New France", French Canadian and Acadian Genealogical Review , Vol. V, No. 1 & 2, 1975, pgs. 37-60, in custody of the Dallas Public Library, Dallas, Texas. (Reliability: 3)