1619 Birth
1 August 1619
Mortagne, Perche, France (Mortagne-au-Perche)

Biography
GUYON DU BUISSON, JEAN, (junior), royal surveyor; b. 1 Aug. 1619 at Mortagne (in Perche); d. 13 Jan. 1694.

Jean Guyon probably came to Canada with his father in 1634. On 27 Nov. 1645, at Quebec, he married Élisabeth Couillard, a daughter of Guillaume Couillard; she was to bear him 12 children. Trained perhaps by Jean Bourdon or Martin Boutet, both of whom were surveyors, Guyon became the first surveyor to learn his trade in Canada. He was already in practice on 12 April 1662, with the title of surveyor for the seigneury of Notre-Dame-des-Anges. Subsequently (1667) he came to style himself “king’s surveyor in this colony.” He was to finish his days at Château-Richer, where he had been given a grant of land in 1650.

Honorius Provost
Dictionary of Canadian Biography (www.biographi.ca)

1634
'Jean Guyon on March 14 1634, signed an agreement with Robert Giffard and Zacharie Cloutier in Mortagne Perche, Normandy. Guyon settled in Beauport that same year when he received a rear fief (arrière fief) near Rivière du Buisson (river of bushes). He attached its name to his own, Guyon du Buisson. Several of his decendants have changed their name to Dion.Source: First Canadian Ancestors (from the 'Ancestors of Jean-Guy Coté' Database)

www.leveillee.net/ ancestry/ histnotes.htm------Jean Guyon, sieur Du Buisson, b. St-Jean de Mortagne, év Chartres ou Sées, Perche, 1 Aug 1619, d. 13 Jan 1694, bur. Château-Richer 14 Jan 1694 [RJ 548]'

1667 Quebec
Quebec. (lot of land of 8 acres on the Grande Allee). Vol. I, 1st part, p. 419 - 1667 - Jean Guyon sieur de Buisson held this land from his father-in-law, Guillaume Couillard who had given it to him in 1659. The said Jean Guyon 'had leased for a rental one acre and one half to Guillaume Lelievre who had built a house upon it, which now belongs together with the said acre and one half to Etienne Blanchon and his wife.'

Title Report
Author Public Archives Canada
Published 1885
Page 41

1668 Quebec
Quebec. (lot). Vol. I, 2ns part, p. 597, - 1668 - Claude Guyon had acquired it - so far as the imperfect condition allows us to ascertain - from Jean Guyon sieur de Buisson.

Title Report
Author Public Archives Canada
Published 1885
Page 46

1681 Canadian Census Seigneurie de Beaupre
Jean Guyon, 63
Elizabeth Couillard, sa femme, 53
enfants:
Nicolas, 27
Gertrude, 21
Marie, 19
Genevieve, 16
Charles et Elizabeth (jumeaux), 14
Pierre, 11
Francois, 7

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

Death
name: Jean Guyon
gender: Male
burial date: 14 Jan 1694
burial place: Chateau Richer, Montmorency, Quebec
death date: 13 Jan 1694
death place: Chateau Richer
age: 74
birth date: 1620
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race: White
marital status: Unknown
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indexing project (batch) number: B03757-9
system origin: Canada-EASy
source film number: 1018161
reference number: P 201

'Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955,' index, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ pal:/ MM9.1.1/ F2PB-R4M : accessed 04 Jan 2013), Jean Guyon, 13 Jan 1694; citing reference P 201, FHL microfilm 1018161
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