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State of Service: ESP
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
NOTE (2/28/11): Per contributor J. Fortner who contacted St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church, there is no St. Martin de Tours Churchyard Cemetery. All the bodies were dug up and re-intered in the St. Michael's Cemetery. Some of the old stones were moved beside the church, but no bodies are there now
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Author: Terry Dupuy
Francois Guillebaut was born on 14 October 1749 at Annapolis Royal, Acadie, the son of Joseph dit L’Officer Guillebaut and Madelene Michel.
He lived in Acadia until his family was exiled in 1755. They were being sent to North Carolina on the ship “Pembroke” when the Acadians seized the ship and sailed it to Quebec by the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In 1756, they went to Restigouche (New Brunswick), where his father was a Lieutenant in the Acadian Militia. His father is on the list of prisoners at Halifax after 1761. In 1763, Francois and his family sailed with the Broussard party, arriving in Louisiana in 1765 via St.-Domingue. They met sickness and death in the 1765 epidemic on Bayou Teche.
On 18 July 1772, he married Magdaleine Broussard and lived on the Teche at Carencro and La Pointe in the Attakapas District. Their known children were:
Marie Anastasie Emilie was born on 2 June 1774 and married Donat Breaux.
Francois Louis was baptized on 5 May 1776 and died at 19 unmarried.
Joseph was born on 15 April 1777 and married Magdelene Hebert.
Marie Victorie was born in 1780 and married (1) Hypolite Savoy and (2) Louis Hebert.
Anne was born on 3 August 1782 and died in 1783.
David was born on 22 July 1785 and married Adele Aide Duhon.
Seraphine was born on 12 February 1788 and married Julien Babin.
Eloy was buried on 9 February 1797 at five years of age.
Julien was born in January 1795 and married Azelie LeBlanc.
Julia was born in August 1797.
Francois served as a fusilier under Commandant Declouet in the Attakapas Militia of Bernardo de Galvez’s Army. He participated in capturing Fort Bute at Manchac and the fort at Baton Rouge.
The Patriot died on 16 September 1822 “at his home at La pointe” St. Martin Parish, Louisana, and was buried in St. Martinville, in St. Martin des Tours Catholic Church Cemetery, and re-interred in St. Michael’s Catholic Cemetery across Bayou Teche.
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