Display Patriot - P-122117 - Joseph le jeune BROUSSARD
Joseph le jeune BROUSSARD
SAR Patriot #:
P-122117
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State of Service: ESP
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: abt 1751 / Acadia / Canada Death: 16 Feb 1823 St Martinville / St Martin /LA
Qualifying Service Description:
Soldier in the Attakapas Militia of Louisiana under General Bernardo de Galvez
Additional References:
Churchill, C. Robert, Spanish Records (Louisiana); Spanish-English War 1779-1783: Louisiana Society of the Son of the American Revolution, 1925, pg 290
According to Martin Guedry, previous board member of the Acadian Memorial, the parish cemetery was at the St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church. Only 5 graves were removed to St. Michael's Cemetery. The rest still remain where initially buried, the location being under the parking lot of the St. Martin de Tours Church and the immediate surrounding area. Joseph le jeune Broussard is still buried in his initial burial location at the St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church.
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Author: Terry Lynn Dupuy
Joseph Gregoire Broussard le jeune was born on 10 April 1754 in Acadie to Joseph Gregoire Broussard and Ursule Trahan. He was about one year old during the “Grande Derangement."
He was nine years old and living with his widowed mother when his family was held prisoner in Halifax on 12 August 1763. He was eleven years old when he arrived in Louisiana with his mother, Ursule Trahan, the sister of Michel Trahan and the widow of Joseph Gregoire Broussard. She died in the epidemic that claimed many lives and was buried 10 October 1765. In the 1769 and 1771 Attakapas Census, Joseph was living with his uncle, Sylvain Broussard. In 1771, he applied for a land grant between his uncle, Michel Trahan, and his cousin, Jean-Baptiste Seymere. In 1772, he received Spanish land grant A-2222, containing 330 arpents [an arpent is equal to 0.84 acres] on Bayou Teche. In the 1774 Attakapas Census, he was a bachelor with nine cows and one horse.
Joseph married Anne Braud (Breaux) on 3 June 1776. In the 1777 Attakapas Census, Joseph Broussard and his wife, Anne Braux, were 23; garcon [boy], Joseph, 1; 23 cows, ten horses, and nine hogs. On 9 September 1811, Joseph received 1555.45 acres from a land claim at La Fausse Pointe on Bayou Teche which included his Spanish land grant A-2222. On 22 April 1816, he and Anne Braux made a land donation to their children. Each received four arpents of land on Bayou Teche (40 arpents depth), 20 cows and calves, eleven cows without young, one horse, ten mares with young, two pairs or teams of oxen, and/or 500 piastres [Peso] or one enslaved person, and 55 cows and calves. Their known children were Nicolas Joseph, Raphael, Alexandre, Dosithe, Armand, Edouard, Philemon, Adelaide, and Susanne. Anne Breaux died on 20 February 1818 at age 65.
He served continuously in the Attakapas Militia and was noted in 1774, 1777, 1785, and 1792. In 1779, he served under Spanish Louisiana Governor Galvez in the battles of Fort Bute and Baton Rouge. He is approved as a Patriot in the Sons of the American Revolution. (See ACN # 109508)
The Patriot died suddenly during the evening of either the 14 or 15 February 1823 at age about 72 years at the house of Phillippe - homme de couleur; buried 16 February 1823 in the parish cemetery. (St. Martin de Tours Catholic Cemetery and re-interred at St. Michael’s Catholic Cemetery across Bayou Teche)
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