Maine Family Group Sheet for the Jean George POCHARD Family


Husband: Jean George [John] POCHARD (6, 10)
Birthdate: 20/Sept/1706
Birthplace: Chenebier, Montbelliard, France (1, 2, 7)
Death date: 07/Mar/1779
Place of death: Dresden, Lincoln, Maine (4)
Burial: Episcopal Church Yard, Dresden, Lincoln, Maine (3) (unconfirmed)
Father: Nicholas POCHARD (2, 3, 7)
Mother: Anne Surleau (2, 7)
Other Spouses:

Marriage date: 03/Jan/1730
Marriage place: Chenebier, Montbelliard, France (3)

Wife: Jeanne [Jane] MONNIER (2, 10)
Birthdate: ca 1710
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Father: Charles MONNIER (3)
Mother:
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CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Elizabeth POCHARD
Sex: F
Birthdate: 11/June/1730
Birthplace: Etobon. Haute-Saone, FR (7)
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Spouses' names: Daniel MALBON (10, 11, 12) (Note: c)

Child No. 2: Abraham POCHARD (PUSHARD) (6, 10)
Sex: M
Birthdate: bpt. 30/Jul/1734
Birthplace: Chenebier, Montbelliard, France (1, 2, 7)
Death date: 2/July/1806
Place of death: Fairfield, Somerset, Maine (Note: d)
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Spouses' name: Margaret PARIS (12)

Child No. 3: George POCHARD (PUSHARD) (1, 5, 6, 10)
Sex: M
Birthdate: bpt 05/May/1737
Birthplace: Chenebier, Montbelliard, France (2, 7)
Death date: 5/July/1821
Place of death: Dresden, Lincoln, Maine (5, 9)
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Marriage date: abt 1757/1758 (3)
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Spouses' name: Anne Charlotte PAGET (11)

Child No. 4: Jacques Christophe POCHARD (PUSHARD) (1, 3, 10) (Christopher)
Sex: M
Birthdate: bpt. 06/Mar/1741
Birthplace: Chenebier, Montbelliard, France (2, 7)
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Place of death: 1759 (Killed by Indians) (8)
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Child No. 5: Pierre Emanuel POCHARD (PUSHARD) (1, 3, 10) (Peter)
Sex: M
Birthdate: bpt. 09/Nov/1742
Birthplace: Chenebier, Montbelliard, France (2, 7)
Death date: 06/Sept/1827
Place of death: Dresden, Lincoln, Maine (3)
Burial:
Marriage date: abt 1767/1768 (3)
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Spouses' name: Elizabeth (Betsy) MALBON (2, 5)


Documentation:
 1) Baptismal Record of the Pochard family; History of Dresden, Maine (1931), pg. 137-139 (FHL: Books))
 2) Baptismal Record; "Huguenots in Dresden"; page 9 (books.google.com) aka: "Some Huguenot and Other Early Settlers on the Kennebec in the Present Town of Dresden"
 3) Jean George: (Marriage) http://www.servancnaute.fr/actes3 (Etobon Protestant) (h)
 4) Jean George (Death); FHL Film 7031705, image 1491
 5) History of Dresden, Maine; page 139; Reports of George being killed by Indians in this volume are obviously wrong. It was actually Christopher. (8)
 6) 1766 Census, Pownalboro, Lincoln, Maine (Note: a)
 7) (Birth) http://www.servancnaute.fr/actes3 (Etobon Protestant) (Note: h)
 8) "Pittsfield on the Sebasticook" by Sanger Mills Cook (1966); page 23 (Pittsfield Historical Society)
 9) George (Death): FHL Film 101042484, Image 60; Film 10820, Image 36 (Note: g)
 10) The American Genealogist; Vol. 43, No, 3, page 172 (40); "French and German Immigrants into Boston, 1751", Author: Charles W. Hurst (Translated from ship manifest for ship Pricilla.)
 11) http://www.servancnaute.fr/actes3/ (Hericourt) (B: Mar. 12,1728) (Note: h)
 12) Daniel Malbon; Margaret Paris: UNCONFIRMED (Note: c, e)

Notes:
 a) "Documentary History of the State of Maine" Search: books.google.com; "Order of the General Court June 19, 1766"
 b) "The French Blood in America" (page 197); (books.google.com) The Pushor family is descended from Jean Pochard, a French Huguenot who arrived in 1751 with his wife and four sons from Chenerbie, Haute-Soane in eastern France near the Swiss border. They arrived in Boston on the ship Pricilla, which sailed rom Rotterdam, Netherlands, and proceeded directly to Frankfort Plantation (Dresden) in Maine where they settled in 1752. Some of the family moved to Fairfield in 1775 and then to the Pittsfield area around 1814. The inability of the English speaking settlers to spell the name correctly resulted in a variety of phonetic variations e.g. Pushard, Pushaw, Pushor, Puchard and Pushan just to name a few.
 c) Daniel Malbon: According to the ship manifest, Daniel Malbon (Senior; Born Mar. 12, 1707, Clairgoutte, Haute-Saone, Fance) arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia on the ship Betty, in 1752, along with his four children. His wife Jean Marguritte (Margaret) is also listed but she apparently stayed behind in Halifax due to an illness (possibly plague) She died in Halifax in 1753/1754, along with two of his children. Daniel appears to have remarried (by Rev. Jacob Bailey) in 1773. Source: Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1876, vol. 1 (page 413); Ancestry.com. Daniel (s/o Daniel andMargaret) (born: Feb. 16, 1732) arrived in Boston on the ship Pricilla in 1751. Source (10) There is no evidence that Daniel Malbon was married to Elizabeth Pochard.
 d) Abraham was a very common name in this period in Maine. There are so many of them that all references to him, other than being the s/o Jean Pochard, should be considered highly suspect and unreliable unless a legitimate authoritative source can be quoted. The entire list of children attributed to him is totally inaccurate from start to finish. Some of them are clearly the progeny of other people and some of the females are part of the Pushard family only through marriage. (Death: Familysearch.org; Unconfirmed)
 e) Margaret Paris: No supporting evidence has ever been presented, nor can any evidence be found, where the alleged marriage to Abraham by Margaret Paris, can be supported. It’s widely claimed that Margaret Paris was the daughter of Amos Paris but there is no evidence that Amos and his wife Margaret ever had a daughter named Margaret. Margaret Paris could not have been born in Pownalboro in 1730, as claimed elsewhere, b/c, aside from the fact that it wasn’t settled until 1750, and the \ first French and German immigrants didn’t arrive until 1752, there is no evidence whatsoever that Amos Paris had a daughter named Margaret. No evidence could be found to support the claim that Margaret Paris was married to Abraham. The 1766 Pownalboro census shows that Amos had two sons and three daughters. Four of his children were under sixteen at the time. No names of his daughters could be found. Amos Paris: Lincoln (County) Probate Records: 14/June/1773 (Amos death)
 f) JMPUSHAW: Much of the lineage attributed to the Pochard/Pushard/Pushor line online is derived from a list created by JMPushaw. This list has no source attribution whatsoever and has multiple problems. Much of the online references are absolutely wrong b/c people just don’t do proper research. They just take what they find for granted.
 g) There is also a George Pushor who died in Fairfield, Somerset, Maine; 8/Aug/1820. This is a different person.
 h) Parish Registers; Also see: Geneanet.org $$
 j) Family histories and family trees are not reliable sources unless they contain reliable authoritative source documentation.
 k) The Pushor family is descended from Jean Pochard, a French Huguenot who arrived in 1751 with his wife and four sons from Chenerbie, Haute-Soane in eastern France near the Swiss border. They arrived in Boston on the ship Pricilla, which sailed from Rotterdam, Netherlands, and subsequently proceeded to Frankfort Plantation (Dresden) in Maine where they settled. Dresden was originally settled as Frankfort Plantation, later became Pownalborough and changed to Dresden in 1794. The present towns of Alna and Wiscasset were originally part of Pownalboro.
 l) Some of the family moved to Fairfield in 1775 and then to the Pittsfield area around 1814. The inability of the English speaking settlers to spell the name correctly resulted in a variety of phonetic variations e.g. Pushard, Pushaw, Pushor, and Pushan just to name a few.
 m) There is a copy of the land map of Pownalboro showing the plots owned by the original settlers, in ‘The History of Dresden, Maine" by Charles Edwin Allen (1931), FHL Books; Page 210; Land grants were made in 1753; page192.
 n) There are three women named Elizabeth Pochard born in Clairegoutte, Haute-Soane, FR in 1729/1730, none of which are related to Jean Pochard.
 p) There is some disagreement as to the spelling of the name of the wife of Nicholas.

Lineage: Jean Pochard < Nicholas Pochard < Nicholas Pochard < Jean Pochard < Nicholas Pochard < Pierre Pochard

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