JEAN DUGAS is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 3 Left. Listed with him is his wife, Marie Charlotte Godin, and six children: Francois, Rose, Charles, Michel, Athanase and Theodore.[1]
Jean Dugas, son of Abraham Dugas and Marie Madeleine Landry, was born 5 May 1712 in Port Royal, Acadie. He was baptized there on 7 June 1712.
Jean Dugas and Marie Charlotte Gaudin, daughter of Gabriel Gaudin and Andrée Angélique Jeanne, married about 1734 in Acadie.[2]
In 1739 Jean Dugas, his wife and their three children resided near Ekoupag, Riviere St-Jean. Her widowed mother, her brother Bonaventure and his wife, and her sister Yvette and her husband lived nearby.[3]. He was the only Jean Dugas of the right age, married and with children in 1739. Since he only had three children at that time, probably one of his children listed here was born later than 1739 (four have estimated birth years before 1739).
Over twenty years later, during the forced deportations of le grand dérangement, he and his family took refuge at Restigouche in 1760.[4]
By then Camp l'Esperance was overcrowded and running out of food and hope. In desperation, many surrendered to the English and were imprisoned at Fort Edward or Halifax. At the end of le grand dérangement, on 12 August 1763, he and Marie Charlotte and eight children were counted and released from imprisonment at Halifax. They immigrated to Louisiana and were recorded at St. Martinville and Saint Jacques de Cabahonnocer.[4]
Jean Dugas and his family came to Louisiana with Joseph Broussard, arriving in February 1765.[5]
He became a cattle rancher.[6][7][8]
He died on 4 September 1765 in St. Martin, Louisiana, and was buried the next day, as initially recorded by the St. Martinville parish priest in the book he happened to have handy on his circuit, the Slave Register.[9]
Research Notes
There may be another child born in 1776 to Jean Dugas and Marie Charlotte Godin. Posted by Karen Theriot Reader, Rootsweb.com, accessed 31 December 2018.
Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS, vols. 1-6; 1630-1775; Quebec, Le Conseil de la Vie Francaise en Amerique, 1965; p. 2477 (Louisiana).
Text: Jean was born about 1749, "probably" son of Jean & Marie-Charlotte GODIN. He married to Marie DUGAS (no parents listed). Daughter Marie-Josephe born 1776. Jean was at St. James on the Mississippi [River, Louisiana].
Sources
↑The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair, eds. (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p. 15.
↑ Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Acadiennes, 1636-1714, (Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999) p. 575;
Jean DUGAS, son of Abraham dit GRIVOIS & Marie-Madeleine LANDRY, born 5 May 1712, baptized (Port Royal Register) 7 Jun 1712. He married (according to P. GAUDET) around 1734 to Marie-Charlotte GODIN, daughter of Gabriel & Andrée-Angélique JEANNE. He was on the 1763 census at Halifax. He died 4 Sep 1765; was buried 5 Sep 1765 at the "first upper camp," act inscribed at St. Martinville, LA on 6 Sep 1765.
↑ 4.04.1
Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, "List of Acadian Families & Individuals at Halifax between 1759 & 1764," English trans. by John Estano DeRoche, (Sept 2013)
[www.rootsweb.com/~nsgrdpre/documents/dossiers/Ronnie-Gilles/Halifax-Families-1759-1764-rev-Sept-2013-(English).pdf Halifax] p. 11;
Text: Jean (20) DUGAS, son of Abraham (7) DUGAS, married around 1734 to Marie-Charlotte GODIN, daughter of Gabriel (4) GODIN, from Saint John River, took refuge at Restigouche in 1760, listed on 1763 census with 10 members of family, settled at Saint-Martinville and Saint-Jacques de Cabahannocer, Louisiana.
Text: Jean Dugas and his family came to Louisiana with Joseph Broussard arriving in February 1765. On 4 April 1765, Jean signed the D'Autrive Compact.
↑ Grover Rees, trans., "The Dauterive Compact: The Foundation of the Acadian Cattle Industry," Attakapas Gazette, vol. XI, no.2 (summer 1976) p. 91;
He is probably the Jean DUGA who contracted for the six-year cattle agreement with Antoine Bernard DAUTERIVE in New Orleans on 4 Apr 1765. The eight Acadian chiefs were led by Joseph BROUSSARD called Beausoleil.
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Lillian C. Bourgeois, Cabanocey, (New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, reprint 1998) pp. 13 & p. 161
"The eight Acadian chiefs who signed contracts to raise cattle on a share basis with Antoine Bernard Dauterive are believed also to have settled in the Attakapas region. However, three of these men actually settled here [in Cabanocey]. They were Joseph Guillebeau, Pierre Arcenaux, and Jean Dugas. This contract was signed in New Orleans on April 4, 1765. These men must have arrived here shortly [before]. ... Dugas is listed in Verrett's Co. of 1766." [April 8, 1766, List of the inhabitants of the Coast of Cabahonnocer in Verrett's Company on April 8, 1766. The names are listed in the same order as they appear on the original document. in some cases the present day spelling has been substituted and marked thus: *. Cites Archive General de Indian--Santo Domingo, 2595, 181-182.
↑ Arsenault, Bona. Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens, Leméac , 1978, p.301
Google translation: From 1765, as Acadians arrived in greater numbers in Louisiana, several of them settled in Saint-Jacques, on both banks of the Mississippi. A list of names of 32 Acadian refugees in Louisiana in 175614! mentions 13 who subsequently settled in Saint-Jacques: Pierre Arceneaux, Jean Arceneaux, Joseph Arceneaux, Jean-Baptiste Bergeron, Joseph Bourgeois, JeanBaptiste Cormier, Joseph Guidry, Joseph Guillebeau, Simon LeBlanc, Ambroise Martin, Michel Poirier, Abraham Roy and Jean Saulnier. Jean Dugas settled there at the same time. Like Pierre Arceneaux and Joseph Guillebeau, Dugas owned herds of cattle in the Attakapas.
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Donald J. Hébert, Southwest Louisiana Records, 1750-1900, compact disk #101 ("SWLR CD"), (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 2001; reprints by Claitor's Publications);
DUGAS, Jean d. 4 Sept. 1765, bur. 5 Sept. 1765, date recorded: 6 Sept. 1765. Fr. Jean FRANCOIS (SM Ch.: v.1, p.11)
DUGAS, Jean d. 4 Sept. 1765, bur. 5 Sept. 1765, date recorded: 6 Sept. 1765. Fr. Jean FRANCOIS, "cure de la nouvelle Acadie" [pastor of the new Acadia] (SM Ch.: Slave Funeral Register v.1, #19-A)
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Dugas-128 and Dugas-78 appear to represent the same person because: All pertinent info matches; only discrepancy is which province for Port Royal-New Brunswick or Nova Scotia