Jacques Petitpas (abt. 1666 - abt. 1694)

Born about 1666 in Port Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Husband of Geneviève Serreau — married 1690 in Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Descendants

Died about 1694 at about age 28 in Port Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

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Biography

"Jacques Petitpas, fils de ce dernier et de Catherine Bugaret, est devenu, par son mariage avec Geneviève Serreau, le père de Nicolas, qui passa de Port-Royal à Port-Toulouse et ensuite à Louisbourg."^[1]

Jacques was born about 1666, likely in Port Royal as he was with his family there in 1671, age 5 years. All of his older siblings were baptised in Port Royal.^[2]

In 1686, at Port Royal, Jacques, aged 19, was living with his parents, Claude PETITPAS, aged 60, and Catherine BUGARET, aged 46, and eight siblings: Claude, aged 23, Marie, aged 18, Henriette, aged 12, Paul, aged 11, Charles, aged 10, Martin, aged 9, Pierre, aged 5, and Anne, aged 2. They owned 2 guns and were living on 12 arpents of cultivable land with 22 cattle and 10 hogs. ^[3]

Jacques married into the influential family of Jean Serreau de Saint-Aubin. These two families were taken prisoner by the British and held in Boston in 1692. The two men agreed to participate in a plan to allow the British to capture Jean-Vincent Saint Castin, to secure freedom for their families. Once in Penobscopt Bay, they were able to thwart the plan and received a large reward from the Governor of Acadie. ^[4]On 9 November 1692, Jacques Petitpas and Charles Serreau, Geneviève's younger brother, (See Research Notes) residents of Archimayan in Acadie, were taken prisoner by the British and brought to Boston with their families.^[5] “In order to obtain their freedom, the two heads of families pretended to accept the proposal that they should go with two deserters from Quebec to carry off or assassinate Saint-Castin. But when they reached Penobscot Bay, they tied up the two traitors and took them to Governor Robinau de Villebon, who had them executed. Villebon rewarded the two Acadians with a sum of money sufficiently large ‘to enable them to deliver their wives and children from the English.’” ^[6][7]

Sources

1. ↑ White, Stephen A. La généalogie des trente-sept familles hôtesses des "Retrouvailles 94", Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, vol. 25, nos 2 et 3 (1994).
2. ↑ White, Stephen A., Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert. Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles Acadiennes. Moncton, N.-B.: Centre D'études Acadiennes, Université De Moncton, 1999, Print. P. 1295
3. ↑ Tim Hebert; Transcription of the 1686 Acadian Census, at Port-Royal, Acadie 1686 Census Transcribed. The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752,” Images 15-60;

   at Port Royal: Claude PETITPAS, Sr. de lafleur, clerk of the court, 60; Catherine BUGARET his wife 46; children: Claude 23, Jacques 19. Marie 18, Henriette 12, Paul 11, Charles 10, Martin 9, Pierre 5, Anne 2; 2 guns, 12 arpents, 22 cattle 10 hogs.

4. ↑ Clarence J. d’Entremont, “SERREAU DE SAINT-AUBIN, JEAN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed September 20, 2020, Description of the Plot Against Saint Castin.
5. ↑ (Stephen White citing Beamish Murdock, A History of Nova Scotia, or Acadia, 1865, vol I, p. 241)
6. ↑ Clarence J. d’Entremont, “SERREAU DE SAINT-AUBIN, JEAN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed December 17, 2020, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/serreau_de_saint_aubin_jean_2E.html.
7. ↑ White, Stephen A. English Supplement to the Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles Acadiennes ,Part I 1636 to 1714; Moncton, N.-B.: Centre D'études Acadiennes, Université De Moncton, 2000, Print. P. 307

   9 Nov 1692: Jacques Petitpas and Charles Serreau, Sr. de Saint-Aubin, both residents of Archimayan, in Acadia, were captured by the English and brought to Boston with their families. The governor of Massachusetts sent them along with two French deserters to capture M de Saint-Castin, keeping their families as hostages, but they betrayed the plan to the French authorities and delivered the deserters to them.

See also:

• Derek Moore, Moore - Dunn Web Site at MyHeritage.com family tree; Family tree: Moore Genealogy