Our families were scattered in 1755 and many of us ended up settling a "New" Acadia in South Louisiana instead of going back home to l'Acadie. Today I looked at the records of my family who were deported from Grand-Pre and held as "prisoners" for 7 years in Maryland.
ACADIAN CENSUS, MARYLAND 1763
http://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/md/
This Census was transcribed by Joan Harman
Submitted to the USGenWeb Census Project http://www.us-census.org/
Copyright (c) 2005 by Joan Harman
<Transcriber@US-Census.org>
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
The 1763 census counted each person in an Acadian household.
These Neutral French were deported by the British to the Colonies in 1755 .
L'humble Requete des habitants Neutres de L'acadie détenus dans la province de Maryland
Envoyé par vos très humbles Serviteurs les habitants Neutre de L’acadie
Ce 7 Juillet 1763
Etat des gens nutrals acadiens qui sont a Senouville
(note: underlined struck thru on repro - Joan)
A Snowville, En Maryland.
+ Alexandre melanson, osite melanson son epouse, jean melanson, magdeleine melanson, jacque melanson, joseph melanson, etienne melanson, paul melanson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
That brought my spirit back home today. I carry our blood in my veins, mes cousins Acadiens.
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