Arrived in Acadia and was Lieutenant General there.

Abraham came to Acadia in 1640, as Lieutenant General in the army of the King. He was a gunsmith in Port Royal. He married Marguerite Doucet, daughter of Germain Doucet another high ranking military man at Port Royal.
In the 1671 census, he (age 55) and Marguerite Louise, had 12 acres of land, 19 cattle and 3 sheep.

He was recorded in the Port Royal census of 1671 age 55, 1686 age 70, and 1693 age 74. The Governor Lamothe Cadillac spoke of him in 1685 when Abraham was 90 years old, Abraham Dugas "carried out the functions of general representative of the King (in civil and criminal matters"

Oct 5, 1867: Abraham Dugas made his mark on an attestation in favour of Governor d'Aulnay's accomplishments; thus he had arrived in Acadia before 1650, the year of d'Aulnay's death."

2 Dec , 1705: Expropriation of two lots "adjoining and drawing towards the old fort" and belonging to Abraham Dugas, for the extension of the fort in Port Royal. As Abraham Dugas had been dead for over 5 years, one must suppose that his heirs were the actual owners of this land in 1705.

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Genealogy.com Dugas Family Genealogy Forum user David Dugas:
We found a descendent of Abraham Dugas to do a DNA test. All men who descend from Abraham Dugas of Acadia will carry the same DNA genetic signature.

The DNA test participant was Jean Jacques Dugas of Montreal and the results place Dugas men into Haplogroup J2. This is the same Haplogroup as the Dugas dit Labreche family but the DNA also shows the 2 ancestors were not related. J2 is very rare among French Canadians, found in only 5%. It is a haplogroup that is most frequent today in the Middle East and to a lesser degree in the Mediterranean. It is very common among Jewish people today, actually the most frequent haplogroup at about 30%. It was for this reasoning that we had the testing done. First, the surname Duga is common among eastern european Jews. One such Duga even has theorized his family line escaped the Spanish inquisition. Second, his given name was Abraham, which is a common Jewish given name. Third, his mother's name seems to have been Cassonne or Carsonne but neither name seems to exist in records. However, the surname Carcassonne does and it was often a Jewish surname in the south of France during those times. It is found very frequently in the Jewish records from Avignon, right next door to where we find the highest frequency of Dugas' today in France, Gard. The Dugas men have very few close genetic links, the closest being a man from Hama, Syria. Both the Dugas and Dugas Labreche families carry a genetic signature quite different from that of their other French Canadian peers.

This DNA result does not prove Abraham Dugas or Jean Ducas/Dugas dit Labreche were of Jewish
ancestry, but it is very strongly supportive data for any theory that he was.

The DNA result on the Y chromosome follows direct paternal descent so only direct male descendents of Abraham Dugas would carry this Y chromosome signature. The same goes for mtDNA which follows a direct maternal lineage. The Y-DNA J2 result for the Dugas men has now been found in 2 direct descendents, one from Canada and one from the southern US which pretty much confirms that this was the genetic signature of Abraham Dugas. The same goes for the descendents of Jean Ducas-Dugas dit Labreche. Both ancestors were unrelated but carried a Y chromosome signature indicating haplogroup J2. This signature is found in about 5% of French Canadian men. About 80-85% are in haplogroup R1b or I which are indicative of Western and Northern European deep ancestry.

Carolyn Hebert replied:
Parents Abraham Dugas 1590 – 1689
Marguerite Carsonne 1590 – 1689
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I have two more generations past that and then it stops. There isn't proof of any other ancestors past that yet.
Parents
Pierre Dugast 1564 – 1596
Anne Tejournel 1564 – 1636
Parents
George Du Coignet Dugast 1544 –
Jeanne DuBerry 1545 –

Christopher Meloni's Acadian ancestry starts with Anastasie Cormier:

It goes like this: Christopher Meloni: his mother was Cecile Chagnon married to his father Charles Robert Meloni. Cecile's parents: Charles-Edward Chagnon and Carmel-Mariette Dancos. Parents of Charles-Edward Chagnon: Edmond Chagnon and Lydia Blanchard. Parents of Lydia Blanchard: Jovite Blanchard dit Renaud and Aurelie Gaboury. Parents of Jovite Blanchard dit Renaud: Joseph Renaud and Marie Desanges Phaneuf. Parents of Marie Desanges Phaneuf: Francois Paul Phaneuf and *Anastasie-Nathalie Cormier*. Parents of Anastasie: Jean-Baptiste Cormier and Madeleine Bernard. Parents of Jean-Baptiste: Pierre Cormier and Marie Cyr. Pierre's parents: Francois Cormier and Marguerite LeBlanc. Francois Cormier's parents: Thomas Cormier and Marie Madeleine Girouard. Marie-Madeleine's parents: Francois Girouard and Jeanne Aucoin. Going back to Marguerite LeBlanc - parents: Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine Hebert. Catherine Hebert's parents: Antoine Hebert and Genevieve Lefranc. Jacques LeBlanc's parents: Daniel LeBlanc and Francoise Gaudet. Going back to Marie-Anne Cyr's parents: Jean Cyr and Francoise Melanson. Parents of Jean Cyr: Pierre Cyr and Marie-Francoise Bourgeois. Parents of Marie-Francoise Bourgeois: Jacques Bourgeois and Jeanne Trahan. Going back to Francoise Melanson - her parents: Charles Melanson and Marie Dugas. Parents of Charles Melanson: Pierre Laverdure and Priscilla Melanson. Parents of Marie Dugas: Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Doucet. Parents of Marguerite Doucet: Germain Doucet and Unknown.

The parents of Marie-Madeleine Bernard married to Jean-Baptiste Cormier: Jean-Baptiste Bernard and Cecile Gaudet. Then Claude Gaudet and Marie Blou to PIERRE dit l'âiné GAUDET and ANNE BLANCHARD to DENIS GAUDET and MARTINE GAUTHIER to Jean Gaudet and Unknown. Anne Blanchard's parents: Jean Blanchard and Radegone Lambert.