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sentences unless where it was necessary to the safety and peace of families, and to discourage appeals to Quebec as ruinous to suitors. Boudrot must have been married about the year 1640, or within four years of the arrival of the first colonists, and he was a contemporary both of d'Aulnay and LaTour.

When the census of 1686 was taken, Michael Boudrot was still residing at Port Royal, but only two of his children were then with him. There were Michelle, a daughter aged 26, and François aged 20. His son Jean, who had married Margaret Bourgeois, had removed to Chignecto and had died there leaving one daughter Marie, who was nine years old when the census of 1686 was taken. Marie, the third daughter, was also a resident of Chignecto, having become the wife of Michael Poirier in 1673. Other members of his family had taken up their abode at Mines, which soon became the most prosperous of the Acadian settlements. In 1730, when Governor Phillips induced the Acadians to sign an oath of allegiance, three persons of the name of Boudrot, who were residing at Annapolis, subscribed their names to that document. These were François, Michael and Charles. At that time, however, most of the Acadians bearing the name of Boudrot were at Mines, although a few had gone to other parts of Acadia. In 1752, among the Acadians gathered under the protection of Beausejour, were six families of that name, of whom two had been residents of Cobequid, two of LaButte, one of Mines and one of Napan. In 1755, when the Acadians of Mines were deported by Winslow, there were 25 families named Boudrot among the exiles, some of whom were wealthy. Joseph Broudrot, for instance, was the owner of 34 horned cattle, 70 sheep, 18 hogs and two horses. Pierre Boudrot had 27 horned cattle, 55 sheep, 13 hogs and three horses. Several other members of the Boudrot