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Jean Aubin Migneault, dit Chatillon
b.Feb 1650 , , Quebec, Canada
d.5 Sep 1712 Quebec, , Quebec, Canada
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m. 26 Apr 1679
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!BIRTH-CHRISTENING-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-CENSUS-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; pp. 253 & 1188; own copy. Jean-Aubin was on the 1666 census at Beauport, age 16 years. !CENSUS: 1686, Beaubassin, Acadia, age 36 years. !CENSUS: 1693, age 43 years. !CENSUS: 1698, age 44 years (sic). !CENSUS; 1700, age 49 years. NAME: Also spelled MIGNEAULT, MIGNAULT. !RESIDENCES: "The Story of Etienne Aubin (Migneault)," in LA SOCIETE HISTORIQUE ACADIENNE, #40, vol. 4, no. 10 (Jul-Sep 1973), pp. 420-421. Jean Aubin...had come with the Seigneur Michel Leneuf de la Valliere, and become one of the richest man [sic] of the little colony [Beaubassin]. He had married in 1679 Anne Dugas, the widow of a military surgeon, and would have probably ended his days there in peace and comfort had not Colonel Church, a New Englander, raided the place in 1704, and practically destroyed it, in retaliation, it is said, of the Rouville's attack on Deerfield, and Jean Aubin returned to Quebec and made his home at Kamouraska." !MARRIAGE: Winston De Ville, ACADIAN CHURCH RECORDS; 1679-1757; Ville Platte, LA, 1993, reprint of Polyanthos, c.1964; p. 2; California State Library Sutro, CS88 A25D4 v.1 1993. Marriage at Beaubassin on 26 Apr 1679, between Jean Aubin MEIGNAUX of the parish of Beauport near Quebec, Canada, son of Jean Baptiste MEIGNAUX & Louise CLOUTIER, to Anne DUGAST of the parish of St. Jean Baptiste of Port Royal, widow of Charles BOURGEOIS, habitant of Beaubassin, daughter of Abraham DUGAST & Marguerite DOUCET. Witnesses: Mr. de la VALLIERE, knight, seigneur of Beaubassin and commandant for the king in Acadia; Mr. Abraham DUGAST, father of the widow; Claude DUGAST, the widow's brother. [The Commandant had also witnessed a wedding 2 days before, to another local widow and a Frenchman. Were these at his instigation?] !CHILDREN-CHRISTENING-NAME: Spelled MEIGNAUX on daughter Cecile's christening record at Beaubassin in 1683, and on son Alexis' in 1685. !CENSUS: 1686, Beaubassin, Acadia, age 36. With wife and her 3 children with first husband, plus 3 of his own. They have 2 guns, 8 arpens worked land, 20 cattle, 4 sheep and 24 pigs. References
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