A year after acquiring land in Batiscan, he married Marie Major, daughter of Jean Major and Marguerite Le Pele on 11 September, 1668 at Notre Dame de Quebec. Marie Major (or Mazol) probably came to Canada as part of the 97 Filles du Roi which in the summer of 1668 arrived in Quebec. The term Filles du Roi refers to the plan of providing women known as the King's daughters to populate Canada. Homeless girls were taken from charitable institutions, and peasants with too many children contributed daughters as King's daughters. Marie's parents were both dead when she came to Canada in the summer of 1668.
