Descendants of Jean are fewer in number and in New France have tended to cluster in the Vaudreuil and Soulanges area of Quebec near the Ottawa river.

[4] In search of a better future, with his wife and their two-year-old daughter Anne, he sailed for New France on the ship "Saint-André" from La Rochelle on 2 July 1659.

[2] After some years they moved from Ville-Marie to Pointe-aux-Trembles (on the eastern tip of Île de Montréal), and there he built a windmill, with his son and, their partner Pierre Dagenets (Dagenais).

[3] Olivier Charbonneau settled in the region which today constitutes the parish of St. Francis de Sales in Laval, where he became the first permanent resident with his son-in-law.

Pierre Boucher, formerly governor of Trois-Rivières became Procurator of the Prelate of Quebec François de Laval,[8] who signed the deed of sale.