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    A ship's roll from 1721 listed 76 French women traveling to Louisiana to marry colonists. The ship, called the Baleine, left La Rochelle, France and was supposed to arrive in Louisiana, but no further records exist. The roll provides rare primary documentation of early French colonization efforts through arranged marriages to help populate the colony.

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    Roll of the 88 young women from the Salp

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    A ship's roll from 1721 listed 76 French women traveling to Louisiana to marry colonists. The ship, called the Baleine, left La Rochelle, France and was supposed to arrive in Louisiana, but no further records exist. The roll provides rare primary documentation of early French colonization efforts through arranged marriages to help populate the colony.

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    A ship's roll from 1721 listed 76 French women traveling to Louisiana to marry colonists. The ship, called the Baleine, left La Rochelle, France and was supposed to arrive in Louisiana, but no further records exist. The roll provides rare primary documentation of early French colonization efforts through arranged marriages to help populate the colony.

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    Bruce Ardoin, "Notes and Documents: The Baleine Brides: A Missing Ship's Roll for Louisiana, 1721," National

    Genealogical Society Quarterly 75 (December 1987): 303-5.

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