NameNicolas PREJEAN
Birth7 Jul 1704, St-Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death31 Mar 1765
FatherJean PREJEAN (~1651-)
MotherAndrée SAVOIE (1666-)
Misc. Notes
From the Registers of St-Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal:
http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/cap/acadian/registers_i...;fieldSelect=surname

RG 1, Vol. 26 p.22
BAPTISM, 27 July 1704, father Jean Prejean, mother André Savoye, godfather Nicolas Didier dit la Fond, seergeant of a company, godmother Magdelaine Baptisse.

From the census Isle Royal by Sieur de la Roque for 1752:

Nicolas Préjean, habitant caboteur of Port Toulouse, native of Port Royal, 42 years of age. {He is widowed, but the mother of his children was Marguerite Broussard} He has two boys and four girls.
Louison, aged 18 years.
Gabriel, aged one year.
Marie, aged 16 years.
Jeanne, aged 9 years.
Rose, aged 8 years.
Cecille, aged 4 years. <<<<
Two cows, two hens and a boat.
His land was sold to him by the late Jean Robert Henry.

ACADIAN EMIGRATION TO ILE ROYALE (CAPE BRETON), 1713-1734
The final group of eleven families immigrated individually and at random between 1722 and 1734 attracted mainly by reports of paid employment for tradesmen and navigators.
NICOLAS PREJEAN, b.1704 in Acadia and m. Marguerite Brossard; carpenter and navigator. He appears on the 1734 census of Port Toulouse as a carpenter and a navigator.

Louisbourg documents on the National Archives of Canada site regarding our ancestors. Here is a list of boats mentioned during the year 1754.
Boat the SAINT-MICHEL captain Nicholas Prejean. p. 91
Spouses
Deathaft 1749
FatherPierre BROUSSARD (~1684-)
MotherMarguerite BOURG (~1685-)
Marriageabt 1752
ChildrenCecile (~1741-1843)
 Jean (~1753-1771)
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