Germain  BOURGEOIS

'Germain, born in c1650, married Madeleine, daughter of Antoine Belliveau, probably at Chignecto in c1673. They had three children, including a son who married into the Mius de Plenmarais and Thibodeau families. Their daughter married into the Breau family. Germain remarried to Madeleine, daughter of Abraham Dugas and
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Brother: Charles's wife Anne, probably at Chignecto in c1682. They had 10 children, including two sons who married into the LeBlanc family. Their eight daughters married into the Poirier, Richard dit Lafond and dit Beaupré, Girouard, LeBlanc, and Robichaud dit Prudent families. Germain commanded a ship in Pierre Le Moyne, sieur d'Iberville's attack on the New England fort at Pemaquid, Maine, in 1696 during King William's War. Later that year, Germain confronted Massachusetts Colonel Benjamin Church when the Englishman attacked Chignecto. Germaine died in 1711, in his early 60s, from the rigors of being held hostage by British Colonel Samuel Vetch in the

Jacob BOURGEOIS, Surgeon, 50; wife Jeanne TRAHAN 40; Children (two married): Jeanne 27, Charles 25, Germain 21, Marie 19, Guillaume 16, Marguerite 13, Francois 12, Anne 10, Marie 7, Jeanne 4; cattle 33, sheep 24.

1686 Census Beaubassin
Germain Bourgeois 34, Magdelaine Dugas 22; children: Guillaume 12, Marie 9, Michel 7, Magdelaine 3; 2 guns, 5 arpents, 8 cattle, 3 sheep, 4 hogs.

Germain BOURGEOIS 41, Madeleine DUGAS 26, Guillaume 18, Marie 16, Michel 14, Madeleine 10, Agnes 7, Anne 4, Joseph 1 1/ 2; 24 cattle, 23 sheep, 12 pigs, 8 arpents, 3 guns

1698 Beaubassin: Jacques Bourgeois 82, Jeanne Trahan 72, Germain 48, Madne. Dugas (wife) 34, Guillaume 24, Agnes 12; 22 cattle, 15 hogs, 21 arpents, 3 guns, 1 servant.

1700 Beaubassin: Germain Bourgeois 50, wife Madeleine Dugast 37, Guillaume 26, Joseph 11, Claude 6, Agnes 16, Anne 12, Marie 7, Francoise 2; 19 cattle, 12 hogs, 22 arpents, 5 guns.

1701 Beaubassin: Germain Bourgeois, wife, 2 boys, 4 girls; 22 cattle, 10 hogs, 20 arpents, 6 guns.

Burial
Germain Bourgeois
died 1711, died during Durand's captivity at Boston

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