Baie St. Marie Parish Registres 1799 - 1801 by Janet B. Jehn: ACADIA NOVA SCOTIA

Description

Up for sale is a very scarce compilation of marriage dispensations, baptisms, and other Sacraments conducted at the Parish of Baie Ste. Marie (St. Mary's Bay) in Nova Scotia at the turn of the 19th Century.  This community played an important role in the resettlement of the Acadian population after their expulsion from the province decades earlier.
Title:
Baie Ste. Marie Parish Registres, 1799 - 1801
Compiled and translated by:  Janet B. Jehn
Publisher:  ? self-published
Copyright:  1985 (by Janet B. Jehn, 863 Wayman Branch Road, Covington, Kentucky, 41015)
ISBN:  030444-08-9  (NOTE:  As printed in the book, the ISBN has only 9 digits.  If you add a "0" in front, you will get an ISBN that is recognized by search engines and databases.)
Paperback book
About 11 inches tall by 8.5 inches wide.  75 pages.  (NOTE:  The pages are printed, and numbered, on only one side.)
During the period in question, Baie Ste. Marie Parish did not have a full time priest, but was served by priests riding on circuit.  According to the Preface of this book, the Sacraments validated in the registers for 1799 - 1801, in many cases had actually been performed (by the inhabitants of the community themselves) as much as seven years previously.  There is much valuable genealogical information in this book, such as the explanations of the relationships of the god-parents to the child who was baptized.
According to the website of "canadianmysteries", the British expelled an estimated 12,000 Acadians from their homeland between 1755 and 1763.  They were given a "right to return" starting in 1764 but their former property had been razed and settled by both Europeans and those coming from the 13 (American) colonies.  In 1768, the government of Novas Scotia started to give land grants to the returning Acadians in the region of Clare.  (The Acadians did not achieve the right to own these land grants until several years later.)  It is estimated that about 2,000 Acadians actually returned to Nova Scotia.  Baie Ste. Marie (St. Mary's Bay) would become "the most homogeneous Acadian region in the province".  Despite provincial attempts (in the 19th Century) at language suppression, the community had "the lowest rate of assimilation by the English language" in Nova Scotia.  The returning Acadians did not achieve full civil liberties for many years.  Ironically, by the time they had secured these liberties, adverse economic trends caused the descendants of many of the returned Acadians to leave again, primarily for the industrial centers of the Maritimes, Ontario, and the United States.  Nevertheless, the Acadian community in Baie Ste. Marie has persisted and - today - claims to be the home of the oldest Acadian festival in the world.
Please see above for complete description of condition and photos.   Sold as is.  (NOTE:  I sold another copy of this book a few years ago, in similar condition.  The copy I am now selling is my last one.)
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