About Acadians in Connecticut:

[Marie Rundquist]

Hello, Acadian Cousins.  

Hope all of you are well.  

Here is my most recent post about Acadians in Connecticut -- and most specifically a letter written by the Archbishop  of Halifax (Nova Scotia) on the 100-year anniversary of their exile.  

I thought of sharing the post here because the source referenced has a list of towns where Acadians were dispersed following their exile to Connecticut as well as details about their time there.  This type of information may prove useful to Acadian family researchers whose ancestors were exiled in Connecticut. 

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Letter from Most Rev. William Walsh, Archbishop of Halifax "To Our Dearly-Beloved Brethren, the Acadians of the Archdiocese of Halifax, dated September 8, 1855. (Extract)

Published in the History of the Diocese of Hartford in 1900 in a chapter entitled, "The Acadians in Connecticut," beginning on page 63, were the names of the Connecticut towns where Acadians were exiled in 1755 and records of expenses. Historians spared no ghastly detail when they described how impoverished Acadian exiles were bound out, persecuted, and subjected to small pox.

Numbering among the published viewpoints of several, leading historians of the time, was an excerpt from a letter dated September 8, 1855, that was written by the Most Rev. William Walsh, Archbishop of Halifax, on the centennial anniversary of the Acadian expulsion.  He notes that following their exile in the United States, several Acadian families were able to find their way back to Nova Scotia, where they settled the untouched forests and shores of Baie Sainte Marie.

For the full article, visit the DNA Genealogy History Travel by Ancestry blog: https://dna-genealogy-history.com/travel-by-ancestry/letter-from-most-rev-william-walsh-archbishop-of-halifax-to-our-dearly-beloved-brethren-the-acadians-of-the-archdiocese-of-halifax-dated-september-8-1855-extract

The referenced source (which is given in the post) was published in 1900:.

O'Donnell, Rev. James H. (1900). History of the Diocese of Hartford. Boston: The D. H. Hurd Company. https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_the_Diocese_of_Hartford/eZBMAQAAMAAJ?gbpv=1

Thanks and take care.

--Marie Rundquist

[Josephine and Keith]

Marie, thank you!  Keith

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[Roberta Estes]

That’s a great resource, Marie. I’m hoping for something from New York too. 

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