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Girouard-4019 Jacqueline Girouard
John Law made a deal to settle Louisiana. He circulated thousands of pamphlets (like those at right). Thousands of Germans signed up, but most of them died and only a few hundred made it to the New World.

John Law, and the Company of the Indies, settled Germans along the Mississippi River (in present-day St. Charles Parish) in 1721. When the Company of the Indies folded in 1731, the Germans were released from their obligation and became independant land-owners. The Germans were an important source of produce for the small town of New Orleans, founded (in 1718) just a few years before their arrival. As the population grew, they spread upriver into present-day St. John the Baptist Parish (the second German Coast).

http://www.acadian-cajun.com/germanc.htm

posted by Jacqueline Girouard