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Port Royal for the King, as that of surrogate tutor of the minor children of the defunct Monsieur d'Aulnay." M. Jacques Bourgeois, who is described as LaVerdure's brother-in-law, was left with the English as a hostage for the fulfilment of the terms of the treaty. This brings us to the point that if La Verdure or Melanson was Scotch he must either have married a Frenchwoman, a sister of M. Bourgeois, or the latter must have married a Melanson, La Verdure's sister. The last mentioned supposition is the more probable if this wife returned to Boston after her husband's death. This theory is further supported by the consideration that Pierre Melanson, her oldest son, must have been born as early as 1632, and could not therefore have been born in Acadia, if the statement in regard to Mathieu Martin is correct. On the other hand, there is the difficulty that the Scotch colony was broken up in 1632. Perhaps it is not necessary to take the statement in regard to Mathieu Martin being the first white child born in Acadia too literally. He was probably the first child born of French parents in Acadia, for surely there must have been some children born in the Scotch colony during the three or four years of its existence.

The two other names, Paisley and Colson, mentioned by M. Richard as being Scotch, do not appear in the census of 1671 among the heads of families in Acadia. We have, however, in the census of 1671 Nicolle Colleson, the wife of Jean Gaudet, and she may have been a Scotch woman, and a member of a family left in Acadia after the departure of Sir Wm. Alexander's colony. Colson and Colleson are so nearly alike that the one might be easily mistaken for the other, and neither is French. Indeed names like Colson, Melanson and others terminating in "son" bear in themselves unmistakable evidences of their British or