Jacques Bourgeois

• Sources:
  • 1671 Acadie Census - shown to be 50 years old which estimates his birth to be 1621.

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• Note:
  • His name is Jacob on the 1671 census which is the English equivalent of the French name Jacques.

NOTE: Paul Pierre Bourgeois and proven by Rene Perron of Sevres, France. There is a record of a Jacques Bourgeois (It is possible that Jacques Bourgeois is this person, but Stephen White says there is no proof ) was baptized on Jan 8, 1621, in the church of Saint Romain in La Ferte-Gaucher, north east of Paris. His father was said to be Nicolas Grandjehan and a Bourgeois woman whose name is left blank. She is said the widow of Grandjehan. The family is well known in this town. The woman's name is Marguerite. The Grand Jeahan-Bourgeois family has various alliances with the Order of Malta, the medical society, and even the court of France. His mother was Marguerite Bourgeois. The father is unknown. Marguerite was married to Nicholas Grandjehan, but Nicholas died some time before Jacques was born. Speculation is that Jacques was therefore illegitimate and thus kept his mother's name. His mother had 5 other children baptized in France. His was educated at the Commandery of Courtran where he left to serve in Acadia in 1642.

Nephew of the Commander (Germain DOUCET) of the garrison at Port Royal, Acadia

Founder of Beaubassin, Acadia

Had two daughters named Marie who lived to adulthood and married

Immigration: 1641 From France to Acadia on ship "St Fraçois"

Alternate DOD AFT 1707 He is listed as the "living" parent of Marguerite on her marriage in Jan 1707

Patriarch of Bourgeois family in America

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The distinguished colonist had settled at Port-Royal again before 1699; he died there, an octogenarian, in 1701. The family name was perpetuated by two of his three sons: Charles, born in 1646, who married Anne Dugas in 1668; and Germain, born about 1650, who married his first wife, Marguerite Belliveau, in 1673 and his second wife, Madeleine Dugas, in 1682; the third son, Guillaume, left only a daughter

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Note: Jacques Jacob Bourgeois (Acadian Descendents, Vol 1, by Janet Jehen ) arrived in Port Royal in about 1640. He was a master surgeon to Sier d'Aulnay. In about 1672 he began an agricultural development which became Beaubassin and set up a flour mill there. Before leaving France, Bourgeois had entered the medical profession. He came to Port Royal in 1642 with 18 families that Governor Menou D'aunlnay brought with him on one of his voyages. Bourgeois' father also named Jacques, was an army officer at Port Royal and the brother in law of Germain Doucet, Sieur de La Verdure, Aulnay's Assistant. While Jacques Sr. was returned to France, his son remarried in Acadia where he became the ancestor of a large number of descendants, In 1643 he married Jean Trahan, Guillaume Trahan's dauighter, who was born in France in 1631; they had 10 children; seven girls and three boys. At Port Royal, Jacques became a farmer and shipbuilder. He traded with the Bostonians, particularly with John Nelson and William Phipps; he learned their language, and was the interpreter for the French in their dealings with the English. In 1672 he sold part of his holdings in Port Royal in order to settle, with his sons Charles and Germain and two of lhis sons-in-law, in Chigneto Basin, thus becoming the first promoter of settlement in this region; he built a flour mill and a saw mill there. A few years later, in 1676, the region was made into a Seigneury, the holder of which Michel Leneuf de la Valliere (the elder), a nobleman born at Trois-Rivieres; in the fief, 100 square leagues in extent, was named Beaubassin. As La Valliere brought in settlers and indentured employees from Canada, two distinct establishments adjourned each other at Beaubassin, but a clause in the title to the land grant protected the interests of Jacques Bourgeois and the other Acadian settlers established on the domain; it was not long before the two elements of the population merged into one......

   The parents of Pierre Cyr: Pierre Cyr and Marie Bourgeois who married Abt. 1670. He was born Abt. 1644 and died Abt 1679.

Marie Bourgeois was born Abt. 1652 and died/buried 02 March 1740/41 and 03 March 1740/41 at Beaubassin, Acadia.
Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 433 1.
This Pierre's parents are unknown.

   Marie Bourgeois' parents: JACQUES DIT JACOB BOURGEOIS and JEANNE TRAHAN who married Abt. 1643. Jacques was born Abt. 1619 and died in 1701 in Port-Royal, Acadia. Jeanne was born Abt. 1629.

Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White English Supplement p 57
------- BOURGEOIS, Jacques
The Bourgeois ancestors of Acadia go back to one person. Their ancestor Jacques, born in France abt 1619, arrived in the colony as a surgeon abt 1641 on the ship Le Francois. About two years later, he married Jeanne Trahan, daughter of Guillaume Trahan and Françoise Corbineau. He settled in Port-Royal. In 1672, he sent some settlers to Beaubassin and is thus considered the founder of that area. His son Charles, born abt 1646, married Anne Dugas, d/o Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Doucet abt 1668. Charles and Anne settled at Beaubassin. Charles Bourgeois son, born abt 1672, married abt 1692 to Marie Blanchard, d/o Guillaume Blanchard and Huguette Gougeon. Pierre Bourgeois, born abt 1699, was the second son of Charles and Marie. He married August 18, 1722 Marie-Françoise Cormier at Beaubassin. She was the d/o Pierre Cormier and Catherine LeBlanc. The sixth of their eight sons, Joseph Bourgeois dit Calotte, was born at Beaubassin on March 10, 1741. Abt 1764, he married Félicité Belliveau, daugther of Pierre Belliveau and Jeanne Gaudet. They settled at Pisiguit and then at Memramcook where Joseph died November 20, 1833.

   All of the other Bourgeois families of southeast New Brunswick, descend from Germain Bourgeois, second son of the first ancestor.

Source: Thirty-Seven Families, 1994 by Stephen A. White
Parents of Jacques are unknown.meanwhile, Jeanne Trahan was the daughter of GUILLAUME TRAHAN and FRANÇOISE CORBINEAU. They married 13 July 1627 at St-Étienne de Chinon.
Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 1536
Guillaume was the son of NICOLAS TRAHAN and RENÉE DESLOGES. They married abt 1600.
Nicolas Trahan was a farmer in St-Pierre de Montreauil-Bellay in Anjou, France.
Source: Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen A. White, page 1535

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Jacques (or Jacques dit Jacob) Bourgeois, also known as Middle-Class Jacques, was born in Coupvrai-en-Brie, France on January 28, 1620 or 1621. He came to Acadia as a surgeon with Governor Charles D’Aulnay in 1642 in a fleet of four ships. About 1644 in Port Royal, Acadia, he married 14-year-old Jeanne Trahan , born in France in 1629. She had come to Acadia in 1632 with her father, who was an armorer, a maker of weapons and knives. Governor Charles D’Aulnay granted Jacques Bourgeois some land, so he became both a farmer and a surgeon. He also founded Beaubassin (now Amhearst), Acadia, for his children, but he may never have resided there himself. Jacques Bourgeois would later serve as lieutenant of the garrison at Port Royal under Germain Doucet , and he also found time to be a marine merchant, with boats operating up and down the coast. Jeanne Trahan died after 1686 in Acadia, and Jacques Bourgeois died in 1701 in Port Royal, Acadia.

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The family of Jacques ou Jacob BOURGEOIS and Jeanne TRAHAN [84316] BOURGEOIS, Jacques ou Jacob (..), surgeon (chirurgien), born 1621 (rec. 1671), 1619 (rec. 1686, rec. 1693) or 1616 (rec. 1698), died 1701 Port-Royal (Acadie)

• married about 1643, from prob Port-Royal (Acadie) TRAHAN, Jeanne (Guillaume & Françoise CORBINEAU [115976]), born about 1631 (rec. 1671), 1629 (rec. 1686, rec. 1693) or 1626 (rec. 1698) Chinon ? (Indre-et-Loire : 370072), France, died after census 1698 Beaubassin (Acadie)

     1) Jeanne

     2) Charles, ploughman (laboureur), born about 1646 (rec. 1671), died between census 1671 and census 1678, before 1679-04-26, married about 1668 Anne DUGAS

     3) Germain, born about 1650 (rec. 1671), 1652 (rec. 1686, rec. 1693), 1650 (rec. 1698) or 1649 (rec. 1699), died 1711, married about 1673 Madeleine BÉLIVEAU, married about 1682 Madeleine DUGAS

     4) Marie1, born about 1652/1653 (rec. 1671), 1652 (rec. 1686) or 1651 (rec. 1698), married about 1670 Pierre CYR, married Beaubassin (Acadie) 1680-06-09 Germain GIROUARD

     5) Guillaume, married after census 1686 Marie Anne D'APRENDESTEGUY

     6) Marguerite, born about 1658 (rec. 1671), 1660 (rec. 1693), 1658 (rec. 1698) or 1661 (rec. 1699), married about 1676 Jean BOUDREAU, married Beaubassin (Acadie) 1679-11-30 Emmanuel MIRANDE dit TAVARE, married Port-Royal (Acadie) 1707-01-12 Pierre MAISONNAT dit BAPTISTE

     7) Françoise, married about 1673 Claude DUGAS

     8) Anne, born about 1661 (rec. 1671, rec. 1686) or 1663 (rec. 1693), died 1747-12-28, buried 1747-12-29 Grand-Pré (Saint-Charles-des-Mines) (Acadie), married about 1678 René LEBLANC

     9) Marie2, married about 1681 Antoine LEBLANC

     10) Jeanne, married about 1689 Pierre le jeune COMEAU dit DES LOUPS-MARINS

Bibliographie : Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes (White); Mémoires (Société généalogique canadienne-française); http://www.umoncton.ca/etudeacadiennes/centre/cea.html; Rapport des Archives du Canada; Dictionnaire des Acadiens d'Archange Godbout; Dictionnaire généalogique de l'Ancienne Acadie; Recensements 1671 et 1686; Acadian Church Records; Microfilms Drouin; Déclarations de Belle-Île-en-Mer

http://www.francogene.com/quebec--genealogy/084/084316.php

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Jacques dit Jacob Bourgeois, a surgeon recruited by d'Aulnay, was 23 when he arrived in the colony in 1642. He married Jeanne, oldest daughter of Guillaume Trahan, in 1643, the year after his arrival. Jeanne gave him 10 children, including three sons who established families of their own. Thirty years after he arrived at Port-Royal, Jacques, now a successful farmer and Indian trader as well as a surgeon, pioneered the major Acadian settlement at Beaubassin.

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Before leaving France, Bourgeois had entered the medical profession. He came to Port-Royal in 1642 with 18 families that Gov. Menou d'Aulnay brought with him on one of his voyages, Bourgeois' father, also named Jacques, was an army officer at Port-Royal and the brother-in-law of Germaine Doucet, Sieur de La Verdure, Aulnay's assistant....

While Jacques senior was returned to France, his son remained in Acadia where he became the ancestor of a large number of descendants, In 1643 he had married Jeanne, Guillaume Trahan's daughter, who was born in France in 1631; they had ten children; seven girls and three boys.

At Port-Royal, Jacques became a farmer and shipbuilder. He traded with the Bostonians, particularly with John Nelson and William Phips; he learned their language, and was the interpreter for the French in their dealings with the English. In 1672 he sold part of his holdings at Port-Royal in order to settle, with his sons Charles and Germain, and two of his sons-in-law, in the Chigneto Basin, thus becoming the first promoter of settlement in this region; he built a flour mill and a saw mill there. A few years later, in 1676, the region was made into a Seigneury, the holder of which was Michel Leneuf de la Valliere (the elder), a nobleman born at Trois-Rivieres; the new fief, 100 square leagues in extent, was named Beaubassin. As LaValliere brought in settlers and indentured employees from Canada, two distinct establishments adjoined each other at Beaubassin; but a clause in the title to the land grant protected the interests of Jacques Bourgeois and the other Acadian settlers established on the domain; it was not long before the two elements of the population merged into one....

The distinguished colonist had settled at Port-Royal again before 1699; he died there, an octogenarian, in 1701. The family name was perpetuated by two of his three sons: Charles, born in 1646, who married Anne Dugas in 1668; and Germain, born about 1650, who married his first wife, Marguerite Belliveau, in 1673 and his second wife, Madeleine Dugas, in 1682; the third son, Guillaume, left only a daughter.

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Notes for Jacques Jacob Bourgeois Jacques L'Heureux Says he was born in La-Feret-Gaucher, France. He might have learned the trade of surgeon in a commandery of the Order of Malta in nearby Coutrans By his own acct, Jacques Bourgeois, the pioneer of the Bourgeois family in Acadia, came to Acadia as a surgeon in 1642, during the governorship of Charles d'Aulnay (There are two databases containing the desc. of Nicolas and Marguerite. I. the L'Heureaux database which has 28,000 desc. and 2. the Jack Coffee database.) When Port Royal surrendered on August 6, 1654, Jacques was lieutenant of the small Acadian garrison. His name tops the 1671 census list where he is described as a surgeon. ( Judging from the extent of the cultivated acreage of his farm, in two different locations, and the number of cattle he owned, Bourgeois made a living from agriculture as much as from his profession. Its possible this means he had already begun his settlement at Beaubassin. Jacques was a jack-of-all-trades. he was equally at home as a carpenter, merchang and colonizer. it was he who established the colony of Beaubassin by settling his sons there as well as his sons-in-law, Pierre Cyr and Germain Girourd. When Beaubassin was granted to La Valliere as a seigniory in 1676, his patent letters stated he was not to interfere with the settlers established there. The little colony comprised the first European settlers in Chignecto and excepting the settlement at Baie des Vents, the first in the province of New Brunswick. His setttlement was made between 1671 & 1675 At Beaubassin, Jacques was involved in ship building and he also built a flour and saw mill. His knowledge of English allowed him to trade with the Boston merchants.

In 1671, Jacob Bourgeois, age 40 and his wife Jeanne Trahan were enumerated with children, Jeanne, 27; Charles, 25; Germain, 21; Marie, 19; Guillaume, 16; Marguerite, 13; Francois, 12; Anne, 10; Marie,7; Jeanne,4. 33 cattle, 23 sheep.

The majority of the member ofthe Bourgeois family living in Acadia in 1755 were deported to New England, especially to Mass, Connecticut and South Carolina .
Unable to live as exiles among anglo-protestants, they took to the roads in order to come back to Canada and most of them settled in the Nicolet-Saint-Gregoire, Betancourt, L'Assomption and Saint-Jacques-de-l'Achigan areas. In New Brunswick, this family settled in the southern part of the province, especially at Memramcook and in Grande-Digue. The ancestor of the Bourgeois family of Memramcook and of Grande-Digue, Pierre-Benjamin was a grandson of Germain Bourgeois of Port Royal. He was married five times, but only the names of four of his wives are known: Cecile Aucoin, Anne LeBlanc, Anne Thebault and Anne Thibodeau.

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Il est venu en Acadie en 1642 pour s'y établir et exercer la chirurgie.

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AKAN: Jacques Bourgeois, Jacob En Acadie en 1672, comme chirurgien, sous le nom de Jacob, avec leur 10 enfants. Officier militaire de Couparau en Brie Champagne. Serait arrivé en Acadie sous D'Aulnay vers 1640 en qualité de chirurgien militaire. En 1698 à Beaubassin mais retourna à Port-Royal. En 1686, son plus jeune fils, Guillaume (21 ans) demeure avec lui à Port-Royal alors que ses deux autres fils, Charles et Germain sont installés à Beaubassin; ses filles sont mariées.

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Acadian Descendants, Vol I, by Janet Jehn

Before leaving France, Bourgeois had entered the medical profession. He came to Port-Royal in 1642 with 18 families that Gov. Menou d'Aulnay brought with him on one of his voyages, Bourgeois' father, also named Jacques, was an army officer at Port-Royal and the brother-in-law of Germaine Doucet, Sieur de La Verdure, Aulnay's assistant....

While Jacques senior was returned to France, his son remained in Acadia where he became the ancestor of a large number of descendants, In 1643 he had married Jeanne, Guillaume Trahan's daughter, who was born in France in 1631; they had ten children; seven girls and three boys.

At Port-Royal, Jacques became a farmer and shipbuilder. He traded with the Bostonians, particularly with John Nelson and William Phips; he learned their language, and was the interpreter for the French in their dealings with the English. In 1672 he sold part of his holdings at Port-Royal in order to settle, with his sons Charles and Germain, and two of his sons-in-law, in the Chigneto Basin, thus becoming the first promoter of settlement in this region; he built a flour mill and a saw mill there. A few years later, in 1676, the region was made into a Seigneury, the holder of which was Michel Leneuf de la Valliere (the elder), a nobleman born at Trois-Rivieres; the new fief, 100 square leagues in extent, was named Beaubassin. As LaValliere brought in settlers and indentured employees from Canada, two distinct establishments adjoined each other at Beaubassin; but a clause in the title to the land grant protected the interests of Jacques Bourgeois and the other Acadian settlers established on the domain; it was not long before the two elements of the population merged into one....

The distinguished colonist had settled at Port-Royal again before 1699; he died there, an octogenarian, in 1701. The family name was perpetuated by two of his three sons: Charles, born in 1646, who married Anne Dugas in 1668; and Germain, born about 1650, who married his first wife, Marguerite Belliveau, in 1673 and his second wife, Madeleine Dugas, in 1682; the third son, Guillaume, left only a daughter.

THE CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL fIen anb 1Bookh JACQUES BOURGEOIS. CHIRURGIEN. 1621-1701 A. C. JOST, M.D. It is supposed that Jacques Bourgeois was brought to Nova Scotia by D'Aulnay to attend to the medical and surgical needs of his colonists. With Bourgeois came his wife, Jeanne Trahan, the marriage having taken place but a short time before his arrival in Nova Scotia. It is thought that the year 1640 was -for him a notable one, it being not only the year of his marriage, but the year in which he first set foot in the young colony in which he played so prominent a part. If Rameau St. Pere is correct in his conclusions, he was one of a party of colonists, many of whom were closely connected by marriage; another prominent member of the little coterie was Ger- main Doucette de la Verdure, D'Aulnay's man of affairs, who after D'Aulnay's death became the protector of his children and his estate. Soon after his arrival in Port Royal, Bourgeois was able to obtain an interest in some land (L'Ile Aux Cochins) concerning which there was at a later date some litigation, though in the interval Bourgeois' holdings had been at least partially conveyed to another colonist. After D'Aulnay's death in 1650, the colony at Port Royal fell upon troublous times. In 1654, when Sedgewick was able to wrest the control of the little fort from Doucette, Bourgeois was delivered to Sedgewick as a hostage for the carrying out of the capitulatory agreement. After the terms of the convention had been met, and during the period of relative quiet which followed Jacques Bourgeois not only increased his holdings of land, but is said to have carried on considerable trading with the Indians and with the English colonists to the south, in vessels the construction of which he had himself over- seen. In 1671 he was one of the most prominent men in Port Royal. His family then consisted of his wife and ten children, and his agricultural holdings were among the most considerable of the colony. In addition to the home establish- ment under the protection of Port Royal he was about that time engaged in promoting the foundation of a commercial and farming enter- prise, which later became Beaubassin, one of the largest offshoots from the parent colony. In the development of this settlement he was very deeply interested, relinquishing for it to his sons his lands at Port Royal, and leading to it a number of Acadians, both relatives and friends who were willing to undertake with him the task of pioneering in a hitherto unsettled district. The task involved difficulties greater than those usually met in such attempts. La Valliere, pressing his claims of possession of the land as within the limits of his seigneury, resented his presence, and the absence of protection made the new settlement vulnerable to attack from the English colonists; but in spite of all obstacles the settlement made rapid progress. It was of this period of Bourgeois' life that Rameau thus writes,-" This Jacob Bourgeois, brought by D'Aulnay as surgeon to his forces, who takes one holding, then two, then three, who clears and cultivates them; then sells them and buys them back; who builds vessels and opens up a trade with the Puritans of Boston, becomes to us a striking personage. He has character; he steers his course with prudence and does not allow himself to be made tipsy by success, and acts in all things with that moderation which conduces to success and merits it." "He installs his sons in the businesses he has founded, and in his old days goes to found at the head of the Bay of Fundy, at Chignecto the first colony of Acadians. There, although aged seventy-five years, he bears in 1696 the shock of an invasion of English pirates; he can not rely on the strength of his enfeebled arm to protect himself and his friends, but his brain has retained its clearness and its firmness. He visits in his little boat the enemy flotilla; he recognises among these unwelcome visitors persons with whom he had business dealings in former days; he had then been of service to them, and had letters to show the value of that service. These letters he shows; the old man astonishes them; his energy dominates them, and earns a recog- nition and a welcome. He entertains in his home his old associates, and he and his are thus saved from spoliation. Was this, then, an ordinary man?" He died about the year 1701, supposedly at Beaubassin. His family had in it those appar- ently capable of carrying on the work he had undertaken, and members of it had places of more than minor prominence in the rapidly grow- ing settlements. But the blight of the expulsion in 1755 involved them in its tragedies, so that a few years thereafter his descendants were scattered from Quebec to Louisiana, from France to the Cayennes. Gaudet has attempted to construct from the material available a genealog- ical tree of the descendants of Nova Scotia's first permanent surgeon, and has followed in his efforts the different branches of the family to the widely separated localities where their for- tunes has scattered them. A few of them escaped the English dragnet; others succeeded in working their way back to the lands of their fathers, and many French Acadians, especially those living in New Brunsw ck, can today trace their origin back to D'Aulnay's surgeon. REFERENCES Rameau St. Pere.-Une Colonie Feodale. Documents Inedits: Gaudet, Acadian Genealogy.

Articles from Canadian Medical Association Journal are provided here courtesy of Canadian Medical Association

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It is believed that Jacques Bourgeois would have been the first surgeon to settle in Port Royal.

He chose the medical career and is described as military surgeon. He may have learned this profession in a commandery of the Order of Malta near his home in France.

He was born in La Ferté-Gaucher situated 60 kilometers west of Paris.

Jacques Bourgeois arrived in Port Royal on the 6th of July 1641, on the St-François from La Rochelle in France. He arrived with Menou d' Aulney, governor of Acadia, the lead of a fleet of four ships.

He joined the colony with the title of surgeon.

He married Jeanne Trahan who arrived in Port Royal in 1643 from Bourgueil in the Loire region in France. They had twelve children. After living about 30 years in Port Royal, Jacques left the fort with his family for the new village of Beaubassin becoming one of its founders if not the pioneer of the new village.With his sons Charles and Germain and their wives, Jacques Bourgeois formed what was at that time called Bourgeois Clan around the end of the 1670s in Beaubassin.Jacques Bourgeois also called Jacob contributed to the development of Beaubassin with his medical services, and also agriculture, his mills one a lumber mill and one grain mill and his commercial activities.

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Chirurgien

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Jacques, born in France in 1618, was a Surgeon and arrived in Acadia in 1642 on the ship "Aulnay" with the rank Military Doctor; Jacques was one of the most prosperous inhabitants of Port Royal. He began to develop a new colony in about 1672, called Chigneetou by the Indians, later called Bourgeois, then Beaubassin. He married Jeanne Trahan in 1644 and had 10 children-

Jeanne-1645

Charles- 1646--- The Capt Bourgeois lineage

Germain 1650

Marie 1652

Guillaume 1655

Marguerite 1658

Francoise 1659

Anne 1661

Marie 1664

Jeanne 1667

By the 1698 census, Jacques and family lived in Beaubassin. They later moved to Port Royal. Many descendants of Jacques migrated from Acadia during the 1755 Expulsion. They married into other families that settled in Acadia and continued their family line into what it is today.... Very Rich in Faith, Family and Culture.

The founding of Beaubassin

The far-reaching tides also created fertile farmland in this area, which was why Acadians from Port Royal travelled here, to Nova Scotia, in the early 1670s, when it was part of Acadia. These intrepid Acadians, led by a surgeon called Jacob Bourgeois, founded the village of Beaubassin, recently declared a National Historic Site and administered by Parks Canada. The colonists built a complex network of dykes and “aboiteaux”—a form of canal work used to drain salt marshes and prevent sea water from flooding the land—in order to grow hay. Because of its high salt content, this hay was sold as far away as New England, making Beaubassin one of the most prosperous villages in Acadia

The Bourgeois’ of Acadian descent can be traced back to one individual, which is Jacques Bourgeois, originally from Ferté-Gaucher a French commune located in the department of Seine-et-Marne , in the Île-de-France region. He arrived in Acadia, on the 6th of July 1641, on the St-François from La Rochelle in France. Jacques (also called Jacob) chose the medical career and is described as military surgeon. He may have learned this profession in a commandery of the Order of Malta near his home in France.Jacob was born on January 7, 1621, in La Ferte-Gaucher, France. He arrived at Port-Royal with Menou d' Aulney, governor of Acadia, the lead of a fleet of four ships.In 1643, Jacob Bourgeois marries Jeanne Trahan in Port-Royal. She was born about 1629, in Bourgueil, province of Anjou, in France. She came to Acadia in 1636, with her father Guillaume Trahan, her mother Francoise Corbineau and a sister (first name unknown).Jeanne was only 14 years old at the time of her marriage to Jacques.This union is the progenitor of the present day Acadian Bourgeois family line.In 1645, upon the death of Isaac Pesseley (ancestors of several Acadian), the major of the garrison of Port-Royal, the brother-in-law of J acob Bourgeois, German Doucet, dit Laverdure, the right-hand man of the governor d’ Aulney, is named major of the garrison, while Jacques Bourgeois becomes “lieutenant of the place”.Around 1646, Mr. Menou d' Aulney grants an island called Isle aux Cochon (Isle of Pigs), located on the Dauphin river (today Annapolis River) upstream from Port Royal to Jacob Bourgeois.In August 1654, major Sedgewick, although France and England are in peace and “without orders from his superiors”, appears in the Port-Royal basin, at the head of an army of 500 English soldiers. He arrived from Fort Saint-Jean, where he captured Charles de Saint-Etienne de La Tour then governor of Acadia. After several days of siege, Germain Doucet must capitulate. Charles de Saint-Etienne is made a prisoner and brought to England.Jacob Bourgeois, the only surgeon of the area, is extremely occupied caring for the casualties for several weeks.The English don’t leave any military or civil presence at Port Royal and in 1667 the colony is ceded back to France, although the French do not take possession until 1670. In the interim, the Acadians governed themselves under a syndic ruled by Guillaume Trahan, Jacob’s father-in-law.By the time the census 1670 was taken, Jacques and Jeanne had added six children to their family; one son, Guillaume, and five daughters; Marguerite, Françoise, Anne, Marie (the younger) and Jeanne (the younger). In that census Jacques was the richest inhabitant at Port Royal.In the same census, Charles, their oldest son had married Anne Dugas (du Gast), and they had one daughter, Marie.Jacques and Jeanne’s oldest daughter was married to Pierre SIRE (CYR), and they had a son, Jehan (Jean).Jacob becomes thereafter a farmer-merchant. His boats follow the coast of the Baie Française (Bay of Fundy) to trade with the Micmac Indians and the coast of New England to trade with the English.In 1671, Jacques, aided by his three sons and his son-in-law, Pierre SIRE, and his future son-in-law, Jean Boudrot, founded the settlement of the “Bourgeois colony”, later to become Beaubassin, when Michel Leneuf de La Vallière was granted the Seignerie de Beaubassin. The settlement was near the border separating present day New Brunswick from Nova Scotia. Jacques and his son, Guillaume, returned to live at Port Royal after the establishment at Beaubassin, although they kept farms at the new settlement. Jacques' other two sons, Charles and Germain, stay in Beaubassin with their families.In 1686, Jacques and Jeanne moved definitively to Beaubassin to live with their son, Germain. On Oct. 15, 1687, Jacques Bourgeois signed a document, along with others, attesting to the works of the ex-governor d'Aulnay in the colony.At the beginning of Sept. 1696, the English Colonel Benjamin Church from Boston attacks Beaubassin, left undefended by the French. Jacques was enlisted to negotiate with the English contingent from Boston. Jacques obtained a promise from Church that the residents would be left in peace, but Church reneges on his promise and soldiers set a blaze most of the homes in the region. The Acadians of Beaubassin were forced to flee to the woods; however, the English respected the Acadians' capabilities as marksmen and refused to chase the Acadians out of the reach of their ship's cannons.In the Acadian census of 1686, Jacques Bourgeois was 67 years old and Jeanne Trahan was 57ans. In the census of 1698, Jacob Bourgeois now 82 years old and Jeanne Trahan, 72 years old, live with their son Germain Bourgeois, in Beaubassin. In the census of 1700, they are not mentioned. They must have died.1702, the commandant of the fort at Port Royal referred to him in an official report as the late Jacques Bourgeois.

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The founding of Beaubassin

The far-reaching tides also created fertile farmland in this area, which was why Acadians from Port Royal travelled here, to Nova Scotia, in the early 1670s, when it was part of Acadia. These intrepid Acadians, led by a surgeon called Jacob Bourgeois, founded the village of Beaubassin, recently declared a National Historic Site and administered by Parks Canada. The colonists built a complex network of dykes and “aboiteaux”—a form of canal work used to drain salt marshes and prevent sea water from flooding the land—in order to grow hay. Because of its high salt content, this hay was sold as far away as New England, making Beaubassin one of the most prosperous villages in Acadia

The Bourgeois’ of Acadian descent can be traced back to one individual, which is Jacques Bourgeois, originally from Ferté-Gaucher a French commune located in the department of Seine-et-Marne , in the Île-de-France region. He arrived in Acadia, on the 6th of July 1641, on the St-François from La Rochelle in France. Jacques (also called Jacob) chose the medical career and is described as military surgeon. He may have learned this profession in a commandery of the Order of Malta near his home in France.Jacob was born on January 7, 1621, in La Ferte-Gaucher, France. He arrived at Port-Royal with Menou d' Aulney, governor of Acadia, the lead of a fleet of four ships.In 1643, Jacob Bourgeois marries Jeanne Trahan in Port-Royal. She was born about 1629, in Bourgueil, province of Anjou, in France. She came to Acadia in 1636, with her father Guillaume Trahan, her mother Francoise Corbineau and a sister (first name unknown).Jeanne was only 14 years old at the time of her marriage to Jacques.This union is the progenitor of the present day Acadian Bourgeois family line.In 1645, upon the death of Isaac Pesseley (ancestors of several Acadian), the major of the garrison of Port-Royal, the brother-in-law of J acob Bourgeois, German Doucet, dit Laverdure, the right-hand man of the governor d’ Aulney, is named major of the garrison, while Jacques Bourgeois becomes “lieutenant of the place”.Around 1646, Mr. Menou d' Aulney grants an island called Isle aux Cochon (Isle of Pigs), located on the Dauphin river (today Annapolis River) upstream from Port Royal to Jacob Bourgeois.In August 1654, major Sedgewick, although France and England are in peace and “without orders from his superiors”, appears in the Port-Royal basin, at the head of an army of 500 English soldiers. He arrived from Fort Saint-Jean, where he captured Charles de Saint-Etienne de La Tour then governor of Acadia. After several days of siege, Germain Doucet must capitulate. Charles de Saint-Etienne is made a prisoner and brought to England.Jacob Bourgeois, the only surgeon of the area, is extremely occupied caring for the casualties for several weeks.The English don’t leave any military or civil presence at Port Royal and in 1667 the colony is ceded back to France, although the French do not take possession until 1670. In the interim, the Acadians governed themselves under a syndic ruled by Guillaume Trahan, Jacob’s father-in-law.By the time the census 1670 was taken, Jacques and Jeanne had added six children to their family; one son, Guillaume, and five daughters; Marguerite, Françoise, Anne, Marie (the younger) and Jeanne (the younger). In that census Jacques was the richest inhabitant at Port Royal.In the same census, Charles, their oldest son had married Anne Dugas (du Gast), and they had one daughter, Marie.Jacques and Jeanne’s oldest daughter was married to Pierre SIRE (CYR), and they had a son, Jehan (Jean).Jacob becomes thereafter a farmer-merchant. His boats follow the coast of the Baie Française (Bay of Fundy) to trade with the Micmac Indians and the coast of New England to trade with the English.In 1671, Jacques, aided by his three sons and his son-in-law, Pierre SIRE, and his future son-in-law, Jean Boudrot, founded the settlement of the “Bourgeois colony”, later to become Beaubassin, when Michel Leneuf de La Vallière was granted the Seignerie de Beaubassin. The settlement was near the border separating present day New Brunswick from Nova Scotia. Jacques and his son, Guillaume, returned to live at Port Royal after the establishment at Beaubassin, although they kept farms at the new settlement. Jacques' other two sons, Charles and Germain, stay in Beaubassin with their families.In 1686, Jacques and Jeanne moved definitively to Beaubassin to live with their son, Germain. On Oct. 15, 1687, Jacques Bourgeois signed a document, along with others, attesting to the works of the ex-governor d'Aulnay in the colony.At the beginning of Sept. 1696, the English Colonel Benjamin Church from Boston attacks Beaubassin, left undefended by the French. Jacques was enlisted to negotiate with the English contingent from Boston. Jacques obtained a promise from Church that the residents would be left in peace, but Church reneges on his promise and soldiers set a blaze most of the homes in the region. The Acadians of Beaubassin were forced to flee to the woods; however, the English respected the Acadians' capabilities as marksmen and refused to chase the Acadians out of the reach of their ship's cannons.In the Acadian census of 1686, Jacques Bourgeois was 67 years old and Jeanne Trahan was 57ans. In the census of 1698, Jacob Bourgeois now 82 years old and Jeanne Trahan, 72 years old, live with their son Germain Bourgeois, in Beaubassin. In the census of 1700, they are not mentioned. They must have died.1702, the commandant of the fort at Port Royal referred to him in an official report as the late Jacques Bourgeois.

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BOURGEOIS, JACQUES (Jacob), surgeon, colonizer, founder of Beaubassin; b. sometime between 1618 and 1621 in France, probably at Couperans-en-Brie (department of Seine-et-Marne); d. 1701 at Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, N.S.); founder of the Bourgeois family in Acadia.

Before leaving France, Bourgeois had entered the medical profession. He came to Port-Royal in 1642 with 18 families that Governor Menou* d’Aulnay brought with him on one of his voyages. Bourgeois’ father, also named Jacques, was an army officer at Port-Royal and was the brother-in-law of Germain Doucet, Sieur de La Verdure, Aulnay’s assistant. In 1654 Sedgwick* seized Port-Royal, and as by the terms of the capitulation soldiers were to be repatriated, Jacques Bourgeois senior returned to France; his son remained in Acadia, where he became the ancestor of a large number of descendants. In 1643 Bourgeois had married Jeanne, Guillaume Trahan’s daughter, who was born in France in 1631; they had ten children, seven girls and three boys.

At Port-Royal, Jacques Bourgeois became a farmer and shipbuilder. He traded with the Bostonians, particularly with John Nelson and William Phips*; he learned their language, and was the interpreter for the French in their dealings with the English. In 1672 he sold a partof his holdings at Port-Royal in order to settle, with his sons Charles and Germain and two of his sons-in-law, in the Chignecto Basin, thus becoming the first promoter of settlement in this region; he built a flour-mill and a saw-mill there. A few years later, in 1676, the region was made into a seigneury, the holder of which was Michel Leneuf de La Vallière (the elder), a nobleman born at Trois-Rivières; the new fief, 100 square leagues in extent, was named Beaubassin. As La Vallière brought in settlers and indentured employees from Canada, two distinct establishments adjoined each other at Beaubassin; but a clause in the title to the land grant protected the interests of Jacques Bourgeois and the other Acadian settlers established on the domain; it was not long before the two elements of the population merged into one.

The Chignecto region provided Jacques Bourgeois and the whole settlement with fertile marshes, and high ground suitable for farming. The Shediac portage was an important relay station in the sea communications between Acadia and Canada and a strategic position commanding the isthmus and Baie Française (Bay of Fundy). By the time of the expulsion of the Acadians, Beaubassin had become one of the most prosperous places in Acadia.

The distinguished colonist had settled at Port-Royal again before 1699; he died there, an octogenarian, in 1701. The family name was perpetuated by two of his three sons: Charles, born in 1646, who married Anne Dugas in 1668; and Germain, born about 1650, who married his first wife, Marguerite Belliveau, in 1673 and his second wife, Madeleine Dugas, in 1682; the third son, Guillaume, left only a daughter.

Clément Cormier, “BOURGEOIS, JACQUES,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed July 22, 2015, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bourgeois_jacques_2E.html.

ALSO From http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pitretrail/myline/paternal/JBourgeois.htm

Notes for Jacques Bourgeois:

- 1671 Acadian census (Port Royal): Jacob Bourgeois 50, Jeanne Trahan 40, two married: Charles 25, Marie 18; unmarried: Jeanne 27, Germain 21, Guillaume 16, Marguerite 13, Francoise 12, Anne 10, Marie 7, Jeanne 4; 33 cattle, 24 sheep, 20 arpents of cultivated land more or less at two different locations.

- 1686 Port Royal: Jacob Bourgeois 67, Jeanne Trahan 57, Guillaume 31; 20 arpents.

- 1693 Port Royal: Jacob Bourgeois 74, Jeanne Trahan 64, Jeanne (granddaughter) 3; 15 cattle, 20 sheep, 15 hogs, 40 arpents, 1 gun.

- 1698 Beaubassin: Jacques Bourgeois 82, Jeanne Trahan 72, Germain 48, Madne. Dugas (wife) 34, Guillaume 24, Agnes 12; 22 cattle, 15 hogs, 21 arpents, 3 guns, 1 servant.

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According to this source (https://www.acadian.org/genealogy/families/bourgeois/), Jacques arrived "in Acadie in 1632," but according to other records cited from (Acadian Geneology Exchange 24.4) , he was baptized on Jan 8, 1621. If he was born in 1621, this would put him at 11 or 12 years old when he arrived by ship. This seems at odds with the characterization of him here: "The two men [Jaques Bourgeois and Germain Doucet] were most likely officers in the contingent of soldiers who came to the colony with Isaac de Razilly, who retook Acadie from the English in the name of the King of France in 1632." Germain Doucet dit Laverdure is also described in this same source (https://www.acadian.org/genealogy/families/bourgeois/) as Bourgeois' brother-in-law.

It also seems unlikely that, "Jacques (or Jacob) Bourgeois was born in France and qualified as a surgeon before emigrating in 1642 to Port Royal where his father (also named Jacques) was an army officer" (http://heritage.tantramar.com/hs17_1672a.html). According to other records, Jacques' father was named Nicolas Grandjehan and died shortly before his baptism. Is it possible that Nicolas was named Nicolas-Jacques Bourgeois dit Grandjehan as some other amateur genealogists suggest? Possible, but unlikely This seems a conflation of the stories rather at odds with the facts. Jacques Bourgeois' 1621 baptismal record unambiguously states that his father Nicolas Grandjehan was deceased. What seems likely then? Perhaps census records provide more information, but until these are brought clearly to light, it seems more likely that the "two" Jacques Bourgeois are one. The information from a 1994 edition of the Bourgeois Telegraph Journal seems more in line with known facts: "By his own account, Jacques Bourgeois, the pioneer of the Bourgeois family in Acadia, came to Acadia as a surgeon in 1642, during the governorship of Charles d'Aulnay. The most recent theory about Jacques Bourgeois' birthplace comes from René Perron. His research on the origins of Acadian families in France brought him to a La Ferté-Gaucher where he found in the registers of the parish of Saint-Romain the baptismal certificate of Jacob Bourgeois, born on January 9, 1621, son of Marguerite Bourgeois. He might have learned his trade of surgeon in a commandery of the Order of Malta in nearby Coutrans. Around 1643, shortly after his arrival in Acadia, Jacques Bourgeois married Jeanne Trahan, daughter of Guillaume and Françoise Charbonneau. Through this marriage he entered into one of the oldest Acadian families."

[From another source: Acadian Genealogy Exchange (AGE), vol. 23, no. 4 (Oct 1994), Clarence Breaux:"Jacques BOURGEOIS was baptized 8 Jan. 1621 in the parish of St. Romain, La Ferte'-Gaucher, Dept. of Seine-et-Marne, France. There is reason to believe that he was an illegitimate son of his mother, Marguerite BOURGEOIS, and he grew up with the BOURGEOIS name. Marguerite's husband was Nicolas GRANDJEHAN, but it is not known if he was still alive at the time of Jacques' birth. (Source: Rene' Perron in Les Amitie's Acadiennes and Cahiers of the Societe Historique Acadienne.)."]

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http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bourgeois_jacques_2E.html BOURGEOIS, JACQUES (Jacob), surgeon, colonizer, founder of Beaubassin; b. sometime between 1618 and 1621 in France, probably at Couperans-en-Brie (department of Seine-et-Marne); d. 1701 at Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, N.S.); founder of the Bourgeois family in Acadia.

Before leaving France, Bourgeois had entered the medical profession. He came to Port-Royal in 1642 with 18 families that Governor Menou* d’Aulnay brought with him on one of his voyages. Bourgeois’ father, also named Jacques, was an army officer at Port-Royal and was the brother-in-law of Germain Doucet, Sieur de La Verdure, Aulnay’s assistant. In 1654 Sedgwick* seized Port-Royal, and as by the terms of the capitulation soldiers were to be repatriated, Jacques Bourgeois senior returned to France; his son remained in Acadia, where he became the ancestor of a large number of descendants. In 1643 Bourgeois had married Jeanne, Guillaume Trahan’s daughter, who was born in France in 1631; they had ten children, seven girls and three boys.

At Port-Royal, Jacques Bourgeois became a farmer and shipbuilder. He traded with the Bostonians, particularly with John Nelson and William Phips*; he learned their language, and was the interpreter for the French in their dealings with the English. In 1672 he sold a partof his holdings at Port-Royal in order to settle, with his sons Charles and Germain and two of his sons-in-law, in the Chignecto Basin, thus becoming the first promoter of settlement in this region; he built a flour-mill and a saw-mill there. A few years later, in 1676, the region was made into a seigneury, the holder of which was Michel Leneuf de La Vallière (the elder), a nobleman born at Trois-Rivières; the new fief, 100 square leagues in extent, was named Beaubassin. As La Vallière brought in settlers and indentured employees from Canada, two distinct establishments adjoined each other at Beaubassin; but a clause in the title to the land grant protected the interests of Jacques Bourgeois and the other Acadian settlers established on the domain; it was not long before the two elements of the population merged into one.

The Chignecto region provided Jacques Bourgeois and the whole settlement with fertile marshes, and high ground suitable for farming. The Shediac portage was an important relay station in the sea communications between Acadia and Canada and a strategic position commanding the isthmus and Baie Française (Bay of Fundy). By the time of the expulsion of the Acadians, Beaubassin had become one of the most prosperous places in Acadia.

The distinguished colonist had settled at Port-Royal again before 1699; he died there, an octogenarian, in 1701. The family name was perpetuated by two of his three sons: Charles, born in 1646, who married Anne Dugas in 1668; and Germain, born about 1650, who married his first wife, Marguerite Belliveau, in 1673 and his second wife, Madeleine Dugas, in 1682; the third son, Guillaume, left only a daughter.

Clément Cormier

AN, Col., C11D 3, f.191. Coll. de manuscrits relatifs à la N.-F., I, 149. Recensement de l’Acadie, 1686 (BRH), 681. Placide Gaudet, “Acadian genealogy and notes,” PAC Report, 1905, II, pt.iii, 1; App. A, 1; see also his Notes généalogiques (preserved in PAC and the Archives de l’université de Moncton), and his studies in the Évangéline (Moncton), 5 Feb. and 10 Dec. 1942. Arsenault, Hist. et généal. des Acadiens, 61–63, 361. Rameau de Saint-Père, Une colonie féodale, I, 167–69, 171–72, 175; II, 335.

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ID No: 8152
Prénom: Jacques Nom: Bourgeois Sexe: M Occupation: Chirurgien Naissance: 07 janvier 1621 Paroisse/ville: Ferté-Gaucher, Seine-et-Marne Pays: France Bapt./Source: août 2013: Selon recentes recherches - site des Bourgeois Ils ont un acte de baptême u 8 janvier 1621 Décès: 1698 - âge: 76 Paroisse/ville: Port-Royal, Acadie Pays: Canada Inh./Source: Mort su le navire St-François (Genealogie Acadienne) Information, autres enfants, notes, etc. Il immigre en Acadie en 1642 Il envoie des colons pour creer une implantation a Beaubassin, Acadie

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Doctor, Military Surgeon. Patriarch of Bourgeois family in America, Founded Beaubassin, Surgeon, Doctor or Surgeon for the Gouv Charles Aulnay regime, In charge of shipping and trade in the Baie Française (Fundy), Surgeon / Chirurgien, Chirurgien Surgeon, Chirurgien,colonisateur, Premier medecin des Rois Francois 1er, Henri II, et Francois II. Les Cahiers, P. 141

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Jecque Bourgeois
Birth  1622 • Port Royal,Quebec
Parents  Jacque Bourgeois
Spouse  Jeanne Trahan

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Jacques Bourgeois in entry for Germain Girouer and Marie Bourgeois, "Nova Scotia Marriages, 1711-1909"
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Jacques Bourgeois
Children  Jacques Bourgeois
Jacques Bourgeois

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Jacques Bourgeois
Birth  about 1631 • Acadia, Alberta, Canada
Spouse  Jeanne Graham

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Jacques Bourgeois in entry for Emmanuel Mirande and Marguerite Bourgeois, "Nova Scotia Marriages, 1711-1909"
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New Brunswick, Canada Telegraph-Journal
From the New Brunswick, Canada Telegraph-Journal, July 29, 1994; page A4 and Fidele Theriault of Fredericton, New Brunswick:

Jacques Bourgeois, the pioneer of the Bourgeois family in Acadia, came to Acadia as a surgeon in 1642, during the governorship of Charles d'Aulnay.

The birth record of Jacques is dated 8 January 1621 is written in Latin: "...Jacobus, filisu defuncti
Nicolai Grandjehan, usque ___ Bourgeois relictae ejusdem..."

Census
In 1671, Jacob Bourgeois, surgeon, age 50 was enumerated with his wife, Jeanne Trahan, age 40; children: Jeanne, 27; Charles, 25; Germain, 21; Marie, 19; Guillaume, 16; Marguerite, 13; Francois, 12; Anne, 10; Marie, 7; Jeanne, 4; 33 cattle and 24 sheep.

Jacques was credited with founding the settlement of Beaubassin Acadia.

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1 MISC + Arsenault calls him a surgeon
1 MISC +

Arsenault calls him a surgeon and says he arrived in Acadia fromFrance
in 1640. At the 1698 census, he had settled in Beaubassin, but he later
returned to Port Royal. He received extensive land from governor
d'Aulnay(before 1654, as d'Aulnay left after the 1654 fall of
Port-Royal to the British) (Arsenault, Vol 2, page 456). In FN 24, it
says that in the censuses, hehad the name Jacob Bourgeois. He was
lieutenant at Port-Royal at the time ofits fall 16 Aug 1654. Around
1672, he founded the colony Bourgeois, which continued later under the
name Beaubassin, on the bay of Chignectou. The 1678 census shows him
living with Jeanne Trahan on 20 acres with 15 cattle and two daughters
ages 15 and 12, born in 1663 and 1666, respectively.

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date of death given as between Jul 1699-1702. Date of buri al givenas 1701 in the St. Jean Baptiste Cemetery, Port Royal, Acadia . Listedas the surgeon of the ship "Le Francois." Settled in Port Roy alabout 1672. Organized and sent settlers to the Beaubassin area ,considered the founder of Beaubassin.

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!BIRTH: "Generations...Past to Present",by Phobe Chauvin Morrison: p. 74 Published by Terrebonne Genealogical Society, Houma, LA. Book located in main public library in Dallas, Texas. !MARRIAGE: "Generations...Past to Present",by Phobe Chauvin Morrison: p. 74 Published by Terrebonne Genealogical Society, Houma, LA. Book located in main public library in Dallas, Texas.

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1640 Arrived in Acadia, Port Royal 1698
1640 Arrived in Acadia, Port Royal
1698 In Beaubassin
Surgeon (Source: 2 Ar, p . 456). Received large land holdings from D'Aulnay.

Father: Nicolas GRANJEHN
Mother: Marguerite BOURGEOIS
Family 1: Jeanne TRAHAN
MARRIAGE: ABT 1644, Port Royal,Nova Scotia,Canada
1.Jeanne BOURGEOIS
2.Charles BOURGEOIS
3.Germain BOURGEOIS
4.Marie BOURG EOIS
5.Guillaume BOURGEOIS
6.Marguerite BOURGEOIS
7.Marie (Françoise) BOU RGEOIS
8.Anne BOURGEOIS
9.Marie BOURGEOIS
10.Jeanne BOURGEOIS

!OCC U Surgeon/Druggest

!BIRT SOUR Bona Arsenault's Histoire et Genealogie des Acadiens, Vol 2, page 456. Arrived in Acadie in 1642. Jacques was a
surgeon. Listed in the 1678 Acadian census as having 20 acres, 15 cattle, and 2 girls.

!COMMENT: Jacques BOURGEOIS arrived in Acadia from France in 1642. At the 1698 census he lived at Beaubassin but he returned later to Port Royal. He received an extensive land grant from the Governor d'Aulnay.

!BIRTH: Or born LaFerte-Gaucher, Coupvray-en-brie, Champagne, France

!BIOGRAPHY: Arrived in Acadia in 1641. He was a surgeon and a Lieutenant in the army. He used his mother's last name. Her family name was a famous medical family in the area of his birth. Jacques was a surgeon who arrived in Acadie in 1642. In the 1671 census of Port Royal he is listed as having twenty arpents of cleared productive land in two locations. About 1672 he founded the Bourgeois colony.later
known as Beaubassin (now Amhurst, Nove Scotia), on the Bay of Chignectou, but in the 1678 and 1686 censuses he and his wife are shown at Port Royal. In the 1714 census Jeanne is shown there as a widow. She and Jacques were the parents of ten children, all born at Port Royal. 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 af ter 1671, JACQUES BOURGEOIS, who also engaged in fur trading, moved his family up the Bay of Fundy to Cumberland Basin, which the indians called Chignecto. His three sons-in-law, Pierre Cyr, Germain Girouard and Jean Boudrot accompagnied 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 imigrated 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. JACQUES and Jeanne had ten children, three boys and seven girls, of whom five...Marie, Marguerite, Françoise, Anne and a second Marie, became ancestors of ours. 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.

Jacques founded Beaubassin in 1672 (AGE,v.28,#1,pg.16), but returned to Port Royal and accepted the governorship of Aulnay of Terres.(ARS) He was the first surgeon in Acadie(TLL-16,100)

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Jacques Bourgeois Sr. was originally from Couperans-en-Brie (presentlyin province of Seine-et-Marne). He came to Acadia probably in 1632,with his brother-in-law Germain Doucet dit Laverdure. Considering thetasks he would perform later on, he must have been an officer in thearmy of Commander Isaac de Razilly, who came to reclaim possession ofAcadia in the name of the King of France. Jacques broughtwith him hisson, Robert, who would become one of the principle officers at thegarrison of Port Royal where he would come to join his father lateron. The new colony was first established at La Heve, towards thesouth of the Acadian Peninsula. In 1636, after the death of deRazilly, Charles de Menou d'Aulnay, his successor, abandoned La Hevefor Port Royal which had been successfully reclaimed by France. In 1642 another son of Jacques Sr. came to join him at Port Royal.Jacques Jr. (also known as Jacob) who embraced the medical professionwas known as " a qualified surgeon ". Jacob was born about 1618. Hearrived at Port Royal with Menou d'Aulnay, who had returned to Francewith his "lettres patentes" which named him as Governor of Acadia. Atthe head of a wave of four ships, d'Aulnay brought with him a crew ofcraftsmen, laborers and complete families. In 1699, Jacob attested by a solemn oath, that he came to Acadia in1642. In 1643, Jacob married at Port-Royal, Jeanne Trahan, daughter ofGuillaume Trahan " " marechal de tranchant ", and Francoise Corbineau.A "marechal de tranchant" is a maker of cutting tools. Jeanne wasonly 14 years old. She was born at Bourgueil, in the Province ofAnjou, France in 1629. She came to Acadia in 1632 with her father,her mother, and one sister (whose first name is unknown). In 1645,after the death of Isaac Pesseley (ancestor of many Acadians) major atthe post at Port Royal, the uncle of Jacob Bourgeois, Germain Doucetdit Laverdure, the man who earned the trust of Governor d'Aulney, isnamed major at the post and Jacques Bourgeois, the father , wouldbecome "Lieutenant of the area" Towards 1646, Monsieur de Menou d'Aulnay granted to Jacob Bourgeois anIsland called " Isle aux Cochons" (Island of Pigs), located in theriver Dauphin (Annapolis River today), towards the east of the fort,with this clause that "only the land not touched by the tide wouldbelong to him." On May 20 1650, Governor d'Aulnay was killed when his canoe capsizedwhile going down the the river Moulin. At this time, Jacob and JeanneTrahan had three children; Jeanne 5, Charles 3, and Germain who was anewborn. In 1651, Charles de Saint-Etienne de La Tour (ancestor of severalAcadians) is named as Governor General of Acadia. Germain Doucet andJacques Bourgeois, father, are kept in their respective positions asMajor and Lieutenant-General at the post at Port-Royal. In 1653,Charlesde Saint-Etienne married Jeanne de Mottin, widow od theprevious Governor d'Aulnay, Germain Doucet and Jacques Bourgeois bothsigned as witnesses of their marriage, the 24th of February 1653. In August1654, Major Sedgewick " without any orders from hissuperiors," and despite France and England being at peace, showed upat the base of Port-Royal at the head of an army of five-hundred men.He arrived at Fort Saint-Jean, where he took Charles de Saint-Etiennede La Tour, Governor of Acadia, as prisoner. The 16th of August,after being under siege for several days, German Doucet decided tosurrender. Jacob Bourgeois, the only surgeon around, was very busyfor several weeks which followed treating all those who were injuredduring the battle. The terms of surrender stated the the garrisonwould leave the fort "with all the "honors of war", and that he would" grant them with their provisions safe passage to France withoutinterruption." The inhabitants would be welcome to to remain in thecountry, keep their furniture and possessions and a free conscience, "and to ensure this happens, the Sieur La Verdure (Germain Doucet) hasleft in charge Mr. Jacques Bourgeois, his brother-in-la w andLieutenant, and the Sieur Emmanuel Le Borgne, son, until the terms ofthe surrender have been fulfilled." In other words, until thedeparture of the garrison for France. Among the signatures on thesurrender, the very first was Robert Bourgeois who was one of theprinciple officers of the garrison, then after some English officials,two people who left a lot of descendants in Acadia, Guillaume Trouen(Trahan) representative of the people and the Sieur Le Borgne,(father). Germain Doucet, Jacques Bourgeois, Robert Bourgeois, uncle, father andbrother of Jacob Bourgeois, as well as the two Le Borgnes returned toFrance with the other officers and soldiers of the garrison at PortRoyal on the ship Chateaufort, which was owned by Emmanuel Le Borgne,father. As for the Governor Charles de Saint-Etienne, he was broughtto England as a prisoner. Jacob Bourgeois remained at Port Royal withhis family, which by now consisted of two girls, Jeanne 10 and Marie2, and two boys Charles 8 and Germain 2. After the departure of teFrench Army, the English likewise stayed at Port Royal and didn't keepan Army there. The people governed themselves with the exception of acouncil governed by a representative Guillaume Trahan, father-in-lawof Jacob Bourgeois. In 1667, the Breda treaty returned Acadia to France, but it wasn'tuntil 2 September 1670 that the Fort at Port Royal was handed over toMonsieur de Soulanges, Lieutenant of the new French governor Monsieurde Grandfontaine. One of his first tasks was to take order a censusof the inhabitants Acadia. Father Laurent Moulins, a travellingFranciscan monk, was put in charge of this task during the end 1670and beginning of 1671, Jacques (Jacob) Bourgeois was at the top of thelist of the inhabitants of Port-Royal. " Surgeon - Jacob Bourgeois, aged 50 years, his wife JeanneTrahan,aged 40 years, their children 10, Jeanne 27, Charles 25, Germain 21,marie 19, Guillaume 16, Marguerite 13, francoise 12, Anne 10, Marie 7,Jeanne 4. Their horned animal s 33, their sheep 24, their cultivatedland in two locations at about 20 acres more or less." Their oldest son, Charles was married to Anne Dugast: " Labourer -Charles Bourgeois, aged 25 years, his wife Anne du Gast, aged 17,their children - a girl Marie of 1 year and a half, their hornedanimals 12 and seven sheep. Their cultivated land two acres. " Theiryoung daughter, Marie married Pierre Syre, a gunsmith who appears tohave been an employee of her grand-father, Guilaume Trahan: " Gunsmith- Pierre Sire aged 27 years, his wife Marie Bourgeois aged 18, theirchildren a boy named Jean 3 months old. Their beasts 11 and six sheep,small lot of land to work. As we see by this census, on top of practicing his skill as a surgeon,Jacob was also a farmer, and is the richest citizen at Port Royal withtwenty acres of land (most others had only 10), 33 horned animals andhis 24 sheep. He must have worked hard to arrive at this socialstatus which no doubt would be a great help to his children. As well as being a surgeon and afarmer, Jacob acted as a travellingsalesman who worked up and down the " Baie Francaise " (now the Bay ofFundy) He enlisted as a pilot, Pierre Arsenault who arrived at Acadiain 1672 on the ship The Oranger. Jacob, who didn't wait for PierreArsenault to do business with the Indians on the Baie Francaise, musthave observed while on his travels along the coastline of the Bay, thecarved meadows in the "Bassin de Mines" and in the Bay Chignectou. Hedecided to start a business in this place which would prove a greatasset to his children and in-laws to follow. In 1671, Jacob Bourgeois began to work,with the help of his threesons, Germain, Guillaume and Charles, his son-in-law Pierre Syre, andfuture son-in-law Jean Boudrot. A new settlement was founded atBeaubassin, thanks to the initiative and hard work of Jacob Bourgeois.Jacob, however, decided not to live in this settlement of Beaubassin.It was for his children that he founded it. He shared his timebetween Beaubassin and Port Royal, wherehe nurtured a considerablefarm. His third son, Guillaume, who later inherited the farm atPort-Royal, learned from his fathers example. He owned a farm atBeaubassin and while being a resident at Port-Royal with his father. Both Charles and Germain settled at Beaubassin, although Germain kepta small piece of land at Port-Royal. In 1680, Marie, the youngest of the girls who had lost her firsthusbandPierre Syre, married a second time to Germain Girourd, whoattracted his brother-in-law, Thomas Cormier, husband of MadeleineGirourd to Beaubassin. Thus, the little colony of Beaubassin grewlittle by little. In 1685, Jacob Bourgeois had to sell his "Isle des Cochons" to EtiennePellerin, in order to cover his costs associated with building up hisbusiness at Beaubassin. For the Census of 1686, was staying at Port-Royal: "Jacob Bourgeois 67 years old, Jeanne Trahan 57, their son Guillaume31, Jeanne 19, 20 acres in value of land, this Guillaume owns atBeaubassin 2 guns, 20 acres of land, 8 horned animals and threelambs." At the end of the census roll for Beaubassin, the recorded noted: "Arsenault, Guillaume Bourgeois, Claude Dugas, who are living atBeaubassin, and between them own 24 beasts and 7 lambs." The eldest of the children, Jeanne, who was forty-two, was notmentioned by the census-taker, so she must have been dead, along withCharles, their eldest son. His widow, Anne Dugast remarried to JeanAubin dit Migneault, a Canadian, who moved to Beaubassin with his twoboys and his daughter of his first wife. Of the six other children ofJacob Bourgeois and Jeanne Trahan, three girls were living atPort-Royal and two girls and one boy where living at Beaubassin. At Port Royal: Francoise 27 married to Claude Dugast (brother of Anne), 2 boys Claude11, Joseph 6 and six girls. 25 Beasts and9 sheep. Anne 25 years old married to Rene Leblanc, three boys, Jacques 6,Francois 4 and Rene 2. Marie (the younger) at 21 years, married to Antoine Leblanc,

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Jacques Jacob Bourgeois & Jeanne Trahan had 10 children MIDDLE-class JACQUES The Middle-class men go up only of only one stock, that of Jacques Bourgeois, originating in Couperans, in Brie (today at the department of the Seine and Marne), in France. It arrives in Acadie, probably in 1632, with his brother-in-law Germain Doucet, known as Laverdure, married to Marie Bourgeois. Considering the functions which they fill later, they were to be officers in the quota of soldiers brought by the commander Isaac de Razilly, to take again possession of Acadie in the name of king de France. In 1642, a sonnamed Jacques, comes to join it with Port-Royal, Jacques (also called Jacob) embraced the medical career and is described as military surgeon. Jacob was born about 1618. It arrives at Port-Royal withMenou d' Aulney, governor of Acadie, with the head of a fleet of four ships. In 1643, Middle-class Jacob marries with Port-Royal, Jeanne Trahan, born about 1629, in Bourgueuil, in the province of Anjou, in France. It came in Acadie in 1636, with her father Guillaume Trahan, his mother Francoise Corbineau and a sister (of which the first name is unknown). In 1645, with died of Isaac Pesseley (ancestors of several Acadian), major of the garrison of Port-Royal, the uncle of Middle-class Jacob, German Doucet, said Laverdure, the right-hand man of the governor of Aulney, is named major of the garrison, while Jacques Bourgeois, father, become "lieutenant of the place". About 1646, Mr. de Menou d' Aulney concedes in Middle-class Jacob an island called Isle with the Pigs, located in the river Dauphin (today Annapolis River). At August 1654, major Sedgewick, "without any order of his superiors" and although France and England are in peace, appears in the basin of Port-Royal, with the head of an army of 500 English soldiers. It arrives from strong Midsummer's Day, where it made captive Charles of Saint-Etienne of the Tower, governor of Acadie. After several days of seat, Germain Doucet mustcapitulate, it is turned over to France with Jacques Bourgeois (father). Charles of Saint-Etienne is brought prisoner in England. Middle-class Jacob, only surgeon of the place, is extremely occupied,during several weeks, to give care to the casualties. Guillaume Trahan, father-in-law of Jacob, act like syndic of the inhabitants. Jacob becomes farmer-merchant thereafter, then lieutenant of Port-Royal and, in 1672, founder of this famous "Bourgeois colony", on Bay of Chignitou, which becomes then, amplified by Vallière, this Beaubassin which takes a so great place in our history. Of the ten children of Jacob and Jeanne, it is a son who binds us to the Middle-class men, Germain, born about 1650. It marries in 1673, Marguerite Béliveau, (three children) but she dies in 1680. Germain marries then in 1682, Magdeleine Dugas, (ten children) born in 1663, girl of Abraham Dugas and Marguerite-Louise Doucet (girl of Germain Doucet, known as Laverdure and of Marie Bourgeois). With the acadian census of 1686, Germain Doucet has 34 years and Magdeleine Dugas A 22 years, in Beaubassin. Then, a son of Middle-class Germain and Magdeleine Dugas continues the descent, Joseph Bourgeois, born in 1690. He marries in 1719, Anne Leblanc, born in 1700, girl of Pierre Leblanc and Magdeleine Bourg. Of the twelve children of Joseph Bourgeois and Anne Leblanc, Félicité Middle-class, born in 1727, wife in1750, Pierre LePrince, born in 1723, wire of Jean LePrince and Jeanne Blanchard, which continues the bond to my mother, Pierre Boisvert. With the acadian census of 1686, Jacques Bourgeois is 67 yearsold and Jeanne Trahan has 57ans. With the census of 1698, Middle-class Jacob is now 82 years old and Jeanne Trahan is 72 years old, always remain in their Middle-class Germain son, in Beaubassin. With the census of 1700, it is not mentioned, nor his wife. They must have died recently.

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Acadian ancestors
From the Acadian settlement. From the Cyr plantation.
9th great-grandfather of John Leslie Cyr.

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Jacques came to Acadia in 1642 with Acadian Governor D'Aulnays first Acadian expedition. In addition to being a surgeon, Jacques owned his own sawmill and gristmill. He also controlled coastal shipping, and trading with the Indians.

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Biography
BIOGRAPHY: Jacques married Jeanne TRAHAN, daughter of Guillaume TRAHAN and Francoise CHARBONNEAU, in 1644. (Jeanne TRAHAN was born in 1631 in Bourgeuil, France and died about 1698 in Beaubassin, Acadia.) From the New Brunswick, Canada Telegraph-Journal, July 29, 1994; page A4 and was contributed to that newspaper by Fidele Theriault of Fredericton, New Brunswick: By his own account, Jacques Bourgeois, the pioneer of the Bourgeois family in Acadia, came to Acadia as a surgeon in 1642, during the governorship of Charles d'Aulnay. The most recent theory about Jacques Bourgeois' birthplace comes from René Perron. His research on the origins of Acadian families in France brought him to a La Ferté-Gaucher where he found in the registers of the parish of Saint-Romain the baptismal certificate of Jacob Bourgeois, born on January 9, 1621, son of Marguerite Bourgeois. He might have learned his trade of surgeon in a commandery of the Order of Malta in nearby Coutrans. [n.b. Paul-Pierre Bourgeois,in a special report to 'le bourgeois' (Vol 8, Apr 1998), a newsletter of the Association of Bourgeois in America, wrote that he had seen a birth record for Jacques Bourgeois. This viewing came on a visit by him to the traditional birth place of Jacques, La Ferté Gaucher, France during the Summer of 1994. The record, dated 8 January 1621 is written in Latin and reads as follows: "...Jacobus, filisu defuncti Nicolai Grandjehan, usque ___ Bourgeois relictae ejusdem..." Although Paul-Pierre Bourgeois did not offer a translation, I believe it can be partially translated as "...Jacobus, son of the deceased Nicolai Grandjehan,..." jkc] Around 1643, shortly after his arrival in Acadia, Jacques Bourgeois married Jeanne Trahan, daughter of Guillaume and Françoise Charbonneau. Through this marriage he entered into one of the oldest Acadian families. When Port-Royal surrendered on August 16, 1654, Jacques was lieutenant of the small Acadian garrison. His name tops the 1671 census list where he isdescribed as a surgeon. Judging by the extent of the cultivated acreage of his farm, in two different places, and by the number of cattle he owned, Bourgeois made a living from agriculture as much asfrom his profession. It is possible this means that he had already begun his settlement at Beaubassin. in 1671, Jacob Bourgeois, surgeon, age 50 was enumerated with his wife, Jeanne Trahan, age 40; children: Jeanne, 27; Charles, 25; Germain, 21; Marie, 19; Guillaume, 16; Marguerite, 13; Francois, 12; Anne, 10; Marie, 7; Jeanne, 4; 33 cattle and 24 sheep. Jacques Bourgeois was a jack of all trades. He was equally at home as carpenter, merchant and colonizer. It was he who established the colony of Beaubassin by settling his sons there, as well as his sons-in-law, Pierre Cyr and Germain Girouard. When Beaubassin was granted to La Vallière as a seigniory in 1676, his patent letters stated he was not to interfere with the settlers already established there. At Beaubassin, Jacques Bourgeois was involved in ship building and he also built a flour and a sawmill. His knowledge of English allowed him to trade with the Boston merchants, notably with one John Nelson. He died at Port-Royal in 1701. His son Charles settled at Beaubassin and continued his father's work. His brother Germain stayed at Port-Royal where he was a merchant. The Acadian Bourgeois are descended from these two brothers.The majority of the members of the Bourgeois family living in Acadia in 1755 were deported to New England, especially to Massachusetts, and to South Carolina and Connecticut. Unable to live as exilesamong anglo-protestants, they courageously took to the roads in order to come back to Canada and most of them settled in the Nicolet, Saint-Grégoire, Bécancourt, L'Assomption and Saint-Jacques-de-l'Achigan areas. Descendants of that family are also to be found on Iles-de-la-Madeleine and on Cape Breton, particularly in Chéticamp and Ile-Madame. In New Brunswick, this family settled in the southern part of the province, especially at Memramcook and in Grande-Digue. The ancestor of the Bourgeois family of Memramcook and of Grande-Digue, Pierre-Benjamin, was a grandson of Germain Bourgeois of Port-Royal. Pierre-Benjamin died at Grande-Digue, in 1821, at the age of approximately 95. It is not because of his longevity that he is interesting, but rather because he married five times. Only the names of four of his five wives are known: Cécile Aucoin, Anne LeBlanc, Anne Thébault and Anne Thibodeau. However, not all the Memramcook Bourgeois descend from Pierre-Benjamin. Some are descended fromPierre-Benjamin's cousin from Beaubassin, Joseph Bourgeois. Often called Calotte, Joseph married Félicité Belliveau at Pisiquit in 1764. Like Pierre-Benjamin, he lived to a ripe old age, 94, and diedat Memramcook in 1833. Joseph was the ancestor of Father Philias Bourgeois, a professor at Collège de Saint-Joseph and the author of Vie de l'abbé F.-X. Lafrance and of a Histoire Du Canada en 200 leçons, published by the Librairie Beauchemin in 1902 and in 1903. From the New Brunswick, Canada Telegraph-Journal, August 11, 1994: "...Jean Poirier, the first ancestor of this family in Acadia, was born in France where he married, around 1646, Jeanne Chabrat. He appears to have been the soldier "Jehan Poirier" who came to Acadia in 1641 with Jacques Bourgeois on board the ship Saint-Francois." Inhis book, "History of the Acadians", Bona Arsenault writes that Jacques Bourgeois was one of the most prosperous inhabitants of Port Royal, Acadia in 1671. Records show that he owned 33 cattle and a herd of sheep in 1671. He had arrived in 1640 as surgeon under d'Aulnay's regime and was in charge of coastal shipping and trading with the Indians in Baie Francaise, now the Bay of Fundy. Jacques andhis sons, Charles and Germain, as well as others, began the settlement of Beaubassin around 1672. The following was taken from a paper read before the 'Historical Society of Chignecto', by W.C. Milner, pub. 190 1, in"Acadensis", vol. l, no.3 "The advantages of Chipecto for fur trading with the Indians, and for cattle raising, had not escaped the eyes of Port Royal; and one of the residents there,Jacques Bourgeois, who, in coasting along the bay, engaged in trading ventures amongst the Indians, had spied out the land at Beaubassin; and, returning to Port Royal, sold out his farm and cattle and came back to Beaubassin, accompanied by his two sons-in-law, Pierre Sire and Germain Girouard, and the latter's two brothers-in-law, Jacques Belon and Thomas Connier, and also by Pierre Arsinault. This little colony comprised the first European settlers in Chignecto, and, excepting the settlement at Baie des Vents, the first in the province of New Brunswick. Bourgeois, the leader of the immigrants, was in his way a notable man. He was a surgeon by profession; his name appears in the capitulation of 1654 as brother-in-law and lieutenant of Doucet de La Verdure, guardian of the children of d'Aulnay, and commandant at Port Royal; and he was one of the hostages delivered to the English. His settlement at Beaubassin was made between the years 1671 and 1675. Sieur de La Valliere's grant did not permit him to interfere with existing rights, so he located himself beside Bourgeois and constructed there his manorial buildings. He brought with him from Canada a number of families, amongst them were the Chiasson and the Cottard; also he had employed people bearing the familiar names of Mercier, Lagasse and Perthuis, (the latter held the responsible office of armorer), and also Hache Galand, who was a man of business and his men-at-arms; he could lead a fur trading expedition into the wilderness, or he could direct an attack on the English. He married an Acadian lass - Anne Connier - and their descendants today number hundreds of families. As nearly all the female part of the population was on the Bourgeois side of the settlement, it was not long before any jealousies melted away and the people were all Bourgeois. It is presumable, but not certain, that the Bourgeois settlement was at Fort Lawrence, in the vicinity of the Chignecto Ship Railway Dock."

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Army Commander of Port Royal OCC: Farmer,ship builder, Military surgeon, Lieutenant, (rank). ARRIVED: 1642 on SHIP AULNAY. Founder of BEAUBASSIN. Returned to FRANCE. Jacques was d'Aulnay's (governor) personal physician. He was very successeful at PORT ROYAL, and established a colony on BAIE FRANCAISE, which is now called CUMBERLAND BASIN. The Indains called it CHIGNECTOU. He was into shipping and trading with the Indians. His age was 53 in 1672. JACQUES set up his sons and sons-in law on lands of their own on the banks of the Missagoulash river, between Pointe Beausejour and present day Amherst. JACQUES apparently owned a ship, as he helped to recruit and transport young men from Port Royal to the Bourgeois colony. Jacques owned 33 cattle and a herd of sheep in 1671. PREE BOURGEOIS--The marsh at or near Port Wade, called after Jacques. Census 1678 Jaq Bourgeois & Jeanne Trahan 20 acres 15 cattle 2 girls: Marie, 15, 1663 Jeanne, 12, 1666 FROM the Encyclopedia of Canada, Arsenault, Moncton, Placide Gaudet, etc. Bourgeois, Jacques (Jacob), surgeon, colonizer, founder of Beaubassin; b. sometime between 1618 in France, probably at Couperans-en-Brie (department of Seine-et-Marne); founder of the Bourgeois family in Acadia. Before leaving France, Bourgeois had entered the medical profession. He came to Port-Royal in 1642 with 18 families that Governor Menou d'Aulnay brought with him on one of his voyages. Bourgeois' father, also name Jacques, was an army officer at Port-Royal and was the brother-in-law of Germain Doucet, Sieur de La Verdure, Aulnay's assistant. In 1654 Sedgwick seized Port-Royal, and as by the terms of the capitulation soldiers were to be repatriated, Jacques Bourgeois senior returned to France; his son remained in Acadia, where he became the ancestor of a large number of decendants. In 1643 Bourgeois had married Jeanne, Guilllaume Truhan's daughter, who was born in France in 1631; they had ten children, seven girls and three boys. At Port-Royal, Ja cques Bourgeois became a farmer and shipbuilder. He traded with the Bostonians, particularly with John Nelson and William Phips; he learned their language, and was the interpreter for the French in their dealings with the English. In 1672 he sold a part of his holdings at Port-Royal in order to settle, with his sons Charles and Germain and two of his sons-in-law, in the Chignecto Basin, this becoming the first pormoter of settlement in this region; he built a flour-mill and a saw-mill there. A few years later, in 1676, the region was made into a seigneury, the holder of which was Michel Lenuf de La Valliere (the elder), a nobleman born at Trois-Rivieres; the new fief, 100 square leagues in extent, was named Beaubassin. As La Valliere brought in settlers and indentured employees from Canada, two distinct establishments adjoined each other at Beaubassin; but a clause in the title to the land grant protected the interests of Jacques Bourgeois and the other Acadian settlers established on the domain; it was not long before the two elements of the population merged into one. The Chignecto region provided Jacques Bourgeois and the whole settlement with fertile marshes, and high ground suitablefor farming. The Shediac portage was an important relay station in the sea communications between Acadia and Canada and a strategic position commanding the isthmus and Baie Francaise (Bay of Fundy). By the time of the expulsion of the Acadians, Beaubassin had become one of the most prosperous places in Acadia. The distinguished colonist had settled at Port-Royal again before 1699; he died there, an octogenarian, in 1701. The family name was perpetuated by two of his three sons: Charles, born in 1646, who married Anne Dugas in 1668; and Germain, born about 1650, who married his first wife, Marguerite Belliveau, in 1673 and his second wife, Madeleine Dugas, in 1682; the third son, Guillaume, left only a daughter.

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!BIRTH: Information from Beauregard, Dictionnaire Genealogique l'Ancienne Acadia, available on the Internet at http://www.cam.org/beaur/dgaa/dgaa-b4.html (gives year of birth but no parents' names; implies birth was in France). !CHRISTENING: Information from Beauregard, Dictionnaire Genealogique l'Ancienne Acadia, available on the Internet at http://www.cam.org/beaur/dgaa/dgaa-b4.html !MARRIAGE: Information not found; estimated year is based on this person's year of birth and children's birth years. !DEATH: Information not researched. !BURIAL: Information not researched.

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Chirurgien-Teacher for d'Aulnay children.Military Doctor. Arrived in acadia in 1642. At one time he was called Jacob Bourgeois, when at Beaubassin; a colony he founded in 1672; but he died at Port Royal; 1701. He was the "lieutenant de Port-Royal" as noted in August 16, 1654 records.* The original name for Beaubassin was "Bourgeois. It is on Chignectou Bay. Jacques was one of the more properous citizens of Port-Royal. In a survey conducted in 1671, he possessed about 33 bushels of corn and a flock of sheep. Although a qulified surgeon, he, like Louis Hebert, was more interested in farming. Hesupplied vegtables to the French fort and traded with the local natives. At age 53, in 1672, he commenced the settlement of Cumberland basin, known as Chignectou, by the Indians. He and his sons, Charles and Germain, with their respective wives, the sisters, Anne and Madeleine Dugas, daughters of d'Abraham Dugas of Port-Royal.Jacques third son, Guillaume, remained in Port-Royal. It has been said that he made "gros sacrifices" in establishing his colony. *In 1654, Sedwick seized Port-Royal and forced Jacques Sr. to return to France. Jacques Jr. stayed. In 1672, he and his sons, Charles and Germanine, with tow sons-in law, settled in the Chignecto Basin. In 1676, the area became known as Beaubassin under the seigneury of Michel Leneuf de La Valliere Sr. A clause in the grant recognized the title of the first settlers to their holdings.

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Jacques Bourgeois was a surgeon. He may have learned this profession in a commandery of the Order of Malta near his home in France. He joined his father and brother, Robert, in Acadia in 1641 (sailing from France aboard the ship, "Le Saint-Francois."), likely making him the first to practice medicine in the colony. In 1643 at the age of 22, Jacques Bourgeois married Jeanne Trahan, the daughter ofGuillaume Trahan and Francoise Corbineau, at Port Royal. Jeanne, who was born at Bourgueil in the French province of Anjou, was only 14 years old at the time of her marriage to Jacques. This union isthe progenitor of the present day Acadian family, Bourgeois. In 1646, the Governor d'Aulnay granted Jacques and Jeanne Bourgeois an island called Isle-aux-Cochons situated in the Dauphin River (todaycalled the Annapolis River) just upstream from Port Royal. The English did not leave a presence at Port Royal and in 1667, the colony was ceded to France, although the French did not take possession until 1670. In the interim, the Acadians governed themselves under a cyndic ruled by Guillaume Trahan, the father of Jeanne Bourgeois. By the census of 1670, Jacques and Jeanne had added six children,one son, Guillaume, and five daughters, Marguerite, Francoise, Anne, Marie (the younger) and Jeanne (the younger). In this census Jacques was the richest inhabitant at Port Royal. Also, by this time,Charles, their oldest son had married Anne du Gast (Dugas), and they had one daughter, Marie. The oldest daughter of Jacques and Jeanne was also married by 1670, to Pierre Sire (Cyr), and they had a son Jehan. In addition to his profession of surgeon, Jacques was a farmer and marine merchant. His boats followed the coast of the Baie Francaise (Bay of Fundy) to trade with the Mic Mac Indians and descended the coast to New England to trade with the English. In 1671, Jacques, aided by his three sons and his son-in-law, Pierre Sire, and his future son-in-law, Jean Boudreau, founded the settlementof Beaubassin, near the border separating present day New Brunswick from Nova Scotia. Jacques and his son Guillaume, returned to live at Port Royal after the establishment at Beaubassin, although they kept farms at the new settlement. Jacques' other two sons, Charles and Germain, stay at Beaubassin with their families. At the beginning of Sep 1696, the English Colonel Benjamin Church from Boston attacked Beaubassin, which had been left undefended by the French. Jacques was enlisted to negotiate with the English contingent from Boston. Jacques obtained a promise from Church that the residents would be left in peace, but Church reneged on his promise and the soldiers from Boston burned most of the homes in the region. The Acadians of Beaubassin were forced to flee to the woods; however, theEnglish respected the Acadians' capabilities as marksmen and refused to chase the Acadians out of the reach of their ship's cannons. Jacques died in his late 70's shortly before 1700, as he was not listed in the census of that year. In 1702, the commandant of the fort at Port Royal referred to him in an official report as the late Jacques Bourgeois. At the time of the deportation in 1755, many ofJacques' grandchildren were deported to the American colonies where they suffered greatly. Some eventually made their way back to Canada, and the Bourgeois name is common today in southeastern New Brunswick.

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Immigration: 1640, Acadia22 Occupation: Master Surgeon23 Acadian Descendants, Vol I, by Janet Jehn Arrived in Port Royal in about 1640. Master Surgeon to Sieur d'Aulnay. In about 1672 he began an agricultural development which became Beaubassin and set up a flour mill there. Birth: "Historical Genealogy of a Branch of the COMEAU family" by Rev. James Comeau, 1960 Founder of Beaubassin. Before leaving France, Bourgeios had entered the medical profession. He came to Port-Royal in 1642 with 18 families that Gov. Menou d'Aulnay brought with him on one of his oyages, Bourgeois' father, also names Jacques, was an army officer at Port-Royal and the brother-in-law of Germain DOUCET, Sieur de La Verdure, Aulnay's assistant.... While Jacques Senior was returned to France, his son remained in Acadiawhere he became the ancestor of a large number of descendants, In 1643 he had married Jeanne, Guillaume Trahan's daughter, who was born in France in 1631; they has ten children; seven girls and threeboys. At Port-Royal, Jacques became a farmer and shipbuilder. He traded with the Bostonians, particularly with John NELSON and William PHIPS; he learned their language, and was the interpreter for the French in their dealings with the English. In 1672 he sold part of his holdingsd at Port-Royal in order to settle, with his sons Charles and Germain, and twl of his sons-in-law, in the Chigneto Basin, thus becoming the first promoter of settlement in this region; he built a flour mill and a saw mill there. A few years later, in 1676, the region was made into a Seigneury, the holder of which was Michel LENEUF de la Valliere (the elder), a nobleman born at Trois-Rivieres; the new fief, 100 square leagues in extent, was names Beaubassin. As LaValliere brought in settlers and indentured employees from Canada, two distinct establishments adjoined each other at Beaubassin; but a clause in the title to the land grant protected the interests of Jacques BOURGEOIS and the other Acadian settlers established on the domain; it was not long before the two elements of the population merged into one.... The distinguished colonist had settled at Port-Royal again before 1699; he died there, an octogenarian, in 1701. The family name was perpetuated by two of his three sons: Charles, born in 1646, who married Anne Dugas in 1668; and Germain, born about 1650, who married his first wife, Marguerite Belliveau, in 1673 and his second wife, Madeleine Dugas, in 1682; the third son, Guillaume, left only a daughter. Jacques was the first surgeon in N.S. From the 1671 Acadian Census: Jacob BOURGEOIS, Surgeon, 50; wife Jeanne TRAHAN 40; Children (two married): Jeanne 27, Charles 25, Germain 21, Marie 19, Guillaume 16, Marguerite 13, Francois 12, Anne 10, Marie 7, Jeanne 4; cattle 33, sheep 24.

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1671 Acadian Census: Jacob Bourgeois, Surgeon,50; wife Jeanne Trahan 40; Children (twomarried): Jeanne 27; Charles 25; Germain 21; Marie 19; Guillaume 16;Marguerite 13; Francois 12; Anne 10; Marie 7, Jeanne 4; cattle 33; sheep24 Census of Port Royal - 1678 Jacques Bourgeois and Jeanne Trahan Marie15, Jeanne 12 ,20 acres, 15 cattle 1686 Census Port Royal, Acadia Jacob Boureois 67, Jeanne Trahan 57;Children: Guillaume 31, 20 arpents 1693 Acadian Census: Jacob Bourgeois 74, Jeanne Trahan 64, Jeanne(granddaughter)3; 15 cattle, 20 sheep, 15 pigs, 40 arpents, 1 gun 1698 Acadian Census: Sieur Jacques Bourgeois 82, Jeanne Trahan (wife)72; Germain Bourgeois 48, Madeleine Dugas (wife) 34; Guillaume 24,Agnes 12; 22 cattle, 15 hogs, 21 arpents, 3 guns, 1 servant Marguerite Bourgeois, widow daughter of Jacques Bourgeois and JeanneTrahan married Pierre Maisonnat of Port Royal son of _________Maisonnat and Jeanne Sigune on January 12,1707. Witnesses: Pierre Maisonnat, De Ron, C. Cahouet Acadian Church Records Volume III Port Royal 1702-1721 Register of Baptism, Marriages and Deaths of the parish of St. Jean Baptiste of Port Royal beginning in the month of Sept 1702 Bourgeois, Jacques(Jacob) Date: 8/21/98 1:44:16 PM From: givan@brunnet.net (F. Robinson Givan) Hi Pat and Liz and others, Just a bit of an update; apparently Jacques Bourgeois and Jacob Bourgeoiswere the same person. However according to Clement Cormier, in the"Dictionary of Canadain Biography", vol. II, 1701-1740, p.94, there weretwo Jacques Bourgeois "Bourgeois, Jacques (Jacob), founder of Beaubassin; . sometime between1618 and 1621 in France, d. 1701 at Port Royal; founder of the Bourgeoisfamily in Acadia. Before leaving France, Bourgeois had entered the medical profession. Hecame to Port Royal in 1642 with 18 families tht Governor Menou d'Aulnay,brought with him on one of his voyages. Bourgeois' father, also namedJacques, was an army officer at Port Royal and was the brother-in-law ofGermain Dou cet, Sieur de La Verdue, Aulnay's assistant. In 1654 Sedgwickseized Port Royal, and as by the terms of capitulation soldiers were tobe repatriated, Jacques Bourgeois senior returned to France; his sonremained in Acadia , where he became the ancnestor of a large number ofdescendants. In 1643 Bourgeois had married Jeanne, Guillaume Trahan's daughter, whowas born in France in 1631; they had ten children, seven girls and threeboys. The distinguished colonist had settled at Port Royal again before 1699;he died there, an octogenarian, in 1701. The family name was perpetuatedby two of his three sons; Charles, born in 1646, who married Anne Dugasin 1668; and Germain, born about 1650, who married his firs wife,Marguerite Belliveau, in 1673 and his second wife, Madeline Dugas, in1682; the third son, Guillaume, left only a daughter."

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Notes from: Father Hebert, Hector,s.j. and Father Gallant, Patrice, Dictionnaire Genealogique Des Familles Acadiennes Part 1, 1636 to 1714, Centre D'Etudes Acadiennes, Universite De Moncton, 2000. 7 May 1641: Account of all that I have paid to the sailors and soldiers of the crew of the ship "Le Saint Francois" which left on May 7, 1641, for the third time. Jacques Bourgeois surgeon also granted 45 ecus per year and received in advance the sum of Pounds(illegible): 17:4. According to a deposition of July 31, 1699, Jacques Bourgeois had come to Acadia during the year 1642 (sic) " to settle there and practice surgery." 24 February 1653: He was witness at La Tour's marriage to d'Aulnay's widow. 16 August 1654: Capitulation of Port Royal: Jacques Bourgeois was left as a hostage by his brother-in-law, Germain Doucet, Sr de La Verdue. Founder of Beaubassin about 1672, the names of Jacques Bourgeois sons Guillaume and Germain appear on the record of La Valliere's allotment to his tenants, March 20, 1682. 5 October 1687: Jacques signed an attestation in favour of the accomplishments of Governor d'Aulnay.

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Who Is He? http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bourgeois_jacques_2E.html

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Jacques Bourgeois brief history The latest research indicates Jacques Bourgeois was most likely born in La Ferté-Gaucher, near Paris, as the son of a widow, Marguerite Bourgeois Grandjehan and raised under the maiden name of his mother. In the registers of the parish of Saint-Romain a baptismal certificate for Jacob Bourgeois was found indicating he was born on January 9, 1621, the son of Margue