>This is of interest to me because my Maternal Grandfather has his
>family roots among these Acadians.

My mother's side of my family tree is largely Franco-Americans whose ancestors presumably avoided le Grand Dérangement by the happenstance of being so far out in the borderland woods between Acadia and Massachusetts Bay Colony's northern province that nobody involved in the relocation knew they were there. Since that border wasn't legally settled until 1842, there was certainly plenty of grey area in which to hide...

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