Jacques-Dit-Jacob  BOURGEOIS

1621 Birth
8 January 1621
Ferté-Gaucher, Seine-et-Marne, France

Biography
BOURGEOIS, JACQUES (Jacob), surgeon, colonizer, founder of Beaubassin; b. sometime between 1618 and 1621 in France, probably at Couperans-en-Brie (department of Seine-et-Marne); d. 1701 at Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal, N.S.); founder of the Bourgeois family in Acadia.

Before leaving France, Bourgeois had entered the medical profession. He came to Port-Royal in 1642 with 18 families that Governor Menou* d’Aulnay brought with him on one of his voyages. Bourgeois’ father, also named Jacques, was an army officer at Port-Royal and was the brother-in-law of Germain Doucet, Sieur de La Verdure, Aulnay’s assistant. In 1654 Sedgwick* seized Port-Royal, and as by the terms of the capitulation soldiers were to be repatriated, Jacques Bourgeois senior returned to France; his son remained in Acadia, where he became the ancestor of a large number of descendants. In 1643 Bourgeois had married Jeanne, Guillaume Trahan’s daughter, who was born in France in 1631; they had ten children, seven girls...Read MORE...


Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003

Biography
'When the English seized Acadia in 1654, four years after d'Aulnay's death, Robert Sedgwick, leader of the English expedition, held Jacques Bourgeois as 'hostage' to insure that Doucet, in command at Port-Royal, would fulfill the terms of surrender. Cormier says that Jacques was repatriated to France along with other French officers and never returned to Acadia. It was Jacques's son, Jacques dit Jacob, not Jacques, père the soldier, who was the progenitor of the family in Acadia.

Jacques dit Jacob, born probably at Couperans-en-Brie, France, between 1618 and 1621, was a young surgeon recruited by Claude de Razilly, brother of Isaac, after the French re-established control of Acadia in 1630s. Bourgeois came to Acadia in 1641 aboard the St.-Francois and was one of the earliest settlers in the colony. He married Jeanne, daughter of Guillaume Trahan, at Port-Royal in c1643. She had come to Acadia even earlier than he did, in 1636 aboard the St.-Jehan, with her father, mother,...Read MORE...


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1670 Marriage of Child
Marie Françoise BOURGEOIS married 10 April 1670, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) to Pierre CYR

1671 Port Royal, Acadia
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.
1671 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1678 Port Royal
Jaq Bourgeois & Jeanne Trahan

20 acres 15 cattle

2 girls 15 1663 Marie

12 1666 Jeanne

1678 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1679 Marriage of Child
Marguerite BOURGEOIS married 30 November 1679, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) to Emmanuel MIRANDE-TAVARE

1680 Marriage of Child
Marie Françoise BOURGEOIS married 9 June 1680 , Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada (Beaubassin, Acadia) (Fort Lawrence) to Germain GIROUARD

1686 Port Royal
Jacob BOURGEOIS 67, Jeanne TRAHAN 57 child: Guillaume 31 20 arpents.
1686 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1698 Beaubassin
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.
1698 Acadian Census
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion

1699 Death of Spouse/Partner
Jeanne TRAHAN died July 1699, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia)