Michel Boutin (1751 - aft. 1811)

Born 6 Apr 1751 in Baie des Espagnols, Île-Royale, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Husband of Charlotte (Sauvage) Sauvage dit Forgeron — married about 1780 in Ile Madame, Richmond, Nouvelle-Écosse, Canada

Descendants

Died after 1811 after age 59 in Arichat, Colonie de la Nouvelle-Écosse

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Biography

On March 8, 1786, Michel Boutin was one of the seventy Acadien heads of families, the founders of Arichat Parish , that thanked the lieutenant governor of Cape Breton, J.F.W. DesBarres, "for the promise of land concessions, the permission to construct a church and school, and the request for tax exemptions."^[1]

Son of Joseph Boutin and Francoise Pitre.

Baptised at Louisbourg 1751/10/11. ^[2]

Enumerated at one year of age at the bay of Espagnols (Spanish Bay), Isle Royale (present-day Cape Breton) in 1752. ^[3]

"Joseph Boutin, ploughman, native of la Cadie, aged 42 years
François Pitre, his wife, native of la Cadie, aged 42 years
Joseph, aged 20 years
Ambrose, aged 15 years
Bernard, aged 13 years
Paul, aged 9 years
Michel, aged one year
Ufrosine, aged 18 years
Marie, aged 6 years
Anne, aged 4 years.
The land was given to them by Messrs. Desherbiers and Prevost. They have been in the Colony thirty months and have rations for 33 mos."

Michel’s father died in 1755 and his mother probably died before the deportation in 1758. “The youngest son of Françoise, Michel Boutin, was only seven years of age in 1758, yet somehow managed to escape being deported. Inexplicably, he was at Nipisiguit (Bathurst) without his mother in 1761.”^{[4] [5]}

Married about 1780, Charlotte Sauvage dit Forgeron, daughter of Pierre Sauvage dit Forgeron and Marie Jeanne Pinet, widow of Louis Fougere.

Children:^[6]

1. Louise dite Éliza Boutin, b. ca 1781, Canso
2. Anne dite Nancy Boutin, b. ca 1783,
3. Joseph Boutin, b. ca 1784
4. Madeleine Boutin, b. ca 1788
5. Charlotte Boutin
6. Adélaïde Boutin, b. ca 1796

Unknown know how he came to Isle Madame, but he is mentioned in 1771, when he was godfather to Genevieve Bois.

He resided in West Arichat, with his brothers-in-law, Joseph, Jean and Pierre Forgeron.

He was one of the first church wardens of the parish of Arichat in 1803.

The children of Michel and Charlotte, were renowned for their long lives, five out of the six of them lived to between 85 and 100 years. Listed at Little Arichat in 1811 Census. ^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ This profile was created from information in the manuscript “The 70 signers of the Founding of Arichat Parish, Cape Breton”, published in 2006 by Lena White, readily available for reference at Ancestory.com. Ms. White attributes the facts and data in her manuscript to: Stephen A. White, article “Les fondateurs de la paroisse d'Arichat, Cap-Breton”, from Cahiers de la société historique Acadienne - Volume 23, Pagination 4 – 26, 1992
2. ↑ Eric Krause Reports: The Parish Records of Fortress of Louisbourg 1713-1758, Vol. 408, Rg 1, Image 95 Baptism
3. ↑ Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, Volume II (Ottawa: Printed by S.E.Dawson, 1905), 1752 La Roque Census, p. 47. The original census, in French, can be found at Census Original Version “Recensement de l'Isle Royal et de Isle Saint-Jean ” p. 174
4. ↑ Lockerby, Earle. "Pre-Deportation Acadian Letters From Île Saint-Jean". Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne vol. 42, no. 2 (2011): p. 94, 96 (letter of Françoise Pitre Boutin) accessed at https://societehistoriqueacadienne.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/4202_total.pdf.
5. ↑ Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; p. 3 Gaspesie Refugees Census, original record 1761 Gaspesie Refugees Original Amherst Papers (WO 34) : C-12837, Images 176-184, image 179

   Michel Boutin 1 boy

6. ↑ Marcel Walter Landry Michel Boutin at Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde, accessed October 2020
7. ↑ Nova Scotia Archives: Census Returns 1767-1738 Michel Boutin, 1811 Census