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Philip Mius, Sieur de Dantremont, was residing at Pobomcom (Pubnico) near the Tusket Isles, when the census of 1671 was taken. He was then 62 years old; his wife was Madeline Elie, and he had three sons, Jacques, Abraham and Philip, and two daughters. One daughter, Marie, then 21 years old, was married to Pierre Melanson, tailor, one of the residents of Port Royal who refused to give the census taker any information about himself or his family. Philip d'Antremont was said to be a native of Normandy, and he appears to have come to Acadia with Charles Latour, for whom he was major. His age appears to have been incorrectly stated in the census of 1671, for des Goutins writing in December, 1707, speaks of his having died seven years before aged ninety-nine years and some months. For eight years he was procureur du roi in Acadia, until his advanced age rendered him incapable of performing the duties of his office. The close relationship of the D'Antremonts to the Latour family renders them an object of greater interest than any other family in Acadia. Two of the sons of Philip Mius married daughters of Charles Latour. These marriages took place long after Latour's death, for he died in 1666, when his children by his second wife, Madame d'Aulnay, were very young.

Anne Latour, who was born in 1664, two years before her father's death, married Jacques, the eldest son of Philip Mius. They had four sons and five daughters, all of whom married in Acadia. Jacques, the eldest son, married Marguerite Amirant; Philip, the second son, married Therese de St. Castine; Charles, the third son, married Marguerite Landry, and Joseph,