Document : 1785-05-10a // 1785-07-29

Références / localisation du document

Carl A. Brasseaux, "Phantom Letters: Acadian Correspondence, 1776-1784", Acadiensis, XXIII, 2 (Spring 1994 ) : pp. 124-32. # 89 // Oscar William Winzerling, Acadian Odyssey, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1955. p. 130

Date(s)

1785-05-10a // 1785-07-29

Résumé et contenu

Départ du "Bon Papa" et de la "Bergère" avec près de 500 personnes, premiers bateaux pour la Louisiane.

Louisiane ; note de Brasseaux : this is an apparent reference to the first two Acadian "expeditions" of 1785.

The "Bon Papa", which sailed from Paimboeuf, France, on 10 May 1785, with 36 Acadian families (156 individuals) aboard. The vessel docked at New Orleans on 29 July 1785.

The frigate "Bergère", which sailed from Paimboeuf on 12 May 1785, carried 73 Acadian families numbering 273 persons. The ship arrived at New Orleans on 15 August 1785.

The third Acadian transport, the "Beaumont", did not sail from France until 11 June 1785.

No Acadians sailed from France for Louisiana before May 1785 ; nor were any Acadians sent from Nantes to Cayennes in May 1784. Negociations between Spanish agents and French mercantile firms for the use of merchantmen to transport Acadians from France to Louisiana began in March 1784 and continued throughout the year

Notes

infos tirées de note 20 de Brasseaux # 89, p. 132 // Winzerling p. 130

Mots-clés

// repartir : Louisiane
// Nantes

Numéro de document

000628