The Acadian Diaspora

Hodson, Christopher

doi:10.1093/obo/9780199730414-0086

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“…Many families, thus separated, and were never reunited (Faragher, 2005). Some were sent to British islands in the Caribbean, while others went to Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia; where their descendant's dwell today (Hodson, 2012). But the largest group made their way to Louisiana, which was then jointly governed by Spain and France (Hodson 2012).…”

Section: Huguenot Colonists In the French Province Of Quebecmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Three fourths of this group settled in Bayou Lafourche west of the Mississippi River. By the end of the 1700s, there were over 4,000 Acadians settled in Louisiana (Faragher 2005;Hodson, 2012). This left several thousand Acadians still living in Canada as refugees; most of these persons made their way to Quebec, especially Montreal, where they were joined by some of their deported friends returning from Connecticut and Massachusetts (Hodson, 2012).…”

Section: Huguenot Colonists In the French Province Of Quebecmentioning

confidence: 99%

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DNA and historical evidence indicate many colonial French Canadians were of Sephardic Jewish ancestry

Hirschman¹

2021

Lib. Arts Soc. Sci. Int. J.

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The Spanish Inquisition in 1492 resulted in the deaths of thousands of Spanish Jews and the exile of around 150,000. The Huguenots and Acadians who settled in Colonial French Canada are assumed to be of Christian faith and ancestry. To support this hypothesis, the researcher uses a novel combination of methods drawn from historical records and artifacts, genealogies and DNA testing. In recent years, this combination of methods has led to the discovery that several of the Plymouth Colony settlers, Central Appalachian Colonial settlers, and Roanoke Colony settlers were of Sephardic Jewish origin. Thus, using the new methodology of ancestral DNA tracing, the researcher document that the majority of Huguenot and Acadian colonists in French Canada were of Sephardic Jewish ancestry. They are most likely descended from Sephardic Jews who fled to France from the Iberian Peninsula in the late 1300s and early 1500s. The researcher additionally propose that some members of both groups continued to practice Judaism in the new world, thus becoming secret Jews or crypto-Jews. The researcher also finds evidence of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry in both groups.

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Section: Huguenot Colonists In the French Province Of Quebecmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Huguenot Colonists In the French Province Of Quebecmentioning

confidence: 99%