Person:Jean Melanson (3)

!BIRTH-PARENTS-CENSUS-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; pp. 1149 & 1156; own copy. #8:

!CENSUS: 1686, Les Mines, Acadia, age 5 years.

!CENSUS: 1693, age 12 years.

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

!CENSUS: 1707, Minas, Acadia. Jean MELANSON, his wife, 1 girl over 12 years [sic], 1 girl under 12. There are 5 arpents under cultivation, 6 horned cattle, 2 sheep, 6 pigs.

!CENSUS: 1714, Minas, Acadia. Jean MELANSSON, his wife, 3 boys, 2 girls.

!EDUCATION: He could sign his name, as on his daughter Magdeleine's marriage record at Grand Pré in 1739 (SGA-3, 3a).

!MARRIAGE: Winston De Ville, THE LOPPINOT PAPERS; 1687-1710; Ville Platte, LA, 1991; p. 11; Salt Lake FHL US/CAN 971.5 N38l; Genealogical abstracts of the earliest notarial records of Acadia. On 11 Jan [?] 1701, a marriage contract was signed between Jean MELANSSON, habitant of Mines, son of Pierre & Marguerite MIUS, also of Mines, and Marguerite DUGAS, daughter of Claude of Port Royal (Germain BOURGEOIS is her maternal uncle). Signed by Jean MELANSON; X mark of [Marguerite?] DUGAS; Pr. MELLANSON; X mark of Claude DUGAS; BROUILLON [BROUITTON? or possibly my note of BOURGEOIS?] PONTIF; L. GUEMER [?].

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

!MARRIAGE: Donald J. Hebert, ACADIANS IN EXILE; 1755-1785; Cecilia, LA, Hebert Publications, 1980; p. 323; own copy. Jean MELANCON, habitant of Mines, son of Pierre & Marguerite MIUS, inhabitants of Mines, marriage contract dated 11 Jan 1701, with Marguerite DUGAS, daughter of Claude. (Reference: Port Royal: Notarial Acts: G3 2040).

!MARRIAGE: Janet Jehn, CORRECTIONS & ADDITIONS TO ARSENAULT'S HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1550-1850; Covington, KY, author, 1988; p. 7 (reference to p. 526); own copy. Marriage of Marguerite DUGAS & Jean MELANSON was 11 Jan 1701 at Port Royal (reference: Hebert, ACADIANS IN EXILE, p. 124). [Not necessarily performed at Port Royal, just the contract notarized and signed there.]

!EDUCATION: Could he write his name, as on his son Jean Baptiste's marriage record at Grand Pré in 1729 (SGA-2, 228-229)? The son made an X.

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

   Jean MELANSON, born around 1681, son of Pierre MELANSON dit Laverdure, & Marguerite MIUS d'Entremont.

2. ↑ Margaret C. Melanson. Melanson Story, The: Acadian Family, Acadian Times. (Toronto: Author, 2003)
   p. 156.

   Jean MELANSON was godfather to a grandson on 1 Jul 1741.