When he died in 1806, Jean Balthazar Martin bequeaths his house and his farm to his son, Jean-Baptiste. He will live with his family in Ste-Anne, Fredericton around 1768. Finally, he married Marie- Anne Levasseur in 1773 in Kamouraska.īalthazar was a messenger for the Parr of Halifax and Haldimand from Québec. He first got married to Rosalie Thibodeau in 1761 in Port- Royal, and then married to Hélène Godin in 1767 in Sainte-Famille, île d’Orléans, Quebec. Jean- Balthazar, dit Jean Barnabé Martin, farmer borned in 1736 in Port-Royal, built this house.
However, they adopted a few technologies such as mocassins and showshoes. This means the St-John River Acadians were in touch with amerindians, without adopting their life style. A few rules had to be respected, among them, not to cut the hay in the marsh during duck hunting. The Acadians do not ruin the amerindians hunting territories and often acadian villages are settled near his amerindians' camps. The mission was established by abbot Charles-François Bailly and Micmas and surrounding Acadians are part of this mission.Ĭoncerning the relation between Acadians and amerindians, they each won their trusts. Despite their numerous requests, they often only get fishing permits or temporary occupation.Īs for religion, a catholic mission is established as soon as 1768 in Ecoupag on the St-John River. They settled at the St-John River in 1760, but a lot of them had to move to leave the place to the Loyalists in the 1780 years.ĭuring that period, one of the worries of the Acadians, was to get rights for their land, that is land concessions. Access to the sea or a watercourse becomes the common factor for all these people. They will then settled in territories that offer them minimum security. More a shelter than a house, this structure doesn't have any partitions walls and there's only a few windows.Īfter the signature of the Paris treaty in 1763, the Acadians obtained the right to return in the Nova Scotia colony in the condition they don't gather together. This house testifies the precarious situation of the Acadians after the expulsion.
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