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- ! <http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=1360>Dictionary of Canadian Biography online1741-1770 (Volume III)GASTINEAU DUPLESSIS, JEAN-BAPTISTE, ?voyageur-associate,? fur-trader, militia officer, merchant; b.1671 in the Trois-Rivi?res region, son of Nicolas Gastineau Duplessis and Marie Crevier; buried 9 Feb. 1750 at Trois-Rivi?res. Between 1694 and 1702 Jean-Baptiste Gastineau Duplessis went on several trading expeditions to the west as a ?voyageur-associate.? On 9 June 1694Daniel Greysolon* Dulhut hired him and some other men to go on a trading expedition to Michilimackinac. In 1701 he went to Detroit with his younger brother Louis and some 40 men, all of whom had been hired in theking?s name byIntendant Jean Bochart * de Champigny. The following year Gastineau Duplessis and his brother were employed by the Compagnie dela Colonie to go to Detroit with an expedition that was fully as largeas the preceding one. After these voyages Jean-Baptiste GastineauDuplessis settled at Trois-Rivi?res where, it seems, he became lieutenant of the militia. We do not know at what moment he went into business, but around 1730 he entered into partnership withFran?ois-?tienne Cugnetto try to introduce buffalo into Canada; this enterprise was not, however, successful. Some years later Gastineau Duplessis had new businessdealings with Cugnet, who in 1736 had become the chief shareholder in the Saint-Maurice ironworks company. Gastineau Duplessis furnished the ironworks with supplies valued at 7,071 livres 2 sols 6 deniers. He hadtrouble, however, in obtaining payment and, when Cugnet?s business began to fail, had to present a petition to Intendant Hocquart*in June 1741. In 1750, shortly after Gastineau Duplessis?s death, his wife encountered the same difficulties: this time Cugnet was sentenced in an ordinance from Intendant Bigot* dated 1 April to pay 2,722 livres 3 sols to Mme Gastineau Duplessis for the goods she had sold to the employees of the ironworks. On 19 Nov. 1711 Jean-Baptiste Gastineau Duplessis had married Charlotte Le Boulanger at Cap-de-la-Madeleine. Three childrenwere born of this marriage, including a daughter, Marie-Joseph, who in1749 married Pierre-Fran?ois Olivier* deV?zin.Roland-J. AugerAN, Col.,C11A, 53, ff.228?30. ANQ, NF, Ord. int., 1er, avril 1750. ANQ-M, Greffe d?Antoine Adh?mar, 9 juin 1694. PAC Report, 1904, app.K. Bonnault, ?Le Canada militaire,? APQ Rapport, 1949?51, 522. Massicotte, ?R?pertoiredes engagements pour l?Ouest, APQ Rapport, 1929?30, 202, 206?7. P.-G. Roy, Inv. ord. int., III, 164. Tanguay, Dictionnaire. Albert Tessier, Les forges Saint-Maurice, 1729?1883(Trois-Rivi?res, Qu?., 1952). Edgar Le Noblet Du Plessis, ?Nicolas Gatineau, sieur du Plessis,? SGCF M?moires, IV (1950?51), 23?39 P.-G. Roy, ?Les b?ufs illinois,? BRH, XXIII (1917), 275?84.
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