Amand (Armand) Broussard dit Beausoleil

• Sources:
  • https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Broussard-301
  • "The BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil Party to the Attakapas District, 1765" - http://www.acadiansingray.com
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1766, Bayou Queue[sic] de Tortue
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1769, listed as Aman, age 19
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1771, listed as Amant, age 22
    • On Attakapas, La Luisiana militia list, Jan 1773, called Aman Broussard
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1774, a widower
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1777, called Amant, age 26
    • Fought in American Revolution under Gov.-Gen. Galvez, 1779-80
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1781, called Aman
    • Attakapas, La Luisiana census, 1785, called Am. Broussard
    • On Attakapas militia list, Aug 1789, called Aman Brusar
    • Succession dated 30 Mar 1818, St. Martin Parish courthouse

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• Notes:
  • Arrived in current day Louisiana in Feb 1765, age 15
  • Family tradition says he fought in the Battle of New Orleans, 8 Jan 1815, age 64/65

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Also seen as Amand or Amant

!BIRTH-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 16 25-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; p. 2445 (Louisiana); own copy. Married 1st t o Helene LANDRY (no parents given); twin sons born 1771. Married 2nd at St. Martinville [LA ] on 24 May 1775 to Anne BENOIT, daughter of Alexis & Helene COMEAUX; twelve children. He set tled at Attakapas [LA].

!LAND: Jennifer Boquet, "Focus of Acadian archaeology project is household refuse," article i n THE DAILY IBERIAN [New Iberia, LA]; 9 Jan 2003; also at <www.iberianet.com>. The site of th e Amand BROUSSARD house (in a field near Loreauville) has been the subject of an archaeology project by the students in the Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology at the Univ. of Lousian a at Lafayette. The house was built in 1790 (moved to New Iberia then to Vermilionville years ago) on part of a Spanish land grant given to BROUSSARD in the 1770s or 1780s. "It would have been the earliest plantation in the Attakapas District."

!LAWSUIT: Donald J. Hebert, SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA RECORDS; 1750-1800; vol. 1-A, rev. ed., Rayne , LA, Hebert Publications, 1996; p. 120; own copy; contains church and civil records. Amant dit Beausoleil BROUSSARD placed action against the church wardens, dated 12 May 1790, stating he was sent with Michel DOUCET, Jean Baptiste TRAHAN, and 3 others to go to Plaquemine at Pointe Coupee to get the Rev. Father HILAIRE, and were each promised 15 piastres. (SM Ct.Hse. : OA-vol.8, #65).

!MILITARY-BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: "Ancestors That Have Been Proven to the D.A.R." in LES VOYAGEURS; vol. XI, no. 4 (Dec 1990); p. 209. Amand BROUSSARD, born 1754, married 1st to Helene LANDRY, 2nd to Anne BENOIT, died 8 Jan 1818 [sic]. He is listed as a German-Acadian Coast militiaman.

MILITARY: DAR PATRIOT INDEX BROUSSARD, AMAND Ancestor #: A015178 Service: LOUISIANA Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE Birth: 1754 ST JEAN ACADIA CANADA Death: 1-8-1818 FAUSSE POINTE ST MARTIN PAR LOUISIANA Service Source: CHURCHILL, SPANISH RECS, P 290 Service Description: 1) GALVEZ EXPEDITION, ATTAKAPAS MILITIA Residence 1) City: ATTAKAPAS POST - District: LA - State: SPANISH AMERICA Spouse Number Name 1) HELENE LANDRY 2) ANNE BENOIT

!BIRTH-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN-PROBATE: Winston De Ville, MARRIAGE CONTRACTS OF THE ATTAKAPAS POST ; 1760-1803; St. Martinville, LA, Attakapas Historical Assoc., 1966; p. 65, #169; California State Library Sutro, F377 A8D38 1967.

Amand "Beausoleil" Broussard was born in 1744 in Acadia. He died on January 9, 1818 in St. Martin Parish, LA (SM CH V4 #1157). WITNESSES AT MARRIAGE TO HELENE LANDRY WERE FIRMIN LANDRY (FATHER OF BRIDE) AND BAPTISTE LABAUVE. Succession dated 30 March 1818, St. Martinville Court House, Succession #238. Death record stated that death was in the 64th year; this differs by 10 years from the birth record, and I believe birth year should have been 1754.

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!BROUSSARD, Amand (Joseph & Ana THIBODEAUX) m. Anna BENOIT (SM Ch) SWLR-v.1,p.89. BROUSSARD, Amand m. Helene LANDRY (SM Ch) SWLR-v.1,p.89. BROUSSARD, Amand of Acadie and widr. of Heleine LANDRY (Joseph & Agnes THIBODEAU) m. 24 May 1775 Anne BENOIT of Acadie (SM Ch Hse: OA-1-31) SWLR-v.1,p.37. BROUSSARD, Amand m. Ann BENOIT In Succ of Anne BENOIT dated 10 Nov 1830 (Sm Ct Hse Succ #656) SWLR-v.2,p.134. BROUSSARD, Amand m. Ann BENOIT In death record of Ann BENOIT dated 1830 (SM Ch v.4, #2082) SWLR-v.2,p.134. BROUSSARD, Amand - native of Acadie; inhabitant at la fausse pointe; died 8 Jan. 1818 at age about 64 years at his home; buried 9 Jan. 1818 in the parish cemetery. Fr. Gabriel ISABEY (SM Ch.: v.4, #1157) BROUSSARD, Amand wid. is Anne BENOIT Succ dated 30 Mar. 1818 (SM Ct Hse Succ

1. 238) SWLR v.2,p.135. BROUSSARD, Amand - married to Anne BENOIST. This document testifies that Amand BROUSSARD has a child from his previous first marriage to Helene LANDRY, a child named Josepha. This child is to have an equal share as any other children he now has or will have with his wife Anne BENOIST. Dated: 27 August 1788 Wits: Firmain LANDRY - child's grandfather, Mr. BROGNIER, Jacques JENNE, Alexandre DECLOUET (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol.6, #65) BROUSSARD, Amand - of the parish of St. Jean in Acadie and widr. of Heleine LANDRY (Joseph & Agnes THIBODEAU) m. contract dated: 24 May 1775 Anne BENOIT, native of Acadie - parish of St. Jean (Alexis & Heleine COMAU) Wits: Michel MAU, Jacques FOSTAIN, Jean Baptiste LABAUVE, Olivier TRAHAN, Pierre BROUSSARD and Joseph LANDRY (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol.1, #25)

FRANCOISE - "negre esclave, brute" [negro slave, a brute, having no reason] of Amand BROUSSARD bur. 18 Jan. 1789-90 at age 24 yrs. Fr. DE DEVE (SM Ch.: v.1, p.74)

SM Parish Cthouse, Estate #288. Amand was a cattleman and planter. He is listed on the roster of "La Compagnie de Milice des Attakapas" dated May 1, 1777. In 1792 Amand is again listed in the Second Company of the Attakapas Militia. - St. Martin Parish History; F146,p153. VERMILION VILLE brochure: Fausse Pointe, a living history farm, was once the home of the Amand Broussard family. Amand arrived in Louisiana from Canada at the age of eleven. He lived with a brother until he married at the age of sixteen, and registered his first cattle brand that same year. The following year his wife died in childbirth leaving him with a son. At eighteen he was given a land grant. Four years later Amand married again. Thirteen children were born to him and Anne Benoit. He was a Patriot of the American Revolution and at his death at the age of 64, his properties were worth over $65,000. The inventory included besides this house nine outbuildings: a kitchen, a potato shed, a stone-mill, a smithy, a school-house, a schoolmaster's house, a cotton mill and press and two barns as well as other tracts of land. It is easy to imagine yourself a member of this family. The house is the oldest (1790) and largest of the houses at Vermilionville. Of traditional "colombage" and "bousillage" construction, it is a French Creole house which borrows from Anglo-American architecture. The gable end roof is Anglo-American, adapted by the Acadians for the large attic spaces. The roof is made of hand-cut cypress shingles. Notice the topmost row of shingles which extends over the top. These generally faced the windward side as protection against rot and leakage from rainy weather. The porch, with three doors, serves as a passage way from the large center room and two side rooms. Look at the hand-wrought rams-horn hinges. In the living room is a French wrap-around mantel. Dark grey and black were popular colors for mantels. Furniture in this house may have come from the Atlantic coast by way of New Orleans. The chandeliers are French. The Louisiana "armoires" are made of "cipre" or baldcypress, which is not a true cypress, but a "taxodium". Cypress was always painted to conceal what Acadians considered to be an inferior wood. "Gros rouge" and Paris green were favorite Acadian colors. The kicthen of this house would have been detached. From Clarence T. Breaux - Metairie, La.: Amand (Armand) Broussard - Born about 1749 at Village des Beausoleils (now Boundary Creek near Moncton, New Brunswick), baptized in the Parish of St. Jean; died 8 January 1818 at Fausse Pointe (now Loreauville), Louisiana. On 24 May 1775, at St. Martinville, Louisiana, married: Anne Benoit - born about 1758 at Newton, Massachusetts; died 18 September 1830 at Fausse Pointe. Amand probably arrived in Louisiana in early 1765 with his parents. The 25 April 1766 census shows him living at Bayou Queue de Tortue, in the Attakapas District. On 15 July 1771, at Pointe Coupee (now New Roads), Louisiana, he married Helene Landry but she died within a few years. In February 1772 the Spanish Governor, Luis de Unzaga, gave him a 451 arpent land grant on both sides of Bayou Teche at the upper end of the place known as Fausse Pointe. Amand is on the Roll of the Attakapas Militia on 20 June 1774 and again on that of 1 May 1777. By 1792 he had become an affluent cattleman and planter, having acquired the nearby land grants of his brothers Claude and Joseph, also 1600 arpents of land near Lake Fausse Pointe and lands at Petit Anse, Lake Peigneur and Grosse Isle. At about this time he built his home on the land acquired from Joseph at Fausse Pointe. The inventory taken at his death showed that the plantation at Fausse Pointe included the main house, a separate kitchen, a potato cabin, a small barn, a schoolhouse, a schoolmaster's house, and old barn, a cotton gin and press, a stone mill and a blacksmith shop. The inventory also included 21 slaves with their 6 children, farm implements, household items, animals and six tracts of land. The main Acadian house has been restored, placed on the National Register of Historic Places, and relocated first to New Iberia then to Lafayette (Vermilionville). Amand and Anne had twelve children, all born in St. Martin Parish.

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!BROUSSARD, Amand (Joseph & Ana THIBODEAUX) m. Anna BENOIT (SM Ch)
SWLR-v.1,p.89.
BROUSSARD, Amand m. Helene LANDRY (SM Ch) SWLR-v.1,p.89.
BROUSSARD, Amand of Acadie and widr. of Heleine LANDRY (Joseph & Agnes
THIBODEAU) m. 24 May 1775 Anne BENOIT of Acadie (SM Ch Hse: OA-1-31)
SWLR-v.1,p.37.
BROUSSARD, Amand m. Ann BENOIT In Succ of Anne BENOIT dated 10 Nov 1830
(Sm Ct Hse Succ #656) SWLR-v.2,p.134.
BROUSSARD, Amand m. Ann BENOIT In death record of Ann BENOIT dated 1830
(SM Ch v.4, #2082) SWLR-v.2,p.134.
BROUSSARD, Amand - native of Acadie; inhabitant at la fausse pointe; died 8 Jan. 1818 at age about 64 years at his home; buried 9 Jan. 1818 in the parish cemetery. Fr. Gabriel ISABEY (SM Ch.: v.4, #1157)
BROUSSARD, Amand wid. is Anne BENOIT Succ dated 30 Mar. 1818 (SM Ct Hse Succ

1. 238) SWLR v.2,p.135.

BROUSSARD, Amand - married to Anne BENOIST. This document testifies that Amand BROUSSARD has a child from his previous first marriage to Helene LANDRY, a child named Josepha. This child is to have an equal share as any other children he now has or will have with his wife Anne BENOIST. Dated: 27 August 1788 Wits: Firmain LANDRY - child's grandfather, Mr. BROGNIER, Jacques JENNE, Alexandre DECLOUET (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol.6, #65)
BROUSSARD, Amand - of the parish of St. Jean in Acadie and widr. of Heleine LANDRY (Joseph & Agnes THIBODEAU) m. contract dated: 24 May 1775 Anne BENOIT, native of Acadie - parish of St. Jean (Alexis & Heleine COMAU) Wits: Michel MAU, Jacques FOSTAIN, Jean Baptiste LABAUVE, Olivier TRAHAN, Pierre BROUSSARD and Joseph LANDRY (SM Ct.Hse.: OA-vol.1, #25)

FRANCOISE - "negre esclave, brute" [negro slave, a brute, having no reason] of Amand BROUSSARD bur. 18 Jan. 1789-90 at age 24 yrs. Fr. DE DEVE (SM Ch.: v.1, p.74)

SM Parish Cthouse, Estate #288.
Amand was a cattleman and planter. He is listed on the roster of "La Compagnie de Milice des Attakapas" dated May 1, 1777. In 1792 Amand is again listed in the Second Company of the Attakapas Militia. - St. Martin Parish History; F146,p153.
VERMILION VILLE brochure: Fausse Pointe, a living history farm, was once the
home of the Amand Broussard family. Amand arrived in Louisiana from Canada at
the age of eleven. He lived with a brother until he married at the age of
sixteen, and registered his first cattle brand that same year. The following
year his wife died in childbirth leaving him with a son. At eighteen he was
given a land grant. Four years later Amand married again. Thirteen children
were born to him and Anne Benoit. He was a Patriot of the American Revolution
and at his death at the age of 64, his properties were worth over $65,000. The inventory included besides this house nine outbuildings: a kitchen, a potato shed, a stone-mill, a smithy, a school-house, a schoolmaster's house, a cotton mill and press and two barns as well as other tracts of land.
It is easy to imagine yourself a member of this family. The house is the
oldest (1790) and largest of the houses at Vermilionville. Of traditional
"colombage" and "bousillage" construction, it is a French Creole house which
borrows from Anglo-American architecture. The gable end roof is Anglo-American, adapted by the Acadians for the large attic spaces. The roof is made of hand-cut cypress shingles. Notice the topmost row of shingles which extends over the top. These generally faced the windward side as protection against rot and leakage from rainy weather. The porch, with three doors, serves as a passage way from the large center room and two side rooms. Look at the hand-wrought rams-horn hinges. In the living room is a French wrap-around mantel. Dark grey and black were popular colors for mantels. Furniture in this house may have come from the Atlantic coast by way of New Orleans. The chandeliers are French. The Louisiana "armoires" are made of "cipre" or baldcypress, which is not a true cypress, but a "taxodium". Cypress was always painted to conceal what Acadians considered to be an inferior wood. "Gros rouge" and Paris green were favorite Acadian colors.
The kicthen of this house would have been detached.
From Clarence T. Breaux - Metairie, La.: Amand (Armand) Broussard - Born about 1749 at Village des Beausoleils (now Boundary Creek near Moncton, New
Brunswick), baptized in the Parish of St. Jean; died 8 January 1818 at Fausse
Pointe (now Loreauville), Louisiana. On 24 May 1775, at St. Martinville,
Louisiana, married: Anne Benoit - born about 1758 at Newton, Massachusetts;
died 18 September 1830 at Fausse Pointe.
Amand probably arrived in Louisiana in early 1765 with his parents. The 25
April 1766 census shows him living at Bayou Queue de Tortue, in the Attakapas
District. On 15 July 1771, at Pointe Coupee (now New Roads), Louisiana, he
married Helene Landry but she died within a few years. In February 1772 the
Spanish Governor, Luis de Unzaga, gave him a 451 arpent land grant on both
sides of Bayou Teche at the upper end of the place known as Fausse Pointe.
Amand is on the Roll of the Attakapas Militia on 20 June 1774 and again on that of 1 May 1777. By 1792 he had become an affluent cattleman and planter, having acquired the nearby land grants of his brothers Claude and Joseph, also 1600 arpents of land near Lake Fausse Pointe and lands at Petit Anse, Lake Peigneur and Grosse Isle. At about this time he built his home on the land acquired from Joseph at Fausse Pointe. The inventory taken at his death showed that the plantation at Fausse Pointe included the main house, a separate kitchen, a potato cabin, a small barn, a schoolhouse, a schoolmaster's house, and old barn, a cotton gin and press, a stone mill and a blacksmith shop. The inventory also included 21 slaves with their 6 children, farm implements, household items, animals and six tracts of land. The main Acadian house has been restored, placed on the National Register of Historic Places, and relocated first to New Iberia then to Lafayette (Vermilionville). Amand and Anne had twelve children, all born in St. Martin Parish.

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