Thomas CORMIER
Thomas Cormier

Thomas Cormier (Cormie) was a carpenter and in comfortable circumstances having seven head of horned cattle, seven sheep and six arpents of land under cultivation. When the census of 1686 was taken, he had left Port Royal and was living in Mines. He appears to have been one of the early settlers of Mines and probably went there with his two brothers-in-law, Germain Girouard and Jacques Belou, who married Marie Girouard. By 1686, Cormier was the father of nine children, four sons and five daughters, the eldest Madeleine being eighteen. He prospered and had forty cultivated acres, twenty horned cattle, ten sheep and fifteen swine. Chignecto and its vicinity always remained home to the Cormier family, while there were no Cormier's in Port Royal in 1730 or at Mines in 1755.
In 1752, there were thirteen families named Cormier gathered at Beausejour, all residents of nearby settlements (eight from Westcook and three from Nappan). It's evident that the Cormiers were not driven from Acadia to any great extent in 1755 because the 13 families embraced most of the name then in Acadia, so that there multiplication over 136 years to 600 families is pretty good proof that the deportation of the Acadians was a failure as far as they are concerned.
Among the settlers on the St John River in 1783, at the time of the Loyalist's arrival, were eight families of Cormier's numbering 51 persons. These people were probably the descendants of some of those Acadians from the Annapolis River, who, in the Fall of 1755, seized the ship in which they were being deported and took it into the harbour of St. John.

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