Marie married Joseph Richard [Group Sheet]

1. Marguerite Bibiana Richard was born About 1745, Grand Pre, Acadia, New France; died Deceased, Louisiana, United States.

René married Isabelle Melanson 30 Jul 1709, Grand Pre, Acadia, New France. Isabelle (daughter of Pierre Melanson and Marie Marguerite Anne Mius D'Entremont) was born 1679, Grand Pre, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada; was christened 1679, Saint-Charles des Mines, Grand Pre, Acadia, New France; died About 1719, Acadia, New France. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

From the marriage of Rene LEBLANC were born at Port Royal: Jacques, Francois, Rene, Pierre, Etienne, Joseph, Claude, Marie, Jean Bapiste, and Victoire. Etienne and Joseph were twins and died as infants.
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As per Find A Grave
Rene Leblanc
Birth 1654 Port Royal, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death 3 Jan 1734 Grand Pré, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Burial Saint-Charles-des-Mines Grand Pré, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Aged 80 years, buried 4 January 1734.

He married Anne Bourgeois (daughter of Jacques) at Port Royal, in about 1678. They settled in Minas and had ten children - six sons and four daughters including the following:

1) Jacques (1678-1755) md Catherine Landry
2) Francois (1680-1770) md Jeanne Herbert
3) Rene (1682-1758) md Elisabeth Melanson and Marguerite Thibault
4) Pierre (1684-) md Jeanne Theriault
5) Etienne (1688-) md Anne Mailloux
6) Claude (1691-1763) md Jeanne Dugas and Marie Theriault
7) Claire (1692-) md Jean Landry
8) Marie (1693-1725) md Jacques Theriault

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135712952/rene-leblanc

Aged 80 years, buried 4 January 1734.

He married Anne Bourgeois (daughter of Jacques) at Port Royal, in about 1678. They settled in Minas and had ten children - six sons and four daughters including the following:

1) Jacques (1678-1755) md Catherine Landry
2) Francois (1680-1770) md Jeanne Herbert
3) Rene (1682-1758) md Elisabeth Melanson and Marguerite Thibault
4) Pierre (1684-) md Jeanne Theriault
5) Etienne (1688-) md Anne Mailloux
6) Claude (1691-1763) md Jeanne Dugas and Marie Theriault
7) Claire (1692-) md Jean Landry
8) Marie (1693-1725) md Jacques Theriault

René married Anne Bourgeois 1679, Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France. Anne (daughter of Jacques Jacob Bourgeois and Jeanne Trahan) was born About 1661, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France; died 28 Dec 1747, Grand Pré, Acadia, New France; was buried 29 Dec 1747, Saint-charles-des-mines Cemetery, Grand Pré, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135622207/anne-bourgeois

Buried 29 December 1747 at the age of 87. Wife of the late Rene Leblanc.

Burials of St-Charles-aux-Mines de la Grande Prée (Grand-Pré) 1709-1748, compiled from Drouin Collection Microfilms, which was microfilmed from register at Ottawa Archives, by Roger Hetu.

From further research:

Anne married Rene in 1678, in Port-Royal, Acadie. They settled in Mines and had ten children - six sons and four daughters including the following:

1) Jacques (1678-1755) md Catherine Landry
2) Francois (1680-1770) md Jeanne Herbert
3) Rene (1682-1758) md Elisabeth Melanson and Marguerite Thibault
4) Pierre (1684-) md Jeanne Theriault
5) Etienne (1688-) md Anne Mailloux
6) Claude (1691-1763) md Jeanne Dugas and Marie Theriault
7) Claire (1692-) md Jean Landry
8) Marie (1693-1725) md Jacques Theriault

Additional information provided by G. Abbott #46954848

Marie Anne Bourgeois (b. 1661)
Marie Anne Bourgeois (daughter of ) was born 1661 in Port Royal, Nova
Scotia, and died 28 Dec 1747 in Mines, Grand Pre, Nova Scotia. She married Rene
LeBlanc on 1679 in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, son of Daniel LeBlanc and Marie
Francoise Gaudet.

More About Marie Anne Bourgeois and Rene LeBlanc:
Marriage: 1679, Grand Pre, Nova Scotia.

Children of Marie Anne Bourgeois and Rene LeBlanc are:
i. +Jacques LeBlanc, b. 1680, Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, d. Oct 1755, Pisiguit,
Nova Scotia.
ii. +Francois LeBlanc, b. 1682, Mines, Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, d. 04 Jan 1767,
Quebec.
iii. +Marie Marguerite LeBlanc, b. 1694, Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, d. Abt. 1755,
Boston, Massachusetts.

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

Daniel married Marie Francoise Gaudet 1645, Port-Royal, Acadie, Nouvelle-France. Marie (daughter of Jean Gaudet and Marie Daussy) was born 23 Sep 1623, Martaize, Loudun, Vienne, France Christening; was christened 24 Sep 1623, Martaizé, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France; died 25 Oct 1698, Port Royal, Acadia, New France; was buried 1698, Garrison Graveyard, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Francoise was born in about 1623. She is the daughter of Jean Gaudet and his first wife. She married (1) Jean Mercier in 1640, in Nova Scotia. They are the parents of at least the following:
1) Marie (1645-) md (a) Antoine Babin and (b) Guillaume Lejuge

She married (2) Daniel LeBlanc in 1650, in Port Royal. She was baptized in Port-Royal in 1671, when she was 48 years old. According to the 1671 census, she says she is 48 years, her husband Daniel is 45 and that: "... their cattle has 18 horns and 26 sheep, 10 labour their land arpans in two places." They are the parents of the following:
1) Jacques (1651-1730) md Catherine Hebert
2) Francoise (1653-) md Martin Blanchard
3) Etienne* (1656-)
4) Rene (1657-1734) md Anne Bourgeois
5) Andre (1659-1743) md Marie Dugas
6) Antoine (1662-) md Marie Bourgeois
7) Pierre (1664-1717) md (a) Marie Theriault and (b) Madeleine Bourg
*Etienne is believed to have been a navigator who sailed away at a young age and was never heard from again.

Notes:

According to Acadian historian Father Clément Cormier, Jacques Bourgeois was an army officer who served at Port-Royal in the 1650s and evidently was the brother-in-law of Germain Doucet, sieur de La Verdure, an associate of Acadian Governor Charles d'Aulnay. When the English seized Acadia in 1654, four years after d'Aulnay's death, Robert Sedgwick, leader of the English expedition, held Jacques Bourgeois as "hostage" to insure that Doucet, in command at Port-Royal, would fulfill the terms of surrender. Father Cormier says Jacques was repatriated to France along with other French officers and never returned to Acadia. According to Cormier, it was Jacques's son, Jacques dit Jacob, not Jacques, père the soldier, who was progenitor of the family in Acadia. However, more recent studies devoted to this important family, including that of genealogist Stephen A. White, tell a different story:

Jacques dit Jacob or Jacobus Bourgeois was born in France, perhaps at La Ferté-Gaucher on Rivière Grand-Morin in Champagne east of Paris, in c1619, parents unknown. A young surgeon, trained perhaps by members of l'Ordre de Malte, Jacques was recruited by Claude Launay-Rasilly, brother of Isaac de Razilly, after the French re-established control of Acadia in the 1630s. Jacques came to Acadia in 1641 aboard the St.-François and established one of the first families in the colony. He married Jeanne, daughter of prominent settler Guillaume Trahan and his first wife Françoise Corbineau, at Port-Royal in c1643. Jeanne had come to Acadia even earlier than Jacques--in 1636 aboard the St.-Jehan, with her father, mother, and a sister. In February 1653, Jacques stood as a witness to the marriage of Governor Charles La Tour and Jeanne Motin de Reux, the widow of former Governor Charles d'Aulnay. Jacques was second in command of the post when Robert Sedgwick and his New Englishmen captured Port-Royal August 1654. Jacques remained there with his wife and children and became a farmer and a shipbuilder. He also worked as a merchant, trading regularly with the New Englanders of Boston. Having learned to speak English fluently, he served as the King's interpreter in dealings with the English. Jacques also became a successful fur trader among the Indians and ventured to every corner of the colony. It is said that in 1671, when the first Acadian census was taken, Jacques was the most properous habitant in the colony. In 1672, he sold a part of his holdings at Port-Royal and, with his two older sons and two of his sons-in-law, pioneered the major Acadian settlement of Mésagouèche, later Missaguash, on the isthmus of Chignecto, "the first swarming of the Acadians to establish their hive," as one historian describes it. He built a flour mill and a saw mill at Chignecto to encourage settlement beside the wide salt marshes that were perfect for cattle raising. In 1676, part of Chignecto became the seigneurie of Canadian-born French nobleman Michel LeNeuf de La Vallière, père, who named his 100-league holding Beaubassin. La Vallière brought in settlers and indentured employees from Canada, in direct competition with the earlier, adjacent Bourgeois settlement. According to Acadian tradition, a clause in La Vallière's land grant title "protected the interests of Jacques Bourgeois and the other Acadian settlers established on the domain," and "it was not long before the two elements of the population merged into one."

Jacques and Jeanne had 10 children, seven daughters and three sons. Six of their daughters married into the Cyr, Girouard, Boudrot, Mirande dit Tavare, Maisonnat dit Baptiste, Dugas, LeBlanc, and Comeau le jeune dit Des Loups-Marins families. A French census taker found Jacques living with one of his sons at Chignecto in 1698, but otherwise he spent his final days at Port-Royal. He died at Port-Royal in c1701, in his early 80s. All three of his sons, born at Port-Royal, created families of their own, but only two of them had sons:

Oldest son Charles, born in c1646, married Anne, daughter of Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Doucet, at Port-Royal in c1668. Charles and Anne had four children, including two sons who married into the Blanchard family. One of their daughters married into the Caissie family. One of Charles's grandsons, Honoré, who married twice into the Richard family, moved from Chignecto to Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, in the late 1740s or early 1750s probably to escape British authority in Nova Scotia.

Germain, born in c1650, married Madeleine, daughter of Antoine Belliveau and Andrée Guyon, probably at Chignecto in c1673. They had three children, including a son who married into the Mius de Pleinmarais and Thibodeau families. Their daughter married into the Breau family. Germain remarried to Madeleine, another daughter of Abraham Dugas and Marguerite Doucet and sister of brother Charles's wife Anne, probably at Chignecto in c1682. They had 10 children, including two sons who married into the LeBlanc family. Their eight daughters married into the Poirier, Richard dit Lafond and dit Beaupré, Girouard, LeBlanc, and Robichaud dit Prudent families. In 1696, during King William's War, Germain commanded a ship in Pierre Le Moyne, sieur d'Iberville's attack on the New England fort at Pemaquid, Maine. Later that year, Germain confronted Massachusetts Colonel Benjamin Church when the Englishman attacked Chignecto. Germaine died in 1711, in his early 60s, from the rigors of being held hostage by British Colonel Samuel Vetch in the dungeon at Port-Royal during Queen Anne's War.

Youngest son Guillaume, born in c1655, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Martin d'Aprendestiguy, sieur de Martignon, a Basque fur trader and seigneur on lower Rivière St.-Jean, and Jeanne de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, daughter of former governor Charles La Tour, probably at Port-Royal in c1686. Guillaume did not follow his older brothers to Chignecto but remained with his father at Port-Royal, where he became a merchant like his father. In September 1727, he was one of the delegates from Port-Royal representing Acadian interests before the Nova Scotia Council at Port-Royal. Along with two other Acadian leaders, Charles Landry and Abraham Bourg, Guillaume refused to take the oath of allegiance to British King George II and was imprisoned for his opposition. Guillaume and his wife had only a single child, a daughter, who married into the LeBlanc family.

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Jacques was a surgeon by trade. He immigrated to Port-Royal in 1642. He married Jeanne Trahan in 1643, and they are the parents of the following:

1) Jeanne (1644-1730) md Andre Coudray
2) Charles (1646-) md Anne Dugas
3) Germain (1650-1711) md Marguerite Belliveau and Madeleine Dugas
4) Marie-Francoise (1652-1741) md Pierre Cyr and Germain Girouard
5) Guillaume (1655-) md Marie-Anne D'Aprendestiguy
6) Marguerite (1658-1732) Jean Boudreau and Pierre Maisonnat
7) Francoise 1659-1697 md Claude Dugas
8) Anne (1661-1747) md Rene Leblanc
9) Marie (1665-) md Antoine Leblanc
10) Jeanne (1667-1716) md Pierre Comeau

Jacques became a farmer and shipbuilder in Port Royal. He traded with Bostonians and learned English, enabling him to become an interpreter. He sold part of his holdings in 1672, and settled in the Chignecto Basin, along with his two oldest sons and two of his sons-in-law. He became the first promotor of Beaubassin, by building a flour mill and a saw mill, encouraging more people to settle the area, which became very prosperous.

He returned to Port-Royal again before 1699, living there until his death in 1701.


Jacob (Jacques) BOURGEOIS, Druggist, 50; cattle 33, sheep 24.
wife Jeanne TRAHAN 40;
children: Jeanne 27,
Charles 25,
Germain 21,
Marie 19,
Guillaume 16,
Marguerite 13,
Francois 12,
Anne 10,
Marie 7,
Jeanne;

1671 Port Royal Acadian Census

https://www.acadian.org/census1671.html

Jacques married Jeanne Trahan About 1643, Port-Royal, Acadia, New France. Jeanne (daughter of Guillaume Trahan and Françoise Charbonneau) was born 8 Jan 1629, De Bouguil, Indre-et-Loire, France; was christened 1629, Bourgueil, Département d'Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France; died Jul 1699, Port Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada; was buried Jul 1699, Garrison Graveyard, Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136913767/jeanne-trahan

Jeanne is the daughter of Guillaume Trahan and Francoise Charbonneau. She married Jacques Bourgeois in 1643, in Port Royal, Acadie. They are the parents of the following:

1) Jeanne (1644-1730) md Andre Coudray
2) Charles (1646-) md Anne Dugas
3) Germain (1650-1711) md Marguerite Belliveau and Madeleine Dugas
4) Marie-Francoise (1652-1741) md Pierre Cyr and Germain Girouard
5) Guillaume (1655-) md Marie-Anne D'Aprendestiguy
6) Marguerite (1658-1732) Jean Boudreau and Pierre Maisonnat
7) Francoise 1659-1697 md Claude Dugas
8) Anne (1661-1747) md Rene Leblanc
9) Marie (1665-) md Antoine Leblanc
10) Jeanne (1667-1716) md Pierre Comeau

Thank you Gloria Moreau #48849488 providing the death and husband info for child (1) Jeanne.

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]