One of the “Super Couples” of New France, a founding family of Québec, companion of Champlain

Vol 5 OFCA Chapter 6 p53

1666 Census of New France, Beaupré, PAGE 46

Zacarie Cloutier pere .......................76 habittant PAGE 46
Xaincte dupont...............................70 sa femme

Red Drouin History p. 1484

Zacharie CLOUTIER (Carpenter) with wife Sainte DUPONT and children Zacharie, Jean, Anne, Charles and Louise departed Mortagne 1634. Jette p259.

Wikipedia:
Cloutier was one of the first Frenchmen recruited by Robert Giffard de Moncel to expand the colony of New France by settling the Beauport area near Québec City. Cloutier arrived in 1634 (at the age of 44) and either arrived with or was soon followed by his family. This was an important addition to the colony's population which numbered about 100 prior to his arrival. Cloutier worked with fellow emigre Jean Guyon du Buisson to construct Giffard's manor house (the oldest house in Canada) and other colonial buildings.
Cloutier and Guyon resisted for several years paying the fealty and homage owed to Giffard under the Seigneurial system of New France until the Governor of New France explicitly ordered them to do so. This was one of the first disputes against transplanting Old World hierarchy to the New World that would carry through the centuries even past the time of the British conquest.[1]
Eventually, Cloutier's relationship with Guyon, who was also his neighbour, deteriorated to the point that Cloutier sold his land and moved to Château-Richer, where Governor Jean de Lauzon granted him land.

Attention French-Canadian Descendants: Did You Inherit Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy?
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Not only do genealogists have the opportunity to learn about their ancestors, but they can also learn about various inherited diseases. Some of these medical conditions could be life-threatening while others are merely an inconvenience. By studying inherited diseases floating around in your family, you may save or prolong your own life or the lives of your loved ones. By identifying the risks early in a person’s life, medical treatment often can be much more effective than the limited choices available after the medical condition becomes obvious.
I find it interesting that one French-Canadian couple in the 1600s who are the ancestors of millions of living people have tentatively been identified as carriers of a common form of muscular dystrophy. It became more than “interesting,” however, when I recognized the names of this couple as my ninth great-grandparents. Suddenly it wasn’t just “interesting;” it was personal!
If you have French-Canadian ancestry, now is the time to check your pedigree charts.
Zacharie Cloutier and Saincte Dupont, who emigrated to Canada from France in 1634, may have harbored the genetic defect responsible for the majority of today’s French-Canadian cases of Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy (OPMD).
NOTE: Saincte Dupont’s first name has been spelled in many different ways. I have seen it listed as Saincte or Sainte or Xainte or Zainte Dupont. Zacharie’s name also is sometimes listed as Zacarie Cloustier. Succeeding generations have spelled the surname in many different ways and have sometimes Anglicized it as well. Zacharie Cloutier’s male descendants have spelled their last names as Cary, Cluchier, Clukey, Clurkey, Cluquet, Clouter, Lapensee, Nailer, and probably other ways as well.
Zacharie Cloutier and Saincte Dupont were married in St-Jean de Mortagne, ev. Sees, Perche, France, on 18 July 1616. They set sail from the port of Dieppe in mid-April 1634, accompanied by his family. The fleet consisted of four ships under the command of Duplessis-Bochard, arriving in Québec on June 4, 1634. Zacharie Cloutier was a master carpenter and is known to have helped build the manor house of Robert Giffard at Beauport, Québec. He also worked on the parish church and on Fort Saint-Louis in Québec. We can guess that he also helped build many of the houses of that settlement.
Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy is best known for a weakness of the muscles that control the eyelids, causing droopy eyelids, a condition also known as ptosis. However, that is not the only symptom. The disease often causes a weakness of the facial muscles and pharyngeal muscles (those in the throat used for swallowing), a condition known as dysphagia. Weakness of facial and limb muscles often occurs later. Symptoms of the disease usually don’t begin until the mid 40s or 50s, but can occur earlier.
A person with OPMD might have some of the symptoms, but not all. While the disease is best known for the droopy eyelids that severely narrow the field of vision, another person with the same disease might not display that symptom at all. However, a difficulty in swallowing is also quite common, even if it is not visible to others.
When muscle tissue from a person with OPMD is examined under a high-powered microscope, clumps of proteins called inclusions are seen in the muscle cell nuclei (the cellular compartments that contain the chromosomes), and bubble-like structures (vacuoles) appear in the muscle cells.
Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy is most common in French-Canadian families or families of French-Canadian descent. When the French-Canadian victims’ family trees are traced, Zacharie Cloutier and Saincte Dupont always appear someplace in the pedigree charts, often in more than one place. They appear to be the only couple that is always found amongst the ancestors of every French-Canadian sufferer of OPMD. However, there’s also a high incidence of OPMD among Hispanic residents of northern New Mexico. OPMD can also affect people who aren’t of French-Canadian or Hispanic background although that is far less common.
If you have difficulty swallowing or if you have droopy eyelids, check your pedigree chart. If you find Zacharie Cloutier and Saincte Dupont in the family tree, you might want to mention that fact to your doctor.
For more information about OPMD, look at http://www.mdausa.org/publications/fa-rareMD.html#opmd, http://www.mda.org/disease/opmd.html, and at
http://www.webmd.com/brain/muscular-dystrophy-oculopharyngeal.
By the way, most French-Canadians with ancestry in the greater Québec City area can find Zacharie Cloutier and Saincte Dupont in multiple places in their pedigree charts. That is, most of these people have multiple lines of descent from this one couple.

From: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/cloutier_zacharie_1E.html

CLOUTIER, ZACHARIE, master carpenter, pioneer at Beauport, originally from Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Mortagne in Perche; b. c. 1590; d. 17 Sept. 1677 at Château-Richer and was buried there the following day.

Having married Xainte Dupont on 18 July 1616, Cloutier entered into an undertaking at Mortagne with Robert Giffard, the seigneur of Beauport, on 14 March 1634; by the terms of this agreement he was to come to Canada that same year with his fellow-countryman Jean Guyon Du Buisson, senior, and he received at the same time the grant of an arriere-fief at Beauport. The two settlers took formal possession of their lands on 3 Feb. 1637. The previous year, if not before, their families had joined them in Canada, for the two households figure in the marriage contract of Robert Drouin and Anne Cloutier on 27 July 1636.

Cloutier’s holding, the fief of La Clouterie (or La Cloutièrerie), brought him into conflict with his neighbour Guyon and with Giffard, his seigneur. He sold it to Nicolas Dupont* de Neuville on 20 Dec. 1670 in order to go and settle at Château-Richer, where he had already received a grant of land from Governor Jean de Lauson on 15 July 1652. Zacharie Cloutier brought up five children; he appears to be the ancestor of all the Cloutiers in Canada. He signed with a mark shaped like an axe.

Honorius Provost

AJQ, Greffe de Jean de Lespinasse, 3 févr. 1637; Greffe de Gilles Rageot, 20 oct. 1670, 20 déc. 1670. ASQ, Documents Faribault, 2, 48. JR (Thwaites), passim. JJ (Laverdière et Casgrain). F.-L. Desaulniers, Recherches généalogiques . . . (Montréal, 1902). [T.-E. Giroux], Robert Giffard, seigneur colonisateur au tribunal de l’histoire, ou la raison de fêter le troisième centenaire de Beauport, 1634–1934 (Québec, 1934).

Revisions based on:
Bibliothèque et Arch. Nationales du Québec, Centre d’arch. de Québec, CE301-S6, 18 sept. 1677.

Information about Jean Cloutier:
His father Zacharie Cloutier Sr. was the first Cloutier in Canada. Jean Cloutier married Marie Martin who is the daughter of the famous Abraham Martin (Les Plaines d'Abraham the famous location in Québec City) Jean Cloutier was born on May 13, 1620 in Mortagne-au-Perche, Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, France. He was baptized on May 13, 1620 in Saint-Jean, Mortagne-au-Perche. His father and mother and their children Louise Cloutier, Charles Cloutier, Anne Cloutier, Jean Cloutier, and Zacharie Cloutier Jr. emigrate around April 10, 1634 from Dieppe FR to reach Québec City around June 10, 1634 25. Marie Martin and Jean Cloutier sign a marriage contract on December 27, 1647 by in front of Notary Claude Lecoutre dit Lachaisnée. He marries Marie Martin daughter of Marguerite Langlois and Abraham Martin dit l'Écossais on January 21, 1648 in Notre-Dame, Québec. Jean Cloutier gets a land on July 16, 1652. Jean Cloutier is confirmed on February 2, 1660 in Château-Richer, Capita le-National. Jean Cloutier is a carpenter in 1666 in Beaupré, Montmorency, Québec. Joseph Cloutier, Cloutier, Anne Cloutier, Louise Cloutier, Marie Cloutier, Jean Cloutier , Marie Martin and Jean Cloutier reside at Beaupré in 1666. Jean Cloutier owns twelve livestock and twenty-two acres of land in value in 1667. Joseph Cloutier, Cloutier, Anne Cloutier, Louise Cloutier, Marguerite Cloutier, Marie Cloutier, Jean Cloutier, Pierre Cloutier, Jean Cloutier and Marie Martin reside at the Beaupré Coast, Montmorency in August 1667. Jean Cloutier is a carpenter in 1681 at the seigneury of Beaupré, Montmorency Marie-Madeleine Cloutier, Agnès Cloutier, Angélique-Geneviève Cloutier , Françoise Cloutier, Cloutier, Anne Cloutier, Pierre Cloutier, Marie Martin and Jean Cloutier residing in the Seigniory of Beaupré in 1681.. Jean Cloutier owns two guns, fourteen horned beasts and fifteen arpents of land worth in 1681 He died on October 16, 1690 at Château-Richer 21, 22. He was buried on October 16, 1690 in La-Visitation-of-Notre-Dame,
Château-Richer is probably your best bet.