Jacques Goulet
| Jacques Goulet | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 April 1615 Normandel, Perche, France |
| Died | 26 November 1688 L'Ange-Gardien, Canada, New France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Miller, Farmer |
| Spouse(s) | Marguerite Mulier |
| Children | 11 |
Jacques Goulet (April 17, 1615 – November 26, 1688) was a pioneer in the Percheron immigration movement to colonize the shores of the St. Laurence River at Québec in New France (now Québec, Canada), a miller and the ancestor of virtually all of the Goulets in North America.
Thomas Goulet, the father of Jacques Goulet, lived in Normandel in the ancient French province of Perche as early as 1612. The baptismal records of Saint-Maurice-lès-Charencey, a community two miles east of Normandel, document the birth of René Goulet on May 30, 1613 to Charles Goullet and his wife Suzanne. It is likely that Charles Goullet is the brother of Thomas Goulet.
Thomas married Antoinette Feillard on April 28, 1613 in Normandel's St-Firmin church.
The notarial records of the region document that on April 6, 1615, Thomas Goulet purchased a gray horse from Robert Giguère, a merchant from Tourouvre, for 25 livres. Eleven days later, Jacques was born in Normandel on April 17, 1615. Jacques, the eldest of three children, had two sisters Louise born on January 17, 1619 and Yvonne, born on May 25, 1622.
Goulet worked as a miller for Noël Juchereau on his farm, Les Chatelets in L'Hôme-Chamondot, France in 1645. His father Thomas, also worked as a miller in L'Hôme-Chamondot in 1632, possibly at the same mill. Goulet married Marguerite Mulier, the daughter of Jean Mulier and Catherine Chauvin, on November 21, 1645 at St. Pierre Church in La Poterie-au-Perche, France.
Noël Juchereau, a Company of One Hundred Associates investor, recruited Goulet along with other Percheron workers, to migrate to New France as 'engagés', which typically culminated in an option to exchange a 3-to-5 year work contract for land. No engagement contract for Goulet were ever found because he had gone to work for sieur Noël Juchereau Deschâtelets as his miller.
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