Nicolas Joseph (Deschamps) Deschamps dit Cloche (abt. 1710 - abt. 1758)

Born about 1710 in Saint-Martin-de-Ré, Île de Ré, Aunis, France

Husband of Judith Doiron — married about 1733 in Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died about 1758 at about age 48 in Province of North Carolina [uncertain]

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Biography

Nicolas Joseph (Deschamps) Deschamps dit Cloche migrated from France to Acadia.

Nicolas Deschamps was born in 1710 at Saint-Martin-de-Ré on the Île de Ré, Aunis (today Charente-Maritine), France. Nicolas passed away in 1758.^[1]

The family immigrated to Isle Saint-Jean in about 1749 from the Colony of Nova Scotia. She was 32, so born in 1720 and he was 42, born in 1710. Their oldest child was age 18 which puts their first child born in 1734, so their marriage was likely in 1733.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Karen Theriot Reader Nicolas Joseph citing Anse au Comte Saint-Pierre, Isle St. Jean, Acadia Sources: Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, vol. II, pt. A. II, pt. A - Public Archives of Canada - 1905; reprint Bowie, MD, Heritage Books, 1994. - Appeared as Sessional Paper No. 18. Includes LaRoque census. - p. 108
2. ↑ Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), 1752 La Roque Census, p. XX. The original census, in French, can be found at Census Original Version “Recensement de l'Isle Royal et de Isle Saint-Jean ”

   Joseph Deschamps dit Cloche, ploughman, native of l'Acadie, aged 42 years, he has been in the country three years. Married to Judict Duaron, native of l'Acadie, aged 32 years.
   They have five sons and three daughters:-
   
   Philippe Deschamps, aged 16 years. Louis, aged 14 years.
   Augustin, aged 12 years.
   Jean Baptiste, aged 6 years.
   Francois, aged 4 years.
   Eufrozinne, aged 18 years.
   La Blanche, aged 8 months [years ???].
   Elisabeth, aged 18 months.
   Their live stock consists of eight pigs and twenty fowls. The land upon which they are settled is situated as in the preceding case, it was given to them verbally by Monsieur de Bonnaventure. On it they have made a clearing for the sowing of three bushels of wheat.