Person:Pierre Melanson (5)

!BIRTH-PARENTS-CENSUS-MARRIAGE: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 1149; own copy. #6: Pierre (dit Pedro) MELANSON, son of Pierre dit LAVERDURE & Marguerite MIUS d'ENTREMONT, born around 1670.

!EDUCATION: He was able to write his name.

!CENSUS: 1686, Les Mines, Acadia, age 16 years.

!CENSUS: 1693, age 22 years.

!CENSUS: 1701, Grand Pré, Minas, Acadia. Pierre MELANSON, Jr., his wife & 4 boys [sic for girls]. There is 10 arpents under cultivation, 8 horned cattle, 8 sheep, 8 pigs, 1 firearm.

!CENSUS: 1703, Minas, Acadia. Pierre MELENSON, his wife, 5 boys [sic], 3 girls [sic], 1 capable of bearing arms.

!CENSUS: 1707, Minas, Acadia. Pierre MELANSON, his wife, 1 girl over 12 years, 6 girls under 12 [one of these would be Cécile]. There are 5 arpents under cultivation, 4 horned cattle, 6 sheep, 6 pigs.

!CENSUS: 1714, Minas, Acadia. Pierre MELANSSON, his wife, 2 boys, 4 girls [one of them Cécile].

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Arsenault, Histoire et Genealogie, p. 1263 (Grand Pré). Pierre MELANSON, born 1670, son of Pierre & Marie-Marguerite MIUS d'ENTREMONT, married around 1693 to Marie BLANCHARD; six children [neither Cecile nor Elisabeth is listed]. He lived at Saint Charles des Mines. He was at L'Anse-a-Pinet, Isle Saint Jean in 1752, at the home of Jacques NAQUIN, widower of Jeanne MELANSON, Pierre's daughter.

!MARRIAGE: D'Entremont "New Findings", FCAGR (Winter 1969), p. 240, married circa 1695.

MARRIAGE: Where did I find Mar 1693? Based on birth of first child?

!CENSUS: Placide Gaudet, REPORT CONCERNING CANADIAN ARCHIVES FOR THE YEAR 1905; 1600-1800; vol. II, part A, original a Sessional Paper no. 18 of the Archives, reprinted Heritage Books, 1994; p. 124; own copy; census by the Sieur de la Roque at Isle St. Jean in 1752. Pierre MELANCON, native of l'Acadie, age 80 years, living with his son-in-law[Jacques NAQUIN] and six grandchildren [daughter Jeanne is dead].

1. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 1149.

   No place listed for birth.

2. ↑ Margaret C. Melanson. Melanson Story, The: Acadian Family, Acadian Times. (Toronto: Author, 2003)
   p. 140.

   Pierre died after the 1752 census.

3. ↑ Margaret C. Melanson. Melanson Story, The: Acadian Family, Acadian Times. (Toronto: Author, 2003)
   p. 144.

   "In August 1702, a French ship, the "La Françoise," was attacked and burned by the English near the port of La Hève on Acadia's Atlantic coast. A rescue of the survivors was carried out by three Minas inhabitants, one of whom was named Pierre Melanson... probably Pierre dit Pedro."
   "The fourteen surviving crew members were taken to Minas to the house of Pedro's father, Pierre Mellanson, where they remained for several weeks. Towards the end of September, Pedro accompanied the crew to Port Royal [was he a seaman?]. As compensation for his travel to La Hève and Port Royal, for supplying food, etc., he received a share of 504 livres paid out by the government." (Footnote cites: Statement of payments, NAC, MG1, C11A, Vol. 113, reels F-113 and C-2406, p. 169)

4. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 1149.

   Pierre was on the 1752 (LaRoque) census, age 80 years, at home of Jacques NAQUIN.

5. ↑ Margaret C. Melanson. Melanson Story, The: Acadian Family, Acadian Times. (Toronto: Author, 2003)
   pp. 144-145.

   On the 1752 census of Anse a Pinet, Ile St. Jean: Jacques NAQUIN, widower of Jeanne MELANCON, plus Pierre MELANCON, native of Acadie aged 80 years, his father-in-law.