Person:Charles Melanson (1)

!BIRTH-PARENTS-CENSUS-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; pp. 1145 & 1146; own copy. #2:

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: Arsenault, H&G, p. 687 (Port Royal). Brother of Pierre, arrived in Acadia around 1657, married around 1663.

!NAME-IMMIGRATION-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: "Progenitors--Those Most Misunderstood," ACADIAN GENEALOGY EXCHANGE; ; vol. XXIII, no. 4 (Oct 1994); P. 118; own copy; these facts have been verified by the Centre d'Etudes acadiennes as accurate. "Pierre MELANSON, a French Protestant who emigrated from France to England. He met and married Priscilla ------.They emigrated to Boston. Two of their three sons, Pierre and Charles, moved to Acadia. Priscilla later married a sea captain."

!IMMIGRATION: "emigrated to Acadia with his brother, who later became a pioneer in the settlement of Grand-Pré." "Upon their arrival in Acadia, the Melanson brothers converted to Catholicism." (AGE, v. 22, No. 4).

!IMMIGRATION-MARRIAGE-RESIDENCES: ACADIAN GENEALOGY EXCHANGE; ; vol. 25, no. 4 (Oct 1996); p. 112; own copy. Article and picture on "The Melanson Settlement: circa 1664-1735," from THE GRIFFIN, publication of the Heritage Society of Nova Scotia. Charles MELANSON came to Acadia from England in 1657 as a boy of 14, with his parents and two brothers, Pierre and John. The father Pierre LAVENDURE [sic] was a Huguenot who had moved to England from France before 1632; his wife Priscilla was English. In 1667 when Acadia was returned to France by the Treaty of Breda, Charles' parents and brother John moved to Boston, MA, while Charles, who had married three years before, and brother Pierre remained in Acadia. A British document dated 1734 stated that the land now known as Melanson Settlement was granted originally to Charles MELANSON and "honest" Marie DUGAS. Note: A bibliography of documents, maps, photos of research were published in Environment Canada's RESEARCH BULLETIN No. 250 (Sep 1986).

!MARRIAGE: D'Entremont "New Findings", FCAGR (Winter 1969), p. 240.

!CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, age 44 years, name spelled MELANSON, living with wife and 7 children. They have 1 gun, 6 arpens land, 20 cattle, 12 sheep and 6 pigs. Did the 3 older girls marry?

!CENSUS: 1693, Port Royal, Acadia, age 46 years [sic], name MELANCON. Living with wife Marie Du Gats [check] and 8 children. They have 20 cattle, 25 sheep, 12 pigs, on 35 arpens of land, with 4 guns.

!EDUCATION: On the 1694 oath of allegiance at Port Royal, Charles MELLANSON could sign his name, making up one of the 28% of those able to do so.

!CENSUS: On the 1698 census of Port Royal Charles MELANCON, age 57 years, has 76 fruit trees.

!CENSUS: 1700, age 53 years (sic).

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 White, Stephen A; Hector-J Hébert; and Patrice Gallant. Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes. (Moncton, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999)
   p. 1145.

   Charles (dit LA RAME'E) MELANSON was born around 1643 [no place listed].
   Charles died (Belle-Ile-en-Mer Declaration) at Port Royal in 1700 or 1701.

2. ↑ The Melanson story : Acadian family, Acadian times
   p. 140.

   Charles MELLANSON (La Ramée) died between the 1700 and 1701 censuses.

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Nova Scotia, Canada. Recensements d'Acadie (1671 - 1752)
   pg. 9.

   Recensement 1671, Port Royal, Acadie
   "Laboureur - CHARLE MELANSON aagé de 28 ans, sa femme Marie Dugast aagée de 23, Leurs enfans 4, Marie agée de 7 ans, Margueritte 5, Anne 3, Cecille 6 mois, Leurs bestiaux a Cornes 40 et 6 brebis Leurs terres Labourables 20 arpans."

   !CENSUS-NAME: 1671, Port Royal, Acadia, name spelled Charle MELANSON, listed beside Pierre MELANSON, age 28 years, Laborer, living with wife Marie DUGAST age 23, and their four daughters. There are also 40 cattle, 6 sheep and 20 workable "arpans" of land (quite a lot). Karen Theriot Reader

4. ↑ D.O.D.: Provincial Archives of Canada, Manuscript Group 1, Vol. 466, No. 249,.
5. ↑ D./P.O.Imm.: 13 Jun 1993 CompuServe message from Dan Boudreaux, (ref.: "French.
6.   Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
   Volume I, 1000-1700.

   "MELANSON, CHARLES, ploughman, settler; b. 1643; d. some time before 1700.
   
   Historians agree neither on his ethnic origin nor on the date of his arrival in Canada. Undeniably, he “came from Scotland”; but, as a notarial contract designated him “Sieur de La Ramée, and as his brother Pierre was nicknamed “La Verdure,” Placide Gaudet concluded that the family might have been of French origin, and that, because it was Huguenot, it might have emigrated to Scotland, whence it went to Acadia. Some writers claim that the Melansons, belonged to the settlement founded by Sir William Alexander, the younger, According to Placide Gaudet, the family arrived in the colony in 1657 with Governor Temple; it settled at Port-Royal; later it is thought to have emigrated to Boston, leaving in Acadia Pierre and Charles, the only members of the family whose names have been preserved in history.
   
   The elder, Pierre, dit La Verdure, a tailor, husband of Marie-Marguerite Mius d’Entremont, was one of the founders of Grand-Pré. Charles, a “laboureur” (ploughman), according to the 1671 census, worked the paternal estate and became prosperous; in 1664, after renouncing Protestantism, he married Marie Dugas, by whom he had several children. Their descendants have been numerous. Clément Cormier
   
   Recensements de 1671, 1686. Placide Gaudet, notes correspondence, genealogical studies in the PAC and Université de Moncton; study published in Weymouth Free Press, 6 Jan. 1899. Bona Arsenault, L’Acadie des ancêtres: avec la généalogie des premières familles acadiennes (Québec, 1955), 39–41, 143–44. James Hannay, “Our first families,” New Brunswick Magazine, I (1898), 129, 177–86; II (1899), 92–96; III (1899), 17. Rameau de Saint-Père, Une colonie féodale. A. W. Savary, “The Acadian Melansons,” New Brunswick Magazine, I (1898), 360; II (1899), 222. The “Laverdure” referred to in PAC Report, 1912, App. E, 56, 58, and App. F, 69, may be Pierre."

7. ↑ D.O.B.: c1642 ("Acadian Genealogy Exchange", Vol. XX, No. 3, p. 83 (ref.:.