Francois married Marie Claire Richard 23 Jan 1792, Bonaventure, Quebec. Marie (daughter of ?? Richard and Marie Blanche Robichaud) was born About 1768, Grand Pre, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada; died Deceased. [Group Sheet]

1. Apolline Daigle was born 5 Feb 1812, St-Charles, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada; died Deceased.

Francois married Marie-Blanche Leger [Group Sheet]

Olivier married Marie Blanche Robichaud Abt 1758, ST. SERVAN, ILLE ET VILAINE, FRANCE. Marie (daughter of Joseph Robichaud and Claire LeBlanc) was born 1731, Saint-Charles, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada; died 8 Sep 1818, Saint Charles, New Brunswick, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Charles married Françoise Doucet Françoise (daughter of Jean Doucet and Francoise Blanchard) was born About 1706, Grand Pré, Acadia, New France or louisiana; died 22 Feb 1799, Saint-Ours, Le Bas-Richelieu, Québec, Canada; was buried 23 Feb 1799, Saint-Ours, Richelieu, Quebec, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/140442871/joseph-robicheau

Joseph died shortly after arriving in France, during the Acadian expulsion. He lost his youngest child en route to France, but the rest of his family survived.

Joseph Robicheau, age 55
Claire LeBlanc, age 50
Marie-Josephe, age 26
Anne-Theodose, age 23
Francois, age 20
Marguerite-Pelagie, age 15
Michel, age 13
Isidore, age 10
Jean-Baptiste, age 8
Charles, age 6
Andre, age 4 (died)

Joseph and Claire were married on 30 April 1726, in Grand-Pre, Acadie. They are the parents of at the following:
1) Marguerite (1724- ) md Honore Gaudreau
2) Joseph (1728- ) md Marie Michel
3) Marie-Blanche (1734-1818) md Olvier Daigle
4) Marie-Josephe (1733-1819) md Abraham Legendre
5) Pierre (1735-1807) md (a) Anne Michel and (b) Marie Daigle
6) Anne-Theodose (1736- )
7) Francoise (1739-1828) md Pierre Dugas
8) Marguerite-Pelagie (1744- ) md Pierre Richard
9) Michel (1746- ) md Marguerite-Francoise Landry
10) Isidore (1749-1823) md Marguerite Boudreau
11) Jean-Baptiste (1751-1808) md Felicite Cyr
12) Charles (1753- ) md Anne Babineau
13) Andre (1755-1759) died at sea

Joseph married Claire LeBlanc Claire (daughter of Andre LeBlanc and Marie-Jeanne Dugas) was born 1710; died Bef. 1806. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/198058903/claire-robichaud

was married April 30 1726 in Grand Pre , Acadia , Canada

Notes:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/165876796/bernard-daigre

Bernard married Clair Bourg in 1691, in Pisiguit, Nova Scotia. They are the parents of at least the following:

1) Bernard (1692-) md Angelique Richard
2) Pierre (1696-1759) md (a) Madeleine Gaudreau and (b) Marie-Louis Testard
3) Joseph-Simon md Madeleine Gaudreau
4) Jean-Baptiste (1698-1759) md (a) Marie-Anne Brault and (b) Marie-Madeleine Landry
5) Francois (1699-) md Marie Boudreau
6) Charles (1701-) md Francoise Doucet
7) Abraham (1705-) md Anne-Marie Boudreau
8) Marie-Claire (1709-1758) md Charles Hebert
9) Louis-Rene (1709-1757) md Madeleine Hebert
10) Amand (1712-) md Elisabeth Vincent

Bernard married ?? ??. [Group Sheet]

Jean married Francoise Blanchard Francoise (daughter of Martin Blanchard and Marie Francoise Leblanc) was born Abt. 1672, Port Royale, l'Acadie; died Deceased. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/198058501/charles_dit_cadet-robichaud

died before May 18 1737

from online records

About Robichaud, Charles 'Cadet' ROBICHEAU
His land and house were situated on the actual grounds of Fort Anne, in Port Royal, which were expropriated from him for an extension of the Fort. This was witnessed on December 2, 1705 by the land surveyor, Lord de Labat. According to the census of 1700 he had 12 head of cattle and 14 sheep, on 16 acres of land. After he lost his land he moved his family to a piece of land about 1/2 mile from the Fort. Unfortunately, the fort did little to protect Charles and his family from the raids of the New England settlers. After a failed attack by Colonel Church in 1704, a more successful one on June 6, 1707, caused extensive damage, including the burning of the church, stores, and a number of houses, including those owned by Charles and his brothers. Charles remained and rebuilt his home , although Port Royal went to the British in 1710. In August of 1714, La Ronde Denys de Pensens prepared a list of families living around Port Royal. The list included Charles and his family. He was still living there in 1718. While living there and being surrounded by the English, life became unbearable. Charles then moved to the Truro area which was far away from the English and it allowed them to sell their cattle to Louisburg. Truro was close to the sea, so this made excellent connections to Prince Edward Island. This is where Charles was in 1720. Charles along with his descendants were called Cadets (meaning older ones) to distinguish them from the Prudents and the Nigannes.
En 1693, il possédait 10 bêtes à cornes, 18 brebis, 7 cochons, 16 arpents en valeur et un fusil. En 1698, il avait 9 bêtes à cornes, 9 brebis, 6 cochons, 10 arpents et 1 fusil. En 1700, il avait 12 bêtes à cornes, 14 brebis, 16 arpents et un fusil. En 1701, il possédait 6 bêtes à crornes, 9 brebis, 8 cochons, 6 arpents et un fusil. En août 1695, Charles Robichaud prête le serment de fidélité au roi d'Angleterre à Port-Royal; il fait sa marque.En 1707, il avait 8 fils au-dessous de 14 ans, 14 bêtes à cornes, 9 brebis, 11 cochons, 3 arpents et un fusil.En 1710, il avait 7 fils.En 1714, il était toujours à Port-Royal, au Cappe, il avait avec lui sa femme, 8 fils et 2 filles.En 1752, sa veuve Marie Bourg est réfugié à Memramcook seule.En 1754, la veuve Robichaud habite toujours Memramcook mais un de ses fils est avec elle.

This is the 1671 Census from online -The family was listed in the 1671 census at Port Royal (Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada). In 1678, an acre of their land was cultivated and they had 19 cattle. The location of their farm is uncertain, but in 1707, his son Alexandre's farm was on the north bank of the Dauphin (Annapolis) River east of Goat Island.[7]

1671

PORT ROYAL

Jacob BOURGEOIS, Surgeon, 50; his wife Jeanne TRAHAN 40; Children: (one son and one daughter are married): Jeanne 27, and Charles 25; then Germain 21, Marie 19, Guillaume 16, Marguerite 13, Francoise 12, Anne 10, Marie 7, Jeanne 4; cattle 33, sheep 24, more or less 20 arpents of cultivated land at two different locations.

Jehan GAUDET, laborer, 96, his wife, Nicolle COLLESON 64; Child: Jehan 18, cattle 6, sheep 3, 3 arepents of land at two locations.

Denis GAUDET, farmer, 46, his wife, Martine GAUTHIER 52; 5 Children (the first 2 married): Anne 25, Marie 21; other children: Pierre 20, Pierre 17, Marie 14; all five are without trades, except aslaborers; cattle 9, sheep 13 more lambs than mature sheep; 6 arpents of cultivated land.

Roger KUESSY, farmer, 25, his wife, Marie POIRIER 22; their daughter Marie 2; cattle 3, sheep 2 and no cultivated land.

Michel De FOREST, farmer, 33, his wife, Marie HEBERT 20; their 3 children: Michel 4, Pierre 2, Rene 1; cattle 12, sheep 2, 2 arpents of cultivated land.

Marie GAUDET, Widow of Étienne HEBERT, 38. She has 10 children, two married children: Marie 20, Marguerite 19; Emmanuel 18, not yet married, Etienne 17, Jean 13, Francoise 10, Catherine 9, Martine 6, Michel 5, Antoine 1; cattle 4, sheep 5 and 3 arpents of cultivted land.

Antoine BABIN, farmer, 45, his wife, Marie MERCIER 25; Children: Marie 9, Charles 7, Vincent 5, Jeanne 3, Marguerite 1; cattle 6, sheep 8 and 2 arpents of cultaved land.

Olivier DAIGRE, farmer, 28, wife, Marie GAUDET 20; their 3 children: Jean 4, Jacques, 2, Bernard 1; cattle 6, sheep 6, 2 arpents of cultivated land.

Antoine HEBERT, cooper, 50, wife Genevieve LEFRANC age 58; their 3 children: Jehan 22, Jehan 18, Catherine 15; cattle 18, sheep 7, 6 arpents of cultivated land at two locations.

Jehan BLANCHARD, farmer, 60, his wife, Radegonde LAMBERT age 42; their 6 children, 3 are married: Martin 24, Magdeleine 28, Anne 26; those not married: Guillaume 21, Bernard 18, Marie 15; cattle 12, sheep 9, 5 arpents of cultivated land.

Widow of François GUDCIN (GUERIN), 26; Children: Anne 12, Marie 9, Frivoline 7, Huguette 5, Francois 2; cattle 6, sheep 3, 6 arpents of cultivated land.

Michel DUPONT (DUPUIS), farmer, 37, wife Marie GAUTROT 34; Children: Marie 14, Martin 6, Jeanne 4, Pierre 3 months; cattle 5, sheep 1, 6 arpents of cultivated land.

Claude TERRIAU, farmer, 34, his wife, Marie GAUTROT 24; Children: Germain 9, Marie 6, Marguerite 4, Jehan 1; cattle 13, sheep 3, 6 arpents of cultivated land.

Germain TERRIAU, farmer, 25, his wife, Andree BRUN 25; their child: Germain 2; cattle 5, sheep 2, 2 arpents.

Jehan TERRIAU, farmer, 70, wife, Perrine RAU 60; Children (married): Claude 34, Jehan 32, Bonaventure 30, Germain 25, Jeanne 27, Catherine 21; (not married): Pierre 16; cattle 6, sheep 1, 5 arpents.

François SCAVOIS (SAVOIE), farmer, 50, his wife, Catherine LeJEUNE 38; children: (one married daughter) Françoise 18, (unmarried children) Germain 16, Marie 14, Jeanne 13, Catherine 9, Francois 8, Barnabe 6, Andree 4, Marie 1-1/2; cattle 4, 6 arpents.

Jehan CORPORON, farmer, 25, hiswife Francoise SCAVOIS (SAVOIE) 18; Child: one daughter 6 weeks of age not yet named; cattle 1, sheep 1, no cultivated land.

Pierre MARTIN, farmer, 70, his wife Catherine VIGNEAU 68; Children (four are married): Pierre 45, Marie 35, Marguerite 32, Andre 30; (unmarried): Matieu 35; cattle 7, sheep 8, 2 arpents.

Francois PELERIN, farmer, 35, wife Andree MARTIN 30; their three children: Hugette 5, Marie 2, Daughter 2 days; sheep 1, 1 arpent of land.

Pierre MORIN, farmer, 37, his wife Marie MARTIN 35; Children: Pierre 9, Louys 7, Antoine 5, Marie 3, Ann 10 months; cattle 3, sheep 4, 1 arpent.

Mathieu MARTIN, weaver, 35; Not married; cattle 4, sheep 3.

Mathieu MARTIN 35; 4 cattle and three sheep.

Vincent BRUN, farmer, 60, wife Renee BRODE 55; Children (three married): Magdeleine 25, Andree 24, Francoise 18; (unmarried): Bastien 15, Marie 12; cattle 10, sheep 4, 5 arpents of land.

François GAUTROT, farmer, 58, his wife Edmee LeJEUNE 47; their children (married): Marie 35, Charles 34, Marie 24, Rene 19, Marguerite 16; (unmarried): Jehan 23, Francois 19, Claude 12, Charles 10, Jeanne 7, Germain 3; cattle 16, sheep 6, 6 arpents of land.

Guillaume TRAHAN, 60 (actually he was approximately 70), his wife Madelaine BRUN 25; Children: Guillaume 4, Jehan-Charles 3, Alexandre 1; cattle 8, sheep 10, 5 arpents of land.

Pierre SIRE, gunsmith, 27, his wife Marie BOURGEOIS 18; one son: Jean 3 months of age; cattle 11, sheep 6.

Pierre THIBEAUDEAU, farmer, 40, his wife Jeanne TERRIAU 27; Children: Pierre 1, Marie 10, Marie 9, Marie 7, Anne Marie 6, Catherine 4; cattle 12, sheep 11, 7 arpents of land.

Claude PETITPAS, farmer, 45, his wife Catherine BAGARD 33; their children: Bernard 12, Claude 8, Jehan 7, Jacques 5, Marguerite 10, Marie 2-1/2, Elisabet 1; cattle 26, sheep 12, 30 arpents of land.

Bernard BOURG, farmer, 23, his wife Francoise BRUN 19; one daughter Marie; cattle 6, sheep 9, no cultivated land.

Bonaventure TERRIAU, farmer, 27, his wife Jeanne BOUDROT 26; one daughter: Marie 4; cattle 6, sheep 6, 2 arpents of land.

Michel BOUDROT, farmer, 71, his wife Michelle AUCOIN 53; three married children: Francoise 29, Jeanne 25, Marguerite 20; (Unmarried): Charles 22, Marie 18, Jehan 16, (Habraham) Abraham 14, Michel 12, Olivier 10, Claude 8, Francois 5; cattle 20, sheep 12, 8 arpents of land.

Pierre GUILLEBAULT, farmer, 32, his wife Catherine TERRIAU 20; one daughter: Marguerite 2; cattle 6, sheep 5, 15 arpents of land.

Jehan LaBATTE, farmer, 33, his wife, Renee GAUTROT 19; no children; cattle 26, sheep 15, 15 arpents of land.

Martin BLANCHARD, farmer, 24, his wife Francoise LeBLANC 18; no children; cattle 5, sheep 2, 15 arpents of land.

Jehan BOURG, Laborer, 26, his wife Marguerite MARTIN 27, two children: Anne 3, Margueritte 1-1/2; cattle 3, sheep 5, 15 arpents of land.

Antoine BOURG, Laborer, 62, his wife Antoinette LANDRY 53; eleven children four of them married: Marie 26, Francois 27, Jehan 24, Bernard 22; Unmarried: Martin 21, Jeanne 18, Renee 16, Hugette 14, Jeanne 12, (Habraham) Abraham 9, Marguerite 4; cattle 12, sheep 8, 4 arpents of land.

Laurent GRANGE, Seaman, 34, his wife Marie LANDRY 24; their two children: Margueritte 3, Pierre 9 months; cattle 5 sheep 6, 4 arpents of land.

Perrinne LANDRY 60, widow of Jacques JOFFRIAU. No children.

Pierre DOUCET, mason, 50, his wife Henriette PELTRET 31; their five children: Anne 10, Toussaint 8, Jehan 6, Pierre 4, and 1 unnamed daughter 3 months of age; cattle 7, sheep 6, 4 arpents of land.

Francois BOURG, farmer, 28, his wife Marguerite BOUDROT 23; their two children: Michel 5-1/2, Marie 3; cattle 15, 5 sheep, 5-1/2 arpents of land.

Marie SALÉ 61, widow of the late Jehan CLAUDE.

Germain DOUCET, farmer, 30, wife Marie LANDRY 24; their three children: Charles 6, Bernard 4, Laurent 3; cattle 11, sheep 7, 3 arpents of land.

Francois GIROUARD, farmer, 50, his wife Jeanne AUCOIN 40; their five children three married: Jacob 23, Marie 20, Marie-Magdeleine 17, Unmarried: Germain 14, Anne 12; cattle 16, sheep 6, 8 arpents of land.

Jacques BELOU, cooper, 30, his wife Marie GIROUARD 20; one daughter: Marie 8 months; cattle 7, sheep 1, no land.

Jacob GIROUARD, farmer, 23, his wife Marguerite GAUTROT 17; one son: Alexandre whose age was not recorded; cattle 7, sheep 3, no land.

Pierre VINCENT, farmer, 40, his wife Anne GAUDET 27; their four children: Huguette 7, Thomas 6, Michel 3, Pierre 2; cattle 18, sheep 9, 16 arpents of land.

Pierre MARTIN, farmer, 40, his wife Anne OUESTNOROUEST 27; their four children: Pierre 10, Rene 8, Andre 5, Jacques 2-1/2; cattle 11, sheep 6, 8 arpents of land.

Vincent BROT, farmer, 40, his wife Marie BOURG 26; their four children: Marie 9, Anthoine 5, Margueritte 3, Pierre 1; cattle 9, sheep 7, 4 arpents of land.

Daniel LeBLANC, farmer, 45, his wife Francoise GAUDET 48; their seven children: Married: Francoise 18; Unmarried: Jacques 20, Estienne 15, Rene 14, Andre 12, Antoine 9, Pierre 7; cattle 18, sheep 26, 10 arpents of land.

Michel POIRIE(R), bachelor, 20, son of the deceased Jehan POIRIE(R); cattle 2 no sheep, no cultivated land.

Barbe (Baiolet) BAJOLET 63, widow of Savinien de COURPON (Savien de Courpon, Sieur de La Tour); their children: 6 children in France and elsewhere and 2 daughters in this country. The two in this country are two married daughters Marie PESELET 26, Marianne LEFEBVRE 21; cattle 7, cow 1, sheep 6.

Antoine GOUGEON, farmer, 45, his wife Jeanne CHEBRAT 45; one child: Huguette 14; cattle 20, sheep 17, 10 arpents of land.

Pierre COMMEAU, cooper, 75, his wife, Rose BAYON; their eight children: married: Etienne 21; unmarried: Pierre 18, Francoise 15, Jehan 14, Pierre 13, Anthoine 10, Jeanne 9, Marie 7, Jehan 6; cattle 16, sheep 22, 6 arpents of land.

Jean PITRE, edge tool maker, 35, his wife Marie PESSELEY 26; their three children: Marie 5, Catherine 3, Claude 9 months; 1 cow, no sheep, no land.

Estienne COMMEAU, farmer 21, his wife Marie LEFEVBRE, 21; one child: Catherine 3 weeks of age; cattle 7, sheep 7, no cultivated land.

Estienne COMMEAU, farmer, 21, his wife Marie Anne LEFEBVRE 21; un child, Catherine 3 weeks; cattle 7, sheep 7.

Charles BOURGEOIS, farmer, 25, his wife Anne DUGAST 17; one child: Marie 1-1/2; cattle 12, sheep 7, 2 arpents of land.

Barnabe MARTIN, farmer, 35, wife Jeanne PELLETRET 27; their two children: Marie 4, Rene 8 months; cattle 3, sheep 2, 2-1/2 arpents of land.

Clement BERTRAND, carpenter 50, his wife Huguette LAMBELOT 48; no children; cattle 10, sheep 6, 6 arpents of land.

Antoine BELLIVEAU, farmer, 50, his wife Andree GUYON 56; their two children: Jehan 19, Magdeleine 17; cattle 11, sheep 8, no land.

Rene LANDRY, farmer, 52, his wife Perrine BOURG 45; their seven children: four are married: one known as Henriette PELLETRET 30, Jeanne 28, Marie 25, Marie 23; unmarried; Magdeleine 15, Pierre 13, Claude 8; cattle 10, sheep 6, 12 arpents of land.

Thomas CORMIER, carpenter, 35, his wife Magdelaine GIROUARD 17; one daughter age 2; cattle 7, sheep 7, 6 arpents of land.

Rene RIMBAULT, farmer, 55, his wife Anne-Marie [UNKNOWN surname] 40; their five children: Philipe 16, Francois 15, Jeanne 11, Marie 10, Francoise 5; cattle 12, sheep 9, 12 arpents of land.

(Habraham) Abraham DUGAST, gunsmith, 55, his wife Marie Judith DOUCET 46; their eight children: married: Marie 23, Anne 17; unmarried: Claude 19, Martin 15, Abraham 10, Margueritte 14, Magdeleine 7, Marie 6; cattle 19, sheep 3, 16 arpents of land.

Michel RICHARD, farmer, 41, his wife Madeleine BLANCHARD 28; their seven children: Rene 14, Pierre 10, Martin 6, Alexandre 3, Catherine 8, twins Anne and Magdeleine 5 weeks; cattle 15, sheep 14, 14 arpents of land.

Charles MELANSON, 28, wife Marie DUGAST 23; Children: Marie 7, Marguerite 5, Anne 3, Cecille 6 months; cattle 40, sheep 6. Pierre MELANCON, tailor - He refused to answer. (He had a wife and 7 children.) (Pierre MELANSON, tailor, would not give his age nor the number of animals but his wife's answers concerning their possessions was just as crazy.)

Estienne ROBICHAUD, farmer, did not want to see me. He left and told his wife that he not to tell me the number of his livestock or land.

Pierre LANOUE, cooper; when asked his age, he said he felt fine but would not give an answer.

Your most obedient servant
Laurent Molins, religieux Cordelier

online from 1693 Census Port Royal
Charles ROBICHAUD 26, Marie TIBEAUDEAU his wife 29, Angelique 6, Augustin & Pierre (twins) 3, Anthoine 1; 10 cattle, 18 sheep, 7 hogs, 6 arpents, 1 gun
from 1698 Census Port Royal online
Charles ROBICHO 30; Marie TIBAUDEAU (wife) 33;
Angelique 10; Charles and Rene, twins, 8; Augustine 6;
Jean 4; Alexandre 2; Joseph 1;
9 cattle, 9 sheep, 6 hogs, 10 arpents, 1 gun.

online 1700 Census Port Royal
Charles ROBICHAUX [Robichaud] 34; Marie THIBAUDEAU (wife) 35; Charles and Rene (twins) 10; Anthoine 8; Augustin 7; Jean 6; Allexandre 5; Joseph 3; François 2; Angelique 13; 12 cattle, 14 sheep, 16 arpents, 1 gun.

online 1701 Census Port Royal
Charles ROBICHO 30, Marie TIBAUDEAU (wife) 30; Rene and Charles (twins) 10, Jean 8, Alexandre 7, Joseph 4, Francoise 2, Jacques 1, Isabel 14; 1 gun, 6 cattle, 9 sheep, 8 hogs, 6 arpents.

online 1703 Port Royal Census
Charles BELINEAU, his wife, 1 boy, 1 girl, 1 arms bearer.

1714 Census Cappe
Charles CADET and his wife, 8 sons, 2 daughters.

Charles married Marie Claire Bourg Marie (daughter of Jean Bourg and Marguerite Martin) was born 1672, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; died 30 May 1747, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; was buried 30 May 1747, Port Royal, Acadia, New France. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

In 1659, André, son of Daniel Leblanc and Françoise-Marie Gaudet, was born in Port-Royal.

In 1672, after decades of living under the seigneural system with its feudal control over them, the Acadians and began to look elsewhere for new areas to settle. Port-Royal?s resident surgeon, Jacques Bourgeois, with a few others, sailed north to explore the inlets and estuaries along the neck of land connecting peninsular Nova Scotia to the mainland, known as the Isthmus of Chignecto.

The western part of the isthmus is an expanse of open wetlands, sparsely treed, much of it close to sea-level. Ordinarily unusable as farmland because of the high salt content impregnating the intertidal soil, the Acadians had a unique skill learned in similar coastal areas of France, that allowed them to forgo the strenuous work of clearing thick forest and instead, farm the treeless soil below the high-tide line using an ingenious device called an aboiteau (plural: aboiteaux): a dike (Fr: levée), holding the sea at bay while successive rains gradually flushed salt out of the alluvial soil into sluices with clever built-in valves called clapets that opened and closed with the tides; the falling sea at ebb tide releasing pressure on the sea-side of the wooden valves, allowing the weight of the accumulated runoff to push open the clapets and drain away, and the returning flood tide pushing the clapets shut, preventing the rising sea from back flowing into the sluices. After two or three years, the saline content of the otherwise fertile soil was low enough that the land became arable, and bountiful; supporting huge harvests.

A short distance up one of the rivers Jacques Bourgeois and his partners founded a farming settlement that they named Mésagouèche (the adjoining river thus became the Missaguash River). As more families from Port-Royal joined them they referred to it simply as: the Bourgeois Colony.

In the late 1670s, the governor of New France, Louis de Buade Comte de Frontenac, anxious to reinforce France?s hold over Acadia, assigned administrative control of the troublesome colony to Michel Leneuf de la Vallière, and granted him a wide swath of the Isthme-de-Chignectou as a seigneury (fief). Leneuf founded a colony just across the Missaguash River from the Bourgeois Colony. He named his new colony Beaubassin (?Beautiful Basin?).

Despite Governor Frontenac?s intention that the Bourgeois Colony remain independent of Michel Leneuf?s seigneury, their close proximity to each other inevitably melded them together and the name Bourgeois Colony disappeared; the entire area afterwards referred to as Beaubassin.

Soon afterwards, Pierre Melanson dit la Verdure and Marie-Marguerite Mius d?Entremont led a few other Port-Royal families on a colonizing expedition north to a large sheltered bay they named Bassin-de-Minas (Minas Basin) where they established the colony Grand-Pré (?Great Meadow?); the area as a whole sometimes referred to as, Les Minas.

Over the next ten years, more families arrived in Les Minas and the available farmland around Grand-Pré was used up. Newcomers spread eastward along the banks of a deep estuary and its tributaries (present-day Avon River); an area they named Pisiguit.

In 1683, André Leblanc married Marie-Jeanne Dugas, daughter of Abraham Dugas and Marguerite-Louise Doucet, in Port-Royal.

In 1684, Jean, son of André Leblanc and Marie-Jeanne Dugas, was born in Port-Royal.

In 1686, André Leblanc and Marie-Jeanne Dugas move their family to Grand-Pré.

In 1689, the settlement of Cobequid was established at the eastern end of Bassin-de-Minas.

In the spring of 1690, New England militia led by Sir William Phips landed at Port-Royal. With its unfinished stockade and eighteen cannons out of firing position, Governor Meneval saw no point in resistance and surrendered the fort. The Acadians were allowed to stay, but were asked to swear allegiance to King William, an oath they feared would obligate them to fight against France and their native allies. Phips? troops sacked the fort and the nearby farms but did not consolidate their victory by providing an occupation force, instead withdrawing to Boston with Port-Royal?s seventy-man garrison and Governor Meneval as prisoners, leaving the leadership of Port-Royal in the hands of a council of locals that included Daniel Leblanc.

In the 1693 census of Grand-Pré, André Leblanc and Marie-Jeanne Dugas own 8 horned cattle, 3 sheep, 5 pigs, almost 8 acres of cultivated land and 1 gun.

About 1696, Daniel Leblanc, patriarch of the Leblanc surname in Acadia, died. By the year of Daniel?s death, most of his family had left the volatile Port-Royal basin and moved north to Grand-Pré. Only Pierre remained near Port-Royal, having inherited his father?s land.

In 1696, New England militia led by Benjamin Church attacked Beaubassin, burning buildings, slaughtering livestock and killing some of its inhabitants, but most fled inland and hid-out. The following year the Treaty of Ryswick ended King William?s War and restored Acadia to France.

In the 1701 census of Grand-Pré, André Leblanc and Marie-Jeanne Dugas have 5 sons, 2 daughters, 8 horned cattle, 5 sheep, 8 pigs, 3 acres of land (currently under cultivation) and 1 gun.

In 1704, Jean Leblanc, son of André Leblanc and Marie-Jeanne Dugas, married Jeanne Bourgeois, daughter of Guillaume Bourgeois and Marie-Anne d'Aprendestiguy de Martignon. Jeanne Bourgeois was also the great-granddaughter of Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, the former governor of Acadia, who produced a daughter, Jeanne, with an Amerindian woman. Jeanne married into the d'Aprendestiguy de Martignon family, and her granddaughter was Jeanne Bourgeois.

In June 1704, New England militia, again led by Benjamin Church attacked Acadia with a force of seven hundred Bostonians and Massachusetts natives. At Grand-Pré, Church's soldiers sacked the colony, killing livestock, burning houses, and breaking open the salt-marsh dikes which flooded the enclosed farmland with seawater, threatening to destroy the land?s usefulness for several years; but after Church?s men left the Acadians quickly repaired the dikes, saving the soil from complete salt saturation and allowing them to plant crops the following year. Leblancs living in Les Mines at the time included the families of Jean, André, and Jacques.

Church then sailed to Port-Royal, but the fort repulsed all his probing attacks and ultimately he gave up, finding the French defenders too well-entrenched. After ravaging a few of the surrounding farms he left, turning north for Chignecto Bay and attacked Beaubassin.

When the soldiers sailed away, they took forty-five prisoners with them to Boston, to exchange for New Englanders captured in a French attack earlier that year.

In 1707, the Acts of Union united the crowns of England and Scotland into a single entity: Great Britain. The current monarch, Queen Anne, was now Queen of Great Britain and Ireland.

In 1710, a fleet of English and New England ships commanded by General Francis Nicholson, sailed into Port-Royal basin with two thousand troops and laid siege to the fort. After a few days of bombardment Governor Subercase surrendered. The French troops were paroled back to France but the Acadian civilians were allowed to stay for two years. Port-Royal was renamed Annapolis Royal and given a small occupation force and a military commander.

In 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht ended The War of Spanish Succession in Europe and its North American extension: Queen Anne?s War. France ceded Acadia and Newfoundland to England but retained the St. Lawrence valley and the islands of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, including Île Saint-Jean and Île Royale.

As part of the treaty, France evacuated its colonists in Newfoundland to the fishing port of Havre à l'Anglois on Île Royale. The French authorities began building a fortress on the rocky headland above the harbour mouth: they named it Louisbourg. But when they tried to bring the Nova Scotia Acadians north and re-establish them on Île Royale, the Acadians were reluctant to leave their existing fertile lands around the Bay of Fundy for the hardship of starting over on a rocky island (reputed to be a poor place for pasturing animals and crop growth), with its very real threat of famine.

About 1720, ships carrying three hundred farmers, fisherman, craftsmen and thirty soldiers, arrived in Louisbourg from France. Their job was to develop Île Saint-Jean as a new source of food. The expedition continued on to the island where some of the colonists chose a deep bay on the northern shore as a sheltered place to build a home port for their new cod fishery. They named it Havre Saint-Pierre (St. Peter?s Bay). The remaining colonists sailed around the island to the southern shore where they entered a large, crenelated bay and started clearing ground on the west side of the harbour entrance, for a new colony headquarters. They named it Port-la-Joie (Port la Joye).

In 1730, François, grandson of André Leblanc and Marie-Jeanne Dugas, was born in Grand-Pré.

In 1743, André Leblanc, son of Daniel Leblanc and Françoise-Marie Gaudet, died in Grand Pré.

For more information on the life of André Leblanc's son Jean, see Jean Leblanc's Life Sketch, ID=LDSB-T2J

Andre married Marie-Jeanne Dugas Abt. 1683. Marie-Jeanne (daughter of Abraham Dugas and Marie-Marguerite Doucet) was born Bet. 1665-1667, Peut-etre, Port Royale, l'Acadie; died 14 Jan 1734, St. Charles-aux-Mines, Grande-Pre, Nouvelle Ecosse, Canada. [Group Sheet]