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An Event Chronology Based on Louisbourg Accounts Not Available in the Archives of the Fortress of Louisbourg, By Eric Krause, Krause House Info-Research Solutions, 2004 - Present

1728

• c. post 1728

[c. post 1728]

À Cap Sable, au village de Bacquarau. Je certifie avoir donné l’autorisation à Charles Amiraux qui réside ici, et à six personnes, de ses confrères, d’aller et chercher le long de la côte et essayer de sauver ce qui peut l’être de l’épave du vaisseau brigantin le tibelle (sic), qui, en chemin vers Louisbourg, étant chargé, se perdit dans les environs de Cap Ourse. Cela pour les récompenser pour les troubles, qu’ils ont eu et pour le soin qu’ils ont prit de nous chercher le long de la côte où nous étions sans assistance et sans aide de personne, et courant même le risque de tomber aux mains des Amérindiens. Ce pourquoi j’ai signé le présent certificat. (Signé) Baduhon.

At Cape Sable, village of Bacquarau. I testify of having given authorization to Charles Amiraux who resides here, and to six persons, of their confreres, to go and search along this coast and try to salvage what they can from the wreckage of the brigantine vessel the tibelle (sic), which, on its way to Louisbourg, being loaded, wrecked in the vicinity of Cap Ourse. This is to reward them for the troubles that they had and for the care that they took to look for us along the coast where we were without assistance or help from anyone, and even being in the risk of falling into the hands of the Indians. Wherefore I have signed the present certificate. (signed) Baduhon.

[Source: The Wreck of the Tibel  [Les archives Père Clarence d'Entremont] ... Jean-Baptiste Duon arrived in Acadia very shortly before its definite conquest by Sir Francis Nickelson in 1710. He was called "Lyonnais," because he was from Lyon, France. According to the registration of his marriage, which took place in Port Royal in 1713, we know that his parents were Jean-Louis Duon and Jeanne Clemenceau and that his wife was Agnes Hebert, daughter of Antoine Hebert and Jeanne Corporon. In Annapolis, he became a merchant. In 1727, he was commissioned to act as notary public. Not doing well in business, he left Annapolis in 1725 and established himself, it seems, in Cape Breton. That is when he started to deal in merchandise with Louisbour. In 1728, we find him as Captain of a vessel of 90 tons, the "Union," on his way to Cape Breton, coming from Quebec, with flour, biscuits, wheat, etc. It must have been very shortly after this date that he acquired another vessel, the "Tibel." His fourth son and fifth child was Abel ... With regard to the wreck of the Tibel, we only have one single document which mentions it, and it is not an original but a copy. Louis A. Surette (see sketch No. 46), through his mother who was the daughter of Joseph d'Entremont, came in possession of many documents regarding the early families who settled in Pubnico after the Expulsion. After his death, most of these documents passed into the hands of Henri Leander d'Entremont. They now belong to the St. Peter's parish, West Pubnico, and are stored in the vault of the Bishop's House, in Yarmouth. Some of these documents had been copied by had by my uncle Henri Leander d'Entremont. - http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/2700/story80.htm ; Ce court texte a été rédigé en anglais par le père Clarence d’Entremont et publiés dans le Yarmouth Vanguard le 10 juillet 1990. Traduction de Michel Miousse - http://www.museeacadien.ca/french/archives/articles/80.htm ]

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