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PIERRE THIBODEAU (1st generation) (p. 210) b. 1631, in province of Poitou, France. He was about 23 when he came to Acadia in 1654. He was indentured to emmanual LeBargne, a rich merchant of La Rochelle, France, who, as one of Charles d'Aulnay's creditors, had come to Acadia seeking a judgment against d'Aulnay's estate. After Pierre's term of indentured service was over, he married Jeanne Terriau in 1660, daughter of Jean and Perrine Bourg of Port Royal. The 1671 cenus of Port royal lists Pierre as a ploughman and states he has 12 head of cattle and 11 sheep. Pierre moved his family to Pree Ronde (Round Hill), which was upstream on the Port Royal River. He built a grist mill on his marshland farm and a saw mill on his brookside holdings. In 1698, Pierre, then 68 and known as the miller of Pree Ronde, founded the colony of Chipoudy. Now known as Hopewell Hill, new Brunswick, this settlement was located near the mouth of the Petitcdiac River about 150 miles northeast of Port Royal across the Baie Francoise (Fundy). Pierre arrived with 5 sons and a number of other citizens from Port Royal. He built a church on the site known today as Church Creek and a flour mill at a place now called Mill Creek. The colony flourished until the fateful year of 1755 when the English began the forced dispersion and exile of Acadians. Pierre died 26 December 1704. Jeanne died 8 December 1726. Both are buried in Port Royal. In time, Pierre and Jeanne's 16 children produced 159 grandchildren. It was the children and grandchildren of four of Pierre and Jeanne's seven sons, Pierre L'Aine , Pierre Le Jeune, Michel, and Charles, who found their way to Louisiana, eventually settling in the Bayou La Fourche area and at the Opelousas and Attakapas posts. Children:
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