APPENDICES

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

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ACADIA

Louis Hugon, born at Villefagnan, Angouleme, France, in c1695, married Marie Bourgeois at Chignecto in April 1720. They had six children, four sons and two daughters. Two of the sons, both born at Chignecto, grew up and started families of their own:

Older son Jacques, born in c1730, married probably at Chignecto before Le Grand Derangement. His wife's name is unknown.

Younger son Joseph, born in c1732, married Théotiste Broussard probably at Chignecto. They had at least one daughter, Marie, born probably at Chignecto in c1751.

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

Like most Acadian families, Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this family to the wind. In the fall of 1755, British forces deported Jacques Hugon and his family to South Carolina aboard the English sloop Endeavor. Jacques's mother, his daughter Marie, and son Joseph were counted with him in South Carolina in August 1763; his wife had probably died by then. Jacques and his family probably migrated from South Carolina to St.-Domingue, today's Haiti, in late 1763 or 1764 with hundreds of other Acadians who had been exiled to South Carolina.

Younger brother Joseph and his family also were exiled to South Carolina in the fall of 1755. Joseph died probably in St.-Domingue, having gone there with brother Jacques.

LOUISIANA: WESTERN SETTLEMENTS

Since none of Jacques Hugon's children were with him when he came to Louisiana in February 1765 with the Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil party from Halifax via St.-Domingue, Jacque's family probably perished in Haiti. He was not given the opportunity to remarry and start another family. He followed the Broussard party across the Atchafalaya Basin to the Atakapas District that April but died only a few months later, victim of the epidemic that struck down dozens of his fellow Acadians that spring, summer, and fall, including Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil himself.

Meanwhile, younger brother Joseph's widow, Théostiste Broussard, and daughter Marie Hugon also joined the party from Halifax led by Théotitste's kinsman, Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil. Théotiste and Marie settled in the Atakapas District with the rest of the Broussard party. Théotiste never remarried. Marie married Paul, son of Michel Trahan, in July 1772; their marriage was recorded at Pointe Coupée, but the priest who recorded the ceremony noted that Marie and Michel were residents of Atakapas.

CONCLUSION

Since Jacques Hugon did not survive to father another son, and the only other Hugon who came to Louisiana was his niece Marie, the Acadian branch of this family, except for its blood, never took root in the Bayou State.

The family's name also is spelled Hugond.

Sources: Arsenault, Généalogie, 1006, 2614; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:423-24; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 235; Milling, Exile Without End, 42; Wall of Names, 19.

Settlement Abbreviations
(present-day parishes that existed during the War Between the States 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	Atakapas (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
Jacques HUGON 01	Feb 1765	Atk	born c1730, probably Chignecto; son of Louis HUGON & Marie BOURGEOIS; uncle of Marie HUGON; married ________, probably Chignecto; exiled to SC Nov 1755 aboard English sloop Endeavor; on list of Acadians in SC Aug 1763, called Jacques HUGOND, with wife [probably mother] Marie BOURGOIS, daughter Marie age 9, & son Joseph age 3; signed a letter of appeal to the Duc de Nivernois, French ambassador to Britain, concerning Acadian grievances against the SC authorities, 13 Aug 1763; probably moved to St.-Domingue, present-day Haiti; arrived LA Feb 1765, age 35, alone, probably a widower, with party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; died [buried] Atakapas 8 Oct 1765, age 35
Marie HUGON 02	Feb 1765	Atk	born c1751, probably Chignecto; daughter of Joseph HUGON & Théotiste BROUSSARD; niece of Jacques HUGON; exiled to SC 1755, age 4; on list of Acadians in SC, Aug 1763, age 12, with [brother? sister?] Marine age 8; arrived LA probably Feb 1765, age 14, with widowed mother, in party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil; married, age 21, Paul TRAHAN, son of Michel TRAHAN & Anne-Euphrosine VINCENT of Atakapas, 15 Jul 1772, Pointe Coupée; in Atakapas census, 1774, unnamed, with husband & 1 child; in Atakapas census, 1777, called Marie HUGON, age 21[sic], with husband, 1 son, & 1 daughter; in Atakapas census, 1781, unnamed, with husband & 4 others; in Atakapas census, 1785, unnamed, with husband & 4 others

NOTES

01. Wall of Names, 19, calls him Jacques HUGON, & lists him singly; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1006, 2614, calls him Jacques HUGON, gives his estimated birth year used here, & says he died 12 Oct; Hebert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:423-24, followed here, calls him Jacques HUGON, & says he died 8 Oct & his death was recorded 12 Oct. See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 235; Milling, Exile Without End, 42. He perished in the epidemic that struck down dozens of fellow Acadians in the Atakapas that spring, summer, & fall.

What happened to his wife & children? Did they die in St.-Domingue, & he latched on to the BROUSSARD party when they came thru in early 1765? How else could someone who had spent his exile in SC end up in the Atakapas District in 1765? Jacques was a brother of Joseph HUGON, deceased husband of Théotiste BROUSSARD (Joseph never made it to LA but died in SC or St.-Domingue). See Arsenault, p. 1006. This may explain why Jacques hooked up with the BROUSSARD party. The name HUGON seems to have died in LA with him.

02. Wall of Names, 19, calls her Marie HUGON. Her birth year is based on the age given in the British report of Aug 1763, not the Atakapas census of 1777, which, compared to her wedding date, seems off. Arsenault, Généalogie, 2606, calls her Marie DUON, & gives her wedding date & her parents' names, See also De Ville, Southwest LA Families, 1777, 14; Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 236. Where are her parents in the British report of Aug 1763?

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