Marguerite  LEBLANC

Pierre Cloistre dit Clouâtre, a gunsmith, reached Acadia from France by 1722, the year he married Marguerite, daughter of André LeBlanc, one of the pioneers of the Minas settlement. Pierre and Marguerite settled at Grand-Pré and had at least a dozen children, including five sons, all born at Minas: Louis in August 1724, Georges in November 1727, Dominique in May 1729, Pierre-Sylvain in c1740, and Joseph in c1750. Their daughter Marie-Josèphe was born in April 1723, Anne in March 1744, and Marthe-Marie July 1746. Daughter Anne's marriage record calls her a native of "St. Jean, Acadia," so the gunsmith and his wife may have lived on French-controlled Île St.-Jean during the 1740s. Only one of Pierre and Marguerite's sons seems to have married before Le Grand Dérangement: Third son Dominique married Françoise, daughter of Claude Boudrot, fils, probably at Minas in c1750. Oldest daughter Marie-Josèphe married Pierre, son of Augustin Hébert, at Grand-Pré in October 1747.