Did
You Know?
1. DID
YOU KNOW
- that Pierre and Charles Mellanson had a sister as well as a brother?
2. DID YOU KNOW - that the father of Pierre and Charles Mellanson appears in various historical records in London, England?
3. DID YOU KNOW - that celebrated singer Anne Murray is a descendant
of Charles Mellanson?
4. DID
YOU KNOW - that retired Canadian
Prime Minister Jean Chretien is a descendant of Pierre
Mellanson?
5. DID
YOU KNOW
- that hockey great, Jean Belliveau, is
a descendant of Charles Mellanson?
6.
DID
YOU KNOW - that film star, Genevieve
Bujold, is a descendant of Pierre Mellanson?
7. DID
YOU KNOW - that Lamothe Cadillac,
who founded the city of Detroit and after whom the Cadillac
automobile was named, was an acquaintance of Pierre
and Charles Mellanson and their mother?
8. DID
YOU KNOW - that Charles Mellanson's
granddaughter, Elisabeth (Basset) Waterman, was the
stepgrandmother of the American traitor, Benedict Arnold?
9.
DID
YOU KNOW - that Pierre and Charles
Mellanson consistently spelled their name "Mellanson"?
10. DID
YOU KNOW - that Pierre and Charles
Mellanson were English?
11.
DID
YOU KNOW - that Pierre and Charles
Mellanson were educated in England?
12. DID
YOU KNOW - that Pierre and Charles
Mellanson arrived in Acadia in 1657, three years after
it came under English control?
13. DID
YOU KNOW - that Acadia comprised present-day
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and
a large part of Maine?
14. DID
YOU KNOW - that Pierre and Charles
Mellanson were Protestants and that they turned Roman
Catholic and married French girls?
15. DID
YOU KNOW - that Charles Mellanson
was also called La Ramée or Sieur de La Ramée,
and Pierre Mellanson was also known as La Verdure or
Sieur de La Verdure?
16. DID
YOU KNOW - that the father of all
Melansons and Melancons was a Frenchman and a Protestant named Pierre Melanson de Laverdure?
17. DID
YOU KNOW - that the mother of all
Melansons and Melancons was an English woman named Priscilla?
18. DID
YOU KNOW - that Priscilla's maiden
name is unknown?
19. DID
YOU KNOW - that Pierre and Charles
Mellanson had a brother called John and known as John Laverdure?
20. DID
YOU KNOW - that before the French
repossessed Acadia in 1670, Pierre, Priscilla, and John
Laverdure moved to Boston to be under a Protestant government?
21. DID
YOU KNOW - that John Laverdure was
arrested for abducting Native Indians?
22.
DID
YOU KNOW - that John Laverdure disappeared
while out on bail?
23.
DID
YOU KNOW - that John Laverdure's disappearance
left his parents responsible for repaying the £100
he had borrowed for his bail?
24. DID
YOU KNOW - that Pierre Laverdure sailed
to Acadia in the hope of finding John with his brothers,
Pierre and Charles Mellanson, and bringing him back
to Boston?
25. DID
YOU KNOW - that Pierre Laverdure did
not find John in Acadia and died soon after, leaving
Priscilla to deal with John's debt?
26. DID
YOU KNOW - that Priscilla appealed
to the Boston court to reduce or waive John's bail,
but her petition was refused?
27. DID
YOU KNOW - that Charles Mellanson's
eldest daughter Marie was sent to Boston to live with
her grandmother Priscilla?
28. DID
YOU KNOW - that Marie Melanson became
known in Boston as Mary Laverdure?
29. DID
YOU KNOW - that Pierre and Charles
Mellanson's mother, Priscilla, remarried in 1680
? Her new husband was Capt. William Wright, Sr.?
30. DID
YOU KNOW - that Priscilla compiled
an inventory of the household goods she brought into
her new marriage?
She signed it with the initials "PM."
31. DID
YOU KNOW - that Priscilla said that
when she died, all of her goods were to go to her granddaughter
Mary Laverdure (nee Marie Melanson)?
32.
DID
YOU KNOW - that when Priscilla died,
her second husband refused to give her goods to Mary
Laverdure?
33. DID
YOU KNOW - that Mary Laverdure (Marie
Melanson) sued Capt. Wright for her grandmother's goods?
34. DID
YOU KNOW - that Mary Laverdure (Marie
Melanson) married a well-known merchant and privateer
named David Basset?
35. DID
YOU KNOW - that David Basset, who
is widely believed to have been murdered on board his
ship in 1724, died long before then?
36. DID
YOU KNOW - that Charles Mellanson
was an English agent?
37. DID
YOU KNOW - that three letters written
by Charles Mellanson to the Massachusetts lieutenant-governor
still exist in the Massachusetts Archives?
38. DID
YOU KNOW - that Charles Mellanson
died around 1700?
He was about 57 years old.
39. DID
YOU KNOW - that Pierre Mellanson moved
from Port Royal to the Minas Basin area around 1680?
40. DID
YOU KNOW - that Pierre Mellanson was
commander of the militia and the most important person
at Minas?
41. DID
YOU KNOW - that Pierre Mellanson is
today considered founder of Grand Pré, Nova Scotia?
42.
DID
YOU KNOW - that Pierre Mellanson lived
to about 90 years of age?
He died sometime between 1721 and 1723.????????
43.
DID
YOU KNOW - that Charles Mellanson's
homestead is now The Melanson Settlement National Historic
Site of Canada?
It was officially opened on August 3, 2004.
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