Simon-Joseph Leblanc

• Sources:
  • "The First Nominal Census (1769) of Colonial Settlers in Southwest Louisiana"; compiled by Donald Joseph Arceneaux; Provincial Press, Claitor's Publishing Division, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; www.ProvincialPress.us & www.Claitors.com.
  • "The BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil Party to the Attakapas District, 1765" - http://www.acadiansingray.com
    • On list of Acadian prisoners at Halifax, Aug 1763
    • On list of Acadians who exchanged card money in New Orleans, Apr 1765
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1766, La Manque District, a widower
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1769, age 32
    • Took oath of allegiance to Spanish monarch 9 Dec 1769 & made his mark
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1771, age 32[sic]
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1774, unnamed
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1781
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1785
    • Opelousas, La Luisiana census, 1788, Carancro
    • On Attakapas militia list, Aug 1789
    • Succession dated 19 Aug 1816, St. Martin Parish courthouse

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• Notes:
  • Arrived in current day Louisiana in Feb 1765, age 29

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Simon-Joseph arrived in the Attakapas country during 1765 with his first wife, Catherine Thibodeau, and his son, Cosme, who married Elisabeth Broussard in 1781. His uncle, Rene, settled on Bayou Tortue, west of Attakapas Post. Catherine Thibodeau Leblanc died shortly after her arrival in Louisiana, and following his second marriage to Marguerite Guilbeau, Simon-Joseph acquired land along Bayou Carencro. His son, Cosme, obtained land at Fausse Pointe and moved there with his wife and family.

Four of Simon-Joseph's sons from his second marriage stayed in the northern part of the Attakapas country following their marriages. Frederic, who married Louise Thibodeau in 1794, became a cattleman and farmer on the Prairie Carencro. Some of his children eventually moved to the Grand Coteau and Breaux Bridge areas. Simon-Joseph's sons, Agricole, who married Celeste Savoie in 1793, Sylvestre, who married Perosine Duhon in 1806, and Francois, who married Marguerite Dugas in 1812, also settled near or on the Prairie Carencro. One of Simon-Joseph's sons, Pierre, who married Hortense Broussard in 1802, lived on Bayou Vermilion near present-day Lafayette. Some of his children eventually moved south to near New Iberia and Abbeville.

Source: http://www.nola.com/ancestors/archive/1998/061498.html

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