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mother had retired to Boston where she was then living, aged 90 years. M. Richard, author of a recently published book on Acadia and its people, speaks of three families of Scotch origin, the Colsons, Paisleys and Melansons. Other authorities mention the families of Martin and Vincent as being of Scotch origin. A book published in London in 1758, which is quoted by Murdoch, states that the Carty family in Acadia are descended from Roger John Baptist Carty, an Irish Catholic; and that Peters, an iron smith, from England, and Granger, also an Englishman, both married in Acadia and became naturalized Frenchmen. We will look more particularly at these statements later.

The colonists who were brought out by de Razilly and settled at La Have seem to have arrived in 1635, perhaps a year earlier. They were certainly not in Acadia as early as the break up of the Scotch colony, so that any of the latter who remained in Acadia must have lived for a time among the persons who formed the military portion of de Razilly's expedition. That, however, is a minor matter; the question is, who were the Scotch colonists, if any, who remained in Acadia? The first name on the census list which attracts attention is that of Pierre Martin, aged 70. Martin is undoubtedly a Scotch name, and the Martin family is almost the only one that would answer the description of Cadillac which we have already quoted. Moreover, Mathieu Martin, whose name appears in the census of 1671, and who was then 35 years old, is stated to have been the first white person born in Acadia. He was probably born in 1635, so that we have a date to start with which fixes the year of the establishment of the La Have settlement and gives the name of at least one first family, the Martins. We could easily assume that this was the family that Cadillac refers to as being Scotch, were it not for the fact that Catherine Vigneau,