“ 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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“ 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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“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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Hélène Guédry
Hélène Gedery