Misc
DANIEL LE BLANC
B.1626 IN(AT) MARTAIZE, LOUDON, VIENNE, FRANCE
D.BETWEEN 1693 & 1698
EARLY IMMIGRANT TO PORT ROYAL IN ABOUT THE YEAR 1645 WITH OTHER FRENCH COLONISTS AND SETTLED (ACCORDING TO PLACID GAUDET) ON THE NORTH SIDE OF PORT ROYAL RIVER, TO THE NORTH-EAST OF THE BELISLE MARCH, ABOUT 9 MILES FROM THE FORT, HALF A MILE FROM ST. LAURENT CHAPPEL. HE WEDDED THE WIDOW FRANCOISE GAUDET ABOUT THE YEAR 1642(45?). HE WAS ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIZENS OF THE AREA AND ON 24 MAY 1690, WHEN SIR WILLIAM PHIPPS (WHO HAD JUST TAKEN OVER THE PLACE) ORDERED THE INHABITANTS TO SELECT SIX FROM AMONG THEM TO FORM A COUNCIL THAT WOULD ENSURE THAT PEACE & JUSTICE WOULD PREVAIL, DANIEL WAS ONE OF THOSE SELECTED. (THIS VERSION FILED AT PUBLIC ARCHIVES HALIFAX, MG100 VOL.134 #23A)
ACCORDING TO A CENSUS IN 1671, PORT ROYAL, DANIEL WAS LISTED AS A LABOURER, AGED 45 YEARS, 7 CHILDREN, 1 GIRL, 6 BOYS. HIS WIFE WAS 48. LIVESTOCK TOTALED 18 CATTLE WITH HORNS AND 26 FEMALE SHEEP. THEY WORKED ON 10 ACRES OF ...Read MORE...

1671 Port Royal
Daniel LeBLANC, 45, wife Francoise GAUDET 48; Children (1 married): Francoise 18; (not married) Jacques 20, Etienne 15, Rene 14, Andre 12, Antoine 9, Pierre 7; cattle 17, sheep 26.
1671 Acadian Census

1678 Port Royal
Daniel LeBlanc & Francoise Godet

12 cattle & 12 acres

3 boys 20 1658 Andre

17 1661 Antoine

15 1663 Pierre
1678 Acadian Census

1686 Port Royal
Daniel LEBLANC 60, Francoise GODET 60; 2 guns, 6 arpents, 15 cattle, 20 sheep, 7 hogs.
1686 Acadian Census

1695 - Oath of Allegiance to King William III
In August 1695, English authorities imposed on the Acadian inhabitants at Port-Royal an oath of allegiance to King William III. Many family heads signed or made their marks on the document that attested to their having taken the oath. Louis Allain, Jean Babineau, called Babinot, Jean Bastarache, Jean Belliveau, Martin and Guillaume Blanchard, Bernard and Martin Bourg, François Broussard, Pierre Cellier, called Le Cellier, Étienne, Jean l'aîné, Pierre l'aîné, and Pierre le jeune Comeau, Jean Corporon, Pierre Doucet, Claude Dugas, ___ Dupuis, Jean Fardel (an Englishman whose wife was a Gaudet), Pierre Gaudet, Jacob and Alexandre Girouard, Laurent Granger, Giraud (Jérôme) Guérin, Emmanuel Hébert, Claude and Pierre Landry, Daniel LeBlanc, Jacques Léger dit La Rosette, Pierre Martin, fils, Étienne Pellerin, Martin Richard, Charles Robichaud dit Cadet, François Robin, Germain Savoie, Pierre Sibilau, Claude and Bonaventure Thériot, and Jacques Triel dit Laperrière--all made their marks....Read MORE...


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Died between 1693 and 1698
'Daniel LeBlanc, born probably at Martaize in the Loudon region of France in c1626, was a young farmer when he arrived at Port-Royal in c1645, so he was among the earliest settlers in the colony. Five years later, in c1650, he married Francoise, a young widow and the older daughter of Jean Gaudet. They 'settled on the north bank of the Port-Royal River (today the Annapolis River), to the northeast of the marsh at Bélisle, about nine miles above the fort at Port-Royal, and a half mile below the chapel of Saint-Laurent, where he died between the years 1693-98.' Daniel and Francoise had seven children, including six sons, all born at Port-Royal, five of whom created families of their own. After they took wives, the four older LeBlanc sons moved to the Minas area, where they created a large extended family. The youngest son remained on his father's lands near Port-Royal. (According to family genealogist Lucie LeBlanc Consentino: '... as was the usual way for the Acadians, the youngest son ...Read MORE...