| 4. | Paul BOUTIN was born about 1727 in Minas, Acadie (son of Joseph BOUTIN and Marguerite LEJEUNE DITE BRIARD); and died; was buried on 25 Feb 1801 in Opelousas, St. Landry, Louisiana, USA. Notes:
The account of the Acadians who landed at Pennsylvania and were kept aboard ship for three months in the dead of winter, is given, "Antoine Benezet a Huguenot and defender of negroes and Father Robert Hardy, visiited the exiles aboard ship and found them 'crowded together, without socks, shirts, blankets or other necessary items. They launched a petition for public charity. Smallpox soon broke out and many died.' The survivors were distributed among Pennsylvania's five counties in the spring of 1756. Here again children were torn from their parents, which gave rise to many petitions. There were complaints of being forced to work while being ill and that about 150 (of a total 454) of their number had already died from disease of a type they had never known in their native country." In Oct. 1756 it was written, 'Many of them have not had bread nor meat for weeks and have been reduced to scavenging and stealing to subsist.' After the Treaty of Paris, almost all of the survivors went to Louisiana and to Canada. Pierre Paul Boutin and Ursule arrived in Louisiana in 1767. --
REF: "The Acadian Exiles in the American Colonies by Milton and Norma G. Rieder pg. 5
Under threat of starvation, Joseph Boutin's youngest son Paul, his wife Ursule Guédry, and Joseph's older son Charles and his family, left their home on Île Royale in August 1754 and moved to the British stronghold at Halifax, Nova Scotia. After they took the oath of allegiance to the British crown, Governor Lawrence ordered them sent with other Île Royale refugees to nearby Lunenburg, a new German settlement near Mirliguèche, ancestral home of the Guédrys. At Lunenburg, Paul, Charles, and their families were "victualled" by the British until September 1755, when, at the beginning of Le Grand Dérangement, the British imprisoned them on George's Island, Halifax, with other Acadians. In late December, they were among the 50 Acadians at George's Island herded aboard the British transport Providence and sent to North Carolina, where they landed probably at Edenton in January 1756. They remained in the Chowan County area of North Carolina until circa 1760, when they moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; brother Charles and his wife may have died by then. Paul's daughter Susanne-Catherine, born probably at Philadelphia in December 1761, was baptized at St. Joseph Catholic Church there in June 1762. The family was still in Pennsylvania in June 1763 after the war with Britain had ended, but they did not remain in the Quaker colony much longer. By 1764, they had moved to Baltimore, Maryland, to join relatives who had settled there after leaving North Carolina.
Paul Boutin and his family found themselves living among English colonists who, despite their Catholic roots, did not care much for the French "papists" who had been thrust upon them. When word reached the Acadians in Maryland that they would be welcome in Louisiana, where many of their relatives had gone, they pooled their meager resources to charter ships that would take them to New Orleans. Paul Boutin had no close relatives in Louisiana, but his wife did. Her younger brother Joseph Guédry had gone there from Halifax in early 1765 with the Broussard dit Beausoleil party; Joseph had followed the Broussards to the Bayou Teche valley and had survived the epidemic that had killed dozens of his fellow Acadians that year. Certainly life had to be better in Louisiana, even with its epidemics, than in a British colony where Acadians were treated like pariahs.
Only one family of Acadian Boutins emigrated to Louisiana. Pierre-Paul, called Paul, Boutin, age 50, wife Ursule Guédry, age 37, four children--Marguerite, age 15, Joseph, age 14, Susanne, age 5, and Paul, fils, age 3--and Pierre-Paul's older brother Charles's children Pierre-Olivier, called Olivier, age 18, and Marie-Françoise, age 16, came to Louisiana in July 1767 with the second contingent of Acadians from Maryland. Spanish authorities sent them a new community, St.-Gabriel d'Iberville, also called St.-Gabriel de Manchac, on the river above New Orleans. Ursule was pregnant when they reached New Orleans; soon after they reached the colony, she gave birth to another daughter--Marie-Julienne, born in February 1768 probably at St.-Gabriel and baptized at New Orleans the following April. The Boutins did not remain at St.-Gabriel for very long; during the early 1770s, Paul took his family to the Opelousas District.
SOURCE : http://www.acadiansingray.com/Appendices-ATLAL-BOUTIN.htm
Paul married Ursule GUÉDRY, GUIDRY on 09 Nov 1750 in Louisbourg, Ïle-Royale, Acadie, Canada. Ursule (daughter of Augustin GUÉDRY and Jeanne HÉBERT) was born about 1731 in St-Charles-les-Mines, Grand-Pré, Acadie; died on 19 Aug 1788 in Opelousas, St. Landry, Louisiana, USA; was buried on 20 Aug 1788 in Opelousas, St. Landry, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1792 - 1863 (71 years)
