Joseph-Charles Breau

• Sources:
  • "Acadian Immigrants to San Luìs de Natchez, 1768" - http://www.acadiansingray.com
    • In report of Acadians at Port Tobacco, Province of Maryland, Jul 1763, listed as Joseph Braux
    • In report on Acadians who settled at San Luìs de Natchez, 1768, listed as Joseph Bro, age 34

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• Notes:
  • Exiled to Province of Maryland 1755, age 27
  • Arrived in current day Louisiana in Feb 1768, age 34

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The largest contingent of Breaus to come to Louisiana--over 50 individuals, including a dozen families, four of them headed by widows, and several wives, one of the largest single Acadian family groups to come to the colony--arrived in February 1768 from Port Tobacco, Maryland, as part of an extended family of 150 Acadians led by brothers Alexis and Honoré Breau of Pigiguit.

Spanish Governor Antonio de Ulloa insisted that they settle at Fort San Luìs de Natchez, far from other Acadian communities. The Breaus, who had relatives at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques and St.-Gabriel, refused to go to Natchez, but the governor would not relent. He threatened to deport them if they did not go where he told them to go. To escape the governor's wrath, Alexis and Honoré went into hiding while Spanish soldiers escorted the rest of their clan upriver to the isolated post; it took them an entire month, from February to March, to get there. In late 1769, after a revolt against Ulloa had ousted the unpopular governor, his successor, General Alejandro O'Reilly, allowed the Breaus and their families to settle where they wanted. None of them remained at Natchez. They moved to where their kinsmen had settled on the Acadian Coast, at St.-Jacques, Ascension, and San Gabriel, where they had wanted to go all along.

Joseph-Charles, fourth son of Alexandre Breau and Marie Dugas, born at Pigiguit in c1734, married Marie-Josèphe Landry probably at Pigiguit in c1755. That same year, the British deported them to Maryland, where they had a number of children. They came to Louisiana in 1768 with the expedition led by his brothers Alexis and Honoré, who defied Spanish Governor Ulloa and his settlement scheme. Ulloa threatened to deport his brothers and their families for their defiance, against which Joseph-Charles loudly protested; as a result, he probably was the Joseph Braud whom the commandant at Fort San Luìs de Natchez, Lieutenant Pedro Piernas, traduced to Governor Ulloa soon after the Acadians reached the fort. If Joseph-Charles did not participate in the revolt against Ulloa in the fall of 1768, he, with his brothers, certainly encouraged it. When Ulloa's successor, General Alejandro O'Reilly, released the Acadians from Natchez, Joseph-Charles chose to settle at San Gabriel, where other Acadians from Maryland had gone in 1767. Joseph-Charles and Marie-Josèphe had more children in Louisiana. Their daughters married into the Comeaux, Hébert, Landry, and Melançon families. A great-grandson, Joseph Arsène Breaux of Iberia Parish, served as chief justice of the Louisiana State Supreme Court in the early 1900s.

http://www.acadiansingray.com/Appendices-ATLAL-BREAUX.htm

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accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Joseph Charles Breau, person ID 98P3-63B.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch Name: Name: Name: Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);;;;

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accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Alexandre Bourg, person ID LCVP-2NQ. 3

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accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Joseph Charles Breau, person ID 98P3-63B. 3

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch Name: Name: Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);;;

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accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Joseph Charles Breau, person ID 98P3-63B. 3

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch Name: Name: Name: Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);;;;

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accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Joseph Charles Breau, person ID 98P3-63B.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch Name: Name: Name: Name: (https://www.familysearch.org);;;;

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accessed 12 Jun 2018), entry for Alexandre Bourg, person ID LCVP-2NQ. 3