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Jean Baptiste Dugas (abt. 1737 - aft. 1785)

Jean Baptiste Dugas aka Dugast
Born about in Cobequit, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotiamap
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Husband of — married 9 Feb 1768 in Saint Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, Francemap
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Died after after about age 48 in Louisiana, New Spainmap
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Biography

Jean Baptiste Dugast is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 6-R: le Bon Papa arrive le 29 juillet 1785. Listed with him is his wife, Marie Grossin, and two girls: Marie Dugast and Marie Hache, sa mineure.[1]

Jean Baptiste Dugas was born in 1737 in Cobequit, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia. His parents were Charles Dugas (~1706 - ~1758) and Anne Marie Benoit (~1705 - 1772).[2]

His siblings were as listed below.

  1. Joseph Dugas (>1724 - 1759)
  2. Marguerite Dugas (>1725 - 1759)
  3. Anne Dugas (~1733 - >1788)
  4. Marie Josephe Dugas (1740 - )
  5. Pierre Ignace Dugas (~1743 - )
  6. Pierre Dugas (~1745 - )
  7. Antoine Dugas (~1747 - )
  8. Marie Victoire Dugas (1749 - )

According to genealogist Karen Theriot Reader, citing Albert J. Robichaux,

Jean-Baptiste DUGAST, born about 1737, son of Charles & Anne-Marie BENOIST (see family #356), a fisherman, he disembarked with his mother at St. Malo on 23 Jan 1759 from one of the "Five ships." He resided at St. Enogat from 1759-1772. In 1766 Jean-Baptiste was absent at sea on the ship "L'Aimable-Therese. It was reported in the Roll of 1766 that he had deserted at New Orleans on 18 Jul 1765. [If so, he would have been one of the first French-exiled Acadians to judge the new world[sic, new "Acadia"] firsthand.] On the Roll of 1767, a notation states the he was at LeHavre on 23 Oct 1767, and was to return to St. Malo on 1 Nov 1767. By 1768 he was returned to St. Malo. He married on 9 Feb 1768 at St. Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, France to Marie GROSSIN, daughter of Michel & Marie CAISSY; four children listed.

Jean Baptiste married Marie Grossin (1737 - 1809) on 9 February 1768 in Saint Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, France.[3]

On the passenger list of le Bon Papa, he was listed as age 49, and his wife, here listed as Marie Clossinet, was age 43. The two unnamed girls with them are listed as their daughters.[4] The ship sailed from Nantes, France on May 10 and arrived at the port of New Orleans about two months later, on July 29,1785.

Jean Baptiste died at an unknown date in Louisiana after 29 July 1785.

Sources

  1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, compiled by Jane G. Bulliard and the Wall of Names Committee (Scott, LA: Hulco, 2002) p. 27.
  2. ↑ Karen Theriot Reader, Jean Baptiste citing Albert J. Robichaux, THE ACADIAN EXILES IN SAINT-MALO; 1758-1785; vol. 1, pt. 1, (Eunice, LA: Hebert Publications, 1981) pp. 293-294, family #360.
    Jean-Baptiste DUGAST, born about 1737, son of Charles & Anne-Marie BENOIST (see family #356), a fisherman, he disembarked with his mother at St. Malo on 23 Jan 1759 from one of the "Five ships." He resided at St. Enogat from 1759-1772. In 1766 Jean-Baptiste was absent at sea on the ship "L'Aimable-Therese. It was reported in the Roll of 1766 that he had deserted at New Orleans on 18 Jul 1765. [If so, he would have been one of the first French-exiled Acadians to judge the new world[sic, new "Acadia"] firsthand.] On the Roll of 1767, a notation states the he was at LeHavre on 23 Oct 1767, and was to return to St. Malo on 1 Nov 1767. By 1768 he was returned to St. Malo. He married on 9 Feb 1768 at St. Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, France to Marie GROSSIN, daughter of Michel & Marie CAISSY; four children listed.
  3. ↑ Online Archives, Ille-et-Vilaine, France, "Saint-Servan Marriages, Commune, 1768," marriage record, le neufieme fevrier 1768.
  4. ↑ Gerard-Marc Braud, From Nantes to Louisiana, (Lafayette, LA: La Rainette, 1999) p. 94.




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