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Notes


3074. Veuve Pelletret

Arsenault (Vol 2,page 612) identifies Perrine Bourg as Antoine's sister; Antoine came to Acadia around 1636, so I have assumed Perrine was widowed before she accompanied her brother.


3075. Perrine Bourg

She was enumerated in the 1678 census living with her second husband, Rene Landry on one acre with 10 cattle, two boys ages 20 and 15 and a 23 year old daughter.


3086. Guillaume Trahan

His birthplace and date come from Massisgnot, FC&A Rev, Vol 2, pp 19-31.
About 1632, he settled in Bourgueil. He was a toolsmith and, later, a
marshal, who arrived in Acadia in 1636. With his first wife (Francoise
Charbonneau), two children, and a valet, he came from Bourgueil and
embarked at La Rochelle 01 April 1636 to work in New France with six
other individuals from Chinon and 23 from Bourgueil, among whom were
Pierre Martin, his wife, and his son Pierre (Arsenault, Vol 2, page 816,
citing in fn 144 Nova-Francia, 1926, p 177). Massignot (FC&A Rev, Vol
2, pp 19-31) reports finding a record of Trahan's having been among
those who received heavy fines for cutting timberand building houses on
land reserved for the royal abbey at Saint Pierre de Bourgueil; she
speculates that he may have been attracted to move to Acadia following
that experience.

He was the marshall in command of the inhabitants of Port-Royal at its
surrender in 1654. In the 1678 census, he and Madelenne Brun are living
on four acres with six cattle, three boys (ages 10, 8, and 7, born in
1668, 1670 and 1670 [sic]) and three girls ages 6, 5, and 4, born in
1672, 1673, and 1674. He was not enumerated in the 1686 census, and
Arsenault (Vol 2, p 816) gives the death date shown, adding that his
widow married Pierre Bezier dit Touin dit Lariviere about that time.


3091. Marie Francoise Gaudet

Francoise was the widow of an unknown Mercier at the time of her marriage to Daniel LeBlanc; the three came together to the New World in all likelihood (FCG&A Rev, Vol 5, pp 15-20). Arsenault (Vol 2, page 394) notes Francoise had at least one child, Marie Mercier, from a 'first marriage'. The youngest Marie could have been at her marriage in 1661 would have been 13, making her birth year about 1648, at the latest. Her stepfather left a deposition in which he described working for d'Aulney, who died in 1650, suggesting that the couple married in France and emigrated later.


3094. Francois Gauterot

He arrived in Acadia from France around 1636 (Arsenault, Vol 2, page 566; cross reference to Massignon, Genevieve, Les parlers francais d'Acadie, Vol 1, pp 49 and 66). In the 1678 census, he is shown living with Bastien Brun, one boy a year old, two cattle, and one gun.


3095. Edmee' Lejeune

In the 1678 census of Port Royal, she is listed as Aymee LeJeune, wife of Francois Gautreau living with him on six acres with eight cattle and two sons ages 20 and 18, respectively, born in 1658 and 1660.


3098. Andre Bernard

Arsenault, Vol 2, page 428, provides the outline and adds that he was a mason who arrived in Acadia in 1641 to work at the settlement of Charles de la Tour at Jemseg, on the St. John River (above the subsequent settlement of Gabriel Godin and his descendants in modern New Brunswick). After the conquest of the fort by D'Aulnay in 1645, he was returned to France then returned to Acadia after the rehabilitation of de la Tour.


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