Charles Serreau (abt. 1670)

Born about 1670 in Canada, Nouvelle-France [uncertain]

Ancestors

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Biography

Charles was born around 1670. He is the son of Jean Serreau dit St-Aubin and Marguerite Boileau, an influential family. (no baptism found for him, certainly not born in Québec city). ^[1]

About 1690 he married a Malecite woman. ^[1]

Their children were: ^[1]

1. Joseph
2. Jean-Baptiste

Their children Joseph and Jean-Baptiste appeared on a census taken at St John River in 1708. ^[2]

Two families of Jacques Petitpas and Charles Surreau were taken prisoner by the British and held in Boston in 1692. The two men agreed to participate in a plan to allow the British to capture Jean-Vincent Saint Castin, to secure freedom for their families. Once in Penobscot Bay, they were able to thwart the plan and received a large reward from the Governor of Acadie. ^[3]On 9 November 1692, Jacques Petitpas and Charles Serreau, Geneviève Seurreau's younger brother, residents of Archimayan in Acadie, were taken prisoner by the British and brought to Boston with their families.^[4] “In order to obtain their freedom, the two heads of families pretended to accept the proposal that they should go with two deserters from Quebec to carry off or assassinate Saint-Castin. But when they reached Penobscot Bay, they tied up the two traitors and took them to Governor Robinau de Villebon, who had them executed. Villebon rewarded the two Acadians with a sum of money sufficiently large ‘to enable them to deliver their wives and children from the English.’” ^[5][6]

Research Notes

Email from Diane Bilodeau Jan 2024:
Nous savons que lors du recensement de 1686, Jean Serreau a 2 garçons avec lui. Gilles Brassard, dans son blog, émet l'hypothèse qu'il soit l'enfant né le 29 01 1658 à Poitiers. Je n'ai rien trouvé qui prouve ou désapprouve cette hypothèse. ^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes. (Moncton, N.-B.: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999), p. 1463, 1465 - Charles married around 1690 a Malécite.
2. ↑ "Acadian Ancestral Home", hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; Acadia 1708 Census. Lucie’s note: ”Archives Publiques du Canada. Extrait F.1, 466-1. Copy of part of a manuscript in the possession of Mr. Edward E. Ayer of Chicago.” Note here: Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the Library and Archives Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752,” Image 238 containing only text which says that this census can be found “dans le cartable indiqué Vol 466 Pt. 2”. Note here: 1708 Census MG 18, F 18, 31 pages; Recensement nominatif des Français de Cap-Sable, Port-Razoir et La Have; recensement nominatif des Indiens en Acadie: Port Royal, Cap-Sable, La Have, Les Mines, Cap-Breton, Chignectou, Pentagouet, rivière Saint-Jean et autres lieux. Transcript available on-site, not on microfilm.

   Indians who are on the St John River including only the men and boys capable of carrying arms

   Joseph son of Charles St Aubin,

   Jean his brother

3. ↑ Clarence J. d’Entremont, “SERREAU DE SAINT-AUBIN, JEAN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed September 20, 2020, Description of the Plot Against Saint Castin.
4. ↑ (Stephen White citing Beamish Murdock, A History of Nova Scotia, or Acadia, 1865, vol I, p. 241)
5. ↑ Clarence J. d’Entremont, “SERREAU DE SAINT-AUBIN, JEAN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed December 17, 2020, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/serreau_de_saint_aubin_jean_2E.html.
6. ↑ White, Stephen A. English Supplement to the Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles Acadiennes ,Part I 1636 to 1714; Moncton, N.-B.: Centre D'études Acadiennes, Université De Moncton, 2000, Print. P. 307

   9 Nov 1692: Jacques Petitpas and Charles Serreau, Sr. de Saint-Aubin, both residents of Archimayan, in Acadia, were captured by the English and brought to Boston with their families. The governor of Massachusetts sent them along with two French deserters to capture M de Saint-Castin, keeping their families as hostages, but they betrayed the plan to the French authorities and delivered the deserters to them.

7. ↑ Blogue de Gilles Brassard, Conversations avec mes ancêtres Marguerite Boisleau et Jean Serreau, une histoire compliquée, 10 février 2023, https://conversationsancetres.wordpress.com/2023/02/10/173-marguerite-boisleau-et-jean-serreau-une-histoire-compliquee/

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