Joseph Pépin Hebert (abt. 1749 - aft. 1789)

Born about 1749 in Acadie

Ancestors

Husband of Magdeleine Trahan — married 25 Apr 1771 in St. Martinville, Spanish Louisiana

Descendants

Died after 1789 after about age 40 in Saint Martinville, St. Martin, Louisiana, New Spain

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Biography

JEAN BAPTISTE HEBERT is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, on Plaque 3 Right. Without his wife, who presumably died in Halifax, he is listed as head of a family group including JOSEPH PEPIN HEBERT, Louise Hebert, and Jean Charles Hebert, his young cousins.^[1]

Joseph Pépin Hébert, son of Benoni Hebert and Jeanne Savoie, was born around 1749 in Acadie.

In 1752 his parents Benoni and Jeanne were residing in Memramcook with two sons and two daughters.^[2] They were recorded again in Memramcook in 1755 with three sons and four daughters. ^[3][4]

During the Seven Year's War, over that part of the New World, when the British decided they no longer would tolerate the Acadian neutrals who had lived there for generations, they began armed deportation of the residents. During this so-called Grand Dérangement, the family experienced many displacements. Sometime between 1756 and 1761, they fled to Camp d'Espérance, Miramichi, established at the end of the summer of 1756 to try to protect from famine and from capture the many Acadians who sought refuge there. They suffered greatly because of sickness and lack of food at the camp.^[5] In 1761 they were still refugees in Miramichi.^[6] Benoni and his family (a total of 7 people) were prisoners at Fort Edward in 1763.^[7] They were also prisoners in Halifax sometime between 1761 and mid-1763. Total of six people in the family.^[8]

He is thought to have been an "early arriving" Acadian, evidently among the Beausoleil party arriving in 1765 and 1766. ^[9]

He married Madeleine Trahan on 25 April 1771 in St. Martinville, Louisiana, New Spain.^[10][11]

Children: ^[12]

1. Joseph Hebert (1772) ^[13]
2. Adelaide Hebert (1774)^[14][15]
3. Agricole Hebert (1776)^[16]
4. Celestin Hebert (1779)
5. Marie Magdeleine Hebert (1782)
6. Francois Hebert (1783)^[17]
7. Julie Hébert 1786
8. Louis Hebert (1789)^[18]

Joseph Hebert fought under General Galvez's command in the Attakapas Spanish Militia in the Revolutionary War. He was on the Southern Front (1774-1777) where they defeated the British and greatly helped the Americans win independence.^[19]

He died at an unknown date after 1788. His last child, Louis, was born In 1789. ^[12]

Various dates of death appear in family trees:

• 1821 in St. Martinville, Louisiana. ^{[citation needed]}
• about 1803 in St. Martinville, aged ~53. ^{[citation needed]}

Residence/Militia Service

Census: 25 Apr 1766 Attakapas Post ^[20]

Census of 1769, Attakapas Post, Louisiana ^[21]

Census: 1771, Attakapas, St. Martinville, Louisiana ^[22]

Census: 30 Oct 1774, Attakapas, St. Martinville, Louisiana ^[23]

Attakapas Militia Military Service, 1 May 1777, Attakapas, St. Martinville, Louisiana^[24]

Census: 4 May 1777, Attakapas, St. Martinville, Louisiana ^[25]

Research Notes

From Acadians in Gray:

Belony Hebert and his wife, Jeanne Savoie, had taken their family to New Brunswick to escape deportation. Two of their sons later went to Louisiana. It is believed that Joseph-Pepin (m. 1771 Madeleine Trahan) arrived first, sometime before 1766. His brother, Jean-Charles (m. 1773 Madeleine Robichaux), came at a later date. Both of them settled along Bayou Vermilion and raised their families there. Joseph-Pepin had 3 sons and 10 grandsons to carry on the Hebert name, while Jean-Charles had 3 sons and 9 grandsons. Most of their Hebert descendants stayed around the Bayou Vermilion / Lafayette area. It is known that Francois-Pepin (Joseph-Pepin's son) (m. 1802 Marianne Mouton) moved south and was one of the first settlers in the Abbeville area.^[26]

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, Wall of Names Committee, Jane G. Bulliard, Chair, editors, (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p. 18.
2. ↑ Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; 1752 Census The original census can be found at Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the National Archives of Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752”, Images 277-308, image 281;

   Belonie HÉBERT, his wife, 2 boys, 2 girls.

3. ↑ Lucie LeBlanc Consentino, "Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home," website, 1755 Census

   Michel Manuel Hébert, his wife, 3 boys, 2 girls, total 7

4. ↑ Stephen A. White, "Recensements de Beaubassin et des Trois Rivières de Chipoudie, de Memramcook et de Petcoudiac (1686-1755), Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, vol. 50, nos 2-4, juin-décembre 2019, p. 332-333;

   Benoni Hébert #68 (Jean-Emmanuel #12) married to Jeanne Savoie (François #3) in 1741, Beaubassin. Census 1752 Memramcook, Benoni, his wife, 2 boys, 2 girls total 6. Census 1755 Memramcook, Benoni, his wife, 3 boys, 4 girls (sic - 2 in original census) total 7 Were refugees at Camp d'Espérance. After 1763 children settled in Fausse Pointe, Lafayette, Morlaix.

5. ↑ R.-G. LeBlanc, "Les réfugiés acadiens au camp d’Espérance de la Miramichi en 1756-1761: un épisode méconnu du Grand Dérangement," Acadiensis, 41(1), 2012. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/19077/21083. (See appendix at the end) Also English translation by John Estano DeRoche, "The Acadian Refugee Camp on the Miramichi, 1756-1761"
6. ↑ Lucie LeBlanc Consentino, "Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home," website, 1761 Gaspesie Refugees Census, original record 1761 Gaspesie Refugees Original Amherst Papers (WO 34) : C-12837, Images 176-184, image 183;

   Belony Emmanuel, his wife, 3 boys, 3 girls, 8 people total

7. ↑ Lucie LeBlanc Consentino, List of Acadian Prisoners at Fort Edward, 1761-1762, Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home, original record, digital images,

   Beloni Hebert - 7

8. ↑ Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, "List of Acadian Families & Individuals at Halifax between 1759 & 1764, " Appendix to Acadians in Halifax and on Georges Island, 1755-1764 http://sites.rootsweb.com/~nsgrdpre/documents/dossiers/Ronnie-Gilles/Halifax-Families-1759-1764-rev-Sept-2013-(English).pdf
9. ↑ Steven A. Cormier, Appendices, Acadians Who Found Refuge in Louisiana, February 1764-early 1800s, Joseph-Pepin HÉBERT, http://www.acadiansingray.com/Appendices-ATLAL-HEBERT.htm#Joseph-Pepin%20HEBERT
10. ↑ "Louisiana Marriages, 1816-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VK18-VVW : 14 January 2020), Joseph Hebert, 1771.
11. ↑ Donald J. Hébert, Southwest Louisiana Records, 1750-1900: compact disk #101 (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 2001); :HEBERT, Joseph - of Acadia, living at Attakapas (Bellome & Jeanne SAVOIE) m. 25 April 1771 Magdelene TRAHAN - native of Acadia; resides in Attakapas (Jean & Marguerite BROUSSARD) Wits: Jean BERARD, GREVEMBER, GAIGNARD, MERCIER. Fr. IRENEE, of Pointe Coupee. (SM Ch.: Folio A-1, p.10)

    TRAHAN, Magdelene - native of Acadia; resides in Attakapas (Jean & Marguerite BROUSSARD) m. 25 April 1771 Joseph HEBERT - of Acadia, living at Attakapas (Bellome & Jeanne SAVOIE) Wits: Jean BERARD, GREVEMBER, GAIGNARD, MERCIER. Fr. IRENEE, of Pointe Coupee. (SM Ch.: Folio A-1, p.10)

12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader's Family Tree. Page for Joseph Pepin Hebert
13. ↑ "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2WK-3WK : 14 January 2020), Joseph Hebert in entry for Joseph Hebert, 1772.
14. ↑ Hébert, SWLR CD;

    HEBERT, Adelaide (Joseph Pepin & Magdeleine TRAHAN) b. 2 May 1774, bt. Nov. 1774 Spons: Jean Baptiste BROUSSARD & Louise HEBERT. Fr. IRENEE (SM Ch.: v.1, p.41)

15. ↑ "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HSRP-GWPZ : 14 January 2020), Joseph Pepin Hebert in entry for Adelaide Hebert, 1774.
16. ↑ "Louisiana Births and Christenings, 1811-1830, 1854-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HSR3-1YT2 : 14 January 2020), Joseph Hebert in entry for Agricole Hebert, 1776.
17. ↑ Hébert, SWLR CD:

    HEBERT, Olivier (Francois HEBER dit Pepin & Marie Anne MOUTON) b. 15 Jan. 1820, bt. 7 May 1820 Pats: Joseph HEBERT dit Pepin & Magdelaine TRAHAN; Mats: Marin MOUTON & Marie LAMBERT; Spons: Olivier BLANCHET fils & Marguerite Perrosine LEBLANC. Fr. Marcel BORELLA (SM Ch.: v.7, #847)

18. ↑ Hébert, SWLR CD:

    HEBERT, Louis - inhabitant at Vermillion; native of Halifax, widower of dec. Francoise BROUSSARD (major son of dec. Joseph & dec. Francoise HEBERT) m. 12 Aug. 1817 Marie Victoire GUILEBAUD - native of this parish; widow of dec. Hypolite SAVOIE (major daughter of Francois - inhabitant at La Pointe & Magdeleine BROUSSARD) Wits: Joseph Fortune PENNE, Louis DUSOUCHET, Louis LINGOIS, Francois GUILBAUD, Joseph SAVOIE. Fr. Gabriel ISABEY (SM Ch.: v.6, #52)

19. ↑ Joseph Pepin Hebert
20. ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians: Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796 (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973) p. 124

    "Census and list of Militiamen and Acadian householders recently established at the Atakapas," in section labeled "District of the Pointe:"

    Joseph Pepin HEBERT [with no woman or children].

21. ↑ Donald Joseph Arceneaux, Attakapas Post in 1769--The First Nominal Census of Colonial Settlers in Southwest Louisiana (Baton Rouge, LA: Claitor's Publishing Division, 2014) pp. 17, 31

    identified as Joseph Hebert [-Pepin, son of Benoni & Jeanne Savoie]

    In the household of Family #7 Jean B Broussard

    Joseph Hebert, age 20.

22. ↑ Winston De Ville, Attakapas Post: The Census of 1771 (Baton Rouge, LA: Provincial Press, Claitor's Publishing, Reprint 2010) citing transcription of Papales Procedentes de Cuba (in the Archives of the Indies, Seville, Spain), Legajo 188C, on microfilm at the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwest Louisiana, in Lafayette, LA p. [11]

    Joseph HEBERT, age 23, enumerated in the household of his sister, age 26, the wife of Jean Bapte. HEBERT. Also in household are another brother and sister of the wife, plus a boy child, age 1.

23. ↑ Winston DeVille, Marriage Contracts of the Attakapas Post, 1760-1803 (St. Martinville, LA: Attakapas Historical Assoc., 1966) pp. 56 & 65

    Includes "1774 Census of Attakapas" by Jane Guillory Bulliard & Leona Trosclair David.

    Text: Joseph HEBERT, sa femme; with 2 children, 0 slaves, 16 cattle, 5 horses or mules, and 20 hogs.

24. ↑ Janet Jehn, ed. Acadian Genealogy Exchange vol. 5, p. 24

    There is another Joseph HEBERT also listed. They are 1st cousins.

    On the list "Etat de Revue de la Compagnie de Milice des Attakapas," citing the Archivo General de Indias, in Seville, Spain, PAPELES PROCEDENTES DE CUBA, 161:

    Joseph HEBERT.

25. ↑ Winston De Ville, Southwest Louisiana Families in 1777: Census Records of Attakapas and Opelousas Posts (Baton Rouge, LA: Claitor's Publishing, Reprinted June 2010) p. 9; citing Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, at the General Archives of the Indies in Seville, Spain; legajo 2358, folios 258 -300)

    30. Joseph HEBERT, 28;

    Magdeleine TRAHANT, wife, 28.

    Garcons: Joseph, 5;

    Agricol, 1.

    Filles: Adelaide, 2.

    There were 30 cattle, 4 horses, and 10 hogs.

26. ↑ Steven Cormier, Acadians in Gray, website. Link needed.