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Pierre dit Parrotte
décédé vers 1791 ou 1792

Escaping deportation during die Acadian Expulsion, Pierre and his family sought refuge in the Petitcodiac NB region from 1755 to 1760. They were captured and held prisoner at Fort Edward and Fort Beauséjour, from 1761 to 1768. During this time he was specially recorded at Fort Beauséjour, 24 August 1763, with his wife and three children, Marie, Jean and Joseph [sic, David]. In 1768, Pierre was recorded with his wife and three sons as an Acadian in Kings County, NS, willing to take an oath to the British crown. In the same year, he was noted as a tenant of Joseph Frederick Wallet Desbarres at Elysian Fields (Minudie), NS. He lived out the rest of his life at Minudie
(M.B. Melanson)