Person:Jacques Leger (1)

!BIRTH-CENSUS-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-DEATH-BURIAL: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 1043; own copy. #2: Jacques married before the 1693 census.

!CENSUS: 1693, Port Royal, Acadia, age 30 years.

!CENSUS: 1698, age 30 years (sic).

!CENSUS: 1700, age 37 years.

!CENSUS: 1701, age 35 years (sic).

!BIRTH-NAME-IMMIGRATION-OCCUPATION-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS, vols. 1-6; 1630-1775; Quebec, Le Conseil de la Vie Francaise en Amerique, 1965; p. 660 (Port Royal); Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Library, CS31 A77 MAIN. Born in 1668, "dit LAROSETTE," he was "soldat-tambour [soldier-drummer] venu de France" [so described by his nephew-in-law Pierre TRAHANT in the Belle-Ile-en-Mer testimony]. Married around 1694 to Madeleine TRAHAN; ten children listed [two may be the same person--Francoise born 1703, and Marie-Francoise born 1706].

!OCCUPATION-IMMIGRATION: "Genealogy and Family History: The Trahans of Acadia," in FRENCH CANADIAN AND ACADIAN GENEALOGICAL REVIEW; 1629-1752; Vol. II, No. 1 (Spring 1969); pp. 19-27; Sutro State Library (San Francisco), CS 80 F7; Article is reprinted with permission of LA SOCIETE HISTORIQUE ACADIENNE. Footnote on p. 25 cites the GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS DE BELLE-ISLE-EN-MER, Locmaria-I. "Jacques LEGER dit La Rozette was a drummer soldier who came from France to Port Royal."

!DEATH: See Ancestor Chart of Arthur O. KOHN, sent in Jan 1995. [Wrong.]