Joseph MELANCON

(b. 9 December 1733 , Port Royal, Acadia d. 19 November 1803 , L'Isle-Verte, Lower Canada )

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Joseph MELANCON was born 9 December 1733 in Port Royal, Acadia

Joseph MELANCON was the child of Charles MELANSON and Anne GRANGER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Charles MELANSON and Anne Jeanne BOURG (maternal) Claude GRANGER and Jeanne GUILBAULT (GUILBEAU)

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Joseph married Marie COTE abt. 1766 in Québec Province, Canada . The couple had (at least) 3 children.
Marie COTE was born abt. 1741 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Marie died 1 June 1817 in Cacouna, Québec, Canada (Saint-Georges-de-Cacouna). Marie was the child of Nicolas CÔTÉ and Marie-Claude LEVASSEUR.

Joseph MELANCON died 19 November 1803 in L'Isle-Verte, Lower Canada .
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Joseph MELANCON married

Marie COTE-- Date: abt. 1766 Place: , Québec Province, Canada
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Marie COTE was the child of Nicolas CÔTÉ and Marie-Claude LEVASSEUR

Children of Joseph MELANCON and Marie COTE:

Jean MELANCON (b.abt. 1767, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )
m. Marguerite OUELLET 8 October 1798 in Saint-André, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (St-Andre)

Madeleine MELANCON (b.abt. 1769, , Québec Province, Canada d. 29 July 1837, L'Isle-Verte, Lower Canada )
m. Andre OUELLET 23 July 1804 in L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte)

Cecile MELANCON (b.abt. 1773, , Canada d. 26 November 1815, Cacouna, Lower Canada )
m. Joseph OUELLET 4 July 1800 in L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte)

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1733 Birth
9 December 1733
Port Royal, Acadia

1753 - The lightning rod is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

1763 - France cedes its North American posessions to Britain by the Treaty of Paris, ending the Seven Years War (French and Indian War). Quebec City French-speaking Catholics were now under the rule of Protestant Britain under King George III.

1775 - The Battle of Québec was fought on December 31 between the American Continental Army and British defenders of Québec City. It was the first major defeat for the Americans in the Revolutionary War.