Charles Maillet (abt. 1757 - 1829)

Born about 1757 in Acadie

Ancestors

Husband of Marguerite Boudreau — married about 1782 in Colony of New Brunswick

Descendants

Died 12 Dec 1829 at about age 72 in Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick Colony

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Biography

Private Charles Maillet served with Company of Frenchmen during the American Revolution.

Charles Maillet is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A214556.

Charles Maillet is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P-340958
Rank: Private

Charles Maillet was born around 1757 to Charles Maillet and Marie Babineau. The location of his birth was possibly Memramcook, New Brunswick as his parents had been enumerated in the census there in 1755.^[1] Charles' early years were marked by instability. Repeated British military campaigns forced many Acadian families to flee their homes and ultimately resulted in the Great Expulsion of the Acadians (Le Grand Dérangement).

The family sought refuge at Camp d’Espérance, on the Miramichi, in present-day northeastern New Brunswick, which was established at the end of the summer of 1756 to protect from famine and from the roundups of the British soldiers the 1 376 Acadians who were refugees there. They suffered greatly because of diseases and lack of food at the camp. ^[2] It is not known if his father was with them since he was killed in 1756. Charles was about 6 years of age when he was listed among the prisoners at Fort Beauséjour in 1763, with his mother, his siblings Jean-Baptiste and Marguerite, his grandfather Jean Babinot and aunts and uncles. (all under the last name Babinot)^{[2] [3]}

His mother married Germain Thibodeau around 1767 and the family settled in Memramcook after the Great Upheaval, where their daughter Thècle was born in 1770.

The Company of Frenchmen and the Battle of Fort Cumberland

In 1776, John Allan and Jonathan Eddy (Massachusetts-born), tried to bring the American Revolutionary War to their province of Nova Scotia. They had a plan to conquer the strongly loyalist Nova Scotia by first capturing Fort Cumberland (formerly Fort Beauséjour, on the isthmus of Chignecto which connects New Brunswick and Nova Scotia), then marching on Halifax with a group of militia men. Eddy obtained military support from the Massachusetts Congress and recruited a total of about 400 men in Maine and in present-day New Brunswick. A first attack on Fort Cumberland on 14 November 1776 was unsuccessful. That same day, a Company of Frenchmen, under the command of Isaïe Boudrot, was raised in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, which includes present-day Memramcook, and 19 Acadians from this village were recruited. Charles Maillet was one of them. There was another failed attempt to capture the Fort a few days later. This event came to be known as the Battle of Fort Cumberland. Eddy’s men retreated, some were taken prisoner, a few were killed. Not long after, Allan and Eddy’s plan to make Nova Scotia the 14th American State came to an end. ^[4][5]

The payroll of the Company of Frenchmen shows that Charles dit Charlitte Maillet, private, served three months, at £ 2 per month. He was the younger brother of the Jean-Baptiste Maillet who served as one of the company’s sergeants.^[5] Today Charles Maillet is recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution as a Revolutionary War Patriot for his actions.^[6]

A short description of the 19 recruits of the Company of Frenchmen is included in Stephen White’s article “The Company of Frenchmen in the County of Cumberland, Province of Nova Scotia.”. See a table showing their shared experiences during the Grand Dérangement here.

Marriage and Later Life

Charles married Marguerite Boudreau, daughter of Olivier Boudreau and Euphrosine Landry, around 1782. They had ten known children.: Euphrosine Maillet (abt 1783), Félicité Maillet (1785), Scholastique Maillet (abt 1787), Lucie Maillet (abt 1788), Geneviève Maillet (abt 1793), Olivier Maillet (abt 1793), Marie Maillet (abt 1794), Anne Maillet (abt 1797), Charles "dit Charlitte" Maillet (abt 1798), and Pélagie Maillet (abt 1800). ^[7][8]

Charles passed away on 12 December 1829 and was interred two days later. ^[9][7]

Enterrement

Le 14 décembre 1829 à Memramcook ^[9]

• Charles Maillet
• décédé avant hier
• époux de défunte Margurite Boudrault
• à l'âge de 72 ans
• présens: Armend Landry, Pierre Landry et Joseph Cormier

Sources

1. ↑ Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino, p. 11 1755 Census Charles Maillet, his wife, one son
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} LeBlanc, R.-G. (2012). Les réfugiés acadiens au camp d’Espérance de la Miramichi en 1756-1761 : un épisode méconnu du Grand Dérangement. Acadiensis, 41(1). Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/19077/21083. English translation "The Acadian Refugee Camp on the Miramichi, 1756-1761"
3. ↑ Lucie LeBlanc Consentino. List of Acadian Prisoners at Fort Cumberland as of August 24, 1763, Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home, original record, digital images, Héritage, Genealogy collection, Library and Archives Canada. / France. Fonds des Archives nationales: Série C12. Correspondance générale; Saint-Pierre et Miquelon : C-9146, vol. 1, f. 22-26. Images 33-47, Images 33-34, accessed June 2021

   Jean Babinot

   Paul Babinot

   Silvain Babinot

   Marguerite Babinot

   Dominique Babinot

   Jean Babinot

   Marie Babinot

   Jean Baptiste Babinot

   Marguerite Babinot

   Charles Babinot

4. ↑ D’Entremont, Clarence J., “La participation acadienne à la guerre d’indépendance américaine”, Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, vol. 7, no 1, 1976, p. 5-13. accessed at https://societehistoriqueacadienne.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/0701_total.pdf
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} White, Stephen A. “The Company of Frenchmen in the County of Cumberland, Province of Nova Scotia.” accessed at acadian-home.org hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino
6. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed Dec 2021), "Record of Charles Maillet", Ancestor # A214556.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Stephen A. White, « La généalogie des trente-sept familles hôtesses des ‘Retrouvailles ‘94’ » in ‘’Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne,’’ vol. 25, nos 2 et 3 (1994) MAILLET, p. 2-3, 37 Families

   5. iii. Charles dit Charlitte (posthume), n v 1757; m v 1782 Marguerite BOUDREAU (Olivier & Euphrosine Landry); d Memramcook 12 déc 1829.

8. ↑ http://genealogie-acadienne.net/?action=indiDetails&I=1122
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} Memramcook Parish Church Record Transcriptions. Library and Archives Canada. Canadiana/Héritage online database with images. Parish registers: New Brunswick : C-3018, Image 1029. Charles Maillet Burial 14 December 1829