Re: tracing family tree from nova scotia
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Re: tracing family tree from nova scotia
Al Pettipas 8/13/00
A source I found says Claude Pettipas was born in Ville Franche du Queyran, Gascony, France, in about 1626.I am also related to him, 11 generations back, through my grandfather Archille DuPuis.Archille was a great-x6-grandson of Michel DuPuis, who was of the same generation as Claude Pettipas.There is an interesting chart that shows the locations of the farms of (among others of the original Acadian settlers) Claude Pettipas (Jr.?) and Michel's grandson, Jean DuPuis, on the Rivière Dauphins in Acadie.It is at:
http://www.acadian-home.org/map-early-1700.htmlhttp://www.acadian-home.org/map-early-1700.html
Jean DuPuis married Claude Sr.'s granddaughter, Marguerite Richard.So I am Claude's great-x8-grandaughter. (Did I count all those greats- right?)
Have you read the facinating tale about Claude Jr. and the Legislative Council of Massachusetts?:
"REF: Aug 1695 :Petitpas took the oath of allegiance to the King of England at Port-Royal; he signed 1716 : Description of Île Royale, by Jacques L'Hermite: "A man named Petitpas, grandson of one named Bernard du Gueret [sic], dit St-Martin, a native of Bordeaux, who was settled at Mirliguèche, between LaHève and Chibouctou...by [order of] the gentlemen of the Company about eighty years ago; this harbour was given him by the King, and the papers are recorded in the registry of Canada." 30 June 1720 : The Legislative Council of Massachusetts granted him, at his request, the sum of one hundred pounds for having secured the freedom of some English captives by paying their ransom with his own money. The Council further resolved that the government would pay the tuition fees for one of his sons for four years at Harvard College."
There's more if you're interested,
Mary Johnson