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Subject: Re:Melanson info/ LeBlanc-Bourgeois marriage 1709
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 16:23:29 EST
I found this info & a copy of orig.marriage cert.for Rene Leblanc & Anne
Bourgeois.
1) About 1680, Pierre Melanson, who had been Chief of the Malitia at Port
Royal, with his wife, Margurite Mius (daughter of Phillippe Mius D'Entremont)
and their seven children, moved to the fertile lands of "la Grand Pre" (the
large meadow), in the Basin of Minas. A little later, there also came Pierre
Terriau, Claude Landry, Antoine Landry, and Rene LeBlanc, whose wife was Anne
Bourgeois, and who was the father of the Notary Rene LeBlanc of Grand Pre's
later history. They settled in the neighboring territory of the same basin.
Source> Antoine Bernard, "Le Drame Acadien" Montreal 1936
2) "The Marriage Certificate"
English Translation:
In the year 1709, on the 30thday of July, after having published three
bans at the sermon of our parish masses between Rene LeBlanc, son of Rene
LeBlanc and of Anne Bourgeois, residents of Grand Pre hos father and mother,
party of the first part, and Elizabeth Melanson, widow of the late Allain
Bugeaut, royal notary of Minas and daughter of Pierre Melanson,Sieur de la
Verdure, and of Miss Marguerite Mius, also residents of Grand Pre, her father
and mother, of the second part, without any impediment to the marriage, I the
undersigned missionary for the Parish of St. Charles of Minas, have obtained
their mutual consent to marry and have given them the nuptial benedictionwith
the parish ceremonies of our Holy Mother the Catholic and Apostolic Church in
the presence of the relatives and friends who have signed with me and the
others who did not know how to sign and made their marks. In faith whereof I
have signed.
Rene LeBlanc R.LeBlanc
Philipe Melanson X mark of Elizabeth Melanson
Francois LeBlanc P. Melanson
Pierre LeBlanc Alexandre Bourg
Pierre Melanson
Pr. Bonaventure Masson, Father
Missionary
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