APPENDICES

The BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil Party to the Atakapas District, 1765

Ages are as of 1765.  Many of the birthplaces are sheer speculation.01  Individuals with surnames in bold are male family heads or the eldest sons of widows.  

                                                                                   SYMBOLS:
#        Family heads who signed the DAUTERIVE agreement with Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil in early Apr 1765  
$        Individuals who appear on the 30 Apr 1765 card money exchange list in New Orleans (see <thecajuns.com/cardmoney.htm>)
+        Individuals who died at Atakapas in the first months of settlement, primarily those who perished in the epidemic of 1765
*        Individuals who probably left the Atakapas in late 1765 to escape an epidemic

Hyperlinks take you to individual histories in the Acadians-to-Louisiana Alpha List, which contain many more details of each person's life.  Death/burials are in 1765, unless otherwise stated, and documented in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vol. 1-A.

NOTE:  Many of the individuals who survived the epidemic of 1765 can be found in the Apr 1766 Atakapas militia list/census found in Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 124-25.

Chronology of Burials at either au premier camp d'en bas [at the first burial place lower down], au dernier camp d'en bas [at the last burial place lower down], or at La Pointe de Répose, as recorded by Father Jean-Francois de CIVREY

NOTES

01.  In his essay entitled "Metamorphosis of Acadian Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Louisiana" at <www.acadianmemorial.org/english/ensembleencoreset.html>, Dr. Carl A. Brasseaux, the leading authority on the Acadians in LA, says:  "Most Attakapas Acadians (77.7 percent) were former residents of the Chignecto Isthmus area....."  But Dr. Brasseaux does not tell us how he arrived at this precise figure.

02.  In the death/burial record for Joseph dit Beausoleil in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:137 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.78; SM Ch.: Folio B-1, Funeral), Fr. Jean-Francois says that the old freedom fighter was buried "at the Camp [place or location] named Beausoleil," & "at place called Beausoleil."  Was the place the Atakapas Acadians called Beausoleil the same place as premier camp d'en bas (the first burial place lower down) or dernier camp d'en bas (the last burial place lower down), terms used by Fr. Jean-Francois in several other 1765 Atakapas burial records?  How far apart were these first & last places of burials "lower down" the Teche below the Poste des Atakapas, today's St. Martinville?  And where were they located exactly? 

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