Docteur Francis LeBaron

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Pourquoi étudier la piste : 1694 ?

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Sources:

"Descendants of Francis LeBaron of Plymouth Massachusetts"
Mary LeBaron Stockwell, 1904

• Page 450 (from Dr. Lemuel LeBaron):
   "The privateer, through stress of weather or some other cause, fell into Buzzard's Bay, and was shipwrecked on a ledge of rocks near the western shore of the town of Sandwich; the ship was lost, the crew saved. This took place about the year 1696."
   

• Page 455 (from Pilgrim Republic, by John A. Goodwin)
  "In 1694 there was no surgeon in Plymouth, and the wife of Goodman Hunter is said to have been in much suffering for want of one. A French privateer had just been wrecked in Buzzard's bay, and her accomplished surgeon, only twenty-six years old, was Francis LeBaron...."
   

• Page 456 (from Boston Advertiser, April, 1881, signed by the initials of W.T. Davis, Plymouth):
  "The arrival (of Francis) at Plymouth could not have been earlier than 1694; for it was in that year that Sir William Phipps was removed from the office of Governor, and Lieut.-Governor Stoughton placed in power. Nor could it have been later than January, 1695, for in that month Dr. LeBaron appears in the records as the witness to a deed from Thomas to William Clark"

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Situation actuelle de mes recherches

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Mes recherches sur l'Aigle confirment les remarques de W.T. Davis.

Francis LeBaron  est arrivé à Plymouth en 1694 pour les raisons suivantes:

1. Avant 1694, William Stoughton n'était pas Gouverneur du Massachusetts.

2. En janvier 1695, Francis LeBaron est témoin d'un acte notarié.

3. Le 6 septembre 1695, il se marie avec Mary Wilder.

4. Le 23 mai 1696, naissance de James LeBaron.