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Joseph Simon Daigle
b.20 Nov 1738 Pisiquit, Mines, Acadia
d.19 Jan 1814 Saint Basile, Madawaska (county), New Brunswick, Canada
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m. Abt 1715
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m. 23 Nov 1762
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FROM UPPER SAINT JOHN RIVER VALLEY: "272. Joseph Simon DAIGLE was born on 20 Nov 1738 in Mines, Acadia. (528)(529) He was married to Marguerite GUILBEAULT on 23 Nov 1762 in St-Francois de Montmagny, Quebec. (530)(531) (532) After escaping British troops in 1755 with parents and brother Jean-Baptiste, and finding refuge in Quebec, Joseph and his brother returned to Acadia and settled on the St. John river at Ste-Anne's, not far from today's Fredericton. In a survey of the inhabitants of the St.John River valley undertaken by Maj. Guilford Studholm on behalf of the provincial government, Joseph appears with his wife and 4 children; they had been settled there for 14 years, that is, since 1769. He was listed as express mail carrier. , number 14 With the arrival of Loyalists after British withdrawal from American colonies, however, the brothers moved again. Joseph moved to Madawaska, and Jean-Baptiste to Nipisiguit. 273. Marguerite GUILBEAULT was born about 1739 in Port-Royal, Acadia. (533) Children were: child136 i. Jean Baptiste DAIGLE." 528. Bona Arsenault. Histoire et Genealogie des Acadiens. Quebec, 1965. p.764 (Arsenault gives birth place as Pisiguit). 529. Denis Beauregard. Dictionnaire Genealogique de Nos Origines: Acadie. on web site: http://www.cam.org/~beaur/gen/welcome.html. citing BRD. References
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