Arsenault says (Vol 2, page 678, FN 89) he was probably the nephew of
Pierre Martin (which see). "Pierre Martin, laborer, with his wife and a
baby, departed from Bourgueil (Bourgueil), Indre-et-Loire, arrived at
Chinon, departed the first of April 1636 from La Rochelle with six
residents of Chinon and 24 of Bourgueil, to go to work in New France"
(Nova Francia, 1926, p 177). Presumably one of the six or 24 was
Barnabe's father, Robert. In a document written in 1985, Stephen White
characterized Barnabe as a ploughman.In the 1678 census, he is living with Jeanne Pelletre on six acres with
four beasts, two boys ages 7 (Rene) and eight months (born in 1671 and
1678) and four girls ages 10, 6, 4, and 2 (born in 1668, 1672, 1674, and
1676, respectively).
Arsenault calls him a surgeon and says he arrived in Acadia from France
in 1640. At the 1698 census, he had settled in Beaubassin, but he later
returned to Port Royal. He received extensive land from governor
d'Aulnay (before 1654, as d'Aulnay left after the 1654 fall of
Port-Royal to the British) (Arsenault, Vol 2, page 456). In FN 24, it
says that in the censuses, he had the name Jacob Bourgeois. He was
lieutenant at Port-Royal at the time of its fall 16 Aug 1654. Around
1672, he founded the colony Bourgeois, which continued later under the
name Beaubassin, on the bay of Chignectou. The 1678 census shows him
living with Jeanne Trahan on 20 acres with 15 cattle and two daughters
ages 15 and 12, born in 1663 and 1666, respectively.
FIRST GENERATION ON RECORD, AT PORT ROYAL, NOW CALLED ANNAPOLIS-ROYAL.
ANTOINE BABIN, BORN 1625, ORIGINALLY FROM LA CHAUSSEE, IN THE REGION OF
LOUDON, DEPARTMENT OF VIENNE, FRANCE, ARRIVED IN ACADIA IN 1654. HE
MARRIED MARIE MERCIER AROUND 1662Birth and death information from Arsenault, Vol 2, page 394. In the
1678 census of Port Royal, he and Marie Mercier had one acre with four
cattle and two sheep. They also had three boys ages 15, 13, and 3 (born
in 1663, 1665, and 1675, respectively) and six girls, ages 11, 9, 7, 5,
and 3 months born in 1667, 1669, 1671, 1673, and 1678, respectively.
His birthdate comes from Arsenault, Vol 2, page 623. He was the second
of this name in Acadia and probably settled initially around the St.
John River, but was found in Port Royal in the 1671 and 1686 censuses.
Her birthdate and place from Arsenault, Vol 2.
Birthdate and place from Arsenault, Vol 2, page 612.
(Arsenault, Vol 2, pages 524-525). Death date from the parish registers
of Saint Charles aux Mines.