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Individual:
BIOGRAPHY: Acadian History Presented
By Placide Gaudet
Presented 18 July 1922 at Bridgetown, Nova Scotia
The homestead of Antoine Belliveau, born in France in 1621, and married about 1651 to Andrée Guyon, was about one mile below theAllen river. Jean his only son, born at Port-Royal about , married JeanneBourque about 1673 by whom
he had three sons and two daughters. Jean Jr.,his eldest son married in 1696 Madeleine Melanson and died September 13,1707 of a wound he received in fighting the English, at the second attackof Colonel March against Port-Royal.
He left three sons, of whom twosettled at or near Carleton Corner opposite Bridgetown. Of these two Iwill speak, after I have related an episode relating to Charles, theeldest of the sons who was born in 1697, and married at
Grand-Pré,November 3, 1717, Marguerite Granger, by whom he had ten children, ofwhom two where sons. Charles inherited his father's farm, and besidesbeing a farmer, he was a ship carpenter and a good mariner. What I amgoing to
say about Charles Belliveau, related to the year 1755, at thetime of the Expulsion of the Acadians.
to carry them: the Syren, captain Proby, from Chignecto to Georgia and the two Carolinas; the Nightlingale, captain Diggs, from Mines toVirginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, and then proceed to his station atNew Yhork; the
Baltimore, captain Owen, from Annapolis Royal to NeweYork; the Hornet, captain Salt, from Annapolis Royal to Boston, and thenthe Spithead; the Mermaid, captain Shirley, to Connecticut. Captain Rous,of the Success, to assis in
embarking them and to look into the St. JohnRiver.
Being short of provisions and the transports expected from Halifax not having yet arrived at Annapolis, captain Washington Shirley,commander of H.M.S., the Mermaid, sailed from Annapolis for Boston, withSloop Hornet, captain
Salk, November 10, and left T. Owen, captain of theSloop Baltimore, in charge of the transports, five of which arrived atAnnapolis Royal, between the 14th and the 17th of November. But thePembroke Snow, with the provisions,
having lost her main mast in a stormonly reached Annapolis Royal between November 25, and December 1st.Herdisabled mast had to be replaced, and Charles Belliveau was ordered tomake a new one which he did. When it was finished
he asked to be paid buton the refusal of the captain to do so, he at once lifted up hiscarpenter's axe and threatened to cut the new mast, and the captain hadto pay him the price asked. But irony of fate he was embarked on
boardthe Pembroke to be deported.
The Pembroke was of 42 tons, victualled for 139 days; she had on board 33 men, 37 women, 70 sons and 92 daughters forming a total of232 persons. She sailed from Goat Island, December 8, 1755, bound forNorth Caroline. The other
transports were the Helena, 3323 persons, forBoston; the Edwards, 278 persons, for Connecticut; the Two Sisters, 280,for Connecticut; the Experiment, 200 persons, for New York; the Hopson342 persons, for South Carolina, and a
Schooner, for South Carolina, with9 persons. The grant total on the seven vessels was 1664 Acadianprisoners. With the exception of the Pembroke the transports reachedtheir destination and landed their human cargo. The Baltimore
convoyedthem as far as New York, and Captain Owen approaching the Pembroke saidto her captain: Be on your guard; on board your vessel you have some veryable men and some good mariners, and so saying the captain of theBaltimore
took another direction, whilst the Pembroke, which was onlymanned by eight persons went on her course towards North Carolina.
The 232 Acadian prisoners were kept in the whole of the Pembroke.
Just think of it, 232 persons packed in that part of the vessel where there was no ventilation of any kind! Was that an act ofhumanity, or of barbarity? I will not dwell on that subject; it is tooheart rending. In order to
prevent the unfortunate prisoners dying ofsuffocation, six at a time were allowed to come on deck every half houralternatively. At last Charles Belliveau chose five of the strongest menamong them, and told them what thy were to
do, when the hatch-way wouldbe opened, and instructions were also given to others to act promptly, atthe proper moment. As soon as the half hour was over, and the six on deckordered to go down in the hole, and six others called
on deck, Belliveauand his five chosen companions came out quickly, and before the hatchwaywas closed they had mastered the captain and crew by stunning them withstrong blows from their fists, and as the hatchway was left open
manyothers came on deck to help their companions, if need be. At once CharlesBelliveau took charge of the vessel, and as he was an expert mariner, hesoon turned the direction of the Pembroke. The wind was very strong andthe
captain cried out: Stop! you are going to break the main-mast! Tothis Belliveau answered promptly: You lie; I made this mast and I know itwill not break. Alternatively Captain Fontaine called Beaulieu andBelliveau, and some
others were at the wheel. The Pembroke had sailedfrom Goat Island, December 8, 1755, and on February 8, 1756, she enteredthe port of St. John, New Brunswick where its human cargo was landed.
There are several documents relating to the capture of the Pembroke but the following extract of a letter from Governor Lawrence toGovernor Shirley, of Massachusetts Bay, bearing date, February 18, 1756is here appropriate. Here
is what Lawrence says:
I lately sent a part of Rangers in a schooner to St. John River, as the men were cloathed like french soldiers and the schoonerunder french colours, I had hopes by such a deceit, not only to discoverwhat was going there but to
bring off some of the St. John Indians. Theofficer found there an English ship, one of our transports that sailedfrom Annapolis Royal with French inhabitants aboard bound for theContinent, but the inhabitants had risen upon the
master & crew andcarried the ship into that harbour, our people would have brought her offbut by an accident they discovered themselved too soon, upon which theFrench set fire to the ship.
Amongst the Acadian prisoners onboard the Pembroke, besides Charles Belliveau and Captain Beaulieu, there were families of Boudreau,Dugas, Guilbeau, Granger, St-Seine, etc. There was also PrudentRobichaud, born in 1669 at
Port-Royal, son of Etienne Robichaud andFrançoise Boudreau, both natives of France. Prudent Robichaud married in1691, Henriette Petitpas, and they had a family of twelve children, ofwhom five were sons. He was one of the
prominent inhabitants of AnnapolisRoyal and rendered services to the English garrison, and yetnotwhithstanding his old age - he was then eighty-six years old - he wasembarked in December 1755 on board the Pembroke. In the
summer of 1756,some of the 32 families left St-John River for Quebec. Robichaud was withthem and died on the St-John River on his way to Quebec. On April 16(N.S.) 1727, Lieutenant Governor Lawrence Armstrong had appointed him
aJustice of the Peace for Annapolis, and on December 12 (N.S.) 1733, thesame Lieutenant-Governor had given him the commission for collecting hisMajesty's rents, etc., within the Banlieue of Annapolis Royal.
As to Charles Belliveau he succeded in reaching Quebec where he died in January 1758. His wife had predeceased him eight years and wasburied at Annapolis Royal May 2, 1750.
Charles Jr. the eldest of the two sons, was born October 12, 1731, and
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- Title: 1671 Arcadian Census, Url: http://www.acadian-cajun.com/1671cens.htm
Page: Antoine BELLIVEAU, 50, wife Andree GUION 56; Children: Jean 19, Magdeleine 17; cattle 11, sheep 8
- Title: GenCircles, Url: http://www.gencircles.com
Page: D_Reynolds
Submitter: Donna Reynolds Angelone44@aol.com
http://www.gencircles.com/users/angelone44/1
- Title: Ancestry.com Message Board, Url: http://www.ancestry.com/share/
Page: The Acadian Bernard Family
- Title: Marie-Madeleine Belliveau prepared 1999 by Charlene (Fraser) McKenzie updated Apr 1, 2004, Url: http://www.accesswave.ca/~cfraser/Belliveau.html
- Title: 1686 Arcadian Census, Url: http://www.acadian-cajun.com/1686cens.htm
Page: Antoine BELLINEAULT 70, Andree GUION 70; Jean BELLINAULT, son, 34; Jeanne BOURRE his wife 28; children: Jean 14, Madeleine 12, Charles 8, Antoine 7; 2 guns, 4 arpents, 16 cattle, 12 sheep, 12 hogs.
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