Isabelle married René LeBlanc 30 Jul 1709, Grand Pre, Acadia, New France. René (son of René LeBlanc and Anne Bourgeois) was born About 1682, Port Royal, Acadie, New France; died 6 Feb 1758, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; was buried 1758, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. [Group Sheet]

1. Marie LeBlanc was born 1714, Grand Pre, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada; died 1814.

Notes:

He is the son of Pierre Laverdure dit Melanson and Priscilla Melanson. Pierre was a tailor by trade and a captain in the militia at Mines, Acadie.

He was supposedly a Huguenot, and a Calviniste (although that isn't confirmed). Pierre was of French and English descent as explained below:

His father, Pierre Laverdure dit Melanson, left France because of persecution of his Protestant faith, finding refuge in England. It was there that he met his wife Priscilla Melanson or Malleson.

Pierre senior moved to Boston with his wife Priscilla and youngest son in 1667 (after the French retook Acadia), where he probably died. After his father died, his mother was remarried to William Wright, on 18 April 1680.


After initially settling at Port Royal, Pierre Melanson was later one of the founders of Grand Pre with Pierre Theriot. He was a stonemason.

"In the spring of 1657, the family embarked in England aboard the vessel Satisfaction under the command of Captain Peter Butler, forming part of the company which Thomas Temple was transporting to Acadia, over which he had been named Governor after its capture by the English. Having first stopped at Boston, Captain Butler next went to the fort on the St. John River, where a group of his passengers disembarked, and finally to Port-Royal. It appears the La Verdure (or Melanson, as they were known) family stopped at Fort St. John. After the Treaty of Breda, under which in 1667 England ceded Acadia to France, he and his parents went to seek refuge under the Protestant government at Boston.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138630602/pierre-melanson

Pierre married Marie Marguerite Anne Mius D'Entremont Port-Royal, Acadia, New France. Marie (daughter of Philippe Mius d'Entremont and Madeleine "Helie du" Tillet) was born 1649, Cherbourg, Manche, Normandy, France; died 1691, Grand Pre, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried 1714, Saint Charles des Mines, Grand Pre, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Marie-Marguerite-Anne Mius d'Entremont married Pierre in 1665, in Port-Royal, Acadie. They are the parents of the following:

1) Philippe-Charles (1666-1744) md Catherine-Marie Dugas
2) Cecile (1668-1753) md Jean Landry
3) Pierre (1670-1752) md Marie-Rosalie Blanchard
4) Marie-Madeleine (1673-1714) md Germain Landry
5) Marguerite (1676-1744) md Alexandre Bourg
6) Elisabeth (1679-1718) md (1) Pierre-Alain Bujold and (1) Rene Leblanc
7) Jean (1681-) md Marguerite Dugas
8) Madeleine-Catherine (1683-) md Louis-Simon LePoupet
9) Anne-Marie (1686-) md Thomas-Jacques Jacob
10) Paul-Pierre (1691-) md Marie Theriault

Pierre married Priscilla Melanson. Priscilla died 1 Jan 1692, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried 1692, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Baron Mius d'Entremont was born in Cherbourg, Normandy and came from a longtime noble family. He was brought to Acadia with his family in 1651, by the new governor Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour. The governor in July 1653 awarded him one of the few fiefs to constitute territory in North America, the Barony of Poboncoup, extending from Cap Nègre to Cap Fourchu (Yarmouth), and in 1670 appointed him lieutenant-major and commander of the king's troops, and procureur du roi (crown attorney), which post he retained until 1687.

One year after the foundation of this barony, in 1654, Major Robert Sedgewick of Massachusetts made his pass through Acadian lands, initially seizing de La Tour's fort in Saint John and taking him captive, finally devastating the settlements of Port-Royal, Pentagoët and La Hève, but not that of Pobomcoup. During the English occupation, which lasted until the treaty of Bréda in 1667, Philippe Mius d'Entremont was nowhere to be found. His whereabouts would not be known until the census of 1671 when he surfaced in Pobomcoup with his family that included four children, namely Jacques, Abraham, Philippe and Madeleine. The census specifies that the head of family, Mius d'Entremont, had six arpents of land in tillage, 26 horn cattle, 29 ewes, 12 goats and 20 pigs.

d'Entremont was important to the colony's history as an administrator, and because he promoted agriculture on his seigneury. The settlement and d'Entremont's residence were established at Pubnico, the modern spelling of Poboncoup.

Source: Wikipedia

The family of Philippe MIUS and Madeleine ÉLIE:

MIUS, Philippe, sieur d'Entremont, Royal protonotary (1686) (protonotaire du roi (1686), born about 1609 (rec. 1671, rec. 1686) Normandie (province) (France, known area), died fin 1700 Grand-Pré (Saint-Charles-des-Mines) (Acadie)

Married about 1649, from Normandie (province) (France, known area)
ÉLIE, Madeleine, born about 1626 (rec. 1671) Normandie (province) (France, known area), died between census 1671 and census 1678 Port-Royal (Acadie)

1) Marguerite, born about 1650 (rec. 1686) Normandie (province) (France, known area), died after census 1714 Grand-Pré (Saint-Charles-des-Mines) (Acadie), married about 1665 Pierre MELANÇON dit LAVERDURE

2) Jacques, born about 1654 (rec. 1671) or 1659 (rec. 1686), married about 1678 Anne LATOUR

3) Abraham, born about 1658 (rec. 1671) or 1662 (rec. 1686), married about 1676 Marguerite de SAINT-ÉTIENNE de LATOUR

4) Philippe, born about 1660 (rec. 1671) or 1662 (rec. 1686), married about 1678 .., married about 1687 Marie ..

5) Madeleine, born about 1669 (rec. 1671) or 1670 (rec. 1686)

http://www.francogene.com/quebec--genealogy/086/086987.php

Philippe's patronymic name was not d'Entremont, but Mius, probably of Germanic origin, from the word majus, maius or mius. However, the name of d'Entremont was added to the patronymic surname Mius. The historical connection is as follows, dating back to the French Wars of Religion and the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572:

Nicolas Mius was killed at the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, murdered at the side protecting Gaspard de Coligny. Gaspard's wife, Jacqueline de Montbel d'Entremont (16 February 1541 - 17 December 1599) was a French noblewoman and only daughter and heiress of the Savoyard family of Montbel d'Entremont who has many fiefs in Savoy, Bresse, Bugey and Piedmont.

After Jacqueline's husband's murder, the Countess felt indebted to the children of Nicolas Mius. Jacqueline took under her protection a son of Nicolas. (Unfortunately, there is no record of his first name.) The boy was actually under the care of Jacqueline?s mother, the Countess Beatrice d?Entremont of the House of Montbel d?Entremont of Savoie.

THE NAME OF 'd'ENTREMONT" was THEN added to his surname "MIUS". This was Jacqueline?s wish, since she was the only child who survived her parents' marriage, and had only a daughter from her marriage to the Admiral. The following clause appears in the marriage contract between the Admiral and Jacqueline:

The following clause appears in the marriage contract between the Admiral and Jacqueline:

"The first son originating from the marriage and his descendants, whether male or female, would carry the name and coat of arms of Count D'Entremont" (Jacqueline's father). The name of d'Entremont is an adopted name, probably from the grandfather who would have adopted Jacqueline d'Entremont, Nicolas Mius having died at the side of Jacqueline's husband Gaspard de Coligny at St-Barthelmy."


Philippe Mius d'Entremont arrived in Acadia with his wife and daughter about 1651, as adjutant to Governor Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour and commandant in the colony during the latter's absence. He received, jointly with Pierre Ferrand, by letters patent from La Tour dated 17 Jul 1653, the fief of Pobomcoup, at Cape Sable. in 1670, he became King's attorney.

On 20 Jul 1684, in his capacity as attorney, he signed an order of the King that was registered at Port-Royal. On 5 Oct 1687 he signed an attestation in favor of the accomplishments of Governor d'Aulnay. in 1688 he was replaced as attorney by Pierre Chenet Dubreuil who had received the retainer for the office on 23 Sep 1687.

A deposition by Sr. de Tenville (sic for Tienville), taken before Mathieu de Goutin on 31 Jul 1699, related to statements of Sr. d'Entremont, residing at Les Mines, concerning the boundaries of Acadia.
A letter from Mathieu de Goutin to the Minister on 23 Dec 1707 contained the following: "Sr. Philippe Mius d'Entremont, a native of Normandy, who died seven years ago at the age of ninety-nine years and some months, with all his teeth, had been adjutant under the late M. de la Tour, governor of this country. He had since been obliged to carry out the duties of King's attorney for eighteen years, and had only left off because of his great age."?

MIUS (Muis) D?ENTREMONT, PHILIPPE, esquire, first baron of Pobomcoup (Pubnico), near Cap de Sable, lieutenant-major, king?s attorney, settler, the first of the d?Entremonts of Nova Scotia; b. c. 1601 (or 1609) in Normandy (probably at Cherbourg); d. c. 1700 (or 1701).

According to Placide Gaudet, the Norman Philippe Mius was related by marriage to the Bourbon family and was made Sieur d?Entremont by Louis XIV; but according to a descendant, H. Léandre d?Entremont, the titles of nobility are said to go back to the 11th century in Savoy, and a branch of the Savoy family is thought to have emigrated to Normandy during the 16th century. In 1649 the Sieur d?Entremont married Madeleine Hélie (or Élie) Du Tillet (b. 1626). He was then a captain in a regiment. It was in 1650 (Coll. de manuscrits relatifs à la Nouv.-France, II, 329) or 1651 (R. Le Blant) that he, with his wife and a daughter, were brought to Acadia by the new governor Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, a childhood friend, as lieutenant-major and commander of the king?s troops. To reward him for his services, La Tour offered d?Entremont in 1651 or 1653 the letters patent of the Pobomcoup fief, as a barony. The feudal rights conferred upon the baron a territory stretching from Cap Nègre to Cap Fourchu (Yarmouth). The feudal castle was built near the entry to the natural harbour of Pubnico, on the east side.

D?Entremont played an important part in the colony?s history both because of what he did as an administrator and because he was one of the rare Acadian seigneurs to concern himself with cultivation and with clearing land; he attracted to his estate ?several indentured workers and a few families from Port-Royal [now Annapolis Royal, N.S.] and this seigneury eventually formed a small centre of population.?

Besides their daughter whom they had brought from France, the d?Entremonts had four children who were born on Acadian soil: two of their sons, Jacques, b. 1659, and Abraham, de Plemazais (or Plemarch), b. 1661 or 1662, married respectively Anne and Marguerite, the daughters of Governor Charles de La Tour and Jeanne Motin; the third son, Philippe, whose life is more difficult to piece together, evidently married a daughter of Jean-Vincent d?Abbadie* de Saint-Castin. As for the daughters, Marie-Marguerite, born in France, married Pierre Melanson, dit La Verdure [see Charles Melanson]; the other, Madeleine, seems to have remained a spinster.
Around 1670, at the time when the Treaty of Breda was being put into force, Governor Andigné de Grandfontaine was establishing himself at Pentagouet on the Penobscot. D?Entremont was named king?s attorney, an office which he held for 18 years despite his advanced age. We know of reports which were made by Mius d?Entremont and Jacques Bourgeois* on the subject of the Acadian frontiers, and sent to the minister, Pontchartrain, by Joseph Robinau de Villebon. Towards the end of his life d?Entremont left his seigneurial estate, bequeathing the title of baron to his eldest son Jacques, and went to settle at Port-Royal with his wife and two of his children. He died at the end of 1700 or the beginning of 1701, a venerable patriarch more than 90 years old.

According to tradition it was at Port-Royal that he died, but Léandre d?Entremont indicates Grand-Pré, where d?Entremont may have gone to reside with his daughter Marie-Marguerite Melanson, as the more likely place of death. Philippe Mius d?Entremont has left a large number of descendants in Acadia; the barony of Pobomcoup remained in the family until the expulsion of the Acadians; and after more than three centuries some hundred families of the same name can still be counted at Pubnico.

Clément Cormier
Coll. de manuscrits relatifs à la Nouv.-France, II, 134, 329. Recensement de 1686 (Acadie). Placide Gaudet, notes preserved in the PAC and at the Université de Moncton; études published in Moniteur Acadien (Shediac, N.B.), 17 Dec. 1886, 11 and 25 Jan. 1887. George S. Brown, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia: a sequel to Campbell?s history (Boston, 1888), 151?52. A. Cameron, study published in the Halifax Herald, 1 Jan. 1886, of which the translation was published in the Moniteur Acadien, 21 Jan. 1886; see also issues of 7, 14 Jan. 1886, 17 Dec. 1886, 11 Jan. 1887. H. L. d?Entremont, The Baronnie de Pombcoup and the Acadians, a history of the ancient ?Department of Cape Sable,? now known as Yarmouth and Shelburne counties, Nova Scotia (Yarmouth, 1931); The forts of Cape Sable of the seventeenth century (n.p., 1938); study on the genealogy of the Acadian families of Yarmouth county, published in the Yarmouth Herald beginning 20 Feb. 1940. Robert Le Blant, ?Les trois mariages d?une Acadienne, Anne d?Entremont (1694?1778),? NF, VII (1932), 211. Rameau de Saint-Père, Une colonie féodale, II, 320. P.-G. Roy, ?Les marquisats, comptés, baronnies et châtellenies dans la Nouvelle-France,? BRH, XXI (1915), 48. Webster, Acadia, 121.

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Philippe married Madeleine "Helie du" Tillet 1648, Calvados. Madeleine was born 1626, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died 1678, Pubnico, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried , Old Acadian Cemetery Lower West Pubnico, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Claude married Beatrice D'entremont 17 Jun 1600, Savoy, France. Beatrice was born 21 Dec 1572, Savoie, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died 1671, , Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France. [Group Sheet]