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Facts and Events
| Name |
Guillaume Blanchard |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth? |
Abt 1650 |
Port Royal, , , Acadia |
| Alt Birth[1] |
1650 |
Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Marriage |
Abt 1673 |
Port Royal, , , Acadiato Huguette Gougeon |
| Death? |
Bef 18 Oct 1717 |
, , , Acadia |
!BIRTH-PARENTS-CENSUS-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; pp. 143 & 146; own copy. #3:
!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1625-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; p. 431 (Port Royal); own copy. Buillaume BLANCHARD, born 1650, son of Jean & Radegonde LAMBERT, married around 1672 to Huguette GOUGEON, daughter of Antoine & Jeanne CHABRAT; twelve children.
!CENSUS: 1671 Port Royal, Acadia, age 21, living with parents.
!CENSUS: 1678, Clarence J. d'Entremont, "Recensement de Port-Royal," in MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE GENEALOGIQUE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE; vol. 22, no. 4; p. 231; sent by PERSI in Jun 1999. On Folio 19: Guilleaume BLANCHARD & Huguette GOUGEON, living with two boys and one girl. They have 6 arpents of land, with 17 head of cattle and 1 gun.
!CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, age 35, with wife and 5 children. Living next door to aged parents. They have 4 guns, 5 arpens worked land, 16 cattle and 20 sheep.
!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILD-DEATH: Janet Jehn, ACADIAN DESCENDANTS; 1670-1950; vol. X, Covington, KY, Author, 1995; p. 32; own copy; a third book of ancestor charts of members of Acadian Genealogy Exchange.
References
- ↑ D./P.O.B.: c1590, France, (21 Jan 1993 CompuServe message from Dan Boudreaux:.
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Volume II, 1701-1740 .
"BLANCHARD, GUILLAUME, early settler on the Petitcodiac River; b. at Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, N.S.), 1650; son of Jean Blanchard and Radegonde Lambert; d. 1716.
In 1672 Guillaume married Huguette Gougeon, daughter of Antoine Gougeon and Jeanne Chabrat. They had 12 children between 1674 and 1698. In July 1698, Blanchard and two of his sons joined Pierre Tibaudeau on the latter’s second expedition to the Chipoudy (Shepody) River. The Blanchards, sailing in their own boat, explored the Petitcodiac before returning to Port-Royal in the autumn. In the summer of 1699 they returned to the Petitcodiac and established a small settlement, known for a time as “Village des Blanchard,” probably near the present site of Hillsborough, N.B. Blanchard returned again the next year, and in 1701 he left two sons, a daughter, and her husband to spend the winter on the Petitcodiac.
Legal suits had been threatened by Claude-Sébastien de Villieu on behalf of his father-in-law, Michel Leneuf de La Vallière (the elder), resident at Beaubassin, who claimed the Chipoudy and Petitcodiac settlements as part of his seigneury. A declaration of 1703 by the Conseil d’État, repeated in 1705, confirmed the settlers in the possession of their land, but also stated that La Vallière was to have seigneurial rights over the land. La Vallière’s successful claim destroyed the settlers’ hope of obtaining seigneurial rights for themselves and their descendants. The Blanchard family continued to grow, and numerous Blanchards, probably descendants of Guillaume, were enumerated among the more than 300 Petitcodiac settlers in 1752. Maud Hody
AN, Col., B, 27, f.153; C11D, 3, ff.225–26; 4, ff. 178–83; 5, ff.81–83 (copies in PAC); Section Outre-Mer, G1, 466 (Recensements de l’Acadie, 1671, 1686, 1693, 1698, 1700, 1701 ; copies in Archives de l’université de Moncton). PANS, MS docs., XX. Rameau de Saint-Père, Une colonie féodale, I, 239, 243–47, 254, 267–69; II, 333–37. Ganong, “Historic sites in New Brunswick,” 316."
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