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- Or Jacob. Surgeon in 1671 census; lieutenant of Port-Royal on 1654-08-16; 1st settler of Beaubassin in 1672.
From A Point in History:
Jacques Bourgeois, the son of a military officer, arrived in Acadia around 1642 from Couperans-en-Brie, Champagne, France where he was born about 1620. He was a surgeon (medical man). He arrived with Charles de Menou d'Aulnay who was returning from France to Acadia after being named the governor. At the head of an armada of 4 ships, d'Aulnay brought a recruitment to Acadia composed of artisans, workers and 18 complete families. Despite the capitulation of Port Royal in August 1654 following an British attack, Jacques Bourgeois decided to remain in Acadia with his wife, Jeanne Trahan, and his two sons and two daughters. Following the withdrawal of troops from the French garrison, the English decided also to leave, and the habitants governed themselves by means of a council presided over by Bourgeois' father-in-law, Guillaume Trahan. [...]
In time, he was a lieutenant of the Port Royal militia. [...] At the 1671 Acadian census, he had 20 or so acres of land under cultivation, 33 head of cattle and 24 sheep. [...] In 1672, he founded the Bourgeois colony, later known as Beaubassin on Chinectou Bay.
Many of their descendants were deported to Massachusetts. [...] Jacques Bourgeois' great-grandson, Armand Bourgeois married Marguerite Dugas in L'Assomption, PQ in 1766. Armand's parents, Claude Bourgeois and Marie LeBlanc married in Acadia in 1721. It would appear that when the family made its way back to Canada, they arrived in Québec, or maybe they had left Acadia before the expulsion.
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Nielsen Hayden genealogy
1621 - 1701 (~ 85 years)
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