Further to my postings on the Canadian money receipts received by the Acadians who accompanied Joseph Broussard to Louisiana, I have analyzed three groups who make up the majority of the Acadians who came to Louisiana with Joseph Broussard in February 1765. Group I These are the 32 families who received receipts for Canadian money from Maxent on 5 April 1765 in New Orleans. These families for certain were part of Joseph Brousssard¹s group and settled with him at Attakapas. Group II These are 14 families that appear in the 25 April 1766 census of Attakapas, but did not receive receipts. Almost certainly these also came with Joseph Broussard. Many others fled from Attakapas and it is unlikely anyone else came to Attakapas unless they came with Joseph Broussard. Group III These are 8 families who were in Cabanocey in the 8 April 1776 census and had not received a receipt for Canadian money, but who had deaths in Attakapas or other definitive proof of residence there in 1765. Group I- Maxent Receipts This group is the one I have detailed in my previous postings. These families can largely be traced to imprisonment in Halifax (28 families- 111 individuals) and Fort Edward (4 families- 20 individuals), a total of 32 families and 131 individuals. By my research, on or about 19 February 1765, 129 individuals in these 34 families reached Louisiana. In the period 19 February 1765 to the April 1766 census in Attakapas and Cabanocey, there were 6 births and 26 deaths in this group, reducing it to 109 individuals. Of these, 75 remained in Attakapas and 34 had fled to Cabanocey. Group II- Remained in Attakapas Again, these families were imprisoned at Halifax (9 families- 40 individuals) and Fort Edward (5 families- 27 individuals). By my research, 56 individuals of these families arrived in Louisiana with Joseph Broussard. In the period before the 25 April 1766 Attakapas census, 2 births and 8 deaths were noted in these families, leaving 50 individuals still in Attakapas. Group III- Fled to Cabanocey Not surprisingly, the imprisonment of this group can also be traced to Halifax (7 families- 41 individuals) and Fort Edward (1 family- 1 individual). By my research, 43 individuals from these families came to Louisiana with Joseph Broussard. During the period until the 8 April 1766 Cabanocey census, 2 births and 14 deaths were noted for this group, leaving 31 individuals to flee to Cabanocey. In summary, my research has indicated 54 families of 240 individuals imprisoned at Halifax and Fort Edward came to Louisiana with Joseph Broussard, arriving there on or about 19 February 1765 with 228 individuals from this group. In the 14 months after their arrival, there were 10 births and 48 deaths, including that of Joseph Broussard himself. By the 1766 census, of the 190 remaining individuals, 125 were in Attakapas and 65 were in Cabanocey. In just over a year, over 20% of the Acadians who came to Louisiana with Joseph Broussard were dead. In official records of the day, it is indicated 58 families of 231 individuals went to Attakapas with Joseph Broussard. My numbers are a bit short, but there were several Bergeron and Arseneau families that may have fled from Attakapas, not having received a receipt for Canadian money, nor having left any official record of being in Attakapas. To date I have unable to pin these down as some Bergerons and possibly some Arseneaus arrived in the later groups that came in May and the Fall of 1765 and also settled in Cabanocey. These groups need to be worked out before the remainder of those Acadians that came to Louisiana with Joseph Broussard can be determined. One thing that surprised me out of this research is that not a single resident of Opelousas in 1766 appears in the receipts for Canadian money. Doing further research, the earliest record I find of an Acadian in Opelousas is: GUENARD, Stasie [Anastasia] (Mothe [Timothee] & Marie Thibaudo) m. 9 Feb. 1766 Amable ³Beaulieu² [Bertrand] (LSAR: Opel.: 1766-3). With further research, in ³Quest for the Promised Land² p. 76, I found the following translation of a letter from Ulloa, Spanish Governor of Louisiana dated 9 July 1766: My Dear Sir: During my visit to the Opelousas and Attakapas [posts], the Acadians showed me a small coffer which contained currency of the province of Canada, the total of which is owed them by His Most Christian Majesty and which does not constitute part of the Louisiana debt nor that of the [Cabanocey] Acadians which your Excellency was notified in the month of March. They total 6,890 livres, 17 sols, which constitute a little more than 13,000 pesos. To have a statement on their value, I arranged for the superior of the Capuchins to take it himself to Mr. Maxent, the merchant who has taken care of the money of the other Acadians [Joseph Broussard group, Jean-Baptiste Bergeron group, and Philippe Lachaussee group]. .... It seems there were 4 lists of receipts for Canadian money, but only that of Joseph Broussard has been found to date. The above indicates to me the Opelousas settlers did not come to Louisiana with Joseph Broussard, but were probably a part of the group that came from Halifax in May 1765 and most of which settled on the Mississippi River. Roger A. Rozendal rogroz@swbell.net