Jean  BEAUDET

Biography
'Jean Baudet, son of Sébastien Baudet and Marie Baudonnier, was born in Blanzay, in Poitou, France. In the spring of 1664 Jean Baudet left La Rochelle with about fifty individuals, mostly young men, hired to work in New France. Before getting on ship , each man was alloted 95 pounds : 60 pounds for his passage, 30 pounds for clothing and 100 sols, or 5 pounds, for food.

Jean Baudet and his friends left France aboard a ship called 'Le Noir d’Amsterdam'. This small ship under the direction of Captain Pierre de Filly of Dieppe arrived in Québec on May 25, 1664. Among the passengers only 42 could be identified. It is to be noted that among the passengers a young girl, Jeanne Besnard, made the crossing accompanied by Jeanne Mance. The latter was a devoted nurse, who, with the help and generosity of Mme De Buillion founded the 'Hotel Dieu of Montreal' hospital. Jeanne Mance, was already living in Canada since 1641.

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1670 Marriage / Partner
Jean BEAUDET and Marie GRANDIN 28 September 1670, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

1671 Birth of Child
Marie-Louise-Françoise BEAUDET was born 14 September 1671, Sillery, Québec, Québec, Canada (Mission Saint-Joseph-de-Sillery) (Saint-Colomb-de-Sillery)

1673 Birth of Child
Simone-Anne BEAUDET was born 26 December 1673, Sillery, Québec, Québec, Canada (Mission Saint-Joseph-de-Sillery) (Saint-Colomb-de-Sillery)

1676 Birth of Child
Jean-Charles BEAUDET was born 13 August 1676, L'Ancienne Lorette, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation)

1679 Birth of Child
Louise BEAUDET was born 21 April 1679 , L'Ancienne Lorette, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation)

1681 Canadian Census Seigneurir de Lotbiniere
Jean Baudet, 31
Marie Grandin, sa femme, 30
enfants:
Marie, 10
Simone, 8
Charles, 5
Louise, 2
Jeanne, 15 jours

Source: Histoire des Canadiens-Francais 1608-1880 by Benjamin Sulte, Montreal, 1882

1681 Birth of Child
Marie-Jeanne-Françoise BEAUDET was born 1 October 1681, Lotbinière, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis)

1683 Birth of Child
Jean-Baptiste BEAUDET was born 2 September 1683, Lauzon, Lévis, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-de-Lévy)

1686 Marriage of Child
Marie-Louise-Françoise BEAUDET married 6 October 1686, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec) to Jacques HOUDE dit DESRUISSEAUX

1687 Birth of Child
Marie-Josephte BEAUDET was born 24 April 1687, Sillery, Québec, Québec, Canada (Mission Saint-Joseph-de-Sillery) (Saint-Colomb-de-Sillery)

1689 Marriage of Child
Simone-Anne BEAUDET married 8 July 1689, Cap-Santé, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Famille-du-Cap-Sante) to Michel PINEAU (PINEAULT) dit LAPERLE

1690 Birth of Child
Jacques BEAUDET was born 20 November 1690, Lotbinière, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis)

1698 Marriage of Child
Louise BEAUDET married 3 March 1698, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec) to Jacques MARCOTTE

1704 Marriage of Child
Marie-Josephte BEAUDET married 18 October 1704, Lotbinière, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) to Jacques-Alexandre DENEVERS

1712 Death of Child
Marie-Jeanne-Françoise BEAUDET died 17 January 1712, Saint-Nicolas, Lévis, Québec, Canada

Death unknown
'When did Jean Beaudet see the sun disappear below the horizon for the last time? A secret of history. On 13 July 1714, an inventory of his remaining property was taken. And on 25 February 1715, Ancestress Marie Grandin devoted herself to her son Charles. She died at the Hotel-Dieu of Quebec on 14 July 1715, on a Sunday, the Lord's day.'

Thomas J. Laforest
Our French-Canadian Ancestors : Volume XVIII, Page 45

1708 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marie GRANDIN died 14 July 1715, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)