Guillaume Jeanson (sometimes William Johnson, Gilliom Shanson or Guillaume Jeançonne) (August 1721 – after 1777) was an

Acadia Acadia (french: link=no, Acadie) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the The Maritimes, Maritime provinces, the Gaspé Peninsula and Maine to the Kennebec River. During much of the 17t ...

n soldier and settler. Following the

expulsion of the Acadians The Expulsion of the Acadians, also known as the Great Upheaval, the Great Expulsion, the Great Deportation, and the Deportation of the Acadians (french: Le Grand Dérangement or ), was the forced removal, by the British, of the Acadian peo ...

Jeanson stayed in Acadia and led a group of Acadian irregulars harrying the British. By 1762 he and his family were prisoners of the British, but they were released the next year after the conclusion of the

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. Following his release he took an oath of allegiance to the British crown and was granted a parcel of land in what is now Grosses Coques.

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