Pierre Baudouin (1640-1706)
Huguenot Physician, emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts
He was born at La Rochelle in France to a Huguenot family. He was a Physician and lived on a small estate outside the town that gave him an additional annual income of 2,100 livres. However, in consequence of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes his estate was confiscated and in 1685 he fled with his wife and four children (listed) to Ireland before setting sail for Casco (now Portland) in Maine the following year (1686). In 1687, he successfully petitioned Governor Andross for a grant of 100-acres on Barbary Creek, Casco Bay, but in 1690 chose to settle with his family at Boston.
