The following comes from page 145 of Betty Pourciau's book on St. Martin Parish. In the next day or so, I will be posting on the website, the articles from that book on the de la Houssaye's and the Dauterives, because they are so filled with interesting tidbits... and because our Degruys intermarried with these two families. For now, here a little hors d'oeuvre: "Jean Antoine Bermard married Elizabeth Sabine Josephe Montault de Monberaut in New Orleans on 1 May 1764. From this union four sons were born.... His [Dauterive] wife sold some of the land in the District of Iberville to Pierre Belly and moved her family to the Attakapas in 1778. The Delhommes and Dernevilles were relatives. Catherine Layssard de Clouet was a cousin. She moved among her family and friends and it was here that Elizabeth met and married Jean Baptiste De Gruis, son of Antoine Valentine Verloin De Gruis and Marie Therese Aufrere, on 4 May 1779. In addition to her four children by Dauterive, Elizabeth had two children by De Gruis, a son who lived only sixteen days, and a little girl who died in her eleventh year. Elizabeth and De Gruis lived in St. Martin west of the Bayou Teche occupying and cultivating the land called the Prairie of Vermillion from 1779 until 1784 at which time they moved from the Attakapas to St. Charles Parish." [Pearl H. Kranske wrote the article on the Dauterive Family]