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a clearing on it of five arpents in extent where they have sown seven bushels of wheat and eight bushels of oats.

Or again:

Jean Fraiquingout, ploughman, native of Plouanne, bishopric of Saint Malo, aged 37 years, he has been in the country two years. Married to Anne Lejeune, native of Acadie aged 35 years.

They have one son and two daughters:

Joseph, aged 7 years; Véronique, aged 5 years; Anne Marie, aged 6 months.

In live stock they have one pig, ee lost all besides

during the past winter.

There is no doubt that this couple also lost an intervening child owing to their migration, while their poverty reveals at a glance the hardship of leav- ing the rich valleys of Acadia to cut a new home out of the thickly wooded upland.

But the case of the widow compelled to seek a new home under such conditions is still more deserving of pity ‘as the following passage reveals:

Marie Boudrot, widow of Pierre Richard, very poor, native of l’Acadie, aged 36 years, has been in the coun- try two years.

She has six children, five sons and one daughter:

Pierre Richard, aged 19 years; Paul, aged 17 years;

Joseph, aged 18 years; Honoré, aged 10 years;