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Land transfer Auger to Charron 1696
JEAN AUGER ​- DIT LE BARON (1621-1697)
During the great recruit of 1653, Jean Auger-dit-Le Baron arrived in New France with his wife and son, Louis. They settled in Montreal, what was then known as Ville-Marie. Among these 100 recruits wasMarguerite Bourgeoys, the town’s first teacher, who would find a community of teachers.
He married around 1650 and sought a new life in America, bringing with him his wife, Louise Grisard, and young son. Jean was just thirty-two and his wife twenty-eight when they arrived in Ville-Marie.
Jean was a weaver by trade and in the notarial act dated June 20th, 1653, he received a sum of one hundred and thirty-one pounds. Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière, an established French nobleman, heavily implicated the French colony in Montréal hired him. It is possible he knew this nobleman who came from the same region in France, thus aiding in his decision to come to Canada.
Jean Auger dit le Baron among the 106 settlers who arrived in "Ville-Marie" travelling on the ship "le Saint-Nicholas-de-Nantes, November 16, 1653
“Ian Og” was how Jean Auger registered his name. This would suggest that he may have had Scottish ancestry. Ian is the Scottish derivative, for John and Og could have come from Viking times in Scotland.
The name passed from Og to Oger and finally Augé and Auger. The surname of Baron was attributed to Jean after his arrival in New France. This addition was transmitted to his descendants. Many with the family name Baron have Jean Auger for their ancestor.
Upon his arrival in the country, Jean settled in Montreal, and three years later, on October 14, 1656, he moved to concessions he had made under an official contract with the Sieur de Maisonneuve. He purchased another concession on 25 August 1662.
In the census of 1666, documented as a weaver and was among one of the first 627 immigrants to settle in Montréal. By the time of the census of 1681, the original of the report states he is a tanner, age 60. The family includes his wife Louise Grisard, 48, and children: Louis 28, Philippe 18, Jean 16, Marie 14, Baptiste 10. Their listed possessions were one rifle, three beasts with horns, and ten arpents in value.
Jean Auger spent the rest of his life in Montreal and died there on November 17, 1697, at the advanced age of seventy-six. His wife followed one year later.​
Citations
​(1) Arrival in Montreal,Quebec, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families (Tanguay Collection), 1608-1890 for Jean Augé, Vol. 2 Sect. 1 : Abe-Ble Image 100
​(2) D. 1697 Auger Jean dit le Baron, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Coll.), Montréal 1643-1820 Image 14
Background: Death Register​