Antoine Solomon Maillet (1723 - bef. 1799)

Born 13 Sep 1723 in Annapolis Royal, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Saulnier — married 1751 in Acadie

Husband of Marguerite Blanchard — married 1761 in Pisiguid, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died before 30 Aug 1799 before age 75 in Baie St Marie, Colony of Nova Scotia

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Biography

Antoine Solomon Maillet was born 13 Sep 1723. He was the son of Jacques Maillet Madeleine Hébert. He was baptized the next day at Port Royal. His godparents were Pierre Hebert and Marie La Fond.^[1][2]

Around 1751, he married Marie Saulnier, daughter of Rene and Marie Josephe Trahan and settled in the village of Trahan in Grand-Pré. ^[3]

They had one child:

1. Charles Maillet (1752-1837)

On 5 September 1755, Antoine-Salomon was imprisoned along with hundreds of other Acadian men at the St. Charles des Mines church in Grand-Pré. On a list of prisoners, (Winslow's List) he was said to live in the village des Trahan with 1 son (spouses were not included on the list), and owned 4 bullocks, 3 cows, 4 young cattle, 12 sheep, 6 hogs, and 1 horse. His property and livestock became forfeit to the crown, and his family was required to prepare for deportation within 30 days. ^{[4] [5]}

Antoine-Salomon managed to escape deportation and found refuge at Camp d'Espérance on the Miramichi around 1756. ^[6] In Miramichi, like other Acadian refugees, he worked for the French authorities. He was paid 4 livres tournois for unloading boats for two days on 12 June 1757, and 100 tt more for 19 barrels of coal destined to the blacksmith's workshop, on 18 October 1758. ^[5][7]

He married Marguerite Blanchard about 1761 in Acadie and had 8 known children.^[8]

Their children were: ^[9]

1. Marie Maillet (about 1762–after 1844)
2. Jean Baptiste Cassien Maillet (about 1764–after 1835)
3. Lucie Marguerite Maillet (about 1766–after 1840)
4. Sabine Isabelle Maillet (about 1766–after 1844)
5. Joachim Pierre Maillet (1768–after 1823)
6. Cécile Maillet (about 1770–after 1844)
7. Louis Maillet (1772–after 1848)
8. Joseph Tranquille Maillet (1774–1858)

By 1763 many of the Acadians in Acadie Française had been refugees for more than 8 years now, and forced to move often, making it difficult to provide proper shelter and food for their family. That year, Antoine-Salomon and Marguerite were in Halifax with 2 children but do not appear on the list of prisoners. ^{[10] [11]}

After 1763, those who stayed in Acadie were not allowed to return to their former lands. Their possessions had either been destroyed or were now owned by New England Planters. They could only settle in small family groups, dispersed in the interior of the peninsula, and often worked for low wages on former Acadian lands. Most importantly, they had to swear an oath of allegiance to the King of England.

In 1768 we find him with his second wife, Marguerite Blanchard in Pisiguit.^[12] On May 26, 1768, he was in Kings County, Nova Scotia where he swore an oath of allegiance pledging allegiance to King George III.^[13]

He was alive as of August 29, 1787 when he and his wife conveyed land in Clements Township, Annapolis County, to Charles Pinkney.^[14]

He passed away before August 30, 1799 in Clare, Digby County, Nova Scotia.

Sources

1. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Fonds de la paroisse catholique Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Port-Royal, N.-É.)-1870 C-1870 (image 63) https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1870/63?r=0&s=5
2. ↑ An Acadian Parish Remembered The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755 Antoine Solomen Maillet RG 1 volume 26 page 193 https://novascotia.ca/archives/acadian/archives.asp?ID=958
3. ↑ Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes. (Moncton, N.-B.: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999), Print p. 1450
4. ↑ Lucie Leblanc Consentino, Acadian & French-Canadian Ancestral Home, "Deportees of Grand-Pré - 1755," citing Collection of the Nova Scotia Historical Society 1870-1884 - Journal of John Winslow, volumes 1-4; "Grand-Pré, September the 15th 1755," line # 105,

   Antoine Majet, village des Trahan with 1 son (spouses were not included on the list), and owned 4 bullocks, 3 cows, 4 young cattle, 12 sheep, 6 hogs, and 1 horse.

5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Paul Delaney. La liste de Winslow expliquée. (Moncton, N.-B.: Éditions Perce-Neige, 2020 - Kindle Edition), p. 242, Note de bas de page #168

   Il a échappé à la déportation et s'est réfugié au Camp d'Espérance, probablement en 1756, avec d'autres réfugiés. À Miramichi, Salomon Maillet a été payé 4 livres tournois pour avoir travaillé pendant deux jours à décharger des bateaux le 12 juin 1757, et 100 tt de plus pour 19 barriques de charbon destiné à la forge le 18 octobre 1758. (ANF: sér V7, no 10, fol 87, no 71, fol 368)

6. ↑ Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, “List of Refugee Acadian Households at Camp Espérance on the Miramichi, 1756-1757: Appendix to ‘The Acadian Refugee Camp on the Miramichi, 1756-1761’”. English translation & glossary of place name by John Estano DeRoche. PDF accessible online for download at The Official Blog of the Association des Acadiens-Métis Souriquois, dated March 30, 2018, https://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/aams-blog/news-and-reflections-the-acadian-refugee-camp-on-the-miramichi-1756-1761-march-30-2018
7. ↑ Certificats du Canada et billets de l'Acadie, 1750-1760, BAnQ, [Salomon Maillet, accessed 21 Dec 2023.

   • He was paid 4 livres tournois for unloading boats for two days on 12 June 1757 p. 3/44
   • He was paid 100 tt more for 19 barrels of coal destined to the blacksmith's workshop, on 18 October 1758

8. ↑ Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader's Family Tree. Page for Antoine Salomon Maillet citing Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes: 1715 à 1780, (Moncton, NB: Centre d'études acadiennes, draft version) BLANCHARD #21 b
9. ↑ Marcel Walter Landry Antoine Salomon Maillet at Généalogie des Landry à travers le monde, accessed 2023 (login required)
10. ↑ LeBlanc, Ronnie-Gilles « Les Acadiens à Halifax et dans l’île Georges, 1755–1764 ». Port Acadie no 22-23 (2012) : 43–76. https://doi.org/10.7202/1014976ar p. 75 of article.
11. ↑ Lucie LeBlanc Consentino. List of Acadian Prisoners at Halifax, August 12, 1763, Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home. Transcription, digital images, Roy, J.-Edmond. "12 Août 1763: Liste des françois Accadiens demeurants prisonniers a halifax port d'amérique Septentrionale Sous le gouvernement de Sa majesté Britannique" in Rapport sur les archives de France relatives à l'histoire du Canada. Ottawa: C.H. Parmelee, 1911 accessed at BANQ numérique pages 628-631/images 630-633],
12. ↑ Petronymes acadiens - Maillet Sentier Acadie Historique
13. ↑ Municipality of Clare buys back pivotal piece of its Acadian history CBC News
14. ↑ Annapolis County Registry of Deeds - Book 7 Page 98

• BIRTH-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1600-1800; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, vols. 2-6; p. 669 (Port Royal)
• http://records.ancestry.co.uk/antoine_salomon_maillet_records.ashx?pid=17273337
• White, Stephen A. La généalogie des trente-sept familles hôtesses des "Retrouvailles 94", Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne, vol. 25, nos 2 et 3 (1994). (Maillet)