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Michel Laurent Doucet

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Michel "Laurent" Doucet

Birth
Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death
13 Oct 1805 (aged 82)
St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, USA GPS-Latitude: 30.5419006, Longitude: -92.0777969
Memorial ID
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Michel "Laurent" Doucet, Son of Laurent Doucet & Marie Anne Pellerin of Port Royal, Nova Scotia. Husband of Marguerite Martin. Father of: Joseph Hilaire, Marie Modeste, Michel Laurent, Pierre, Jean & Marie Martha Doucet. Michel Laurent Doucet is my 5th, 6th ( Pierre) & 7th (Joseph Hilaire) great grandfather.

Y-DNA Base SNP Haplogroup C-P39, Big Y500 Results, C-Z30754. Big Y 700 Results for descendants of Laurent have a unique mutation that so far only Louisiana Doucet men have, SNP's C-BY101109 (Parent) & C-BY92312 . Haplogroup Assignment From The Acadian AmerIndian Ancestry DNA Project @ FTDNA. ~ Deadra Doucet Bourke *NOTE: We are looking for additional Doucet men to Big Y 700 test and help us answer whether these new SNP's will belong exclusively to Laurent's Louisiana descendants or if they will be present in other Doucet descendants. If interested please contact [email protected] or the Acadian Amerindian Ancestry DNA project @ FTDNA.

Full Sequence MtDNA Haplogroup U6a7a1. Upgraded through Build 17. Haplogroup Assignment From The Acadian AmerIndian Ancestry DNA Project @ FTDNA. ~ Deadra Doucet Bourke

Acadian Data Base - Michel Laurent Doucet, Married Marguerite Martin.
Children:
Joseph (sometimes Hilaire) (born 1751), Michel (born 1753), Pierre (born 1756), Jean (born ca. 1760), Marie Marthe (born ca. 1763, died November 24, 1765)
Exile:

Michel Laurent Doucet was Listed among the Acadian prisoners of war at Halifax, August 16, 1763.

Michel Laurent Doucet traveled to Louisiana with Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil's group of British Resisters and was at the money exchange in New Orleans on 30 Apr 1765.

Identified in the April 25, 1766, census as a resident of the La Manque settlement of the Attakapas district (probably between present-day Parks and Breaux Bridge). His household included one woman, one teenaged boy, and three young boys. A general census of the Attakapas District compiled around 1769 indicates that Michel Doucet was the fifty-year-old head of a household that included the following persons: his unnamed wife; Hilaire (Ylère) Doucet, his son, 19 years old; Michel Doucet, his son, 17 years old; Pierre Doucet, his son, 12 years old; Jean Doucet, his son, 9 years old; Bonaventure (Bonnaventure) Martin, no relationship indicated, 17 years old; and Judith (Judic) Martin, no relationship indicated, 17 years old. Michel Doucet and his family owned thirteen cows, three horses, and twenty hogs. Michel Doucet signed with his mark (he was illiterate) an unconditional oath of allegiance to Spain at the Attakapas District, December 8, 1769. On December 5, 1770, during Louisiana's severe grain shortage, Jean Bérard listed him among the Attakapas settlers having twenty barrels of unhusked corn for sale. Identified in the 1771 census of the Attakapas District as the head of a household that included his fifty-year-old wife, Joseph Doucet, Judith Martin, Michel Doucet (his son), Pierre Doucet, Bonaventure Martin, and an unidentified ten-year-old boy. The 1771 census also indicates that Michel Doucet owned twenty-five beef cattle and two horses. He and his family occupied a tract of land with twelve arpents frontage, but they did not have formal title to the property. On February 28, 1771, prominent Attakapas rancher François LeDée notified Governor Luís de Unzaga that a party of Acadians, including Michel Doucet, Claude Martin, Joseph(?) Martin, René(?) Trahan, Baptiste La Bauve (Labove), Joseph(?) Landry, and Louis Levron, had approached him for a letter indicating that they were traveling to New Orleans without the required passport because they did not have time to obtain one from the commandant. The Acadians argued, and they did not have time to visit the commandant and "to make their journey to the city before it was time to begin cultivating their fields." The Acadians traveled to New Orleans in two boats. The October 30, 1774, census of the Attakapas District indicates that his household included the following persons: Michel Doucet, his wife, and two unidentified children. He and his family owned thirty cattle, eleven horses or mules, and eighteen hogs.
Michel "Laurent" Doucet, Son of Laurent Doucet & Marie Anne Pellerin of Port Royal, Nova Scotia. Husband of Marguerite Martin. Father of: Joseph Hilaire, Marie Modeste, Michel Laurent, Pierre, Jean & Marie Martha Doucet. Michel Laurent Doucet is my 5th, 6th ( Pierre) & 7th (Joseph Hilaire) great grandfather.

Y-DNA Base SNP Haplogroup C-P39, Big Y500 Results, C-Z30754. Big Y 700 Results for descendants of Laurent have a unique mutation that so far only Louisiana Doucet men have, SNP's C-BY101109 (Parent) & C-BY92312 . Haplogroup Assignment From The Acadian AmerIndian Ancestry DNA Project @ FTDNA. ~ Deadra Doucet Bourke *NOTE: We are looking for additional Doucet men to Big Y 700 test and help us answer whether these new SNP's will belong exclusively to Laurent's Louisiana descendants or if they will be present in other Doucet descendants. If interested please contact [email protected] or the Acadian Amerindian Ancestry DNA project @ FTDNA.

Full Sequence MtDNA Haplogroup U6a7a1. Upgraded through Build 17. Haplogroup Assignment From The Acadian AmerIndian Ancestry DNA Project @ FTDNA. ~ Deadra Doucet Bourke

Acadian Data Base - Michel Laurent Doucet, Married Marguerite Martin.
Children:
Joseph (sometimes Hilaire) (born 1751), Michel (born 1753), Pierre (born 1756), Jean (born ca. 1760), Marie Marthe (born ca. 1763, died November 24, 1765)
Exile:

Michel Laurent Doucet was Listed among the Acadian prisoners of war at Halifax, August 16, 1763.

Michel Laurent Doucet traveled to Louisiana with Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil's group of British Resisters and was at the money exchange in New Orleans on 30 Apr 1765.

Identified in the April 25, 1766, census as a resident of the La Manque settlement of the Attakapas district (probably between present-day Parks and Breaux Bridge). His household included one woman, one teenaged boy, and three young boys. A general census of the Attakapas District compiled around 1769 indicates that Michel Doucet was the fifty-year-old head of a household that included the following persons: his unnamed wife; Hilaire (Ylère) Doucet, his son, 19 years old; Michel Doucet, his son, 17 years old; Pierre Doucet, his son, 12 years old; Jean Doucet, his son, 9 years old; Bonaventure (Bonnaventure) Martin, no relationship indicated, 17 years old; and Judith (Judic) Martin, no relationship indicated, 17 years old. Michel Doucet and his family owned thirteen cows, three horses, and twenty hogs. Michel Doucet signed with his mark (he was illiterate) an unconditional oath of allegiance to Spain at the Attakapas District, December 8, 1769. On December 5, 1770, during Louisiana's severe grain shortage, Jean Bérard listed him among the Attakapas settlers having twenty barrels of unhusked corn for sale. Identified in the 1771 census of the Attakapas District as the head of a household that included his fifty-year-old wife, Joseph Doucet, Judith Martin, Michel Doucet (his son), Pierre Doucet, Bonaventure Martin, and an unidentified ten-year-old boy. The 1771 census also indicates that Michel Doucet owned twenty-five beef cattle and two horses. He and his family occupied a tract of land with twelve arpents frontage, but they did not have formal title to the property. On February 28, 1771, prominent Attakapas rancher François LeDée notified Governor Luís de Unzaga that a party of Acadians, including Michel Doucet, Claude Martin, Joseph(?) Martin, René(?) Trahan, Baptiste La Bauve (Labove), Joseph(?) Landry, and Louis Levron, had approached him for a letter indicating that they were traveling to New Orleans without the required passport because they did not have time to obtain one from the commandant. The Acadians argued, and they did not have time to visit the commandant and "to make their journey to the city before it was time to begin cultivating their fields." The Acadians traveled to New Orleans in two boats. The October 30, 1774, census of the Attakapas District indicates that his household included the following persons: Michel Doucet, his wife, and two unidentified children. He and his family owned thirty cattle, eleven horses or mules, and eighteen hogs.


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