Person:Paul Melanson (2)

!NAME: Beware, there is another Paul MELANCON (born around 1691, this man's great-uncle) married to another Marie THERIOT.

!IMMIGRATION: Probably came to Louisiana in Jul 1767.

!MILITARY: On the 23 January 1770 Militia list is: Paul Melanson 40 Acadian Married.

!LAND: "Spanish Land Grants to Acadian Exiles," in ACADIAN GENEALOGY EXCHANGE, vol. IV, no.1 (Jan ); p. 16. Listed with grantees found in Ascension parish, LA acts, on 5 Nov 1775 Paul MELANCON has property on the Left Bank of the Mississippi River, between Chas. MELANCON & Jos. LANDRY. [Did he and his brother-in-law Isaac LeBLANC share this parcel?]

1. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780. (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version)
   p. 242.

   Sponsors: Paul LE BLANC (who signed) & Dorothée BOURG (Register Grand Pré).

2. ↑ Bona Arsenault. Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens. (Montreal: Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.)
   p. 1269 (Grand Pré).

   Paul MELANSON, born 1730, son of Jean Baptiste & Madeleine LeBlanc, married around 1750 to Marie TERRIOT; six children. Deported to Maryland he settled in Louisiana.

3. ↑ Gregory A. Wood. Guide to the Acadians in Maryland in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, A. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 1995)
   p. 172.

   Paul MELANSON, born 31 Oct 1730 to Jean Bapatiste & Magdelaine LeBLANC, baptismal sponsors: Paul LeBLANC & Dorothée BOURG (SGA-2, 103).

4. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge. Catholic Church Records, vol. 1a: Acadian Records, 1707-1748. (Diocese, 1999,)
   p. 163.

   Paul MELANCON, son of Jean Baptiste & Magdeleine LE BLANC, born and baptized 31 Oct 1730. Sponsors: Paul LEBLANC [signed] & Dorothée BOURG. & Dorothee BOURG. Recorded in (SGA-2, 103).

5. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes: 1715 à 1780. (Moncton, NB: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, draft version)
   p. 242.

   Paul died between the census of 14 Sep 1769 [St. James, LA] and that of 1 Aug 1770 [Ascension, LA].

6. ↑ Janet Jehn. Acadian Exiles in the Colonies. (Covington, KY: Author, 1977)
   pp. 132 & 151.

   Paul MELANSON, his wife Marie MELANSON, plus Marie Magdelaine, Jean, Anne and Paul MELANSON--6 [persons].

   This family was listed just after that of Pierre LEBLANC, Osite his wife [sister to Paul], and [sons] Isaac & Jozime LEBLANC.

7. ↑ Gregory A. Wood. Guide to the Acadians in Maryland in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, A. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 1995)
   pp. 172-173.

   He is listed on the 1763 census at Snow Hill, MD with a household of six members.

8. ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies. Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians; Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796. (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973)
   p. 481.

   Paul MELANCON, age 39, with his wife Marie THÉRIOT, age 33, and four children, in household of 7 persons which includes his brother-in-law Bazille LANDRY [half-brother of wife Marie], age 19. They live on 6 arpents of land, with 6 head of cattle, 1 horse, 26 pigs, and 1 musket.

9. ↑ Bona Arsenault. Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens. (Montreal: Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.)
   p. 2554 (Louisiana).

   Deported to Maryland he settled in Louisiana. Paul occupied lot #143 on the east bank of the Mississippi River at St. James, LA on the 1769 census. Basile LANDRY ("un beau-frere"), born in 1750, lived with him.

10. ↑ Gregory A. Wood. Guide to the Acadians in Maryland in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, A. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 1995)
    pp. 172-173.

    The family was at Cabanocey [St. James], LA in 1769, when Paul was 39 years old, with one additional child since 1763, on 6 arpents of land. By the [1 Aug] 1770 census of Ascension he was deceased.

11. ↑ Lillian C. Bourgeois. Cabanocey. (New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 1957.)
    p. 178.

    Census taken 14 Sep 1769 of the Acadian Coast [St. James at Cabahannocer]; original in Archivo General de Indias, Papeles de Cuba; 187A. Household #143: Paul MELANCON, age 39, with wife Marie THERIOT, age 33, and four children: Philippe, 19; Magdelaine, 13; Jean Baptiste, 10; and Marie, 8. There is also Bazille LANDRY, brother-in-law, age 19.

12. ↑ Sidney Albert Marchand, Jr. Attempt to Re-Assemble the Old Settlers in Family Groups, An. (Baton Rouge, LA: Claitor's Book Store, 1965 (reprint 1978))
    p. 79.

    (Home): On 10 Apr 1774 the place of Paul MELANCON, on left bank of the Mississippi River, 25 leagues north of New Orleans, bounded above by Isaac LE BLANC, below by Charles MELANCON, the house measured 28' x 16' planked above and below, surrounded and covered with pickets, was sold to J. Bte. MELLHOMME, and later to Isaac LE BLANC.