What the Acadian Memorial has on the family http://www.acadianmemorial.org/english/ensembleencoreset.html ======================================= Record Detail Given Names: François Surname: Broussard (Brossard) Sobriquet: Date of Birth: 1741 Birthplace:Acadia Baptised At: Date of Baptism: Mother:Agnès (Nanette) Thibodeau Father:Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil Marriage: Married Pélagie Landry, daughter of Pierre Landry and Caroline Landry. Children: Olidon (sometimes Odilon) (born January 2, 1771), Théophile (born March 5, 1773), Jean François (baptized May 5, 1776), Joseph Sarazin (born May 16, 1777), François Isidore (born January 2, 1779), Pelagie (born January 15, 1781) Exile:Louisiana: Identified in the census of April 25, 1766, as a resident of the Bayou Tortue settlement (near present-day Broussard) in the Attakapas District. He was the only member of his household. The census lists two persons by the name of François Broussard in the Bayou Tortue settlement and indicates that one of them was a "gardener." Without additional information, it is impossible to positively identify the gardener. A general census of the Attakapas District compiled around 1769 indicates that François Broussard was the twenty-three-year-old head of a household that included the following persons: his wife, who is not named in the census report; Claude Broussard, his brother, 21 years old; Amand (Armand) Broussard, his brother, 19 years old; Magdeleine (Magdeleyne) Broussard, no relationship indicated, 16 years old; and Elizabeth Broussard, no relationship indicated, 6 years old. François Broussard and his family owned thirty-one cows, ten horses, and fifteen hogs. Signed with his mark (he was illiterate) an unconditional oath of allegiance to Spain at the Attakapas District, December 8, 1769. On December 5, 1770, during Louisiana's severe grain shortage, Jean Bérard listed him among the Attakapas settlers having unhusked corn for sale. François Broussard had twenty barrels of corn, according to the list. The 1771 census of the Attakapas District indicates that his household included himself, his wife, Amant Broussard, Isabelle Landry, an unidentified eight-year-old girl, and an unidentified two-month-old boy. His family owned twenty-eight cattle and seven horses. His family also occupied a parcel land measuring seven arpents frontage, but they did not hold a title to it. Broussard participated in the election to select a second sindic for the construction of a church in the Attakapas District, May 16, 1773. The June 20, 1774, muster roll indicates that he was a fusilier in the Attakapas District militia. The October 30, 1774, census of the Attakapas District indicates that his household included his wife and two unidentified children. Accused of theft by Commandant Alexandre DeClouet, September 26, 1776. The members of his household owned thirty-six cows, six horses or mules, and ten pigs. The May 10, 1777, muster roll indicates that he was a fusilier in the Attakapas District militia. Listed in the 1789 muster roll as a member of the Attakapas District militia unit. On October 20, 1789, he joined with eight other Attakapas District ranchers in signing a contract to supply New Orleans with beef for one year. The May 1803 census of the Vermilion area of the Attakapas District indicates that he was the fifty-six-year-old head of a household that included Pélagie Landry (Landrie), his fifty-four-year-old wife. He and his wife occupied a tract of land with thirty-five arpents frontage. They owned 700 semi-wild beef cattle and 60 domesticated cattle. They also owned the following slaves: Thomas, 50 years old; Leuder, 23 years old; Martin, 19 years old; Jean-Louis, 11 years old; Célestin, 7 years old; Charles, 5 years old; Godfrey, 4 years old; Charlotte, 42 years old; Hélène, 25 years old; Félicité, 23 years old; Madeleine, 17 years old; Angélique, 16 years old; Pte. Félicité, 10 years old; Marie, 7 years old; Messite, 4 yeaers old; Clarisse, 2 years old; and Hortense, 1 year old. Circumstances of Death: His burial record maintains that he died at the age of approximately seventy-eight years. Death Occurred At:St. Martin Parish Date of Death:Saturday, May 15, 1819 Interred At:St. Martin de Tours Church Cemetery, St. Martinville, La. Date of Burial:Sunday, May 16, 1819 Sources: Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 124; Conover, Broussard, 10; Hébert, Southwest Louisiana Records, rev. ed., vol. 1A, p. 118-150; General census of the settlers and cattle of the Attakapas District, [labeled 1794, but actually ca. 1769], AGI, PPC, 210:228 et seq.; Jean Bérard to Luís de Unzaga, December 5, 1770, AGI, PPC, 188A:5/19; Census of the Attakapas District, 1771, AGI, PPC, 188C:43vo; Reaux, "Revolutionary War Patriots," 134-135; Oath of Allegiance, Louisiana State Museum, Louisiana History Center, Judicial Records of the French Superior Council, #1769120901; Election of a Sindic in the Attakapas, May 16, 1773, Book 1, Original Acts, Clerk of Court's Office, St. Martin Parish Courthouse, St. Martinville, La.; Muster Roll for the Attakapas District Militia Unit, June 20, 1774, AGI, PPC, legajo 161; Census of the Attakapas District, October 30, 1774, AGI, PPC, 218; Alexandré DeClouet to Governor Luís de Unzaga, September 26, 1776, AGI, PPC, 189B:98; Muster Roll for the Attakapas District Militia Unit, May 10, 1777, AGI, PPC, legajo 161; Muster Roll of the Attakapas Militia Unit, 1789, AGI, PPC, legajo 120; Memorial by Jean Delavillebeuvre, October 20, 1789, AGI, PPC, 212A371.