Person:Jacqueline Benoit (1)

!BIRTH-PARENTS-CENSUS-MARRIAGES-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 105; own copy.

!BIRTH-NAME-MARRIAGE: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS, vols. 1-6; 1630-1775; Quebec, Le Conseil de la Vie Francaise en Amerique, 1965; p. 1330 (Pisiguit); Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Library, CS31 A77 MAIN. Her nickname in parenthesis is Jaquette. Which Michel de Forest from Port Royal did she marry 1st? 2nd marriage to Guillaume TRAHAN, also of Port Royal.

!MARRIAGES: She was age 13 at 1st marriage, Michel was 47, as listed on 1686 census. Were there no children from this marriage? Her first child was born about 1687, surnamed TRAHAN. But could it have been adopted as an infant? There is a 5-year gap before her next child with Guillaume TRAHAN.

!NAME: Jacqueline, daughter of Martin BENOIST and Marie CHAUSSEGROS, both from France. (See Acads. of B-I-en-M, in NOG.) Sometimes spelled BESNOIST ("Acad. of Belle-Isle-en-Mer".)

!CENSUS: 1678, Clarence J. d'Entremont, "Recensement de Port-Royal," in MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE GENEALOGIQUE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE; vol. 22, no. 4; p. 232; sent by PERSI in Jun 1999. On verso of Folio 19: oldest child, age 7, in household of Martin BENOIST Labriere & Marie CHAUSSEGROS. There are also two boys, and one other girl.

!CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, age 13, living with Michel DE FOREST, age 47, and his 6 children from the first marriage. Four of the sons are her age or older. Her name is spelled Jaqueline.

1.   Acadian and French Canadian Ancestral Home.

   Jacqueline, the first daughter, married Michel de Forest in 1686 at the age of 13. Michel’s great uncle, Jesse De Forest was the founder of New York. Michel was widowed from Marie Hébert and 47 years old when he married Jacqueline. They had one child, a girl, Marguerite, born 1687, who married Étienne Comeau in 1701. Michel de Forest died in 1690 and Jacqueline married a second time to Guillaume Trahan the same year. They had eight children, six boys and two girls. Guillaume died in 1755 before the Deportation. However, Marguerite was one of its victims and died in the autumn of 1755 either shortly before or shortly after her arrival in Virginia. Virginia refused to accept the Acadians, and they were sent to Liverpool, England, and held prisoners. Many of the children of Guillaume and Marguerite ended up in Liverpool, where at least three of them died. The others eventually made it back to France after their release at the end of the Seven Years War (known as the French and Indian War). The family of Martin Benoist dit LaBrière and Marie Chaussegros on www.acadian-home.org

   In 1686 Port Royal Census, she is listed in both the home of Martin Benoist as Jacquette and in the home of Michel Deforest.
   --Martin BENOIST 42, Marie CHAUSSEGROS 30; children: Pierre 11, Pierre 3, Clement 9, Jean 5, Jacquette 13, Marie 8; 4 hogs.
   --Michel DEFOREST 47, Jacqueline BENOIST 13; children by his first wife (Marie HEBERT): Michel 19, Pierre 18, Rene 16, Gabriel 13, Marie 11, Jean-Baptiste 9; 1 gun, 5 arpents, 8 sheep, 4 hogs.

2.   1693 Census - Mines
   Guillaume TRAHAN 26, Jaqueline BENOIT his wife 20, Marguerite 6, Angelique 1; 6 cattle, 3 sheep, 4 hogs, 6 arpents, 1 gun.
   
   1701 Census - LA RIVIERE STE CROIX, Colony of Mines
   Guillaume TRAHAN, his wife, 2 boys, 1 girl, 8 arpents, 71 cattle, 7 sheep, 2 hogs.
   
   1703 Census - Les Mines
   Guillaume TRAHAN, his wife, 1 boy, 1 girl, 2 arms bearers.
   
   1707 Census - Mines
   Guillaume TRAHAN, his wife, 4 boys less than 14, 1 girl less than 12; 3 arpents, 14 cattle, 12 sheep, 5 hogs.
   
   1714 Census - Des Mines, DE LA RIVIERE PISIGUIT
   Guillaume TRAHAN and his wife, 6 sons, 1 daughter.
3.   !Found this on Ancestry.com: # Name: Jacqueline BENOIT
   Sex: F
   Birth: 1672 in Port Royale, Acadia
   Death: 1755 in Aboard Ship, Coast of Virginia
   Note: Jacqueline, the eldest daughter of Martin and Marie Benoit, was the first Benoit born in America. She married Michel De Forest at the age of 13. When she married, Jacqueline inherited Michel's six children, three of whom were older then she. She only had one child with Michel. Jacqueline was 17 when Michel died in 1690. Jacqueline remarried to Guillaume Trahan in 1690 and moved to Pisiquit. She had 8 children of this marriage. Guillaume died in Pisiquit in 1755 at the age of 88. Jacqueline died in Virginia upon her arrival there in 1755 at the age of 82. She was one of a group of 1200 deportees who were refused entry into Virginia. Conditions aboard ship were such that hundreds died, and she was one of them. (Compiled by M. F. Stim, Researcher) Link to record on Ancestry.com