Alexandre BROUSSARD dit BEAUSOLEIL
1756

Sometime probably in the summer of 1756, Joseph dit Beausoleil's brother Alexandre and Joseph's son Victor joined the resistance movement. Although at first held in close confinement in South Carolina, Alexandre and Victor had been allowed to go to the workhouse in Charleston, from which they escaped. They made their way through the coastal swamps and marshes into the Carolina backcountry, and, after a long, perilous journey across the face of the Appalachian Mountains, assisted no doubt by Indians friendly to the French, they returned to Acadia to fight again. Amazingly, Alexandre was in his late 50s at the time, but the rigors of advancing old age could not stop him from rejoining his family. He and Victor, along with seven other Acadians who had fled from Carolina, appeared at the Acadian settlement on Rivière St.-Jean in June 1756, about the time that other Chignecto exiles who had been deported to South Carolina returned to Acadia by boat. Alexandre and Victor did not remain on the St.-Jean but moved on to Shediac, where they reunited with their family.

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