Census of Sieur de La Roque 169 
     
    
   
   
    
     1 family: 11 persons; Pointe Prime, 13 families: 73 
     
     persons; Anse a Pinnet, 17 families: 110 persons; 
     
     Havre La Fortune, 6 families: 48 persons; Pointe de 
     
     VEst, 4 families: 22 persons; St. Pierre du Nord, 63 
     
     families: 353 persons; Tracadie, 8 families: 64 per- 
     
     sons; Etang des Berges, 2 families: 15 persons; 
     
     Macpec, 32 families: 201 persons; Bedec, 8 families: 
     
     42 persons; La Traverse, 5 families: 23 persons; 
     
     Riviére des Blonds, 5 families: 37 persons; Riviere 
     
     au Crapeau, 2 families: 12 persons; Anse du Nord- 
     
     Ouest, 3 families: 30 persons; and Anse aux Sang- 
     
     her, 2 families: 10 persons. 
     
    

    
     At Port La Joye the capital and the headquarters 
     
     of the garrison, the oldest settlers had been only 
     
     three years in the country, and most of them two 
     
     years or less. This shows conclusively that all the 
     
     original settlers had moved into the interior during 
     
     the English occupation, 1745-1748. At the same time 
     
     Three Rivers the site of Roma’s colony had not a 
     
     single inhabitant. 
     
    

    
     Of the total population, 151 stated that they had 
     
     come over in 1748-1749; 862 in 1750; 326 in 1751, 
     
     and 27 in 1752. During the same period, 1748-1752, 
     
     93 children were born to the old inhabitants and 114 
     
     to the new. If this total of 1573 be deducted from the 
     
     grand total of 2223, it leaves only 650 as the popula- 
     
     tion for 1748 when the island was reoccupied by the 
     
     French. This estimate must be approximately cor- 
     
     rect, for it is confirmed by both Franquet who gave 
     
     the number of ancient habitans as 648 and Desher- 
     
     biers who, in a letter to the Minister, November 5,