Person:Barthelemy Bergeron (2)

!BIRTH-OCCUPATION-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 122; own copy. #1: [No parents are given for him.]

!PARENTS: E-mail posting at <ACADIAN-CAJUN-L@rootsweb.com> #190 on 27 Apr 1999 by Tomlin (boandbg@pancomlnet). Barthelemy's parents were Antoine BERGERON married Claudette SCARRON. (Reference: Adrien Bergeron, LE GRAND ARRANGEMENT DES ACADIENS AU QUEBEC). [Stephen WHITE notes that this article has certain "imprecisions."]

!BIRTH-IMMIGRATION-RESIDENCES-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: Bona Arsenault, Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens, pp. 427-429 (Port Royal). See long note there. Arrived in Canada in 1685 as "volontaire de la marine" (volunteer seaman). Lived in the lower part of Québec from 1685 to 1690, at Pierre LEZEAU's, the shipmaster. He accompanied Pierre LeMoyne d'Iberville on most of his campaigns "dont celle de" Hudson Bay. Arrived in Acadia with d'Iberville in 1696. Married around 1695 [?] to Genevieve SERREAU dit Saint-Aubin, born in Québec, the widow of Jacques PETITPAS.

    In 1704 he was made prisoner with all the members of his family, at the time of the attack of Colonel Church against Port Royal, and was taken away into captivity at Boston, where he was kept as a hostage. After his liberation he returned to Port Royal where he lived in the sector "du Cap," near the fort, and navigated for his living. He owned a schooner, and made trading trips between Port Royal, Les Mines (Grand Pré and Pisiguit), Beaubassin, Chipoudy, Petitcoudiac and Sainte-Anne-du-Pays-Bas. Around 1730 he moved to settle at the riviere Saint-Jean, in New Brunswick, where he was one of the pioneers of Sainte-Anne-du-Pays-Bas, today known as Frédericton. Several of his descendants tooks the name of DAMBOISE.

!MILITARY: Adrien Bergeron, "Aux origines acadiennes: Barthelemy Bergeron, héros méconnu," [part 1] in LES MÉMOIRES DE LA SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉALOGIQUE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE; vol. XX, no.3 (Jul-Aug-Sep 1969, issue 101); pp. 158-173. In French, details the history of this man in Acadia, including his incarceration with his family in Boston in 1704.

    Continued in part 2 in same journal, vol. XX, no. 4 (Oct-Nov-Dec 1969, issue 102); pp. 201-219.

!MARRIAGE: Janet Jehn, CORRECTIONS & ADDITIONS TO ARSENAULT'S HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1550-1850; Covington, KY, author, 1988; p. 3 (reference to p. 428); own copy. Barthelémy's wife Genevieve SERREAU dit SAINT-AUBIN was not the widow of Jacques PETITPAS; this was her sister Marguerite. (Reference "Coll. des Documents Inedits" published by LE CANADA-FRANCAISE, vol. 3; Quebec, 1890; p. 167.) [Stephen A. White's Dictionnaire disagrees with this.]

1. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 122.

   No date given for birth.

2. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 122.

   Commerçant (he was a merchant).

3. ↑ Thomas J. Laforest. Our French-Canadian Ancestors. (various)
   vol. XIX.

   Barthélemy BERGERON was a soldier in the first Compagnie Franche de la Marine, a companion of Iberville. Navigator, ship's captain and privateer, he sailed all of his life in the area of the Bay of Fundy.

   Covers many names, including Andre BERGERON, in Chapter 5.

4. ↑ ACADIAN-CAJUN-L@rootsweb.com.

   DAMBOUC [sic, this is a mistranscription, should be DAMBOISE], living with a wife, three sons and three daughters.

   Posting by Rich Bergeron (rgergeron1@mn.rr.com) in Dec 2004.

5. ↑ Baptism entry.

   http://www.damboise-gen.ca/documents/BarthelemyBergeron.pdf