flag male ancestor  Martin  BOURG

  (b. abt. 1650 Port Royal, Acadia   d. abt. 1717 Truro, Acadie )  

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Martin BOURG was born abt. 1650 in Port Royal, Acadia

Martin BOURG was the child of Antoine BOURQUE (BOURG) (BOURC)   and   Antoinette LANDRY

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Martin  married  Marie POTET abt. 1675 in Truro, Acadie .  The couple had (at least) 8 children.
Marie POTET  was born abt. 1657 in Acadia, Canada (Acadie).  Marie was the child of Jehan POTET and Marie GAUTROT (GAUTREAU).

Martin BOURG died abt. 1717 in Truro, Acadie .
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Martin, born in c1650, married Marie Potet at Port-Royal in c1675. They had 11 children, including five sons who married into the Dugas, Thériot, Blanchard, Melanson, and Hébert families. Their daughters married into the Thériot, Aucoin, and Hébert families. In July 1701, Martin, already a resident of Cobeguit, sold 'a homestead situated along the rivière du Dauphin (Annapolis River), on the estate of the late M. d'Entremont,' to Nicolas Babineau dit Deslauriers. Martin died at Cobeguit. One of his sons, Abraham le jeune, served as a delegate for Upper Cobeguit to the Nova Scotia Council; he performed this duty until 1726, when he asked to be relieved due to lameness and infirmity.
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1695 - Oath of Allegiance to King William III
In August 1695, English authorities imposed on the Acadian inhabitants at Port-Royal an oath of allegiance to King William III. Many family heads signed or made their marks on the document that attested to their having taken the oath. Louis Allain, Jean Babineau, called Babinot, Jean Bastarache, Jean Belliveau, Martin and Guillaume Blanchard, Bernard and Martin Bourg, François Broussard, Pierre Cellier, called Le Cellier, Étienne, Jean l'aîné, Pierre l'aîné, and Pierre le jeune Comeau, Jean Corporon, Pierre Doucet, Claude Dugas, ___ Dupuis, Jean Fardel (an Englishman whose wife was a Gaudet), Pierre Gaudet, Jacob and Alexandre Girouard, Laurent Granger, Giraud (Jérôme) Guérin, Emmanuel Hébert, Claude and Pierre Landry, Daniel LeBlanc, Jacques Léger dit La Rosette, Pierre Martin, fils, Étienne Pellerin, Martin Richard, Charles Robichaud dit Cadet, François Robin, Germain Savoie, Pierre Sibilau, Claude and Bonaventure Thériot, and Jacques Triel dit Laperrière--all made their marks....Read MORE...


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1700 Port Royal
Martin BOURG 41; Marie POTET (wife) 41; Abraham 20; Pierre 18; Amhroise 14; Francois 12; Jeanne 16; Anne-Marie 9; 13 cattle, 21 sheep, 30 arpents, 2 guns.
1700 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion
Kings and Queens1715 - September 1 - Louis XV becomes King of France
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