Elisha Bergeron

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ELISAH BERGERON - served in the Revolutionary War, South Carolina Militia. ------------------------------------------------------------
Jacques Bergeron from Thorigné, Poitou, France, and his wife, Judith Peletan, from Marennes, Saintonge, France; Huguenots, were living at Bristol, England, 1706-1709, where they were members of the French Episcopal Church. They had seven children, 1707-1719. The family immigrated to America, ca. 1710, and settled first at New York City. They migrated to Northampton County, Virginia, after 1724. Jacques (James) Bergeron died there in 1727. Judith Peletan Bergeron died in Beaufort County, North Carolina, in 1742.

Their grandson, ELISHA BERGERON (ca. 1748-between 1805-1820), son of Elias Bergeron (b. 1717), was born in North Carolina. He served in the South Carolina militia during the Revolutionary War and settled in Burke County, Georgia, in 1784. He is the probable progenitor of all the Bargerons who originated in Burke County.
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The first Bergerons in Burke County, Georgia, were Elisha Bergeron (born before 1748) and his wife Elizabeth. They received a land grant in Burke County in 1784. Their known sons were Benjamin and Elijah. As deduced from the records, in about 1800 Benjamin Bergeron married Abigail (unknown surname). Information about these progenitors was detailed in the book THE BARGERONS OF GEORGIA by Tommy Bargeron, C. Brent Bargeron and Kathryn Bargeron Wilson which was published in 1996. In Georgia the surname of Bergeron was changed to Bargeron sometime about 1830. This document presents part of the results of a project to identify and provide information about the daughters of Benjamin and Abigail Bargeron who lived in District 64 of Burke County, Georgia, in the early 1800s. The 1820 Census for District 64 for Abigail Bergeron (born between 1780 and 1790)shows one son and four daughters under 20 years of age. From existing records it can be deduced that Abigail's husband, Benjamin, died in 1819 or 1820. The four daughters all married and left Burke County to settle in newly formed counties in western Georgia and eastern Alabama. The son's name was Elisha who was born in 1801. For his entire lifetime he remained in District 64 which contained the community of Sardis. Benjamin and Abigail seem to have been the initial Bargerons on the Sardis side of Brier Creek. The family of Elijah Bargeron and his wife, Letitia, remained on the Girard side of Brier Creek in District 68 of Burke County where Elisha (born 1748) and Elizabeth Bergeron had lived.
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Sources = Tax Rolls Name: Elias Bergeron State: NC County: Dobbs County Year: 1780 Database: NC Early Census Index Source Information Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. North Carolina Census, 1790-1890. Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.
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