Pierre Melanson

1632 - 1720  (88 years)

• Name	Pierre Melanson
  Born	1632	Yorkshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	1720	Saint Charles des Mines, Grand Pré, Acadia, New France
  Buried	1720	Saint Charles des Mines, Grand Pré, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Person ID	I3928	OGrady Family Tree
  Last Modified	13 Jun 2020

  
  

  Father	Pierre Melanson,   b. 1606, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France ,   d. 1 Dec 1676, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts  (Age 70 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Priscilla Melanson,   d. 1 Jan 1692, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F1497	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marie Marguerite Anne Mius D'Entremont,   b. 1649, Cherbourg, Manche, Normandy, France ,   d. 1691, Grand Pre, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada  (Age 42 years)
  Married	Port-Royal, Acadia, New France
  Children	+ 1. Marguerite Melanson,   b. Abt 1676, Grand Pré, Acadia, New France ,   d. 15 Jul 1744, Acadia, New France  (Age ~ 68 years)  [Birth] + 2. Paul-Pierre Melanson,   b. 1686, Grand Pre, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada ,   d. 1774, Donaldsonville, Ascension, Louisiana, United States  (Age 88 years)  [Birth] + 3. Jean Dominique Melanson,   b. 1681, Nova Scotia, Canada ,   d. 23 Nov 1760, France  (Age 79 years)  [Birth] + 4. Marie Madeleine Melancon,   b. About 1673, Grand Pré, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada ,   d. 15 Jul 1744, Saint Gabriel, Iberville, Louisiana, United States or St Charles, Mines, Canada  (Age ~ 71 years)  [Birth] + 5. Pierre Melanson,   b. 1670, Acadia, New France ,   d. 1751, Acadia, New France  (Age 81 years)  [Birth] + 6. Isabelle Melanson,   b. 1679, Grand Pre, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada ,   d. About 1719, Acadia, New France  (Age 40 years)  [Birth] + 7. Philippe-Charles Melancon,   b. 1666, St Charles Des Mines, Nova Scotia, Canada ,   d. 24 Jun 1744, Grand Pré, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada  (Age 78 years)  [Birth]
  Last Modified	21 Jan 2021
  Family ID	F1558	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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