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Hébert was a deputy from Cobequid in 1750. Charles Hébert was one of those who were accused of joining with the Indians and attacking Capt. Handfield's fort at Piziquid the same year. Joseph Hébert was a deputy of Piziquid. There were no less than thirty-nine families named Hébert deported from Acadia by Winslow in 1755. Among the refugees at Beausejour in 1752 were 29 families named Hébert of whom 13 were from Mines, two from Piziquid and the others from the Chignecto settlement. When the Loyalists came to St. John in 1783 there were four families of Héberts numbering 20 persons residing on the St. John River. The names of these Héberts were Jean, Joseph, Francois and Pierre. The first three had been residing on the river for 14 years, and the last named ten years. Where those Héberts originally came from is not known. The thirty families of the name who reside in Madawaska County, are doubtless their descendants.

Among the names in the census of 1671 is that of Roger Kuessy, aged 25, whose wife was Marie Poirié, and who had one little girl, Marie, who was two years old. The name of Roger Kuessy or Quessy appears in the census of 1686 as an inhabitant of Chigecto, his wife was still living, little Marie had grown to be a young woman of 16 and the number of his children had increased to five, the other four being boys. Quessy had increased in worldly wealth also, for the number of his horned cattle had risen from three to sixteen, and he had eight acres of land under tillage. But the most interesting feature in connection with Quessy's name in this later census is the statement that he was Irish. I cannot help thinking that Roger Quessy was the Roger John Baptist Carty mentioned in the book published in London in 1738 from which I have already quoted. Probably Quessy's real name was Casey, the name as