Marie Josephe Babin (abt. 1747 - 1807)

Born about 1747 in Acadie, Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Wife of Sylvain LeBlanc — married before 14 Sep 1769 in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, New Spain

Descendants

Died Jan 1807 at about age 60 in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, Orleans Territory, USA

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Biography

SYLVAIN LE BLANC is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 5 Left. Listed with him is Marie Babin, his wife, and their [his?] son Simon.^[1]

Marie Josephe Babin, daughter of Paul Babin and Marie Landry,^[2] was born in Acadie c.1747.^[3] Eight years later she and her family and neighbors were deported by the British controllers of Nova Scotia to distant British ports on the eastern seaboard of the North American continent, in her case to Maryland, and detained until the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763. By then her father had died; on 7 July 1763 Marie Josephe was counted on a "Census of the Neutral Inhabitants of Acadia Detained at Oxford, in Maryland," with her widowed mother and siblings.^[2]

Sometime after their release in 1763, and before the Louisiana census of 1769, she married the widowed Sylvain LeBlanc,^[4] and possibly migrated west with him and his (or their) first child, Simon, to Spanish Louisiana. Another theory is that they married shortly after arrival in Ascension, Louisiana, probably in 1769.

They settled at the "Acadian Coast" in Ascension, Louisiana, where they were counted on the census of 14 September 1769 with five-year-old Simon. Sylvain was 28 and she was 22.^[3] Stephen A. White says she was still age 22 on the first of August 1770;^[5] Robichaux shows Sylvain Le Blanc and his wife Marie Joseph as 29 and 22 on the same 1770 census, with five-year old Simon and five month old "Mazan." ^[6] White and Robichaux show her in Ascension, Louisiana in 1777, listed as age thirty. By then there were four more children.^[7][8]

Children

Known children of the marriage of Sylvain LeBlanc and Marie Josephe Babin
[the mother of Simon LeBlanc (c.1764) is uncertain]:

1. Joseph "Mazan" LeBlanc (c.1769)
2. Paul LeBlanc (c.1771)
3. Rosalie LeBlanc (c.1772)
4. Magdeleine LeBlanc (1774)
5. Marie Martine LeBlanc (1778)
6. Angelique LeBlanc (1779)
7. Adelaide LeBlanc (1780)
8. Marie Henriette LeBlanc (c.1782)
9. Marie Ludivine LeBlanc (1790)
10. Marie Clemence LeBlanc (1792)^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair, eds. (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p. 21.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Janet Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, (Covington, KY: Author, 1977) pp. 143 & 156.

   Census: 7 July 1763 Oxford, Talbot, Maryland:

   Text: 445

   "Recensement des habitants Neutres de Lacadie détenus a Oxford, En Maryland" Marie Babin veuve, Charles Babain, Eufreme et Marie Joseph Babin, Brigitte et Anne Babin, veuve Anne Babin, Joseph et Jacques Babin, Marg'te Babin ....

   "Census of the Neutral Inhabitans[sic] of Acadia Detained at Oxford, in Maryland" Marie [Landry] Babin, widow [of Paul Babin], Charles Babain, Eufrème and Marie Joseph Babin, Brigitte and Anne Babin, widow Anne Babin, Joseph and Jacques Babin, Margte. Babin.

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Lillian C. Bourgeois, Cabanocey: The History, Customs and Folklore of St. James Parish (New Orleans, LA: Pelican Publishing, 1998) p. 175.

   Census 14 Sep 1769 Acadian Coast, Ascension, Louisiana

   Text: #77

   Silvain LEBLANC, 28;

   Marie BABAIN, wife, 22;

   Simon LEBLANC, son, 5.

4. ↑ Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780 (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version, n.d.) ("DRFT") p. 568;

   Note: No place given.

   Source provided by Karen Theriot Reader, RootsWeb.com.
5. ↑ White, DRFT, p. 568

   Census: 1 Aug 1770, Ascension, Louisiana

   Text: Age 22 years.

6. ↑ Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., "1770 Census of Ascension," Colonial Settlers along Bayou Lafourche, 1770-1798 (Harvey, LA: 1974, 2nd printing: Hébert Publications, 1980) p. 4

   citing the original: "AT KABAHANNOSSEE, THE FIRST OF AUGUST 1770 /s/ Louis Judice, "Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, Legajo 215A

   Text: 43.

   Silvain LE BLANC, 29, 6 arpents of land;

   Marie Joseph BABIN, his wife, 22;

   Simon LE BLANC, his son, 5;

   Mazan LE BLANC, id, 5 months.

7. ↑ White, DRFT, p. 568

   Census: 23 Apr 1777 Donaldsonville, Ascension, Louisiana

   Text: Age 30 years.

8. ↑ Robichaux, p. 14

   Text: 38.

   Silvin LE BLANC, 36, 6 arpents, 1 slave, 21 cattle, 1 horse, 15 swine, 2 guns;

   Marie BABIN, his wife, 30;

   Simon LE BLANC, his son, 12;

   Joseph LE BLANC, id, 7;

   Paul LE BLANC, id, 5 [sic];

   Rosalie LE BLANC, his daughter, 4;

   Magdelaine LE BLANC, id, 3.

9. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, Vol 2 (Baton Rouge, LA: Diocese of Baton Rouge, date) p.__.

   Maria Clemencia (Silvano & Maria Josephe Babin) bt. 4 Nov 1792 bn. 31 May 1792 spo. Pablo LeBlanc & Maria LeBlanc (ASC-5, 72)

Acknowledgments

Karen Theriot Reader Rootsweb.com.

Jacqueline Girouard