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Exiled in Port Tobacco, Maryland on 7 Jul 1763 with family. Listed among Natchez, Natchitoches Parish, LA settlers as 24-yr old with widowed mother & siblings on 11 Feb 1768. By Aug 1 1770, she is a 26-yr old wed to 26-yr old Pierre Guedry & has a 5 mo. old son and is living on left bank of Mississippi in Ascension Parish. Moved to Opelousas, LA by 4 May 1777 census. Family consists of Pierre Guidry-35; wife Claire Babin-35; sons: David-7; Olivier-5; Joseph-3; Jean-Baptiste-1.
Sources: "Acadian Exiles in the Colonies" by Janet Jehn; "Acadian Exiles in the American Colonies 1755-1767" by Rieder; and "Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianans: Census Records of the Colony, 1758-1796" by Jacqueline Voorhies.