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L 'Association
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Publication de L’Association des Hébert du Monde |
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Laura
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Coulee Kinney Rd, Abbeville, LA 70510-2015 |
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Volume 2002 - Issue 1
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Abbeville, Louisiana June, 2002 |
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La Gazette Hebert:
Meeting News:
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President’s Corner At the last Board meeting, the Board approved the “purchase” of one of the faces painted on the Acadian Memorial Mural in the St. Martinville Acadian Memorial Building.
This mural is painted by theArtist Robert Daford. It covers
one wall of the first-floor room of the Memorial. The mural depicts
Acadian families who arrived in Louisiana in the mid to late 1700’s. One
of those faces will represent Joseph Hébert dit Pepin. The Hebert Family
Association donated $2500 to the Acadian Memorial Foundation in order to
have the Hébert Family represented on the Mural.
Joseph Hébert
dit Pépin, 1765, Attakapas. Biography of an Ancestor The Hébert Family Association has sponsored Joseph Hébert dit Pépin as a mural figure. Joseph Hébert dit Pépin was born 1747 in Beaubassin, Nova Scotia, as a British subject. With the burning of Beaubassin in 1750, he moved with the extended family north of the Missagouash River into French territory. The family settled along the Memramcook River, his father being part of the Canadian Militia under the leadership of Beausoleil Broussard and French Lieutenant Charles des Champs de Boishébert. Under repeated British attack the group retreated to Miramichi as shown by the August 1761 census. Recognizing the futility of continued fighting, Beausoleil surrendered his forces November 1761. Joseph Hébert dit Pépin along with the Hébert and Broussard families, was a prisoner at Fort Edwards, Windson, Nova Scotia in 1762-1763. He arrived in Louisiana in 1765 on the ship chartered by Beausoleil. He was listed in the census of 25 April 1766 as a householder at La Pointe and member of the Attakapas Militia. He lived as a British, French and Spanish subject before he became an American in 1803. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Héberts, Cajuns and Louisiana Why Louisiana? Why were the Acadians so intent on going to a colony controlled by the Spanish? In truth Louisiana, at the time of the arrival of the majority of the refugees from Acadia (Acadie), was a largely French spelling Spanish colony and still under French administration, but when they left Acadia on their ten to thirty year journey Louisiana belonged to the French. It was a natural magnet for displaced Acadians. To understand why, it is necessary to delve a little into the history of the territory called Louisiana. In large measure the concerns and conflicts in the territory of Louisiana paralleled the happenings in Acadia that created problems for the Acadians and the Héberts. The French had had...(some great history of forming of Louisiana is omitted, must sell the book for the Association, so I am leaving some good stuff out). Drained of resources by constant wars, the French ruler decided to turn over Louisiana to a private company for development. In September, 1712 the king granted Antoine Crozat exclusive rights to trade in Louisiana for 15 years. Louis XIV had in effect mortgaged Louisiana to Crozat in return for financial assistance during the recent hostilities. He became a proprietor instead of an on-the-spot administrator. The royal charter that established Crozat’s monopoly permitted him to confiscate all goods traded in Louisiana without his permission and the customs of Paris were the law of the land. This, in effect, began the French civil law tradition in Louisiana. The Customs of Paris, one of the most heralded set of laws of feudal France, regulated a number of institutions that survived in the French Civil Code and subsequent Louisiana Civil Code. Crozat was given jurisdiction over territory between New Mexico and the Carolinas and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes. That was the extent that France considered to be the Territory of Louisiana. Crozat has one main obligation, to send two ships a year to Louisiana with 25 men or women of his choice. Crozat soon realized that few Frenchmen could be voluntarily enticed to leave the safety of their homeland for the unknown of Louisiana. The French government was considering the idea of forced emigration, especially that of criminals. If this policy were to be considered, Crozat wanted to ensure that only certain types of criminals were considered. He proposed that dealers in contraband . . .(that scoundrel) Bienville, who had become governor-general of Louisiana in February 1718, also had ideas for developing the colony....... Crozat, realizing little hopes for profit from his venture, remitted the charter to the crown in August 1717. The regent, Philippe II, ...(here comes John Law). Hoping to settle the colony and profit from it, Law organized the “Compagnie de Ia Louisiane ou Occident.” He envisioned the development of Louisiana as a national effort, so he tried to gain as many shareholders as possible for the company’s stock. Everyone in France... Missionaries arrived with groups of settlers to establish churches... French Huguenots were not...
Life in the southern portion of colonial Louisiana was
harsh and short. . . .The practice of medicine was so primitive that... He
is credited with introducing the first cattle, ......exporting the first
... silk. Since Spain was not prepared for immediate occupation, the French... Relocation from Alabama The transfer of that part of Louisiana east of the Mississippi to England gave rise to the relocation of French citizens,... Anticipating the settlers’ reaction, the French government had already developed a plan for evacuating the Alabama posts and relocating the French population. Upon their arrival at the chosen destination,...
Routes to Louisiana Some of the reported routes to Louisiana may be the stuff of folklore and family legend, but the possibility does exist. No one was deported directly from Nova Scotia to Louisiana... We do know that some of the Acadians departed their homeland before the expulsion, but there is doubt that few (if any) were able to make their way to the Louisiana territory shortly after the expulsion began.
Robert A. Leblanc, a geography professor at the University
of New Hampshire, graphically shows Acadians —from Maryland, South
Carolina and Georgia making the journey to New Orleans in 1758 or 1759.
... Carl Brasseux... He also points out that in the voluminous writings on
Acadian immigration, no record of an overland trip has been found. The Acadians of St. Malo (France) From Nantes (France) to Louisiana The Santo Domingo Connection The Acadians in Louisiana We Are Now Americans
The Americanization Process The seven ships leaving France in 1785 ...to settle. (LA)] Six Generations of Heberts (Descendants of Antoine) (Descendants of Etienne) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a must book for any descendant of
Antoine & Etienne Hebert. The Héberts, Cajuns and Louisiana
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