Person:Joseph Dugas (3)

!EDUCATION: He could sign his name, as on his sister Anne's marriage record in 1768 at St. Suliac to Joseph HEBERT.

!MARRIAGE: Parish Register of Pleurtuit Church, births & marriages; 1755-Jul 1778; filmed in 1988 on 10 rolls covering dated from 1519 to about 1816; microfilm 1MI EC228, roll 23; Rennes, France, Archives departmentales d'Ille-et-Vilaine; photocopy in possession of Karen Theriot Reader. Joseph DUGAST, son of Joseph & Marie HEBERT, obtained a dispensation to marry Anastasie HENRY, daughter of Pierre & Anne AUCOIN, originally from Acadie. After three Sunday banns, they were married on 30 Jun 1761 at Saint Suliac [Ille-et-Vilaine] France. Witnesses: Jun [Jean?] HUIT; ? BERTRAND; Marie BROUSSARD; Anthoine BRAULT [signed Antoine BRAUX], and others. [They were second cousins, sharing a pair of great-grandparents.]

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1625-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; p. 1485 (Cobequid) & p. 2476 (Louisiana); own copy. Born 1742, Joseph married around 1761 to Anastasie HENRY (no parents given); five children listed. He was in France at Saint-Suliac [near St. Malo] in 1762, and at Saint-Meloir in 1763. Some members of this family settled in Louisiana. He was at New Orleans in 1784 [sic] and 1785.

!PARENTS-BIRTH-MARRIAGE: Janet B. Jehn, CORRECTIONS & ADDITIONS TO ARSENAULT'S HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1630-1830; by author, 863 Wayman Branch Road, Covington, KY 41015, 1988; p. 41, reference to p. 1498. Anastasie HENRY married on 30 Jun 1761 at St. Suliac to Joseph DUGAST, born about 1744, son of Joseph DUGAST & Marie HEBERT. For children of this marriage, see p. 298 of Robichaux's ACADIAN EXILES AT SAINT-MALO.

   Also on p. 96, reference to p. 2476, Joseph DUGAS, born 1742, married 1st at St. Suliac in 1761 to Anastasie HENRY. She died in 1769 and Joseph married 2nd about 1770 in France to Anastasie BARILLOT, daughter of Pierre & Veronique GIROIRE. (Reference: Robichaux, ACADIAN EXILES IN SAINT-MALO, p. 298.)

!BIRTH-PARENTS-NAME-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Albert Robichaux, Jr., THE ACADIAN EXILES IN SAINT-MALO; 1785-1785; Eunice, LA, Hebert Publications, 1981; part I, vol. I, Family Genealogies A-G (Groups 1 to 480), p. 298 (family #364); own copy. Born about 1744, son of Joseph DUSGAST & Marie HEBERT (see family #362), Joseph [about age 16] and his sister Anne DUGAST [younger, about age 11] disembarked at St. Malo on 23 Jan 1759 from one of the "Five ships." He resided at St. Suliac from 1759-1772. Joseph married 1st on 30 Jun 1761 at St. Suliac, Ille-et-Vilaine [near St. Malo, France] to Anastasie HENRY, daughter of Pierre & Anne AUCOIN; four children are listed. She died in 1769 and Joseph married 2nd on 1 May 1770 at Pleudihen, Cotes-du-Nord [France] to Anastasie BARILLOT, daughter of Pierre BARILLOT and Veronique GIROIRE; two children listed.

!BIRTH-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Albert J. Robichaux, THE ACADIAN EXILES IN CHATELLERAULT; 1773-1785; LA, Hebert Publications, 1983; pp. 38-39, family #77; Salt Lake Family History Library, Europe 944.63 D2r. Joseph DUGAST, born about 1744, son of Joseph & Marie HEBERT, married 1st on 30 Jun 1761 at St. Suliac, Ille-et-Vilaine, France to Anastasie HENRY, daughter of Pierre & Anne AUCOIN. He married 2nd on 1 May 1770 at Pleudihen, Cotes-du-Nord, France to Anastasie BARRILLOT, daughter of Pierre & Veronique GIROIRE; son baptized 1775. Joseph and his 2nd wife and seven children (named) were in the Third Convoy leaving Chatellerault for Nantes on 7 Dec 1775. [Eulalie-Celeste was last named child, but should really be two daughters--Elizabeth-Eulalie, and Celeste.]

!RESIDENCES: "Convoi No. 3," of Acadians who left Chatellerault for Nantes on 15 Nov 1775, on webpage of Francois ROUX at <http://perso.wanadoo.fr/froux/divers/convoi3.htm> read in June 1999. Joseph DUGAST, carpenter [no age given?], with Anastasie BARILLOT, age 34, and seven children: Joseph, age 14; Marie age 12; Cécile age 11; Elisabeth age 8; Francois age 5; Eulalie Ce'leste age 3 [sic, this should be Elizabeth-Eulalie, age 8, and Celeste, age 3]; and Jean Pierre age 1.

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES-IMMIGRATION: Albert J. Robichaux, THE ACADIAN EXILES IN NANTES; 1775-1785; Harvey, LA, Author, 1978; pp. 61-62, family #114; Salt Lake Family History Library Europe 944.14 Dar. Joseph DUGAST, born about 1744 (no parents given), a laborer and carpenter. He married [2nd] about 1761 to Anastasie BARRILLOT; three children listed. With his [2nd] wife and 7 children he was in the Third Convoy leaving Chatellerault for Nantes on 7 Dec 1775. Joseph, his [2nd] wife and nine children were Family No. 6 aboard the "St. Remi" which departed France 20 [sic] Jun 1785 and arrived in Louisiana on 9 [sic] Sep 1785.

    [Joseph's daughter Marie was 21, and another shipboard passenger was the single "seaman" named Jean Baptiste DAIGRE, age 20. Is he the one she married nine months after arrival, on 6 Jun 1786?]

!BIRTH-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES-IMMIGRATION: Gerard-Marc Braud, LES ACADIENS EN FRANCE, NANTES ET PAIMBOEUF; 1775-1785; Nantes, Ouest Editions [1999]; pp. 107-108; own copy. Joseph DUGAST, born around 1744, son of Joseph & Marie HEBERT, was a "scieur de long," and could sign his name. He married 1st on 30 Jun 1761 at St-Suliac, Ille-et-Vilaine, France to Anasthasie HENRY, daughter of Pierre & Anne AUCOIN; four children listed. He married 2nd on 1 May 1770 at Peludihen, Cotes d'Armor, France to Anasthasie BARRILLOT, daughter of Pierre & Véronique GIROIRE; six children. They lived in Bretagne at Pleudihen & St-Suliac from 1759 to 1763, then at Chatellerault, Vienne, France. In Nantes records at St-Similien church, he lived at "Cour Besnard & Place Viarme." They left Nantes on "Le St-Rémi" on 27 Jun 1785 with 9 children.

!IMMIGRATION: Photocopy of original ship's manifest for the St. Remy: 6'e [famille] Joseph Dugat, Seieur de long, 43 Anastasie Barillot, sa f'me, 43 Joseph, son fils, charpentier, 23 François, d[itto], 14 Marie, sa fille, 21 Cécille, d, 19 Elisabeth, d, 12

  63 suite

Anastasie, sa fille, [? copy cuts off age] Anne, d, [?] Marguerite, d, [?]

!SLAVE: Eileen Larré Behrman, ST. JAMES PARISH, LOUISIANA, COLONIAL RECORDS; 1782-1787; Clan MacBean Press, 1981; p. 33; Family History Library, Salt Lake City, US/CAN 976.331 R2b. 1785-127, dated 6 Jul 1785, pp. 695-696, #278: Joseph DUGAS bought from Samuel FLOWER, habiatant of the coast of Iberville de Manchack, a young negro of the Guinee nation, age about 25 years, named Hercule, for 600 piastres. Witnesses: Auguste VERRET, Joseph BOURGEOIS /M/; /S/ Miguel CANTRELLE, Saml. FLOWER; /M/ Joseph DUGAS. [Does this mean that Joseph signed with a mark? or Samuel?]

!DAUGHTER-MARRIAGE: Baton Rouge Diocesan Archives; Catholic Church Records; photocopy of origianl from Ascension Catholic Church, vol. 2, p. 3; in possession of Karen Theriot Reader. At marriage of Juan Bautista DAIGLE & Maria DUGATH [sic], one of the signatures of witnesses was [her father?] Joseph DUGAT [it is very legible].

    However, her brother Joseph, then age 24, was also alive at the time. [Which?]

!CENSUS: Albert J. Robichaux, COLONIAL SETTLERS ALONG BAYOU LAFOURCHE; 1770-1798; Cecilia, LA, Hebert Publications, 1980; pp. 45, 91 & 132; own copy; Louisiana census records.

    Also: On the 1797 census of Valenzuela in Lafourche (Reference: Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, Legajo 213). Joseph DUGATS, age 56, with his wife Anastasie BARILOT, age 55, and five children, aged from 26 to 12.
    Also: On the 1798 census (Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, Legajo 215A). Joseph DUGATS, age 56, with wife Anastasie, age 56, and three children.

!LAND: "Lafourche Interior Parish, Records of Deeds," in TERREBONNE LIFE LINES; 1808-1812; vol.18, no.3 (fall 1999); p. 206; own copy. #159/29, dated Aug 1810, p.141: Joseph DUGAS sells to Joseph Frederick GUEDRY for #550 a tract of land 2 arpents front X 40 depth, located on the left bank of Bayou Lafourche, about 10 leagues below the Mississippi River, bounded above by Francois DUGAS, below by Joseph DUGAS [Jr.?]. August ROGER is secruity for the $150 balance due and GUEDRY is to claim only 4 acres of fence.

!PROBATE: Donald J. Hebert, SOUTH LOUISIANA RECORDS; 1794-1840; vol. 1, Rayne, LA, Hebert Publications, 1978; p. 191; own copy; Church and civil records of Lafourche-Terrebonne Parishes. Joseph DUGAS, married 1st to Anastasie HENRY (who died 7 Mar 1769); married 2nd to Anastasie BARRIEAUX. Succession papers dated 1 Jul 1793 are among the papers of Francois DUGAT [son of Joseph]. Recorded at Lafourche Parish Courthouse, Thibodaux, LA (Thib.Ct.Hse.: Succ.: year 1793). [Whose are these?]

!LAND: FIRST SETTLERS OF THE LOUISIANA TERRITORY; 1773-1803; vol. 1, Nacogdoches, TX, Ericson Books, 1983; p. 43, No. 199; California State Library Sutro, ; Orleans Territory grants from AMERICAN STATE PAPERS. In 1803 a Joseph DUGAST claimed land on west side of Mississippi River, in Acadia county, 2 1/3 arpents by 40, bounded on upper side by Charles THORUE [THERIOT?] and Paul BABIN, and on lower by Joseph EBER. Inhabited and cultivated more than ten years; confirmed. [In Joseph Paul EBER's claim (No. 198), the neighbor is spelled Mr. TURREAUD.]

!BIRTH-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-LAND-SLAVES-DEATH: Audrey B. Westerman, FIRST LAND OWNERS AND 1810 ANNOTATED CENSUS OF LAFOURCHE INTERIOR PARISH, LA; 1785-1810; Houma, LA, Terrebonne Genealogical Society, 1995; No. 530; own copy. Joseph DUGAS, born around 1744 in Cobequid, Acadia, son of Joseph DUGAS & Marie HEBERT, married [2nd] on 1 May 1770 at Pleudihen, France, to Anastasie BARILLOT, daughter of Pierre & Veronique GIROIR. On the 1810 census they are living alone; he is age around 66, she about 69. There is also one slave listed. Land: T14S R16E Sec. 23, Left Bank of Bayou Lafourche, Claim #120 - of 243.16 Sup. acres bounded upstream by Olivier PITRE & downstream by Francois DUGAS [oldest son of 2nd marriage]. Note says that this is reversed, really upstream by F. DUGAS & downstream by O. PITRE. Joseph died on 24 Mar 1833 at Thibodaux [Lafourche], LA.

!LAND-BURIAL: Audrey B. Westerman, "The DUGAS Family to Terrebonne," in TERREBONNE LIFE LINES; ; vol. 18, no.3 (Fall 1998); p. 187; own copy. Joseph DUGAS, born around 1742 in Cobequid, married 1st on 30 Jun 1761 at St. Suliac, France to Anastasie HENRY (born around 1740, died 8 Mar 1769 at St. Suliac), daughter of Pierre & Anne AUCOIN. He married 2nd on 1 May 1770 at Pleudihen, Cote du Nord, France to Anastasie BARILLOT (born around 1741 at Pisiquit), daughter of Pierre & Veronique GIROIRE. They came to LA in 1785 on the "St. Remi." They were placed on Bayou Lafourche between present-day Laurel Grove Plantation and Greenwood Plantation on Hwy. 308 side (T14S R16E Sec. 23 LBBL), where he remained until he died on 24 Mar 1833 at age about 91 years. He is buried in St. Joseph Cemetery, Thibodaux, LA.

1. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780. (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version)
   DUGAS no. 46.

   Born around 1742, son of Joseph (10) DUGAS & Anne-Marie HÉBERT.

2. ↑ Certificate of Burial
   1833, #514.

   514 L'an mil huit cent trente trois et le vingt quatre le mois
   Joseph Dugas de Mars le corps de Joseph Dugat agé de quatre-vingt onze ans
   décédé hier à six heures de soir, jusqua[?] á été enterré dans
   le cimetière de cette Paroisse, la jour et an indiques par mi
   soussigné.
   J. Au... [Audisioi]
   
   [514 On the twenty-fourth of March in the year one thousand
   Joseph Dugas eight hundred thirty-three, the body of Joseph DUGAT, age 91 years,
   died yesterday at six o'clock in the evening, ? has been interred in
   the cemetery of this Parish, the day and year indicated, by me
   the undersigned.
   J. Audisioi]

   Photocopy in possession of Karen Theriot Reader, from the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, Office of Archives, Historical Research Center.

3. ↑ Donald J. Hebert. South Louisiana Records, vol. 1, 1794-1840. (Rayne, LA, Hebert Publications, 1978)
   p. 191.

   Joseph DUGAS died [sic, this was burial date] 24 Mar 1833 at age 91 years. Recorded at St. Joseph Co-Cathedral, Thibodaux, LA (Thib.Ch.: v.1, #514).

4. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780. (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version)
   DUGAS no. 46.
5. ↑ Public Archives of Canada. Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year 1905, vol. II, pt. A. (1905; reprint Bowie, MD, Heritage Books, 1994.)
   p. 117.

   Joseph DUGAS, age 10 years, living with parents Joseph DUGAS & Anne Marie HEBERT for the last 15 months at Grande Ascension, with five siblings.

   Sessional Paper no. 18 of the Archives, census by the Sieur de la Roque at Isle St. Jean in 1752.

6. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780. (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version)
   p. 647.

   On list of arrivals at St-Malo, age 15 years.

7. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780. (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version)
   p. 647.

   Age 18 years.

8. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780. (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version)
   p. 647.

   Age 28 years.

9. ↑ Donald J. Hébert. Acadian Families in Exile, 1785 & Exiled Acadians, an Index. (Rayne, LA: Hébert Publications, 1995)
   pp. 42-43.

   Joseph DUGAT, a pit sawyer ("cieur de long") age 43, was head of the 6th family (of 11 persons) aboard the ship "Le Saint Rémi," embarked for Louisiana on 27 Jun 1785, debarked 10 Sep 1785. With him traveled Anastasie BARRILLOT, his [2nd] wife, and nine children, ages 23 to 2.
   (A note states that Joseph was son of Joseph & Marie HEBERT, widower of Anastasie HENRY. Further reference to ACADIAN EXILES IN CHATELLERAULT, #77; A.E. IN NANTES, #114; and A.E. IN SAINT-MALO, #364.)

10. ↑ Kenneth B. Toups. Assumption Parish LA Original Cahier Records, Books 1 thru 5, 1786-1813. (Thibodaux, LA: Audrey B. Westerman, 1991)
    p. 2.

    No. 5013 (#13), p. 47: Miguel SUARES sells to Pedro Sanchez for $100 a tract of land containing 3 arpents front, located on the left bank of Bayou Lafourche: bounded above by Francois GAILLEGUE, below by Joseph DUGATS. Full acquittance given on 5 May 1789.

11. ↑ Albert Robichaux. Colonial Settlers along Bayou Lafourche, 1770-1798. (Harvey, LA: 1974. 2nd printing Hébert Publications, 1980)
    p. 45.

    Joseph DUGATS, age 45, listed as the head of a household of seven total persons including his [2nd] wife Anastasie BARILLOT, age 44, and five children aged from 16 to 4. They live on 6 arpents of land on the left bank of the river [Bayou Lafourche], with 50 quarts of [Indian] corn and 10 swine, on the 1788 census of inhabitants established in Lafourche. (Found in Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, Legajo 201).

12. ↑ Albert J. Robichaux, Jr. Louisiana Census and Militia Lists, vol. I. (Polyanthos, 1977)
    p. 142.

    General Census of the inhabitants in Lafourche, 1789, left bank of river: Joseph DUGA, age 46, living with his [2nd] wife Anasthasie BARILLOT, age 45. Five children are at home, ages 17 to 5 years: Francois; Jean Pierre; Celeste; Anne; Margrithe. They live on 6 arpents of land, with 60 quarts of corn, 2 horses, 8 hogs.

13. ↑ U.S. federal census
    Microfilm M252, Roll 10.

    Free White Males Free White Females Other Slave
    0-9 10-15 16-25 26-44 45+ 0-9 10-15 16-25 26-44 45+