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resided at Port Royal and Mines, for the most part, and there were only four families of that name at Beausejour in 1752, two from Mines and two from Petitcodiac. Fourteen families of Melansons were deported from Mines by Winslow in 1755.

The Melansons are quite numerous in this modern Acadia; one of the name is a member of the legislature for the county of Westmorland There are 170 families of Melansons now residing in that county, and in the whole of New Brunswick 250 families, forty in Gloucester, thirty-three in Kent and a few in Northumberland and Restigouche. In Digby county there are 130 families named Melanson. Altogether there are upwards of 400 families in the Maritime Provinces, so that the name is in no danger of dying out or becoming less important than it is at present.

About the year 1816, just as the war with the United States was closing, there began that great emigration movement from the British Isles to the shores of America which during the next half century contributed so largely to the development of our, till then, sparsely peopled province of New Brunswick.

There was printed in Glasgow in the year 1824 a small pamphlet with a large title: "Travels in North America, particularly in the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and New Brunswick, and in the States of Maine, Massachusetts and New York; containing a variety of interesting adventures and disasters which the author encountered in his journey among the Americans, Dutch, French and Indians. Also several remarkable interpositions of Divine Providence in