ARSENAULT, Abraham

Family/Spouse: GAUDET, Jeanne 1684. Jeanne (daughter of GAUDET, Pierre L'Aine and BLANCHARD, Anne) was born in 1679 in Pisiguit, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada; died on 28 Juil 1732 in Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. ARSENAULT, Marie Josephe was born on 27 Jul 1702 in Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, Canada; died on 1 Oct 1784 in St Pierre and Miquelon.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Acadian who emigrated from France
• Relation to Me: 8 GGF
• _DNA: match (Michelle - paternal)

Pierre married DUGAS, Marguerite Marie in 1675. Marguerite (daughter of DUGAS, Abraham and DOUCET, Marguerite Louise) was born in 1657; died in 1687 in Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Acadian
• _DNA: Match (paternal)

Notes:

Birth:
Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada

Notes:

Married:
Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada

Living + Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: common ancestors - Michelle & Jim Acadian who emigrated from France
• _DNA: match

Notes:

Abraham Dugas (son of Roy Dugast) was born 1616 in St-Anne Auray, Brittany of Toulouse, Languedoc, France, and died 1700 in Port-Royal, Acadia, Canada. He married Marguerite Judith Doucet on 1647 in Port Royal, Acadia (Nova Scotia), daughter of Germain Doucet and Marie Bourgeois.

Notes for Abraham Dugas:
He arrived in Port Royal in 1640 with D'Aulnay. He was an Armourer for the King. Was given the designation of Lieutenant General in Acadia. Lived on the shore the Annapolis River, close to the site of Fort Anne, Annapolis Royal.

The first Dugas in North America was Abraham Dugas, gunsmith, born about 1616. A native of Toulouse, France, he arrived in Acadia from France in 1640 at the age of 24. Abraham settled at Port Royal where he practiced his trade of gunsmith. He married Marguerite Doucet, the daughter of Germain Doucet, dit Laverdure, and Marie Bourgeois, at Port Royal in 1647.

Abraham was kept busy at his trade, because, by the Acadian census of 1671, every man and boy over the age of 13 owned a gun. Not only were the guns necessary for hunting; they were also used in the defense of the colony, which was almost constantly under attack by the British. Abraham Dugas also farmed and held the offices of justice of the peace and syndic (chief of police) at Port Royal. He acquired a fair amount of wealth for the time. Abraham and Marguerite had three sons and five daughters. Their children married into the Melanson, Bourgeois, Arsenault, Bourg (Bourg), Guilbaud (Guilbeaux) and LeBlanc families. The family spread across the colony, and by the second generation there were Dugas at Grand Pré, Cobéquid, Beaubassin and Cap-de-Sable. The wide geographic spread of the family insured that its members would be scattered far and wide by the deportation and its aftermath.

Abraham II DUGAS was born in 1616 in de la Chausse, Toulouse, FRANCE. He was christened about 1616 in La Chaussee,Loudun,Vienne,France. He died about 1698 in Port Royal, Acadie. He was buried in 1698 in L'Acadie Que. He married Marguerite Louise DUCET about 1647 in Of Port Royal,Annapolis,Nova Scotia,Canada. He was employed as in Gunsmith. [Parents]

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Abraham was "armorer of the King" and Lieutenant General in the army ofRoy in Acadie(Nova Scotia), where he arrived in 1640. He was probably acivil administrator and judge rather than military.In the 1671 census ofPort Royal he is listed as a plowman having 16 arpents of clearedland.[woodward.FTW]
Abraham was "armorer of the King" and Lieutenant General in the army ofRoy in Acadie(Nova Scotia), where he arrived in 1640. He was probably acivil administrator and judge rather than military.In the 1671 census ofPort Royal he is listedas a plowman having 16 arpents of cleared land.

Armourer and Lieutenant-General of the King in Acadia. He probably came from Brye, near Martaize, in Poitou. However according to Bona Arsenault, he originally came from Toulouse. Ref: Beloved Acadia of My Ancestors.

Armourer - Lieutenant General Abraham Dugas was born 1616 in St Anne Auray, Brittany , and died Aft1698 in Port Royal, Acadia. He married Marguerite Louise Doucet Abt 1645in Port Royal, Acadia, daughter of Germain Doucet and Marie Bourgeois.Abraham was "armorer of the King" and Lieutenant General in Acadie, wherehe arrived in 1640. In 1671 census of Port Royal he is listed as aplowman having 16 arpents of cleared land. Lt.Gen. at Port Royal wasprobably a civil administrator and judge rather than military

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Abraham Dugas was born 1616 in St Anne Auray, Brittany1, and died Aft.1698 in Port Royal, Acadia2. He married Marguerite Louise Doucet Abt.1647 in Port Royal, Acadia3, daughter of Germain Doucet and MarieBourgeois. Notes for Abraham Dugas: Abraham was "armorer of the King" and Lieutenant General in Acadie, wherehe arrived in 1640. In 1671 census of Port Royal he is listed as aplowman having 16 arpents of cleared land. Soldier of the King, Native of Toulouse, France, and Lieutenant Generalin Acadie, arrived in Port Royal circa 1640. Bona Arseneault v. 2, p254,par 4. Abraham came to the new world to Port Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada about1640 which in those days was known as Acadia. He came to Nova Scotia asLieutenant General in the army of Roy. He married about 1647 toMarguerite and had eight children. Lt.Gen. at Port Royal was probably a civil administrator and judge ratherthan military. More About Abraham Dugas: Immigration: 1640, Port Royal,Acadia4
Children of Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Doucet are: Marie Dugas, born 1648 in Port Royal, Acadia; died July 08, 1737 in PortRoyal, Acadia. Claude Dugas, born 1652 in Port Royal, Acadia; died October 16, 1732 inPort Royal, Acadia. Anne Marie Dugas, born 1654 in Port Royal, Acadia. Marguerite Dugas, born 1657 in Port Royal, Acadia; died Abt 1685 inBeaubassin, Acadia. Abraham Dugas, born 1663 in Port Royal, Acadia; died 1720 in Port Royal,Acadia. Madeleine Dugas, born 1664 inPort Royal, Acadia; died August 1738 inPort Royal, Acadia. Martin Dugas, born 16565. He married Marguerite Petitpas 16766.
from "Someday" Steve and Natalie Fleming`s Homepage - Internet

From WFT VOL 5 PED 3663: Dit Coignet Du Gas
He was the royal armorer and Lieutenant-General of Acadia who arrived inPort-Royal around 1640 (Arsenault Vol 2 p 524), also cited in fn # 37 isa note of Father Archange Godbout in the Quebec Arcives and Memoires dela Societe GenealogiqueCanadienne-Francaise Vol VI pp 371-388. In the1678 census of Port-Royal, he and Marguerite Doucet had 12 acres, 20cattle, 1 gun, one son age 18 and two daughters ages 15 and 12. Source "In search of our Acadian Roots CD (C-Hale GEDCOM)
"Louis Dugas, a fourth generation descendant, was born in 1703 and withhis family was deported to Connecticut. Members of his brother Charles(born 1712) and his family were deported to Massachusetts, later in 1772they settled in Ste Foy, Quebec. Cerrtain members of a fourth brother,Michel, born 1715, settled in Quebec and Rimouski." from Internet site - "Arcadian Roots"

More About Abraham Dugas:
Occupation 1: Gunsmith.
Occupation 2: He was an armorer who turned plowman, and in 1671 he had sixteen arpents of land.

More About Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Judith Doucet:
Marriage: 1647, Port Royal, Acadia (Nova Scotia).

Children of Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Judith Doucet are:
+Claude Dugas, b. 1652, Port Royal, Acadia, Canada, d. October 16, 1732, Port-Royal, Acadia, Canada.

Historical notes on the Dugas family.
May 4, 1933

Abraham Dugas, the first name that came to America, was left Toulouse in 1640, to go s'establir Acadia. His ancestors were from Lyonnals.
Their original name WAS Crignet. In the seventeenth century, a member of this family was distinguished by prominent military, he was created a Knight of St. Louis and received the king a large area, called the field of Gas. Its crest as it keeps the Dugas of Lyon, was by mouth with the chief two swords in saltire and in quince peak.

His family was known as the Gas Crignet. Gradually she abandoned her original name and kept only one of the Gas she later wrote Du Gas, and finally Dugas. In the relations of the Jesuits found written on behalf of the Gas. The quince is on the shield is in memory of the first name.
Abraham Dugas was 22 years old when he moved to Port Royal in Acadia. He was a gunsmith's king. In the year 1647, he married a Port-Royal Acadian named Louise Doucet. By his marriage he had several children: we know the names of only six: Claude, Abraham and Martin, Anne Marie and Madeleine. Claude and Abraham are the ancestors of all Dugas of Arcadia and the province of Quebec; they form two branches, the branch of Abraham and the branch of Claude, Martin has remained single. Anne married Charles Bourgeois Port-Royal: it happens to be the maternal ancestor of Dr. Mignault, of Montreal, was the 6th generation, married Madeleine Germain Bourgeois, in 1682, in Port Royal; and is the maternal ancestor of Mirault and Robichaud of Saint-Jacques. Mary married at Port Royal, Charles Melancon; and it is the ancestor of families Melancon of Saint-Jacques and Montreal. There were several alliances between Melancon and Dugas branch.

Claude.

In the years 1755-56, when the dispersion of the Acadians, many of the branch Dugas of Claude were deported to Boston. Three brothers, Joseph, Daniel and Blaise, son of Claude Dugas and Josette Melancon, were exiled until 1773. Blaise married there and never returned to Canada. Two of his sons Blaise and Firmin and later moved to Saint-Jacques of Bass. One of the girls named Sara Blaise married at Saint-Jacques, Francis Faucher. It is the grandfather of the Rev. Faucher father and his brothers by their grandmother belonged to a branch of Claude Dugas.
Joseph and Daniel Dugas, brothers of Blaise, were both located in Saint-Jacques. That is what are all their descendants who then have to scattered in other parishes. Monsignor Dugas, of Cohoes, and his brothers are part of the Clauge and the canon Dugas, of Joliette.

The branch of Abraham has only one stem in the province of Quebec.
Historical notes on the Dugas family

Alexandre Dugas, great grand-son of Abraham, escaped the English fled through the woods, and after a journey of adventure, hardship and misery, has to get to Halifax and Quebec has. In the year 1765, he was pitched in the parish of St-Henri de Mascouche. It's that he died in 1789. He married an Acadian named Josette Brassard, daughter of J. Bte Brassard and Cecile Babin. By his marriage he had three girls and two boys. The eldest son named Francois, born in 1774 in Mascouche, married at St-Jacques of Bass in 1803, Angelique Dupuis. It is the ancestors of the Abbe G. Dugas, a former course of Ste-Anne des Plaines; Father of T. Dugas, cure of Bourbonnais; two Jesuits, Napoleon and Jacques Dugas, and and fire judges J. Dugas, of Joliette. One of the brothers of Alexander Dugas named Charles, after having been long browser between Halifax and Quebec, established in the province of Quebec. He is the great grandfather of the late J. Dugas, of Dawson. R.

(The Bulletin of Historical Research)

Died:
Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada

Abraham married DOUCET, Marguerite Louise in 1647 in Port Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada. Marguerite (daughter of DOUCET, Germain of LaVerdure and BOURGEOIS, Marie) was born in 1625 in Couperans-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France; died on 19 Dec 1707. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: common ancestor - Michelle & Jim - Acadian who emigrated from France
• _DNA: match
• Death: 19 Dec 1707, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada

Notes:

Died:
Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada

Notes:

Married:
Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada

Germain married BOURGEOIS, Marie in 1620 in LaVerdure, Coutran, Bassevelle, Brie, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France. Marie was born in 1597 in Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France; died in 1654 in Loudun, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]