3. Jean-Baptiste Arsenault 
     
    
   
   
    
     According to oral tradition, Abraham and his wife died in Malpeque, probably before 
     
     the Expulsion of the Island Acadians started. It is possible that they were among the victims 
     
     of an infectious disease which killed many Islanders around 1757. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The name of "le petit" Abraham Arsenault has been immortalized in the place named 
     
     "Abram's Village", a community founded mainly by Abraham’s son Jean-Baptiste and six of 
     
     his children, among whom were Eustache and Abraham, great-grandparents of Léon and 
     
     Marie Arsenault. In French, the place was called "Village des Abrams" which translates as 
     
     "Village of the Abrahams", that is, the village of the descendants of Abraham. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Another son of Abraham, Joseph Arsenault, nicknamed "Joe League", and several of 
     
     his children, were among the main founders of St. Chrysostome. A part of that settlement was 
     
     even called the “Village of Joe League”. It should also be noted that Joseph Bernard, the 
     
     ancestor of all the Bernard’s of Acadian descent in Prince Edward Island, was married to 
     
     Natalie (Anne Anastasie) Arsenault, daughter of Abraham. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Jean-Baptiste Arsenault, the youngest child of Abraham Arsenault and Marie-Josephe 
     
     Savoie, was born around 1750. In the 1752 census he is simply named “Baptiste” so as to be 
     
     distinguished from his oldest brother also baptized Jean-Baptiste! However, in later 
     
     documents, he appears sometimes as Jean-Baptiste and sometimes simply as Jean, as on his 
     
     marriage certificate. 
     
    
   
   
    
     As we have seen, his parents probably died around 1757. If that were the case, Jean- 
     
     Baptiste would have become an orphan at a young age and at a very troubled time of Acadian 
     
     history, that is, on the eve of the Deportation of the Acadians from the Island. What happened 
     
     to him during those most difficult years? We know that some 2500 Islanders were forcefully 
     
     shipped to France by the British. However, a great many people, including the whole 
     
     population of Malpeque, managed to escape from the British by taking refuge on the mainland 
     
     or by hiding in the Island's forest. 
     
    
   
   
    
     As for Jean-Baptiste, he could have followed his sister Natalie and her husband Joseph 
     
     Bernard to a refugee camp at Restigouche at the head of the Bay of Chaleurs. He could also