On 18 Oct 1675, Augustin Gagnon, son of Pierre Gagnon and Barbe Fortin, was baptized in the Chapel of Cap Tourmente, Ste. Anne de Beaupré, Québec, New France.
The Birth and Baptismal Record of Augustin Gagnon – 1675
SOURCE: Gabriel Drouin, comp. Drouin Collection. Montréal, Québec, Canada: Institut Généalogique Drouin. Ste. Anne de Beaupré, Québec, New France, 1675. Birth and Baptismal Record of Augustin Gagnon, Pages 27-28.
Click on the image above to enlarge it. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Birth and Baptismal Record of Augustin Gagnon – 1675. Translated from the French the record reads:
Baptism of Augustin Gagnon
In the year of Our Lord [one-thousand six-hundred] seventy-five, on the eighteenth of October, [one word?] the birth of an infant of Pierre Gagnon and Barbe Fortin his wife, which I baptized [one word?] in the Chapel of Cap Tourmente. The Godfather was Jean Gagnon and the Godmother was Marguerite Gagnon wife of Jean Caron of the Parish of Saint Anne. He was given the name of Augustin. Signed F. Fillon, Missionary Priest :/:
                       Morin, Priest
This record can be found as image 45/877 and image 46/877 in the Québec Vital Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 on Ancestry.com as part of the records for Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré 1668-1808. The record appears on pages 27-28.
There were two words in this record I could not read or understand.
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