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the English, for the fulfilment of the conditions of the surrender of Port Royal. Jacques Bourgeois is described in the articles of surrender as "lieutenant of the place," viz.: the fort of Port Royal, so that he held an official position in the little colony, probably that of judge. He was also a witness to the marriage contract between La Tour and Madame d'Aulnay, in February 1653. Jacques Bourgeois was probably one of the settlers originally brought out by de Razilly, and both Jacques and Jacob Bourgeois were contemporaries of d'Aulnay, who met his death by drowning in 1650. This fact is proved by a letter written by M. de la Touche at Port Royal in 1702, in which the sale of a piece of land by d'Aulnay to Jacob Bourgeois is mentioned. But Jacob Bourgeois has higher claims to be remembered in Acadian history than from his acquaintance with La Tour's enemy, for he was the founder of the Chignecto settlement, the parent of the great community which now occupies the most fertile land in Westmorland and Cumberland. In a letter written from Port Royal in 1702, to the French minister, Des Goutin, referring to the Chignecto settlement, says, "It was the late Jacob Bourgeois who led there the first settlers, when the Chevalier de Grand-Fontaine commanded at Pentagoët, and Pierre Arseneau took others there some time after." Two of the sons of Jacob Bourgeois, Charles and Germain, and two of his daughters, Marie and Margaret, settled at Chignecto, as may be seen by the census of 1686, and this census also gives an intimation of a tragedy in the Bourgeois family, the nature of which I have been unable to ascertain. The census of 1671 shows that Marie Bourgeois was then married to Pierre Sire, armorer, and that she had one child, Jean, who was three months old. Before the census of 1686 was taken she had became a widow, and had contracted a second