Amand Melanson (1728 - 1781)

Born 14 Oct 1728 in Grand Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Marie Anne Babin — married about 1751 in Grand-Pré, Acadie, Colony of Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died Dec 1781 at age 53 in Iberville, Louisiana, New Spain

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Biography

Amand Melanson is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana Plaque 5 Left. Listed with him is his spouse Anne Babin and 5 children: Joseph, Anne, Simon, Mathurin and Olivier.^[1]

Amand Melancon was born 14 Oct 1728. He was the son of Joseph Melanson and Marguerite LeBlanc. He was baptized the day he was born at Saint Charles des Mines, Grand-Pré, Acadia. His godparents were Joseph LeBlanc and Anne Terriot.^[2]

He married Marie Anne Babin around 1751 in Grand-Pré, Acadie. ^[3]

Their children were: ^[3]

1. Joseph Amand MELANSON ca 1752-1791/
2. Unknown MELANSON ca 1755-
3. Anne MELANSON ca 1760-1813
4. Marguerite MELANSON ca 1762-/1767
5. Simon MELANSON ca 1764-1810
6. Mathurin MELANSON ca 1766-
7. Olivier MELANSON ca 1767-
8. Felicite Melancon
9. Louis Gregoire Melancon
10. Marguerite Constance Melanson

The family was deported to Maryland in 1755. On 7 July 1763 Amand and Marie-Anne were recorded on a census in Baltimore, Maryland with their children Joseph, Anne and Marguerite. ^[4]

"They were later sent to Louisiana."^[5][4]

They immigrated to Louisiana in 1767. ^[6]

In 1767, at St. Gabriel, where they settled, Amand MELANSON, aged 39, was living with his wife, Anne BABIN, aged 37, and their five children: Joseph, aged 15, Anne, aged 7, Simon, aged 3, Mathurin, aged 2, and newly born, Olivier. Marguerite who was born about 1762 died and before 1767. The family was living on 8 arpents of cultivable land.^[5][7]

In 1777, at St. Gabriel, Amand MELANSON, aged 49, was living with his wife, Anne BABIN, aged 47, and one son, two daughters, and one Negro. The family was living on 10 arpents of cultivable land with 20 cattle, four horses, 16 hogs and 30 fowl.^[5][8]

Amand died in Dec 1781 in Iberville, Louisiana, New Spain aged ~53 and was buried on 10 December 1781 in St. Gabriel. ^[9]

Research Notes

References next to Michael B. Melanson's references are his sources.

Sources

1. ↑ "The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial"; Wall of Names Committee; Jane G. Bulliard, Chair; second edition, 2015; Bodemuller The Printer, USA; p. 22
2. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Fonds de la paroisse catholique Saint-Charles-des-Mines (Grand-Pré, N.-É.) - 1869; Canadiana, Heritage, Parish registers: Nova Scotia : C-1869 (Image 261): https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1869/261?r=0&s=4
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader's Family Tree. Page for Amand Melanson citing Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes: 1715 à 1780, (Moncton, NB: Centre d'études acadiennes, draft version) MELANSON #14 e No place given for marriage.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Janet Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, (Covington, KY: Author, 1977) pp. 145 & 158

   "a l'ile de Baltimord [sic], Etat de gens neutrals Acadiens qui sont a Baltimore En Maryland"

   marque + de Amand Mellancon, Anne Babin mon epouse, Joseph Mellancon, Anne Mellancon, Marguerite Mellancon .... 5

   "at the isle of Baltimord, State of the Neutral Acadians Who Are at Baltimore in Maryland"

   Mark of Amand MELLANCON, Anne BABIN my wife, Joseph MELLANCON, Anne MELLANCON, Marguerite MELLANCON.

5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Melanson, Michael B. Melanson~Melancon. The Genealogy of an Acadian and Cajun Family. Page 77-78. Dracut, Massachusetts: Lanesville Publishing, 2004.
6. ↑ Jacqueline K. Voorhies, Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians; Census Records of the Colony 1758-1796, (Lafayette, LA: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1973) p. 434

   On "LIST OF ACADIAN FAMILIES WHO CAME TO LOUISIANA TO BE ESTABLISHED [sic] IN THE YEAR 1767" signed by Julian Alverez, found in the Papeles procedentes de Cuba, Legajo 114: 40.

   Aman LANSON (MELANÇON), age 39;

   Ana, 37;

   Joseph LANSON, son, 15;

   Simon LANSON, son, 3;

   Maturin LANSON, son, 1½;

   Olibie, LANSON, son, 3 months;

   Ana LANSON, daughter, 7.

7. ↑ Wood, p. 173
8. ↑ DeVille, Iberville 1777 census p. 9
9. ↑ Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records, vol. 2, 1770-1803 (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Diocese of Baton Rouge, 1980) p. 533

   Amand [MELANCON], buried on 10 Dec 1781 at St. Gabriel Church, Iberville, LA (SGA-5, 54).

• John K. Harrell, "The 1755 Destruction of the French Acadian Nation," New Orleans Genesis XXXVII, no. 147 (Jul 1998); pp. 209-211
• Gregory A. Wood, A Guide to the Acadians in Maryland in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 1755-1899 (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1995); p. 173: Amand MELLANCONT, born 14 Oct 1728 to Joseph & Marguerite LeBLANC, baptismal sponsors: Joseph LeBLANC & Anne TERRIOT (SGA-2, 87). He married Anne BABIN; six children. He is head of a household of 5 persons on the 1763 census of Baltimore, MD. In 1767 he is 39 years old, in St. Gabriel, Iberville, LA, on 8 arpents of land, with wife Anne and three additional children since 1763. On 10 Dec 1781 he was buried at St. Gabriel Church (SGA-5, 54). [His sister Marie Josephe is listed as wife of Pierre POIRRIER on 1763 census at Baltimore, MD.]
• John K. Harrell, "The 1755 Destruction of the French Acadian Nation," New Orleans Genesis XXXVII, no. 147 (Jul 1998); pp. 209-211, transcribes a list of 1776 Spanish Land Grants given to Acadian immigrants from MD (giving their number on census there) to St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, LA. No. 8: Armand MELANSON (from Baltimore, MD, #4), with wife Anne BABIN and five children, given 6 arpents of land.