Individual Details

Barthélemy Bergeron, known as d’Amboise, was born in Amboise, Indre‑et‑Loire, France. His exact birth date and parentage are uncertain. Trained as a merchant, he migrated from France to New France in the mid‑1680s.
According to Acadian historian Bona Arsenault, Barthélemy arrived in Canada in 1685 with a company of volunteer seamen and lived in the lower town of Québec from 1685 to 1690. During this period he served under Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville and took part in the Hudson Bay campaigns. He accompanied d’Iberville to Acadia in 1696.
Around 1695, Barthélemy married Geneviève Serreau de Saint‑Aubin, daughter of Jean Serreau and Marguerite Boileau and widow of Jacques Petitpas. Their children’s baptismal records trace the family’s movements between Québec, Port‑Royal, and Boston. Their first child was baptized at Saint‑François on Île d’Orléans, and later children were born at Port‑Royal. Their daughter Marie‑Anne was born in Boston in 1706 during the family’s captivity.
In 1704, during Colonel Benjamin Church’s attack on Port‑Royal, Barthélemy and his entire family were taken prisoner and transported to Boston, where they were held as hostages. They were exchanged and returned to Port‑Royal in September 1706. Afterward, Barthélemy supported his family through coastal trading voyages in his schooner.
By 1714, Barthélemy and Geneviève were living near the fort at Port‑Royal with their children. Around 1730, he moved to the Saint John River in present‑day New Brunswick, becoming one of the early settlers of Sainte‑Anne‑du‑Pays‑Bas (now Fredericton). He improved his land grant and continued trading in the region.
Barthélemy Bergeron died between the 1731 and 1736 censuses, likely at Pointe‑Sainte‑Anne on the Saint John River.

Birth	23 May 1663	Amboise, Indre et Loire, Centre, France
Christen	23 May 1663	Amboise, Indre et Loire, Centre, France
Occupation	1684	Baker, Soldier, Ship Navigator
Arrival in Canada	1685
Marriage	Abt 1695	Port-Royal, Acadia, New France - Geneviève Serreau
Residence	1704	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
Alt name		Barthelemy d'Amboise
Alt name		Bartellemy Bergeron
Alt name		Barthélémi Bergeron
Alt name		Barthélemy Bergeron dit d'Amboise
Death

Spouse	Geneviève Serreau (1667 - 1739)
Child	Living

Father	René Bergeron (1614 - )
Mother	Anne Dagault (1646 - 1701)