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Notes for Louis Allain:
There was only one family of the Allain name in Acadia: that of Louis Allain, a blacksmith and merchant probably born France abt 1655.He arrived in Acadia abt 1686 Allain was well educated and appears to have settled in Port Royal
This was not his first trip to North America -two years before he purchased property in Wells Maine. On this 100 aces property there was a house and a sawmill. A few months before purchasing this property , Louis bought a share of 50 percent in a ship called "Endeavour" Since he spoke English fairly well, trade with the New England merchants was no problem.
Around 1689 Louis married Marguerite Bourque.Daughter of Antoine Bourque and Antoinette Landry. The marriage took place in Port Royal . She bore two childen Pierre ,who settled at Grande Pre and Marie who in 1715 married Nicholas Gauthier, a leading Acadian personality of his day.
Louis sold his Wells property in 1720. He settled in Belair, in the vincinity of Port Royal. There he built a grain mill and saw mill. In Addition, he applied his trade in a coastal vessel, trading with the British.
Louis formed a partner- ship with Jean Baptiste Naquin-called L'Etoile-who had married a Marguerite Bourque and lived in the upper part of Port Royal River. When Jean Baptiste died in 1706 Louis bought his property.
His only son Pierre married Marguerite LeBlanc, daughter of Antoine LeBlanc and Marie Bourgeois. The Allains of New Brunswick are descendants of Louis Allain, eldest son of Pierre Allain married June 24 1722 to Anne Leger dau of Jacques Leger and Anne Ameriault at Beaubassin Acadia
Louis corresponded with the governor of New France, Pierre Rigaud de Vandreuil. How ever some of his letters sent by the French Governor fell into the hands of the British Governor of Annopolis Royal, Jean Doucett. Reconized as a business man wih a strong character. Louis was used by by the French authorities as a negotiator for the exchange of French and Acadian prisioners in Boston. Louis retired from business at an advanced age and passed on his property to his daughter Marie and her husband Nicolas Gauthier Louis's possessions included mills, house a store and several ships. Louis died at Port Royal July 16 1737.
Port Royal Paris Register indicates death as follows'
Death.. June 18 1737
Buried in the cemetery of this Parish Louis Allain widower of Marguerite, he died the preceding day at eighty six years of age'
Witness: Prudent Robichaud, Claude Girouard, Claude Granger, and manny ohers.
(entry found in 4 volume set Port Royal parish register at Moncton Public Library)
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