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]:
↑The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair, eds. (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p. 21.
↑ 2.02.1 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.
↑ 3.03.1 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Marie Josephe by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
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If anyone has the following source, can you please check to see if the date of the Spanish census has been mistranscribed: Albert J. Robichaux, Jr., Colonial Settlers along Bayou Lafourche, 1770-1798 (Harvey, LA: 1974, 2nd printing: Hébert Publications, 1980) p. 4
citing General Census of the Habitants of Valenzuela of Lafourche, Two Thousand Sixty-four Persons; April 10, 1797; /s/ N, Verret; (Original: Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, Legajo 215A)
On p. 4, "Sylvain Le Blanc" his wife Marie Joseph and their 2 young sons are as described in this biography. The title of the census in the book is "1770 Census of Ascension". The end of this census as transcribed by Robichaux using the original legajos is "AT KABAHANNOSSEE, THE FIRST OF AUGUST 1770 /s/ Louis Judice"
Maria Clemencia (Silvano & Maria Josephe Babin) bt. 4 Nov 1792 bn. 31 May 1792 spo. Pablo LeBlanc & Maria LeBlanc (ASC-5, 72)
Diocese of Baton Rouge Vol 2
She married Joseph Prince Jr.
Marie Clemence (Silvain and Marie Josephe BABIN, decd.) m. 19 Dec 1811 Joseph PRINCE (Joseph and Magdelaine BOUIN, res. Attacapas) wit. Moyse Bonnet; Simon Pierre LeBlanc; Eloy Benoit (ASC-2, 216)
Diocese of Baton Rouge Vol 3
Thanks for bringing this up. It brought to light a few other details that need sorting, such as her husband's first marriage and first child, Simon (which wife was the mother?) and which of the three spellings of LeBlanc on his profile page is preferred.
Diocese of Baton Rouge Vol 2
She married Joseph Prince Jr.
Marie Clemence (Silvain and Marie Josephe BABIN, decd.) m. 19 Dec 1811 Joseph PRINCE (Joseph and Magdelaine BOUIN, res. Attacapas) wit. Moyse Bonnet; Simon Pierre LeBlanc; Eloy Benoit (ASC-2, 216) Diocese of Baton Rouge Vol 3
They have several children https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prince-216
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edited by Billy Jones