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Jean Baptiste (Lejeune) Lejeune dit Bréard (abt. 1722 - 1758)

Jean Baptiste Lejeune dit Bréard formerly Lejeune aka Briard
Born about in Pisiguit, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotiamap
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Husband of — married about 1742 in Acadiemap
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Died at about age 36 in St-Charles, Bellechase, Canada, Nouvelle-Francemap
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Biography

Jean Baptiste was born about 1722 in Acadie. His parents were Germain Lejeune and Marie Anne Trahan.

He married Marguerite Clémenceau around 1742 in Acadie. Their first child Joseph was born around 1743.

Known children: [1]

  1. Joseph LEJEUNE DIT BRIARD, b. ca 1743
  2. Jean Baptiste LEJEUNE DIT BRIARD, b. ca 1745,
  3. Marie LEJEUNE DIT BRIARD, b.ca 1747
  4. François Olivier LEJEUNE DIT BRIARD, b. ca 1749,
  5. Victor LEJEUNE DIT BRIARD, b. 15 Feb 1752,
  6. Marguerite Pélagie LEJEUNE DIT BRIARD, b. 7 Oct 1754, Port-Lajoie,

Around 1750 the family settled on Isle Saint-Jean (in present-day Prince Edward Island). They were recorded on the 1752 La Roque census at Anse-au-Matelost with 4 sons and 1 daughter. [2]

"The years between 1749 and 1758 were very difficult ones on the Island for the Acadian refugees as well for the older settlers. Various disasters destroyed the crops, cattle was lost through sickness and lack of fodder, and seeds were difficult to obtain. The colony was most often on the brink of famine. A letter written in 1753 by the parish priest of Point Prime, abbé Jacques Girard, very well illustrates the conditions under which many people were living: "Our refugees do not lose courage and hope by working to be able to live; but the nakedness which is almost universal and extreme affects them sore; I assure you they cannot protect themselves from cold, either by day or night. Most ot the children are so naked that they cannot cover themselves. [...] All are not reduced to this extremity, but almost all are in great need." [3]

In 1756, they decided to seek a better life in Canada, Nouvelle-France (now Québec). In doing so, they managed to escape the deportation of thousands of Acadians on Isle Saint-Jean in 1758. The family was aboard one of two ships that left the island in the fall of 1756 and arrived at the port of Québec around 18 October 1756. Travelling with Jean-Baptiste and Marguerite were their children Jean-Baptiste, François-Olivier, Victor and Marguerite-Pélagie. From there they were sent to Île d'Orléans. [4]

Marguerite and their son Victor died shortly after arrival. Marguerite was age 39, and Victor age 4. They were both buried on 24 November 1756 at Île d'Orléans.

He passed away on 10 February 1758 at St-Charles, Bellechasse.

Sources

  1. Marcel Walter Landry, Page for Jean-Baptiste Lejeune, Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde, accessed July 2022 (login required)
  2. Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), 1752 La Roque Census, p. 112, image 254. A transcription of the original census, in French, can be found at Census Transcription of Original Record “Recensement de l'Isle Royal et de Isle Saint-Jean ” p. 418, Images 422
    Jean Baptiste Lejeune, ploughman, native of l'Acadie, aged 30 years, he has been in the country two years, married to Margueritte Clémenceau, native of l'Acadie.
    They have four sons and one daughter:-
    Joseph Lejeune, aged 9 years.
    Jean-Baptiste, aged 7 years.
    François Olivier, aged 3 years.
    Victor, aged 9 months.
    Marie, aged 5 years.
    And in stock, one cow, one calf, and four sows. The land upon which they are settled is situated as in the preceding cases, it was given to them verbally by Monsieur de Bonnaventure. On it they have made a clearing for the sowing of two bushels of wheat.
  3. Arsenault, Georges, "The Acadians Of Prince Edward Island." [online] Acadian Home. Available at: http://www.acadian-home.org/Georges-Arsenault-pen.html Accessed 4 June 2020.
  4. André-Carl Vachon, Les réfugiés et miliciens acadiens en Nouvelle-France 1755-1763, Tracadie, La Grande Marée, 2020, p.249, 251 Jean-Baptiste and Marguerite are the ancestors of the author Vachon.




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