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5.1 Jusqu'en 1665 : concessions by the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France. 5.2 1665 to 1672 : ... List of Seigneuries of New France by order of the first concession.
A typical layout for a feudal manor in New France [1]. The manorial system of New France, known as the seigneurial system (French: Régime seigneurial, pronounced [ʁeʒim sɛɲœʁjal]), was the semi-feudal system of land tenure used in the North American French colonial empire. [1]
Paul-Joseph Le Moyne de Longueuil (September 17, 1701 – May 12, 1778) was a seigneur and colonial army officer in New France and governor of Trois-Rivières from 1757 to 1760. [ 1 ] The son of Charles le Moyne de Longueuil, Baron de Longueuil and Claude-Élisabeth Souart d’Adoucourt, he was born in Longueuil and entered the army in France ...
New France (14 C, 156 P) S. Saint Barthélemy (16 C, 2 P) Saint-Domingue (4 C, 10 P) ... List of Seigneuries of New France; Slavery in the British and French Caribbean;
On 15 January 1634, Giffard was granted one of New France's the first seigneuries and he returned to the colony accompanied by his wife and two children. The colony - with Samuel de Champlain still as Governor - was continuing to experience a lack of immigration.
The seigneur owned a seigneurie, seigneury, or lordship—a form of title or land tenure—as a fief, with its associated obligations and rights over person and property. [1] In this sense, a seigneur could be an individual—male or female, high or low-born—or a collective entity, typically a religious community such as a monastery ...
In 1764, he purchased six seigneuries from noble French Canadian families returning to France after the Conquest. The first was the seigneury of L’Islet-du-Portage, from Paul-Joseph Le Moyne de Longueuil (son of Charles le Moyne de Longueuil, Baron de Longueuil), but he sold it in 1777 preferring land closer to Montreal.
D. Père Dagobert; Mathieu Damours; Charlotte Daneau de Muy; Jacques David (court clerk) Jean Bouillet de la Chassaigne; Jacques de Noyon; Louis-Césaire Dagneau Douville de Quindre