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Maritime Provinces, two families who reside in the county of Restigouche being all of that name that I have been able to discover. The Corperons were probably never numerous in Acadia. Jehan Corperon aged twenty-five appears in the census of 1671. He was married to Françoise Scavoye, and had one child, a girl of six weeks. In 1686 he was still living at Port Royal, but some of the family were at Mines. In 1730 François Corperon, a resident of the Annapolis River, signed the oath of allegiance by his mark. There was no Corperon at Mines when the Acadians were deported by Winslow in 1755, but one family of that name who had fled from Mines were at Beausejour in 1752. The Corperons of Restigouche may be descendants of this family.

Doucet is a name now very widely diffused in the Martime Provinces, there being about five hundred families who bear that name in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Of these, 170 families are in Gloucester, 120 in Yarmouth county, 100 in Digby and 60 in Inverness. There are a few families of the name, 45 in all, in Kent, Northumberland, Restigouche, Madawaska and Westmorland. All these people are undoubtedly descended from Pierre and Germain Doucet, whose names appear in the census of 1671. Pierre Doucet was 50 years old when that census was taken, and in 1687 he was one of the "ancient inhabitants" of Port Royal who certified with regard to the work done by Charnisay in the settlement of Acadia. He signed this document with his mark, so that he was an uneducated man. He was married to Henriette Peltret and they had five children, three boys and two girls, the oldst son, Toussant, being only eight years old. Doucet's trade was that of a mason. Germain Doucet was 30 years old and he was married to Marie Landry, by whom he had three sons, the oldest six years of age.