MOUTON
The ancestory line of MOUTON's in Louisiana can be traced back to a Dr. Jean Jacques Mouton , born in 1689, the son of Antoine Mouton , a maitre d'hotel of the Count of Grignon, and of Jeanne Merlasse. Dr. Mouton arrived in Acadia around 1708 and married Marie Girouard in 1711 at Port Royal. Marie was the daughter of Alexandre Girouard and Marie Leborgne de Belle Isle. There is known to be at least four sons of this union.
Two of their sons, Louis and Pierre , were imprisoned by the English at the Battle of Ristigouche and sent into captivity at Halifax. After the Expulsion of 1755, three of the sons, Salvador , Louis, and Charles , and a nephew named Jean Mouton dit Neveu, eventually reached Louisiana. By 1776, Salvador, Louis, and Jean (the nephew) were living along the Mississippi River in St. James Parish. Charles was also there by 1777. However, by 1820, there were no Moutons remaining in St. James.
Two of Salvador's sons, Jean and Marvin , migrated to the Attakapas in the 1770's or early 1780's. Jean Mouton in 1824 helped establish what is now the city of Lafayette, La. It is from this line of Jean Mouton and his eight sons that most of the political fame in Louisiana has descended from. For example, Alexandre Mouton was elected governor of Louisiana from 1843-1846, and his son, General Alfred Mouton, is of Confederate fame from the Cival War.
Jean Mouton dit Neveu married Elizabeth Bastarache in 1763 and by the 1780's had joined his uncles in the Carencro, La. area. Most of his descendants remained as small farmers taking upland along the Teche near Arnaudville and St. Martinville.