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!BIRTH-CHRISTENING-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-DEATH-BURIAL: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 575; own copy. #(20): Jean DUGAS, son of Abraham dit GRIVOIS & Marie-Madeleine LANDRY, born 5 May 1712, baptized (Port Royal Register) 7 Jun 1712. He married (according to P. GAUDET) around 1734 to Marie-Charlotte GODIN, daughter of Gabriel & Andrée-Angélique JEANNE. He was on the 1763 census at Halifax. He died 4 Sep 1765; was buried 5 Sep 1765 at the "first upper camp," act inscribed at St. Martinville, LA on 6 Sep 1765. !OCCUPATION: Grover Rees, trans., "The Dauterive Compact: The Foundation of the Acadian Cattle Industry, in ATTAKAPAS GAZETTE; vol. XI, no.2 (summer 1976); p. 91; sent by PERSI in Apr 1999. He is probably the Jean DUGA who contracted for the six-year cattle agreement with Antoine Bernard DAUTERIVE in New Orleans on 4 Apr 1765. The eight Acadian chiefs were led by Joseph BROUSSARD called Beausoleil. !BIRTH-MARRIAGE-RESIDENCES: Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; p. 531 (Port Royal). He was at Ekoupag, at the river Saint-Jean (now New Brunswick) on the 1739 census, with his wife and 3 children, all of whom probably died at an early age [sic]. Several members of his family were settled in Louisiana. On p. 2474 (Louisiana) his entry adds about early death of children; plus Jean died at Saint-Martinville on 6 Sep 1765, soon after his wife, who had been buried at the same place on 18 Jul 1765. !PARENTS: Janet Jehn, CORRECTIONS & ADDITIONS TO ARSENAULT'S HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1550-1850; Covington, KY, author, 1988; p. 7 (for p. 531); own copy. Stephen White says parents were Claude DUGAS & Jeanne BOURG [sic]. References
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