Notes:

Bona-vol.3,p.828-b.yr,marr.info. -vol.2,p.556-from Beaubassin;spouse M01-p.111-marr.info.

Abraham married Therese Mirande Bef 1 Jan 1752. Therese (daughter of Emmanuel Mirande and Marguerite Bourgeois) was born 28 Nov 1683; died Aft 24 Oct 1760. [Group Sheet]

Abraham married Jeanne Gaudet Abt 1700, Beaubassin. Jeanne (daughter of Pierre (Dit L'Aine) Gaudet and Anne Blanchard) was born 1684, Port Royal. [Group Sheet]

1. Marie Josephe Arsenault
2. Francoise Arsenault was born Abt 1708, Beaubassin; died Bef 23 Jul 1726.
3. Jeanne Arsenault was born Abt 1712, Beaubassin; died Yes, date unknown.

Other Events:

• Occupation: coastal pilot who resided at Port Royal in 1686 but owned property at Beaubassin.
• Misc: 1671, Mesagoueche point; rendered important seafaring services to Bourgeois which resulted in land being reserved for Pierre
• Misc: 1671, Port Royal; was not on the 1671 census and perhaps arrived on the ship L'Oranger from Rochefort
• Residence: 1671, Port Royal; , after arriving from Rochefort, France aboard the ship, L'Oranger,
• Occupation: Abt 1672; Jacque Bourgeois' pilot for his coastal trade
• Census: 1686, Port Royal
• Misc: Abt 1687, Beaubassin (formerly named Bourgeois colony); settled with his family
• Census: 1693, 1698, 1700, Beaubassin
• Residence: Abt 1875, Port Royal

Notes:

Misc:
Note that Stephen White indicates that Pierre Arsenault MIGHT have been among the sixty persons who were on the ship L'Oranger that sailed to Acadia from Rochefort in 1871.

Census:
He had one gun, 30 worked acres of land, 4 sheep and 6 pigs.

Residence:
In his Atlas, Surette tells how the land that had been reserved for Pierre Arsenault by the Bourgeois' at Mesagouche point in 1671, is seized back from Pierre around 1675 by Marguerite Bourgeois and her new husband, Jean Boudrot. As a result of this, Pierre must now stay in Port Royal.

Pierre married Marguerite Dugas 1675, Port Royal. Marguerite (daughter of Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Louise Doucet) was born 1657, Port Royal; died Abt 1686, Port Royal. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1671, Port Royal aged 14 years

Notes:

Died:
She died before the 1686 census was taken for Port Royal.

Notes:

from Irene Terrio - Name Bona-vol.2,p.524-name,b.yr,marr.info;he was a gunsmith(armurier de Roy),a native of Toulouse,lieutenant general in Acadia,arrived in Port Royal around 1640.

Abraham married Marguerite Louise Doucet 1647. Marguerite (daughter of Germain dit LaVerdure Doucet and ?) was born Abt 1625; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

from Irene Terrio - name Bona-vol.2,p.524-name,marr.info.,daug of Germain doucet dit Laverdure -vol.2,p.506-name,b.yr,spouse

Other Events:

• Misc: Port Royal; was a commander
• Occupation: a captain at arms
• Misc: Abt 1632, Acadia; arrived
• Misc: 1654; returned to France when the English took Port Royal

Notes:

Bona,vol.2,p.505, says that Germain's was a brother-in-law to Jacques Bourgeois but S. White disproves this - see the Explanatory Note 1 on page 112 of White's Supplement.

In 'History of the Acadians' by Bona Arsenault, he mentions on page 31 that administration of D'Aulnay's estate was awarded jointly to d'Aulnay's widow and to Germain Doucet dit Laverdure who was a trusted associate of D'Aulnay's at Penobscot.

Birth:
S.White does not give a birth year for him; Bona gives about 1595.

Germain married ? Abt 1620. ? died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]