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Hi Jean,
Sorry for my late reply, but I wanted to make sure I had all my ducks lined up before I answered your post.
Here is Judith Benoit's lineage:
1. Judith Benoit
2. Boniface Benoit
3. Madeleine Manet
4. Boniface Benoit
5. Marie-Josephe Boucher
6. Paul Manet
7. Anne Lavandier
(Paul and Anne were third cousins by common descent from the Rimbault family.)
8. Guillaume Benoit
9. Marie-Josephe Gautrot
10. Honore Boucher dit Villedieu
11. Marie-Anne Marres dit LaSonde
12. Georges Manet
13. Marguerrite Breau
14. Abraham Lavandier
15. Genevieve Benard
16. Pierre Benoit le jeune
17. Elisabeth LeJuge
18. Claude Gautrot
19. Marie Thériot
20. Pierre Boucher
21. Anne Hebert
(Anne Hebert married secondly Jean-Baptiste Villedieu, from whom her son Honore derived his nickname. Jean-Baptiste was the brother of Marie Villedieu, No. 25, below.)
22. Bernard Marres dit LaSonde (The censuses of Ile Royale show that he was born in Bordeaux, France.)
23. Judith Petitpas
24. Augustin Manet
25. Marie Villedieu
26. Jean Breau
27. Anne Gautrot
28. Antoine Lavandier (The census of 1734 shows that he ws born in Avranches, France.)
29. Françoise Lavergne (She was the widow of Claude Petitpas, No. 46, below.)
30. Pierre Benard (He was born in St-Malo, according to the census of 1752.)
31. Cecile Longuepee
32. Martin Benoit
33. Marie Chaussegros (They both came from France, according to the Belle-Ile-en-Mer depositions.)
34. Guillaume LeJuge
35. Marie Mercier (She came from France, according to the Belle-Ile depositions.)
36. François Gautrot
37. Edmee Lejeune (MtDNA testing has shown that her maternal line was from the Old World, so she must have been born in France.)
38. Bonaventure Theriot (MtDNA testing has shown that his mother's ancestry was European. The Belle-Ile-en-Mer depositions meanwhile indicate that his father came from France.)
39. Jeanne Boudrot (The Belle-Ile-en-Mer depositions state that both of her parents came from France. MtDNA testing has confirmed this regarding her mother.)
40. Pierre Boucher (His ancestors in Canada can all be traced back to France.)
41. Helene Gaudry dit Bourbonniere (Her ancestors likewise all came from France.)
42. Etienne Hebert (His parents both came from France, according to the Belle-Ile depositions.)
43. Jeanne Comeau (The Belle-Ile depositions state that her father came from France, and MtDNA testing has shown that her mother's ancestry was European.)
44. & 45. Unknown (but presumably from Bordeaux, France, where their son was born)
46. Claude Petitpas (MtDNA testing has shown that his mother's ancestry was European.)
47. Marie-Therese A Native American
48. & 49. Unknown
50. Jean-Baptiste Villedieu (The census of 1726 says he was born in St-Malo, but that of 1724 places his birth in Normandie.)
51. Unknown (but presumably from in or near Granville, where her son was born)
52. Antoine Breau
53. Marguerite Babin (She was a daughter of Marie Mercier, No. 35, above. Her father also came from France, according to the Belle-Ile depositions.)
54. Charles Gautrot (He was a son of Nos. 36 & 37, above.)
55. Françoise Rimbault 1/2 Native American (Presuming that the single MtDNA test result obtained to date means that her mother, Anne-Marie, was of full-blooded Native origin.)
56. & 57. Unknown (but presumably from Avranches, France, where their child was born)
58. Pierre Lavergne
59. Anne Bernon
60. & 61. Unknown (but presumably from St-Malo, France, where their son was born)
62. Vincent Longuepee (He came from France, according to one of the Belle-Ile-en-Mer depositions.)
63. Madeleine Rimbault 1/2 Native American (She was a sister of Françoise Rimbault, No. 55, above.)
The foregoing information has been meticulously verified in the original records. Specific references are available upon request. One is free to draw the conclusions one wishes from these data. The facts remain the facts, however, and by anyone's calculation Judith Benoit's three Native American lines make but a small contribution to her total make-up. A simple mathematical computation shows that notwithstanding these three lines, Judith Benoit was at least 93.75% French. Of all her forebears who can be identified by name over six generations, only two, Marie-Therese and Anne-Marie, appear to have been aboriginal.
It must also be mentioned that there is no proof that either Marie-Therese or Anne-Marie was a Mi'kmaw. The most that is indicated by the records and a certain mtDNA test is that they were Amerindians. Indeed, the only Amerindian ancestors of early Acadian families whose tribal affiliations have been identified are the two wives of the Baron de Saint-Castin, who were both Abenakis, and the supposed mother of Michel Hache dit Gallant. Regarding the latter, there is reason to believe that she was a Montagnaise who had been taken from her own people by the Mi'kmaq in the course of a raid into the Côte Nord and subsequently brought to Cape Breton Island. The specific background of the wives of Claude Petitpas, René Rimbault, Philippe Mius d'Azy and Jean Roy dit Laliberté is in the meantime unknown. Any statements to the effect that they were Mi'kmaq are mere suppositions, because there is no actual evidence, either documentary or genetic, to that effect. Just like the supposed mother of Michel Hache dit Gallant, any or all of them might have been captives whom the Mi'kmaq had taken from other tribes.
This is why I said Judith Benoit "may have had a sliver of Mi'kmaq blood." That she had a little Native American ancestry cannot be disputed. Whether that Native American ancestry was Mi'kmaq is subject to question. But there is no question about the overwhelming majority of her ancestry being French. Consequently, Judith Benoit was an Acadian with a bit of Native American ancestry, and not a Native American who happened to speak French.
P.W.
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