Pierre Moyse Babin (1768)

Born 31 May 1768 in Loquelfas, Belle-Ile-en-Mer, France

Ancestors

Died [date unknown] in Louisiana

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Biography

Marine Le Blanc, veuve Joseph Babin, is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 1 Left. Listed with her are children Francois Laurent, Victoire, Pierre Moise, Mathurin, Anne Marguerite and her oncle Charles Babin.^[1]

Pierre Moyse Babin was born on May 31, 1768 in Loquelfas, Belle-Ile-en-Mer, France, and baptized by the priest of Sauzon the same day. His parents were Acadian exiles Joseph Babin and Marine LeBlanc.^[2]

His family seems to have gotten back to the New Brunswick area by 1788; in October of that year he was included in a small group of Acadians who sailed from there to Louisiana.

...only one Acadian group is known to have migrated to Louisiana from Canada after the first migration (1764-1770). On October 16, 1788, nineteen [sic, really eighteen?] Acadians boarded the schooner Brigite and set sail for Louisiana from St. Pierre Island (St. Pierre and Miquelon); the vessel, commanded by Captain Joseph Gravois, to whom seventeen of the passengers were related, arrived at Pass à L'Outre, the principal entrance to the Mississippi in the eighteenth century, on December 11. Armed with a passport from Ygnacio Balderas, a Spanish official they encountered, they ascended the Mississippi to New Orleans and evidently secured permission to join relatives in present-day Ascension Parish.^[3]

He married Marie Louise Landry in Ascension Parish, Louisiana in 1832.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, compiled by Jane G. Bulliard and the Wall of Names Committee (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p.10.
2. ↑ Donald J. Hebert, Acadians in Exile, (Cecilia, LA: Hebert Publications, 1980) p. 18

   BABIN, Pierre Moyse (Joseph & Marrinne LEBLANC-- Acadien affegiste) born au village de Loquelfas: b. 31 May 1768; bt. same day Godparents: Andre LE LUC & Marguerite L'HERMITE (Belle-Ile-en-Mer: Sauzon).

3. ↑ Carl A. Brasseaux, The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765-1803, (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987) pp. 105 & 208. (Cites: "List of the passengers aboard the Brigite, commanded by Capt. Joseph Gravois, coming from St. Pierre in Newfoundland, December 11, 1788," Papeles procedentes de Cuba, 14:652; Ygnacio Balderas to Estevan Miró, December 11, 1788, Papeles procedentes de Cuba, 14: 653; "List of French settlers embarked aboard the schooner 'Brigite,' commanded by Capt. Gravois and bound for Lousiana, October 16, 1788," Papeles procedentes de Cuba, 14: 653a)
   • In Appendix B on p. 208, Brasseaux lists the eighteen PASSENGERS ABOARD THE BRIGITE, which included Pierre Moïse BABIN.
4. ↑ Louisiana, Ascension Parish, Index of Marriages, 1773-1963, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7QKK-KX2M : 14 August 2019), Pierre M Babin, 1832; citing Marriage, Ascension, Louisiana, United States, Ark-La-Tex Genealogical Association, Bossier, Louisiana; FHL microfilm 007726083.