Jean-Baptiste Babin (1719 - bef. 1762)

Born 22 Mar 1719 in Saint-Charles-des-Mines, Grand-Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Catherine LeBlanc — married 30 Sep 1745 (to before 1762) in St. Charles des Mines, Grand-Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Descendants

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Biography

Jean Baptiste Babin was born 23 March 1719. He was the son of Pierre Babin and Marie-Madeleine Bourg. He was baptized the same day he was born at Saint Charles des Mines, Grand-Pré, Acadia. His godparents were Jean Babin and Marguerite Bourg.^[1]

When he was 26, Jean Baptiste married Catherine Leblanc, age 20, daughter of Jacques Leblanc and Catherine Landry 30 Sept 1745 at Saint Charles des Mines, Grand-Pré, Acadia.^[2]

On 5 September 1755, Jean-Baptiste was imprisoned along with hundreds of other Acadian men at the St. Charles des Mines church in Grand Pré. On a list of prisoners, he was said to live in the village Grand LeBlanc with 1 son and 4 daughters (spouses were not included on the list), and owned 6 bullocks, 4 cows, 4 young cattle, 18 sheep, 14 hogs, and 3 horses. His property and livestock became forfeit to the crown, and his family was required to prepare for deportation within 30 days. ^{[3] [4]} His brother Joseph was also on the list.

On 27 October 1755, Jean-Baptiste, his wife Catherine, and their children Marie-Madeleine, Marie-Josèphe and Marie-Anne as well as two unnamed children (a boy and a girl) were deported to Pennsylvania aboard one of the two ships that left Grand-Pré that day: the sloop Hannah 140 passengers, the sloop Swan 168 passengers. They both arrived in Pennsylvania on 19 November 1755. ^[4]

Jean-Baptiste appeared on documents in Pennsylvania in 1756. ^[4] He died between 1756 and 1762. ^[4] Catherine married Alexis Thibodeau on 17 February 1762 in Pennsylvania. She and her children found a permanent home in the province of Quebec after 1763.

Research Notes

According to Bona Arsenault, the family was deported to Maryland. ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Fonds de la paroisse catholique Saint-Charles-des-Mines (Grand-Pré, N.-É.) - 1869; Canadiana, Heritage, Parish registers: Nova Scotia : C-1869 (Image 111): https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1869/111?r=0&s=5
2. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Fonds de la paroisse catholique Saint-Charles-des-Mines (Grand-Pré, N.-É.) - 1869; Canadiana, Heritage, Parish registers: Nova Scotia : C-1869 (Image 775): https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1869/775?r=0&s=4
3. ↑ Lucie Leblanc Consentino, Acadian & French-Canadian Ancestral Home, "Deportees of Grand Pre - 1755," citing Collection of the Nova Scotia Historical Society 1870-1884 - Journal of John Winslow, volumes 1-4; "Grand Pre, September the 15th 1755," line # 289,

   Battistes Babin, 1 son and 4 daughters (spouses were not included on the list), 6 bullocks, 4 cows, 4 young cattle, 18 sheep, 14 hogs, 3 horses

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Paul Delaney. La liste de Winslow expliquée. (Moncton, N.-B.: Éditions Perce-Neige, 2020 - Kindle Edition), p. 312
5. ↑ Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1625-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; p. 1094 (Grand Pré) (Source provided by Karen Theriot Reader)

   Born 1719, he married at St. Charles des Mines on 30 Sep 1745 to Catherine LE BLANC; two daughters. He was deported to Maryland.

• Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Acadiennes, Premiere Partie 1636 a 1714 en Deux Volumes, Centre D'Etudes Acadiennes, Universite de Moncton, 1999, p. 998.

• Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records: Acadian Records 1707-1748 (Baton Rouge, LA, Diocese of Baton Rouge, 1999), Personal Collection, p 17, baptism Jean Baptiste Babin. " Jean Baptiste Babin (Pierre Babin and Magdelaine Bourg) bn. 22 March 1719, bt. 23 March 1719 spo. Jean Babin and Marguerite Bourg (SGA-2,12)."

• Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records: Acadian Records 1707-1748 (Baton Rouge, LA, Diocese of Baton Rouge, 1999), Personal Collection, p.17 Marriage: Jean Baptiste Babin to Catherine Leblanc: "Jean Baptiste Babin, age ca 26 (Pierre Babin and Magdeline Bourg) m. 30 Sept. 1745 (consanguinity 3rd to 4th degree) Catherine Leblanc, age ca 20 (Jaques Leblanc and Catherine Landry) wit. Pierre Babin (s); Jacques Leblanc (s); Jean Leblanc (s); Josep Leblanc (s); sig. Jean Baptis Babin (s); Catherine {+} Leblanc." Note: Underlined names denote unusual variant spellings in the copy of the publication in the possession of Donna Storz.