Jean-Jacques-Nicolas  LEPRINCE

"Jacques LePrince, his father, was born in France in 1646, and married, 1678,

Marguerite Hebert, at Port Royal"

Source:

The Publications of the Champlain Society, Champlain Society

Author Champlain Society

Publisher Champlain Society, 1914

Original from the University of California

Digitized Jun 9, 2007

Page 518

"PRINCE (LE PRINCE) Jacques-Nicolas LePrince, born 1646,died 1692, a land clearer from Brittany, France ...

with Marguerite Hebert, born 1652, daughter of Etienne and of Marie Gaudet. ..."

Source:

Title Your ancient Canadian family ties

Author Reginald L. Olivier

Publisher Everton Publishers, 1972

Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison

Digitized Jun 10, 2008

Length 363 pages

Page 273

Jacques, or Jean-Jacques, Le Prince, born in c1646, birthplace unrecorded but probably in France, may have been serving in the household of notary Séverin Ameau at Trois-Rivière on the St. Lawrence at the time of the 1666 Canadian census. He moved to Port-Royal before 1671 and married Marguerite, daughter of Étienne Hébert and Marie Gaudet, in c1671, the year of the first Acadian census. Acadian genealogist Stephen A. Whites says Jacques and Marguerite were not counted in the first census because they probably "lived at a place that was far removed from the rest of the [Hébert] family." Nor do they appear in the 1678 census, but de Meulles found them at Port-Royal in 1686 and recorded that Jacques was age 40 and Marguerite 35. They lived with four children, who the intendant did not name, and owned 5 sheep and 3 hogs. Marguerite gave Jacques six children, including three sons who created families of their own and spelled their surname Leprince, which later was shortened to Prince.

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