Joseph Martin (abt. 1738 - abt. 1795)

Born about 1738 in Beaubassin, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

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Descendants

Died about 9 Jan 1795 at about age 57 in St. James, Louisiana

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Biography

Joseph Martin dit Barnarbe is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 5 Left. Listed with him is his wife Marguerite Pitre . ^[1]

Joseph Martin was born about 1738 in Beaubassin, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia, son of Ambroise Martin and Anne Cyr.

Joseph (25) married Marguerite Pitre (23) (born in Acadie) in 1764. ^[2][3]

Their known children were:

1. Joseph Martin (1765 – Nov 25 1815) .
2. Marguerite Martin (Apr 30 1768 – after Mar 2 1825) .
3. Marie Martin (1770 – unknown) .
4. Michel Martin (Feb 16 1773 – Jul 3 1833) .
5. Pelagie Martin (May 28 1775 – Nov 19 1840) .
6. Paul Martin (Mar 28 1779 – unknown)

At the end of the Seven Years War between England and France, Joseph and his family were on the list of prisoners held at Halifax.^[4] Being early Acadian arrivals to the Louisiana territory, the family likely sailed in November 1764 , and landed in New Orleans sometime in 1765. His father is on a list on men attempting to exchange money in New Orleans.^[5]

List of Names of Those Who Attempted to Exchange Card Money

Louisiana: River Settlements, at Acadians in Gray: Acadians in Gray

Joseph, second son of Ambroise Martin dit Barnabé, père and his first wife Anne Cyr, born probably at Chignecto in c1739, followed his family to Île St.-Jean in 1742 and was counted with his widowered father and siblings at Malpèque in August 1752. He followed them into exile on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore and married fellow Acadian Marguerite Pitre in c1760. They ended up as prisoners in Nova Scotia soon after their marriage and came to Louisiana from Halifax in 1765. They settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where Spanish officials counted them in April 1766. They lived on the river near the boundary between St.-Jacques and St.-Jean-Baptiste des Allemands on the Upper German Coast, and were living in New Orleans in April 1769, when a daughter was baptized there. Spanish officials counted them on the left, or east, bank of the river at St.-Jacques in 1777. Their daughter married into the Broussard family. Joseph died by December 1795, when his wife was listed in an upper Bayou Lafourche census without a husband. His sons settled on Bayou Lafourche, where they established a third center of Barnabé Martin family settlement that soon outnumbered their cousins on the river.

Joseph died about Jan 9, 1795 in St. James, Louisiana, aged about 56.^[6]

Census: 12 Aug 1763 Halifax, Acadia^[3]

CENSUS: 12 Aug 1763, Halifax, Nova Scotia: Joseph MARTIN, his wife. [Also there was his father Ambroise, Sr., and his brother Ambroise, Jr.] ^[3]

CENSUS/Militia: 8 Apr 1766, Verret's Company [St. James], LA. Joseph BERNABE.^[7]

Also on the militia list is his father Ambroise Bernabé and brother Paul Bernabé.

with 1 woman [his wife] & 1 child [a boy, son Joseph?].^[8]

CENSUS: Militia of the First Acadian Coast January 23, 1770

Left Bank from Sieur Dupart's to Germain Bergeron's

Joseph Martin, age 33, Acadian, Married^[7]

CENSUS: 1 Jan 1777, St. James, LA. Joseph MARTIN, age 38, with Marguerite PITRE, 37, and five children: Joseph, 12; Michel, 4; Marguerite, 8; Marie, 6; Pelagie, 2.^[9]

Joseph is listed in the "SPAIN~ LOUISIANA PATRIOTS in its 1779-1783 WAR with ENGLAND during the AMERICAN Revolution." https://www.somosprimos.com/hough/louisiana.pdf, page 124.

• Joseph Martin. BR:523, he and Marguerite Pitre bap ch dur war, SJA. BR:413, he and Marguerite Cormier spo hap, 1776, SJ Par.
  • Joseph Martin (c 1736 Acadia, Canada - before 9 Sep 1779 La Fourche, LA). DAR:22, LA Inf.

Joseph Martin is listed in the Daughters of American Revolution Database for Patriotic Service with Spanish Governor Bernardo Galvez.^[10]

See story of the "Descendants of Joseph MARTIN dit Barnabé (c1739-; Barnabé, René dit Barnabé)" at Acadians in Gray-Martin

Sources

1. ↑ Title: The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial; Author: Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair; second edition, 2015; Bodemuller The Printer, USA; Personal Copy. p. 22
2. ↑ Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1625-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; pp. 1013 (Beaubassin) & 2550-2551 (Louisiana)

   Joseph MARTIN dit BARNABÉ, born 1736, son of Ambroise & Anne CYR of Beaubassin, married around 1760 to Marguerite PITRE (born in 1740); five children. In 1777 he was at St. James on the east bank of the Misssissippi.

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Title: "List of Acadian Families & Individuals at Halifax between 1759 & 1764"; Author: LeBlanc, Ronnie-Gilles, English trans. by John Estano DeRoche; Publication: Sept 2013 Note: [ www.rootsweb.com/~nsgrdpre/documents/dossiers/Ronnie-Gilles/Halifax-Families-1759-1764-rev-Sept-2013-(English).pdf Halifax Families] Internet; p. 16

   Text: Joseph (37) MARTIN from Malpèque, son of Ambroise (15) MARTIN, married in 1760 at Restigouche to Marguerite PITRE, daughter of Jean (12) PITRE; was on the 1763 census at Halifax with family of 2 persons. Settled at Saint-Jacques de Cabahannocer [Louisiana].

4. ↑ Appendix
5. ↑ Acadian and French Canadian Ancestral Home, Report on Paper Money Held by the Acadians, by Roger Rozendal
6. ↑ Title: The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial; Author: Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair; second edition, 2015; Bodemuller The Printer, USA; Personal Copy. p. 22
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Title: Cabanocey, Lillian C. Bourgeois; New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 1957; reprinted Pelican Publ., 1998. copy in possession of Jacqueline Girouard; p.160. Note: the cited publication has only a list as they appeared in the original Archive General de Indias-Santo Domingo, 2595, 181-182, but no other family members.
8. ↑ Published by Karen Theriot Reader in her research notes. Joseph Martin Could not find this information--maybe it's from the original General de Indias-Santo Domingo, 2595, 181-182,
9. ↑ Title: The Parish of St. James in the Province of Louisiana: Abstracts from the Spanish Census of 1777; Author: Winston De Ville; Publication: Ville Platte, LA, Author, 1987; Note: Genealogical Abstracts from the Spanish Census of 1777. Original in: Archives of the Indies, Papeles procedentes de Cuba; legajo 190; folios 192-205;
10. ↑ Enter Ancestor Number A074365 in the search field for: DAR Research