THE DUONS CAME TO POMQUET AT THE SAME TIME AS THE DOIRONS & ARE CONSIDERED ONE OF THE FOUNDING FAMILIES. PIERRE DUON & HIS SECOND WIFE MARGUERITE AUCOIN WITH THEIR CHILDREN ALSO ARRIVED IN 1773. JOSEPHAT DOIRON'S WIFE MARGUERITE DUON WAS PIERRE DUON'S DAUGHTER BY HIS FIRST WIFE ANGELIQUE AUCOIN.

PIERRE DUON & HIS TWO DAUGHTERS WERE DEPORTED TO BRISTOL, ENGLAND & HELD IN CAPTIVITY UNTIL THE TREATY OF 1763. WHILE IN CAPTIVITY, PIERRE MARRIED AGAIN TO MARGUERITE AUCOIN IN I756. AFTER THEIR RELEASE THEY WENT TO PLOUER, ST. MAL0 FRANCE. PIERRE DUON SEEMS TO BE THE ELDER OF THE GROUP AT 54 YEARS OF AGE AT THE TIME OF HIS ARRIVAL. THE OTHERS WERE IN THEIR LATE TWENTIES OR EARLY THIRTIES.  ALL THE DEONS & DEYOUNGS ARE DESCENDANTS 0F THIS COUPLE.

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