Person:Rene Le Blanc (3)

!BIRTH-PARENTS-CENSUS-OCCUPATION-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; pp. 987 & 1009; own copy. #15:

!OCCUPATION-EDUCATION: He is the notary Rene LeBLANC of Longfellow's "Evangeline." Obviously, he could sign his name.

!CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, age 2 years.

!CENSUS: 1693 Les Mines, age 11 years.

!BIRTH-MARRIAGES-OCCUPATION-DEATH: Web page "Descendants of Daniel LeBlanc" by Lucie M. LE BLANC CONSENTINO at<http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/o/n/Lucie-M-Consentino/GENE19> accessed in May 1999. Rene' LeBLANC, born about 1782 in Port-Royal, Acadia (Reference: Belle-Ile-en-Mer declaration). He married 1st to an unknown wife [sic]; 2nd [sic] to Elisabeth (Isabelle) MELANSON on 30 Jul 1709 in Grand-Pré, Acadia [she was a widow]. Witnesses: Rene' LeBLANC; Philippe MELANSON; Francois LeBLANC; Pierre LeBLANC; Pierre(?) MELANSON; Alexandre BOURG; Pierre MELANSON (who signed with his wife). He married 3rd [sic] to Marguerite THIBAULT on 26 Nov 1720 at Port-Royal. Witnesses: Joseph LeBLANC; Bernard GAUDET, who signed along with the wife of Charles THIBODEAU. On 17 Dec 1744 the Nova Scotia council decided to suspend Alexandre BOURG from office of notary, and named Rene' to replace him. (Reference: Nova Scotia Arch.; vol. IV; p.53). He died before 6 Feb 1758, when he is mentioned as deceased in Petition of the Acadians deported to Philadelphia. (Reference: E. Richard, ACADIA, MISSING LINKS OF A LOST CHAPTER IN AMERICAN HISTORY; 1895; vol. II; p.380).

!BIRTH-OCCUPATION-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES-DEATH: Arsenault, Histoire et Gnalogie, p. 1219 (Grand Pré). He was a notary, the one immortalized by Longfellow in his poem "Evangeline." He married first to the widow of another notary, Alain BUGEAUD. He lived at Saint-Charles-des-Mines [Grand Pré]. Deported to New York, with his [2nd] wife and their 2 young children, he [se rendit] at Philadelphia, where he found again 3 others. He died there around 1758.

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

!PARENTS-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN-OCCUPATION-DEATH: Roland J. Auger, "The LEBLANCS of Acadia," in Genealogy and Family History, FRENCH CANADIAN & ACADIAN GENEALOGICAL REVIEW, vol. 4, no. 1; p. 22; reprinted from MACLEAN'S MAGAZINE, Toronto (15 Dec 1950). Rene' LeBlanc, son of Rene' and grandson of Daniel, married 1st at Grand-Pré on 30 Jul 1709 to Elisabeth MELANSON, widow of Alain BUJOLD, daughter of Pierre & Marguerite MIUS d'ENTREMONT. He married 2nd at Port-Royal on 26 Nov 1720 to Marguerite THIBAUT (of TE'BEAU). He was appointed a royal notary at Minas (Les Mines), Acadia on 17 Dec 1744. He had 20 children. (Reference: Patrice GALLANT, Les Registres de la Gaspesie, p. 334.)

   A petition addressed by the Acadians at Philadelphia to King George speaks of "the common calamity of which Rene' LeBlanc, the Notary Public...is a remarkable instance. He was seized, confined, and brought away among the rest of the people, and his family, consisting of twenty children, and about one hundred and fifty grandchildren, were scattered in different colonies, so that he was put on shore at New York, with only his wife and two youngest children, in an infirm state of health, from whence he joined three more of his children at Philadelphia, where he died without any more notice being taken of him than any of us, notwithstanding his many years' labor and deep sufferings for your Majesty's service." (Reference: Richard, ACADIA; Montreal, 1895; vol. II, pp. 379-380.

1. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 987.

   René LE BLANC, son of René & Anne BOURGEOIS, born (Belle-Ile-en-Mer Declaration) at Port Royal around 1682. He was a notary.

2. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 987.

   René died (according to É. RICHARD) at Philadelphia after 6 Feb 1758.