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Joseph Dugas (1731 - 1765)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Cobequid, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia, [British Colonial North America]
Death: July 26, 1765 (29-38)
la Luisiana (Spanish Louisiana), Viceroyalty of New Spain [Spanish Colonial North America] ((yellow fever epidemic})
Place of Burial: la Luisiana (Spanish Louisiana), Viceroyalty of New Spain [Spanish Colonial North America]
Immediate Family:

Son of Jean Dugas and Marie-Charlotte Gaudin
Husband of Cécile Bergeron
Father of Cecile Dugas; Joseph [Cadet] Dugas, Jr; Pelagie-Magdelaine [Madeleine] Dugas and Mathilde Dugas
Brother of Anastasie Dugas; François Dugas; Marie-Rose [Rosalie] Dugas; Charles Dugas; Athanase Dugas and 3 others

Managed by: Joel Scott Cognevich
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About Joseph Dugas

  • Sources:
    • Burial: Fr. Jean-François's original "parish" records - F, v.1#8
    • "The BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil Party to the Attakapas District, 1765" - http://www.acadiansingray.com
      • On list of Acadian prisoners at Halifax, Aug 1763
  • Notes:
    • Arrived in current day Louisiana in Feb 1765


In February 1765, Joseph Dugas, age unrecorded, came with wife Cécile Bergeron, age 30, and four children--Cécile, age 12, Joseph dit Cadet, age 10, Pélagie-Madeleine, called Madeleine, age 6, and infant Mathilde, who died in New Orleans soon after they reached the colony and was perhaps the first Acadian to die in Louisiana. Joseph, père died in the yellow fever epidemic of June-Nov 1765.

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Joseph Dugas's Timeline

1731
1731
Cobequid, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia, [British Colonial North America]
1754
1754
Acadie, Rivière St.-Jean, Colony of Nova Scotia, British Colony
1755
1755
Acadie, Rivière St.-Jean, Colony of Nova Scotia, British Colony
1759
1759
Acadie, Restigouche, Colony of Nova Scotia, British Colony
1765
March 6, 1765
New Orleans, La Luisiana, New Spain
July 26, 1765
Age 34
la Luisiana (Spanish Louisiana), Viceroyalty of New Spain [Spanish Colonial North America]
July 27, 1765
Age 34
buried at the first camp below Poste des Attakapas, la Luisiana (Spanish Louisiana), Viceroyalty of New Spain [Spanish Colonial North America]