There were really only seven settled families at this time, composed of twenty persons, seven men and seven women, and six children.  Their names were as follows:—­Abraham Martin and his wife Marguerite Langlois, and his two daughters, Anne and Marguerite; Pierre Desportes and his wife Francoise Langlois, and a girl named Helene; Nicholas Pivert and his wife Marguerite Lesage, and their niece; Louis Hebert and his wife Marie Rollet, and a son named Guillaume; Adrien Duchesne and his wife; Guillaume Couillard, his wife, Guillemette Hebert, and a girl named Louise; Champlain and his wife Helene Boulle.

When Abraham Martin came to Quebec, he was twenty-four years of age.  The official documents refer to him as king’s pilot, and the Jesuits named him Maitre Abraham, while to the people he was Martin l’Ecossais.  His family gave to the Catholic Church of Canada her second priest in chronological order.  This priest, who was born at Quebec, was named Charles Amador.  After having served as a mariner for the Company of Rouen, Abraham Martin became a farmer, and was the proprietor of two portions of land, consisting of thirty-two acres.[21] He received twenty acres of land from Adrien Duchesne, and twelve acres from the Company of New France, on December 4th, 1635.[22] This property was named the Plains of Abraham, and all the ground in the immediate vicinity gradually assumed the same title.  A part of the famous conflict fought on September 13th, 1759, and known as the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, actually occurred on the ground owned by Abraham Martin, and thus it is that the name of this first settler has been perpetuated in prose and verse.

Louis Hebert, the son of a Parisian apothecary, followed the profession of his father in Canada.  He first tried to establish himself at Port Royal, where we find him in the year 1606.  He left Port Royal in 1607, but he appears to have returned there, as in the year 1613 he is mentioned as acting as lieutenant in the place of Biencourt, son of Poutrincourt.  When Port Royal was abandoned, Hebert returned to France, where he met Champlain, who induced him to turn his steps towards Canada once more.  Soon after his second visit to New France, he commenced to build a residence in the Upper Town of Quebec, upon the summit of Mountain Hill.  This building, which was of stone, measured thirty-eight feet in length, and was nineteen feet broad.  It was in this house that Father Le Jeune said mass when he came to Quebec in 1632.  Hebert received some concessions of land from the companies, and at once commenced to cultivate it, so that he was able to live from its produce.  Champlain praises him for this course.  Hebert died in the year 1627, from mortal injuries caused by a fall.  He was buried in the cemetery of the Recollets, at the foot of the great cross, according to his desire.