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Pierre Arseneau
Birth:About 1650 in France
Death:About 1710 in Beaubassin,Acadia
Sex:M
Father:Abraham Arsenault b. 1630 in France
Mother:Marguerite Louise Marie Judith Doucet b. 1624 in Savoie,France
  
Christening: About 1646 France
Burial: About 1710 Beaubassin,Acadie,Canada
Ancestral File #: 3859-P1
Identification #: 261
Employment: Coastal Navigator
Fact: 1671 Left Rochefort,France Aboard "L'oranger" To Settle In Acadia About 1675 Port Royal,,Acadia
Immigration: ___ 1671 "L'Oranger" from Rochefort,France
Changed: 11 Apr 2004 23:04:28


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Pierre Arsenault collaborated with Jacques Bourgeois in the founding of the village of Beaubassin, Acadia, where he settled around 1687.


Pierre arrived in Acadia in 1671.
The ancestor of the Acadian branch of the Arsenault family was PierreArsenault, born in France around 1646. He arrived in Acadia shortlyafterthe 1671 census. Although his place of birth in France is not known,thesurname was a common one in the Poitou and Charentes region duringthe17th century. Some spelt the surname Arsonneau. In Acadia, Pierremarriedtwice. First, around 1675, he married Marguerite Dugas, daughterofAbraham Dugas and of Marguerite Doucet of Port-Royal. Second,around1685, he married Marie Gurin, daughter of Franois and ofAnneBlanchard. Pierre seconded Jacques Bourgeois in the establishment oftheBeaubassin settlement where he lived in 1680. Several of hischildrensettled at le Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) during the mid1730s.Pierre died around 1710. The descendants of Pierre Arsenaultarenumerous, particularly on Prince Edward Island, in the Gasp,inLouisiana and in New Brunswick.


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Pierre Arsenault in 1672 collaborated with Jacques Bourgeois infounding the town of Bourgeois, which was later called Beaubassin in Acadie.He wasestablished there in 1687.


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Pierre Arsenault, born in 1646, boarded the ship 'Oranger' at Rochfort. Shortly after his arrival at Port Royal in 1671 he relocated toBeaubassin (present-day Amherst) where he died around 1710. Members ofthe second generation either stayed at Beaubassin or migrate to Ile St.Jean (today it is known as Prince Edward Island). Certain members of thethird generation settled in Quebec or Miquelon. Pierre Arcenaux of the4th generation, born in 1731, settled in Louisiana. Another of thisgeneration (but of a different lineage) Pierre Arsenault, born in 1738,was deported to La Rochelle. Janet Jehn, ACADIAN DESCENDANTS, Vol I, pg17. Arrived in Acadia in the spring of 1671. In 1672 was co-founder ofthe colony ofBourgeois, which later became Beaubassin, with JacquesBourgeois. Resided there from 1687 - 1710. BERLO.GED Pierre helped tofound the Burgeois Colony which later became part of Beaubassin in 1687. From Bona Arsenault's "Histoire et Genealogie des Acadiens", Volume 3(Beaubassin), page 827-829: PierreARSENAULT, born 1646, arrived in Acadiafrom France in 1671. He married Marguerite DUGAS, daughter of AbrahamDugas (who happens to be my 7th GGF) and Marguerite DOUCET, from PortRoyal, Nova Scotia about 1765 and a second marriage about 1689 to MarieGUERIN, daughter of Francois GUERIN and Anne BLANCHARD of Port Royal. Hecollaborated with Jacques BOURGEOIS in the founding of the BourgeoisColony which eventually became Beaubassin (Now called Amhearst) where helived in 1687 with his family. Children of the first wife: Pierre, b1676; and Abraham, b 1678. Children of the second wife: Charles, b 1690;Jacques, b 1691; Francois, b 1694; Anne, b 1697; Claude, b 1699; Abraham,b about 1702; Augustin, b about 1703. He died at Beaubassin about 1710. More About Pierre Arsenault: Immigration: Aft. 1671, arrived in Acadiaafter the 1671 census. Residence: 1680, Beaubassin, Acadia PierreArsenault, pilote cBlanchard, qui lui a donn. Ce dernier a


PIERRE ARSENAULT, came from Rochefort, France. He sailed from LaRochelle, France in the spring of 1671 on the ship"L'Orange" which arrived atPortRoyal, now Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia in the early summer of thatyear. Heand his family came with sixty other families. He collaboratedwith JACQUESBOURGEOIS, who founded the Bourgeois Colony, which laterbecame Beaubassin, which is now Amherst, Nova Scotia.


Arrive en Nouvelle-Ecosse (Acadie) en 1671, a l'age de 21 ans, pilote dunavire L'Orange. Marie deux fois, 9 enfants.


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Arrived in Acadie from France in 1671.


Arrived in Acadia after 1671.


D.O.B.: c1646, ("Le Grand Arrangement des Acadiens au Quebec", by Bergeron, p. 104, (ref.: 1686 Acadian Census at Beaubassin)); 1646, p.109. D.O.B.: c1646, ("L'Acadie des Ancestres", (ref.: 1671 AcadianCensus)). D.O.B.: c1650, (George Arsenault's letter). D.O.B.: c1649,("L'Acadie des Ancestres", (ref.: 1671 Acadian Census, [note: one ofthese two ages for Pierre in the 1671 Acadian Census (25, and 22 respectively) must be wrong])).


P.O.B.: Acadian Genealogical Exchange, Vol. XIX, p. 19 P.O.B.: "Le Grand Arrangement des Acadiens au Quebec", by Bergeron, p. 109: "EN SAINTONGE,FRANCE: PARENTS INCONNUS...Pierre 1646..."


D./P.O.M.: c1675, ("Le Grand Arrangement des Acadiens au Quebec", by Bergeron, p. 109: "Pierre...(1o) Port-Royal v1675 Marguerite Dugast..."D./P.O.M.: 1685, ("Le Grand Arrangement des Acadiens au Quebec", byBergeron, p. 109: "Pierre...(2o) Beau-Bassin en 1685 Marie Gumany cases,updating the work of Arsenault.


"Acadian Genealogy Exchange", Vol. XX, No. 3, p. 85, (ref.: 'Recensement Fait Par Monsieur de Meulles...1686, Port Royal'):


"Pierre ARSENAULT, 40; Marie GUERIN, 24. Enfans: Pierre, 10; Abraham, 8."


Imm. from Rochefort, France to Port Royal, Acadia via the "L'Orange" as a Pilot with 50 other French colonists in 1671. The L'Orange left from LaRochelle France. Pierre was in the service of Jacques Bourgeois, and ranthe coastal trade in the baie de Fran


"Le Grand Arrangement des Acadiens au Quebec", by Bergeron, 'La Famille Des Arsenault, pp. 103-108:


"LA FAMILLE DES ARSENAULT


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"Acadian Genealogy Exchange", Vol. 2, No. 9, 1973, (ref.: "Les parlers Francais d'Acadie", by Genevieve Massignon), p. 4:


"ARSENAULT: As of 1938, there were 1,543 familes named ARSENAULT in Acadia, all descendants of one progenitor. Pierre ARSENAULT, on thecensus of 1686 at Beaubassin, was 40 yeas old, married to Marie GUERIN,24 years old; the eldest of their children was ten years old. MarieGUERIN, daughter of Francois GUERIN, was counted in the 1671 census ofAcadia. It

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