“ 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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“ PIERRE GUEDRY dit LABINE, né en 1697, fils de Claude et de Marguerite Petitpas, marié vers 1720, à Marguerite Brasseau, fille de Pierre et d’Isabelle Forest. Enfants: Marie-Josephe, 1722; Pierre, 1723; Charles, 1726; Marguerite, 1727; Hélène, 1729; Anselme, vers 1730; Joseph, 1731; Jean, 1735; Augustin, 1740; Agnès, 1742. “

Translation:
“ PIERRE GUEDRY dit LABINE, born in 1697, son of Claude and of Marguerite Petitpas, married about 1720 to Marguerite Brasseau, daughter of Pierre and of Isabelle Forest. Children: Marie-Josephe, 1722; Pierre, 1723; Charles, 1726; Marguerite, 1727; Hélène, 1729; Anselme, about 1730; Joseph, 1731; Jean, 1735; Augustin, 1740; Agnès, 1742. “4509

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“ PIERRE GUEDRY dit LABINE, 1697, fils de Claude et de Marguerite Petitpas, marié vers 1720, à Marguerite Brasseau, fille de Pierre et de Gabrielle Forest. Enfants: Marie-Josephe, 1722; Pierre, 1723; Charles, 1726; Marguerite, 1727; Hélène, 1729; Anselme, vers 1730; Joseph, 1732; Jean, 1735; Augustin, 1740; Agnès, 1742. “

Translation:
“ PIERRE GUEDRY dit LABINE, 1697, son of Claude and of Marguerite Petitpas, married about 1720 to Marguerite Brasseau, daughter of Pierre and of Gabrielle Forest. Children: Marie-Josephe, 1722; Pierre, 1723; Charles, 1726; Marguerite, 1727; Hélène, 1729; Anselme, about 1730; Joseph, 1732; Jean, 1735; Augustin, 1740; Agnès, 1742. “4766

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“ MARIE-JOSEPHE GUEDRY, 1722, fille de Pierre et de Marguerite Brasseau, epousa Charles-Benjamin Mius dit d’Azit, de Pobomcoup, fils de Joseph et de Marie Amirault, et, en secondes noces, à Saint-Servan de Saint-Malo, le 18 février 1763, Claude LeBlanc, de Grand-Pré, fils de Jean et de Jeanne Bourgeois, veuf de Marie-Josephe Longuespée.”

Translation:
“ MARIE-JOSEPHE GUEDRY, 1722, daughter of Pierre and of Marguerite Brasseau, wed Charles-Benjamin Mius dit d’Azit, de Pobomcoup, son of Joseph and of Marie Amirault, and, a second time, at Saint-Servan of Saint-Malo, 18 February 1763, Claude LeBlanc of Grand-Pré, son of Jean and of Jeanne Bourgeois, widower of Marie-Josephe Longuespée.”4766


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“ BENJAMIN MIUS, 1728, fils de Joseph et de Marie Amirault, marié vers 1749 à Marie-Josephe Guédry, fille de Augustin et de Jeanne Hébert, de Cobequid. Enfants: Marie-Josephe, 1750; Anastasie, 1751. Il était à l’île Saint-Jean en 1752. Il est décédé vers 1756. Sa veuve était à Saint-Servan, de Saint-Malo, en 1760 alors qu’elle épousa Claude LeBlanc, fils de Jean et de Jeanne Bourgeois, de Grand-Pré. “

Translation:
“ BENJAMIN MIUS, 1728, son of Joseph and of Marie Amirault, married about 1749 to Marie-Josephe Guédry, daughter of Augustin and of Jeanne Hébert, of Cobequid. Children: Marie-Josephe, 1750; Anastasie, 1751. He was at Ile Saint-Jean in 1752. He has died about 1756. His widow was at Saint-Servan of Saint-Malo in 1760 where she wed Claude LeBlanc, son of Jean and of Jeanne Bourgeois of Grand-Pré. “5155

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“ CLAUDE LEBLANC, 1723, fils de Jean et de Jeanne Bourgeois, marié à Cobequid, le 9 octobre 1748, à Marie-Josephe Longuespée, fille de Louis et d’Anne Brasseau; en deuxième noces, à Saint-Servan, de Saint-Malo, en février 1763, à Marie Guedry, fille de Pierre et de Marguerite Brasseau, de Port-Royal; et en troisièmes noces, à Saint-Malo, en 1768, à Dorothée Richard, fille de François et de Marie Martin, veuve d’Alexis Comeau. Enfants issus du premier mariage: Jean, 1752; Hélène, 1759; Joseph, 1760; Pierre, 1762. Il était à Cobequid en 1752, à Louisbourg en 1758, à Saint-Malo en 1759, à Belle-Île-en-Mer en 1765 et de nouveau à Saint-Malo en 1768. Il s’embarque sur La Bergère pour la Louisiane, avec sa famille, en 1785. “

Translation:
“ CLAUDE LEBLANC, 1723, son of Jean and of Jeanne Bourgeois, married at Cobequid, 9 October 1748, to Marie-Josephe Longuespée, daughter of Louis and of Anne Brasseau; a second time at Saint-Servan of Saint-Malo in February 1763 to Marie Guedry, daughter of Pierre and of Marguerite Brasseau of Port-Royal; and a third time at Saint-Malo in 1768 to Dorothée Richard, daughter of François and of Marie Martin, widow of Alexis Comeau. Children issued from first marriage: Jean, 1752; Hélène, 1759; Joseph, 1760; Pierre, 1762. He was at Cobequid in 1752, at Louisbourg in 1758, at Saint-Malo in 1759, at Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1765 and again at Saint-Malo in 1768. He embarked on the La Bergère for Louisiana with his family in 1785. “5156

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“ CHARLES-BENJAMIN MIUS D’ENTREMONT, né en 1728, fils de Joseph et de Marie Amirault, marié vers 1749, à Marie-Josephe Guedry, fille de Pierre et de Marguerite Brasseau. Enfants: Marie-Josephe, 1750; Anastasie, 1751. Cette famille était à l’île Saint-Jean, en 1752. “

Translation:
“ CHARLES-BENJAMIN MIUS D’ENTREMONT, born in 1728, son of Joseph and of Marie Amirault, married about 1749 to Marie-Joseph Guedry, daughter of Pierre and of Marguerite Brasseau. Children: Marie-Josephe, 1750; Anastasie, 1751. That family was at Ile Saint-Jean in 1752. “5157

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“ CLAUDE LEBLANC, né en 1723, fils de Jean et de Jeanne Bourgeois, marié à Cobequid, en 1748, à Marie-Josephe Longuespée, fille de Louis et d’Anne Brasseau, de Cobequid, et marié en deuxièmes noces, à Saint-Servan de Saint-Malo, en 1760, à Marie Guidry, veuve de Benjamin Mius. Enfants du premier mariage: Jean de Dieu, 1752; Hélène, 1759. Enfants du deuxième mariage: Joseph, né à Goinière, évêché de Saint-Malo, en 1760; Pierre, né à Saint-Meloise-des-Ondes, évêché de Saint-Malo, en 1762. Vraisemblablement transporté en France lors de la déportation des réfugiés Acadiens de l’île Saint-Jean, en 1758, Marie-Josephe Longuespée et plusieurs de ses enfants moururent durant la traversée. En 1767, Claude LeBlanc était au village Bordicado, Belle-Île-en-Mer, avec le reste de sa famille. “

Translation:
“ CLAUDE LEBLANC, born in 1723, son of Jean and of Jeanne Bourgeois, married at Cobequid in 1748, to Marie-Josephe Longuespée, daughter of Louis and of Anne Brasseau of Cobequid, and married a second time at Saint-Servan of Saint-Malo in 1760 to Marie Guidry, widow of Benjamin Mius. Children from first marriage: Jean de Dieu, 1752; Hélène, 1759. Children from second marriage: Joseph, born at Goinière, diocese of Saint-Malo, in 1760; Pierre, born at Saint-Meloise-des-Ondes, diocese of Saint-Malo, in 1762. Probably transported to France at the time of the deportation of the Acadian refugees from Ile Saint-Jean en 1758, Marie-Josephe Longuespée and several of their children died during the crossing. In 1767 Claude LeBlanc was at the village Bordicado, Belle-Île-en-Mer with the rest of his family. “5128

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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.

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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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“ TOUR OF INSPECTION MADE BY THE SIEUR DE LA ROQUE. CENSUS. 1752.

GENERAL CENSUS OF THE SETTLERS AT THE POINTE A LA JEUNESSE.

. . . .

The Pointe à la Jeunesse is situate on the narrows of the great lake of Bras d’Or. The lands lie exceedingly high and are covered with all kinds of mixed wood.

The settlers are unanimous in reporting the ground as unsuitable for cultivation. It is freely traversed with rocks, which prevent its being worked.

. . . .

Benjamin Mieux, ploughman, native of la Cadie, aged 24 years. Married to Josephe Guedry, native of la Cadie, aged 30 years.
They have two daughters:--
Marie Joseph, aged 2 years;
Nastay, aged 1 year;
Marguerite Pelagie Brau, aged 6 years;
And one ox.

. . . .

When all the settlers landed on their arrival from la Cadie in August last, they owned between them the number of 188 oxen or cows, 42 calves, 173 sheep or ewes, 181 pigs and 17 horses. A comparison with the recapitulation will easily show how many of these have perished from want of hay on which to feed. The settlers had not even water to give them within reach, and now all ask to leave so fully do they realize that they cannot live here. “5158

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“ In 1752, Benjamin Mius, Marie-Josephe Guedry, his wife and their children: Marie-Josephe and Anastasie Mius were residents of Pointe-a-La Jeunesse on Isle Royale. On January 23, 1759, Marie-Josephe Guedry, widow of Benjamin Mius disembarked at St-Malo from one of the “Five Ships.” Prior to her remarriage, she resided in the following parishes:

Châteauneuf 1759-1762 “5159

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“ Recensement Général des habitans des Ports et havres de l’Isle Royale . . . fait en Juillet et Aoust 1753.

. . . .

Bras de Sud

. . .

Benjamin Mieux, Hommes 1, Femmes 1, Garçons 1, Filles 3, Boeufs 1, Vaches 0, Veaux 0, Cochons 1, Truyes 1, Arpts de terre defrichee 0, Toises en jardin 12. “

Translation:
“ General Census of the inhabitants of the ports and harbors of Île Royale . . . made in July and August 1753.

. . . .

Bras de Sud

. . .

Benjamin Mieux, Men 1, Women 1, Boys 1, Girls 3, Oxen 1, Cows 0, Calves 0, Pigs 1, Sows 1, Arpents of cleared land 0, Fathoms in garden 12. “4860

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“ Roll of the inhabitants of Isle Royale, Isle Saint Jean, Gaspee and other places near the English whom the King granted the subsistance calculated to the day of their disembarking. Transcribed on the General Roll.

. . .

From the “Yarmouth”, from the “Patience”, from the “Mathias”, from the “Restoration” and from the “John Samuel”.

Disembarked January 23, 1759

. . .

BENJAMIN MEUSE died at sea.
MARIE JOSEPHE GUEDRY his wife, 40 years, at Plouer.
MARIE JOSEPHE MEUSE their daughter, 10 years, died at sea.
ANASTASIE MEUSE their daughter, 8 years, died at sea.
JEAN BAPTISTE MEUSE their son, 6 years, died at sea.
VERONIQUE MEUSE their son (?), 4 years, died at sea.
FIRMIN MEUSE their son, 2 years, died at sea. “5110

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“ Claude LeBlanc, Marie-Josephe Longuespee, his first wife and their children: Jean and Helene LeBlanc disembarked at St-Malo on January 16, 1759 from the ship, le Tamerian. Claude LeBlanc resided with his family in the following parishes:

LaGouesniere 1759 - 1760
St. Melior 1760 - 1764
St-Servan 1764 - 1765

In 1765, this family went to reside on Belle-Île-en-Mer. On March 6, 1767, Claude LeBlanc and his family were residing in the village of Bordicado in the parish of Sauzon on Belle-Île-en-Mer. The declaration of Claude LeBlanc on that date provides the date of his marriage at Cobequid to Marie-Josephe Longuespee. “5160

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“ GENERAL ROLE OF THE INHABITANTS OF ISLE ROYALE AND ISLE ST. JEAN DISTRIBUTED BY PARISHES FOR THE YEAR 1762

. . . .

Châteauneuf

. . . .

(des S Paguebohs)

. . .

MARIE JOSEPH GUEDRY, 43 yrs., widow of Benjamin Meuse (at the hospital September 5 to September 28, 1762 and from October 16 to October 30, 1762) “4892

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“ CLAUDE LEBLANT & MARIE JOSEPH GUEDRI

CLAUDE LEBLANT, major son of deceased Jean and of deceased Jeanne Bourgeois, widower of Anne Joseph Longueepee, native of Acadie, diocese of Quebec and residing partly in this parish, partly in the parish of Saint Meloir-des-Ondes of this diocese, and MARIE JOSEPH GUEDRI, major daughter of Augustin and Anne Lejeune, widow of Benjamin Miusse, originally of Acadie and resident of this parish, have married in this Church this eighth of February 1763, after the three proclamations of their future marriage canonically made without opposition both in this parish and in that of the aforesaid parish of Saint Melior; considering a judgment of the Officiality of Saint Melior under date of the 15th January 1763, which declares the said Marie Joseph Guedri widow of Benjamin Miusse and permits her to contract marriage with whomever she chooses; considering also a dispensation of the third degree of affinity granted to the said Leblant and Guedri (with proper cause equally permission of the Apostolic See) by My Lord, the Bishop of Saint Malo under date of the nineteenth day of January 1763 and signed Joannes Josephus, Bishop of Saint Malo: the nuptial benediction was administered to them by the undersigned priest of this parish with the consent of the Rector in presence of Joseph Robichau, first cousin of the groom; Charles Guedri, cousin of the bride; Pierre Gotrau, cousin of the bride; Pierre Longepee, brother-in-law of the groom, who have assured us the residence and liberty of the contracting parties and who have declared not knowing how to sign.

. /s/ Desertos, Priest


. ST. SERVAN
. 8 February 1763 “4773,4764

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“ REGISTRES DES ACADIENS DE Belle-Île-en-Mer
COPIE DU REGISTRE DES ACADIENS DE SAUZON
Déclaration de Claude LeBlanc, du village de Bordicado.
L’an mil sept cent soixante-sept le six Mars a comparu Claude LeBlanc demeurant au village de Bordicado, parioisse de Sauzon, lequel, en présence de Joseph Babin, Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet et Simon-Pierre Daigre, tous acadiens demeurans en cette isle, témoins, a déclaré . . .

Du mariage de Claude Leblanc et de Marie-Josephe Longue Epée décédée à Saint-Malo le seize septembre mil sept cent soixante-deux, sont nés, sçavoir: . . . .

Ledit Claude Leblanc marié en seconde noce en la parioisse de Saint-Servant de Saint-Malo au mois de fevrier mil sept cent soixante-trois à Marie Guedry, veuve de Benjamin Mius; ledit Benjamin Mius ainsi que les enfans de son mariage tous morts. Et les dits Claude Leblanc et Marie Guedry sans enfans de leur mariage. “

Translation:
“ REGISTER OF THE ACADIANS OF Belle-Île-en-Mer
COPY OF THE REGISTER OF THE ACADIANS OF SAUZON
Declaration of Claude LeBlanc of the village of Bordicado.
On March 6, 1767 appeared Claude LeBlanc living at the village of Bordicado, parish of Sauzon, who in the presence of Joseph Babin, Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet and Simon Pierre Daigre, all Acadians living on this island,witnesses, declared . . .

Of the marriage of Claude Leblanc and Marie Joseph Longue Epée who died at Saint-Malo on September 16, 1762, were born the following: . . . .

The said Claude Leblanc married a second time in the parish of Saint-Servant of Saint-Malo in the month of February 1763 to Marie Guedry, widow of Benjamin Mius; the said Benjamin Mius as well as the children of his marriage are all dead. And the said Claude Leblanc and Marie Guedry are without children of their marriage. “4776,4777

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“ Déclaration de Claude LeBlanc, du village de Bordicado,

L’an mil sept cent soixante-sept le six Mars a comparu Claude Leblanc demeurant au village de Bordicado paroisse de Sauzon, lequel, en présence de Joseph Babin, Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet et Simon-Pierre Daigre, tous acadiens demeurans en cette isle, témoins, a déclaré être né aux Mines, paroisse de Saint-Charles, au mois d’octobre mil sept cent vingt-trois, frère germain de Jean Leblanc du village de Bernantec, et issu des mêmes ayeuls, marié à Cobeguit, au mois d’octobre mil sept cent quarante-huit à Marie-Josèphe Longue Epée née an dit lieu le premier aoust mil sept cent-vingt cinq de Louis Longue Epée et d’Anne Brosseau; Louis Longue Epée fils de Louis Longue Epée venu de France, marié au Port-Royal à Magdelaine Raimbault. Anne Brosseau, fille de Jean Brosseau venu de France, marié au Port-Royal à Gabriel Forest et tous deux morts au dit lieu.

Du mariage de Claude Leblanc et de Marie-Josephe Longue Epée décédée à Saint-Malo le seize septembre mil sept cent soixante-deux, sont nés, sçavoir:

Jean de Dieu Leblanc à Cobeguit au mois d’octobre mil sept cent cinquante-deux;

Joseph Leblanc en la paroisse de la Goimière évêché de Saint-Malo le deux mars mil sept cent soixante;

Pierre Leblanc en la paroisse de Saint-Meloire-des-Ondes, évêché de Saint-Malo le quatorze septembre mil sept cent soixante-deux;

Ledit Claude Leblanc marié en seconde noce en la paroisse de Saint-Servant de Saint-Malo au mois de fevrier mil sept cent soixante-trois à Marie Guedry, veuve de Benjamin Mius; ledit Benjamin Mius ainsi que les enfans de son mariage tous morts. Et les dits Claude Leblanc et Marie Guedry sans enfans de leur mariage.

Telle est la déclaration de Claude Leblanc, de laquelle lecture lui faite il a dit qu’elle contenoit vérité ed déclaré ne savoir signer de ce interpellé suivant l’ordonnance.

Clos et arrêté à Sauzon sous les seings des quatre témoins dénommés au présent, de messires Joseph Benoist curé de Sauzon, Jean-Louis Le Loutre, prêtre missionnaire, et de nous commis à cet effet, ce jour douze mars dit an.

Signé: Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet, Simon Pr Daigre, Joseph Babin, Jh Benoist, curé de Sauzon, J. L. Le Loutre, ptre miss. et Thebaud, commis. “

Translation:
“ Declaration of Claude LeBlanc of the village of Bordicado

On March 6, 1767 appeared Claude Leblanc living at the village of Bordicado, parish of Sauzon, who in the presence of Joseph Babin, Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet and Simon Pierre Daigre, all Acadians living on this island, witnesses, declared that he was born at Mines, parish of Saint-Charles, in the month of October 1723, brother germain of Jean Leblanc of the village of Bernantec and issue of the same ancestors, married at Cobeguit, in the month of October 1748 to Marie Josèphe Longe Epée who was born at the said place August 1, 1725 of Louis Longue Epée and Anne Brosseau; Louis Longue Epée was the son of Louis Longue Epée who came from France, married at Port-Royal to Magdelaine Raimbault. Anne Brosseau, daughter of Jean Brosseau who came from France, married at Port-Royal to Gabriel Forest and both of them died at the said place.

Of the marriage of Claude Leblanc and Marie-Josephe Longue Epée who died at Saint-Malo on September 16, 1762, were born the following:

Jean de Dieu Leblanc born at Cobeguit in the month of October 1752;

Joseph Leblanc born in the parish of La Goimière, diocese of Saint-Malo, March 2, 1760;

Pierre Leblanc born in the parish of Saint-Meloire-des-Ondes, diocese of Saint-Malo, September 14, 1762.

The said Claude Leblanc married a second time in the parish of Saint-Servant of Saint-Malo in the month of February 1763 to Marie Guedry, widow of Benjamin Mins; the said Benjamin Mins as well as the children of his marriage are all dead. And the said Claude Leblanc and Marie Guedry are without children.

Such is the declaration of Claude Leblanc which was read to him and he said that the contents were right and he declared that he could not sign the statement as required by the ordinance.

Completed and drawn up at Sauzon under the signatures of the four witnesses named as present, of Messire Joseph Benoist parish priest of Sauzon, Jean Louis Le Loutre missionary priest and of us clerk to the action, this 12th day of March of the said year.

Signed: Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet, Simon Pr Daigre, Joseph Babin, Jh Benoist, parish priest of Sauzon, J. L. Le Loutre, miss. priest and Thebaud commis. “5161,4777

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“ CLAUDE LEBLANT & DOROTHEE RICHARD

CLAUDE LEBLANT, major son of deceased Jean and of deceased Jeanne Bourgeois, native of the parish of Grand-Pre in Acadie, diocese of Quebec, widower of Marie Guedry, and resident of the parish of Sauzon on Belle-Île-en-Mer, diocese of Vannes, and DOROTHEE RICHARD, major daughter of deceased Francois and of deceased Marie Martin, widow of Alexis Commo, native of the parish of Port Royal in Acadie and resident of our parish, have married in this Church this twenty-first day of June 1768 after the three proclamations of their future marriage canonically made without opposition, both in this parish and in that of Sauzon, residence of the said Leblant: the nuptial benediction was administered to them by me undersigned Cure of this parish in presence of Pierre Robicho, Prudent Boudrau, cousins of the groom; Jean Baptiste Commo, brother-in-law of the bride; Jean Landry, cousin of the bride, and others who have assured us the aforesaid residence and liberty of the parties and of whom have signed:

/s/ Jean Commeaux /s/ F: M: Navet, Cure

/s/ Jean Landri

. ST. SERVAN
. 21 June 1768 “5162,5115

In Arsenault5155, d’Entremont5163 and Jehn5123 Marie-Josephe Guédry is listed as the daughter of Augustin Guédry and Jeanne Hébert in the record of her marriage to Charles-Benjamin Mius. In other references by Arsenault5164,5157 she is listed as the daughter of Pierre Guédry dit Labine and Marguerite Brasseau. In other records5165,5108,4791,5111 she is listed as the daughter of Augustin Guedry and Anne Lejeune.

A review of the records confirms that Marie-Josephe Guédry, wife of Benjamin Mieux and later Claude LeBlanc, was the daughter of Pierre Guédry dit Labine and Marguerite Brasseau. Marie-Josephe Guédry, daughter of Augustin Guédry and Jeanne Hébert, was married to Charles Boutin at the same time that this Marie-Josephe Guédry was married to Benjamin Mieux. Anne Lejeune actually married Claude Guedry - not Augustin Guedry.

In the Census of 1752 of Île Royale and Ile Saint Jean we note that at Baye des Espagnols, Île Royale Marie-Joseph Guédry, married to Charles Boutin, was residing with her family iimmediately adjacent to Eustache (Ursule) Guédry and Paul Boutin (her husband). Eustache Guédry and Paul Boutin have Pierre Guédry (her 11-year old brother per the census) living with them. Charles Boutin and Marie-Josephe Guédry have Eleine (Hélène) Guédry (her 29-year old sister per the census) living with them5166. Eustache (Ursule), Eleine (Hélène), Marie-Josephe and Pierre Guédry are all children of Augustin Guédry and Jeanne Hébert. In the same census we find Benjamin Mieux and Josephe (Marie-Josephe) Guédry living at Pointe-à-la-Jeunesse, Île Royale5167 - at least three villages distant from Baye des Espagnols, Île Royale where Marie-Josephe Guédry, wife of Charles Boutin, lived. This information confirms that Marie-Josephe Guédry married to Charles Boutin was the daughter of August Guédry and Jeanne Hébert and also that she could not have been the wife of Benjamin Mieux since he was married to a Josephe (Marie-Josephe) Guédry at the same time. This Josephe Guédry, wife of Benjamin Mieux, therefore, was the daughter of Pierre Guédry dit Labine and Marguerite Brasseau.

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In the second edition of Arsenault5128 Joseph LeBlanc and Pierre LeBlanc are listed as the sons of Claude LeBlanc and Marie-Josephe Guédry rather than their actual mother Marie-Josephe Longuespée. This error resulted because Arsenault believed that Marie-Joseph Longuespée died in 1758 during the trip from Ile Saint-Jean to France and that Claude LeBlanc remarried to Marie-Josephe Guédry in 1760 rather than in 1763 as actually occurred. Marie-Josephe Longuespée actually died in September 1762. Arsenault corrected this error in the third edition of his work5156.

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In the marriage contract of Claude LeBlanc and Marie Josephe Guédry, Charles Guédry is a witness to the marriage at St-Servan on 8 February 1763 and is listed as a “cousin of the bride”. In fact, Charles Guédry is the brother of the bride - Marie Josephe Guédry. There are no other persons in France in 1763 with the name of Charles Guédry; therefore, the Charles Guédry who witnessed this marriage must be the brother of Marie Josephe Guédry and the husband of Agnès Bourg.4773,4764

Marie Josèphe Guédry
Marie-Josèphe Guédry
Marie-Josephe Guedry
Marie-Joseph Guedry
Marie-Josephte Guidry
Marie Joseph Guedry
Marie Joseph Guedri
Josephe Marie Guidry
Marie Guédry
Marie Guedry
Marguerite Guedry
Marie Guidry
Marie Gudry
Josephe Guedry
Guedri

“ 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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“ MARIE-JOSEPHE GUEDRY, 1722, fille de Pierre et de Marguerite Brasseau, epousa Charles-Benjamin Mius dit d’Azit, de Pobomcoup, fils de Joseph et de Marie Amirault, et, en secondes noces, à Saint-Servan de Saint-Malo, le 18 février 1763, Claude LeBlanc, de Grand-Pré, fils de Jean et de Jeanne Bourgeois, veuf de Marie-Josephe Longuespée.”

Translation:
“ MARIE-JOSEPHE GUEDRY, 1722, daughter of Pierre and of Marguerite Brasseau, wed Charles-Benjamin Mius dit d’Azit, de Pobomcoup, son of Joseph and of Marie Amirault, and, a second time, at Saint-Servan of Saint-Malo, 18 February 1763, Claude LeBlanc of Grand-Pré, son of Jean and of Jeanne Bourgeois, widower of Marie-Josephe Longuespée.”4766

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“ BENJAMIN MIUS, 1728, fils de Joseph et de Marie Amirault, marié vers 1749 à Marie-Josephe Guédry, fille de Augustin et de Jeanne Hébert, de Cobequid. Enfants: Marie-Josephe, 1750; Anastasie, 1751. Il était à l’île Saint-Jean en 1752. Il est décédé vers 1756. Sa veuve était à Saint-Servan, de Saint-Malo, en 1760 alors qu’elle épousa Claude LeBlanc, fils de Jean et de Jeanne Bourgeois, de Grand-Pré. “

Translation:
“ BENJAMIN MIUS, 1728, son of Joseph and of Marie Amirault, married about 1749 to Marie-Josephe Guédry, daughter of Augustin and of Jeanne Hébert, of Cobequid. Children: Marie-Josephe, 1750; Anastasie, 1751. He was at Ile Saint-Jean in 1752. He has died about 1756. His widow was at Saint-Servan of Saint-Malo in 1760 where she wed Claude LeBlanc, son of Jean and of Jeanne Bourgeois of Grand-Pré. “5155

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“ CLAUDE LEBLANC, 1723, fils de Jean et de Jeanne Bourgeois, marié à Cobequid, le 9 octobre 1748, à Marie-Josephe Longuespée, fille de Louis et d’Anne Brasseau; en deuxième noces, à Saint-Servan, de Saint-Malo, en février 1763, à Marie Guedry, fille de Pierre et de Marguerite Brasseau, de Port-Royal; et en troisièmes noces, à Saint-Malo, en 1768, à Dorothée Richard, fille de François et de Marie Martin, veuve d’Alexis Comeau. Enfants issus du premier mariage: Jean, 1752; Hélène, 1759; Joseph, 1760; Pierre, 1762. Il était à Cobequid en 1752, à Louisbourg en 1758, à Saint-Malo en 1759, à Belle-Île-en-Mer en 1765 et de nouveau à Saint-Malo en 1768. Il s’embarque sur La Bergère pour la Louisiane, avec sa famille, en 1785. “

Translation:
“ CLAUDE LEBLANC, 1723, fils de Jean et de Jeanne Bourgeois, married at Cobequid, 9 October 1748, to Marie-Josephe Longuespée, daughter of Louis and of Anne Brasseau; a second time at Saint-Servan of Saint-Malo in February 1763 to Marie Guedry, daughter of Pierre and of Marguerite Brasseau of Port-Royal; and a third time at Saint-Malo in 1768 to Dorothée Richard, daughter of François and of Marie Martin, widow of Alexis Comeau. Children issued from first marriage: Jean, 1752; Hélène, 1759; Joseph, 1760; Pierre, 1762. He was at Cobequid in 1752, at Louisbourg in 1758, at Saint-Malo in 1759, at Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1765 and again at Saint-Malo in 1768. He embarked on the La Bergère for Louisiana with his family in 1785. “5156

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“ CHARLES-BENJAMIN MIUS D’ENTREMONT, né en 1728, fils de Joseph et de Marie Amirault, marié vers 1749, à Marie-Josephe Guedry, fille de Pierre et de Marguerite Brasseau. Enfants: Marie-Josephe, 1750; Anastasie, 1751. Cette famille était à l’île Saint-Jean, en 1752. “

Translation:
“ CHARLES-BENJAMIN MIUS D’ENTREMONT, born in 1728, son of Joseph and of Marie Amirault, married about 1749 to Marie-Joseph Guedry, daughter of Pierre and of Marguerite Brasseau. Children: Marie-Josephe, 1750; Anastasie, 1751. That family was at Ile Saint-Jean in 1752. “5157

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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.

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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.

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(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.

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(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.

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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.

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(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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“ TOUR OF INSPECTION MADE BY THE SIEUR DE LA ROQUE. CENSUS. 1752.

GENERAL CENSUS OF THE SETTLERS AT THE POINTE A LA JEUNESSE.

. . . .

The Pointe à la Jeunesse is situate on the narrows of the great lake of Bras d’Or. The lands lie exceedingly high and are covered with all kinds of mixed wood.

The settlers are unanimous in reporting the ground as unsuitable for cultivation. It is freely traversed with rocks, which prevent its being worked.

. . . .

Benjamin Mieux, ploughman, native of la Cadie, aged 24 years. Married to Josephe Guedry, native of la Cadie, aged 30 years.
They have two daughters:--
Marie Joseph, aged 2 years;
Nastay, aged 1 year;
Marguerite Pelagie Brau, aged 6 years;
And one ox.

. . . .

When all the settlers landed on their arrival from la Cadie in August last, they owned between them the number of 188 oxen or cows, 42 calves, 173 sheep or ewes, 181 pigs and 17 horses. A comparison with the recapitulation will easily show how many of these have perished from want of hay on which to feed. The settlers had not even water to give them within reach, and now all ask to leave so fully do they realize that they cannot live here. “5158

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“ In 1752, Benjamin Mius, Marie-Josephe Guedry, his wife and their children: Marie-Josephe and Anastasie Mius were residents of Pointe-a-La Jeunesse on Isle Royale. On January 23, 1759, Marie-Josephe Guedry, widow of Benjamin Mius disembarked at St-Malo from one of the “Five Ships.” Prior to her remarriage, she resided in the following parishes:

Châteauneuf 1759-1762 “5159

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“ Recensement Général des habitans des Ports et havres de l’Isle Royale . . . fait en Juillet et Aoust 1753.

. . . .

Bras de Sud

. . .

Benjamin Mieux, Hommes 1, Femmes 1, Garçons 1, Filles 3, Boeufs 1, Vaches 0, Veaux 0, Cochons 1, Truyes 1, Arpts de terre defrichee 0, Toises en jardin 12. “

Translation:
“ General Census of the inhabitants of the ports and harbors of Île Royale . . . made in July and August 1753.

. . . .

Bras de Sud

. . .

Benjamin Mieux, Men 1, Women 1, Boys 1, Girls 3, Oxen 1, Cows 0, Calves 0, Pigs 1, Sows 1, Arpents of cleared land 0, Fathoms in garden 12. “4860

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“ Roll of the inhabitants of Isle Royale, Isle Saint Jean, Gaspee and other places near the English whom the King granted the subsistance calculated to the day of their disembarking. Transcribed on the General Roll.

. . .

From the “Yarmouth”, from the “Patience”, from the “Mathias”, from the “Restoration” and from the “John Samuel”.

Disembarked January 23, 1759

. . .

BENJAMIN MEUSE died at sea.
MARIE JOSEPHE GUEDRY his wife, 40 years, at Plouer.
MARIE JOSEPHE MEUSE their daughter, 10 years, died at sea.
ANASTASIE MEUSE their daughter, 8 years, died at sea.
JEAN BAPTISTE MEUSE their son, 6 years, died at sea.
VERONIQUE MEUSE their son (?), 4 years, died at sea.
FIRMIN MEUSE their son, 2 years, died at sea. “5110

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“ GENERAL ROLE OF THE INHABITANTS OF ISLE ROYALE AND ISLE ST. JEAN DISTRIBUTED BY PARISHES FOR THE YEAR 1762

. . . .

Châteauneuf

. . . .

(des S Paguebohs)

. . .

MARIE JOSEPH GUEDRY, 43 yrs., widow of Benjamin Meuse (at the hospital September 5 to September 28, 1762 and from October 16 to October 30, 1762) “4892

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“ CLAUDE LEBLANT & MARIE JOSEPH GUEDRI

CLAUDE LEBLANT, major son of deceased Jean and of deceased Jeanne Bourgeois, widower of Anne Joseph Longueepee, native of Acadie, diocese of Quebec and residing partly in this parish, partly in the parish of Saint Meloir-des-Ondes of this diocese, and MARIE JOSEPH GUEDRI, major daughter of Augustin and Anne Lejeune, widow of Benjamin Miusse, originally of Acadie and resident of this parish, have married in this Church this eighth of February 1763, after the three proclamations of their future marriage canonically made without opposition both in this parish and in that of the aforesaid parish of Saint Melior; considering a judgment of the Officiality of Saint Melior under date of the 15th January 1763, which declares the said Marie Joseph Guedri widow of Benjamin Miusse and permits her to contract marriage with whomever she chooses; considering also a dispensation of the third degree of affinity granted to the said Leblant and Guedri (with proper cause equally permission of the Apostolic See) by My Lord, the Bishop of Saint Malo under date of the nineteenth day of January 1763 and signed Joannes Josephus, Bishop of Saint Malo: the nuptial benediction was administered to them by the undersigned priest of this parish with the consent of the Rector in presence of Joseph Robichau, first cousin of the groom; Charles Guedri, cousin of the bride; Pierre Gotrau, cousin of the bride; Pierre Longepee, brother-in-law of the groom, who have assured us the residence and liberty of the contracting parties and who have declared not knowing how to sign.

. /s/ Desertos, Priest


. ST. SERVAN
. 8 February 1763 “4773,4764

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“ REGISTRES DES ACADIENS DE Belle-Île-en-Mer
COPIE DU REGISTRE DES ACADIENS DE SAUZON
Déclaration de Claude LeBlanc, du village de Bordicado.
L’an mil sept cent soixante-sept le six Mars a comparu Claude LeBlanc demeurant au village de Bordicado, parioisse de Sauzon, lequel, en présence de Joseph Babin, Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet et Simon-Pierre Daigre, tous acadiens demeurans en cette isle, témoins, a déclaré . . .

Du mariage de Claude Leblanc et de Marie-Josephe Longue Epée décédée à Saint-Malo le seize septembre mil sept cent soixante-deux, sont nés, sçavoir: . . . .

Ledit Claude Leblanc marié en seconde noce en la parioisse de Saint-Servant de Saint-Malo au mois de fevrier mil sept cent soixante-trois à Marie Guedry, veuve de Benjamin Mius; ledit Benjamin Mius ainsi que les enfans de son mariage tous morts. Et les dits Claude Leblanc et Marie Guedry sans enfans de leur mariage. “

Translation:
“ REGISTER OF THE ACADIANS OF Belle-Île-en-Mer
COPY OF THE REGISTER OF THE ACADIANS OF SAUZON
Declaration of Claude LeBlanc of the village of Bordicado.
On March 6, 1767 appeared Claude LeBlanc living at the village of Bordicado, parish of Sauzon, who in the presence of Joseph Babin, Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet and Simon Pierre Daigre, all Acadians living on this island,witnesses, declared . . .

Of the marriage of Claude Leblanc and Marie Joseph Longue Epée who died at Saint-Malo on September 16, 1762, were born the following: . . . .

The said Claude Leblanc married a second time in the parish of Saint-Servant of Saint-Malo in the month of February 1763 to Marie Guedry, widow of Benjamin Mius; the said Benjamin Mius as well as the children of his marriage are all dead. And the said Claude Leblanc and Marie Guedry are without children of their marriage. “4776,4777

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“ Déclaration de Claude LeBlanc, du village de Bordicado,

L’an mil sept cent soixante-sept le six Mars a comparu Claude Leblanc demeurant au village de Bordicado paroisse de Sauzon, lequel, en présence de Joseph Babin, Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet et Simon-Pierre Daigre, tous acadiens demeurans en cette isle, témoins, a déclaré être né aux Mines, paroisse de Saint-Charles, au mois d’octobre mil sept cent vingt-trois, frère germain de Jean Leblanc du village de Bernantec, et issu des mêmes ayeuls, marié à Cobeguit, au mois d’octobre mil sept cent quarante-huit à Marie-Josèphe Longue Epée née an dit lieu le premier aoust mil sept cent-vingt cinq de Louis Longue Epée et d’Anne Brosseau; Louis Longue Epée fils de Louis Longue Epée venu de France, marié au Port-Royal à Magdelaine Raimbault. Anne Brosseau, fille de Jean Brosseau venu de France, marié au Port-Royal à Gabriel Forest et tous deux morts au dit lieu.

Du mariage de Claude Leblanc et de Marie-Josephe Longue Epée décédée à Saint-Malo le seize septembre mil sept cent soixante-deux, sont nés, sçavoir:

Jean de Dieu Leblanc à Cobeguit au mois d’octobre mil sept cent cinquante-deux;

Joseph Leblanc en la paroisse de la Goimière évêché de Saint-Malo le deux mars mil sept cent soixante;

Pierre Leblanc en la paroisse de Saint-Meloire-des-Ondes, évêché de Saint-Malo le quatorze septembre mil sept cent soixante-deux;

Ledit Claude Leblanc marié en seconde noce en la paroisse de Saint-Servant de Saint-Malo au mois de fevrier mil sept cent soixante-trois à Marie Guedry, veuve de Benjamin Mius; ledit Benjamin Mius ainsi que les enfans de son mariage tous morts. Et les dits Claude Leblanc et Marie Guedry sans enfans de leur mariage.

Telle est la déclaration de Claude Leblanc, de laquelle lecture lui faite il a dit qu’elle contenoit vérité ed déclaré ne savoir signer de ce interpellé suivant l’ordonnance.

Clos et arrêté à Sauzon sous les seings des quatre témoins dénommés au présent, de messires Joseph Benoist curé de Sauzon, Jean-Louis Le Loutre, prêtre missionnaire, et de nous commis à cet effet, ce jour douze mars dit an.

Signé: Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet, Simon Pr Daigre, Joseph Babin, Jh Benoist, curé de Sauzon, J. L. Le Loutre, ptre miss. et Thebaud, commis. “

Translation:
“ Declaration of Claude LeBlanc of the village of Bordicado

On March 6, 1767 appeared Claude Leblanc living at the village of Bordicado, parish of Sauzon, who in the presence of Joseph Babin, Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet and Simon Pierre Daigre, all Acadians living on this island, witnesses, declared that he was born at Mines, parish of Saint-Charles, in the month of October 1723, brother germain of Jean Leblanc of the village of Bernantec and issue of the same ancestors, married at Cobeguit, in the month of October 1748 to Marie Josèphe Longe Epée who was born at the said place August 1, 1725 of Louis Longue Epée and Anne Brosseau; Louis Longue Epée was the son of Louis Longue Epée who came from France, married at Port-Royal to Magdelaine Raimbault. Anne Brosseau, daughter of Jean Brosseau who came from France, married at Port-Royal to Gabriel Forest and both of them died at the said place.

Of the marriage of Claude Leblanc and Marie-Josephe Longue Epée who died at Saint-Malo on September 16, 1762, were born the following:

Jean de Dieu Leblanc born at Cobeguit in the month of October 1752;

Joseph Leblanc born in the parish of La Goimière, diocese of Saint-Malo, March 2, 1760;

Pierre Leblanc born in the parish of Saint-Meloire-des-Ondes, diocese of Saint-Malo, September 14, 1762.

The said Claude Leblanc married a second time in the parish of Saint-Servant of Saint-Malo in the month of February 1763 to Marie Guedry, widow of Benjamin Mins; the said Benjamin Mins as well as the children of his marriage are all dead. And the said Claude Leblanc and Marie Guedry are without children.

Such is the declaration of Claude Leblanc which was read to him and he said that the contents were right and he declared that he could not sign the statement as required by the ordinance.

Completed and drawn up at Sauzon under the signatures of the four witnesses named as present, of Messire Joseph Benoist parish priest of Sauzon, Jean Louis Le Loutre missionary priest and of us clerk to the action, this 12th day of March of the said year.

Signed: Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet, Simon Pr Daigre, Joseph Babin, Jh Benoist, parish priest of Sauzon, J. L. Le Loutre, miss. priest and Thebaud commis. “5161,4777
nd one ox. “5168

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Charles-Benjamin Mius d’Entremont dit d’Azit de Pobomcoup
Charles-Benjamin Mius d’Entremont
Charles-Benjamin Mius dit d’Azit, de Pobomcoup
Charles-Benjamin Mius dit d’Azit
Charles-Benjamin Mius, dit d’Azy
Charles Benjamin d’Azit Mius
Charles-Benjamin Mius
Benjamin Mius
Benjamin Mins
Benjamin Mieux
Benjamin Miusse
Benjamin Meuse

“ 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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“ MARIE-JOSEPHE GUEDRY, 1722, fille de Pierre et de Marguerite Brasseau, epousa Charles-Benjamin Mius dit d’Azit, de Pobomcoup, fils de Joseph et de Marie Amirault, et, en secondes noces, à Saint-Servan de Saint-Malo, le 18 février 1763, Claude LeBlanc, de Grand-Pré, fils de Jean et de Jeanne Bourgeois, veuf de Marie-Josephe Longuespée.”

Translation:
“ MARIE-JOSEPHE GUEDRY, 1722, daughter of Pierre and of Marguerite Brasseau, wed Charles-Benjamin Mius dit d’Azit, de Pobomcoup, son of Joseph and of Marie Amirault, and, a second time, at Saint-Servan of Saint-Malo, 18 February 1763, Claude LeBlanc of Grand-Pré, son of Jean and of Jeanne Bourgeois, widower of Marie-Josephe Longuespée.”4766

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“ BENJAMIN MIUS, 1728, fils de Joseph et de Marie Amirault, marié vers 1749 à Marie-Josephe Guédry, fille de Augustin et de Jeanne Hébert, de Cobequid. Enfants: Marie-Josephe, 1750; Anastasie, 1751. Il était à l’île Saint-Jean en 1752. Il est décédé vers 1756. Sa veuve était à Saint-Servan, de Saint-Malo, en 1760 alors qu’elle épousa Claude LeBlanc, fils de Jean et de Jeanne Bourgeois, de Grand-Pré. “

Translation:
“ BENJAMIN MIUS, 1728, son of Joseph and of Marie Amirault, married about 1749 to Marie-Josephe Guédry, daughter of Augustin and of Jeanne Hébert, of Cobequid. Children: Marie-Josephe, 1750; Anastasie, 1751. He was at Ile Saint-Jean in 1752. He has died about 1756. His widow was at Saint-Servan of Saint-Malo in 1760 where she wed Claude LeBlanc, son of Jean and of Jeanne Bourgeois of Grand-Pré. “5155

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“ CLAUDE LEBLANC, 1723, fils de Jean et de Jeanne Bourgeois, marié à Cobequid, le 9 octobre 1748, à Marie-Josephe Longuespée, fille de Louis et d’Anne Brasseau; en deuxième noces, à Saint-Servan, de Saint-Malo, en février 1763, à Marie Guedry, fille de Pierre et de Marguerite Brasseau, de Port-Royal; et en troisièmes noces, à Saint-Malo, en 1768, à Dorothée Richard, fille de François et de Marie Martin, veuve d’Alexis Comeau. Enfants issus du premier mariage: Jean, 1752; Hélène, 1759; Joseph, 1760; Pierre, 1762. Il était à Cobequid en 1752, à Louisbourg en 1758, à Saint-Malo en 1759, à Belle-Île-en-Mer en 1765 et de nouveau à Saint-Malo en 1768. Il s’embarque sur La Bergère pour la Louisiane, avec sa famille, en 1785. “

Translation:
“ CLAUDE LEBLANC, 1723, son of Jean and of Jeanne Bourgeois, married at Cobequid, 9 October 1748, to Marie-Josephe Longuespée, daughter of Louis and of Anne Brasseau; a second time at Saint-Servan of Saint-Malo in February 1763 to Marie Guedry, daughter of Pierre and of Marguerite Brasseau of Port-Royal; and a third time at Saint-Malo in 1768 to Dorothée Richard, daughter of François and of Marie Martin, widow of Alexis Comeau. Children issued from first marriage: Jean, 1752; Hélène, 1759; Joseph, 1760; Pierre, 1762. He was at Cobequid in 1752, at Louisbourg in 1758, at Saint-Malo in 1759, at Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1765 and again at Saint-Malo in 1768. He embarked on the La Bergère for Louisiana with his family in 1785. “5156

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“ CLAUDE LEBLANC, né en 1723, fils de Jean et de Jeanne Bourgeois, marié à Cobequid, en 1748, à Marie-Josephe Longuespée, fille de Louis et d’Anne Brasseau, de Cobequid, et marié en deuxièmes noces, à Saint-Servan de Saint-Malo, en 1760, à Marie Guidry, veuve de Benjamin Mius. Enfants du premier mariage: Jean de Dieu, 1752; Hélène, 1759. Enfants du deuxième mariage: Joseph, né à Goinière, évêché de Saint-Malo, en 1760; Pierre, né à Saint-Meloise-des-Ondes, évêché de Saint-Malo, en 1762. Vraisemblablement transporté en France lors de la déportation des réfugiés Acadiens de l’île Saint-Jean, en 1758, Marie-Josephe Longuespée et plusieurs de ses enfants moururent durant la traversée. En 1767, Claude LeBlanc était au village Bordicado, Belle-Île-en-Mer, avec le reste de sa famille. “

Translation:
“ CLAUDE LEBLANC, born in 1723, son of Jean and of Jeanne Bourgeois, married at Cobequid in 1748, to Marie-Josephe Longuespée, daughter of Louis and of Anne Brasseau of Cobequid, and married a second time at Saint-Servan of Saint-Malo in 1760 to Marie Guidry, widow of Benjamin Mius. Children from first marriage: Jean de Dieu, 1752; Hélène, 1759. Children from second marriage: Joseph, born at Goinière, diocese of Saint-Malo, in 1760; Pierre, born at Saint-Meloise-des-Ondes, diocese of Saint-Malo, in 1762. Probably transported to France at the time of the deportation of the Acadian refugees from Ile Saint-Jean en 1758, Marie-Josephe Longuespée and several of their children died during the crossing. In 1767 Claude LeBlanc was at the village Bordicado, Belle-Île-en-Mer with the rest of his family. “5128

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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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“ In 1752, Benjamin Mius, Marie-Josephe Guedry, his wife and their children: Marie-Josephe and Anastasie Mius were residents of Pointe-a-La Jeunesse on Isle Royale. On January 23, 1759, Marie-Josephe Guedry, widow of Benjamin Mius disembarked at St-Malo from one of the “Five Ships.” Prior to her remarriage, she resided in the following parishes:

Châteauneuf 1759-1762 “5159

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“ Roll of the inhabitants of Isle Royale, Isle Saint Jean, Gaspee and other places near the English whom the King granted the subsistance calculated to the day of their disembarking. Transcribed on the General Roll.

Le Tamerlan

Disembarked January 16, 1759

215 tons, 16 men, including the Captain and Le Sieur Haye, Agent. State of the inhabitants of Isle Saint Jean who disembarked at Saint Malo from the English ship “Le Tamerlan” and includes those who died on the crossing.

. . .

CLAUDE LEBLANC of Acadia, 22 years, farmhand and carpenter, at Saint Meloir.
MARIE JOSEPHE LANGUEEPEE his wife, 36 years, weaves, spins and brocades.
JEAN LEBLANC their son, 7 years.
HELENE LEBLANC their daughter, 8 years, died at St-Servan February 16, 1759.
RENNIL LEBLANC their child, died at sea.
MARGUERITE LEBLANC their child, died at sea.
JOSEPH FIRMIN LEBLANC their child, born March 24, 1760. “5169

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“ Roll of the inhabitants of Isle Royale, Isle Saint Jean, Gaspee and other places near the English whom the King granted the subsistance calculated to the day of their disembarking. Transcribed on the General Roll.

. . .

Disembarked January 16, 1759 from the ship “Tamerlane”

. . .

CLAUDE LEBLANC Acadian, 22 years, farmhand and carpenter, living at Bassablous at the home of the widow Launay.
MARIE JOSEPHE LONGUEEPEE his wife, 36 years, weaves, spins and brocades.
JEAN LEBLANC their child, 7 years.
HELENE LEBLANC their child, 8 years, died January 30, 1759. “5170

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“ Claude LeBlanc, Marie-Josephe Longuespee, his first wife and their children: Jean and Helene LeBlanc disembarked at St-Malo on January 16, 1759 from the ship, le Tamerian. Claude LeBlanc resided with his family in the following parishes:

LaGouesniere 1759 - 1760
St. Melior 1760 - 1764
St-Servan 1764 - 1765

In 1765, this family went to reside on Belle-Île-en-Mer. On March 6, 1767, Claude LeBlanc and his family were residing in the village of Bordicado in the parish of Sauzon on Belle-Île-en-Mer. The declaration of Claude LeBlanc on that date provides the date of his marriage at Cobequid to Marie-Josephe Longuespee. “5160

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“ CHARLES GUEDRI & AGNES BOURG

CHARLES GUEDRI, widower of Madeleine Hebert, resident of La Goueniere, on the one hand, and AGNES BOURG, major daughter of Joseph and of Francoise Dugas, residing here, on the other hand, having betrothed and the banns of their marriage having been canonically made at the homilies of our high masses on three Sundays and feasts, the twenty-eighth of December Seventeen Hundred Sixty, the fourth of January, and the sixth, Epiphany, Seventeen Hundred Sixty-One, without opposition or knowledge of any impediment, neither canonical nor civil, considering the certificates of the Rectors of Bonaban and of La Goueniere who attest to the same thing, have this thirteenth day of January, received the nuptial benediction in the Church of St. Suliac by me undersigned, with the permission of the Prior the thirteenth day of January Seventeen Hundred Sixty-One, in the presence of Alexandre Bourg, Pierre Dugas, Antoine Braut, Claude Le Blanc, Jan Baptiste Hebert, Jan Huet and several others, some of whom signed with an (X) ordinary signature of Acadie, the newly married were of Acadian nationality.

X X /s/ Jean Baptiste Hebert

/s/ Jean Huet /s/ Francois Contin, Priest

/s/ Antoine Braux


. ST. SULIAC
. 13 January 1761 “5171,5141


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“ GENERAL ROLE OF THE INHABITANTS OF ISLE ROYALE AND ISLE ST. JEAN DISTRIBUTED BY PARISHES FOR THE YEAR 1762

. . . .

ST. MELIOR

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(du Tamerlay)

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CLAUDE LEBLANC, 25 yrs.
Anne Joseph LongueEpee, 29 yrs., his wife, died September 27, 1762
Jean LeBlanc, 10 yrs., their son
Joseph Firmin LeBlanc, born in 1760, their son
Pierre Michel LeBlanc, born Sepember 23, 1762, their son “5149

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“ The mother of these three boys died at St-Malo in 1762; the family entered France at St-Malo since 1760; members of the family embarked for Louisiana in 1785 on the Bergere; in 1773 at St-Malo; family no. 23 at Bordicado, Sauzon. “5133,5118,5119

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“ CLAUDE LEBLANT & MARIE JOSEPH GUEDRI

CLAUDE LEBLANT, major son of deceased Jean and of deceased Jeanne Bourgeois, widower of Anne Joseph Longueepee, native of Acadie, diocese of Quebec and residing partly in this parish, partly in the parish of Saint Meloir-des-Ondes of this diocese, and MARIE JOSEPH GUEDRI, major daughter of Augustin and Anne Lejeune, widow of Benjamin Miusse, originally of Acadie and resident of this parish, have married in this Church this eighth of February 1763, after the three proclamations of their future marriage canonically made without opposition both in this parish and in that of the aforesaid parish of Saint Melior; considering a judgment of the Officiality of Saint Melior under date of the 15th January 1763, which declares the said Marie Joseph Guedri widow of Benjamin Miusse and permits her to contract marriage with whomever she chooses; considering also a dispensation of the third degree of affinity granted to the said Leblant and Guedri (with proper cause equally permission of the Apostolic See) by My Lord, the Bishop of Saint Malo under date of the nineteenth day of January 1763 and signed Joannes Josephus, Bishop of Saint Malo: the nuptial benediction was administered to them by the undersigned priest of this parish with the consent of the Rector in presence of Joseph Robichau, first cousin of the groom; Charles Guedri, cousin of the bride; Pierre Gotrau, cousin of the bride; Pierre Longepee, brother-in-law of the groom, who have assured us the residence and liberty of the contracting parties and who have declared not knowing how to sign.

. /s/ Desertos, Priest


. ST. SERVAN
. 8 February 1763 “4773,4764

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“ Alexis Commaux, Dorothee Richard, his wife and Jean-Baptiste Commaux, their son disembarked at St-Malo from England on May 23, 1763 from the ship, La Dorothee. This family resided in the following parishes:

St-Servan 1763 - 1767

In 1768, Dorothee Richard, widow of Alexis Commaux is listed as being a resident of Belle-Île-en-Mer with her new husband, Claude LeBlanc. “5172

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“ REGISTRES DES ACADIENS DE Belle-Île-en-Mer
COPIE DU REGISTRE DES ACADIENS DE SAUZON
Déclaration de Claude LeBlanc, du village de Bordicado.
L’an mil sept cent soixante-sept le six Mars a comparu Claude LeBlanc demeurant au village de Bordicado, parioisse de Sauzon, lequel, en présence de Joseph Babin, Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet et Simon-Pierre Daigre, tous acadiens demeurans en cette isle, témoins, a déclaré . . .

Du mariage de Claude Leblanc et de Marie-Josephe Longue Epée décédée à Saint-Malo le seize septembre mil sept cent soixante-deux, sont nés, sçavoir: . . . .

Ledit Claude Leblanc marié en seconde noce en la parioisse de Saint-Servant de Saint-Malo au mois de fevrier mil sept cent soixante-trois à Marie Guedry, veuve de Benjamin Mius; ledit Benjamin Mius ainsi que les enfans de son mariage tous morts. Et les dits Claude Leblanc et Marie Guedry sans enfans de leur mariage. “

Translation:
“ REGISTER OF THE ACADIANS OF Belle-Île-en-Mer
COPY OF THE REGISTER OF THE ACADIANS OF SAUZON
Declaration of Claude LeBlanc of the village of Bordicado.
On March 6, 1767 appeared Claude LeBlanc living at the village of Bordicado, parish of Sauzon, who in the presence of Joseph Babin, Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet and Simon Pierre Daigre, all Acadians living on this island,witnesses, declared . . .

Of the marriage of Claude Leblanc and Marie Joseph Longue Epée who died at Saint-Malo on September 16, 1762, were born the following: . . . .

The said Claude Leblanc married a second time in the parish of Saint-Servant of Saint-Malo in the month of February 1763 to Marie Guedry, widow of Benjamin Mius; the said Benjamin Mius as well as the children of his marriage are all dead. And the said Claude Leblanc and Marie Guedry are without children of their marriage. “4776,4777

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“ Déclaration de Claude LeBlanc, du village de Bordicado,

L’an mil sept cent soixante-sept le six Mars a comparu Claude Leblanc demeurant au village de Bordicado paroisse de Sauzon, lequel, en présence de Joseph Babin, Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet et Simon-Pierre Daigre, tous acadiens demeurans en cette isle, témoins, a déclaré être né aux Mines, paroisse de Saint-Charles, au mois d’octobre mil sept cent vingt-trois, frère germain de Jean Leblanc du village de Bernantec, et issu des mêmes ayeuls, marié à Cobeguit, au mois d’octobre mil sept cent quarante-huit à Marie-Josèphe Longue Epée née an dit lieu le premier aoust mil sept cent-vingt cinq de Louis Longue Epée et d’Anne Brosseau; Louis Longue Epée fils de Louis Longue Epée venu de France, marié au Port-Royal à Magdelaine Raimbault. Anne Brosseau, fille de Jean Brosseau venu de France, marié au Port-Royal à Gabriel Forest et tous deux morts au dit lieu.

Du mariage de Claude Leblanc et de Marie-Josephe Longue Epée décédée à Saint-Malo le seize septembre mil sept cent soixante-deux, sont nés, sçavoir:

Jean de Dieu Leblanc à Cobeguit au mois d’octobre mil sept cent cinquante-deux;

Joseph Leblanc en la paroisse de la Goimière évêché de Saint-Malo le deux mars mil sept cent soixante;

Pierre Leblanc en la paroisse de Saint-Meloire-des-Ondes, évêché de Saint-Malo le quatorze septembre mil sept cent soixante-deux;

Ledit Claude Leblanc marié en seconde noce en la paroisse de Saint-Servant de Saint-Malo au mois de fevrier mil sept cent soixante-trois à Marie Guedry, veuve de Benjamin Mius; ledit Benjamin Mius ainsi que les enfans de son mariage tous morts. Et les dits Claude Leblanc et Marie Guedry sans enfans de leur mariage.

Telle est la déclaration de Claude Leblanc, de laquelle lecture lui faite il a dit qu’elle contenoit vérité ed déclaré ne savoir signer de ce interpellé suivant l’ordonnance.

Clos et arrêté à Sauzon sous les seings des quatre témoins dénommés au présent, de messires Joseph Benoist curé de Sauzon, Jean-Louis Le Loutre, prêtre missionnaire, et de nous commis à cet effet, ce jour douze mars dit an.

Signé: Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet, Simon Pr Daigre, Joseph Babin, Jh Benoist, curé de Sauzon, J. L. Le Loutre, ptre miss. et Thebaud, commis. “

Translation:
“ Declaration of Claude LeBlanc of the village of Bordicado

On March 6, 1767 appeared Claude Leblanc living at the village of Bordicado, parish of Sauzon, who in the presence of Joseph Babin, Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet and Simon Pierre Daigre, all Acadians living on this island, witnesses, declared that he was born at Mines, parish of Saint-Charles, in the month of October 1723, brother germain of Jean Leblanc of the village of Bernantec and issue of the same ancestors, married at Cobeguit, in the month of October 1748 to Marie Josèphe Longe Epée who was born at the said place August 1, 1725 of Louis Longue Epée and Anne Brosseau; Louis Longue Epée was the son of Louis Longue Epée who came from France, married at Port-Royal to Magdelaine Raimbault. Anne Brosseau, daughter of Jean Brosseau who came from France, married at Port-Royal to Gabriel Forest and both of them died at the said place.

Of the marriage of Claude Leblanc and Marie-Josephe Longue Epée who died at Saint-Malo on September 16, 1762, were born the following:

Jean de Dieu Leblanc born at Cobeguit in the month of October 1752;

Joseph Leblanc born in the parish of La Goimière, diocese of Saint-Malo, March 2, 1760;

Pierre Leblanc born in the parish of Saint-Meloire-des-Ondes, diocese of Saint-Malo, September 14, 1762.

The said Claude Leblanc married a second time in the parish of Saint-Servant of Saint-Malo in the month of February 1763 to Marie Guedry, widow of Benjamin Mins; the said Benjamin Mins as well as the children of his marriage are all dead. And the said Claude Leblanc and Marie Guedry are without children.

Such is the declaration of Claude Leblanc which was read to him and he said that the contents were right and he declared that he could not sign the statement as required by the ordinance.

Completed and drawn up at Sauzon under the signatures of the four witnesses named as present, of Messire Joseph Benoist parish priest of Sauzon, Jean Louis Le Loutre missionary priest and of us clerk to the action, this 12th day of March of the said year.

Signed: Louis Courtin, Pierre Doucet, Simon Pr Daigre, Joseph Babin, Jh Benoist, parish priest of Sauzon, J. L. Le Loutre, miss. priest and Thebaud commis. “5161,4777

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“ CLAUDE LEBLANT & DOROTHEE RICHARD

CLAUDE LEBLANT, major son of deceased Jean and of deceased Jeanne Bourgeois, native of the parish of Grand-Pre in Acadie, diocese of Quebec, widower of Marie Guedry, and resident of the parish of Sauzon on Belle-Île-en-Mer, diocese of Vannes, and DOROTHEE RICHARD, major daughter of deceased Francois and of deceased Marie Martin, widow of Alexis Commo, native of the parish of Port Royal in Acadie and resident of our parish, have married in this Church this twenty-first day of June 1768 after the three proclamations of their future marriage canonically made without opposition, both in this parish and in that of Sauzon, residence of the said Leblant: the nuptial benediction was administered to them by me undersigned Cure of this parish in presence of Pierre Robicho, Prudent Boudrau, cousins of the groom; Jean Baptiste Commo, brother-in-law of the bride; Jean Landry, cousin of the bride, and others who have assured us the aforesaid residence and liberty of the parties and of whom have signed:

/s/ Jean Commeaux /s/ F: M: Navet, Cure

/s/ Jean Landri

. ST. SERVAN
. 21 June 1768 “5162,5115

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At the baptism of Jean-Baptiste Comeau, son of Jean-Baptiste Comeau and Marie-Madeleine Landry, on 8 December 1783 in Nantes at St. Similien the godparents were Claude LeBlanc, grandfather, who could not sign his name, and Dorothée Richard, wife of LeBlanc and grandmother, who could not sign her name.5173

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“ ACADIANS IN FRANCE September, 1784

Copy of the list of the Acadian families who want to go to Louisiana to establish themselves at the expense of his Catholic Majesty.*

. . . .

Claude LeBlanc (head of family), Dorothé Richard (wife), no sons or daughters, 2 in total family

. . . .

* This document is found in Archivo General De Indias, audiencia De Santa Domingo (A.D.S.), Legajo 2575. Two separate lists of the Acadians and allied families who left France in 1785 to come to Louisiana, have already been published.
The first publication documented with Spanish archival material is Oscar William Winzerling, Acadian Odyssey (Baton Rouge, 1955), pp. 199-206. The second publication, relying entirely on French archival documents is Milton P. Rieder Sr. and Norma Gaudet Rieder, editiors, The Crew and Passenger Registration Lists of the Seven Acadian Expeditions of 1785, (Metairie, La. 1965).
The roll of the Acadian families appearing in the present compilation is documented by a third source. It is felt that it provides a valuable addition to the already published lists and corroborates that information. “5138,5143

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“ LA BERGERE

Departed France May 12, 1785
Arrived Louisiana August 15, 1785

. . . .

List of the Acadian passengers named to embark on the ship, La Bergere, going to New Orleans in Louisiana

. . . .

(15) CLAUDE LEBLANC, 62, ploughman
Dorothee Richard, 50, wife
Claire Landry, 75, belle-mere of the wife “5151

(Note: ‘Belle-mere’ is translated as ‘mother-in-law’.)

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“ Liste des passagers acadiens nommés pour l’embarges dans le Navire la Bergere attant a la Nouvelle Orleans dans la Louisiane

. . . .

15e
Claude LeBlanc ............Laboureur 62
3. Dorothée Richard sa femme ........ 50
Claire Landry belle mere à la femme .... 75 “

Translation:
“ List of Acadian passengers named in order to embark from the Ship la Bergere going to New Orleans in Louisiana

. . . .

15th
Claude LeBlanc ............ Ploughman 62
3. Dorothée Richard his wife ........... 50
Claire Landry mother-in-law of his wife .... 75 “5153

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“ 286 - LEBLANC Claude

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N.B.: Claude LEBLANC et sa 3ème femme sont partis de Nantes sur la Bergère (no 15), le 14 Mai 1785. A séjourné en Bretagne (La Gouesnière, St-Mélior des Ondes, St-Servan) de 1759 à 1773 et à Belle-Île-en-Mer (famille no 23).

N.B.: Claude LEBLANC and his 3rd wife left Nantes on le Bergère (no 15) on 14 May 1785. Had been living in Brittany (La Gouesnière, St. Mélior-des-Ondes, St-Servan) from 1759 to 1773 and in Belle-Île-en-Mer (family no. 23). “5174

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“ APPENDIX B

Juan Prieto on orders of Martin Navarro equipped each able worker in the seventy-four families of La Bergere expedition with farming tools of axes, medium and small hatchets, shovels, hoes, and meat cleavers. The families were: Olivier Terrio, . . . Claude LeBlanc, Marie Magdeleine Landry, Jean Aucoing, . . . .

(Signed) Juan Prieto. *

* Prieto to Morales, New Orleans, September 22, 1785, in Cuba, 576, Archivo General de Indias, Cuba (A. G. I.) “5175,5176

In the second edition of Arsenault5128 Joseph LeBlanc and Pierre LeBlanc are listed as the sons of Claude LeBlanc and Marie-Josephe Guédry rather than their actual mother Marie-Josephe Longuespée. This error resulted because Arsenault believed that Marie-Joseph Longuespée died in 1758 during the trip from Ile Saint-Jean to France and that Claude LeBlanc remarried to Marie-Josephe Guédry in 1760 rather than in 1763 as actually occurred. Marie-Josephe Longuespée actually died in September 1762. Arsenault corrected this error in the third edition of his work5156.

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In the marriage contract of Claude LeBlanc and Marie Josephe Guédry, Charles Guédry is a witness to the marriage at St-Servan on 8 February 1763 and is listed as a “cousin of the bride”. In fact, Charles Guédry is the brother of the bride - Marie Josephe Guédry. There are no other persons in France in 1763 with the name of Charles Guédry; therefore, the Charles Guédry who witnessed this marriage must be the brother of Marie Josephe Guédry and the husband of Agnès Bourg.4773,4764

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