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BOUDROT, MICHEL

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The Port Royal Acadian Census of 1678-89, indicates Michel BOUDROT owned 12 acres of land, 10 cattle, 3 guns and had five boys aged 22 (born ABT 1656), 20 born ABT 1658), 18 (born ABT 1660), 16 (born ABT 1662) and12 (born ABT 1666). There is no mention of a daughter born in 1645(?).The first Acadian census of 1671, indicates that MICHEL then owned 5 cattle and a dozen sheep. His family consisted of seven boys and four daughters (no names are listed for the daughters). He was married to Michelle AUCOIN about 1640 in France.
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laboureur, Lieutenant General + civil + criminel at PR (Port Royal)
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The name Boudrot is thought to refer to a descendant of Botthar, an army messenger.

There story and those that are related to us. Michel Boudrot, was born in France around 160I and settled in Port Royal, Nova Scotia, then Acadia during the 1630s, is the ancestor of the Acadian family of that name.He was probably recruited by Gov. Charles d'Aulnay since he was present at the baptism of the governor's daughter, Marie d'Aulnay, on Sept. 21, 1639, in his capacity as First Trustee of Port-Royal. He was also one of the signatories of an attestation favorable to d'Aulnay's works in1687. At the Port-Royal census of 1671, he was 71 years old and the father of a family of 11 children, three of whom were married. He had married Michelle Aucoin ABOUT 1641. In 1686, he was lieutenant general andjudge of the Port-Royal tribunal. His son Charles settled at Pisiguit (Windsor, NS) and Claude at Grand-Pre, while Jean and Michel went to Beaubassin (Amherst, NS). His other sons stayed at Port-Royal, including Abraham my wife's direct descendant, who was a navigator and merchant. He traded with Boston on his shallop, the Marie. In January 1693, Commander de Villebon sent him on a mission to Boston where he was to make discreet inquiries about the state of affairs there and to report to him.He seems to have acquitted himself of his mission with success.

From Port Royal, these descendants had various residences. Before finally arriving on Isle Madame on Cape Breton Island they lived for periodsof time on St. Pierre & Miquelon, French Islands south of the southeast coast of the Province of Newfoundland (still owned by France), Madeleine Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and finally Isle Madame, one of the great seaport areas of the 19th and early part of the 20th century. Following in the footsteps of Abraham, several descendants of Michel Boudrot and Michelle Aucoin became navigators. In 1755, the Boudrot familywas a large one and established in several communities in Acadia. Thisfamily was deported in several places in North America and in Europe. Several can be found in different New England colonies, including Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Connecticut and Louisiana. Many were thrown in prisons in southern England (Bristol and Southampton in particular), andwere later transported to France after the Treaty of Paris, in 1763. These families were established at Belle-Isle-en-Mer, Cherbourg and Saint-Malo in Northern France. Several of those families found a way of returning to Acadia. Among them, the family of Germain Boudreau who was one of the pioneers of Cheticamp in Cape Breton. Several Boudreau families living at Beaubassin, & the surrounding area; le Saint-Jean and Cape Breton were able to escape the Deportation and found refuge in Quebec. They are to be found in different communities but notably in the Nicolet, Repentigny and Deschambault areas. Others made their way to the nearby; les-de-la-Madeleine at Petit de Grat on Isle Madame in Cape Breton.

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