Charles Melanson (1725 - abt. 1800)

Born 19 Jan 1725 in Annapolis Royal, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Anne Breau — married 17 Jan 1746 in Annapolis Royal, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died about 1800 at about age 74 in Memramcook, New Brunswick Colony [uncertain]

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Biography

Charles Melanson is the descendant of a Huguenot emigrant.

Charles Melanson was born 19 January 1725. He was the son of Jean Melanson and Madeleine Petitot. He was baptized the next day at Annapolis Royal. His godparents were Charles Guilbaut, son of Charles Guilbaut and Anne Titaut [Petitot dit St. Seine], daughter of Denis Titaut dit Cincenne.^[1][2]

He married Anne Breau, daughter of Jean Breau and Anne Chiasson 17 January 1746 at Annapolis Royal. Witnesses were Jean Melançon, the father, Jean Melançon, son, Jean Breau, Antoine Breau and Jaques Michel.^[3]

The family resided in Port Royal through 1751 and in Pisiguit in 1764 based on the baptism of Marie Thecle there in 1764.^[4]. He is not found on the 1755 Census of various Nova Scotia towns, though several other Melansons were there.

Charles, his wife Anne, and their children Anne, Jean, Isabelle, Charles and Pierre are believed to have been among the Acadians who escaped the 1755 Deportation by seizing, with other passengers, the boat Pembroke, which was supposed to transport them from Annapolis Royal to exile in North Carolina. Of the seven ships involved in this exodus, the Pembroke was unique in having only eight Englishmen in the crew. When bad weather separated the Pembroke from the other boats in the party, the Acadians on board revolted, and took control of the ship. They sailed first to Saint Mary's Bay, then on to the Saint Jean river. It was there that they were discovered by the British. Following a skirmish that forced the British to retreat, the Acadians burned the boat so it would not again fall into enemy hands. They then traveled by foot to the village of Sainte-Anne-des-Pays-Bas (Fredericton) where they spent the winter. Food and supplies were scarce. So the following summer they migrated again. Some families went to Quebec. It is tragic that having succeeded in escaping the Deportation, many Acadians who were on the Pembroke only reached Quebec City to die in the epidemic of "picote" or "petite variole" (smallpox). Charles and his family, instead of going to Quebec, went north to Caraquet where they were enumerated in the 1761 Census. ^{[5] [6]}

However another option is that he was imprisoned in 1760 and released in 1764 from Fort Beausejour. ^[7]

In 1768, he may have been the Cha s Melanson recorded with his wife, 3 son and 1 daughter, as an Acadian in Kings County, NS, ready to make an oath of allegiance.^[8]

Later he lived in Minudie and in 1789 in Memramcook.^{[citation needed]}

Biographie

"... Celle-ci lui donna dix enfants, dont Charles dit Charlot, qui naquit à Port-Royal le 19 janvier 1725. Charlot Melanson épousa dans sa paroisse natale, le 17 janvier 1746, Anne Breau, fille de Jean Breau et d'Anne Chiasson."^[4]

Pendant la déportation prisonnier avec sa femme et 4 enfants à Beauséjour (24 août 1763)

En 1768, recensé avec sa femme, 3 fils et 1 fille, comme Acadien dans Kings County, NS, prêt à faire un serment d'allégeance. Plus tard il vit à Minudie et en 1789 à Memramcook

Sources

1. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Fonds de la paroisse catholique Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Port-Royal, N.-É.)-1870 C-1870 (image 73) https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1870/73?r=0&s=5
2. ↑ An Acadian Parish Remembered The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755 Charles Melanson baptism RG 1 volume 26 page 204 https://novascotia.ca/archives/acadian/archives.asp?ID=1008
3. ↑ An Acadian Parish Remembered The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755 Charles Melançon and Anne Breau marriage RG 1 volume 26a page 300 https://novascotia.ca/archives/acadian/archives.asp?ID=2820
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} 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). (Melanson), p. 7
5. ↑ Lucie LeBlanc Consentino. Pembroke Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home, Pembroke Passenger List Reconstructed by Paul Delaney, translated by Karen Theriot Reader. Accessed November 2021. Originally published in Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne vol. 35, nos. 1 & 2 (Jan-Jun 2004) Family # 34, p. 58 https://societehistoriqueacadienne.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/3501_total.pdf
6. ↑ Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home"; 2005 – Present, hosted by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino; 1761 Gaspesie Refugees Census, original record 1761 Gaspesie Refugees Original Amherst Papers (WO 34) : C-12837, Images 176-184

   Charles Melanson listed with a wife, three sons, two daughters

7. ↑ Lucie LeBlanc Consentino, Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home, 1998 - Present History of Twenty-Three Acadian Families Formerly Prisoners at Fort Beausejour (This information has been translated by me into English and was obtained from La Société Historique Acadienne, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada - December 1969 - Vol. III, no. 5. ) Note this article was not found in this volume (~~~~)
8. ↑ . La Société HIstorique Acadienne, 25ieme, CAHIER, Vol III No 5.1768 Oathp. 28-29.

• Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader's Family Tree. Page for Charles dit Charlot Melanson
• https://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogie=Melanson_Charles&pid=876341