Display Patriot - P-294064 - Simon Joseph LE BLANC
Simon Joseph LE BLANC
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P-294064
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Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
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Author: Allen John Mollere III
Simon Joseph LeBlanc (P-294064)
Simon/Cimon Joseph Le Blanc, a son of Stephan/Estienne LeBlanc and Elisabeth Baudrot/Boudrot, was born 16 December 1744 at St-Charles-des-Mines, Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia, and baptized the following day. (Acadian records of the time were later carried into exile to Saint Gabriel Catholic Church of Iberville Parish at the Spanish Louisiana Territory.) Simon appears on a 24 August 1763 British list of prisoners at Fort Beausejour at Acadia before his exile from Halifax to the Spanish Louisiana Territory, probably via Cap-Français (present-day Haiti) and Saint-Domingue.
Simon appears in the census of Cabahannocé, the first Acadian community at the Spanish LouisianaTerritory (currently Saint James Parish, Louisiana), 9 April 1766. At the age of 22 years, Simon is shown to own four arpents (an old French measure where an arpent is equal to about an acre) of land and one gun. He married Elisabeth LeBlanc, a daughter of Joseph LeBlanc and Elisabeth Godin of Saint James Parish, 21 September 1772, at Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church at Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, Spanish Louisiana Territory.
Simon LeBlanc appears as a Sub-Lieutenant on the Roster of the Company of Militia of Cabahannocé, commanded by Don Michel Cantrelle during the American Revolutionary War. Simon’s name also appears in the Militia list of Cabahannocé, dated 9 September 1779, at Fort Manchac. This was two days after the army of Spanish General Bernardo de Gálvez had attacked and defeated the few British soldiers at Fort Bute (also called Fort Manchac) across the Iberville River (present-day as Bayou Manchac) from the Spanish Fort San Gabriel. Simon likely continued with the rest of the Cabahannocé Militia and participated at least in the Battle of Baton Rouge.
Simon Joseph LeBlanc died 13 July 1810 at Donaldsonville, Louisiana, and was buried the following day at the Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, church cemetery.
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