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the youngest son, married Cecile Boudrot. Marie, the oldest daughter, married François du Pont du Vivier, an officer in the French navy. A son born of this union was an officer at Louisbourg, and made a bold attempt to capture Annapolis in 1744. Anne, the second daughter, married Ensign de Saillan on the 18th July, 1707, and became a widow on the 8th September of the same year, her husband having died of his wounds received while defending Port Royal against an English attack. Jeanne, another daughter, married M. de Chambon.

Marguerite Latour, who was born in 1665, married Abraham Mius, the second son of Philip. Abraham died prior to 1703, leaving a widow with seven children living. One daughter of this marriage, Marie Joseph, was married to René Landry in October, 1717. The d'Antremonts lived at Pubnico, near Cape Sable, and were therefore very far removed from the great and growing Acadian communities at Annapolis, Mines and Chignecto. They and their connexions, the Latour and le Borgne families, formed the aristocracy of Acadia, the seignieurs, who held themselves far above the peasants by whom they were surrounded. The English governors of Acadia looked upon the d'Antremonts as loyal subjects, and there is no evidence that they ever acted otherwise, unless we are to accept as true the statements in a memorial prepared for the French government by M. Du Vivier, in 1735. In this document Du Vivier states that his grandfather, his grandmother and three of his uncles had remained in Acadia, and had never been willing to take the oath of allegiance to the King of England, but had plotted with him for the restoration of the country with France. He also said that one Gautier, an inhabitant of Acadia, had been sent by his uncles to Louisbourg expressly to find him and communicate the particulars of their plot.