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Michel LeNeuf du Hrisson... was a provincial nobleman born in Caen, Normandy about
..Early adventurers 1601 who looked on the development of the fur trade in Canada as a profitable adventure. Caen of the early 17th
century was heavily populated with Huguenots... a class of wealthy and enterprising Protestant nobility. Many
..Percheron group
indicators point toward the LeNeuf and extended families as part of that group, although in their case they were not as
..Filles du roi prosperous as others they were still people with money and influence.
..Filles marier LeNeuf first arrived in Canada in 1627 when he was about 26 years old undoubtedly to understand what the
possibilities and problems would be in developing trade alliances with the Indians. He was in Canada at the same time
First nations people
as the Godefroy brothers, Thomas and Jean, who would were exploring the region and making alliances with the
Canadian Feudalism native people, learning their languages. Jean Godefroy would, in time, become LeNeuf's brother-in-law.
Carignan Regiment
Michel LeNeuf returned to France. Although his heart was never in colonization, he did return to Canada with his
Heroes of Riviere Ouelle In the meantime, the Company of New France, also known as The Company of 100 Associates, by the terms of its
charter, was obligated to bring out two to three hundred colonists a year and to settle 4000 people on the land by
Cameron~Camirand
1643. In 1634, the company began the practice of granting large tracts of virgin wilderness as seigneuries to
The Lizottes individuals on condition that the grantees bring out settlers and get the land cleared. During the next few years some
members of the French gentry, including Michel Leneuf, obtained large seigneurial grants along the river near
Acadia
Qubec. Source: The Canadian Frontier 1534-1760 by W. J. Eccles, published by the University of New Mexico Press, p. 37
In August 1644, Michel LeNeuf du Hrisson reserves a piece of land for himself in Trois-Rivires (translated) 'where
the mill stands and the oven to cook as much as needed, and all the land that can be taken care of with a cart that abuts
the property of the Esquire Godefroy on one side and the Trois-Rivires road on the other.' Source: Visages du vieux Trois-
In 1647, he signed the marriage contract of Antoine Desrosiers and Anne du Hrisson, his daughter.
On the census of 1666, Michel LeNeuf is listed as living in the Trois-Rivires area. At the time he was a judge and
overlord (seigneur). He was brother of Jacques LeNeuf de la Poterie, also an overlord. His sisters were Madeleine
married to Pouterel, and Marie married to Jean Godefroy de Linctot.
The identity of the mother of young Anne duHrisson was never known or whether Michel LeNeuf duHrisson was
ever married. It seems his records, even his death record, remain obscure.
Michel LeNeuf du Hrisson died before 10-26-1672 at Trois-Rivires, the date he was replaced in his post as judge.
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Anne du Hrisson and Antoine Desrosiers were married 11-24-1647 in Boujonnier, PQ. They would have 8 children of
which 5 were sons, one died as a child. Each of the surviving sons took a sobriquet or dit (also-known-as) name:
Michel is Desilets, Jean is LeFrenire, Antoine is DuTremble and Pierre is Dargis or Dargie as my family group spelled
it. I recall my grandmother reminding me that her name was Delia Dargie dit Desrosiers. After so many generations,
it was still a point of pride to be known as a Desrosiers.
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Pierre DESROSIERS dit DARGIE and Louise Thrse DUREAU, m. 11-7-1728 in Trois Rivires, PQ