4096. Jean GAUDET
Notes for Jean Gaudet:
ACADIAN DESCENDANTS, Vol I, pg 18. Arrived in Port Royal, Acadia, in 1636 from Martaise, France. Settled at Port Royal.JEAN GAUDET married twice. Godbout states that he had four children: Francoise, Denis, Marie and Jean, the first three of whom became ancestors
of ours. He reasoned that Francoise and Denis were born of Jean's first wife (name unknown); that Marie and Jean were born of Nicole COLLESON,
his second wife; that the first three were born in France; and that Jean came to Acadia after 1633 with his second wife. GODBOUT considered that
COLLESON was a French name rather than traceable to the Scotch settlers who accompanied Sir William ALEXANDER, as has been suggested.ARSENAULT states that Jean GAUDET probably came to Acadia after 1636, having married Nicole COLLESON "en deuxieme noces" about
1628. Jean is listed in the 1671 census as a 96-year-old farmer (laboureur) living in Port Royal with his 64-year-old wife Nicole COLLESON. Still
living with them was their 18-year-old son Jean. They had six head of cattle, three sheep, and three acres of land under cultivation.MASSIGNON identified GAUDET as a name found in Martaize among tenants of d'AULNAY's seigniory. She also noted that in 1671 Jean
GAUDET had 22 grand- children and 10 great-grandchildren, thus becoming the ancestor of one tenth of the Acadian population.First Generation. Jean Gaudet, born in 1575 in France where he wasmarried first, but the name of his first wife is unknown to me, as well astheir province of origin.
Whether she accompanied her husband to LaHeve in 1632 when he arrived there with the Commander Isaac de Razilly, I have no data on this subject. Did she die
in France or at LaHeve? A mystery! Whatever may have happened, Jean Gaudet in a second wedding, married Nicolle Colleson who was thirty-two years younger
than he. When Jean Gaudet arrived at LaHeve in 1632, he was 57 years old, and when, about 1638 d'Aulnay de Charnisay moved the colony which Razilly had
sent from France to Port Royal, Jean Gaudet went and settled there and it was at Port Royal that he died about 1672 or 3. From his first marriage he had one son
who is our common ancestor, namely:." This and later passages in the same notes were translated by me. Don Tryon.
2. Census Port Royal 1671, Société Historique Acadienne, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB. Labourer.
3. Cansus Port Royal 1678, Société Historique Acadienne, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB. Died before census.He and his brother Aubin had made a trip to the New World around 1610 to "check the place out".
Jean then went back to France and later returned to Acadia with his family.
6420. Joseph FERRIS
Joseph was "one of the original patentees named in the patent granted to the Town of Greenwich by the General Assembly, May 1665. Joseph was an influential citizen in Greenwich; in 1672 he is recorded as one of the 27 proprietors and in 1688 as on of the 52 landowners. In 1681-82, Joseph was a representative to the General Court." (See Jim G. Ferris notes in his History of the Ferris Descendants).
6421. Ruth KNAPP
Ruth's date of death is in question. It is said that she sold her property rights to her son, Joshua in 1711. (See Jim Ferris's notes on p. 1 in Joseph Ferris notes.)