Joseph LeBlanc (abt. 1749)

Born about 1749 in Acadie

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Biography

Joseph was born about 1749. He is the son of Sylvain Le blanc and Anne Leprince.

According to genealogist Stephen A. White, Anne, Sylvain and their 4 children were deported from Pisiguit in 1755 and were sent to Virginia, and then afterwards to England, where Sylvain died the following year in Liverpool. ^[1]

In 1763, the widowed Anne and her children were repatriated from England to France. On 7 June 1763, in Liverpool, Anne, Anastasie, Joseph, Marguerite and Modeste were on a list of passengers aboard "The Sturgeon", bound for France.^[2][1]

They settled in Morlaix, France because Anne was enumerated in the censuses of that location in 1772, 1786 and 1792.^[1]

According to the historian Clarence J. d'Entremont, his mother Anne and his sister Anastasie were guillotined with l'Abbé Clech on 1 Jul 1794 in Brest, France. Anne was accused of having harbored a priest in her home, l'Abbé Augustin LeClech, thus defying the laws of the Revolution.^[2][3][4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Stephen A. White, Patrice Gallant, Hector-J. Hébert, Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes (Moncton, N.-B.: Centre D'études Acadiennes, Université De Moncton, 1999) p. 1003, 1081-1082
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Karen Theriot Reader Joseph LeBlanc at Geneanet
3. ↑ https://www.acadian.org/history/acadian-women-executed/
4. ↑ Karen Theriot Reader Sylvain LeBlanc at Geneanet citing Roland J. Auger, "The LEBLANCS of Acadia," in Genealogy and Family History, FRENCH CANADIAN & ACADIAN GENEALOGICAL REVIEW, vol. 4, no. 1; p. 28; reprinted from MACLEAN'S MAGAZINE, Toronto (15 Dec 1950).

   Sylvain LE BLANC, son of Jean & Jeanne BOURGEOIS, married at Pisiquid around 1743 to Anne LE PRINCE; daughter Marie. A footnote says that he and his family were exiled to Liverpool, England in 1755, where he died the following year. His wife and three daughters were then sent to Morlaix, France. The youngest, Marie-Modeste, became a Carmelite nun at Morlaix with the name of Sister Augustin de Saint-Francois de Sales. Anne LEPRINCE and her oldest daughter Anastasie LE BLANC were put to death on the guillotine on 1 Jul 1794 during the French Revolution (Reference: Aime' Guillon, LES MARTYRS DE LA FOI PENDANT LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE; Paris, 1821; vol. III, p. 489).