Geneviève Benoit (1766 - 1804)

Born 28 Feb 1766 in Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph (Leblanc) LeBlanc — married 10 Jul 1786 in Yamachiche, Maskinongé, Province de Québec

Descendants

Died 28 May 1804 at age 38 in Yamaska, Bas-Canada

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Biography

Geneviève Benoit was born on 28 February 1766 in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, where her parents Joseph Benoit and Anne Thibodeau had been deported in 1755.

After the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, the Acadians detained in the Anglo-American colonies were finally free to leave. On 1 March 1765, James Murray, Governor of the Province of Quebec, issued a proclamation offering free land to new immigrants. Between 1765 and 1775, 1306 Acadians deported to New England immigrated to Quebec. ^[1]

The family boarded the Sloop Polly that left Boston on 21 July 1766 and arrived at the port of Québec on 31 August 1766. ^[1]

Aboard the Sloop Polly:

Joseph Benoit, 34 

Anne Thibodeau, his wife 30 

Marie Benoit, daughter, 4 

Firmin Benoit, son, 2 

Geneviève Benoit, daughter, 6 months

Geneviève was baptized on 6 September 1766 at Notre-Dame-de-Québec. ^[2] It was noted in the baptism record that Geneviève and her family had recently arrived from Boston where she had been privately baptized at birth.

She married Joseph Leblanc (born in Acadie; son of Jean Baptiste (Leblanc) LeBlanc and Marguerite Hebert) on 10 July 1786 in Yamachiche, Maskinongé, Quebec. ^[3]

Their children were:

1. Geneviève Leblanc (1787–1867)
2. Joseph Leblanc (1788– )
3. Marie Leblanc (1790–1814)

Geneviève died on 28 May 1804 in Yamaska, Bas-Canada. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} André-Carl Vachon, Les Acadiens déportés qui acceptèrent l'offre de Murray, (Tracadie-Sheila, N-B., La Grande Marée, 2016 Kindle edition), p. 128, 197
2. ↑ Baptism "Canada, Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-899Q-9LW5?cc=1321742&wc=HCTL-N38%3A17585101%2C19508101%2C26953601 : 16 July 2014), Québec > Notre-Dame-de-Québec > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1759-1768 > image 441 of 599; Archives Nationales du Quebec (National Archives of Quebec), Montreal.
3. ↑ Marriage 1786 "Canada, Québec, registres paroissiaux catholiques, 1621-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8993-6SHQ?cc=1321742&wc=HCP9-GP8%3A25310801%2C25310802%2C25588601 : 16 July 2014), Yamachiche > Sainte-Anne-d'Yamachiche > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1771-1812 > image 148 of 618; Archives Nationales du Quebec (National Archives of Quebec), Montreal. (page 1, dernière entrée / last entry on first page)
4. ↑ Burial: "Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968"
   Institut Généalogique Drouin; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Drouin Collection; Author: Gabriel Drouin, Comp
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1091 #9199508 (accessed 8 February 2024)
   Geneviève Benoist burial (died in about 1804) on 29 May 1804 in Yamaska, Québec (Quebec), Canada. Born in about 1766.

• http://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogy=Genevieve_Benoit&pid=84029&lng=en