Charles Gaultier
dit Boisverdun(c. 1618 - 1703)
(This text is presented as published by Michel Langlois)"Son of Philippe and Marie Pichon, brother of Guillaume, husband of Esther de Lambourg, and Catherine, wife of Denis Duquet, he marries at Québec, on Tuesday, the first of August 1656, Catherine Camus, daughter of Hector Camus and Jacquette Mondy, of Saint-Soulle, bishopric of La Rochelle in Aunis. From their union, eight children are born.
He is mentioned for the first time in the country on 5 February 1651, when the church wardens of Quebec sell him land of fifty acres in Cap-Rouge along with the house on that land, for the sum of 25 "livres" per year. This farm and house had been owned by Jean Dumais. He takes official possession before the notary Audouart on the following 14th of February. On 8 May, the governor Louis Dailleboust concedes him land of one acre by six on the Grande-Allée (Quebec city). On 5 October 1652, he receives the Scapulary of the Brotherhood of Mont-Carmel. He is shown among the soldiers of the garrison at Trois-Rivières in 1654. He gives up on the concession received from sieur d`Ailleboust by selling it, on June 6, 1656, to François Blondeau, for 200 "livres" for which he gives him a release on the following 21st of December.
On 10 November of this same year 1656, René Mézeray gives him land of 100 feet in length by 36 at one end and 66 at the other near his house at Cap-Rouge. This same Mézeray sells him, for 300 "livres", his concession and house in Cap-Rouge on 8 February 1657. His brother Guillaume Gauthier having died on 26 July 1657, he is named tutor of his children of minor age. On 23 April 1658, and acting as such, he makes a deal with Nicolas Patenostre. On the first of August 1655, Patenostre rents for six years the farm of deceased Guillaume Gauthier. He accepts to annul this lease. On the same day, he claims to have increased by 400 "livres" the value of the sale of the house of deceased Charles Sevestre. He contracts to pay 400 "livres" to cover the debts of the succession. On the following 2nd of May, he associates with Noel Jérémie dit Lamontagne and pays "livres" in order to become an associate in the fur trade in Tadoussac. He is confirmed in Quebec on 10 August 1659.
His mother, Marie Pichon, had married Charles Sevestre, her second husband. When he died on 8 December 1657, as tutor of his children, his mother gives him, on 30 October 1660, a farm that the sieur Jean de Lauzon had conceded to deceased Charles Sevestre on 15 May 1656. She also gives him a release of all accounts they had between each other. He rents for 3 years to Jean Durand dit Lafontaine, on 21 November of the same year 1660, his farm in the seigneurie de Gaudarville with the fishing rights and the redoubt on an islet, all for 9 bushels of wheat per year and 15,000 salted eels. in the name of the inheritors of deceased Marie Pichon and deceased Charles Sevestre, he gives a release of 200 "livres", on 18 September 1661, to Pierre Voyer d`Argenson, for the food and keep of 8 soldiers, ending on 30 September. On 26 April 1662, Michel Fillion contracts to transport with his boat all the wood belonging to Lafortune. This last having ceded him the wood. He contracts to supply 2 men to Fillion for this work et promises to pay him 54 "livres". On the same day, farmers of his land in Cap-Rouge, Jean Durand and Jean Drouard annul their lease. In compensation, they promise to work for him from the first of May to the first of November. On the following 20th of October, he rents this land in Cap-Rouge to Nicolas Chesneau. Five days later, he contracts with his brother-in-law Denis Duquet concerning 2 farms owed to them by the estate of their mother Marie Pichon. They share everything in half.
The sieur Charles de Lauzon-Charny transfers to him, on 22 January 1663, a concession of 3 acres frontage in Sainte-Famille on the Île d`Orléans. On the 27th of October, he appears before the Sovereign Council and successfully claims from Louis Godefroy de Normanville, the sum of 299 "livres" and 7 "sols". On the 3rd of November of the same year, asks to be elected tutor of the minor children of his brother Guillaume Gauthier, because he had to go to the Île d`Orléans. On 18 June 1664, Charles Courtois and Laurent Denis are condemned to pay him 100 "livres" for having hunted 5 of his pigs in the woods. He declares, on the following 3rd of July, having paid 36 "livres" for an "engagé". He had received a ticket on which appeared the name of Jacques Lemoyne. When the ships arrived, he went to get his "engagé", but the only person left was named Pierre Lemoyne who had been attributed to a certain Bilodeau. Bilodeaau had left with Jacques Lemoyne. He claims his "engagé" and wins his case. Nicolas Chesneau who had rented his farm at Cap-Rouge annuls his lease on the following 9th of September. However, before leaving, he must deliver to him 4000 eels. he is received at the Brotherhood of Saint-Famille during the year 1664.
At the census of 1666, he lives in Saint-Famille on the Île d`Orléans. Mathias Campagna and Jacques Bouteleux work as servants for him. At the census of 1667, he is shown as living in Cap-Rouge where he owns 9 acres of arable land. He is also shown, in error, at Cap-de-la-Madeleine. He declares being a "bourgeois" of Quebec, on 3 July 1668, when he buys land in the "Haute-Ville" (upper city), from Octave Zappaglia, sieur de Ressan. On the following 25th of October, he borrows 1000 "livres" from Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye. He promises to repay him with an annual annuity of 55 "livres" 11 "sols" and 2 "deniers", for which he obtains a final release on 30 June 1672. On 3 October 1668, he exchanges land he had obtained in Lauzon from the estate of his mother Marie Pichon, for a concession belonging to Michel Fillion above the Sault-de-la-Chaudière, near the land of the Hospitalières nuns. He rents for one year to Nicolas Durand his house in the "Basse-Ville" (lower town) of Quebec, on 26 April 1669, for 120 "livres". To repay what he owes to the merchants Lamotte and Giton of La Rochelle and to some others, he contracts an obligation of 600 "livres", on the following 24th of June, to Guillaume Baucher who delivers to him 150 bushels of wheat. He lends 200 "livres" to Jacques Genest on 23 October. The next day, Genest gives him all his worldly goods.
In 1671, he is a church warden of Notre-Dame de Québec. He gives back to Jacques Genest, on 22 February, the goods Genest had given him, on the condition Genest repays him the sum of 173 "livres". On 14 June, Claude de Bermen concedes him all the land froning by 40 acres in depth between the land of the Hospitalières and his own in Lauzon. He sells his house and land on the Sous-le-Fort street to Guillaume Baucher, on 30 June, at a price of 2000 "livres" and 10 "livres" in wine. he does not guarantee this house nor the land it sits on. he returns to his house in Cap-Rouge where René Mézeray sells him an acre of land for the sum of 250 "livres", on 12 July of the same year. He owes to the merchant Alexandre Petit, on 23 October, the sum of 248 "livres" and 12 "sols". His spouse dies on March first 1673. Jean-Paul Maheu owes him, on 14 July 1674, the sum of 60 "livres" for merchandise and his farmer Mathias Campagna the sum of 100 "livres" and 103 bushels of wheat, on 23 April 1675. Nicolas Ferron dit le Marquis de Labresche hires himself as an 'engag" for two and a half months, on 2 September 1675, for 45 "livres". He makes an agreement, on 20 May 1677, with Jean Niort, father and son, who had rented his farm but had not sown it. They promise to pay him six bushels of wheat and two bushels of peas in addition to half of the eels taken at the fishery on his land. He buys from Pierre Nolan on the next 9th of July, for the sum of 300 "livres", a half interest in the 18 ton ship La Sainte-Anne. On 25 July, he rents for 3 years his fishery at Lauzon to Étienne Dumets, for 3000 salted eels per year. On 1 August, René Blanchard hires himself to him as an "engagé" for the rests of the season, for his food and 60 "livres tournois", and on 9 August Pierre Rivau hires himself for the same pupose for 25 "livres" per month. He ends the year 1677 by exchanging his boat, on 31 December, with that of sieur Bertrand Chesnay de la Garenne. The latter pays him 30 "livres" in compensation.
Always preoccupied with making a profit from his boat, on 29 March 1678, he rents it for the duration of the navigation period to Pierre Rivau, for 220 "livres". On 27 April, 1679, this same Pierre Rivau owes him 84 "livres" and 3 "sols". He contracts to have repairs made to the boat. At the 1681 census, he still resides at his Cap-Rouge farm and possesses a gun and 12 acres of arable land. He and his neighbor René Mézeray agree to mutually erase the debts each has towards each other, on 3 March 1682, except the sale of the house and the acre of land he still owes to Mézeray. On 10 January 1689, he owes 137 "livres" 3 "sols" and 9 "deniers" for merchandise to Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye. His activities slow afterwards. He is a witness, on 21 March 1698, to the concession of land made by Louis Deniort to his son Louis Gauthier. He sells at a price of 100 "livres", on 9 September 1698, his fifth shares of a farm he inherited between the seigneuries of Dautray and Lavaltrie. On 19 November 1699, he is condemned before the "Prévoté de Québec" to pay to the church council of Notre-Dame de Québec 25 years in arrears on rent for his farm at Cap-Rouge. He makes an agreement with the church wardens to cover the arrears by paying 500 "livres". It is for this purpose that, on 3 April 1700, he sells to Louis Gauthier de la Pigeonnnière, at a price of 1000 "livres", half his farm on the Île d`Orléans. The latte agrees to reimburse 500 "livres" to the church. On the same day, the notary Roger proceeds with an inventory of his goods to be shared between his inheritors. He dies at Sainte-Foy where he is buried on 9 February. Signature number 464.
ANQ GN Audouart 05-02-1651; 14-02-1651; 06-06-1656; 10-11-1656; 21-12-1657; 30-10-1660; 21-11-1660; 26-11-1660; 18-09-1661; 26-04-1662; 25-10-1662; Peuvret 23-04-1658(2); 02-05-1658; 07-05-1658; Becquet 25-10-1668; 03-07-1668; Rageot G. 03-10-1668; 14-06-1671; 12-07-1671; 30-06-1672; 14-07-1674; 09-07-1676; 20-05-1677; 25-07-1677; 01-08-1677; 09-08-1677; 31-12-1677; 29-03-1678; 27-04-1679;03-03-1682; 10-01-1689; Fillion 23-10-1669; 24-10-1669; 03-04-1675; Vachon 22-02-1671; Duquet 02-09-1675; Chambalon 24-03-1698; 09-09-1698; Roger G. 02-01-1700; 03-04-1700 (2); JDCS I, 24-03-1663, p.41; I, 03-11-1663, p.49; I, 18-06-1664, p.209; I, 03-07-1664, p.223-224; I, 09-08-1664, p. 255; PQ Reg.4, 11-12-1671, fol. 187 r. AAQ RC 10-08-1659, ADNQ CS 05-10-162; CSF 1664."
The English text is a translation by Jean-Pierre Gauthier of text from the "Dictionnaire Biographique des Ancêtres Québécois" Tome II, Michel Langlois, ISBN 2-9800305-4-6, ISBN 2-9800305-6-2.
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