Person:Jean Dugas (1)

!CHRISTENING: Albert J. Robichaux, THE ACADIAN EXILES IN CHATELLERAULT; 1773-1785; LA, Hebert Publications, 1983; p. 38, family #77; Salt Lake Family History Library, Europe 944.63 D2r. Jean-Pierre DUGAST, baptized 31 Jan 1775 at Leigne-les-Bois, Vienne, France, son of Joseph & his 2nd wife Anastasie BARRILLOT. Sponsors: Ambroise DUGAST & Marie DUGAST. With his parents and seven children he was in the Third Convoy leaving Chatellerault for Nantes on 7 Dec 1775.

!MARRIAGE: Diocese of Baton Rouge, CATHOLIC CHURCH RECORDS; 1770-1803; vol. 2, Baton Rouge, LA, Diocese, 1980; pp. 257 & 563; California State Library Sutro, F377 B3C3 v.2. Juan Pedro DUGAT, son of Josef & Anastasia BARIOT of Acadia, married on 18 Feb 1800 to Reynalda NAQUIN, daughter of Charlos [sic] & Ana DOIRON of Acadia. Witnesses: Joseph DUGAT; Ambroise HEBERT. Recorded at Assumption Catholic Church, Plattenville, LA (ASM-2, 49).

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-LAND-DEATH: Audrey B. Westerman, FIRST LAND OWNERS AND 1810 ANNOTATED CENSUS OF LAFOURCHE INTERIOR PARISH, LA; 1785-1810; Houma, LA, Terrebonne Genealogical Society, 1995; No. 572; own copy. Born abt 1776 at Chattelrault, France, son of Joseph DUGAS & Anastasie BARILLOT. He married on 18 Feb 1800 at Assumption, LA to Renee (Reynalda) NAQUIN. Land: T18S R19E Sec. 10, descending Bayou Terrebonne, just before Montegut. There were two slaves.

!BIRTH-BURIAL-PROBATE: Donald J. Hebert, SOUTH LOUISIANA RECORDS; 1794-1840; vol. 1, Rayne, LA, Hebert Publications, 1978; p. 191; own copy; Church and civil records of Lafourche-Terrebonne Parishes. Two entries: Jean Pierre DUGAS died 31 Jan 1832, married to Renee NAQUIN, children listed in inventory filed 5 Feb 1834 at Lafourche Parish Courthouse, Thibodaux, LA (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ.: year 1834).

    Also: he died [sic, was buried] 1 Feb 1832 at age 57 years, at St. Joseph Co-Cathedral, Thibodaux, LA (Thib.Ch.: v.1, p.72).

!CENSUS: Albert J. Robichaux, COLONIAL SETTLERS ALONG BAYOU LAFOURCHE; 1770-1798; Cecilia, LA, Hebert Publications, 1980; pp. 45 & 91; own copy; Louisiana census records. On the 1797 census of Valenzuela in Lafourche, Pierre, age 12, son of Joseph DUGATS & his wife Anastasie BARILOT, living with them and four siblings, the youngest in the family. [He must have been born after their arrival in 1785. Was he baptized in New Orleans?]

    This Pierre does not appear in the family on the 1788 census at Lafourche. [Was he born after that?]
    No Pierre is on the 1798 census at Lafourche with this family. [Died young?]

!NAME: Audrey B. Westerman, "The DUGAS Family to Terrebonne," in TERREBONNE LIFE LINES; ;vol. 18, no.3 (Fall 1998); p. 189; own copy. "This last listing [of Pierre DUGAS, son, age 12 on the 1796 census] appears to be an erroneaous duplication of Jean Pierre Dugas, age 22."

1. ↑ Donald J. Hébert. Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index. (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995)
   pp. 42-43.

   Jean Pierre DUGAT, age 10, son of Joseph DUGAT & his [2nd] wife Anastasie BARRILLOT, traveling with them and eight siblings as the 6th family (of 11 persons) aboard the ship "Le Saint Rémi," embarked for Louisiana on 27 Jun 1785, debarked 10 Sep 1785.