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men of substance, were two of the six deputies chosen to represent the inhabitants of Annapolis River before the English Governor and his council. Six persons of the name signed the oath of allegiance of 1730, Claude, two Pierres, two Bernards and Jean. Both the Bernards wrote their own names and spelled them Godet; the others signed with a mark.

No person of the name of Gaudet was deported by Winslow from Mines in 1755, but there were sixteen refugee families of that name at Beausejour in 1752, eleven of them being from Tantramar. There are now in the Maritime Provinces about two hundred and fifty families of the name of whom more than one hundred live in Westmorland. There are about twenty families of Gaudets in Kent, a few in Northumberland and nearly one hundred in the county of Digby, Nova Scotia.

Gauterot is one of the original Acadian names. Francois Gauterot was 58 years old in 1671; he was a resident of Port Royal; his wife was Edmée Lejeaune and he had eleven children, five of whom were daughters four of them being married. As François Gauterot's oldest child was 35 while his youngest was three years old, and there was a difference of ten years in age between the second child and the third one we should infer that he was married twice. His oldest daughter Marie, aged 35 was the wife of Michel Dupeaux and had four children. Another Marie aged 24, was married to Claude Terriau and had also four children. The duplication of names in the same family will be dealt with in a later paper. The third daughter Renee, aged nineteen, was the wife of Jean Labathe and had no children, while Margaret, who was only sixteen was married to Jacob Girouard and had an infant son. Charles Gauterot aged 34, the oldest son, was not