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Doucet, Germain LaVerdure[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]

Male 1595 - 1654  (59 years)


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  • Name Doucet, Germain LaVerdure 
    Born 1595  Couperans En Brie, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10
    Gender Male 
    Fact 3 (2) 2062 Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Immigration 1632  Acadia, New France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Move 1654  France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation Capitaine d'armes 
    _UID 02E42C2AAB8B49BCBBD16FD37417547094EE 
    _UID 6DC046CB76BE624FBF254E94D88FA8AAA23A 
    Died 1654  France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10
    Person ID I3058  NewFranceGenealogy
    Last Modified 4 Jun 2009 

    Father Doucet,   b. Abt 1569, Touraine, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F3490  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Bourgeois, Marie Louise,   b. 1597, Coupvraie-En-Brie, Couperans, En-Brie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1654, Loudun, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years)  [7
    Married 1621  Bue, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 8, 11
    _UID 44A549A8EE0A714185FD76DB6DE4DBEF72DD 
    Children 
    +1. Doucet dit Laverdure, Pierre,   b. 1 Jan 1621, Sedan, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Jun 1713, Port Royal, Acadia, New France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 92 years)
     2. Doucet, Louise Judithe Marguerite,   b. 1625, Couperans Brie, Champagne, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Dec 1707, Port Royal, Acadia, New France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years)
    +3. Doucet, Marguerite Louise,   b. 1634, Port Royal, Acadia, New France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. WFT Est 1668-1729  (Age 95 years)
    +4. Doucet, Germain,   b. 1641, Port Royal, Acadia, New France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1696, Port Royal, Acadia, New France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years)
    Last Modified 27 May 2017 
    Family ID F3473  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • [Brderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #4512, Date of Import: Nov 12, 2000]

      He came to Acadia in 1632 from the parish of Conflans-en-Brie, perha
      Savoie or Sedan, France with his wife and son Pierre. Germain was a captain of
      the Army under Governor Charles d'Aulnay in Acadia and mayor of Port Royal.
      He returned to France after the fall of Port Royal to the British troop
      Whether or not he remained in France is not known.
      Sieur de Verdure.
      (IGI)
      (DICTIONNAIRE NATIONAL DES CANADIENS FRANCAIS)

      2 SOUR S492


      Acadian Descendants, Vol I, by Janet Jehn - immigrated about 1639 Adjutant of Governor D'Aulnay. Was Port Royal Commandant at time of surrender to Robert Sedgwick on 16 Aug 1654. Following the terms of the act of capitulation, he returned to France where he died.

      beau-frere of Jacques Bourgeois. (brother-in-law or step-brother)

      The birthplace of Germain Doucet (Sieur de La Verdure) has not yet been established. According to researcher/genealogist F. René Perron of Sèvres, FRANCE, La Verdure lies 10 kilometers north of Coutran in the Bassevelle Parish. La Verdure was the fiefdom of Germain Doucet, Commander of Port Roya l. It is located in Champagne Brie, 10 kilometers north of La Ferté-Gauche r. Germain Doucet came to Acadia in 1632 with Commander Isaac de Razilly by order of Cardinal Richelieu (Minister of State to King Louis XIII). They came to re-occupy the colony after the St. Germain-en-Laye Treaty of March 29, 1632.

      According to author Andrew Hill Clark re ACADIA: THE GEOGRAPHY OF EARLY NO VA SCOTIA TO 1760 (page 91): "Razilly ... sailed from France on July 4, 1632 in L'Espérance à Dieu, shepherding two transports, and disembarked so me three hundred people (mostly men) and a variety of livestock, seeds, to ols, implements, arms, munitions, and other supplies at La Have (LaHèv e, at the mouth of La Have River in present Lunenburg County) on Septemb er 8." Razilly was a cousin of Richelieu and a royal councillor. One of the leaders of The Company of New France, he was designated Lieutenant-General of a ll the parts of New France called "Canada" and the Governor of "Acadia."

      According to authors Sally Ross and Alphonse Deveaure THE ACADIANS OF NO VA SCOTIA ~ PAST AND PRESENT (page 16): "In September Isaac de Razilly arrived in Acadia with three sailing vessels, 300 hand-picked men, three Capuchin Fathers and a few women and children." On a document signed July 14, 1640, Germain Doucet was at Port Royal and Captain of the Army of Pentagoët as well as the right-hand man of the Governor of Acadia (Charles de menou d'Aulnay de Charnizay). After the death of the Governor in 1650, Germain was the Commander at the fort of Port Royal and Deputy Guardian of the Governor's children. On August 16, 1654, when 500 Bostonian soldiers under the command of Robert Sedgewick attacked the fort of Port Royal, Germain found it wise to give up without a struggle as he had only 100 men to oppose them. All military personnel were repatriated back to FRANCE. Germain left his brother-in-law, Jacques Bourgeois, surgeon, as Lieutenant of Port Royal and as a witness to see that the conditions of the trea ty were carried out. Germain and his wife returned to FRANCE in 1654.

      GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Germain

      BIRTH: Also shown as Born 1595, LaVerdure, France.

  • Sources 
    1. [S27] World Family Tree Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Brøderbund Software, Inc., (Release date: November 29, 1995), Tree #4512.
      Date of Import: Nov 12, 2000

    2. [S192] Gerrior Nitka Research.

    3. [S263] Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).

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    5. [S202] World Family Tree Vol. 1, Ed. 1, Brøderbund Software, Inc., (Release date: November 29, 1995), Tree #3113 (Reliability: 3).

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    8. [S203] CD 101.

    9. [S210] a) Des Acadiens au Quebec, Adrien Bergeron. (Reliability: 3).

    10. [S192] Gerrior Nitka Research (Reliability: 3).

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