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Part three, I am doing this in segments as I lost a page of writing when I changed the suject to part two or I timed out as I stepped away for fifteen mins.... I am slow typer, this is turning into quite a labor of love,,LOL to continue as Aunt Millie wrote;;; I was very skeptical of the story but have come to believe it could well have been true, though not in the exaggerated form I made up! We shouldn't laugh; it was a desparate and daring escape and I, like many before me, was trying to make sense out of it by playing around with the details. My fathers version used to bethat this Ladue escaped to England and there married before coming to America. This meant that Pierre La Doue only had to get across the English Channel by such subterfuge, to be safe. That this escape-in-the-hogshead story has been recounted for so many generations may indicate some basis in fact. I found it in Hughe's American Ancestry, but but realize this book is considered to be not to trustworthy. Then I found it in Early Colonial Families in America, an older book. Still later I found it mentioned by Henry Baird in his history of the Huguenots in America as one of the means of escape the Huguenots used. So it may be that this trick was used more than once as a way to get out but at any rate it is firmly rooted in our family......hit the bottom of the box and must do one more post...must lose it again...
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