Person:Jean Bergeron (1)

!RESIDENCES-IMMIGRATION: Lucie LeBlanc Consentino, "Our Acadian and French Canadian Ancestral Home," webpage found at <www.geocities.com/lucieleblanc,geo/acadians-new-orleans.html> in Jun 2000. Jean Baptiste BERGERON, son of Michel & Marie DUGAS [sic], married to Marguerite BERNARD, daughter of Jean-Baptiste & Cécile GAUDET [sic]. He was one of 231 Acadians found on a list made in New Orleans of those wanting to exchange their card money from Canada for Spanish money (document found by Rene Babineau when he researched in France, copy now at the Erath Museum in Louisiana). Jean-Baptiste died 2 Nov 1765 [sic] at Saint-Martinville.

!BIRTH-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES-CENSUS: Acadian Memorial, ACADIAN DATABASE; website <http://vixen.1stnet.com/am/FMPro>. Jean Baptiste BERGERON dit d'Amboise (DAMBOISES), born 1722 at Port Royal, Nova Scotia, son of Barthelémy [sic] & Marguerite DUGAS. He married Marguerite BERNARD; six children listed. He was possibly among the Acadian prisoners of war at Halifax, Nova Scotia on 16 Aug 1763.

    On the 9 Apr 1766 census of Cabannocé: occupied farmstead 6 arpents wide on right bank of the Mississippi River. They owned 5 hogs, 2 firearms. Living with them was Théotiste THIBODEAU (widow GAUDIN) and her daughter Barbe.
    On the 14 Sep 1769 census of St. Jacques de Cabannocé: he was head of household, age 47, living with wife Marguerite BERNARD, age 40, and four children, aged 17 to 9 months. They had six arpents frontage, with 8 cattle, 1 horse, 20 hogs, and 3 muskets.
    On the 15 Apr 1777 census of right bank of Mississippi River at St. Jacques de Cabannocé: he was age 45 [sic, should be 55?], living with Marguerite BERNARD, age 47, and four children. They had 15 arpents frontage, with 24 cows and 4 horses.
    On 17 Jun 1777 he was a member [?] of the militia unit of St. Jacques de Cabannocé that captured DUBREUIL's boat and arrested its crew. The muster roll of the unit indicates that he was a corporal, name Baptiste DAMBOISES.

!LAND: Maduell, FEDERAL LAND GRANTS IN THE TERRITORY OF ORLEANS--THE DELTA PARISHES; 1790-1815; New Orleans, Polyanthos, 1975; p. 312; Santa Cruz Genealogical Library, LOUIS 7; Adapted from AMERICAN STATE PAPERS, PUBLIC LANDS, vol. 2, arranged by counties as they existed in 1812. Jean Baptiste BERGERON, #14-395, comprised 13 arpents fronting the bayou by a depth of 40 arpents opening toward the rear by 13 degrees and bounded upstream by Baptiste BOURGEOIS and downstream by Mathurin LEBLANC.

1. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780. (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version)
   BERNARD - & BERGERON no. 2 b & BERGERON no. 7.

   Jean-Baptiste BERGERON dit d'AMBOISE, born around 1722 (according to S. A. White) son of Michel & unknown mother.
   Note i at end of family: We believe that Jean-Baptiste BERGERON, husband of Marguerite BERNARD, must belong to the family of Michel BERGERON. Being born around 1722, Jean-Baptiste must be the son either of Michel or of Barthélemy BERGERON. For unquestionable reasons we must conclude that Barthélemy was the father of another Jean-Baptiste, who married Catherine CAISSIE. It is necessary then to suppose that the husband of Marguerite BERNARD was the son of Michel BERGERON.
   
   However, separate entry as head of family in BERGERON no. 7 lists Jean-Baptiste's parents as Michel (2) BERGERON & Marie DUGAS [sic].

   Fix parents in BERGERON no. 7?

2. ↑ Bona Arsenault. Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens. (Montreal: Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.)
   p. 1615 (Riviere St-Jean).

   Jean-Baptiste BERGERON, born 1722, son of Barthelémy [sic] & Marguerite DUGAS [sic], settled in Louisiana.

3. ↑ Clopha J. Theriot. "Family Tree in Ascending Order". (Printout from Family Tree Maker, 2001)
   p. [5] in Solar.

   Jean Baptiste BERGERON died 1765 in St. James, LA.

4. ↑ Lillian C. Bourgeois. Cabanocey. (New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 1957.)
   pp. 12-13.

   Some Acadians came here [St. James, LA] early in 1765. These were part of a group, many of whom settled in St. James and Ascension Parishes which became known as the Acadian Coast. Jean Baptiste BERGERON headed a list of 32 Acadians furnished by MAXENT in "Recapitulation des reçus fournis aux Acadiens refugies à Louisiane....1765" (cites Paris Archives, NAT. COLONIES, C 13 A 45: 29).

5. ↑ Lillian C. Bourgeois. Cabanocey. (New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 1957.)
   p. 163.

   On the right [sic] bank of the Mississippi River, on 6 arpents of land, with 5 hogs and 2 guns:
   Jean Baptiste BERGERON, 44;
   Marguerite BERNARD, his wife, 36;
   Jean Baptiste, son, 16;
   Marin, son, 12;
   Mathurin, son, 10;
   Marie, daughter, 14;
   Theotiste THIBODAU, widow GODIN, 26;
   Barbé, her daughter, 5.

6. ↑ Bona Arsenault. Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens. (Montreal: Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.)
   p. 2419 (Louisiana).

   Jean Baptiste married Marguerite BERNARD (born in 1730); six children. In 1766 the widow GODIN (Theotiste THIBODEAU), age 26, lived with them along with her daughter Barbe, 5 years old. [She was his 1st cousin one generation removed; her husband was also his 1st cousin].

7. ↑ New Orleans Genesis
   vol. 8, no. 30 (Mar 1969), p. 111.

   On the 1766 census of Cabahanoce (St. James, LA), Jean Baptiste BERGERON was living on Sec. 64, in Welcome. He was born in 1722, and his wife Marguerite BERNARD in 1730. Among children we find: Marin; Marie; Mathurin; Jean Baptiste, Jr. (born 1750, died 1806).

   Mrs. Stephen Roy Campbell (Marie Pilkington), "Bergeron and Arceneaux and Other Families."

8. ↑ Lillian C. Bourgeois. Cabanocey. (New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 1957.)
   p. 173.

   Household #16, on right bank of Mississippi River on the Acadian Coast:
   Jean Baptiste BERGERON, 47;
   Margueritte BERNARD, wife, 40;
   Mathurain, son, 15;
   Mazain, son, 13;
   Marie BERGERON, daughter, 17;
   Rozalie, daughter, 9 months;
   
   [Oldest son Jean Baptiste [Jr.] is next door.]
   #17: Jean Baptiste BERGERON, 19.

9. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780. (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version)
   BERGERON no. 7.

   There were 8 horned cattle, 1 horse, 20 c [hogs?], on 6 arpents of land, 3 guns.

10. ↑ Winston De Ville. Parish of St. James in the Province of Louisiana, The. (Ville Platte, LA, Author, 1987)
    p. 8.

    Jean Baptiste Dansboise [?], 45 [sic]; Marguerite Bernard, his wife, 47; Marain, son fils, 22; Mathurain, son fils, 20; Rozallie, sa fille, 8; Victoire, sa fille, 5.
    [The question mark is in the transcription, which should probably read DAMBOISE. Next entry lists their son Jean Baptiste BERGERON, 26, with wife and son.]

11. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780. (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version)
    BERGERON 2 b.

    Jean-Baptiste DAMBOISE, age 45 years (sic).

12. ↑ Eileen Larré Behrman, trans. St. James Parish, Louisiana, Colonial Records, 1782-1787. (MacBean Press, 1981)
    p. 14.

    Record for year 1783, abstract #57, on pp. 245-247 of original volume, #213 in original. Sale: Jean Baptiste BERGERON dit Damboiser & his wife Marguerite BERNARD state they have sold their farm to their son Mathurin BERGERON for 300 piastres, which he will pay to the other heirs after the death of his parents. Condition was that the said Sieur and his wife will remain on the farm during their remaining lifetime, with the consent of the other three children, named. It consists of 5 arpents 9 toises, 3 pieds front, from official report made by Don Carlos TRUDEAU, Surveyor-General of the province on 28 Nov 1780, situated on the right bank of the [Mississippi] River, bounded below by the farm of Joseph GRAVOIS, above by that of Marin BERGERON, fils.