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BIOGRAPHY OF
THE GAUTIER FAMILY.
THE GAUTIER FAMILY, at one time numerous in Hudson County, was
a French Huguenot family who came to America after the revocation
of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV. By intermarriage a considerable
landed estate in Bergen, N. J., came into possession of the family.
This property, at what is now Greenville, is known as the "Gautier
farm," descended through one Captain Thomas Brown. Jacques
Gautier, of Saint Blancard, in the Province of Languedoc, France,
is said to have been the first American progenitor of the Gautiers.
He settled in New Amsterdam, and left issue two sons, Daniel
and Francois, besides daughters. Daniel (2) married, at New
York, September 6, 1716, Maria Bogert, and had eleven children,
one of whom was Andrew (3), who was born in 1720 and married
(1) in 1744 an English lady named Elizabeth Crossfield, and (2)
in 1774 Elizabeth Hastier. Andrew (3) was a prominent man in
New York, and left issue four children, one of whom, Andrew (4),
born December 18, 1755, married (1) Mary Brown, of Bergen, and
(2) Hannah Turner. Andrew (4) took up his residence at Greenville
and left eight children, from whom are descended the Gautiers
of Bergen and Hudson Counties.
Source: Genealogical History of Hudson and Bergen Counties,
New Jersey, Editor, Cornelius Burnham Harvey, The New Jersey
Genealogical Publishing Company, 1900, page 166.
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