Daniel LEBLANC
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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 LAND THAT WAS LOCATED IN TWO DIFFERENT PLACES. THEY WERE BURIED IN THE FRENCH CEMETERY AT PORT ROYAL (AFTER THEY DIED OF COURSE...).
ONE RELEVANT DOCUMENT DATED 05 OCT 1687 CONCERNS A DEPOSITION MADE BY DANIEL. THIS CONCERNS WORK DONE IN ACADIA BY THE SIRE OF AULNAY BEFORE HIS DEATH IN 1650. AMONG THOSE WHO SIGNED, THERE WAS "THE MARK OF" DANIEL, HE THEREFORE ARRIVED IN ACADIA BEFORE THE DEATH OF AULNAY IN JUNE 1650.

THE FOLLOWING IS FROM HTTP:/ / WWW.ACADIAN-HOME.ORG/ ANCESTORSACADIAN.HTML:

THE LARGEST ACADIAN FAMILY BEGAN WITH ONE MAN, DANIEL LEBLANC, WHO WAS BORN IN FRANCE ABOUT 1626. ARRIVING IN ACADIA BEFORE 1650, SOMETIME THAT YEAR, HE MARRIED FRANCOISE GAUDET, WIDOW OF AN UNKNOWN MERCIER, DAUGHTER OF JEAN GAUDET AND HIS FIRST WIFE WHOSE NAME IS UNKNOWN.

OF THEIR SIX SONS, FIVE HAD LARGE FAMILIES. AMONG THEM, THEY HAD 35 SONS AMONG WHOM 31 MARRIED. THUS, THE LEBLANC FAMILY GREW VERY RAPIDLY WHICH EXPLAINS ITS PREDOMINANCE AMONG ACADIAN FAMILIES.

ACCORDING TO STEPHEN WHITE:

THE PLACE OF ORIGIN AND THE ANCESTORS OF DANIEL LEBLANC ARE UNKNOWN. SOME HAVE WANTED TO BELIEVE THAT DANIEL DESCENDED FROM A NOBLE FAMILY OF DAUPHINE, BASED ON RESEARCH BY D'ENTREMONT (J. ALFRED LEBLANC - THE ORIGINS OF THE LEBLANC FAMILY, "FOOTPRINTS OF THE EXILED: A LEBLANC FAMILY NEWSLETTER", VOL I, 1986, P. 7), BUT THE FAMILY PROPOSED (TO RENE TO ALPHONSE TO PIERRE) IS A BLANC OR DEBLANC FAMILY, RATHER THAN LEBLANC (SEE MM. DE LA CHENAYE-DESBOIS & BADIER, "DICTIONNAIRE DE LA NOBLESSE, 3E EDITION, PARIS, 1863, VOL. III, P. 314-317).

THE JOINTLY-OWNED LAND MENTIONED BELOW, LEADS RESEARCHERS TO BELIEVE THAT THERE EXISTED A BOND OF SOME KIND BETWEEN ANTOINE GOUGEON AND HIS SON-IN-LAW GUILLAUME BLANCHARD ON ONE SIDE OF THE FAMILY AND WITH DANIEL LEBLANC ON THE OTHER. THE NATURE OF THE CONNECTION IS YET UNKNOWN.

HISTORICAL NOTES:

DANIEL LEBLANC SETTLED ON THE NORTH BANKS OF THE PORT-ROYAL RIVER (TODAY CLLED ANNOPOLIS RIVER), TO THE NORTHEAST OF THE MARSH LANDS OF BELISLE, ABOUT NINE MILES FURTHER UP THAN FORT AT PORT-ROYAL, AND A HALF MILE FURTHER DOWN THAN SAINT-LAURENT CHAPEL, WHERE HE DIED BETWEEN THE YEARS OF 1693-1698 (PLACIDE GAUDET "ARBRE GENEALOGIQUE DE MGR EDOUARD LEBLANC, EVEQUE DE SAINT-JEAN, N.B. (FIRST ACADIAN BISHOP), BRH VOL XVIII, 1912, P. 357).

OCTOBER 5, 1687: STATE OF EXECUTED WORKS IN ACADIA BY SIR D'AULNAY AMONG THOSE WHO MADE THEIR MARK: DANIEL LEBLANC. THEREFORE, DANIEL CAME TO ACADIA BEFORE THE DEATH OF D'AULNAY IN 1650 (ANF, COL, C11D, VO II, FOL 85).

MAY 24, 1690: DANIEL LEBLANC IS ONE OF SIX MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL DEMANDED BY PHIPPS AND RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAIN THE PEACE AND TO RENDER JUSTICE (BRH VOL SVIII, P. 357).

AUGUST 1695: DANIEL LEBLANC PROMISES FIDELITY TO THE KING OF ENGLAND AT PORT-ROYAL IF MADE HIS MARK (MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVE, VOL II, FOL 540).

1734: SCHEDULE OF THE SEIGNORIAL RENTS PAYABLE YEARLY BY THE INHABITANTS OF ANNAPOLIS ROYAL...

THE NAMES OF THE SEVERAL PLANTATIONS: 1. PARADIS TERRESTRE 2. DO LA GRAVE OR POINT LECHESNE

THE FIRST GRANTEES: 1. DANIEL LEBLANC & GUILLAUME BLANCHARD 2. DANIEL LEBLANC AND ANTOINE GOUJON PAY ONE DEN PAR ARPENT (PER ACRE)

THE PRESENT POSSESSORS: 1. JOHN PRINCE AND PIERRE GODET 2. GUILLAUME BLANCHARD, JOSEPH LEBLANC AND HIS BRETHREN.

(GB, PRO, CO 217, VOL VII, FOL 90)



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