Michel Bergeron d'Amboise dit Nantes

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Moved to Louisiana from St. Anne, New Brunswick.

Stephen White semble croire (P. 26) que Jeanne Hébert, qui épousa Michel Bergeron, était la veuve de Jean Arseneau et se serait marié à Michel au plus tard vers 1749.

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This is a record of the Acadian Bergeron and Damboise families, descendants of Barthelemy Bergeron d'Amboise and Genevieve Serreau de Saint-Aubin. Others are welcome to input items (other than responses, term paper quality); send queries to bergeron_damboise@yahoo.com. Provide references! The flags are those of the Northern (left) & Southern (Louisiana) Acadians, taken from Yvon Cyr's website, www.acadian.org.

02 MARCH 2006 Location Where Michel Bergeron Was Attacked by Captain Cox of Gorum In 1750, Michel Bergeron I, son of Barthelemy Bergeron d’Amboise and Genevieve Serreau, was sailing his chaloupe south from the Petitcodiac River. He was intercepted by an English around 15 November by a ship of 6 guns and 30 men, commanded by a Captain Cox of Gorum (Massachusetts). According to the reports, Michel tried to outrun the Englishman, but ran aground on Cap-des-Demoiselles. The map below shows the area of the Cape, now called Hopewell. The Petitcodiac is the body of water marked “River,” going to the north-north-west.

Cox sent men to the chaloupe and the Acadians abandoned the vessel, firing their small arms (rifles and pistols?) as they retreated. The Englishmen took a number of items from the boat before troops stationed locally came to the help of the Acadians. All spent the night together and were still pinned down most of the following day, it seems, “being on the banks of a stream that served them as entrenchment.” The French and Acadians beat back three separate attacks by Cox’s men before they finally gave up and departed.

In examining the map closely to find the location where the Acadians were pinned down, the confrontation could possibly have taken place at two places. It seems to me that the creek to the south of the cape is much too open to afford the protection described in the reports. See the magnified map section below:

If this were the site, the Acadians would probably have been in the open for a long time before they could reach the escarpments (shown by the long vertical line with numerous small horizontal lines going to the left), and thus they would be susceptible to enemy fire for quite some time. This is, indeed, a possible location, and it would provide considerable protection, especially with the curvature provided by the embankments here. But, especially because the embankments seem to run perpendicular instead of parallel to the creek, it just does not “feel” right. These embankments do not precisely match the report’s wording of “on the banks of a stream that served them as entrenchment.” The embankments at the creek to the south of the cape do not form the banks of the stream.

However, there is a small creek to the north of the Cape, north of the Cape Rocks area, which seems to match the described parameters much better. A magnified map section is provided below.

The stream here runs parallel to the shore for many yards, and there is an escarpment there, which does form one bank of the creek. This escarpment could serve as the recorded entrenchment quite well. Also, because of the geography here, it would still be nearly impossible for a vessel on the open water to find an angle where it could fire along the creek and embankment, requiring it to continuously fire straight on, over the embankment, and never touch the Acadians.

Without further data, we can not be sure that this was the exact location of the altercation. But it certainly is the best candidate I can find.

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Michel dit de Nantes, born at Port-Royal in c1702, married four times, his first and third wives' names lost to history. His second wife was Marie, daughter of Abraham Dugas and Marie-Madeleine Landry, whom he married probably at Annapolis Royal in c1727. His fourth wife, whom he married in c1747 probably at Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas, was Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Jacques Hébert and Jeanne Gautrot and widow of Jean Arseneau.

http://www.acadiansingray.com/Appendices-ATLAL-BERGERON.htm

References

• https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/JCuWH86kRdU/m/...
• http://www.francogene.com/ymtx/gfangfna.php?no=43200

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FamilySearch: Family Tree
Michel Bergeron dit d'Amboise
Birth  1702 • Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death  6 August 1764 • Louisiana, United States
Parents  Barthélemy Bergeron • Geneviève Serreau
Spouse  Marie-Jeanne Hébert • Marie Anne Dugas
Children  Angelique Bergeron • Anne Bergeron • Etienne Bergeron dit D'Amboise • Francois Nantes Bergeron • Francoise Bergeron • Jean Baptiste Bergeron dit d'Amboise • Joseph Bergeron • Madeleine Bergeron • Marie Bergeron • Marie Genevieve Francoise Bergeron • Marie Josephe Bergeron • Marie Madeleine Bergeron • Michel Bergeron • Pierre Charles Bergeron • Simon Bergeron

Lead confidence: 5
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/LYP9-SKV

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weRelate:
Michel Bergeron dit de Nantes
Birth  1700
Death  Aug 6, 1764
Marriage  1721 • 1743 • 1749 • 1727 • Nova Scotia, Canada
Parents  Barthelemy Bergeron • Genevieve Serreau
Spouse  jeanne marie hebert dugas
https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Michel+Bergeron+%281%29

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FamilySearch: Nova Scotia Marriages, 1711-1909
Michel Bergeron in entry for Alexis Landry, "Nova Scotia Marriages, 1711-1909"
Lead confidence: 4
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XL52-JRQ