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- Occupation - Pirate
- Embarked in the West Indies on a slave ship, he is captured by the pirate Georges Booth, whose exhilarating life he embraces. Booth dies prematurely in Zanzibar, Boyer then goes to the service of the pirate John Bowen (Jean Bouin). He is certainly on the same ship as Robert TARBY said Robin (another ancestor). Boyer was certainly on board the pirate ship the Speaking Trumpet when it ran aground during a gale on January 7, 1702 on the islet of Rochers (Saint-Thomas reef, Mauritius, the wreck was found by Patrick Lizé in 1981) and sent back on a rowboat on March 24, 1702 to Madagascar (via Réunion on April 2, 1702); but John Bowen last decides to become honest and settles in Reunion in 1704, he pirate for some time with Nathaniel North (companion of John Bowen), then sailor of the pirate Thomas White (who would be the grandfather of Queen Betty) on the Île Sainte-Marie in Madagascar, and would have died in Saint-Paul Réunion in 1719), with which he sacked in Bourbon on December 18, 1706.
Abjured the Reformed religion in 1701 during a previous trip to Bourbon. Previously filibuster (1711).
He represents Sainte-Suzanne at the Provincial Council of Réunion (in 1717), he lives in Butor.
According to Desforges-Boucher: "No other profession than that of sailor. Drunkard to the last point, little attached to the Roman religion, without education, dissolute in his words and in his manners. He has four blacks and one negress. inclination to work and instead thought of planting his land of sugar cane to make frangorin in order to have room to get drunk. He has no cash, having dispelled by his continual debauchery the fruit of his forbearance. " (Bénard-Monge, p.87)
Children: Jacques 1708-1776, Marie-Jeanne 1710-1795, Anne 1714-1749, Joseph 1716-1777, DENIS 1717-1806, Mathurin 1719-1786
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