Marc Pitre (abt. 1673 - aft. 1714)

Born about 1673 in Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Husband of Jeanne Brun — married about 1699 in Port Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died after 1714 after about age 41 in Annapolis Royal, Acadie, Nova Scotia Colony

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Biography

This biography was copied in full from Wendy Pitre Roostan's website, "The Pitre Trail from Acadia".

"Marc was born c1673 at Port Royal, the fourth child of Jean and Marie."^[1][2]

In 1686, at Port Royal, Mare [sic], aged 12, was living with his parents, Jean PITRE, aged 61 [sic], and Marie PESELET [sic], aged 45, and his six siblings: Claude, aged 16, Pierre, aged 9, Jean, aged 6, Francois, aged 4, an unnamed girl, aged 2, and an unnamed girl, aged 1 month. By this time his two oldest sisters had married and were settled nearby with their husbands.^[3]

"His father died when he was about sixteen, but a stepfather fairly quickly appeared. With continuing attacks on Port Royal from New England, perhaps Marc delayed settling down as he did not marry until he was about 26."

In 1693, at Port Royal, Marie [sic], aged 18, was living with his stepfather, Francoise [sic] ROBIN, aged 50, and his mother, Marie PESSELET [sic], aged 48, and his five siblings: Claude, aged 22, Pierre, aged 13, Francois, aged 11, Marguerie [sic], aged 10, and Jeanne, aged 7. No land or livestock was listed.^[4]

Around 1699, he married Jeanne Brun, the eldest child of native Acadians, Sebastien Brun and Huguette Bourg, who was about three years his junior.^[1] In the 1701 census of Port-Royal the newly married couple is listed with their son Claude, age 1.^[5] It's certainly possible that they had more than four surviving children, but at this point, only the four listed have been traced back to this couple.

They seemed to have settled initially in Port Royal, where two sons were born. Port Royal was again attacked in 1704 so that may have prompted the move south to Cap Sable, as there are no other children of theirs in the Port Royal baptism registers and they next appeared in the 1708^[6] census for Cap Sable. In the 1714 census of Acadia, which lay within English control, the couple was listed with two sons and two daughters.^[7] This accounts for the four traceable offspring.

According to his declaration at Belle-Ile-en-Mer, their eldest child, Claude Marc, married at Cobequit in 1724, but it is unknown whether Marc and Jeanne were still alive. Possibly, the family moved up to Cobequit in an attempt to escape English-controlled Acadia. The children seemed to have married either in Cobequit or Beaubassin. This would be a path of exile leading eventually to Ile St. Jean for a son and a daughter and to Miramichi for another son. Their youngest daughter died in Beaubassin at the age of 33. It has been suggested that Marc’s widow Jeanne Brun was a refugee, with their son Jean Marc and his wife Judth Theriot, at Miramichi in 1760."^[2]

Marc passed away after 1714, since he did not appear in any censuses after that year.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} White, Stephen A., Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert. Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes. Moncton, N.-B.: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999, Print. p. 1318, 1323.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Wendy Pitre Roostan , Marc Pitre 1673 Port Royal - aft. 1714, "The Pitre Trail from Acadia" accessed at http://www.pitretrail.com/
3. ↑ Tim Hebert; Transcription of the 1686 Acadian Census, at Port-Royal, Acadie 1686 Census Transcribed. The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752,” Images 15-60;

   at Port Royal: Jean PITRE 61, Marie PESELET 45; children: Claude 16, Mare 12, Pierre 9, Jean 6, Francois 4, one girl 2, one girl 1 month. In the original 1686 Census, Marc was listed correctly but transcribed as Mare. Pesseley was listed as Peselet.

4. ↑ Tim Hebert; Transcription of the 1693 Acadian Census at Port-Royal, Acadie 1693 Census Transcribed. The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the Library and Archives Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752,” Images 62-108;

   at Port Royal: Francoise ROBIN 50, Marie PESSELET 48, Claude 22, Marie 18, Pierre 13, Francois 11, Marguerie 10, Jeanne 7. In the original 1693 census at Port Royal, Francois Robin was listed correctly but transcribed as Francoise Robin, Marc was listed correctly but transcribed as Marie, Marguerite was listed correctly but transcribed as Marguerie, and Pesseley was listed as Pesselet.

5. ↑ Tim Hebert; Transcription of the 1701 Acadian Census, at Port-Royal, Acadie 1701 Census Transcription. The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752”, Images 174-211.

   Marc PITRE 29, Jeanne BOURG (wife); Claude 1; 1 gun, 7 cattle, 4 sheep, 2 hogs.

6. ↑ "Acadian Ancestral Home," hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; Acadia 1708 Census. Lucie’s note: ”Archives Publiques du Canada. Extrait F.1, 466-1. Copy of part of a manuscript in the possession of Mr. Edward E. Ayer of Chicago.” Note here: Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752,” Image 238 contains only text that says that this census can be found “dans le cartable indiqué Vol 466 Pt. 2”. Note here: 1708 Census MG 18, F 18, 31 pages; Recensement nominatif des Français de Cap-Sable, Port-Razoir et La Have; recensement nominatif des Indiens en Acadie: Port Royal, Cap-Sable, La Have, Les Mines, Cap-Breton, Chignectou, Pentagouet, rivière Saint-Jean et autres lieux. Transcripts are available on-site, not on microfilm.

   p. 53/56 http://www.acadian-home.org/ACADIA%201708%20Census.pdf

7. ↑ Tim Hebert; Transcription of the 1714 Acadian Census, at Port-Royal, Acadie 1714 Census Transcription. The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752”, Images 239-261.

   Marc PITRE and wife, 2 sons, 2 daughters.

See also:

• Karen Theriot Reader Marc Pitre

  BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS, vols. 1-6; 1630-1775; Quebec, Le Conseil de la Vie Francaise en Amerique, 1965; p. 727 (Port Royal); Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Library, CS31 A77 MAIN. Married around 1700 to Jeanne BRUN. Three children are listed.

Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of Holmes.ged on 20 May 2011
• Thank you to Katherine Wall for creating] Pitre-2464 on 28 Oct 13.
• Entered by Noella Pitre, Sunday, January 19, 2014.