Nicolas Pinel

Nicolas Pinel (? - 1655) are a Canadian Marchand which was one of the pioneers of the News-France.

It is the son of Jean Pinel and Thomasse of $the Hague of Campagnolles (Normandy).

It Marie with La Rochelle in 1630 and made there baptize four children between 1631 and 1636.

April 5th, 1645, always with the La Rochelle, Nicolas began with going to work during three years with Port-Royal in Acadie, as a pit sawyer and carpenter of carcass work heavy castings . Nicolas left in France his wife, Madeleine Maraut, and his children. To the expiry of its engagement, Pinel did not turn over in France. The Pinel family arrives in fact at Quebec after the end of the engagement of Nicolas at Port-Royal, some share thus between 1647 and 1650.

One finds it in Quebec where, on September 16th, 1650, it is committed towards Anne Gasnier putting forward its ground of Heaps during two years. Although farmer of Anne Gasnier, Nicolas Pinel has into clean, probably since 1651, a ground close to the Rivière of the Cape Rouge.

April 27th, 1651, it is attacked with his son Gilles Pinel by two Iroquois.

And on January 23rd, 1652, it acquires Jesuits a new ground on the edge of the river with Sillery.

He died in the hospital Hôtel God of Quebec on September 18th, 1655 of wounds caused by a Arquebuse.

All Pinel go down from the same stock, that is to say marriage of Nicolas Pinel and Madeleine Maraud.

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