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They would have come themselves if they had not been afraid of being suspected, and because they wished to he on the spot to disturb and hinder the work of the English by means of the Indians. To what extent Du Vivier's statements about his uncles, the d'Antremonts, were true, I shall not pretend to decide. Du Vivier made his attempt on Annapolis nine years later; it failed, but it came very near being successful. On that occasion it does not appear that the d'Antremonts took any active part in his favor.

The d'Antremonts did not escape the troubles that arose in 1755 and 1756, when the Acadians were deported from Nova Scotia, and their settlement was destroyed in April of the latter year by order of Governor Laurence. At this distance of time this looks like a cruel and unnecessary act. The family, however, still remains in Nova Scotia, and in the same district in which they were residing two hundred and fifty years ago. There are about one hundred and fifty families of the name, which is now spelled D'Entremont, in Yarmouth county, most of them at Pubnico. Three or four families of the name live in Digby county. At Pubnico there are many families named Amiro, another ancient Acadian name for Jacques d'Entremont, the oldest son of the Seignieur of Pubnico, was married to Marguerite Amiro, almost two hundred years ago.

The name of Mius is also to be found in Yarmouth county, there being a number of families of that name residing at Tuscet. Mius and d'Entremont are the same name, in fact Mius is the proper name of the d'Entremont family, just as Saint Estienne is the proper name of the Latour family. The founder of the family is described in the census of 1671 as Philip Mius, ecuyer, Sieur de Landremont ou de Dantremont, and in the census of 1686 he is called Philip Mius, Sieur D'Antremont.