Three Generations of Women
The Sauvageau Family
In the early days of New France, three generations of women became early pioneers.  The eldest, Anne Dupuis, was the wife of Jean Sauvageau, a barrister and Chief Prosecutor, employed with the Company of 100 Associates.  Anne was from a Hugenot family, born about 1590 in Vecut La Rochelle. 

Their daughter Jeanne was born about 1614, also in Vecut, and married Guillaume Benassis on July 9, 1634; in Marennes, Saintonge, France.  They had a daughter Madeleine who was also born in France, but settled at Trois Rivieres.  She married Etienne Seigneuret on November 13, 1647, and they had a daughter Marguerite who would marry Louis Godefroy.

The family was not poor, but came from the wealthy Bourgeois class; many of whom had a vested interest in the affairs of the French Colony.   When Jeanne's husband died in 1652, she married Elie Borbeau, Sieur de Villeneuve; which tied her to another family of early settlers, at the Jesuit community;
the Amyots.

Anne Dupuis died March 11, 1686 at Trois Rivieres; Jeanne on March 28, 1704 and Madeleine on December 3, 1716.  
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