Person:Pierre Maisonnat (1)

!BIRTH-PARENTS-CENSUS-OCCUPATION-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; pp. 223 & 1114; own copy. #1: Pierre MAISONNAT dit Baptiste, son of E'lie & Jeanne SE'GURE, born in Bergerac, Guyenne (Guiana) around 1663. He was a pirate, ship captain. He married 1st around 1686 to Judith SOUBIRAN; five children. He married again around 1693 (the marriage was annulled, because he was already married) to Madeleine BOURG, 16-year-old daughter of Francois & Marguerite BOUDROT; daughter born around 1695. He married 3rd on 12 Jan 1707 at Port-Royal to Marguerite BOURGEOIS, daughter of Jacques & Jeanne TRAHAN; daughter born 1707.

!NAME: Check spelling. MAISONNAT?

!BIRTH-NAME-PARENTS-OCCUPATION-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN: Arsenault, H&G, p. 671-672 (Port Royal). Born in 1653, naval captain and famous pirate. From the parish Saint James, Bergerac, diocese of Perigueux, France. He married around 1685 in France to Judith SOUBIROU; and at Beaubassin to Marguerite BOURGEOIS.

!MARRIAGES-OCCUPATION-CHILDREN: See article "Pierre Baptiste - The Rascal" by Clarence d'ENTREMONT in Who's Who, vol. 3. He married Madeleine BOURG in Port Royal, Acadia, while he still had at least one wife and child in France.

!CENSUS: 1693, Port Royal, Acadia, age 30 years, name "Le Sr. Pierre BAPTISTE." Married to Magdeleine BOURG, age 16. They have 15 cattle, 30 sheep, 10 pigs, on 30 arpents of land, with 15 [!] guns. [No child yet.]

!MARRIAGE: Declared null, Madeleine BOURG later married Pierre LE BLANC (see French Canadian and Acadian Genealogical Revue, Winter 1968).

!CENSUS: 1698,Port Royal, Acadia, age 45 years (sic).

!CENSUS: 1700,Port Royal, Acadia, age 37 years.

!CENSUS: 29 Aug 1714, Beaubassin, Acadia.

1. ↑ Clarence J. d'Entremont & Hector J. Hébert. "Parkman's Diary and the Acadian exiles in Massachusetts". (in FRENCH CANADIAN AND ACADIAN GENEALOGICAL REVIEW,vol. 1, no. 3 (Winter 1968), pp. 241-294.)
   p. 256.

   Born in 1663 in Bergerac, diocese of Périgeux, France, son of Hélie MAISONNAT & Jeanne SEGURE [sic].
   A footnote on p. 255 adds: Bergerac, Dept. of Dordogne, is quite far from Toulouse, Dept. of Haute-Gironde, near where VAUDREUIL came from, and where he wrote that "he had known a French wife of Baptiste."

2. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes, "Ajouts et corrections". (University of Moncton, Centre d'études acadiennes)
   for p. 1114.

   Born 5 Jun 1658, baptized 7 Jul 1658 (Bergerac Register, protestant temple) in Bergerac, Guyenne, son of mother named Jeanne CHIGNIAC.

3. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 1114.

   He was a pirate ("corsaire, capitaine de port").

4. ↑ Clarence J. d'Entremont & Hector J. Hébert. "Parkman's Diary and the Acadian exiles in Massachusetts". (in FRENCH CANADIAN AND ACADIAN GENEALOGICAL REVIEW,vol. 1, no. 3 (Winter 1968), pp. 241-294.)
   p. 251.

   "He is labeled in different documents as a soldier, a sailor, a pilot, a ship master, a captain, a privateer, a buccaneer, a freebooter, a flibuster, a pirate and a rascal. In to-day's language we would add that he was also a 'fourflusher' and a 'playboy'.

5. ↑ Charles C. Trahan, trans. Acadian Census 1671-1752. (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1994)
   1700/p. 5.

   Piere [sic] BAPTISTE, age 37; Judith (wife), age 40; Piere, 2; Jean, 1; Judith-Marie, 13. They have 4 cattle, 8 sheep, on 6 arpents, with 3 guns.
   
   Living next door is his "wife" in annulled bigamous marriage Madelaine BOURG, age 26, now wife of Piere [sic] LeBLANC, age 35. In that household is Piere, age 14, of husband's 1st marriage; Joseph, age 2 [child of the present marriage]; and Madelaine, age 4, the issue of the bigamous relationship. They have 30 cattle, 28 sheep, on 18 arpents, with 3 guns.

   Where was child Marie-Anne, age 13? Only one girl?