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Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACAD IENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 1149 ; own copy. #6: Pierre (dit Pedro) MELANSON, son of Pierre dit LAVERDURE & Marguerite MIUS d' ENTREMONT, born around 1670.

EDUCATION: He was able to write his name.

CENSUS: 1686, Les Mines, Acadia, age 16 years.

CENSUS: 1693, age 22 years.

CENSUS: 1701, Grand Pré, Minas, Acadia. Pierre MELANSON, Jr., his wife & 4 boys [sic for gir ls]. There is 10 arpents under cultivation, 8 horned cattle, 8 sheep, 8 pigs, 1 firearm.

CENSUS: 1703, Minas, Acadia. Pierre MELENSON, his wife, 5 boys [sic], 3 girls [sic], 1 capab le of bearing arms.

CENSUS: 1707, Minas, Acadia. Pierre MELANSON, his wife, 1 girl over 12 years, 6 girls unde r 12 [one of these would be Cécile]. There are 5 arpents under cultivation, 4 horned cattle , 6 sheep, 6 pigs.

CENSUS: 1714, Minas, Acadia. Pierre MELANSSON, his wife, 2 boys, 4 girls [one of them Cécile ].

BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Arsenault, Histoire et Genealogie, p. 1263 (Grand Pré) . Pierre MELANSON, born 1670, son of Pierre & Marie-Marguerite MIUS d'ENTREMONT, married arou nd 1693 to Marie BLANCHARD; six children [neither Cecile nor Elisabeth is listed]. He lived a t Saint Charles des Mines. He was at L'Anse-a-Pinet, Isle Saint Jean in 1752, at the home o f Jacques NAQUIN, widower of Jeanne MELANSON, Pierre's daughter.

MARRIAGE: D'Entremont "New Findings", FCAGR (Winter 1969), p. 240, married circa 1695.

CENSUS: Placide Gaudet, REPORT CONCERNING CANADIAN ARCHIVES FOR THE YEAR 1905; 1600-1800; vo l. II, part A, original a Sessional Paper no. 18 of the Archives, reprinted Heritage Books, 1 994; p. 124; own copy; census by the Sieur de la Roque at Isle St. Jean in 1752. Pierre MELAN CON, native of l'Acadie, age 80 years, living with his son-in-law [Jacques NAQUIN] and six gr andchildren [daughter Jeanne is dead].