Unknown Abenaki (abt. 1610)

Born about 1610 in Abenaki Nation

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Some family trees refer to her as Kjipuktuk, but there is no documented person with that name in any Acadian records. If you have sources for this, please add them to the comments on the profile and they can be reconsidered.

Changed Information: This Unknown indigeneous woman was born about 1610. She was previously thought to be the wife of Germain Doucet (abt.1595-aft.1654), who before 1654, adopted a male child that was of Native American ancestry. The child was given Germain's name and raised in the French culture. It is unknown if the child's mother lived as man and wife with Germain Doucet senior. The woman, whose name is unknown, was most likely Eastern Abenaki Nation (probably of the Penobscot Nation in the Penobscot Bay area of present-day Maine, USA, since Germain senior served at Castine, Maine (1635-1650) when the woman's children were born (historical records about Germaine Doucet). She is estimated to have been born about 1610 since her likely daughter has a possible birth date of between 1625 and 1641.

DNA Revised
According to Stephen White of the Acadian Studies Centre in Moncton, New Brunswick, his research, based on a dispensation given for the marriage of Claude Trahan to Anne LeBlanc, leads him to believe that the wife of Pierre Lejeune II was a daughter of Germain Doucet, whose name is unknown. Then we also have to conclude that Germain Doucet had at least two wives and not one, since some of the descendants of his daughter, Marguerite, have tested for the non-Native American Haplogroup T2, yet Jeanne Lejeune dit Briart, who would also be his grand daughter based on the dispensation, had the Native American Haplogroup A, indicating that her mother and Marguerite Doucet were half-sisters with different mothers. Therefore, Pierre Lejeune II's Doucet wife was at least maternally Amerindienne (Metis), or completely Amerindienne and adopted, as was her brother Germain II. (Source for part of this DNA discussion was the Bra d'Or First Nation study.)

Previous Belief about Germain Doucet-20
In 1640, Germain Doucet (abt.1595-aft.1654) was in the farthest southern part of Acadia (New France), as d'Aulnay's right-hand man. He was Master at Arms at Pentagöuet (Castine, Maine). There were Amerindians living around the fort, probably Abenaki. The Amerindians around Penobscot Bay were part of the Eastern Abenaki, including the Penobscot Nation, enemies of the Mi'kmaq, but related to them as well.^[1][2][3] Isaac de Razilly and D'Aulnay encouraged their lieutenants to "marry" native Abenaki woman so as to foster political ties with these Abenakis and ally them against the British. At least one grave was found near Deer Isle Maine, that had been exposed by the weather. It had the remains of a French "soldier of fortune" in armor and a native woman buried with him. The grave was recovered and the armor given to the Penobscot "fire keepers."

Sources

1. ↑ Stephen A. White, Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert, Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles Acadiennes, (Moncton, N.-B.: Centre D'études Acadiennes, Université De Moncton, 1999) pp. 526-528.
2. ↑ Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes, [http://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/files/umcm-ceaac/wf/wf/pdf/cor-dict.pdf "Ajouts et corrections"], (Moncton, N.-B.: University of Moncton, Centre d'études acadiennes; pp. 76/197:

   Famille de Germain Doucet (1) Au lieu de «Couperans en Brie (ou Conflans en Brye)» lire «Couperoue en Brye (Coupru en Brie)».

3. ↑ John Riley, interviews with Elder "Fire Keeper" of the Penobscot nation, approximate dates needed.

See also information about others, not directly related to her:

• "A Closer Look at the Some of the Records" Acadian-home (no Doucet mentioned)

• http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/1671_Acadian_Census (she was not on this census but son Germain is)

• https://web.archive.org/web/20220518203717/http://www.acadian.org/census1686.html (she was not on this census)

• https://web.archive.org/web/20220518200116/https://www.acadian.org/census1693.html (she was not on this census)

• Germaine Doucet's historical records and the DNA testing of Marie's descendants.