Jean Baptiste
Leger
Born in Annapolis Royal, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia
Ancestors 
Son of François (Leger) Léger
and Madeleine Comeau
Brother of
Joseph (Legere) Léger, Marie Josephe Leger, Scholastique (Legere) Leger, François (Legere) Léger, Charles Leger, Marguerite Legere, Anne Legere and Paul Leger
Husband of
Marie Cécile Mius
— married
about 1780 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Marie (Léger) Corporon
Died
at age 67
in Tusket River, Colony of Nova Scotia
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Biography
Jean Baptiste was born in 1741. He was the son of Francois Legere and Madaleine Comeau. He passed away in 1809.[1]
"died 9 February 1809, 6 March 1809, P. Miuce, declared before Sigogne, details of burial and death, in absence of a priest; approx. 60 years old; found frozen on the "Tousket" river." [2]
Sources
- ↑ An Acadian Parish Remembered The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755 Jean Baptiste Leger baptism 23 September 1741 RG 1 volume 26a page 211 https://archives.novascotia.ca/acadian/archives/?ID=2512
- ↑ Sainte Anne Church Records. Retrieved 21 Aug 2016 from http://novascotia.ca/archives/acadian/reborn/archives.asp?ID=810
- http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/a/r/c/Raymond-J-Arcement/BOOK-0001/0003-0015.html
- Gilles Pinet, My Acadian Family | Ma famille acadienne, Jean-Baptiste Léger
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jean Baptiste by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jean Baptiste by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- John White
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 700 markers, haplogroup J-L256, FTDNA kit #951670
- Donna (Friebel) Storz :
Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test HVR1 and HVR2, haplogroup X2b7, FTDNA kit #B5389, MitoYDNA ID T10906 [compare]
- Candice Burton :
Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup X2b7, FTDNA kit #373189
- Mary-Lucille (Andrus) Sims :
Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup X2b7, FTDNA kit #434682
- Lesa LaVergne :
Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup X2b7, FTDNA kit #B96483
- Ronald Thibodeaux :
Mitochondrial DNA Test, haplogroup X2b
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~3.12%
G. Hall :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder
-
~1.56%
Doralis (Royer) Trahan :
23andMe
-
~1.56%
Larry Legere :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member larryle156
-
~1.56%
Liz (Hall) Morgan :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder
-
~0.78%
Rogers Sonnier :
23andMe, GEDmatch M563870 [compare]
-
~0.78%
Joseph Savoie :
23andMe
-
~0.78%
Gisèle Cormier :
23andMe, GEDmatch RY6896236 [compare]
+
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch JH8696373 [compare]
-
~0.78%
Marcel Cormier :
23andMe
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #IN133450
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Larry J. Fitzgerald :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Dorothy (Trahan) Gaspard :
23andMe
-
~0.78%
~6.25%
Terry Leger :
23andMe
-
~0.78%
Ronald Guillory :
AncestryDNA
-
~0.78%
Andrew Gallant :
AncestryDNA
-
~0.78%
Rick Markel :
AncestryDNA
-
~0.78%
Delcia Ouellette :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A984541 [compare], Ancestry member delcia13
-
~0.78%
Henry Michel :
AncestryDNA
-
~0.78%
Lionel LaVergne :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A424977 [compare]
-
~0.78%
Michael Hanks :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #MK47261
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~0.78%
~6.25%
Joyce (Smith) Doucet :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T090848 [compare], FTDNA kit #441562
-
~0.39%
~1.56%
Sam Haley :
23andMe
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