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BOURGEOIS, Jacques (Jacob)

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Laurant Molin's census (1671) of Acadia, New France (which is today known as Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia), begins with the Bourgeois Family and indicates that Jacques BOURGEOIS' holdings, included 33 head of cattle, two dozen sheep, a pair of oxen and five acres of land under tillage...a sizeable estate for the times. Pierre Cyr for example, owned but one cow, two sows and six sheep (Massignon, Page 944). Shortly after 1671, Jacques BOURGEOIS, who also engaged in fur trading, moved his familyup the Bay of Fundy to Cumberland Basin, which the indians called Chignecto. His three sons-in-law, Pierre Cyr, Germain Girouard and Jean Boudrot accompanied Jacques on this move. Shortly thereafter, Michel Le Neuf, A Quebecois aristocrat, was granted a Seigneurie in the area. It was he (Michel Le Neuf), who renamed the Bourgeois Settlement, Beaubassin, Acadia (Clark, Pake 141). Leo Cyr's book, indicates Jacques immigrated to Acadia in 1642, "probably from Couprans-en-Brie (Departement Seine-et Marne), near Paris France, with 18 families that Sieur D'Aulnay brought with him on one of his many voyages from France to Acadia. Jacquesand Jeanne had ten children, three boys and seven girls..

According to Janet Jehn's "Acadian Descendants" Book, the Jacques BOURGEOIS family resided at Beaubassin, Acadia (they were listed in the Acadian Census of 1698) and later moved to Port-Royal, Acadia. Her book also indicates that Jacques was instrumental in the actual development of the Chignectou Colony (in about 1672), which later became known as the "Bourgeois Colony" and then Beaubassin, Acadia.

Based on the book entitled "Remember Us" (A genealogy of the Moulton Family from Louisiana), "Dr. Bourgeois arrived at Port Royal in about 1642, as the personal surgeon of Governor d'Aulmnay. Jacques became the Lieutenant (second in command) of Port-Royal, on August 16, 1654. He was one of the most prosperous residents of Port-Royal and owned a schooner used to transport settlers to the new Colony".

The Port Royal Acadian Census of 1678-79 lists "JAQ" BOURGEOIS and Jeanne Trahan as owning 20 acres of land and 15 cattle. The Census also lists two girls, one aged 15 (born in 1663) and another aged 12 (born in 1666). These were probably Marie and Jeanne, the two youngest daughters of the BOURGEOIS. He was married to Jeanne (Anne) TRAHAN about 1643/44 in Port Royal, Acadia.
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