Louis St. Martin

Notes:

Died in infancy.

Other Events:

• Emigration: Abt 1750, Nova Scotia, Canada; to Louisiana

Notes:

Early in life Pierre Bauchet St. Martin shipped before the mast. He participated in the war of 1744 and witnessed the taking of the citadel at Louisbourg by the Yankees from Boston in June, 1745. In 1750 he was captain of his ship. What caused him to steer his course to Louisiana is not known, nor why it was that he resigned his commission after arriving here.

In 1758, having become a prosperous farmer with an extensive plantation on the present site of Algiers, he took unto himself as wife, Charlotte Therese Gallot. After an active successful life, during which he begot five children, he died, a patriarch, in 1805.

Reference: Stanley Clisby Arthur, George Campbell Huchet de Kernion, Old Families of Louisiana (, 1931), pages 384-385.

Pierre married Charlotte Thérèse Gallot on 21 Oct 1758 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Charlotte was born in 1735 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; died in 1835. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

widow of Louis Pain

Other Events:

• Emigration: 8 Sep 1632, Le Havre, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France; to Acadia

Notes:

Pierre's brother, Mathieu, was rechristened as Sieur Mathieu de Saint-Martin. However, since Mathieu de Saint-Martin never married, his title descended upon the progeny of his older brother, Pierre Martin.
Reference: Stanley Clisby Arthur, George Campbell Huchet de Kernion, Old Families of Louisiana (, 1931), page 384.

Emigration:
Pierre was six years old when he debarked at la Hève with his parents.

Other Events:

• Emigration: 8 Sep 1632, Le Havre, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France; to Acadia

Notes:

On the 4th of July, 1632, the Royal French frigate l'Esperance en Dieu, escorting two transports, set sail from d'Auray bound for Acadia. The Treaty of Saint-Germain en Laye had just been signed recognizing for the first time Acadia as a French possession, and the Sieur Isaac de Razilly, on instructions from Cardinal Richelieu, was proceeding with three hundred men, recruited from Touraine and Brittany, to take delivery of Port Royal from the English and to establish there a permanent colony.

Among the followers of de Razilly who debarked at la Heve on the 8th of September, 1632, were Pierre Martin, his wife, Catherine Vigneau and their young son, also named Pierre, aged six. They were peasants from Brittany. In 1636, Pierre Martin and his wife had moved to Port Royal and in the same year a second son was born to them. He was named Mathieu and was the first child of French parentage born in Acadia. This circumstance earned for Mathieu, in 1680, and enfeoffment of lands near Grand Pré and a noble particule which rechristened him Sieur Mathieu de Saint-Martin.

Reference: Stanley Clisby Arthur, George Campbell Huchet de Kernion, Old Families of Louisiana (, 1931), page 384.


Birth:
St Germain

Pierre married Catherine Vigneau in 1630 in Brittany, France. Catherine was born in 1603 in France; died in in Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Emigration: 8 Sep 1632, Le Havre, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France; to Acadia

Rene married Estienette Poirier in 1590. Estienette was born in 1579. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]