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- Pierre Gaudet dit l'Ainé settled on land west of his young er brother, Pierre le Jeune. In the census of the Port Roya l river valley for the year 1686, Pierre Godet l'Ayné was 3 5 years old, his wife Anne Blanchard was 41 years old, thei r children were: Gérard (stepson), aged 20 years; Bernard , aged 13; Pierre, aged 11; Claude, aged 9; Abraham, aged 7 ; Marie, aged 4; Madeleine, aged 4; and Jeanne, aged 2. Pie rre l'Ainé had 4 arpents of cultivated land. In the 169 3 census of the Port Royal river valley, Pierre Godet l'Ayn é gives his age as 41 years old, his wife Anne Blanchard wa s 48 years old; their children were: Bernard, aged 19 years ; Pierre, aged 17 years; Claude, aged 15; Abraham, 13; Magd eleine and Marie (twins), 11; Jeanne, 9; Augustin, 7; and J ean, aged 3 years. Pierre l'Ainé had 26 arpents of cultivat ed land, 10 cattle, 12 sheep, 10 pigs, and 3 shot guns. Pi erre l'Ainé left the Port Royal river valley in 1696, leavi ng his farm to his eldest son, Bernard "le Vieux" (the old) , who married Jeanne Terriot. In 1698, the farm had an orch ard of 50 trees. Bernard became the chief of the branch o f Gaudets who perpetuated in this place at the same time wi th the descendants of his uncle Pierre Gaudet dit le Jeune , his neighbor.
Pierre l'Ainé settled at Beaubassin, where he expanded th e most vast marshland on the east coast of North America. H e built his home on the hill beside the Tintamarre (today T antramar) river.
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