Pierre Le Jeune I (dit Briard)

• Birth Notes
  • I also found from the La Famille LeJeune/Young, Inc. La Famille LeJeune/Young Genealogy En Acadie site:
    
    The LeJeunes were among the first French settlers to settle in Acadia but because precise records were either lost, destroyed or non-existant, it is difficult to determine exactly when Pierre LeJeune, the first of the ancestral LeJeune’s came to Acadia. It is believed that he arrived from France between c.1618-1620 as a single man and as an engage hired by one of the fur traders. Most of les engages worked as clerks at the trading post, assisted in the preparation of furs for shipment bartered with the Indians for their furs. The close relationship between the French engage and the Micmac Indians contributed to the culture of each other and in places like La Have, where the LeJeunes settled, they interbred to form a Metis community.
    
    
    En Acadie; probablement arrivé le 22 may 1611 à Port-Royal, sur La Grâce-de-Dieu, qui leva l'ancre du port de Dieppe le 26 janvier précédant, avec Charles de Biencourt; s'établissent peu après leur mariage au Cap-de-Sable"
    That makes the Pierre (I) Lejeune dit Briard one of the very first emigrants to Acadia.

• General Notes
  • http://genforum.genealogy.com/lejeune/messages/315.html
    http://genforum.genealogy.com/lejeune/messages/242.html
    
    Possibly Pierre. Father possibly Claude Le Jeune (composer)
    
    2.       Pierre Lejeune dit Briard was born 1595 in Martaize,Larochelle,Aunis,France. He was buried in Port Royal,Acadia,New France.