Abraham Dugas is the first name that came to America. He left Toulouse in 1640, to go live inAcadia. His ancestors were from Lyonnals. Their original name was Crignet. In the 17th century, a member of this family had distinguished himself in the military. He received the knight of St. Louis and received from the king a large area called the field of Gas. Its crest as it Keeps the Dugas of Lyon, was by mouth with the chief two swords in saltire and in quince peak.

nbsp;His family was known as the Gas Crignet. Graduallynbsp;he abandoned her original name and kept only one of the Gas she later wrote Du Gas, and finally Dugas. In the relations of the Jesuits found written on behalf of the Gas. The quince is on the shield in memory of the first name. Abraham Dugas was 22 years old when he moved to Port Royal in Acadia. He was a gunsmith for the king. In the year 1647, he married a Port-Royal Acadian named Louise Doucet.nbsp; By his marriage he had several children. We know thenbsp;name ofnbsp;only six: Claude, Abraham and Martin, Anne Marie and Madeleine. Claude and Abraham are the ancestors of all Dugas of Arcadia and the province of Quebec; they form two branches, the branch of Abraham and the branch of Claude, Martin has remained single.nbsp;Anne married Charles Bourgeois ofnbsp;Port-Royal: it happens to be the maternal ancestor of Dr. Mignault, of Montreacute;al, was the 6th generation andnbsp;married tonbsp;Madeleine Germain Bourgeois, in 1682, in Port-Royal; and is the maternal ancestor of Mirault and Robichaud of St. Jacques. Mary married at Port Royal, Charles Melanson; and it is the ancestor of thenbsp;Melanson familiesnbsp;of St. Jacquesnbsp;and Montreacute;al. There were several alliances between thenbsp;Melanson and Dugas branch.

In the years 1755-1756, when the dispersion of the Acadians, many of the branch Dugas of Claude were deported to Boston. Three brothers, Joseph, Daniel and Blaise, son of Claude Dugas and Josette Melanson were exiled until 1773. Blaise married there and never returned to Canada. Two of his sons Blaise and Firmin, later moved to St. Jacquesnbsp;of Bass. One of the girls named Sara Blaise marriednbsp;Francis Faucher.nbsp; It is the grandfather of the Rev. Faucher father and his brothers by their grandmother belonged to a branch of Claude Dugas. Joseph and Daniel Dugas, Brothers of Blaise, were both located in St. Jacques. That is what are all their descendants who then had to scatter in other parishes.

Alexandre Dugas, great grandson of Abraham, escaped the English andnbsp;fled through the woods, and after a journey of adventure, hardship and misery. In the year 1765, he was pitched in the parish ofnbsp;St. Henrinbsp;de Mascouche.nbsp;He died in 1789.nbsp; He married an Acadian named Josette Brassard, daughter ofnbsp;Jean Baptistenbsp;Brassard and Ceacute;cile Babin. By his marriage he had three girls and two boys. the eldest son named Franccedil;ois, wasnbsp;born in 1774 in Mascouche, marriednbsp;in St. Jacquesnbsp;of Bass in 1803. Angeacute;lique Dupuis.nbsp;It is the ancestors of the Abbe G. Dugas a former course ofnbsp;St. Annenbsp;Des Plaines.

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