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Granger signed the oath of allegiance in 1730. This Pierre may have been the son, nine months old, who is named in the census of 1671. Rene Granger and Joseph Granger were two of the representative inhabitants of Mines who in 1744 refused to furnish the French commander Du Vivier, with supplies. He was then preparing to attack Annapolis. There were twenty families of the name of Granger deported by Winslow from Mines in 1755. Among the refugees at Beausejour in 1752, were two families of the name of Granger, who had been residents of Au Lac. The name does not now exist in the Maritime Provinces, so apparently this "first family" has become extinct.

The Héberts are undoubtedly one of our first families, and they have not become extinct, for there are about one hundred and fifty families of that name in the Maritime Provinces. Of these, forty are in Gloucester, forty-five in Kent, thirty in Madawaska, and thirty in Westmorland. The census of 1671 contains the names of two families named Hébert, that of Antoine Hébert, cooper, and that of the widow of Stephen Hébert. The latter was 38 years old and she had ten children, the oldest a daughter of 20, and the youngest a son one year old. This daughter was the wife of Michel de Foret and had three children, the oldest a boy of tour, so that she must have been married when she was 15 years old. The widow Hébert had one other daughter of marriageable age, Margaret, who was 19, two daughters who were children, and six sons, the oldest, Emmanuel, aged 18. The widow was rich in children, but poor in the world's goods, for she had but four head of horned cattle and five sheep, and she tilled three arpents of land. Antoine Hébert had but three children, but he was rich for an Acadian; having no less than 18 head of horned cattle. His children were Jean, aged 22; Jean, aged