My 2019 French ChallengeAZ in 100 Words—or More | M for Massachusetts

My Leblanc ancestors, namely François Leblanc and Élisabeth Dugas, were indeed in Massachusetts after their deportation and before settling in L’Assomption, in Québec.

Revisiting a database can be helpful, as I could gather some details having been added since I made my original research.

By http://maps.bpl.org – A map of the British and French settlements in North America, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27806577

I had the following information:

  • Their two youngest daughters, Marie-Anne, 6 1/2 years, and Marie-Madeleine, 4 1/2 years, were baptized in L’Assomption on October 5, 1766. The record states that both were born in Boston.
  • Later on, on June 9, 1767, two more children, Pierre, 9, and Françoise, 11, were baptized in the same parish.

And here is a new clue:

According to Généalogie Québec database, further to some additional research on Acadians, Françoise would have been born in Oxford, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1756.

Moreover, François’s son Joseph and his wife Madeleine Dugas (my ancestors) were most likely married in Massachusetts shortly before settling in L’Assomption. Their eldest daughter has been baptized at 3 months old in 1767.