Person:Daniel Le Blanc (1)

Parental Discrepancies

Several couples have been proposed without provision of documentation. They will be regarded as speculation. Among these are Family:Rene Leblanc and Jeanne Cheniere (1) and Family:Rene LeBlanc and Jeanne Gaudet (2). Modern authorities state that the origins of Daniel remain unknown.

Census

CENSUS: 1678

CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, age 60 years, living alone with wife Francoise GODET, also 60. They have 2 guns, 6 arpens worked land, 15 cattle, 20 sheep and 7 pigs.

CENSUS: 1693, Port Royal, Acadia, age 66 years, wife Francois [sic] GODET 76. Living with their son Pierre 28; Pierre, son of Pierre, 7; Jean La FORET, servant, 15; Marguerite LaPRINCESSE, 12. There are 20 cattle, 35 sheep, 9 hogs, on 18 arpents, with 3 guns.

1.   West, Robert Cooper, and Louisiana State University. An atlas of Louisiana surnames of French and Spanish origin. (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Geoscience Publications, Louisiana State University, 1986)
   pg. 98.

   "All members of the clan being descendants of a single couple, Daniel LeBlanc and Francoise Gaudet of La Chaussée, Loudun area, France, who settled near Port Royal in 1659." (A footnote cites: Sclanders, Ian 1972, "The LeBlancs of Acadia," in FRENCH-CANADIAN AND ACADIAN GENEALOGICAL REVIEW, 4:11-16; Auger 1972, ibid., pp. 21-36; Godbout 1972, ibid. pp. 17-20; Massignon 1962, 1:42; Arsenault 1978, op cit., vol. 2:648; Pollard, Nora Lee, THE BOOK OF LEBLANC, Baton Rouge, Claitor's, 1973, p. 1).

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Nova Scotia, Canada. Recensements d'Acadie (1671 - 1752)
   pg. 8.

   Recensement 1671, Port Royal, Acadie
   "Laboureur - DANIEL LEBLANC aagé de quarante cinq ans, sa femme Francoise Gaudet aagée de quarante huict ans, Leurs enfans sept, une fille de mariée Francoise Le blanc, aagée de 18 ans, Les non mariez, Jacque Le blanc agé de 20 ans, Estienne aagé de 15 ans, René aagé de 14 ans, André aagé de 12 ans, Anthoine aagé de neuf ans, Pierre aagé de 7 ans, Leurs bestiaux a Cornes 18 et de brebis 26, Leurs terres en Labour 10 arpans en deux places."

   !CENSUS: 1671, Port Royal, Acadia [p. 10], age 45 years, occupation Laborer. Living with wife Francoise GAUDET 48. Of their 7 children, one is married. They have 18 cattle, 26 sheep and 10 arpents in 2 places. Karen Theriot Reader

3.   D.O.B.: "Acadian Genealogy Exchange", Vol. XX, No. 3, p. 85 (ref.: (6).
4.   D.O.D.: "Acadian Genealogy Exchange", Vol. II, No. 1, 1973, p. 6, an.
5. ↑ Occ.: "Acadian Genealogy Exchange", Vol. II, No. 7, 'Origins of the.
6.   D.O.Imm.: "Acadian Genealogy Exchange", Vol. II, No. 7, 'Origins of the.
7. ↑ Arsenault, Bona. Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens . (Quebec: Editions Lemiac, Inc. (6 vols), 1978)
   vol. 2, (Port Royal)p. 648.

   Daniel arrived in Acadia around 1645 and married around 1650 to Francoise GAUDET (widow of one MERCIER), daughter of Jean. There are seven children listed, born from 1651 to 1664. Another footnote says that according to Placide Gaudet, Daniel LeBlanc settled "on the north bank of the French River, to the northeast of Belisle marsh, about nine miles upstream from Port-Royal [Acadia] and a half-mile farther below St. Laurent chapel. (Reference: J. Jore, article in MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE GENEALOGIQUE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE, vol. VI, nos. 6 & 7 (Apr-Jul 1955), p. 264).

8.   1. Daniel LeBlanc & Francoise Gaudet, in 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)
   pg 983-985.

   Some sources say that his father was Rene LEBLANC, son of Alphonse & Isabeau d'ESTRADE, but no proof. That is probably the BLANC or deBLANC family instead. Daniel's origin in France is also unproven.