About 1700, 1702, at least before 1705 (October 10 1705, he passed his marriage contract before Chambalon at Deschambault and marries a little later) the eldest of the family, Nicolas, went and took a large and good farm and well situated in the seigneury of Mr. d'Eschambault. This concession dates about August 30, 1707, and was made by Joseph des Fleury of La Gorgendière acting for Jacques des Fleury Deschambault.

(See: Genaple Register, 7th volume, page 101)

Because of a lack of precise information on the motives that pushed Nicolas, son, to get away from the lie d'Orleans, possibly relations, relatives, advice, we surely find a sufficient presumption in the quality, spread, excellence of the property that he acquired without mentioning the ease by which he acquired this land.

Nicolas who had been born about 1677 was the first of the family to . marry. His marriage act has not been found. (They did not attach as great an J importance as we do today on recording these acts; it was probably omitted), but his marriage contract is dated October 10, 1705; the birth of his first child, Nicolas, baptized at Cap-Santé on May 17, 1708, gives us a fixed date on his marriage. I don't believe being too much in error by saying it took place in 1707.

After Nicolas, it is Marie who marries at Ste-Famille on the He d'Orleans to Jean-Baptiste Marcotte on June 12, 1708; then in 1711, on July 23rd, two girls marry the same day at Ste-Famille; Madeleine with Jacques Perrault and Geneviève with Jean-Francois Naud. (Jacques Perrault and his brother, Paul, receive at Deschambault a concession from Jacques Alexis des Fleury Deschambault on March 20, 1709.) (See: Genaple Register, 7th volume, page 189.)

Marcotte, Perrault and Naud are three boys of Deschambault. When Nicolas decided to go to Deschambault, his father was living. He left, then, at the Île d'Orléans, say in 1702, his father, his mother, his brother, Antoine, 18 years; Louis, 9 years; Jean, 1 year; Madeleine, 12 years; Marie-Anne, 7 years. ? At that time, the father was 54 years old (since he was born in 1648), and he could count on help from Antoine who was pretty big. However, Louis died the following year at 10 years and Antoine in 1704 at 20 years. The only one left is Jean who is but 3 years old.

In 1708, Jean is but 7 years old when he assists at the wedding of his sister Marie with Jean-Baptiste Marcotte. We understand why Marcotte stays with his father-in-law, that these recent happenings (added to a life of great enterprises) helped to break him. The ancestor, Nicolas, would live, in effect, but five months after the marriage of Marie. He was buried at Ste-Famille December 17, 1708. The son-in-law, Marcotte, 'becomes the sole support of his mother-in-law and the support of the whole young Paquin family. Between them, they raised three small girls, (not counting five children dead at birth) and one son, Jean-Baptiste, who carries the name of the father.

Jean-Baptiste Marcotte (See: Report of the Archivist of Quebec 1945-46, page 15) in 1725, owns (sworn to and enumerated by Guillaume Gaillard) three acres of land on the front of said depth (i.e. half the island: See page 14 where the parish of Ste-Famille begins) costing three pounds tounois (money made to the likeness of Tours), two capons for rent and three fertile pieces of land also Tounois which included the house, barn, stable and sixty acres of productive land and areas of meadowland.

(Let us say in passing that this Jean-Baptiste Marcotte, son, will marry in 1738 at Ste-Famille with Angéline Paquet, but that he will die about 1739 leaving but one small son, Jean-François, himself dying one month before his father at 4 months old, which means that Jean-Baptiste Marcotte married to Marie Paquin did not leave any descendants of his name; only his three daughters perpetuated his blood line.)

In 1711, Genevieve, Mrs. Naud; and Madeleine, Mrs Perrault went to live at Deschambault. Marie-Anne who is older (16 years) often goes to visit her big brother Nicolas and his sisters at Deschambault, so much so, that in 1720 she marries Pierre Groleau.

In 1726, the widow of the ancestor Nicolas Paquin, Marie-Francoise Plante, dies in the middle of April. From that moment on, Jean-Baptiste Paquin, 24 years old, and sole survivor living among the Marcotte family lives, no doubt, more often at Deschambault than at the lÎle d'Orléans. He is twenty-four years younger than his older brother, Nicolas. We understand that he also is attracted to Deschambault, establishes there and marries in 1731. Nicolas II, the first Paquin established at Deschambault, left eight sons who married and perpetuated the name.

The descendants of Jean, married in 1731 with Marguerite Chapelain, are a lot less numerous than that of Nicolas,(married with Marie-Anne Perrot and Thérêse Groleau) because only one of the three sons of Jean had children to perpetuate to this day by Joseph Paquin said "Fichon" married to Reine Mathieu and he is the third son of Jean and Marguerite Chapelain.

Joseph said "Fichon" had six sons. Only one, Joseph, born in 1700 married and stayed at Deschambault where he has the few rare descendants of that region. The five others; Jean-Marie, Augustin, Charles, François-Xavier and Paul went and settled in Montréal and its suburbs.

After 300 years of existence in America, research lets us know that the descendants of Nicolas Paquin and Marie-Françoise Plante meet in all the regions and dioceses of Québec, in all the provinces of Canada and even in the United States.

Let us see first the Archdiocese of Québec which takes in the dioceses of Québec, Trois-Rivières, Chicoutimi, Amos and Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatière.

It is the Diocese of Québec which has more than 280 parishes that the first family of Paquin took root. In fact, Nicolas Paquin, after having lived his three years of contract for the Lord François Deschamps in the Seigneury of La Bouteillerie at Rivière-Ouelle, took a rental at Château-Richer on the coast of Beaupre where he continued to work as a carpenter. It is there that on November 18, 1676, that he contracted to marry Marie-Françoise Plante. Several years later, he went to live on a farm that he bought in the Parish of Ste-Famille on the Ile D'Orléans. This became the cradle of the first Paquin family.