Jean Denis Pitre
1680 Port Royal - after 1724 Acadia
Jean Denis was the seventh child born to Jean & Marie at Port Royal. His father died when he was about nine, so he and his siblings were raised by his mother and her second husband Francois Robin. Jean and his brother Pierre were probably recruited by the elder Pierre Thibodeau around 1698 to help with the construction of a new flour mill at Chipoudy.
Jean returned to Port Royal to marry Francoise Babin, the tenth child of Antoine Babin & Marie Mercier (French-born Acadians). By the autumn of 1700 the mill was up and running and Jean was settled there with his new family. Jean 'baptized' Noel Doiron's first child who was born in Boston on 1st February 1706. According to a correspondent that, along with other Acadians, Jean was imprisoned there by Major Benjamin Church in the Raids of 1704. On the 28th of June 1714, the couple and their children were among the group of Acadians who had gone to Ile Royale to check its suitability.
Jean and Francoise had twelve children over a twenty-five year span (not uncommon), and they probably died somewhere in Acadia, as there is no sign of the couple having sought refuge by the mid-1700's. Many of their children were not so fortunate. Eldest son Jean Baptiste and his wife died at sea during the crossing to France from Ile St. Jean. Son Joseph and his wife, son Michel and his wife, and daughter Madeleine and her husband (Louis Mathieu Doiron, whom Jean had 'baptized' in Boston) all died in the shipwreck of the Duke William; daughter Cecile and her husband in the shipwreck of the Violet; and son Germain and his wife in the West Indies.
Continuation of tree (7th child of Jean Pitre/Marie Pesseley); all known surname descendants:
2 Jean Denis Pitre b: Abt. 1680 Port Royal, Acadia; d: Aft. 1724
+Francoise Babin b: Abt. 1681 Port Royal, Acadia; m: Abt. 1698 Port Royal, Acadia [Antoine/Marie Mercier]; d: Aft. 1724
3 Jean Pitre b: Abt. 1699 Cobequid, Acadia; d: 1758 at sea during the crossing to France
+Marguerite Theriot b: Abt. 1701 Grand Pre, Acadia; m: Abt. 1721 Acadia [Pierre/Marie Bourg]; d: 1758 at sea during the crossing to France
3 Joseph Pitre b: Abt. 1700 Cobequit, Acadia; d: Abt. 13 December 1758 in the shipwreck of Duke William on way to France
+Elisabeth (Isabelle) Boudrot b: Abt. 1701 Acadia; m: Abt. 1724 Acadia [Rene/unknown]; d: Abt. 13 December 1758 in the shipwreck of Duke William on way to France
3 Claude Jean Pitre b: Abt. 1701 Acadia; d: Bef. 27 November 1759
+Marguerite Doiron b: Abt. 1708 Acadia; m: Abt. 1724 Cobequit, Acadia [Noel/Marie Henry]; d: Bef. 27 November 1759
3 Michel Pitre b: Abt. 1704 Cobequit, Acadia; d: Abt. 13 December 1758 in the shipwreck of Duke William on way to France
+Marie Madeleine Doiron b: 28 September 1707 Grand Pre, Acadia; m: Abt. 1727 Acadia [Noel/Marie Henry]; d: Abt. 13 December 1758 in the shipwreck of Duke William on way to France
3 Madeleine Pitre b: Abt. 1706 Cap de Sable; d: Abt. 13 December 1758 in the shipwreck of Duke William on way to France
+Louis Mathieu Doiron b: 1 February 1706 Boston, MA; m: Abt. 1726 Acadia [Noel/Marie Henry]; d: Abt. 13 December 1758 in the shipwreck of Duke William on way to France
3 Anne Marie Pitre b: Abt. 1707 Cobequit, Acadia
+Charles Lapierre b: Abt. 1698 Les Mines, Acadia; m: Abt. 1725 Acadia [Francois/Jeanne Rimbault]; d: Bef. 1727
*2nd Husband of Anne Marie Pitre:
+Mathieu Brasseur dit Lebrasseur b: Abt. 1705 Grand Pre, Acadia; m: Abt. 1727 Cobequit, Acadia [Mathieu/Jeanne Celestin dit Bellemere]
3 Cecile Pitre b: Abt. 1708 Cobequit, Acadia; d: Abt. 13 December 1758 in the shipwreck of Violet on way to France
+Joseph Lejeune b: 20 July 1704 Port Royal, Acadia; m: Abt. 1727 Acadia [Pierre/Marie Thibodeau]; d: Abt. 13 December 1758 in the shipwreck of Violet on way to France
3 Francoise Pitre b: Abt. 1710 Cobequit, Acadia
+Joseph Boutin b: 30 April 1710 Grand Pre, Acadia; m: Abt. 1731 Cobequit, Acadia [Joseph/Marie Marguerite Lejeune]; d: 13 June 1755
3 Christine dite Catherine Pitre b: Abt. 1712 Acadia; d: Bet. 1752 - 1761
+Joseph Henry dit le Petit Homme b: Abt. 1707 Mines, Acadia; m: Abt. 1729 Acadia [Robert/Marie Madeleine Godin]; d: Bef. 27 January 1761
3 Germain Jean Pitre b: Abt. 1714 Pisiquit, Acadia; d: 20 October 1764 Le Mirebalais, St. Domingue, West Indies
+Marie Josephe Girouard b: 27 October 1717 Grand Pre, Acadia; m: Abt. 1736 Acadia [Pierre/Marie Doiron]; d: 16 November 1764 Le Mirebalais, St. Domingue, West Indies
3 Charles Pitre b: Abt. 1720 Acadia; d: Bef. 1759
+Anne Thibodeau b: Abt. 1721 Pisiguit, Acadia; m: Abt. 1745 Acadia [Philippe/Isabelle (Elisabeth) Vincent]; d: Bet. 1763 - 1785 France
3 Amand Pitre b: Abt. 1724 Acadia; d: Aft. 1785 Louisiana
+Genevieve Arsement b: Abt. 1724 Pobomcoup, Cap Sable, Acadia; m: Abt. 1746 Cobequid, Acadia [Pierre Claude/Marie Josephe Theriot]; d: Abt. 1784 France
Back one generation to parents of Jean Denis Pitre
- Earliest items in RED sourced from Dictionnaire Genealogique Des Familles Acadiennes (Stephen A. White) and from extant registers.
- Later items in RED have been verified against parish register entries.
Last updated: 15 October 2011.