APPENDICES

Acadians Who Found Refuge in Louisiana, February 1764-early 1800s

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LOUISIANA: WESTERN SETTLEMENTS

According to the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, Paul Josset was Acadian. He came to Louisiana in February 1765 with the Broussard party from Halifax via Cap-Français, St.-Domingue, and followed the Broussards to lower Bayou Teche in April. He did not live there long. He died in late August 1765, a victim of the epidemic that took the lives of dozens of his fellow Teche valley denizens. The priest who recorded his burial did not give Paul's parents' names or his age at the time of his death. Church and civil records give no hint that he married or fathered any children.

NON-ACADIAN FAMILIES in LOUISIANA

A French-Canadian family with a similar-sounding name settled in Louisiana during the early colonial period:

Claude, son of Jean-Baptiste Jousset or Jousette de la Noire of Montréal and Marianne Nadot, married Marianne, daughter of Henry LeBlanc, former custodian of the colonial magazine, at New Orleans in February 1725. The list of witnesses to the marriage reads like a who's-who of 1720s Louisiana aristocracy. Claude served as a lieutenant of militia and the coastal guard in the colony. His daughter married into the Corbin Bachemain family.

CONCLUSION

Paul Josset left no heirs--he may not even have married--so his branch of the Josset family did not take root in the Bayou State. [See also Book Ten]

Sources: Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:443; NOAR, vols. 1, 2, 4; Wall of Names, 19.

Settlement Abbreviations
(present-day civil parishes that existed in 1861 are in parenthesis; hyperlinks on the abbreviations take you to brief histories of each settlement):

Asc	Ascension	Lf	Lafourche (Lafourche, Terrebonne)	PCP	Pointe Coupée
Asp	Assumption	Natc	Natchitoches (Natchitoches)	SB	San Bernardo (St. Bernard)
Atk	Attakapas (St. Martin, St. Mary, Lafayette, Vermilion)	Natz	San Luìs de Natchez (Concordia)	StG	St.-Gabriel d'Iberville (Iberville)
BdE	Bayou des Écores (East Baton Rouge, West Feliciana)	NO	New Orleans (Orleans)	StJ	St.-Jacques de Cabanocé (St. James)
BR	Baton Rouge (East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge)	Op	Opelousas (St. Landry, Calcasieu)

For a chronology of Acadian Arrivals in Louisiana, 1764-early 1800s, see Appendix.

The hyperlink attached to an individual's name is connected to a list of Acadian immigrants for a particular settlement and provides a different perspective on the refugee's place in family and community.

Name	Arrived	Settled	Profile
Paul JOSSET 01	Feb 1765	Atk	arrived LA Feb 1765 with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; died & buried Attakapas 24 Aug 1765

NOTES

01. Wall of Names, 19, calls him Paul JOSSET, & lists him singly; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:443 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.10; SM Ch.: Slave Funeral Register v.1, #15), his death/burial record.

I must assume that the researchers at the Acadian Memorial have found an Acadian origin for him. I have not. White, DGFA-1, 877, lists a female JOSSET married to a SANTIER at La Baleine & Lorembec on Île Royale, now Cape Breton Island, but no male line. Arsenault, Généalogie, does not list a JOSSET anywhere. So who was this "Acadian" who died soon after he reached La Nouvelle-Acadie? Sad for us, Fr. Jean-François CIVERY, who ministered to the Attakapas Acadians in 1765, did not include the parents or mention a wife in Paul JOSSET's burial record.

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