Person:Pierre Melanson (2)

!NAME-MARRIAGE-IMMIGRATION: Web page of Univ. of Moncton, Centre d'etudes acadiennes, by Stephen White, on the 37 Acadian families hosting the 1994 World Congress; orig. published by La Societe historique acadienne, CAHIERS; vol. 25, no. 2&3 (Apr-Sep 1994), at <http://www.umoncton.ca/etudeacadiennes/centre/white/sha.html>. Pierre MELANSON dit LAVERDURE was a French Protestant who married in exile in England to an Englishwoman named Priscilla ---. Taken with his family to Acadia by Thomas TEMPLE in spring 1657, Pierre, his wife and young son retired to Boston, MA after the treaty of Breda in 1667. Their two other sons, already married to Acadian women, remained in Acadia.

!IMMIGRATION: E-mail posting to newsgroup <ACADIAN-CAJUN-L@rootsweb.com> #250 on 10 Jun 1999 by Lucie LeBlanc CONSENTINO (LucieMC@mediaone.net). Pierre LAVERDURE, his wife Priscilla, and at least three sons arrived at Fort St. John, Acadia, from England in summer 1657 aboard the ship "Satisfaction." They were among colonists under Sir Thomas TEMPLE, new governor of English-controlled Acadia.

!NAME-RELIGION: XV Congreso Internacional de las Ciencias, GENEALOGICA Y HERALDICA; Madrid, 1982; p. 535; includes Bibliography of Genealogical Research in Nova Scotia. "In Massachusetts...the petition filed by the widow Pierre La Verdure, in which she identifies herself as an Englishwoman and her late husbans [sic] as a French Protestant who fled from religious persecution in Nova Scotia (then Acadia). [This document is in session for 3 May 1677, in Supreme Court of Suffolk County, MA, in Boston?]

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.

   Pierre MELANSON dit LAVERDURE, born in France, married around 1731 in England to Priscilla (surname unknown); three children. He died (according to C.-J. ENTREMONT in New England during the winter of 1676/1677.

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

   Pierre LAVERDURE, born c. 1600, married circa 1630 to Priscilla ---.

3.   John K. Harrell, "Pierre Melancon: The Elusive Acadian,", in New Orleans Genesis. (New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States|New Orleans, Louisiana: Genealogical Research Society of New Orleans)
   vol. XXXV, no. 138 (Apr 1996); pp. 112-120.
4.   "Progenitors--Those Most Misunderstood", in Acadian genealogy exchange. (Covington, Kentucky: J.B. Jehn)
   vol. XXIII, no. 4 (Oct 1994); P. 118.

   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."