Person:Priscilla Unknown (45)
Priscilla Unknown
b.Abt 1602
d.Abt Jan 1692 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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m. Abt 1631
  1. John Melanson
  2. Jean Melanson
  3. Sieur Pierre MelansonAbt 1632 - 1721
  4. Charles Melancon, dit "Laramée"Abt 1643 - Abt 1701
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m. 8 Apr 1680
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Name Priscilla Unknown
Married Name Priscilla Melanson
Married Name Priscilla Wright
Gender Female
Birth[1] Abt 1602
Marriage Abt 1631 , , , Englandto Pierre Melanson, dit "Laverdure"
Marriage 8 Apr 1680 Massachusetts, United Statesto Captain William Wright
Death[1][2] Abt Jan 1692 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
References
  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)
    pp. 862 & 1145.

    Priscilla ----, born around 1602, married 1st around 1631 in England to Pierre MELANSON dit LAVERDURE; three children. She married 2nd (Mass.Arch.; vol. XXXVII, fol.284) at Boston on 18 Apr 1680 to Capt. William WRIGHT. She died (according to C.-J. d'ENTREMONT) in New England at the beginning of 1692, when she was 90 years old (according to the story of La Mothe-Cadillac).

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

    Priscilla ---, born c. 1610, married circa 1630 to Pierre LAVERDURE, died c. Jan 1692.

  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.

    Priscilla MALLESON, an Englishwoman, married around 1630 to Pierre LAVERDURE, a French Huguenot who fled to Yorkshire, England; three sons, two became Catholics and Acadians. The family left England during 1657 bound for Boston, MA, in a group under new Acadian Governor Thomas TEMPLE, an Englishman. They moved to Port Royal, Acadia. After the Treaty of Breda in 1667, they returned to English Boston where Pierre died around 1676. Priscilla married 2nd on 8 Apr 1680 to Captain William WRIGHT. She died in Boston around 1691.

  4.   It is said that there is a petition she filed in Massachusetts court records as widow of Pierre La Verdure, in which she identifies herself as an Englishwoman.
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