Between 1764 and 1788, over 2,500 Acadians settled in the Spanish colony of Louisiana. Although they were victims of the Deportation, none was deported directly to Louisiana, and they reached it from several places. The first group, four families deported to Georgia in 1755, arrived in New Orleans in 1764. Other groups came from Halifax, Nova Scotia, by way of the Caribbean, including the first led by Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil, and they were joined there by Acadian refugees from the American colonies. Between 1766 and 1770, over 600 Acadians left Maryland for Louisiana. The largest contingent arrived from France in seven boats in 1785; these Acadians had either been deported to France in 1758 from Ile-Saint-Jean and Ile-Royale, or deported to Virginia in 1755 and then to England before finally reaching France in 1763. Dissatisfied with conditions in France, about 1,600 sailed for Louisiana from Nantes, Saint-Malo, and La Rochelle. Most Acadian refugees received land along Bayous Teche, Lafourche, and Terrebonne, and Louisiana became the New Acadia for many Acadian exiles.