Michel married Marie Josephe Girouard [Group Sheet]

Augustin married Agnes Chiasson 22 Feb 1713, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France. Agnes (daughter of Sébastien Chiasson and Marie Jeanne Belou) was born 1697, Beaubassin, Acadia, Canada; died Before 10 January 1746, Beaubassin, Acadia, New France. [Group Sheet]

Pierre married Anne Marie Blanchard 5 Jan 1672, Port Royal, Acadia, New France. Anne (daughter of Jean-Baptiste Blanchard and Jeanne Radégonde Lambert) was born 1644, Port-Royal, Acadia, Nouvelle-France; was christened 1644, Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Port Royal, Acadia, Nouvelle-France; died 12 Aug 1714, Beaubassin, Acadia, Nouvelle-France; was buried Aug 1714, Fort Lawrence, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Notes:

SÉBASTIEN CHIASSON

Guyon-Denis and Jeanne Bernard's fourth child, Sébastien, was born in Chebouctou (now Halifax) in 1670. As a child he moved with his family to the new Acadienne colony of Beaubassin where he helped his father and older brothers clear the land for crops.

When Sébastien was about twelve years old his mother died. Guyon-Denis took the family to Québec and got remarried to a woman only a few years older than Sébastien. They returned to Beaubassin where Sébastien's new step-mother gave him four more siblings.

In 1693, Sébastien (spelled Bastien in the 1693 census of Beaubassin) married Marie Blou (daughter of Jacques Blou and Marie Girouard). Their eventual family was small by Acadienne standards (Sébastien died in his early thirties) consisting of a son Jacques, and two daughters, Marie and Agnès; although later, a second (unnamed) boy appears in two censuses.

On September 21st 1696, New England militia led by Benjamin Church attacked Beaubassin, burning buildings, slaughtering livestock and killing some of its inhabitants, but most fled inland and survived because the English feared the Acadiennes? marksmanship and were unwilling to chase them beyond the reach of their ships? cannons. The following year the Treaty of Ryswick ended King William?s War and restored Acadie to France, but in 1702 after only a few years of peace, a new conflict began: The War of Spanish Succession.

By the 1698 census Sébastien and Marie's farm had sixty-three acres under cultivation, with 24 cattle, 12 sheep and 10 hogs, but by 1700 they were cultivating only twelve acres and the following year, just four acres. The 1701 census also reported that they had two boys and two girls. The existence of a fourth child in generally not known but this helps validate an entry in the 1703 census: The Widow Bastien, 2 boys, 2 girls. The inference is that Sébastien died between 1701 and 1703, and his widow Marie is referred to by what was perhaps his dit name: Bastien.

In late June 1704, Benjamin Church, the man who led New England militia against Acadie in 1696, returned with a force of seven hundred Bostonians and Massachusetts?s natives. They sailed into Bassin-de-Minas and attacked Grand-Pré, Pisiguit and Cobequid. At Grand-Pré, Church tried to sneak up on the Acadiennes by mooring his ships behind a small wooded island and approaching the village in whale boats, but after reaching the tideline and attempting to cross the mudflats on foot his men were blocked by deep tidal channels and returned to their boats to wait for the flood tide to cover the obstructions. The delay and rising sea revealed them to the locals, who fled into the woods.

His soldiers sacked the colony, killing livestock, burning houses, and breaking open the salt-marsh dikes which flooded the enclosed farmland with seawater, threatening to destroy the land?s usefulness for several years; but after Church?s men left the Acadiennes quickly repaired the aboiteaux, saving the soil from complete salt saturation and allowing them to plant crops the following year.

At Beaubassin, Germain Bourgeois (son of Jacques Bourgeois) negotiated with the New Englanders and showed them a signed document giving their sworn loyalty to the English king. This seemed to satisfy Church but many of his soldiers were less disciplined and went off to pillage the area and raze the village: burning houses, farms and the church.

Sébastien Chiasson's widow Marie Blou, with her family of young children, would have been there at the time and no doubt witnessed the destruction.

Around 1708 Marie got remarried to François Lapierre and had six more children with him.

In 1710, a fleet of English and New England ships commanded by General Francis Nicholson, sailed into Port-Royal basin carrying two thousand troops and laid siege to the fort. After a few days of bombardment Governor Subercase surrendered. Port-Royal was renamed Annapolis Royal.

In 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht ended The War of Spanish Succession in Europe and its North American extension: Queen Anne?s War. France ceded Acadie and Newfoundland to England but retained the St. Lawrence valley and the islands of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, including Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) and Île Royale (Cape Breton Island). The treaty language however did not define the geographic extent of Acadie with enough detail, and France believed that a wide swatch of the mainland (the future province of New Brunswick and a portion of the future state of Maine) still belonged to them, while England held the opposite view, causing decades of conflict and skirmishes between French and British forces, finally erupting into full-scale battle during the Seven Years? War.

Families began to abandon their farms in peninsular Nova Scotia and started a migration to Île Royale and later Île Saint-Jean. The area of Beaubassin began to take on the role of a frontier, with French militia retreating into New Brunswick protected by their Micmac allies, and making lightning attacks across the Chignecto Isthmus against British targets of opportunity.

Marie Blou appears in the 1714 census of Beaubassin (Francois LaPierre and Marie Blou his spouse; children: Jacques, Michel, Marie-Josephe) and is presumed to have died after that year, which some unspecified sources say was 1726.

Sébastien married Marie Jeanne Belou 1693, Beaubassin, Nova Scotia. Marie was born Abt 1671, Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada; was christened Mar 1671, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France; died After 1714. [Group Sheet]

Denis married Martine Gauthier 22 Jan 1645, Port Royal, Acadia, New France. Martine (daughter of Philippe Gauthier and Marie Pichon) was born 3 Jan 1626, La Chaussée, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France; was christened 1626, La Chaussée de la Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France; died 21 Nov 1709, Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Port Royal, Annapolis, , Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried 1671/1686, Acadie, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Jean Blanchard, the actual progenitor of the Blanchards of Acadia, born in France in c1611, was one of the earliest settlers in the colony. At age 31, he married 21-year-old Radégonde Lambert at Port-Royal in c1642. Radegonde gave Jean six children, including two sons who created their own families. Their daughters married into the Gaudet, Guérin, and Richard dit Sansoucy families. Radegonde died at Port-Royal in the 1670s or 1680s, leaving Jean a widower. He never remarried. He died at Port-Royal on his homestead next to the fort in the early 1690s; he was over 80 years old.

Blanchard Appendices
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In 1671 Jean Blanchard, age 60 was living in Port Royal with his wife, Radegonde LAMBERT and their unmarried children Guillaume 21, Bernard 18, Marie 15. At that time they owned 12 cattle and 9 sheep. (Source: Acadian Census 1671).

An error in Jean LeBlanc's deposition at Belle-Ile-en-Mer led Rameau de Saint-Pere to add a non-existent generation to the genealogy of the Blanchards. LeBlanc declared that the great-grandparents of his wife Francoise Blanchard were Guillaume Blanchard and Huguette Poirier, rather than Jean Blanchard and Radegonde Lambert, having confused the names of Martin Blanchard's brother and sister-in-law with those of this father and mother. Without proof, Rameau affirmed that Guillaume and Huguette had to be Martin Blanchard's grandparents, but no document is currently known that provides the names of Jean Blanchard's parents.

2 Dec 1705: Expropriation of a lot "adjoining the side of the old fort," and belonging to Jean Blanchard, for the extension of the fort at Port Royal. As Jean Blanchard had already been dead for over twelve years, one must suppose that his heirs were the actual owners of this land in 1705.?

Sixteen years or so later Jean and Radegonde were still living in Port Royal. (1686 census).




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Jean-Baptiste married Jeanne Radégonde Lambert About 1639, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France. Jeanne (daughter of Jehan Lambert and Marie Anne Mi'kmaq Membertou) was born 5 Apr 1621, Loudun, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France; was christened 1621, Grand Pre, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 1686, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried 1686, Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Marie Radégonde Lambert, married name: Blanchard
French: Marie Radégonde Lambert
Birthdate: circa 1621 to 1629
Death: 1686 to 1693

Radegonde?s DNA

Several descendants of Radegonde Lambert through all females have had their mitochondrial DNA tested. Mitochondrial DNA is passed from the mother to both genders of their children, but only females pass it on.

In Radegonde?s case, her DNA, for several years, also proved as puzzling as the records regarding her birth and mother?s ethnicity. No one but Radegonde?s descendants seems to match her DNA. It?s like Radegonde wanted to play a joke on all of her descendants. And a fine job she did too!

Fortunately, that question has now been resolved, and Radegonde?s DNA, haplogroup X2b4, which is exceedingly rare ? as in chicken?s teeth rare ? is found only in Europeans, to date, and not in any Native people.

Radegonde?s and Jehan Blanchard's children

Karen Theroit Reader provides Radegonde?s children, as shown below. In two census records, in both 1671 and 1678, Radegonde and her husband, Jean Blanchard, are living next door to their son, Guilliame Blanchard who was age 35 in 1686.

Madeleine Blanchard born about 1643, probably in Port Royal, died 1678-1684 and married Michel Richard. She had 10 children.
Anne Blanchard was born about 1645, probably in Port Royal, died after 1714 in Beaubassin and married first to Francois Guerin, having 5 children, then to Pierre l?aine Gaudet, having 9 children.
Martin Blanchard was born about 1647, probably in Port Royal and died after July 4, 1718 in Cobeguit. He married first to Marie Francoise Le Blanc having 3 children, then to Marguerite Guilbeau having 8 children.
The three children, above, would have been the three that were married by 1671. The three below would have been the children still at home.

Guillaume Blanchard, born about 1650, probably in Port Royal, died before October 18, 1717 and married Huguette Gougeon, having 12 children.
Bernard Blanchard born about 1653, probably in Port Royal and died after the 1671 census but before the 1686 census.
Marie Blanchard born about 1656, probably in Port Royal, died after 1701, married to Pierre le jeune Gaudet, having 10 children.

See link:
https://dna-explained.com/2016/09/18/radegonde-lambert-16211629-16861693-european-not-native-52-ancestors-132/

See link for her family:
https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/163666/I598/-/individual




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Radegonde Lambert was born in France; parents unknown.

Radegonde Lambert Was 21 Years & Jean Blanchard was 31 years old when whey got married around 1642. They were already married when they arrived in Port Royal, Acadia, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Radegonde and Jean had 3 girls and 3 boys:

Madeleine Blanchard - 1643 - 1683
Anne Blanchard - 1645 - 1714
Martin Blanchard - 1647 - 1717
Guillaume Blanchard - 1650 - 1714
Bernard Blanchard - 1652 - 1686
Marie Blanchard - 1656 - 1697

1671 Census:
Jean Blanchard is 60, married to Radegonde. They have 6 children.

There is no mention of Radegonde Lambert or her husband after the 1686 Census & there is no mention of them in the 1693 Census, so it is assumed that they both died between those years.

Guyon married Marie Jeanne Bérnard 1666. Marie (daughter of André Bernard and Andree Guyon) was born About 1647, Acadia, New France; died 6 Oct 1683, Beaubassin, Acadia, Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried , Québec, Canada. [Group Sheet]