Person:Joseph Dugas (5)

!BIRTH-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-CENSUS-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 570; own copy. #(10):

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1600-1800; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, vols. 2-6; p. 1485 (Cobequid); own copy. Joseph dit "P'tit Jos" DUGAS, born around 1700, son of Joseph & Claire BOURG. He married around 1720 to Anne-Marie HÉBERT (no parents listed); twelve children [the first of these children, a son named Jean-Baptiste, born around 1720, is very unlikely, since mother would have been only 12 years old Probably same as Jean, born 1744?]. Joseph was at Ile Saint-Jean in 1752. [On p. 2476 (Louisiana) there is another son listed, Claude, born about 1723. Unlikely that there was a birth between children born 1722 and 1724.]

!RESIDENCES: Web page "Ancestors of Timothy HEBERT," at <http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/b/Tim-R-Hebert/GENE3-0001.html>, e-mail address (thebert@cajun.net). Joseph's sister Claire DUGAS lived at Grande Ascension in 1752 also, "Davies Point, at the mouth of the Vernon and Orwell Rivers (aka Centia Point)." Orwell Rivers (aka Centia Point)."

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Albert J. Robichaux, THE ACADIAN EXILES IN SAINT-MALO; 1758-1785; vol. 1, pt. 1, Eunice, LA, Hebert Publications, 1981; p. 296, family #362; own copy. Joseph DUGAST, head of family, born about 1700 (no parents given), a ploughman. He married about 1720 to Anne-Marie HEBERT (no parents given); five children are listed. In 1752, Joseph, Anne-Marie his wife, and their five children were residents of Grande-Ascension on Isle St. Jean. Joseph and Anne DUGAST with [only] two of those children disembarked at St. Malo on 23 Jan 1759 from one of the "Five Ships." Joseph [Sr.] and his wife and at least one child died at sea during the crossing to France in 1758-1759.

1. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780. (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version)
   p. 646.

   Joseph dit Petit Jos DUGAS, born around 1700 [sic], son of Joseph (5) & Claire BOURG (cites Louisiana dispensation).

   Is this based on his age on 1752 LaRoque census, when he was 50 [not 52]?

2. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780. (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version)
   p. 646.

   Age 59 years (Archives of Port St-Servan).

3. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 570.

   He died (Arch[ives of] Port St-Servan) at sea in 1758/1759, during the crossing to France, age 59 years.

4. ↑ Public Archives of Canada. Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, vol. II, pt. A. (1905; reprint Bowie, MD, Heritage Books, 1994.)
   pp. 116-117.

   Joseph DUGAS, ploughman, native of l'Acadie, age 50 [sic] years, has been 15 months in the country, at Grande Ascension. Married to Anne Marie HEBERT, native of l'Acadie, age 50 years; they have two sons and four daughters: Joseph DUGAS, age 10 years;
   Jean, age 8 years;
   Margueritte, age 18 years;
   Françoise, age 13 years;
   Anne, age 5 years.
   Their livestock is: 5 oxen, 3 cows, 7 wethers, 3 ewes, 4 pigs, and 5 fowls. The land on which they are settled is situated east of the Riviere de la Grande Ascension, given to them verbally by Monsieur de BONNAVENTURE. On it they have made a clearing for the sowing of 2 bushels of wheat in the spring.

   Original a Sessional Paper no. 18 of the Archives; includes the census by the Sieur de la Roque at Isle St. Jean in 1752.

5. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 570.

   He was on the 1752 LaRoque census, age 52 [sic] years.