Armand Damon Prejean

• Sources:
  • Drouin Institute (Archived marriage record - see attached in Media tab)
  • "Acadian Immigrants to Cabanocé/Cabahannocer, 1765" - http://www.acadiansingray.com
    • On list of Acadians at Pigiguit, 9 Aug & 11 Oct 1762, called Amant Prejean
    • Cabanocé, La Luisiana census, 1766, listed as Amand Prejean, age 42[sic]
    • Cabanocé, La Luisiana census, 1769, listed as Amant, age 40[sic]
    • Ascension, La Luisiana census, 1770, age 47[sic]
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1777, listed as Amant Pregeant, age 54[sic]
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1781, listed as Aman
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1785, listed as Prejean
    • Succession inventory dated 11 Dec 1787, Attakapas

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• Notes:
  • Arrived in current day Louisiana in 1765, age 41

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Armand Damon Préjean

Armand Damon Préjean was born 1726 in Chipoudy, Acadia, New Brunswick, Canada as the second child of Joseph Préjean and Marie Louise Comeau. He had five siblings, namely: Marguerite, Anne, Joseph, Charles, and Amable. He died 04 Dec 1787 in St Martinville, St Martin, Louisiana. When he was 23, He married Marie Magdeleine Martin 21 Jul 1749 in Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada. When he was 47, He married Marie Theriot 1773 in St Martinsville, Louisiana.

Armand Damon Préjean and Marie Theriot had the following children:

1. Isidore Préjean was born Oct 1778.
2. Helene Préjean was born 14 Jun 1776 in German Coast, Louisiana. She died 13 Nov 1823 in Vermilionville, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA.
3. Dominique Préjean was born 20 Oct 1774 in St Jacques, , Louisiana, USA. He died 02 Feb 1846.

Armand Damon Préjean and Marie Magdeleine Martin had the following children:

1. Felicite Préjean was born 1772 in St, James Parish, Louisiana.
2. Louis Préjean was born 1771 in St, James Parish, Louisiana. He died 1772.
3. Marie Madeleine Préjean was born 1768 in Donaldsonville, Ascension, Louisiana. She died 26 May 1826 in St Martinville, St Martin Parish, Louisiana, USA.
4. Andre Préjean was born 1765 in New Orleans, Jefferson, Louisiana. He died 15 Aug 1813 in St Martinville, St Martin Parish, Louisiana, USA.
5. Marie Anne Pr Jean was born 1752 in Cabahannocee, Louisiana. She died 1753 in Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA.
6. Marie Anne Préjean was born 1752 in Chipoudy, New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada. She died 08 May 1841 in Opelousas, St Landry Parish, Louisiana, USA.
7. Joseph Préjean was born 15 Dec 1749 in Chipoudy, New Brunswick, Canada. He died 13 Jan 1798 in St Martinville, St Martin, Louisiana, USA.
8. Anastasie Préjean was born 1751 in Port Royal, New Brunswick, Canada. She died 23 Nov 1829 in Opelousas, St Landry, Louisiana, USA.

Amand, eldest son of Joseph Préjean and Marie-Louise Comeau, born at Chepoudy in c1724, married Madeleine, daughter of René Martin, at Port-Royal in July 1749. They escaped the British roundup of 1755 and found refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore. They were at Restigouche, at the head of the Baie des Chaleurs, in 1759-60 and ended up as prisoners of war in Nova Scotia during the early 1760s. British authorities counted Amand and his family at Fort Edward, formerly the Acadian settlement of Pigiguit, in October 1762. They and three of his brothers followed other fellow prisoners from Nova Scotia to Louisiana in 1765. They settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where Spanish officials counted them on the right, or west, bank of the river in 1766 and 1769. They were living on the west bank of the river at nearby Ascension in 1770. Amand remarried to fellow Acadian Marie Thériot, widow of Paul Melançon, probably at Ascension in c1773. In c1776, Amand "solicited" for a grant of land from the Spanish at the northern edge of the Attakapas District. "In 1778 Amand received from the Spanish ... some 425 acres fronting on Bayou Vermilion" at a place the Acadians called Beaubassin, east of Carencro. Amand's daughters by his first wife married into the Brasseaux, Jeansonne, Melançon, and Neraut families. His daughter by his second wife married into the Hébert family. Amand died at Beaubassin "in the presence of Joseph Landry and Jean Jeansonne, sons in law," in December 1787; the priest who recorded his burial said that Amand was 66 years old when he died. Many of his descendants remained in the Carencro-Grand Coteau area for generations. Others settled at Plaisance, north of Opelousas; on upper Bayou Teche in St. Martin Parish; and near Abbeville in Vermilion Parish. Most of the Prejeans of southwest Louisiana are descendants of Amand and three of his sons.