DOUCET
Germain DOUCET dit Laverdure, born 1595 in France, arrived in Acadia in 1632 with Commander Isaac de Razilly.
According to Stephen White, University of Moncton, Germain had four children: Pierre, b.ca1621 in France; Marguerite Louise, b.ca1625 in France; Germain, b.1641 at Port Royal; and an unnamed daughter who married Pierre Lejeunne dit Briaud ca.1650.
In July, 1640, Germain is found again under the title of Captain of Pentagouet. He received war honors against the Bostonians and returned to France in 1654, leaving two children who had married in Acadia.
Pierre Doucet dit Laverdure, son of Germain, was born in 1621. He was married in 1660 to Henriette Pelletret.
As families moved to Louisiana in the mid-1760's, most of the Doucets who first settled in Louisiana were Acadians with the exception of two families that emigrated from Alabama.
Probably in 1764, the two Doucet families from Mobile arrived at Opelousas Post with other Frenchmen who had fled from the British occupation of the Gulf Coast in Alabama. These two families were headed by Pierre Doucet and possibly his brother Simon.
As pioneers from Alabama and Acadia settled the Attakapas and Opelousas areas, the two lines became inexorably mixed comprising over 60 percent of the Doucet households of the state. Other Doucet families came later in the eighteenth century, mostly from France.