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- Bona-vol.2,p.791-Jean Serreau dit Saint-Aubin,originated from Poitou;seigneur of Passamaquoddy, on the Sainte Croix River. In 1664, he was at Chateau-Richer;in 1665-1667 at Quebec;in 1692, at Achimoyan, near La heve,in Acadia;d.dt&loc. J04-p.173-Jean Serreau, Sieur de Saint-Aubin,originally of Poitou,died at P.R in 1705 at the age of 84 years. He arrived in Quebec abt 1660 and settled on the Argentenay seigneury on the Ile d'Orleans. Serreau was found guilty of the murder, during a domestic altercation, of Jean Terme on 25 July 1665, but was officially exonerated in 1667 on the grounds of justifiable self-defence. After 1676 he went to the area of the Ste-Croix River, where he was given the concession of Passamaquoddy in June 1684. This seigneury was five leagues wide on the ocean by five leagues deep, and included all the islands - one being the Ile-d'Archimagan, where he settled his family...difficulties...geographic location...contested border between Acadie and new England...most notable disaster occurred in 1692, when Saint-Aubin and his family were taken prisoner to Boston by major Benjamin church, and all of his buildings at Archimagan were pillaged and burned. Also marr.info.
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1621 - 1705 (84 years)