Alexandre Beausoleil Broussard dit Beausoleil

• Sources:
  • Drouin Institute (Archived marriage record - see attached in Media tab)
  • Burial: Fr. Jean-François's original "parish" records - F, v.1#21
  • "The BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil Party to the Attakapas District, 1765" - http://www.acadiansingray.com
    • On Acadian census, 1700, Port-Royal, called Allexandre liqlarie, age 18[mos.]
    • On Acadian census, 1701, Port-Royal, age 2
    • On Acadian census, 1703, Port-Royal, unnamed
    • Deported to Province of South Carolina, 13 Oct 1755 aboard HMS Syren, arrived Charleston 27 Nov 1755, age 56, in chains, with nephew Victor Broussard
    • Escaped from workhouse in Charleston, Feb 1756
    • Surrendered to British authorities, Fort Cumberland (formerly Beauséjour), 16 Nov 1759, age 60, & held hostage until surrender of his brother Joseph & other Acadian resistance fighters
    • Held at Georges Island, Halifax, 1760-63
    • On list of Acadian prisoners at Halifax, Aug 1763, called Alexandre Brousare
    • Signed DAUTERIVE agreement in New Orleans, 4 Apr 1765
    • On list of Acadians who exchanged card money in New Orleans, Apr 1765

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  • Arrived in current day Louisiana in Feb 1765, age 66

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  • Signed the Dauterive agreement of April 1765

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Alexandre dit Beausoleil, whose nickname came from the haute rivière village where the Broussards lived, born in c1699, married Marguerite, daughter of Michel Thibodeau and Agnès Dugas, at Annapolis Royal in February 1724. In c1730, they moved to Chepoudy, where her kinsmen lived, and then to LeCran, today's Stoney Creek, on Rivière Petitcoudiac, probably to put more distance between themselves and British authority in Nova Scotia. In c1740, they moved farther upriver to Village-des-Beausoleils, present-day Boundary Creek, New Brunswick.

Alexandre Broussard dit Beausoleil, age 66, came with wife Marguerite Thibodeau, age 60, and four unmarried children--Sylvain, age 24, Simon, age 21, Anne-Henriette, age 18, and Pierre, age 14. The tough old resistance fighter and his wife perished in the epidemic that killed dozens of their fellow Teche valley Acadians that summer and fall. Five of their sons and a grandson settled at Attakapas. Daughter Anne married into the Berard family and died in St. Martin Parish in November 1820, in her early 70s.

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Alexandre "dit Beausoleil" is Jeanette's six times great grandfather

He married on February 7, 1724, aged about 24 in Port Royal, Acadia

When Alexandre Beausoleil Broussard was born on October 19, 1702 in Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Jean, was 48 and his mother , CAtherine, was 39. He married Agnes Thibodeaux and they had 17 children together. He also had two sons and one daughter from another relationship. He died on September 18, 1765 in St. Martinville, La. at the age of 62 and was buried there.

Alexandre was taken prisoner at Fort Beausoleil when it was captured by the English in 1755. He and twenty-one others were imprisoned on the English gunboat Syren, which escorted four shiploads of Acadian exiles from the Bay of Fundy to Charleston, South Carolina, in Oct. and Nov 1755. While under survelliance in Charleston, Alexandre managed to escape to rejoin his brother Joseph who had eluded capture and was livign with the Indians in norther New Brunswick. Later, half starved, they both surrendered and were sent to a prison near Halifax, where they were kept until the end of the war.

He was among the group of eight Acadian heads of families who entered into a contract in New Orleans on 4 April 1765 with Captain Bernard Dauterive, for the purpose of raising cattle in partnership, the initial herd to be supplied by Dauterive. St. Martin Parish Conveyance Records, Book 609, p. 134

A raging epidemic, believed to have been yellow fever, claimed several of the Acadian leaders, including Joseph and Alexandre Broussard, within two years of their agreement with Captain Dauterive.

Alexandre dit Beausoleil, whose nickname came from the haute riviere village where the Broussards lived