“ 10ème Famille. -- GUIDRY ou GUAIDERY. --
Nous sommes ici en présence d’une de ces familles, problématiques et vagabondes, dont on rencontre le nom très souvent dans les documents, et qui ne figurent même pas dans les recensements. On connaît leur existence, on pressent, par les détails de leur vie, que leur établissement doit être ancien en Acadie, mais on ne saurait en préciser l’époque, ni établir l’enchaînement méthodique des faits qui nous sont connus.

Les registres de Belle-Isle ne fournissent point leur généalogie, mais cette famille y est mentionnée deux fois. Dans la 12ème déclaration de la paroisse de Sauzon, on lit: “que Marie Leblanc, née en 1735 à Pigiguit, se maria à l’île St-Jean, à Anselme Guedry fils de Pierre Guédry et de Marguerite Brosseau, demeurant actuellement (1767) aux îles St-Pierre et Miquelon.”

Puis à la 13ème déclaration de Sauzon, il est fait mention d’une Marie Guédry qui était veuve d’un Benjamin Mius.

Dans les recensements que nous avons de L’Acadie, il n’est fait aucune mention des Guidry, sauf dans celui de 1698, et dans quelques petits recensements des côtes de l’Est.

Voici ce que dit le recensement de 1698: Paroisse de Port-Royal, Claude Guaidry, âgé de 50 ans, marié à Marguerite Petitpas, âgée de 40 ans, 10 enfants: Abraham 20 ans; -- Claude 16; -- Jean-Baptiste 14; -- Charles 12; -- Alexis 10; -- Augustin 8; -- Marie-Joseph 6; -- Claude 4; -- Joseph 3; -- Pierre 6 mois. Abraham l’aîné a donc dû naître en 1678; Claude Guaidry, son père marié vers 1676 à Port-Royal, où il était né en 1648.

Le recensement qui pécède celui-ci était de 1692, on n’y trouve aucune mention des Guaidry; et dans les recensements de 1699 et de 1701, il n’est déjà plus question d’eux. Claude Guaidry n’a donc été à Port-Royal qu’un oiseau de passage; il s’y montre cependant avec les apparences d’un homme civilisé, et d’un agriculteur, 10 vaches, des brebis, etc., etc.; mais il y a fagots et fagots, il y a aussi cultures et cultures, et s’il ramena ses vaches dans les roches de la Hève, il est probable qu’il n’en fit pas des vaches grasses.

En 1701 il résidait dans ce dernier pays de la Hève, car nous avons trouvé dans les registres de Port-Royal, que Claude Guidery et Marguerite Petitpas eurent en 1701 un nouvel enfant qui fut baptisé à Mirliguesh, sous le nom de Paul Guidery, son parrain était un Baptiste Guidery; cet enfant était le onzième garçon de la famille, et c’est celui de tous dont nous pouvons suivre le plus longtemps la trace, comme nous le verrons tout à l’heure.

Dans ces actes figurent de temps en temps des Guidery aux baptêmes et aux mariages, il en est de même dans les documents de la Nouvelle-Ecosse, sous l’administration anglaise; la famille Guidery avec plusieurs autres familles métisses, prirent alors des terres de la main du colonel Mascarene, sur la côte de l’Est. Dans les temps de la proscription, ces families métisses firent leur soumission, et prêtèrent serment aux Anglais.

Vers 1735 nous voyans entrer en scène ce Paul Guidery, le dernier enfant de Claude Guidery, dont nous avons ci-dessus relaté la naissance; c’était un garçon leste, adroit, paraît-il, et surtout fort gai, il est constamment désigné ainsi: Paul Guidery dit Grivois, ou quelquefois le Jovial; il épousa, un peu après 1730, Anne Mius d’Entremont, fille naturelle d’un Mius d’Entremont, et d’une squaw métisse de la côte de l’Est. Une fois marié il continua l’existence de son père, vivants de pêche et de cabotage; il pratiquait la pèche depuis la baie Ste-Marie jusqu’au Cap Nord de l’île du Cap-Breton.

En 1745 on le trouve toujours à Mirligouesh, où il passe pour un excellent pilote côtier (dépêche de M. de Beauharnois du 12 septembre 1745). Le 21 octobre 1747, il est mis hors la loi par Shirley avec 12 autres acadiens. A partir de ce moment, il cesse en quelque façon d’avoir une demeure fixe; les excursions de pêche et de cabotage deviennent son était normal autour de Louisbourg.

Au milieu des dépenses énormes qu’entraîne la création de cette place, il ramasse les miettes de ces prodigalités, et il vit sur as barque avec sa famille. Il fréquentait fort souvent la baie Espagnole d’où il rapportait de la houille et divers matériaux. Ce fut en ce lieu qu’il fit la rencontre d’un officier français nommé Bogard de Lanoue, lequel devint si fortement épris de l’une de ses filles, que, malgré la défense expresse de M. d’Aillebout, commandant du Cap-Breton, il parvint à l’épouser le 17 février 1755. Ce mariage fut attaqué en nullité, au nom du roi, parce qu’il était défendu aux officiers d’épouser des filles de sang mêlé; il en résulta un débat assez scadaleux, que nous avon résumé dans les notes de la colonie féodale, 4ème série No. V.

Après la prise de Louisbourg, Guidry fit sa soumission, comme presque tous les Métis des côtes de l’Est; il rentra dans ses cantonnements et on n’entendit plus parler de lui. Il est probable qu’il existe un bon nombre de descendants de cette famille, parmi les trois ou quatre mille personnes, réputées d’origine française, et qui sont dispersées sur la côte entre Halifax et la cap Sable. Parlent-ils encore français? ont-ils même conservé leurs nome sans trop les défigurer? je l’ignore; mais il est certain qu’ils ont conservé une tradition solide de leur origine française, dont ils réclament l’enregistrement à tous les recensements.

Tous les Guidry néanmoins ne sont pas restés fixés sur cette côte. Un des frères de Guidery le Grivois se rendit, au temps de la proscription, dans l’île St-Jean. Il se nommait Pierre et était né en 1698; un de ses fils nommé Anselme épousa alors dans cette île une fille dite Marie Leblanc, originaire de Pigiguitk. Lorsque l’île fut à son tour occupée par les Anglais, Pierre Guidry et sa femme, Marguerite Brosseau, se réfugièrent à St-Pierre et Miquelon, où ils étaient en 1767, et où leurs descendants existent peut-être encore aujourd’hui.

A quelle époque les Guidry sont-ils venus s’établir en Amérique? Nous n’avons sur ce point aucune donnée bien précise. D’après le recensement de 1698, Claude Guidry était né en 1648; c’est un homme qui avait toujours vécu en dehors du groupe agricole de Port-Royal; bien qu’il eût 23 ans en 1671, bien qu’il fût marié en 1676, et qu’il ait eu une nombreuse famille longtemps avant 1698, il ne figure dans aucun recensement antérieur, ni en 1671, ni en 1686, ni en 1693; on le rencontre fontuitement à Port-Royal en 1698, et depuis lors le nom de Guidry ne se retrouve plus sur aucune liste. Cette famille a donc toujours demeuré avec les sauvages et les Métis; Guidry est un homme de la Hève, il est né là, il y a vécu et il s’y plait; son père devait être une de ces rudes pratiques des côtes de l’Est, qui refusèrent de suivre D’Aulnay à Port-Royal; peut-être était-il venu avec Razilly, peut-être remontait-il au-delà, jusqu’aux compagnons de Latour et de Krainguille. Il est très possible qu’il ait épousé une squaw, comme Latour et plusieurs autres. Rien n’est certain, mais tout cela est possible!

Quoi qu’il en soit, la famille Guidry nous offre les mêmes caractères et les mêmes péripéties que les Martin, les Petitpas, les Lejeune, etc., etc., et on a tout droit de présumer qu’elle est très ancienne dans la contrée. Ces études nous donnent une idée approximative de cette société d’aventuriers que Razilly retrouva à la Hève, et une idée assez nette et assez claire du mélange qui se forma par l’adjonction des familles que ce dernier amena avec lui. Mélange assez mal défini, où prévalurent promptement des allures grossières et vagabondes, dont les traces survécurent longtemps dans certaines familles.

Cet état de choses n’avait cependant pas duré plus de 5 à 6 ans, et cependant D’Aulnay eut beucoup de peine à réagir contre cette influence, lorsqu’il voulut concentrer la populations française à Port-Royal; il fallut exercer une sorte de pression pour déterminer certaines familles à suivre le mouvement, quelque-unes même ne cédèrent point comme nous le voyons; elles restèrent parmi les sauvages et les Métis, ou y retournèrent plus tard. Or il suffit de suivre leur histoire et leur destinée, pour bien apprécier avec quelle sagesse et quelle juste prévoyance D’Aulnay s’établit loin des entrainements de la sauvagerie, à Port-Royal. Dans ce centre exclusivement agricole et français, il lui fut plus facile de préparer l’avenir de la société qu’il allait créer, car c’est dans la pratique d’un travail bien réglé, et d’une patiente économie que se formèrent peu à peu les fortes moeurs du peuple acadien. “

Translation:
“ 10th Family. -- GUIDRY or GUAIDERY. --
We are here in the presence of one of those families, questionables and vagabonds, of whom we encounter the name very often within the records, and which does not even appear in the censuses. We are aware of their existence, we ascertain, from the details of their life, that their establishment in Acadia must be old, but we cannot state precisely the time nor establish the systematic linking of facts that are known to us.

The registers of Belle-Isle do not provide their genealogy, but that family is mentioned there twice. In the 12th declaration from the parish of Sauzon, one reads: “that Marie Leblanc, born in 1735 at Pigiguit, married at Isle St-Jean, to Anselme Guedry, son of Pierre Guédry and of Marguerite Brosseau, now (1767) living at Isles St-Pierre and Miquelon.”

Then in the 13th declaration of Sauzon, there is mentioned a Marie Guédry who was the widow of a Benjamin Mius.

In the censuses that we have of Acadia, there is not made any mention of Guidry except in that of 1698, and in a few small censuses of the East Coast.

Here is what the census of 1698 says: Parish of Port-Royal, Claude Guaidry, 50 years old, married to Marguerite Petitpas, 40 years old, 10 children: Abraham 20 years; -- Claude 16; -- Jean-Baptiste 14; -- Charles 12; -- Alexis 10; -- Augustin 8; -- Marie-Joseph 6; -- Claude 4; -- Joseph 3; -- Pierre 6 months. Abraham, the eldest, must, therefore, have been born in 1678; Claude Guaidry, his father, was married about 1676 at Port-Royal, where he was born in 1648.

The census which preceds this one was of 1692, one does not find there any mention of the Guaidry; and in the censuses of 1699 and 1701, there is already no more question of them. Claude Guaidry has not, to be sure, been at Port-Royal as a bird of passage; he is seen, however, with the appearances of a civilized man, of a farmer, 10 cows, some sheeps, etc., etc.; but men are not all alike, he also has there cultivated land, and he has brought his cows out of the rocks of La Hève, it is likely that it did not suit the fat cows.

In 1701 he resided in this rugged region of La Hève, for we have found in the register of Port-Royal, that Claude Guidery and Marguerite Petitpas had in 1701 a new child who was baptized at Mirliguesh, with the name of Paul Guidery, his godfather was a Baptiste Guidery; this child was the eleventh boy of the family, and he is the main one by whom we can follow the trail the longest time as we will see in a moment.

In these records appear from time to time some baptisms and marriages of the Guidery, there is the same about them in the documents of Nova Scotia, under the English administration; the Guidery family with several other hald-bred families, got then some land from the hand of Colonel Mascarene, on the East Coast. During the time of the exile, these half-bred families made their submission and took the oath from the English.

About 1735 se see entering on the scene this Paul Guidery, the last child of Claude Guidery, of whom we have related above the birth; he was an active, skillful young fellow, it appears, and especially quite merry, he is constantly called thus: Paul Guidery dit Grivois, or sometimes le Jovial; he married a little after 1730, Anne Mius d’Entremont, illegitimate daughter of a Mius d’Entremont and of a half-bred squaw of the East Coast. Once married he continued the life of his father, lifetime of fishing and of the coasting trade; he practiced the fishing from Baie St-Marie to Cap Nord of the Isle of Cap-Breton.

In 1745 we find him still at Mirligouesh, where he is considered an excellent coasting pilot (dispatch of M. de Beauharnois of 12 September 1745). The 21st of October 1747, he is made an outlaw by Shirley with 12 other Acadians. From this moment on, he ceases in any manner to have a fixed residence; the fishing and coasting trips become his normal circumstance around Louisbourg.

In the midst of the huge expenditures which the creation of that situation entails, he gathers the bits of these extravagance, and he lives on his boat with his family. He visited quite often the Baie Espagnole from where is brought back coal and miscellaneous materials. It was in this place that a French officer named Bogard de Lanoue, who became so strongly in love with one of his daughters, that, in spite of the formal pleas by M. d’Aillebout, commanding officer of Cap-Breton, he married her 17 February 1755. That marriage was contested with invalidity, in the name of the king, because it was forbidden for officers to marry girls of mixed blood; there resulted from it a rather scandalous debate, which we summarized in the Notes de la Colonie Féodale, 4th series No. V.

After the capture of Louisbourg, Guidry submitted, as nearly all the Métis of the East Coast; he returned to his quarters and we no longer hear of him. It is probable that there are a considerable number of descendants of this family, among the three or four thousand persons, considered of French origin, and who are scattered on the coast between Halifax and Cap Sable. Do they still speak French? Have they also preserved their names without distorting them too much? I am unaware of it; but it is certain that they have preserved a strong tradition of their French origin, of which they demand recording of it in all the censuses.

All the Guidry nevertheless have not remained settled on that coast. One of the brothers of Guidery le Grivois surrendered, at the time of the exile, on the Isle St-Jean. He was called Pierre and was born in 1698; one of his sons named Anselme married then on that isle a girl called Marie Leblanc, originally of Pigiguitk. When the isle was occupied at his place by the English, Pierre Guidry and his wife Marguerite Brosseau, took refuge at St-Pierre and Miquelon, where they were in 1767, and where their descendants live perhaps even today.

At which time have the Guidry come to establish themselves in America? We do not have any very precise data on that point. According to the census of 1698, Claude Guidry was born in 1648; this is a man who had always lived outside of the agricultural group of Port-Royal; although he was 23 years old in 1671, although he has married in 1676, and that he has had a large family long before 1698, he does not appear in any earlier census, neither in 1671, nor in 1686, nor in 1693; we encounter him by chance at Port-Royal in 1698, and since then the name of Guidry is not met with again on any list. That family has, to be sure, always lived with the savages and the Métis; Guidry is a man of La Hève, he was born there, he has lived there and it pleases him; his father must have been one of those rugged characters of the East Coast, who refused to follow D’Aulnay to Port-Royal; perhaps he had come with Razilly, perhaps he went back further, even to the companions of Latour and of Krainguille. It is very possilbe that he married a squaw, as Latour and several others. Nothing is certain, but all this is possible!

Be that as it may, the Guidry family offers us the same characters and the same vicissitudes as the Martin, the Petitpas, the Lejeune, etc., etc., and we have every right to presume that they are very old in the country. These studies give us an approximate idea of that company of adventurers that Razilly met again at La Hève, and a perception rather distinct and rather free of mingling that took shape by joining of families that this last brought with him. Intermixing defined rather badly, were readily prevailed some rough demeanours and vagabonds, of which the traces survived a long time in certain families.

This state of affairs, however, had not lasted more than 5 or 6 years, and yet D’Aulnay had a great deal of difficulty to react against that influence, when he wanted to concentrate the French population at Port-Royal; it was necessary to exert a sort of pressure in order to cause certain families to follow the movement, some even did not submit as we see; they remained among the savages and the Métis, or returned there later. But it suffices to follow their history and their fate, in order to properly appreciate with what wisdom and what accurate foresight D’Aulnay settled far from the allurements of the wild, at Port-Royal. Within this center exclusively agricultural and French, it was easier for him to prepare the future of the community that he proceeded to create, because it is in the practice of a very steady occupation, and of an enduring economy that fashion little by little the strong manners and customs of the Acadian people. “4507,4508

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Bona Arsenault states in the first edition of his excellent book on the genealogy of the Acadians that:

“ GUIDRY DIT GRIVOIS (GUITRY)
1698. - Claude Guidry dit Grivois, 50 ans, marié à Marguerite Petitpas, 40 ans.
Enfants: Abraham, 20 ans; Claude, 16 ans; Jean-Baptiste, 14 ans; Charles, 12 ans; Alexis, 10 ans; Augustin, 8 ans; Marie-Joseph, 6 ans; Claude, 4 ans; Joseph, 3 ans; Pierre, âgé de six mois.
1706. - Autres enfants: Paul, 5 ans; et une fille, Françoise, 1 an.
Claude Guidry dit Grivois arriva en Acadie vers 1671. ”

Translation:
“ GUIDRY DIT GRIVOIS (GUITRY)
1698. - Claude Guidry dit Grivois, 50 years, married to Marguerite Petitpas, 40 years.
Children: Abraham, 20 years; Claude, 16 years; Jean-Baptiste, 14 years; Charles, 12 years; Alexis, 10 years; Augustin, 8 years; Marie-Joseph, 6 years; Claude, 4 years; Joseph, 3 years; Pierre, age of six months.
1706. - Other children: Paul, 5 years; and a daughter, Françoise, 1 year.
Claude Guidry dit Grivois arrived in Acadie about 1671. ”4486

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In the second edition of his pioneering book on the genealogy of the Acadians Mr. Bona Arsenault states:

“ GUEDRY et GUIDRY
aussi: Guitry
Claude Guédry dit Grivois, né en 1648, arrivé en Acadie vers 1671, marié vers 1677 à Marguerite Petitpas. Enfants: Abraham, 1678; Claude, 1682; Jean-Baptiste, 1684; Charles, 1686; Alexis, 1688; Augustin, 1690; Marie-Josephe, 1692; Claude, 1694; Joseph, 1695; Pierre, 1697; Paul, 1701; Françoise, 1703. Vers 1700 il a demeuré à Merliguèche, dans la région de Cap de Sable. ”

Translation:
“ GUEDRY and GUIDRY
also: Guitry
Claude Guidry Guédry dit Grivois, born in 1648, arrived in Acadie about 1671, married about 1677 to Marguerite Petitpas. Children: Abraham, 1678; Claude, 1682; Jean-Baptiste, 1684; Charles, 1686; Alexis, 1688; Augustin, 1690; Marie-Josephe, 1692; Claude, 1694; Joseph, 1695; Pierre, 1697; Paul, 1701; Françoise, 1703. About 1700 he lived at Merliguèche in the region of Cap de Sable. ”4509

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In the third edition of his pioneering book on the genealogy of the Acadians Mr. Bona Arsenault states:

“ GUEDRY et GUIDRY
aussi: Geddry, Grivas, Guitry
Claude Guédry dit Grivois, né en 1648, arrivé en Acadie vers 1671, marié vers 1677 à Marguerite Petitpas, fille de Claude Petitpas et de Catherine Bugaret. Enfants: Abraham, 1678; Claude, 1682; Jean-Baptiste, 1684; Charles, 1686; Alexis, 1688; Augustin, 1690; Marie-Josephe, 1692; Claude, 1694; Joseph, 1695; Pierre, 1697; Paul, 1701; Françoise, 1703. Vers 1700 il demeurait à Merliguèche, dans la région de Cap-de-Sable. ”

Translation:
“ GUEDRY and GUIDRY
also: Geddry, Grivas, Guitry
Claude Guédry dit Grivois, born in 1648, arrived in Acadie about 1671, married about 1677 to Marguerite Petitpas, daughter of Claude Petitpas and of Catherine Bugaret. Children: Abraham, 1678; Claude, 1682; Jean-Baptiste, 1684; Charles, 1686; Alexis, 1688; Augustin, 1690; Marie-Josephe, 1692; Claude, 1694; Joseph, 1695; Pierre, 1697; Paul, 1701; Françoise, 1703. About 1700 he lived at Merliguèche in the region of Cap-de-Sable. ”4510

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“ JEAN-BAPTISTE GUEDRY, né en 1684, CHARLES GUEDRY, né en 1686, et AUGUSTIN GUEDRY, né en 1690, fils de Claude et Marguerite Petitpas, se sont établis à Cobequid. “

Translation:
“ JEAN-BAPTISTE GUEDRY, born in 1684, CHARLES GUEDRY, born in 1686, and AUGUSTIN GUEDRY, born in 1690, sons of Claude and Marguerite Petitpas have settled at Cobequid. “4509

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“ JEAN-BAPTISTE GUEDRY, 1684, CHARLES GUEDRY, 1686, et AUGUSTIN GUEDRY, 1690, fils de Claude et Marguerite Petitpas, se sont établis à Cobequid. “

Translation:
“ JEAN-BAPTISTE GUEDRY, 1684, CHARLES GUEDRY, 1686, and AUGUSTIN GUEDRY, 1690, sons of Claude and Marguerite Petitpas have settled at Cobequid. “4510

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“ AUGUSTIN GUEDRY, né en 1690, fils de Claude Guidry dit Grivois, de Port-Royal, et de Marguerite Petitpas, marié vers 1721 à Jeanne Hébert. Enfants: Hélène et Marie-Josephe, jumelles nées à Boston, le 9 janvier 1723 et baptisées à Grand-Pré, le 26 septembre 1723; Jeanne, 1725; Ursule, 1731; Joseph, 1735; Pierre, 1741. “

Translation:
“ AUGUSTIN GUEDRY, born in 1690, son of Claude Guidry dit Grivois of Port-Royal and of Marguerite Petitpas, married about 1721 to Jeanne Hébert. Children: Hélène and Marie-Josephe, twins born at Boston 9 January 1723 and baptized at Grand-Pré 26 September 1723; Jeanne, 1725; Ursule, 1731; Joseph, 1735, Pierre, 1741. “4511

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“ AUGUSTIN GUEDRY, 1690, fils de Claude et de Marguerite Petitpas, de Port-Royal, marié vers 1722 à Jeanne Hébert. Enfants: Marie-Josephe et Hélène, 1723; Jeanne, 1725; Ursule, 1731; Joseph, 1735; Pierre, 1741. Il était au Cap-Breton en 1752. “

Translation:
“ AUGUSTIN GUEDRY, 1690, son of Claude and of Marguerite Petitpas of Port-Royal, married about 1722 to Jeanne Hébert. Children: Marie-Josephe and Hélène, 1723; Jeanne, 1725; Ursule, 1731; Joseph, 1735, Pierre, 1741. He was at Cap-Breton in 1752. “4512

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“ AUGUSTIN GUEDRY, né en 1690, de Cobequid, Acadie, fils de Claude et de Marguerite Petitpas, de Port-Royal, marié vers 1722 à Jeanne Hébert. Enfants: Marie-Josephe et Hélène, 1723; Jeanne, 1725; Ursule, 1731; Joseph, 1735; Pierre, 1741. Il était au Cap-Breton en 1752 et en Louisiane, avec sa famille, vers 1765. “

Translation:
“ AUGUSTIN GUEDRY, born in 1690, of Cobequid, Acadia, son of Claude and of Marguerite Petitpas of Port-Royal, married about 1722 to Jeanne Hébert. Children: Marie-Josephe and Hélène, 1723; Jeanne, 1725; Ursule, 1731; Joseph, 1735, Pierre, 1741. He was at Cap-Breton in 1752 and in Louisiana with his family about 1765. “4513

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“ 11(E) Paul Guidry dit Grivois (Le Jovial) b. 1701 at Mirligueche, baptised sept 8 or Oct 27, 1705 at Port Royal. His godfather was Baptiste, probably his older brother who would have been 17 at the time. m. 1723 Anne Mius d’Entremont dit Azit of Pobomcoup (b. 1705 Philippe & Marie, a Micmac Indian). They lived at Mirligueche until until (sic) driven out by the English, gave the name Grivois in the register at Port Lajoie in 1749, and were at baie des espagnols in Cap Breton in 1752.

He, along with his father and brothers, received some land along the East coast of Nova Scotia from Colonel Mascarene and engaged in farming,fishing and fur trading for a livelihood. Paul was said to be a sharp young man, clever and very merry. His merry disposition is the reason for his nicknames of Grivois and Jovial. He married, a little after 1730, Anne Mius d’Entremont, the illegitimate daughter of Phillip Mius d’Entremont and Marie, his half breed wife.

Once married, Paul continued the life of his father, engaging in a lifetime of fishing and coasting trade from the Bay Ste. Marie to as far north as Cap Nord of the island of Cape Breton. In 1745 we find him at Mirligueche, where he is deemed an excellent coasting pilot according to Mr. de Beauharnois (September 12, 1745). On October 21, 1747, he is declared to be an enemy of the English by Governor Shirley along with 12 other Acadians. From that point on, Paul ceased to have any fixed residence and fishing and coasting trips become his normal occupation around Louisbourg.

Paul’s ship now became his home, where his family was raised. One of his frequent stops was at the Bay Espagnole where he got coal and supplies for his family and ship. It was at the Bay Espangnole (sic) that his daughters (sic) Marguerite met a French officer named Bogatd (sic) de Lanour (sic), who became so in love with her that, despite the please (sic) expressed by M. d’Aillebout, commanding officer of Cape Breton, he succeeded in marriage the 17th of February, 1755. That marriage was contested with invalidity in the name of the King because it was forbidden for officers to marry women of mixed blood.

After the capture of Louisbourg, Paul made his submission as almost all the Metis of the East coast, and little more is hear (sic) of him. “4514

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The Census of Acadia at Port Royal in 1698 states:

“Claude Guaidry 50 10 Bestes a cornes 2 Brebis 8 Cochons 8 Arpens de terre no Arbes fruités 1 fusil no Domestiques / Margtte Petitpas 40 / Enfans: / Abraham 20 / Claude 16 / Jean Baptiste 14 / Charles 12 / Alexis 10 / Augustin 8 / Marie Josephe 6 / Claude 4 / Joseph 3 / Pierre 1/2 “

Translation:
“Claude Guaidry 50 10 Cattle 2 Sheep 8 Pigs 8 Arpents of land, no Fruit trees, 1 gun no Servants / Margtte Petitpas 40 / Children: / Abraham 20 / Claude 16 / Jean Baptiste 14 / Charles 12 / Alexis 10 / Augustin 8 / Marie Josephe 6 / Claude 4 / Joseph 3 / Pierre 1/2 “4486,4515,4516

Claude Guédry, 50 years old, and Marguerite Petitpas, age 40 years, have nine children (Claude, Jean-Baptiste, Charles, Alexis, Augustin, Marie-Josephe, Claude, Joseph and Pierre) plus Abraham Dugas, the child of Marguerite Petitpas and her first husband Martin Dugas. At this time Claude Guédry and his family are at Port Royal and he has 10 cattle, 2 sheep, 8 pigs, 8 arpents of land under cultivation, no fruit trees, one gun and no domestic servants4517,4518.

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The Census of Acadia at La Hève in 1708 states:

“ francois de la hève 7e familles Claude guedry 60 ans / Marguerite petit pas 48 / Charles son fils 21 / Augustin 16 / Claude 16 / Joseph 10 / Pierre 8 / Paul 6 / Marie sa fille 14 / francoise 4”

Translation:
“french of la hève 7th families Claude guedry 60 years / Marguerite petit pas 48 / Charles his son 21 / Augustin 16 / Claude 16 / Joseph 10 / Pierre 8 / Paul 6 / Marie his daughter 14 / francoise 4”

Claude Guédry, age 60 years, and Marguerite Petitpas, age 48 years, have living with them at La Hève eight children (Charles, Augustin, Claude, Joseph, Pierre, Paul, Marie and Françoise)4518,4489.

Also living at La Hève near Claude Guédry and Marguerite Petitpas is another son Jean-Baptiste Guédry with his new wife Madeleine Mius. They have no children.

The Census of Acadia at La Hève in 1708 states:

“ francois de la hève 8e familles Jean baptiste guedry 24 ans / Madelaine mieusse 14”

Translation:
“french of la hève 8th families Jean baptiste guedry 24 years / Madelaine mieusse 14”4519,4489

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“ 2 - Dans la région du Maine.
Encore deux ans plus tard, en 1722, au début de l’été, les Amérindiens du Maine pour leur part se mirent en guerre contre les gens de la Nouvelle-Angleterre.

a - L’occasion.
Les Anglais s’étaient emparé de Joseph d’Abbadie de Saint-Castin, leur chef suprême, qu’ils avaient fait tomber dans un guet-apens dressé sous couleur de lui exprimer leur amitié. Cet acte ne pouvait pas être laissé impuni. L’occasion fut aussi le raid des gens de Boston à Nanrantsouak, quand ils s’emparèrent du coffre du Père Sébastien Rasle, contenant tous ses papiers, et brûlèrent l’église, le presbytère et trente-trois wigwams (b). Le gouverneur Shute, de son côté, émit une déclaration de guerre datée du 25 juillet 1722. Cette guerre, la quatrième depuis 1675 entre les Amérindiens et les Anglais de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, fut appelée The Three Years War, (La Guerre de Trois Ans), en raison de sa durée; Rale’s War (La Guerre de Rale), à cause de l’un de ses motifs; Lovewell’s War, (La Guerre de Lovewell), du nom du capitaine John Lovewell, en raison des succès qu’il remporta surtout vers la fin de la guerre (9); Governor Dummer’s Indian War, (La Guerre Amérindienne du Gouverneur Dummer), du nom du lieutenant-gouverneur du Massachusetts, William Dummer, qui formula le traité de paix qui mit fin à cette guerre (c).

b- Répercussions sur la Côte-de-l’Est et au Cap-Sable.
Philipps se trouvait à Canseau, au plus fort de la saison de pêche, lorsqu’il reçut de Shute la nouvelle de cette déclaration de guerre. Les Amérindiens ayant saisi ici 16 ou 17 bateaux, il organisa la défense en envoyant immédiatement des officiers dans les ports de la Côte-de-l’Est, où les Amérindiens étaient allés se réfugier. Au havre Winnepang (Jeddore Harbour), John Eliot de Boston surprit 39 ou 40 d’entre eux, dont cinq seulement réussirent à sévader. Il récupéra ici sept vaisseaux, quinze captifs et six cents quintaux de poisson. D’autres bâtiments et d’autres pêcheurs qui avaient été faits prisonniers furent repris. Le capitaine Blin, en route vers Boston, s’empara au Cap-Sable de trois our quatre autres Amérindiens (a).

Les Anglais s’en prirent non seulement aux Amérindiens, mais aussi à quelques Acadiens, à savoir quatre des fils de Claude Guidry et de Marguerite Petitpas, peut-être parce qu’ils étaient de Merligesh, considéré plutôt comme village des Amérindiens que village d’Acadiens, peut-être parce que certains membres de cette famille avaient contracté des alliances avec des Amérindiens ou des métisses. Il s’agissait de Claude, Philippe, Augustin et Paul (10). Ils furent conduits avec leur famille d’abord au New Hampshire, d’où le nommé Jacob Parker les emmena à Boston. Mais Boston ne voulut pas les recevoir, car il y avait une loi qui à cette époque défendait tout étranger de s’etablir dans la ville. C’est pourquoi quelques jours après leur arrivée, les conseillers de Boston les avertirent de s’en aller ailleurs; cet ordre, qui fut émis le 16 octobre, (26 octobre, n.s.), fut transmis treize hours plus tard à l’officier chargé du maintien de la paix, (“Clark of the Peace”); on lui demandait de vois à son exécution (b). Puisque après cette date naquirent à Boston des enfants d’Augustin et de Paul, comme nous avons dit au chapitre 20ième, il faut croire que l’ordre ne fut pas exécuté, sans doute parce qu’on considéra ces Acadiens non pas comme des “immigrés” qui venaient s’établir à Boston, mais comme des prisonniers.

Pendant que ces Acadiens étaient amenés en captivité en Nouvelle-Angleterre, les Amérindiens du Cap-Sable allaient prêter main-forte aux Amérindiens du Maine. On apprit en effet à Boston le 10 septembre que ceux-ci, avec un très grand nombre d’autres Amérindiens venus du Canada, avaient attaqué l’île Arrowsic, qui se trouve à l’entrée de la rivière Kennebec. Heureusement ils furent délogés à temps, avant de causer grand dommage.

Un certain nombre voulurent faire la paix avec Annapolis (a), mais en majeure partie ils n’étaient pas prêts à se réconcilier avec les Anglais. L’année suivante, 1723, ils harcelèrent encoure les Anglais sur la Côte-de-l’Est, en tuèrent même, surtout encore à Canseau (b).

(9) p. 1595
John Lovewell partit de Dunstable le 15 avril (v.s.) avec 46 volontaires. Arrivé au haut de la rivière Saco, il ne lui en restait plus que 34, dont 14 seulement revinrent après la bataille, lui-même y ayant également perdu la vie. Ici, il y a un lac qui porte encore le nom de Lovewell Pond (c).

Il y a dans le Massachusetts, au sud de Nashua, une petite ville qui porte encoure le nom de Dunstable. Cependant Dunstable où demeurait le capitaine John Lovewell est actuellement dans l’Etat du New Hampshire, étant devenu une partie de la ville de Nashua (d).

(10) p. 1596
Dans la liste des quatre fils de Claude Guidry que les Anglais en 1722 amenèrent de Merliguesh au New Hampshire et ensuite à Boston, il y a le nom de Philippe. Or c’est la seule fois que l’on trouve ce nom dans la famille de Claude Guidry, à moins qu’il n’ait été mis par erreur pour un autre nom déjà connu. On trouve par après Philippe Guidry, mais non dans la famille de Claude. Puisque le document donne Phillip Gedery, sa femme & famille, (“Phillip Gedery his wife & family”), il faut conclure qu’il avait déjà un ou des enfants. La même chose doit se dire d’Augustin, quoique les premiers enfants qu’on lui connaît soient les jumelles Marie-Josephte et Hélène qui naquirent le 9 janvier de l’année suivante, 1723. Quant aux deux autres, le document ne semble pas leur donner d’enfants, ca on a simplement Gload Gedery & sa femme, (“Gload Gedery & his wife”), et Paul Gedery & sa femme, (“Paul Gedery & his wife”), ce qui veut dire que Judith, fille de Paul, qui naquit également à Boston, n’était pas encore née à cette date, quoi-qu’elle naquît avant ses cousines jumelles.

1595
(b) - La Société Hist. Acadienne, 21ième Cahier, (vol. III), p. 60
(c) - Emma Lewis Coleman, New England Captives carried to Canada, (Portland, Maine - 1925),
Vol. I, pp. 4-5; Vol. II, pp. 133 et sqq.
- Abbott-Elwell, History of Maine, pp. 332 et sqq.

1596
(a) - Thomas Church, The History of the Great Indian War of 1675 and 1676 ..., (revised ed., by Samuel Drake - New York, 1860), pp. 325 et sqq.
- Samuel Penhallow, New England and Indian Wars, pp. 89 et sqq.
- Abbott-Elwell, History of Maine, pp. 300 et sqq.
- Beamish Murdoch, A History of Nova Scotia or Acadie, (Halifax, N.S. - James Barnes, Printer and Publisher). En 3 volumes, 1865-1867. Vol. I, pp. 398 et sqq.
- Hutchinson, The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, (ed. Mayo, 1936), Vol. II, p. 222.
- New England Hist. & Genea. Registers, Vol. 45, (1891), pp. 278-280.
(b) - A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston containing the Records fo Boston Selectmen, 1716 to 1736, (Boston, 1885), p. 107.

1597
(a) - Beamish Murdoch, A History of Nova Scotia or Acadie, (Halifax, N.S. - James Barnes, Printer and Publisher). En 3 volumes, 1865-1867. Vol. I, p. 404.
(b) - Documents rel. to the Col. Hist. of the State of N. Y., Vol. IX, p. 945.

1615
(c) - Williamson, Maine, Vol. II, pp. 135 et sqq.
(d) - Other Indian Events of New England - Presented by the State Street Trust Company of Boston, Vol. II, (1941), pp. 82-83.
- Au sujet de ce John Lovewell et de ses exploits, voir les auteurs suivants:
= Frederick Kidder, The Expedition of Capt. John Lovewell and His Encounters with the Indians, (Boston, Bartlett and Halliday - 1865), 138 pages.
= Rev. Thomas Symnes, The Original Account of Capt. John Lovewell’s “Great Fight” with the Indians at Pequawket, May 8, 1725, (Concord, N.H. - New Edition, 1861), 48 pages.
= George Lyman Kittredge, The Ballad of Lovewell’s Fight, (reprinted, 1925); from Bibliographical Essays. A Tribute to Wilberforce Eames, pp. 93-127. “

Translation:
“ 2 - In the Region of Maine.
Again two years later, in 1722, at the beginning of summer, the Indians of Maine for their part started a war against the people of New England.

a - The Cause.
The English had seized Joseph d’Abbadie de Saint-Castin, their highest chief, whom they had made fall into an ambush set up under the pretext to express to him their friendship. This action could not be left unpunished. The cause was also the raid of the people of Boston at Nanrantsouak when they seized the chest of Père Sébastien Rasle containing all his papers and burnt the church, the rectory and thirty-three wigwams (b). Governor Shute, for his part, issued a declaration of war dated 25 July 1722. This war, the fourth since 1675 between the Indians and the English of New England, was called The Three Year’s War (La Guerre de Trois Ans) by reason of its duration; Rale’s War (La Guerre de Rale) because of one of its causes; Lovewell’s War (La Guerre de Lovewell) from the name of Captain John Lovewell in consideration of the success that he obtained chiefly towards the end of the war (9); Governor Dummer’s Indian War (La Guerre Amérindienne du Gouverneur Dummer) who drew up the peace treaty that put an end to this war (c).

b - Repercussions on the East Coast and at Cap-Sable.
Philipps found himself at Canseau at the very height of the fishing season when he received from Shute the news of that declaration of war. The Indians having seized here 16 or 17 boats, he organized the defense by sending immediately some officers to the harbours of the East Coast where the Indians had gone to take refuge. At the harbour Winnepang (Jeddore Harbour), John Eliot of Boston surprised 39 or 40 of them of which only five escaped. He recovered here seven vessels, fifteen prisoners and six hundred quintals of fish. Some other boats and some other fishermen who had been made prisoners were retaken. Captain Blin, in route to Boston, seized at Cap-Sable three or four other Indians (a).

The English laid blame not only on the Indians, but also on some Acadians, namely four of the sons of Claude Guidry and of Marguerite Petitpas, perhaps because they were from Merliguesh, considered rather as an Indian village than an Acadian village, perhaps because certain members of that family had contracted some alliances with the Indians or the Métis. The matter was about Claude, Philippe, Augustin and Paul (10). They were sent with their family at first to New Hampshire from where the mentioned Jacob Parker sent them to Boston. But Boston did not want to admit them because it had a law which at that time forbade any foreigner to settle in the town. That is why a few days after their arrival, the counselors of Boston gave them notice to go elsewhere; that order, which was sent 16 October (26 October, n.s.) was conveyed thirteen days later to the officer charged with maintenance of the peace (“Clark of the Peace”); it required him to see to its execution (b). Since after that date were born at Boston some children of Augustin and of Paul as we have said in Chapter 20, we must believe that the order was not executed, without doubt because he considered these Acadians not as some “immigrants” who came to settle at Boston, but as some prisoners.

While these Acadians were brought in captivity to New England, the Indians of Cap-Sable went to lend assistance to the Indians of Maine. They learned in fact at Boston the 10th of September that those, with a very large number of other Indians having come from Canada, had seized the isle Arrowsic, which is at the mouth of the Kennebec River. Fortunately they were dislodged in time before causing much damage.

A certain number wanted to make peace with Annapolis (a), but for the most part they were not ready to be reconciled with the English. The following year, 1723, they again harassed the English on the East Coast, even killed some of them, chiefly again at Canseau (b).

(9) p. 1595
John Lovewell departed from Dunstable the 15th of April (v.s.) with 46 volunteers. Having arrived at the upper part of the Saco River, no more than 34 remained with him of which only 14 returned after the battle, himself having also lost his life. Here, there is a lake which even bears the name of Lovewell Pond. (c).

There is in Massachusetts, to the south of Nashua, a small town which also bears the name of Dunstable. However, Dunstable where Captain John Lovewell lived is now in the State of New Hampshire having become a part of the town of Nashua (d).

(10) p. 1596
In the list of the four sons of Claude Guidry that the English in 1722 brought from Merliguesh to New Hampshire and then to Boston, there is the name of Philippe. Now this is the only time that we find that name in the family of Claude Guidry unless it has been used by error for another name already known. We discover later Philippe Guidry, but not in the family of Claude. Since the document gives Phillip Gedery, sa femme & famille (“Phillip Gedery, his wife & family”), one must conclude that he already had one or more children. The same thing must be said of Augustin although the first children that we know for him are the twins Marie-Josephte and Hélène, who were born the 9th of January of the following year, 1723. As for the two others, the document does not appear to give them any children because it has simply Gload Gedery & sa femme (“Gload Gedery & his wife”) and Paul Gedery & sa femme (“Paul Gedery & his wife”) which means that Judith, daughter of Paul, who was also born at Boston, was not yet born at that date although she was born before her twin cousins.

1595
(b) - La Société Hist. Acadienne, 21st Cahier, (vol. III), p. 60
(c) - Emma Lewis Coleman, New England Captives carried to Canada, (Portland, Maine - 1925),
Vol. I, pp. 4-5; Vol. II, pp. 133 et sqq.
- Abbott-Elwell, History of Maine, pp. 332 and sqq.

1596
(a) - Thomas Church, The History of the Great Indian War of 1675 and 1676 ..., (revised ed., by Samuel Drake - New York, 1860), pp. 325 et sqq.
- Samuel Penhallow, New England and Indian Wars, pp. 89 and sqq.
- Abbott-Elwell, History of Maine, pp. 300 and sqq.
- Beamish Murdoch, A History of Nova Scotia or Acadie, (Halifax, N.S. - James Barnes, Printer and Publisher). In 3 volumes, 1865-1867. Vol. I, pp. 398 and sqq.
- Hutchinson, The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, (ed. Mayo, 1936), Vol. II, p. 222.
- New England Hist. & Genea. Registers, Vol. 45, (1891), pp. 278-280.
(b) - A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston containing the Records fo Boston Selectmen, 1716 to 1736, (Boston, 1885), p. 107.

1597
(a) - Beamish Murdoch, A History of Nova Scotia or Acadie, (Halifax, N.S. - James Barnes, Printer and Publisher). In 3 volumes, 1865-1867. Vol. I, p. 404.
(b) - Documents rel. to the Col. Hist. of the State of N. Y., Vol. IX, p. 945.

1615
(c) - Williamson, Maine, Vol. II, pp. 135 and sqq.
(d) - Other Indian Events of New England - Presented by the State Street Trust Company of Boston, Vol. II, (1941), pp. 82-83.
- On the subject of this John Lovewell and his exploits, see thefollowing authors:
= Frederick Kidder, The Expedition of Capt. John Lovewell and His Encounters with the Indians, (Boston, Bartlett and Halliday - 1865), 138 pages.
= Rev. Thomas Symnes, The Original Account of Capt. John Lovewell’s “Great Fight” with the Indians at Pequawket, May 8, 1725, (Concord, N.H. - New Edition, 1861), 48 pages.
= George Lyman Kittredge, The Ballad of Lovewell’s Fight, (reprinted, 1925); from Bibliographical Essays. A Tribute to Wilberforce Eames, pp. 93-127. “4520

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“9 Jan 1723: Claude Guédry baptized privately at Boston the twin daughters of his son Augustin (Rg GP 26 Sept 1723).”4521

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“ Heleine Guedry, twin of Marie Joseph (Augustin Guedry and Jeanne Hébert) bn. 9 Jan (omitted) at Boston, ondoyé by Claude Guedry, her grandfather, bt. ceremonies 26 Sept. 1723, spo. Charles Hébert and Anne Hébert (SGA-2,42)

Marie Joseph Guedry, twin of Heleine (Augustin Guedry and Jeanne Hébert) bn. 9 Jan. (omitted) at Boston, ondoyé by Claude Guedry, her grandfather, bt. 26 Sept. 1723, spo. Msr. Mouton and Jeanne Douaron (SGA-2,42) “

On 26 September 1723 the twin daughters, Helene Guédry and Marie Josephe Guédry, of Augustin Guédry and Jeanne Hebert, were baptized and the baptisms were recorded at St. Charles-aux-Mines Catholic Church in Grand-Pré, Acadia. Earlier the two girls had been baptized conditionally (ondoyé) at Boston, MA on their day of birth 9 January 1723 by their grandfather Claude Guédry. The sponsors of Helen Guédry were Charles Hebert and Anne Hebert. The sponsors of Marie Josephe Guédry were Jean Mouton and Jeanne Douaron4522,4523.

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“(4) p. 1106 ...
Mathieu de Goutin, dans une lettre au ministre, datée de Port-Royal le 8 décembre 1704, parle d’Acadiens qui ont fait naufrage à Boston (a). Nous ne saurions dire s’il fait allusion aux Acadiens amenés en captivité à Boston quatre mois plus tôte, ou s’il veut parler d’un naufrage au sens propre qui aurait eu lieu alors ou par après.

Ces Acadiens amenés à Boston, quoiqu’ils fussent considérés comme prisonniers, ne furent pas incarcérés. On se plaignit même du fait qu’ils avaient conseillers de la ville, on trouve en date du 24 novembre 1705 la note suivante:

Les conseillers désirent que le gouverneur empêche les prisonniers français de circuler en ville selon leur bon plaisir, de peur que cette manière de faire ne devienne hasardeuse pour la ville (a).

Le retour de ces prisonniers acadiens se fit en 1706. Mais tous ne revinrent pas en même temps. Nous avons dit que Gabriel Samson était de retour pour faire baptiser sa fille à Port-Royal le 21 janvier et que Jean Clémenceau et Anne Roy étaient au même endroit le 3 mars, quand leur mariage fut béni. Le 2 juin 1706, M. de Vaudreuil dans une lettre à M. Dudley fait mention de 57 prisonniers qui auraient été renvoyés à Port-Royal avant cette date (b). Un autre groupe, au nombre de 51 prisonniers, arriva à Port-Royal le 18 septembre (c); ce sont ceux dont on rencontre les noms aux registres de Port-Royal à partir de cette date, comme étant revenus de Boston. Ce ne fut pas le dernier groupe, car vers la fin de l’année Louis Denys, sieur de La Ronde, ramena encore douze prisonniers français qu’on retenait à Boston. Quant à Louis Damours, sieur de Chauffour, il sera libéré un plus plus tard seulement (d).

Seize à dix-huit ans plus tard, d’autres naissances d’Acadiens dont les parents étaient en captivité à Boston devaient y avoir lieu. Le 26 septembre 1723, le Père Félix Pain supplait à Grand-Pré les cérémonies de baptême aux jumelles Marie-Josephte et Hélène Guidry, nées à Boston le 9 janvier précédent, filles d’Augustin Guidry et de Jeanne Hébert, dont nous avons parlé quand nous avons dit que probablement cette Marie-Josephte Guidry était l’épouse de Charles Benjamin Mius, fils de Joseph I, dit d’Azy. Nous avons dit alors que c’est là aussi, à Boston, que naquit quelques mois plus tôt leur cousine, Judith Guidry, fille de Paul et d’Anne Mius. Cela arriva au cours d’une série de guérillas entre les gens de la Nouvelle-Angleterre et les Amérindiens de la région allant de Kennebec à Canseau, qui devaient durer trois ans, à partir de juin 1722, de temps où Boston en voulait au Père Rasle et à ses Amérindiens de Norridgewock, quand nombre de prisonniers furent pris de part et d’autre, y compris des Amérindiens de la Côte-Est de l’Acadie, le Cap-Sable inclus, quoiqu’ils ne fussent pas détenus longtemps. Parmi ceux-ci on trouve à Boston les noms acadiens susdits, peut-être parce que ces personnes comptaient parmi leurs ancêtres des gens de la nation micmaque (a).

1139
(a) - Arch. des Colonies, Série C11, Correspondance Général, Acadie, vol. 5, ff. 31 et sqq.

1140
(a) - A Report of the Record Commisioners of the City of Boston containing the Records of Boston Selectmen, 1701 to 1715, (Boston, 1884), p. 42. - La traduction de l’anglais est de nous.
(b) - Bulletin des Rech. Hist., vol. 30, (1924), p. 386.
(c) - Beamish Murdoch, A History of Nova-Scotia or Acadie, (Halifax, N. S. - James Barnes, Printer and Publisher), vol. I (1865), p. 284.
(d) - Coll. de Mss relatifs à la N.-F., vol. II, p. 463.

1141
(a) - Beamish Murdoch, A History of Nova-Scotia or Acadie, (Halifax, N. S. - James Barnes, Printer and Publisher), vol. I (1865), p. 398 et sqq.
- James Hannay, The History of Acadia, (St. John, N. B., 1879), pp. 324 et sqq.
- William Douglas, A Summary, Historical and Political of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements, and Present State of British Settlements in North-America, (Boston, New England, Printed: London, reprinted for R. Baldwin. 1755), pp. 559-561.
- Samuel Penhallow, The History of the Wars of New-England with the Eastern Indians, or a Narrative Of their continued Perfidy and Cruelty, From the 10th of August, 1703, To the Pease renewed 13th of July, 1722, To their Submission 15th December, 1725, Which was ratified August 5th, 1726, (Cincinnati: Reprinted from the Boston Edition of 1726, with a Memoir, Notes, and Appendix, for Wm Dogne, by J. Harpel, 1859), pp. 89 et sqq. “

Translation:
“(4) p. 1106 ...
Mathieu de Goutin, in a letter to the minister, dated from Port-Royal the 8th of December 1704, spoke of Acadians who have shipwrecked at Boston (a). We do not know to say if he is alluding to the Acadians brought in captivity to Boston four months earlier, or if he means to speak of a shipwreck in the proper sense which would have taken place at that time or later.

These Acadians brought to Boston, although they were viewed as prisoners, were not imprisoned. They themselves complain of the fact that they had too much freedom. In the minutes of the sessions of the councilors of the town, we find under the date of 24 November 1705 the following remark:

The councilors desire that the governor prevent the French prisoners from circulating in town according to their convenience, for fear that this attitude become unsafe for the town (a).

The return of these prisoners happened in 1706. But all did not return at the same time. We have said that Gabriel Samson had to return in order to baptize his daughter at Port-Royal the 21st of January and that Jean Clémenceau and Anne Roy were at the same place the 3rd of March, when their marriage was blessed. The 2nd of June 1706, M. de Vaudreuil in a letter to M. Dudley mentioned 57 prisoners who could have been sent back to Port-Royal before that date (b). Another group, in the number of 51 prisoners, arrived at Port-Royal the 18th of September (c); it is these of whom we encounter the names in the registers of Port-Royal from this date, as being reutrned from Boston. This was not the last group, because about the end of the year Louis Denys, sieur de La Ronde, brought back twelve French prisoners who were retained at Boston. As for Louis Damours, sieur de Chauffour, he will be freed only much later (d).

Sixteen to eighteen years later, some other births of Acadians whose parents were in captivity at Boston had taken place there. The 26th of September 1723, Pére Félix Pain supplied at Grand-Pré the ceremonies of baptism for the twins Marie-Josephte and Hélène Guidry, born at Boston the 9th of January preceding, daughters of Augustin Guidry and of Jeanne Hébert, of whom we have spoken when we have said that probably this Marie-Josephte Guidry was the wife of Charles Benjamin Mius, son of Joseph I, dit d’Azy. We have said then that it is there also, at Boston, that their cousin, Judith Guidry, daughter of Paul and of Anne Mius, was born several months earlier. That occurred during a series of guerilla wars between the people of New England and the Indians from the region extending from Kennebec to Canseau, which lasted three years, from June, 1722, at the time when Boston was bearing Père Rasle and his Indians of Norridgewock a grudge, when many prisoners were taken on both sides, here comprising some Indians from the East Coast of Acadia, Cap-Sable included, although they were not held long. Among these latter we find at Boston the aforesaid Acadian names, perhaps because these persons included among their ancestors some people of the Micmac nation (a).

1139
(a) - Arch. des Colonies, Série C11, Correspondance Général, Acadie, vol. 5, ff. 31 and sqq.

1140
(a) - A Report of the Record Commisioners of the City of Boston containing the Records of Boston Selectmen, 1701 to 1715, (Boston, 1884), p. 42. - The translation from English is ours.
(b) - Bulletin des Rech. Hist., vol. 30, (1924), p. 386.
(c) - Beamish Murdoch, A History of Nova-Scotia or Acadie, (Halifax, N. S. - James Barnes, Printer and Publisher), vol. I (1865), p. 284.
(d) - Coll. de Mss relatifs à la N.-F., vol. II, p. 463.

1141
(a) - Beamish Murdoch, A History of Nova-Scotia or Acadie, (Halifax, N. S. - James Barnes, Printer and Publisher), vol. I (1865), p. 398 and sqq.
- James Hannay, The History of Acadia, (St. John, N. B., 1879), pp. 324 and sqq.
- William Douglas, A Summary, Historical and Political of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements, and Present State of British Settlements in North-America, (Boston, New England, Printed: London, reprinted for R. Baldwin. 1755), pp. 559-561.
- Samuel Penhallow, The History of the Wars of New-England with the Eastern Indians, or a Narrative Of their continued Perfidy and Cruelty, From the 10th of August, 1703, To the Pease renewed 13th of July, 1722, To their Submission 15th December, 1725, Which was ratified August 5th, 1726, (Cincinnati: Reprinted from the Boston Edition of 1726, with a Memoir, Notes, and Appendix, for Wm Dogne, by J. Harpel, 1859), pp. 89 and sqq. “4524

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“ m - Charles-Benjamin Mius, dit d’Azy, naquit en 1728, vers la fin de mars ou au début d’avril, quant il fut “ondoyé à la maison du Sr Ponbomcour au cap sable par pierre Landry le père habitant dud. lieu”. Les cérémonies du baptême lui furent suppléées le 2 janvier 1730 à Port-Royal, lorsqui’il est dit âgé d’un an et 9 mois, son père étant décédé trois semaines plus tôt. Il épousa Marie-Josephte Guidry, fille d’Augustin et de Jeanne Hébert (7). En 1752, on trouve ce couple à l’île Saint-Jean, à la Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, avec deux enfants, Marie-Josephte, âgée de 2 ans, et Nastay ou Anastasie, âgée d’un an. Il y avait en plus, avec eux, Marguerite Pélagie Brau, âgée de 6 ans, qui devait être une enfant adoptée. Au recensement pris en juillet et août 1753 à l’île Royale, on trouve au Bras-du-Sud de la baie des Espagnols, aujoud’hui Sydney, Benjamin Mieux, avec sa femme, un garçon et trois filles; il possède un boeuf, un cochon et une truie; il a douze toises en jardin, c’est-à-dire à peu près 76 pieds our 23 mètres (a).

Le 23 janvier 1759, débarquait à Saint-Servan Marie-Josephte Guidry, ayant perdu en mer toute sa famille, à savoir Charles-Benjamin Mius, son mari, sa fille Marie-Josephte, âgée de 10 ans, Anastasie, âgée de 8 ans, Jean-Baptiste, âgé de 6 ans, Véronique, âgée de 4 ans, et Firmin, âgé de 2 ans. Elle devait se marier de nouveau, le 18 février 1763, à Saint-Servan, à Claude LeBlanc, originaire de Grand-Pré, fils de Jean et de Jeanne Bourgeois, et veuf d’Anne-Josephte Longuépée, fille de Louis et d’Anne Brasseau, de Cobequid. Encore à Saint-Servan, le 21 juin 1768, Claude LeBlanc épousait en troisièmes noces Dorothée Richard, fille de François et de Marie Martin, et veuve d’Alexis Comeau, décédé à Saint-Servan le 12 avril 1767 à l’âge de 35 ans. Le 21 mai 1785, cette famille partait sur La Bergière pour la Louisiane.

(7) p. 1004
Placide Gaudet, dans ses généalogies acadiennes en dépôt à Ottawa, et Bona Arsenault, (op. cit., vol. II, p. 879), ont pensé que Marie-Josephte Guidry, épouse de Charles-Benjamin Mius (à Joseph I, dit d’Azy), était fille de Pierre et de Marguerite Brasseau. Cependant à son deuxième mariage, fait à Saint-Servan en 1763, elle est dite fille d’Augustin Guédry et d’Anne Lejeune. Malgré cela, nous pensons qu’il a erreur ici pour Augustin Guidry et Jeanne Hébert. Il y eut bien Anne Le Jeune, épouse de Claude Guidry, celui-ci se mariant en secondes noces à Saint-Servan en 1762 à Anne Moyse, veuve de Joseph LeBlanc, mais leurs filles étaient trop jeunes pour qu’aucune d’entre elles n’eût pu être l’épouse de Charles-Benjamin Mius. Augustin Guidry et Jeanne Hébert, qui étaient justement de Cobequid dans le temps à peu près que Charles-Benjamin s’est marié, avaient en effet une fille du nom de Marie-Josephte, jumelle d’Héléne, qui naquirent à Boston le 9 janvier 1723 et furent baptisées à Grand-Pré le 26 septembre suivant par le Père Félix Pain. C’est au même endroit également qu’était née quelqeus mois plus tôt, mais avant le 26 octobre, leur cousine Judith Guidry, fille de Paul Guidry et d’Anne Mius (a). Ces naissances eurent lieu à Boston au cours de la guerre dite de Lovewell, (Lovewell’s War), entre les gens de la Nouvelle-Angleterre et les Amérindiens, ceux de la Côte-de-l’Est compris, qui débuta à l’été de 1722 pour durer trois ans. Un certain nombre d’Amérindiens furent amenés à Boston en captivité, et avec eux sûrement des Acadiens, en particulier ceux que nous venons de mentionner.

Ajoutons que ce qui confirme que cette Marie-Josephte Guidry, fille de Augustin et de Jeanne Hébert, était bien l’épouse de Charles-Benjamin Mius, est qu’il y avait entre les deux un peu plus de cinq ans de différence d’âge. Or le recensement de 1752, qui fut pris au cours de la seconde moitié de l’année, leur donne une différence de six ans, l’épouse étant dite alors âgée de 30 ans, Jeanne Hébert ayant en effet donné naissance le 9 janvier 1723 à Maire-Josephte.

1004
(a) - Recensement de Plaisance, etc., aux Arch. des Colonies, Série G1, vol. 467, f. 558 de la copie des Arch. publ. du Canada.
(b) - Rieder-Rieder, The Acadians in France, Vol. III - Archives of the Port of Saint Servan, (Metairie, Louisiana, 1973), pp. 39 et 40.

1028
(a) - Rapport concernant les Arch. Can. pour l’année 1906, vol. II, 1re Partie, p. 44 de l’éd. fr.; p. 45 de l’éd. ang. “

Translation:
“ m - Charles-Benjamin Mius, dit d’Azy, born in 1728 about the end of March or at the beginning of April, when he was “privately baptized at the house of Sr Ponbomcour at cap sable by pierre Landry le père inhabitant of said place”. The baptism ceremonies for him were supplied the 2nd of January 1730 at Port-Royal when he is called age of one year and 9 months, his father having died three weeks earlier. He married Marie-Josephte Guidry, daughter of Augustin and of Jeanne Hébert (7). In 1752 we find this couple at Ile Saint-Jean at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse with two children, Marie-Josephte, age of 2 years, and Nastay or Anastasie, age of one year. There was there in addition, with them Marguerite Pélagie Brau, age of 6 years, who must have been an adopted child. In the census taken in July and August 1753 at Île Royale, we find at Bras-du-Sud on the Baie des Espagnols, today Sydney, Benjamin Mieux with his wife, a boy and three daughters; he has a cow, a pig and a sow; he has twelve fathoms in garden, that is to say, almost 76 feet or 23 meters (a).

The 23rd of January 1759 Marie-Josephte Guidry disembarked at Saint-Servan, having lost at sea all her family, namely, Charles-Benjamin Mius, her husband, her daughter Marie-Josephte, age of 10 years, Anastasie, age of 8 years, Jean-Baptiste, age of 6 years, Véronique, age of 4 years, and Firmin, age of 2 years. She was married again, the 18th of February 1763, at Saint-Servan, to Claude LeBlanc, originally from Grand-Pré, son of Jean and of Jeanne Bourgeois, and widower of Anne-Josephte Longuépée, daughter of Louis and of Anne Brasseau, of Cobequid. Again at Saint-Servan, the 21st of June 1768, Claude LeBlanc wed in a third marriage Dorothée Richard, daughter of François and of Marie Martin, and widow of Alexis Comeau, died at Saint-Servan the 12th of April 1767 at the age of 35 years. The 21st of May 1785 this family departed on La Bergière for Louisiana.

(7) p. 1004
Placide Gaudet in his Acadian genealogies deposited at Ottawa and Bona Arsenault (op. cit., vol. II, p. 879) have considered that Marie-Josephte Guidry, wife of Charles-Benjamin Mius (from Joseph I, dit d’Azy) was the daughter of Pierre and of Marguerite Brasseau. However in her second marriage, done at Saint-Servan in 1763, she is called daughter of Augustin Guédry and of Anne Lejeune. In spite of that, we think that there is an error here as regards Augustin Guidry and Jeanne Hébert. There was certainly Anne Le Jeune, wife of Claude Guidry, the latter marrying a second time at Saint-Servan in 1762 to Anne Moyse, widow of Joseph LeBlanc, but their daughters were too young in order that any of them could have been able to be the wife of Charles-Benjamin Mius. Augustin Guidry and Jeanne Hébert, who were precisely at Cobequid during the approximate time that Charles-Benjamin Mius is married, had in fact a daughter with the name of Marie-Josephte, twin of Hélène, who were born at Boston the 9th of January 1723 and were baptized at Grand-Pré the 26th of September following by Père Félix Pain. This is at the same place also that was born several months earlier, but before the 26th of October, their cousin Judith Guidry, daughter of Paul Guidry and of Anne Mius (a). There births took place at Boston during the war called Lovewell’s (Lovewell’s War) between the people of New England and the Indians, those from the East Coast included, which began in the summer of 1722 lasting three years. A certain number of Indians were brought to Boston in captivity and with them certainly some Acadians, in particular those that we happen to mention.

Let’s add that what confirms that this Marie-Josephte Guidry, daughter of Augustin and of Jeanne Hébert, was indeed the wife of Charles-Benjamin Mius, is that there was between the two a little more than five years difference in age. Now the census of 1752, which was taken during the second half of the year, ascribes to them a difference of six years, the wife being called then 30 years of age, Jeanne Hébert having in fact given birth the 9th of January 1723 to Marie-Josephte.

1004
(a) - Recensement de Plaisance, etc., at the Arch. des Colonies, Série G1, vol. 467, f. 558 of the copy from the Arch. publ. du Canada.
(b) - Rieder-Rieder, The Acadians in France, Vol. III - Archives of the Port of Saint Servan, (Metairie, Louisiana, 1973), pp. 39 and 40.

1028
(a) - Rapport concernant les Arch. Can. pour l’année 1906, vol. II, 1st Part, p. 44 of the French ed.; p. 45 of the English ed. “4525

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“ JOSEPH GUIDRY, 1735, fils d’Augustin et de Jeanne Hébert, marié en 1767 à Elizabeth Comeaux, née en 1741, et en secondes noces, à Saint-Jacques, le 24 mai 1773, à Monique Dupuis, fille de Jean et d’Anne Breaux. Enfants issus du premier mariage: Donat, 1769; Joseph, 1770; Alexandre, 1772. Enfants issus du second mariage: Félicité, 1774; Judith, 1776. Il était à l’Ascension, en 1776. “

Translation:
“ JOSEPH GUIDRY, 1735, son of Augustin and of Jeanne Hébert, married in 1767 to Elizabeth Comeaux, born in 1741, and in a second time, at Saint-Jacques 24 May 1773 to Monique Dupuis, daughter of Jean and of Anne Breaux. Children of the first marriage: Donat, 1769; Joseph, 1770; Alexandre, 1772. Children of the second marriage: Félicité, 1774; Judith, 1776. He was at Ascension in 1776. “4513

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“ Pierre Guedry (Augustin Guedry and Jeanne GIMBERT) native of Acadia, residing at Natchez, m. 23 Jan. 1769, Claire BABIN (Antoine Babin and Catherine LANDRY) native of Acadia, residing at Natchez wit. Firmin Babin; Pierre Guedry; Augustin Landry (PCP-4,35) also (PCP-3,270-271) “4241
4242

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“ Claire Babin (Antoine Babin and Catherine LANDRY) native of Acadia, residing at Natchez, m. 23 Jan. 1769, Pierre GUEDRY (Augustin Guedry and Jeanne GIMBERT) native of Acadia, residing at Natchez wit. Firmin Babin; Pierre Guedry; Augustin Landry (PCP-3,270-271) also (PCP-4,35) “4243,4155

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“ GUIDRY, Marie Celeste (Pierre - of Acadia & Marguerite MILLER - of South Carolina) b. 30 Oct. 1796, bt. 16 April 1797 Pats: Augustin GUIDRY & Jeane ---- [HEBERT] of Acadia; Mats: William MILLER of Scotland & Anne KEVEN - of Ireland; Spons: Baptiste GUIDRY & Cecile BORLAY or BORLE. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: v. 4, #853) “4092,4266

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“ GUIDRY, Ludivine (Pierre - of Acadia & Marguerite MILLER - of Virginia) b. 5 May 1799, bt. 15 Sept. 1799 Pats: Augustin GUIDRY & Jeanne ----- [HEBERT] of Acadia; Mats: William MILLER - of Scotland & Anne KEVIN - of Ireland; Spons: Louis GUIDRY & Ludivine BROUSSARD. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: v. 5, #179) “4253,4281

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“ GUIDRY, Arthemise (Pierre GUEDRY - of Acadia & Marguerite MILLER - of Virginia) b. 28 May 1803, bt. 31 July 1803 Pats: Augustin GUEDRY & Jeanne GIMBERT - of Acadia; Mats: William MILLER & Anne KEVEN - of America; Spons: Augustin GUEDRY & Anastasie GUEDRY. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: v. 6 #45) “4303,4304

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“ GUIDRY, Rosemond (Pierre - of Acadie & Marguerite MILLER - from Mobile) b. 8 Oct. 1806, bt. 28 June 1807 at la Prairie du Gros Chevreuil at Antoine PATIN. Pats: Augustin GUEDRY & Jeanne --- of Acadie; Mats: Guillaume [William] MILLER & Anne KIVEN; Spons: Pierre GUEDRY fils [Jr.] - represented by Joseph BRO & Celestine GUEDRY. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: v. 6-A, p. 25)4298,4334

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“ GUIDRY, Rosemond (Pierre - of Acadie & Marguerite MILLER - from Mobile) b. 8 Oct. 1806, bt. 28 June 1807 at Prairie of Gros Chevreuil at residence of Antoine PATIN. Pats: Augustin GUEDRY & Jeanne HEBERT of Acadia; Mats: William MILLER & Anne KIVEN; Spons: Pierre GUEDRY fils - represented by Joseph BRO & Celestine GUEDRY. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: Folio E,, p. 65)4298,4335

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“ GUIDRY, Marie (Pierre - native of Acadie & Marguerite MILLER - of Mobile) b. 27 July 1809, bt. 3 Aug. 1809 in the area of grande pointe at the home of the wid. SEMER. Pats: Augustin GUEDRY & Jeanne --- of Acadie; Mats: Guilaume MILLERS [MILLER] & Anne KEVEN - of America; Spons: Charles GUEDRY & Catherine BOSSIER - spouse of Anoine PATIN. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: v. 6-A, #288) “4096,4347

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“ GUIDRY, Marie (Pierre - native of Acadia & Marguerite MILLER - of Mobile) b. 27 July 1809, bt. 3 Aug. 1809 at residence of widow SEMER at La Grande Pointe Pats: Augustin GUEDRY & Jeanne HEBERT of Acadia; Mats: Guilaume MILLER & Anne KIVEN - of America; Spons: Charles GUEDRY & Catherine BOSSIER - spouse of Anoine PATIN. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: Folio E, p. 125) “4348,4349

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“ AUGUSTIN GUIDRY / JEANNE HEBERT

Purvis J. Hébert, 116th Ordnance Co., APO N.Y. 09093, wrote the following:

Jeanne HEBERT who married Augustin GUIDRY was without a doubt the daughter of Jean HEBERT and Jeanne DOIRON. My reasons for arriving at this conclusion are:

1) Jeanne DOIRON, Jean MOUTON, Charles HEBERT, Anne HEBERT were sponsors at the baptism on 26 Sept. 1723 of twin girls of Augustin GUIDRY and Jeanne HEBERT (ref. BRDA records). At this early date, sponsor Jeanne DOIRON, wife of Jean HEBERT, is the only known Jeanne DOIRON in Acadia (ref. Arsenault’s “Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens”). Sponsors Charles HEBERT and Anne HEBERT were almost certainly the children of Jean HEBERT and Jeanne DOIRON. Sponsor Jean MOUTON, b. 1689, married Marie GIROUARD, daughter of Alexandre. Alexandre HEBERT born 1686 had a son Alexandre, born 1713, who married Madeleine GIROUARD, daughter of Claude. Alexandre and Claude GIROUARD were brothers. Alexandre HEBERT, born 1686, and Jeanne HEBERT, married to Augustin GUIDRY, were first cousins - assuming, of course, that Jeanne HEBERT was the daughter of Jean HEBERT and Jeanne DOIRON.

2) In the 1714 census Jean HEBERT and Jeanne DOIRON declared four boys and five girls (re. 1714 census of Acadia). Bona Arsenault, however, does not list any girls for this couple. What happened to the five girls? Arsenault lists the following HEBERTS which I believe COULD be the daughters of Jean HEBERT/Jeanne DOIRON: Elizabeth, married about 1718 to Michel PART, born 1693 at Grand-Pré; Marie-Josephe, married about 1732 to Paul LEBLANC at Grand-Pré; Marie married to Jean COMEAU, born 1712 at Grand-Pré; Anne-Marie, age 23, married 17 June 1734 to Paul DUGAS, born 1709 at Cobequid.

A check of baptismal records of other children of Augustin GUIDRY and Jeanne HEBERT should reveal additional clues to help establish the parents of Jeanne HEBERT. “4495
   

In his Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens4526 Bona Arsenault incorrectly states that the parents of Augustin Guidry (i.e., Jean Baptiste Augustin Guédry), husband of Marguerite Picot, are Augustin Guédry and Jeanne Hébert. We know from other records that the parents of this Augustin Guidry, who married Marguerite Picot and had a son named Olivier, was the son of Pierre Guédry and Marguerite Brasseau. Furthermore, he incorrectly gives the birth year of Augustin Guidry as about 1750 when it was much earlier and gives his date of marriage to Marguerite Picot as about 1772 when it was about 1755.

Augustin Guédry
Augustin Guedry
Augustin Guidry
Augustin Guaidry
Augustin guedry
Augustin Gedery
Auguste Guidry

“ AUGUSTIN GUEDRY, né en 1690, fils de Claude Guidry dit Grivois, de Port-Royal, et de Marguerite Petitpas, marié vers 1721 à Jeanne Hébert. Enfants: Hélène et Marie-Josephe, jumelles nées à Boston, le 9 janvier 1723 et baptisées à Grand-Pré, le 26 septembre 1723; Jeanne, 1725; Ursule, 1731; Joseph, 1735; Pierre, 1741. “

Translation:
“ AUGUSTIN GUEDRY, born in 1690, son of Claude Guidry dit Grivois of Port-Royal and of Marguerite Petitpas, married about 1721 to Jeanne Hébert. Children: Hélène and Marie-Josephe, twins born at Boston 9 January 1723 and baptized at Grand-Pré 26 September 1723; Jeanne, 1725; Ursule, 1731; Joseph, 1735, Pierre, 1741. “4511

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“ AUGUSTIN GUEDRY, 1690, fils de Claude et de Marguerite Petitpas, de Port-Royal, marié vers 1722 à Jeanne Hébert. Enfants: Marie-Josephe et Hélène, 1723; Jeanne, 1725; Ursule, 1731; Joseph, 1735; Pierre, 1741. Il était au Cap-Breton en 1752. “

Translation:
“ AUGUSTIN GUEDRY, 1690, son of Claude and of Marguerite Petitpas of Port-Royal, married about 1722 to Jeanne Hébert. Children: Marie-Josephe and Hélène, 1723; Jeanne, 1725; Ursule, 1731; Joseph, 1735, Pierre, 1741. He was at Cap-Breton in 1752. “4512

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“ AUGUSTIN GUEDRY, né en 1690, de Cobequid, Acadie, fils de Claude et de Marguerite Petitpas, de Port-Royal, marié vers 1722 à Jeanne Hébert. Enfants: Marie-Josephe et Hélène, 1723; Jeanne, 1725; Ursule, 1731; Joseph, 1735; Pierre, 1741. Il était au Cap-Breton en 1752 et en Louisiane, avec sa famille, vers 1765. “

Translation:
“ AUGUSTIN GUEDRY, born in 1690, of Cobequid, Acadia, son of Claude and of Marguerite Petitpas of Port-Royal, married about 1722 to Jeanne Hébert. Children: Marie-Josephe and Hélène, 1723; Jeanne, 1725; Ursule, 1731; Joseph, 1735, Pierre, 1741. He was at Cap-Breton in 1752 and in Louisiana with his family about 1765. “

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“ Notes de S. A. White
i. Remarquons que parmi les parrains et marraines des deux filles aînées de Jeanne Hébert et d’Augustin Guédry se trouvaient Jeanne Doiron et Charles Hébert (Rg GP 26 sept 1723).

Explanatory Notes
Note that the godparents of the two eldest daughters of Jeanne Hébert and Augustin Guédry included Jeanne Doiron and Charles Hébert (Rg GP 26 Sept 1723). “4527

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“ 2 - Dans la région du Maine.
Encore deux ans plus tard, en 1722, au début de l’été, les Amérindiens du Maine pour leur part se mirent en guerre contre les gens de la Nouvelle-Angleterre.

a - L’occasion.
Les Anglais s’étaient emparé de Joseph d’Abbadie de Saint-Castin, leur chef suprême, qu’ils avaient fait tomber dans un guet-apens dressé sous couleur de lui exprimer leur amitié. Cet acte ne pouvait pas être laissé impuni. L’occasion fut aussi le raid des gens de Boston à Nanrantsouak, quand ils s’emparèrent du coffre du Père Sébastien Rasle, contenant tous ses papiers, et brûlèrent l’église, le presbytère et trente-trois wigwams (b). Le gouverneur Shute, de son côté, émit une déclaration de guerre datée du 25 juillet 1722. Cette guerre, la quatrième depuis 1675 entre les Amérindiens et les Anglais de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, fut appelée The Three Years War, (La Guerre de Trois Ans), en raison de sa durée; Rale’s War (La Guerre de Rale), à cause de l’un de ses motifs; Lovewell’s War, (La Guerre de Lovewell), du nom du capitaine John Lovewell, en raison des succès qu’il remporta surtout vers la fin de la guerre (9); Governor Dummer’s Indian War, (La Guerre Amérindienne du Gouverneur Dummer), du nom du lieutenant-gouverneur du Massachusetts, William Dummer, qui formula le traité de paix qui mit fin à cette guerre (c).

b- Répercussions sur la Côte-de-l’Est et au Cap-Sable.
Philipps se trouvait à Canseau, au plus fort de la saison de pêche, lorsqu’il reçut de Shute la nouvelle de cette déclaration de guerre. Les Amérindiens ayant saisi ici 16 ou 17 bateaux, il organisa la défense en envoyant immédiatement des officiers dans les ports de la Côte-de-l’Est, où les Amérindiens étaient allés se réfugier. Au havre Winnepang (Jeddore Harbour), John Eliot de Boston surprit 39 ou 40 d’entre eux, dont cinq seulement réussirent à sévader. Il récupéra ici sept vaisseaux, quinze captifs et six cents quintaux de poisson. D’autres bâtiments et d’autres pêcheurs qui avaient été faits prisonniers furent repris. Le capitaine Blin, en route vers Boston, s’empara au Cap-Sable de trois our quatre autres Amérindiens (a).

Les Anglais s’en prirent non seulement aux Amérindiens, mais aussi à quelques Acadiens, à savoir quatre des fils de Claude Guidry et de Marguerite Petitpas, peut-être parce qu’ils étaient de Merligesh, considéré plutôt comme village des Amérindiens que village d’Acadiens, peut-être parce que certains membres de cette famille avaient contracté des alliances avec des Amérindiens ou des métisses. Il s’agissait de Claude, Philippe, Augustin et Paul (10). Ils furent conduits avec leur famille d’abord au New Hampshire, d’où le nommé Jacob Parker les emmena à Boston. Mais Boston ne voulut pas les recevoir, car il y avait une loi qui à cette époque défendait tout étranger de s’etablir dans la ville. C’est pourquoi quelques jours après leur arrivée, les conseillers de Boston les avertirent de s’en aller ailleurs; cet ordre, qui fut émis le 16 octobre, (26 octobre, n.s.), fut transmis treize hours plus tard à l’officier chargé du maintien de la paix, (“Clark of the Peace”); on lui demandait de vois à son exécution (b). Puisque après cette date naquirent à Boston des enfants d’Augustin et de Paul, comme nous avons dit au chapitre 20ième, il faut croire que l’ordre ne fut pas exécuté, sans doute parce qu’on considéra ces Acadiens non pas comme des “immigrés” qui venaient s’établir à Boston, mais comme des prisonniers.

Pendant que ces Acadiens étaient amenés en captivité en Nouvelle-Angleterre, les Amérindiens du Cap-Sable allaient prêter main-forte aux Amérindiens du Maine. On apprit en effet à Boston le 10 septembre que ceux-ci, avec un très grand nombre d’autres Amérindiens venus du Canada, avaient attaqué l’île Arrowsic, qui se trouve à l’entrée de la rivière Kennebec. Heureusement ils furent délogés à temps, avant de causer grand dommage.

Un certain nombre voulurent faire la paix avec Annapolis (a), mais en majeure partie ils n’étaient pas prêts à se réconcilier avec les Anglais. L’année suivante, 1723, ils harcelèrent encoure les Anglais sur la Côte-de-l’Est, en tuèrent même, surtout encore à Canseau (b).

(9) p. 1595
John Lovewell partit de Dunstable le 15 avril (v.s.) avec 46 volontaires. Arrivé au haut de la rivière Saco, il ne lui en restait plus que 34, dont 14 seulement revinrent après la bataille, lui-même y ayant également perdu la vie. Ici, il y a un lac qui porte encore le nom de Lovewell Pond (c).

Il y a dans le Massachusetts, au sud de Nashua, une petite ville qui porte encoure le nom de Dunstable. Cependant Dunstable où demeurait le capitaine John Lovewell est actuellement dans l’Etat du New Hampshire, étant devenu une partie de la ville de Nashua (d).

(10) p. 1596
Dans la liste des quatre fils de Claude Guidry que les Anglais en 1722 amenèrent de Merliguesh au New Hampshire et ensuite à Boston, il y a le nom de Philippe. Or c’est la seule fois que l’on trouve ce nom dans la famille de Claude Guidry, à moins qu’il n’ait été mis par erreur pour un autre nom déjà connu. On trouve par après Philippe Guidry, mais non dans la famille de Claude. Puisque le document donne Phillip Gedery, sa femme & famille, (“Phillip Gedery his wife & family”), il faut conclure qu’il avait déjà un ou des enfants. La même chose doit se dire d’Augustin, quoique les premiers enfants qu’on lui connaît soient les jumelles Marie-Josephte et Hélène qui naquirent le 9 janvier de l’année suivante, 1723. Quant aux deux autres, le document ne semble pas leur donner d’enfants, ca on a simplement Gload Gedery & sa femme, (“Gload Gedery & his wife”), et Paul Gedery & sa femme, (“Paul Gedery & his wife”), ce qui veut dire que Judith, fille de Paul, qui naquit également à Boston, n’était pas encore née à cette date, quoi-qu’elle naquît avant ses cousines jumelles.

1595
(b) - La Société Hist. Acadienne, 21ième Cahier, (vol. III), p. 60
(c) - Emma Lewis Coleman, New England Captives carried to Canada, (Portland, Maine - 1925),
Vol. I, pp. 4-5; Vol. II, pp. 133 et sqq.
- Abbott-Elwell, History of Maine, pp. 332 et sqq.

1596
(a) - Thomas Church, The History of the Great Indian War of 1675 and 1676 ..., (revised ed., by Samuel Drake - New York, 1860), pp. 325 et sqq.
- Samuel Penhallow, New England and Indian Wars, pp. 89 et sqq.
- Abbott-Elwell, History of Maine, pp. 300 et sqq.
- Beamish Murdoch, A History of Nova Scotia or Acadie, (Halifax, N.S. - James Barnes, Printer and Publisher). En 3 volumes, 1865-1867. Vol. I, pp. 398 et sqq.
- Hutchinson, The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, (ed. Mayo, 1936), Vol. II, p. 222.
- New England Hist. & Genea. Registers, Vol. 45, (1891), pp. 278-280.
(b) - A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston containing the Records fo Boston Selectmen, 1716 to 1736, (Boston, 1885), p. 107.

1597
(a) - Beamish Murdoch, A History of Nova Scotia or Acadie, (Halifax, N.S. - James Barnes, Printer and Publisher). En 3 volumes, 1865-1867. Vol. I, p. 404.
(b) - Documents rel. to the Col. Hist. of the State of N. Y., Vol. IX, p. 945.

1615
(c) - Williamson, Maine, Vol. II, pp. 135 et sqq.
(d) - Other Indian Events of New England - Presented by the State Street Trust Company of Boston, Vol. II, (1941), pp. 82-83.
- Au sujet de ce John Lovewell et de ses exploits, voir les auteurs suivants:
= Frederick Kidder, The Expedition of Capt. John Lovewell and His Encounters with the Indians, (Boston, Bartlett and Halliday - 1865), 138 pages.
= Rev. Thomas Symnes, The Original Account of Capt. John Lovewell’s “Great Fight” with the Indians at Pequawket, May 8, 1725, (Concord, N.H. - New Edition, 1861), 48 pages.
= George Lyman Kittredge, The Ballad of Lovewell’s Fight, (reprinted, 1925); from Bibliographical Essays. A Tribute to Wilberforce Eames, pp. 93-127. “

Translation:
“ 2 - In the Region of Maine.
Again two years later, in 1722, at the beginning of summer, the Indians of Maine for their part started a war against the people of New England.

a - The Cause.
The English had seized Joseph d’Abbadie de Saint-Castin, their highest chief, whom they had made fall into an ambush set up under the pretext to express to him their friendship. This action could not be left unpunished. The cause was also the raid of the people of Boston at Nanrantsouak when they seized the chest of Père Sébastien Rasle containing all his papers and burnt the church, the rectory and thirty-three wigwams (b). Governor Shute, for his part, issued a declaration of war dated 25 July 1722. This war, the fourth since 1675 between the Indians and the English of New England, was called The Three Year’s War (La Guerre de Trois Ans) by reason of its duration; Rale’s War (La Guerre de Rale) because of one of its causes; Lovewell’s War (La Guerre de Lovewell) from the name of Captain John Lovewell in consideration of the success that he obtained chiefly towards the end of the war (9); Governor Dummer’s Indian War (La Guerre Amérindienne du Gouverneur Dummer) who drew up the peace treaty that put an end to this war (c).

b - Repercussions on the East Coast and at Cap-Sable.
Philipps found himself at Canseau at the very height of the fishing season when he received from Shute the news of that declaration of war. The Indians having seized here 16 or 17 boats, he organized the defense by sending immediately some officers to the harbours of the East Coast where the Indians had gone to take refuge. At the harbour Winnepang (Jeddore Harbour), John Eliot of Boston surprised 39 or 40 of them of which only five escaped. He recovered here seven vessels, fifteen prisoners and six hundred quintals of fish. Some other boats and some other fishermen who had been made prisoners were retaken. Captain Blin, in route to Boston, seized at Cap-Sable three or four other Indians (a).

The English laid blame not only on the Indians, but also on some Acadians, namely four of the sons of Claude Guidry and of Marguerite Petitpas, perhaps because they were from Merliguesh, considered rather as an Indian village than an Acadian village, perhaps because certain members of that family had contracted some alliances with the Indians or the Métis. The matter was about Claude, Philippe, Augustin and Paul (10). They were sent with their family at first to New Hampshire from where the mentioned Jacob Parker sent them to Boston. But Boston did not want to admit them because it had a law which at that time forbade any foreigner to settle in the town. That is why a few days after their arrival, the counselors of Boston gave them notice to go elsewhere; that order, which was sent 16 October (26 October, n.s.) was conveyed thirteen days later to the officer charged with maintenance of the peace (“Clark of the Peace”); it required him to see to its execution (b). Since after that date were born at Boston some children of Augustin and of Paul as we have said in Chapter 20, we must believe that the order was not executed, without doubt because he considered these Acadians not as some “immigrants” who came to settle at Boston, but as some prisoners.

While these Acadians were brought in captivity to New England, the Indians of Cap-Sable went to lend assistance to the Indians of Maine. They learned in fact at Boston the 10th of September that those, with a very large number of other Indians having come from Canada, had seized the isle Arrowsic, which is at the mouth of the Kennebec River. Fortunately they were dislodged in time before causing much damage.

A certain number wanted to make peace with Annapolis (a), but for the most part they were not ready to be reconciled with the English. The following year, 1723, they again harassed the English on the East Coast, even killed some of them, chiefly again at Canseau (b).

(9) p. 1595
John Lovewell departed from Dunstable the 15th of April (v.s.) with 46 volunteers. Having arrived at the upper part of the Saco River, no more than 34 remained with him of which only 14 returned after the battle, himself having also lost his life. Here, there is a lake which even bears the name of Lovewell Pond. (c).

There is in Massachusetts, to the south of Nashua, a small town which also bears the name of Dunstable. However, Dunstable where Captain John Lovewell lived is now in the State of New Hampshire having become a part of the town of Nashua (d).

(10) p. 1596
In the list of the four sons of Claude Guidry that the English in 1722 brought from Merliguesh to New Hampshire and then to Boston, there is the name of Philippe. Now this is the only time that we find that name in the family of Claude Guidry unless it has been used by error for another name already known. We discover later Philippe Guidry, but not in the family of Claude. Since the document gives Phillip Gedery, sa femme & famille (“Phillip Gedery, his wife & family”), one must conclude that he already had one or more children. The same thing must be said of Augustin although the first children that we know for him are the twins Marie-Josephte and Hélène, who were born the 9th of January of the following year, 1723. As for the two others, the document does not appear to give them any children because it has simply Gload Gedery & sa femme (“Gload Gedery & his wife”) and Paul Gedery & sa femme (“Paul Gedery & his wife”) which means that Judith, daughter of Paul, who was also born at Boston, was not yet born at that date although she was born before her twin cousins.

1595
(b) - La Société Hist. Acadienne, 21st Cahier, (vol. III), p. 60
(c) - Emma Lewis Coleman, New England Captives carried to Canada, (Portland, Maine - 1925),
Vol. I, pp. 4-5; Vol. II, pp. 133 et sqq.
- Abbott-Elwell, History of Maine, pp. 332 and sqq.

1596
(a) - Thomas Church, The History of the Great Indian War of 1675 and 1676 ..., (revised ed., by Samuel Drake - New York, 1860), pp. 325 et sqq.
- Samuel Penhallow, New England and Indian Wars, pp. 89 and sqq.
- Abbott-Elwell, History of Maine, pp. 300 and sqq.
- Beamish Murdoch, A History of Nova Scotia or Acadie, (Halifax, N.S. - James Barnes, Printer and Publisher). In 3 volumes, 1865-1867. Vol. I, pp. 398 and sqq.
- Hutchinson, The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay, (ed. Mayo, 1936), Vol. II, p. 222.
- New England Hist. & Genea. Registers, Vol. 45, (1891), pp. 278-280.
(b) - A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston containing the Records fo Boston Selectmen, 1716 to 1736, (Boston, 1885), p. 107.

1597
(a) - Beamish Murdoch, A History of Nova Scotia or Acadie, (Halifax, N.S. - James Barnes, Printer and Publisher). In 3 volumes, 1865-1867. Vol. I, p. 404.
(b) - Documents rel. to the Col. Hist. of the State of N. Y., Vol. IX, p. 945.

1615
(c) - Williamson, Maine, Vol. II, pp. 135 and sqq.
(d) - Other Indian Events of New England - Presented by the State Street Trust Company of Boston, Vol. II, (1941), pp. 82-83.
- On the subject of this John Lovewell and his exploits, see thefollowing authors:
= Frederick Kidder, The Expedition of Capt. John Lovewell and His Encounters with the Indians, (Boston, Bartlett and Halliday - 1865), 138 pages.
= Rev. Thomas Symnes, The Original Account of Capt. John Lovewell’s “Great Fight” with the Indians at Pequawket, May 8, 1725, (Concord, N.H. - New Edition, 1861), 48 pages.
= George Lyman Kittredge, The Ballad of Lovewell’s Fight, (reprinted, 1925); from Bibliographical Essays. A Tribute to Wilberforce Eames, pp. 93-127. “4520

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“9 Jan 1723: Claude Guédry baptized privately at Boston the twin daughters of his son Augustin (Rg GP 26 Sept 1723).”4521

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“ Heleine Guedry, twin of Marie Joseph (Augustin Guedry and Jeanne Hébert) bn. 9 Jan (omitted) at Boston, ondoyé by Claude Guedry, her grandfather, bt. ceremonies 26 Sept. 1723, spo. Charles Hébert and Anne Hébert (SGA-2,42)

Marie Joseph Guedry, twin of Heleine (Augustin Guedry and Jeanne Hébert) bn. 9 Jan. (omitted) at Boston, ondoyé by Claude Guedry, her grandfather, bt. 26 Sept. 1723, spo. Msr. Mouton and Jeanne Douaron (SGA-2,42) “

On 26 September 1723 the twin daughters, Helene Guédry and Marie Josephe Guédry, of Augustin Guédry and Jeanne Hebert, were baptized and the baptisms were recorded at St. Charles-aux-Mines Catholic Church in Grand-Pré, Acadia. Earlier the two girls had been baptized conditionally (ondoyé) at Boston, MA on their day of birth 9 January 1723 by their grandfather Claude Guédry. The sponsors of Helen Guédry were Charles Hebert and Anne Hebert. The sponsors of Marie Josephe Guédry were Jean Mouton and Jeanne Douaron4522,4523.


On 26 September 1723 the twin daughters, Helene Guédry and Marie Josephe Guédry, of Augustin Guédry and Jeanne Hebert, were baptized and the baptisms were recorded at St. Charles-aux-Mines Catholic Church in Grand-Pré, Acadia. Earlier the two girls had been baptized conditionally (ondoyé) at Boston, MA on their day of birth 9 January 1723 by their grandfather Claude Guédry. The sponsors of Helen Guédry were Charles Hebert and Anne Hebert. The sponsors of Marie Josephe Guédry were Jean Mouton and Jeanne Douaron4522,4523.

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“(4) p. 1106 ...
Mathieu de Goutin, dans une lettre au ministre, datée de Port-Royal le 8 décembre 1704, parle d’Acadiens qui ont fait naufrage à Boston (a). Nous ne saurions dire s’il fait allusion aux Acadiens amenés en captivité à Boston quatre mois plus tôte, ou s’il veut parler d’un naufrage au sens propre qui aurait eu lieu alors ou par après.

Ces Acadiens amenés à Boston, quoiqu’ils fussent considérés comme prisonniers, ne furent pas incarcérés. On se plaignit même du fait qu’ils avaient conseillers de la ville, on trouve en date du 24 novembre 1705 la note suivante:

Les conseillers désirent que le gouverneur empêche les prisonniers français de circuler en ville selon leur bon plaisir, de peur que cette manière de faire ne devienne hasardeuse pour la ville (a).

Le retour de ces prisonniers acadiens se fit en 1706. Mais tous ne revinrent pas en même temps. Nous avons dit que Gabriel Samson était de retour pour faire baptiser sa fille à Port-Royal le 21 janvier et que Jean Clémenceau et Anne Roy étaient au même endroit le 3 mars, quand leur mariage fut béni. Le 2 juin 1706, M. de Vaudreuil dans une lettre à M. Dudley fait mention de 57 prisonniers qui auraient été renvoyés à Port-Royal avant cette date (b). Un autre groupe, au nombre de 51 prisonniers, arriva à Port-Royal le 18 septembre (c); ce sont ceux dont on rencontre les noms aux registres de Port-Royal à partir de cette date, comme étant revenus de Boston. Ce ne fut pas le dernier groupe, car vers la fin de l’année Louis Denys, sieur de La Ronde, ramena encore douze prisonniers français qu’on retenait à Boston. Quant à Louis Damours, sieur de Chauffour, il sera libéré un plus plus tard seulement (d).

Seize à dix-huit ans plus tard, d’autres naissances d’Acadiens dont les parents étaient en captivité à Boston devaient y avoir lieu. Le 26 septembre 1723, le Père Félix Pain supplait à Grand-Pré les cérémonies de baptême aux jumelles Marie-Josephte et Hélène Guidry, nées à Boston le 9 janvier précédent, filles d’Augustin Guidry et de Jeanne Hébert, dont nous avons parlé quand nous avons dit que probablement cette Marie-Josephte Guidry était l’épouse de Charles Benjamin Mius, fils de Joseph I, dit d’Azy. Nous avons dit alors que c’est là aussi, à Boston, que naquit quelques mois plus tôt leur cousine, Judith Guidry, fille de Paul et d’Anne Mius. Cela arriva au cours d’une série de guérillas entre les gens de la Nouvelle-Angleterre et les Amérindiens de la région allant de Kennebec à Canseau, qui devaient durer trois ans, à partir de juin 1722, de temps où Boston en voulait au Père Rasle et à ses Amérindiens de Norridgewock, quand nombre de prisonniers furent pris de part et d’autre, y compris des Amérindiens de la Côte-Est de l’Acadie, le Cap-Sable inclus, quoiqu’ils ne fussent pas détenus longtemps. Parmi ceux-ci on trouve à Boston les noms acadiens susdits, peut-être parce que ces personnes comptaient parmi leurs ancêtres des gens de la nation micmaque (a).

1139
(a) - Arch. des Colonies, Série C11, Correspondance Général, Acadie, vol. 5, ff. 31 et sqq.

1140
(a) - A Report of the Record Commisioners of the City of Boston containing the Records of Boston Selectmen, 1701 to 1715, (Boston, 1884), p. 42. - La traduction de l’anglais est de nous.
(b) - Bulletin des Rech. Hist., vol. 30, (1924), p. 386.
(c) - Beamish Murdoch, A History of Nova-Scotia or Acadie, (Halifax, N. S. - James Barnes, Printer and Publisher), vol. I (1865), p. 284.
(d) - Coll. de Mss relatifs à la N.-F., vol. II, p. 463.

1141
(a) - Beamish Murdoch, A History of Nova-Scotia or Acadie, (Halifax, N. S. - James Barnes, Printer and Publisher), vol. I (1865), p. 398 et sqq.
- James Hannay, The History of Acadia, (St. John, N. B., 1879), pp. 324 et sqq.
- William Douglas, A Summary, Historical and Political of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements, and Present State of British Settlements in North-America, (Boston, New England, Printed: London, reprinted for R. Baldwin. 1755), pp. 559-561.
- Samuel Penhallow, The History of the Wars of New-England with the Eastern Indians, or a Narrative Of their continued Perfidy and Cruelty, From the 10th of August, 1703, To the Pease renewed 13th of July, 1722, To their Submission 15th December, 1725, Which was ratified August 5th, 1726, (Cincinnati: Reprinted from the Boston Edition of 1726, with a Memoir, Notes, and Appendix, for Wm Dogne, by J. Harpel, 1859), pp. 89 et sqq. “

Translation:
“(4) p. 1106 ...
Mathieu de Goutin, in a letter to the minister, dated from Port-Royal the 8th of December 1704, spoke of Acadians who have shipwrecked at Boston (a). We do not know to say if he is alluding to the Acadians brought in captivity to Boston four months earlier, or if he means to speak of a shipwreck in the proper sense which would have taken place at that time or later.

These Acadians brought to Boston, although they were viewed as prisoners, were not imprisoned. They themselves complain of the fact that they had too much freedom. In the minutes of the sessions of the councilors of the town, we find under the date of 24 November 1705 the following remark:

The councilors desire that the governor prevent the French prisoners from circulating in town according to their convenience, for fear that this attitude become unsafe for the town (a).

The return of these prisoners happened in 1706. But all did not return at the same time. We have said that Gabriel Samson had to return in order to baptize his daughter at Port-Royal the 21st of January and that Jean Clémenceau and Anne Roy were at the same place the 3rd of March, when their marriage was blessed. The 2nd of June 1706, M. de Vaudreuil in a letter to M. Dudley mentioned 57 prisoners who could have been sent back to Port-Royal before that date (b). Another group, in the number of 51 prisoners, arrived at Port-Royal the 18th of September (c); it is these of whom we encounter the names in the registers of Port-Royal from this date, as being reutrned from Boston. This was not the last group, because about the end of the year Louis Denys, sieur de La Ronde, brought back twelve French prisoners who were retained at Boston. As for Louis Damours, sieur de Chauffour, he will be freed only much later (d).

Sixteen to eighteen years later, some other births of Acadians whose parents were in captivity at Boston had taken place there. The 26th of September 1723, Pére Félix Pain supplied at Grand-Pré the ceremonies of baptism for the twins Marie-Josephte and Hélène Guidry, born at Boston the 9th of January preceding, daughters of Augustin Guidry and of Jeanne Hébert, of whom we have spoken when we have said that probably this Marie-Josephte Guidry was the wife of Charles Benjamin Mius, son of Joseph I, dit d’Azy. We have said then that it is there also, at Boston, that their cousin, Judith Guidry, daughter of Paul and of Anne Mius, was born several months earlier. That occurred during a series of guerilla wars between the people of New England and the Indians from the region extending from Kennebec to Canseau, which lasted three years, from June, 1722, at the time when Boston was bearing Père Rasle and his Indians of Norridgewock a grudge, when many prisoners were taken on both sides, here comprising some Indians from the East Coast of Acadia, Cap-Sable included, although they were not held long. Among these latter we find at Boston the aforesaid Acadian names, perhaps because these persons included among their ancestors some people of the Micmac nation (a).

1139
(a) - Arch. des Colonies, Série C11, Correspondance Général, Acadie, vol. 5, ff. 31 and sqq.

1140
(a) - A Report of the Record Commisioners of the City of Boston containing the Records of Boston Selectmen, 1701 to 1715, (Boston, 1884), p. 42. - The translation from English is ours.
(b) - Bulletin des Rech. Hist., vol. 30, (1924), p. 386.
(c) - Beamish Murdoch, A History of Nova-Scotia or Acadie, (Halifax, N. S. - James Barnes, Printer and Publisher), vol. I (1865), p. 284.
(d) - Coll. de Mss relatifs à la N.-F., vol. II, p. 463.

1141
(a) - Beamish Murdoch, A History of Nova-Scotia or Acadie, (Halifax, N. S. - James Barnes, Printer and Publisher), vol. I (1865), p. 398 and sqq.
- James Hannay, The History of Acadia, (St. John, N. B., 1879), pp. 324 and sqq.
- William Douglas, A Summary, Historical and Political of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements, and Present State of British Settlements in North-America, (Boston, New England, Printed: London, reprinted for R. Baldwin. 1755), pp. 559-561.
- Samuel Penhallow, The History of the Wars of New-England with the Eastern Indians, or a Narrative Of their continued Perfidy and Cruelty, From the 10th of August, 1703, To the Pease renewed 13th of July, 1722, To their Submission 15th December, 1725, Which was ratified August 5th, 1726, (Cincinnati: Reprinted from the Boston Edition of 1726, with a Memoir, Notes, and Appendix, for Wm Dogne, by J. Harpel, 1859), pp. 89 and sqq. “4524

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“ m - Charles-Benjamin Mius, dit d’Azy, naquit en 1728, vers la fin de mars ou au début d’avril, quant il fut “ondoyé à la maison du Sr Ponbomcour au cap sable par pierre Landry le père habitant dud. lieu”. Les cérémonies du baptême lui furent suppléées le 2 janvier 1730 à Port-Royal, lorsqui’il est dit âgé d’un an et 9 mois, son père étant décédé trois semaines plus tôt. Il épousa Marie-Josephte Guidry, fille d’Augustin et de Jeanne Hébert (7). En 1752, on trouve ce couple à l’île Saint-Jean, à la Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, avec deux enfants, Marie-Josephte, âgée de 2 ans, et Nastay ou Anastasie, âgée d’un an. Il y avait en plus, avec eux, Marguerite Pélagie Brau, âgée de 6 ans, qui devait être une enfant adoptée. Au recensement pris en juillet et août 1753 à l’île Royale, on trouve au Bras-du-Sud de la baie des Espagnols, aujoud’hui Sydney, Benjamin Mieux, avec sa femme, un garçon et trois filles; il possède un boeuf, un cochon et une truie; il a douze toises en jardin, c’est-à-dire à peu près 76 pieds our 23 mètres (a).

Le 23 janvier 1759, débarquait à Saint-Servan Marie-Josephte Guidry, ayant perdu en mer toute sa famille, à savoir Charles-Benjamin Mius, son mari, sa fille Marie-Josephte, âgée de 10 ans, Anastasie, âgée de 8 ans, Jean-Baptiste, âgé de 6 ans, Véronique, âgée de 4 ans, et Firmin, âgé de 2 ans. Elle devait se marier de nouveau, le 18 février 1763, à Saint-Servan, à Claude LeBlanc, originaire de Grand-Pré, fils de Jean et de Jeanne Bourgeois, et veuf d’Anne-Josephte Longuépée, fille de Louis et d’Anne Brasseau, de Cobequid. Encore à Saint-Servan, le 21 juin 1768, Claude LeBlanc épousait en troisièmes noces Dorothée Richard, fille de François et de Marie Martin, et veuve d’Alexis Comeau, décédé à Saint-Servan le 12 avril 1767 à l’âge de 35 ans. Le 21 mai 1785, cette famille partait sur La Bergière pour la Louisiane.

(7) p. 1004
Placide Gaudet, dans ses généalogies acadiennes en dépôt à Ottawa, et Bona Arsenault, (op. cit., vol. II, p. 879), ont pensé que Marie-Josephte Guidry, épouse de Charles-Benjamin Mius (à Joseph I, dit d’Azy), était fille de Pierre et de Marguerite Brasseau. Cependant à son deuxième mariage, fait à Saint-Servan en 1763, elle est dite fille d’Augustin Guédry et d’Anne Lejeune. Malgré cela, nous pensons qu’il a erreur ici pour Augustin Guidry et Jeanne Hébert. Il y eut bien Anne Le Jeune, épouse de Claude Guidry, celui-ci se mariant en secondes noces à Saint-Servan en 1762 à Anne Moyse, veuve de Joseph LeBlanc, mais leurs filles étaient trop jeunes pour qu’aucune d’entre elles n’eût pu être l’épouse de Charles-Benjamin Mius. Augustin Guidry et Jeanne Hébert, qui étaient justement de Cobequid dans le temps à peu près que Charles-Benjamin s’est marié, avaient en effet une fille du nom de Marie-Josephte, jumelle d’Héléne, qui naquirent à Boston le 9 janvier 1723 et furent baptisées à Grand-Pré le 26 septembre suivant par le Père Félix Pain. C’est au même endroit également qu’était née quelqeus mois plus tôt, mais avant le 26 octobre, leur cousine Judith Guidry, fille de Paul Guidry et d’Anne Mius (a). Ces naissances eurent lieu à Boston au cours de la guerre dite de Lovewell, (Lovewell’s War), entre les gens de la Nouvelle-Angleterre et les Amérindiens, ceux de la Côte-de-l’Est compris, qui débuta à l’été de 1722 pour durer trois ans. Un certain nombre d’Amérindiens furent amenés à Boston en captivité, et avec eux sûrement des Acadiens, en particulier ceux que nous venons de mentionner.

Ajoutons que ce qui confirme que cette Marie-Josephte Guidry, fille de Augustin et de Jeanne Hébert, était bien l’épouse de Charles-Benjamin Mius, est qu’il y avait entre les deux un peu plus de cinq ans de différence d’âge. Or le recensement de 1752, qui fut pris au cours de la seconde moitié de l’année, leur donne une différence de six ans, l’épouse étant dite alors âgée de 30 ans, Jeanne Hébert ayant en effet donné naissance le 9 janvier 1723 à Maire-Josephte.

1004
(a) - Recensement de Plaisance, etc., aux Arch. des Colonies, Série G1, vol. 467, f. 558 de la copie des Arch. publ. du Canada.
(b) - Rieder-Rieder, The Acadians in France, Vol. III - Archives of the Port of Saint Servan, (Metairie, Louisiana, 1973), pp. 39 et 40.

1028
(a) - Rapport concernant les Arch. Can. pour l’année 1906, vol. II, 1re Partie, p. 44 de l’éd. fr.; p. 45 de l’éd. ang. “

Translation:
“ m - Charles-Benjamin Mius, dit d’Azy, born in 1728 about the end of March or at the beginning of April, when he was “privately baptized at the house of Sr Ponbomcour at cap sable by pierre Landry le père inhabitant of said place”. The baptism ceremonies for him were supplied the 2nd of January 1730 at Port-Royal when he is called age of one year and 9 months, his father having died three weeks earlier. He married Marie-Josephte Guidry, daughter of Augustin and of Jeanne Hébert (7). In 1752 we find this couple at Ile Saint-Jean at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse with two children, Marie-Josephte, age of 2 years, and Nastay or Anastasie, age of one year. There was there in addition, with them Marguerite Pélagie Brau, age of 6 years, who must have been an adopted child. In the census taken in July and August 1753 at Île Royale, we find at Bras-du-Sud on the Baie des Espagnols, today Sydney, Benjamin Mieux with his wife, a boy and three daughters; he has a cow, a pig and a sow; he has twelve fathoms in garden, that is to say, almost 76 feet or 23 meters (a).

The 23rd of January 1759 Marie-Josephte Guidry disembarked at Saint-Servan, having lost at sea all her family, namely, Charles-Benjamin Mius, her husband, her daughter Marie-Josephte, age of 10 years, Anastasie, age of 8 years, Jean-Baptiste, age of 6 years, Véronique, age of 4 years, and Firmin, age of 2 years. She was married again, the 18th of February 1763, at Saint-Servan, to Claude LeBlanc, originally from Grand-Pré, son of Jean and of Jeanne Bourgeois, and widower of Anne-Josephte Longuépée, daughter of Louis and of Anne Brasseau, of Cobequid. Again at Saint-Servan, the 21st of June 1768, Claude LeBlanc wed in a third marriage Dorothée Richard, daughter of François and of Marie Martin, and widow of Alexis Comeau, died at Saint-Servan the 12th of April 1767 at the age of 35 years. The 21st of May 1785 this family departed on La Bergière for Louisiana.

(7) p. 1004
Placide Gaudet in his Acadian genealogies deposited at Ottawa and Bona Arsenault (op. cit., vol. II, p. 879) have considered that Marie-Josephte Guidry, wife of Charles-Benjamin Mius (from Joseph I, dit d’Azy) was the daughter of Pierre and of Marguerite Brasseau. However in her second marriage, done at Saint-Servan in 1763, she is called daughter of Augustin Guédry and of Anne Lejeune. In spite of that, we think that there is an error here as regards Augustin Guidry and Jeanne Hébert. There was certainly Anne Le Jeune, wife of Claude Guidry, the latter marrying a second time at Saint-Servan in 1762 to Anne Moyse, widow of Joseph LeBlanc, but their daughters were too young in order that any of them could have been able to be the wife of Charles-Benjamin Mius. Augustin Guidry and Jeanne Hébert, who were precisely at Cobequid during the approximate time that Charles-Benjamin Mius is married, had in fact a daughter with the name of Marie-Josephte, twin of Hélène, who were born at Boston the 9th of January 1723 and were baptized at Grand-Pré the 26th of September following by Père Félix Pain. This is at the same place also that was born several months earlier, but before the 26th of October, their cousin Judith Guidry, daughter of Paul Guidry and of Anne Mius (a). There births took place at Boston during the war called Lovewell’s (Lovewell’s War) between the people of New England and the Indians, those from the East Coast included, which began in the summer of 1722 lasting three years. A certain number of Indians were brought to Boston in captivity and with them certainly some Acadians, in particular those that we happen to mention.

Let’s add that what confirms that this Marie-Josephte Guidry, daughter of Augustin and of Jeanne Hébert, was indeed the wife of Charles-Benjamin Mius, is that there was between the two a little more than five years difference in age. Now the census of 1752, which was taken during the second half of the year, ascribes to them a difference of six years, the wife being called then 30 years of age, Jeanne Hébert having in fact given birth the 9th of January 1723 to Marie-Josephte.

1004
(a) - Recensement de Plaisance, etc., at the Arch. des Colonies, Série G1, vol. 467, f. 558 of the copy from the Arch. publ. du Canada.
(b) - Rieder-Rieder, The Acadians in France, Vol. III - Archives of the Port of Saint Servan, (Metairie, Louisiana, 1973), pp. 39 and 40.

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(a) - Rapport concernant les Arch. Can. pour l’année 1906, vol. II, 1st Part, p. 44 of the French ed.; p. 45 of the English ed. “4525

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“ JOSEPH GUIDRY, 1735, fils d’Augustin et de Jeanne Hébert, marié en 1767 à Elizabeth Comeaux, née en 1741, et en secondes noces, à Saint-Jacques, le 24 mai 1773, à Monique Dupuis, fille de Jean et d’Anne Breaux. Enfants issus du premier mariage: Donat, 1769; Joseph, 1770; Alexandre, 1772. Enfants issus du second mariage: Félicité, 1774; Judith, 1776. Il était à l’Ascension, en 1776. “

Translation:
“ JOSEPH GUIDRY, 1735, son of Augustin and of Jeanne Hébert, married in 1767 to Elizabeth Comeaux, born in 1741, and in a second time, at Saint-Jacques 24 May 1773 to Monique Dupuis, daughter of Jean and of Anne Breaux. Children of the first marriage: Donat, 1769; Joseph, 1770; Alexandre, 1772. Children of the second marriage: Félicité, 1774; Judith, 1776. He was at Ascension in 1776. “4513

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“ GUIDRY, Marie Celeste (Pierre - of Acadia & Marguerite MILLER - of South Carolina) b. 30 Oct. 1796, bt. 16 April 1797 Pats: Augustin GUIDRY & Jeane ---- [HEBERT] of Acadia; Mats: William MILLER of Scotland & Anne KEVEN - of Ireland; Spons: Baptiste GUIDRY & Cecile BORLAY or BORLE. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: v. 4, #853) “4092,4266

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“ GUIDRY, Ludivine (Pierre - of Acadia & Marguerite MILLER - of Virginia) b. 5 May 1799, bt. 15 Sept. 1799 Pats: Augustin GUIDRY & Jeanne ----- [HEBERT] of Acadia; Mats: William MILLER - of Scotland & Anne KEVIN - of Ireland; Spons: Louis GUIDRY & Ludivine BROUSSARD. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: v. 5, #179) “4253,4281

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“ GUIDRY, Arthemise (Pierre GUEDRY - of Acadia & Marguerite MILLER - of Virginia) b. 28 May 1803, bt. 31 July 1803 Pats: Augustin GUEDRY & Jeanne GIMBERT - of Acadia; Mats: William MILLER & Anne KEVEN - of America; Spons: Augustin GUEDRY & Anastasie GUEDRY. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: v. 6 #45) “4303,4304

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“ GUIDRY, Rosemond (Pierre - of Acadie & Marguerite MILLER - from Mobile) b. 8 Oct. 1806, bt. 28 June 1807 at la Prairie du Gros Chevreuil at Antoine PATIN. Pats: Augustin GUEDRY & Jeanne --- of Acadie; Mats: Guillaume [William] MILLER & Anne KIVEN; Spons: Pierre GUEDRY fils [Jr.] - represented by Joseph BRO & Celestine GUEDRY. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: v. 6-A, p. 25)4298,4334

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“ GUIDRY, Rosemond (Pierre - of Acadie & Marguerite MILLER - from Mobile) b. 8 Oct. 1806, bt. 28 June 1807 at Prairie of Gros Chevreuil at residence of Antoine PATIN. Pats: Augustin GUEDRY & Jeanne HEBERT of Acadia; Mats: William MILLER & Anne KIVEN; Spons: Pierre GUEDRY fils - represented by Joseph BRO & Celestine GUEDRY. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: Folio E,, p. 65)4298,4335

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“ GUIDRY, Marie (Pierre - native of Acadie & Marguerite MILLER - of Mobile) b. 27 July 1809, bt. 3 Aug. 1809 in the area of grande pointe at the home of the wid. SEMER. Pats: Augustin GUEDRY & Jeanne --- of Acadie; Mats: Guilaume MILLERS [MILLER] & Anne KEVEN - of America; Spons: Charles GUEDRY & Catherine BOSSIER - spouse of Anoine PATIN. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: v. 6-A, #288) “4096,4347

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“ GUIDRY, Marie (Pierre - native of Acadia & Marguerite MILLER - of Mobile) b. 27 July 1809, bt. 3 Aug. 1809 at residence of widow SEMER at La Grande Pointe Pats: Augustin GUEDRY & Jeanne HEBERT of Acadia; Mats: Guilaume MILLER & Anne KIVEN - of America; Spons: Charles GUEDRY & Catherine BOSSIER - spouse of Anoine PATIN. Fr. Michel Bernard BARRIERE (SM Ch.: Folio E, p. 125) “4348,4349

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“ AUGUSTIN GUIDRY / JEANNE HEBERT

Purvis J. Hébert, 116th Ordnance Co., APO N.Y. 09093, wrote the following:

Jeanne HEBERT who married Augustin GUIDRY was without a doubt the daughter of Jean HEBERT and Jeanne DOIRON. My reasons for arriving at this conclusion are:

1) Jeanne DOIRON, Jean MOUTON, Charles HEBERT, Anne HEBERT were sponsors at the baptism on 26 Sept. 1723 of twin girls of Augustin GUIDRY and Jeanne HEBERT (ref. BRDA records). At this early date, sponsor Jeanne DOIRON, wife of Jean HEBERT, is the only known Jeanne DOIRON in Acadia (ref. Arsenault’s “Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens”). Sponsors Charles HEBERT and Anne HEBERT were almost certainly the children of Jean HEBERT and Jeanne DOIRON. Sponsor Jean MOUTON, b. 1689, married Marie GIROUARD, daughter of Alexandre. Alexandre HEBERT born 1686 had a son Alexandre, born 1713, who married Madeleine GIROUARD, daughter of Claude. Alexandre and Claude GIROUARD were brothers. Alexandre HEBERT, born 1686, and Jeanne HEBERT, married to Augustin GUIDRY, were first cousins - assuming, of course, that Jeanne HEBERT was the daughter of Jean HEBERT and Jeanne DOIRON.

2) In the 1714 census Jean HEBERT and Jeanne DOIRON declared four boys and five girls (re. 1714 census of Acadia). Bona Arsenault, however, does not list any girls for this couple. What happened to the five girls? Arsenault lists the following HEBERTS which I believe COULD be the daughters of Jean HEBERT/Jeanne DOIRON: Elizabeth, married about 1718 to Michel PART, born 1693 at Grand-Pré; Marie-Josephe, married about 1732 to Paul LEBLANC at Grand-Pré; Marie married to Jean COMEAU, born 1712 at Grand-Pré; Anne-Marie, age 23, married 17 June 1734 to Paul DUGAS, born 1709 at Cobequid.

A check of baptismal records of other children of Augustin GUIDRY and Jeanne HEBERT should reveal additional clues to help establish the parents of Jeanne HEBERT. “4495


   

In his Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens4526 Bona Arsenault incorrectly states that the parents of Augustin Guidry (i.e., Jean Baptiste Augustin Guédry), husband of Marguerite Picot, are Augustin Guédry and Jeanne Hébert. We know from other records that the parents of this Augustin Guidry, who married Marguerite Picot and had a son named Olivier, was the son of Pierre Guédry and Marguerite Brasseau. Furthermore, he incorrectly gives the birth year of Augustin Guidry as about 1750 when it was much earlier and gives his date of marriage to Marguerite Picot as about 1772 when it was about 1755.

Jeanne Hébert
Jeanne Hebert
Jeane Hebert
Anne Hébert
Jeanne Gimbert
Jeanne ----
Jeane ----
Juana ——
ieanne Hebert