Jean-Baptiste Raymond
Jean-Baptiste Raymond (December 6, 1757 – March 19, 1825) was a seigneur, merchant and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, New France, and joined the fur trade at a young age before becoming a merchant at La Tortue, which later became Saint-Mathieu. In 1784 he married Marie-Clotilde Girardin, daughter of Montreal merchant Charles-François Girardin. He inherited the Lac-Matapédia seigneury from his mother but had to sell it in 1796 because of business troubles.
He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Huntingdon County in 1800 and reelected in 1804. He moved to La Prairie in 1801, and around 1805 he began a business partnership with his son Jean-Moïse, dealing in dry goods and investing in real estate. Raymond also served as a justice of the peace and as a captain in the militia. He helped organize a 1822 meeting to protest the proposed union of Upper and Lower Canada. He died in La Prairie in 1825.
His daughter Marie-Geneviève-Sophie married merchant Joseph Masson. Another daughter, Clotilde, married Paul-Théophile Pinsonaut, the parents of Pierre-Adolphe Pinsoneault. After his death, his widow married Edme Henry in 1828.
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