Jean-Baptiste (Guedry) Guédry (1684 - 1726)

Born 1684 in Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Husband of Madeleine Mius — married before Nov 1708 in Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died 13 Nov 1726 at about age 42 in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts Colony

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Biography

Jean-Baptiste Guédry, son of Claude Guédry (~1648 - >1723) and Marguerite Petitpas (~1661 - >1726), was born 1684 in Port-Royal, Acadie, and died when he was hanged for piracy in British colonial Boston, Massachusetts on November 13, 1726. ^[1]

HANGING OF TWO ACADIANS AND THREE INDIANS IN BOSTON

by Pere Clarence d'ENTREMONT; Yarmouth Vanguard, 31 Jan. 1989.

Captain Joseph Decoy, from Cape Breton, used to trade in Boston with his vessel. This was in the 1720's. On one of his trips he took with him his son, who was detained in Boston for a reason which is not given. On his way back, he stopped at Merliguesh, now Lunenburg, and told the Acadians and the Indians what had happened. He told them that the only way that his son could be redeemed would be to seize one of the many vessels from Boston and vicinity fishing on the coasts of Nova Scotia and offer it in ransom for his son. This was September 4, 1726.^[2]

See also,“26 August 1726: A Case Study in Mi’kmaq-New England Relations in the Early 18th Century.” ^[3].

Jean-Baptiste (~24) married Madeleine Mius (~14) (1694 - ) in Nov 1708 in Acadie. ^[4]

Children of Madeleine Mius d'Azy and Jean Baptiste Geidry:

1. Jean Baptiste Guédry (~1710 - )
2. Marie Guédry (~1712 - )
3. Claude Guédry (1714 - 1789)
4. Joseph Guédry (1716 - ).

Residences

Census: 1698 Port Royal, Acadia ^[5]

Census: 1701-1705 Merligueche, Acadia ^[6]

Census: 1708 La Heve, Acadia ^[7]

Census: 1717 Grand Pré, Acadia ^[8]

Census: 1726 Merligueche, Acadia ^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ Stephen A. White, English Supplement to the Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes, [vol. 3] (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 2000) p. 158

   Text: Biographical Note:

   13 Nov 1726: "We have already referred to what the English called an act of piracy, perpetrated at the beginning of September 1726 at Merliguesh (Lunenburg) against the person of Samuel Daly, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and his crew, by the Acadians and Amerindians of the place, for which Jean-Baptiste Guédry, the son of Claude Guédry and Marguerite Petitpas and husband of Philippe II Mius d'Entremont's daughter Madeleine, as well as his own like-named son and three Amerindians, were all condemned to be hanged at Boston, where they were in fact executed the following November 13th (n.s.)"

2. ↑ For the rest of the account of Jean-Baptiste's death, click here: "100 Articles Written by Father Clarence J. d'Entremont"; Author: Musée des Acadiens des Pubnicos; Repository: Internet: - HANGING OF TWO ACADIANS AND THREE INDIANS IN BOSTON
3. ↑ WICKEN, BILL. “26 August 1726: A Case Study in Mi’kmaq-New England Relations in the Early 18th Century.” Acadiensis 23, no. 1 (1993): 5–22. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30303468.
4. ↑ The East Coast of Acadia in 1708; Winston De Ville; Ville Platte, LA: Provincial Press, 1999; p. 58

   Text: They were married, with no children, on the 1708 census.

5. ↑ Source: #DGFA Age 14
6. ↑ Source: #MGuedry
7. ↑ Source: #DGFA

   Jean-Baptiste was on the 1708 census at La Heve, age 24 years.

8. ↑ Source: #MGuedry
9. ↑ Source: #MGuedry

See also:

• Source: DGFA Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes, Première Partie 1636-1714; Stephen A. White; 2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999;

• Source: MGuedry Labine; Guidry, Martin; Freepages.genealogy; Repository: Internet Jean-Baptiste GUÉDRY dit Grivois NOTE: link is broken as of 02 Feb 2022

• http://www.acadian-home.org/ACADIA%201708%20Census.pdf Indian census of 1708, pg 56.

• "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:SRX7-6R4  : accessed 2014-12-11), entry for Philippe /Mius-d'Azit/.
• There's a substantial amount of new information in this article. https://dna-explained.com/2024/04/04/philippe-mius-c1660-after-august-1726-disaster-piracy-the-dead-mans-jig-52-ancestors-423/