Jean Gautier
1656 - 1723
Translation of an extract from "Biographie des Ancêtres Québécois", 1608-1700, Volume II, by Michel Langlois."Son of Edmond Gaultier and Madeleine Jahan, of the Saint-Éloi parish in the city of Bordeaux in Guyenne, France, he contracts marriage before the notary Vachon, on Saturday October 6, 1685, with Marie Guyon, born in Québec, on Monday April 7, 1664, daughter of François Guyon and Marie-Madeleine Marsolet, and marries her at Beauport, on Monday October 15, 1685. Twelve children are born from their union.
This ancestor, named Jean and sometimes Jean-Baptiste, came to the country as a sergeant in the company du Sieur de Cristafy. He first establishes himself in Beauport, then, for a brief period, lives in Montreal. On September 29 1688, the Jesuits of the Hôtel-Dieu rent a piece of land to him, for an annual rent of 40 "sols", measuring 45 feet by 71 feet on Saint-Gabriel street. Not long after, he returns to live definitively in Quebec and work there as merchant.
On April 21, 1692, the master mason, André Couteron, rents him a house for two years on des Pauvres street for the sum of 90 livres per year, for which he gives him receipt on 21 September, 1693.
On October 2, 1696, the merchant Pierre Peire, having in hand an order from Étienne Mercier, a merchant of Bordeaux, to collect from him the amount of 334 livres in good money of France. Declaring that he does not have that sum, Jean gives a proxy to the Sieur Peire, so that he may obtain this settlement in Bordeaux from his brother Edmond who owes him 1000 livres.
The Jesuits verbally conceded to him a piece of land of 34 feet frontage on the "rue de la Fabrique" in 1702 where he built himself a house. On May 30, 1709, the Jesuits rent this land to him, for an annual rent of 11 livres.
On September 22, 1712, he gives a proxy to the bearer, to collect on his behalf from Marie Gachet, the widow Gaultier, an annuity which is owed him.
On December 10, 1712, the ship`s captain François Brunet who signed a contract of marriage with his daughter Charlotte and which contract having been cancelled, settles his account with him. For this cancellation, Jean gives 100 livres to Brunet.
His father-in-law, François Guion Després, concedes him land of two acres frontage by twenty acres in depth at Beauport on May 6, 1713. On the following 8 August, he resells it for 150 livres to his brother-in-law Alexis Guion. Three days later, on August 11, he cedes to the same Alexis Guion the inheritance rights he holds by his wife on one eight of the goods of the Sieur Després and Marie-Madeleine Marsolet. He obtains 300 livres for them.
With the other inhabitants of Saint-Joseph street which attend the Hôtel-Dieu, he makes an agreement on May 20, 1722, to dig a well along the wall of the Jesuit residence, for their exclusive use and limited to the needs for their respective houses.
He dies in Quebec on September 2, 1723 and is buried there the following day."
Extract of "Biographie des Ancêtres Québécois", 1608-1700, Volume II, by Michel Langlois.
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