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History
of Jacques Haché-Gallant
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Jacques
Haché-Gallant
was born in Beaubassini Nova Scotia in 1712. He married Josephte
Boudrot, the daughter of Francois Boudrot and Jeanne-Anne
Laudry of Tracadie on June 20, 1735 in Port LaJoye (Rocky Point)
Prince Edward Island. Josephte was born about 1717. Jacques
was a navigator and ploughman. They had ten children.
Jacques and Josephte lived in Port LaJoye, Prince Edward Island
and sometimes in Tracadie (Bedford Bays, P.E.I.) with Josephte's
parents.
From
1724-1738, there were three invasions of field mice. The rodents
were so numerous with varacious appetites, that they devastated
the cultivated crops and devoured the grassy flats. The crops
failed in 1757 and 1758. In 1758 the fortress, Louisborg fell.
The British had control of Prince Edward Island. They demanded
that all the inhabitants of the island be deported back to France.
Ships arrived, the settlements destroyed and the people were
put aboard the ships. Over three thousand five hundred people
were transported in 1758 to France. Michel's son, Jacques Haché
dit GalIant's family fled to the forest. They lived with the
Micmac Indians and survived the winter. The Indians help build
their homes again in the spring and they continued to wrestle
with the wilderness.
In the Census of 1752 in Tracadie, there were eight families
one of which was the family of Jacques and Josephte Haché
dit Gallant. In the Census of 1760 is living with his brother
in Restigouche, New Brunswick where on January 7, 1761 the marriage
of his daughter, Marie-Jeanne, to Joseph Boudrot took place.
Jacques returned again to Prince Edward Island with his son
Charles. We find Jacques again in 1773 on the Island of Miscou
in the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the occasion of a visit by a
priest Abbe' Joseph Mathurin Bourg, the Vicar General of Quebec.
There were several marriages celebrated. Among the witnesses
were Jacques and his two sons, Joseph and Cyprien.
In 1782 most of the families left the Island of Miscou and moved
to Nispisquit (Bathurst) Cape Breton. As for Jacques he went
back to Prince Edward Island with his sons, Joseph and Cyprien.
Jacques
died around 1792.
Children
of Jacques Haché-Gallant and Josephte Boudrot are:
Jacques-Philippe
Haché-Gallant was born on June 10, 1736 in Port-Lajoye
(Lajoie), l'ile Saint-Jean (PEI). Jacques Phillipe died Unknown.
Marie-Jeanne
Haché-Gallant was born on July 14, 1738 in
Port LaJoye, I'ile Saint-Jean (PEI). She married Joseph'
Boudrot on January 7, 1761 at Restigouche, New Brunswick.
Marie-Jeanne died on February 15, 1825 in Nipisiquit (Bathurst),
New Brunswick, Canada.
Pierre
Haché-Gallant was born about 1739 in Port-Lajoye
(Lajoie), l'ile Saint-Jean (PEI). Pierre died Unknown.
Joseph
Gallant, dit LeGrande was born on December 25, 1740
in Port-Lajoye (Lajoie), l'ile Saint-Jean (PEI) and was baptized
on May 21, 1741 at St. Pierre du Nord Church. Joseph died
in 1814 in La Roche (Baie-Egmont), Prince County, l'ile du
Prince Edouard.
François
Haché-Gallant was born in January 10, 1743 in
St. Pierre-du-Nord, (near Port-Lajoie), l'ile Saint-Jean (PEI)
and was baptized June 2, 1743 at St. Pierre du Nord Church.
François died in 1752.
Marie
Anne Haché-Gallant was born in 1747 in Port-Lajoye
(Lajoie), l'ile Saint-Jean (PEI). She married Joseph
Arsenau. Marie Anne died on May 13, 1813 in Nipisiquit
(Bathurst), New Brunswick, Canada.
Cyprien
Haché-Gallant was born in 1748 in Port-de-Tracadie,
l'ile Saint-Jean (PEI). He married Marie Bernard.
Cyprien died on March 23, 1814 in Cascumpec, Prince County,
l'ile du Prince Edouard.
Charles
Haché was born in July 1749 in Port-Lajoye
(Lajoie), l'ile Saint-Jean (PEI). He married Felicité
Gautrot. Charles died on June 07, 1842 in Margarée,
Cap-Breton, Nouvelle Ecosse, Canada.
Geneviève
Haché-Gallant was born on October 16, 1751 in
Port-Lajoye (Lajoie), l'ile Saint-Jean (PEI) and died at birth.
Anne
Haché-Gallant was born on October 16, 1751
in Port-Lajoye (Lajoie), l'ile Saint-Jean (PEI). She married
François Cormier, Abt. 1771, Prob.
St. Pierre-du-Nord, (near Port-Lajoie), l'ile Saint-Jean (PEI).
François was born Abt. 1751, l'iles-de-la-Madeleine,
Nouvelle France and died Unknown. Anne died on December 27,
1827 in l'iles-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Lower Canada.
Madeleine
Haché-Gallant was born about April 1752 in
Port-Lajoye (Lajoie), l'ile Saint-Jean (PEI). She married
Jean Arseneau on September 17, 1773 on the
Island of Miscou. Madeleine died 1830, Prob. in La Roche (Baie-Egmont),
Prince County, l'ile du Prince Edouard.
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