“ Role of the Acadian families embarqued on the royal frigate La Dorothee. Captain Lavenant

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34. Alexis Coumot
Dorothe Coumot
Jean Coumot
Claire Coumot
Marguerite Coumot
Joseph Coumot
Jean Coumot
Magdaleine Coumot
Mathurin Coumot

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I acknowledge having received, by order of M. de la Rochette, aboard the royal corvette La Dorothee the Acadian families named in the proceeding role whom I promise to deliver at Saint Malo to M. Isarn Commissaire des Classes as soon as possible. On board La Dorothee May 17, 1763. Lavenant“5472

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“ On May 16, the 218 Acadians of Southampton sailed for Morlaix aboard the corvette l’Ambition. On May 26, the 160 from Bristol (then camping in Southampton) also departed for Morlaix on the frigate Dorothée. On the same day, the 158 Acadians of Falmouth left on the transport Fauvette but for St-Malo. And on June 8, commissioner Langton finally permitted the remaining 217 Acadians of Liverpool to break camp for St-Malo, but only upon payment of all their debts. These embarked on the transport l’Esturgeon.(23) In all 378 were sent to Morlaix and 375 to St-Malo. They all arrived, safe, but exhausted in their respective ports of Morlaix and St-Malo. The ministry immediately provided them with some temporary quarters in the barracks of each city but made no provisions for sanitation. The Acadians, worn out by the long road journey of many days, were oppressed to the breaking point by the intense heat and discomfort of the unhealthily overloaded transports.(24) They had hardly arrived when the scourge of their lives, smallpox, attacked them again, and again their number was decimated.(25)

(23) Colonies, Serie B, CXVII, ff. 41-43m 83, 89, 106, 107, 120, 157, 257, 278, 454, A. N.
(24) Mémoire et Documents, Angleterre, June, 1778, XLVII, f. 23, A. A. E.
(25) Mémoire et Documents, Angleterre, June, 1778, XLVII, f. 23, A. A. E. “5473

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Magdaleine Comeau
Magdaleine Coumot