Nicolas Dupont, sieur de Neuville

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• Location info: Picardie, France (birth), Paris, Isle de France, France (marriage), Notre-Dame-de-Québec (burial); a vécu à la Pointe-aux-Trembles (Neuville); a habité à Paris, rue St-Paul, en 1669.
• Pionnier de la Nouvelle-France. Arrive au Québec en 1652 avec sa mère et sa sœur.
• Seigneur de Neuville (Dombourg) et de la Cloutièrerie.
• Était un commerçant. Il a été Membre du Conseil souverain. Fut aussi garde des sceaux et marguiller.
• Contrat de mariage entre Nicolas Dupont et Jeanne Gaudais (date?) par notaire Jacques le Normand et Chuppin. Contrat de mariage est conservé au Châtelet de Paris.

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(1632-1716) DuPont de Neuville, Nicolas, a member of the Sovereign Council, keeper, born about 1632, son of Jean Dupont, receiver general of the salt cellar Vervins in Picardy, and Mary Gauci, buried April 26, 1716 in the church of Notre-Dame de Quebec. In 1652, Nicolas is probably in New France where he handles business. In 1665 he was warden of Notre-Dame de Quebec. Returned to France before 1668, he signed in Paris, March 18, 1669, his marriage contract with Joan Gaudi; their first child was baptized at Quebec 19 December 1669. Both son and three daughters were born of this marriage, no male offspring survived.

Louis Dupont ennobled by letters patent, April 30, 1669. On 13 January after he joined the Sovereign Council, and received his appointment to King's life April 26, 1675. 1 June 1703, he became an adviser-keeper. Nicolas Dupont Zacharie Cloutier bought the fief of La Clouterie (or La Cloutièrerie) in the lordship of Beauport, 20 December 1670. He surrendered in dowry to his daughter Frances Theresa, May 10, 1687, on the occasion of her marriage to François-Marie Renaud d'Avena Desméloïzes. It also acquired the manor which bore the names of Dombourg of Pointe-aux-Trembles de Neuville, abutting the west of Maur. It was bought by Jean-François Bourdon Dombourg, November 12, 1680, and it is magnified, April 27, 1683, by a grant from Le Febvre de La Barre and M. Meulles. This area also goes to the Renaud Avene Desméloïzes after the death of the grandfather. Nicolas Dupont was a personage of his time in sight. He has the confidence of Frontenac [Buade], but without being his creature. In August 1685, the intendant of Meulles, forced to spend the winter in Acadia, delegated his powers during his absence. In June 1704, Dupont contributed his money to a shipping company run by Jean Léger de la Grange against the English in Newfoundland. 5 October 1713, he gives the congregation of sisters a half an acre of land area "in order to serve a mission for the education of young girls in his lordship" Pointe-aux-Trembles. Quand he goes to the age of 84, Smith is the dean of the Higher Council. His wife had predeceased him, 16 September 1707. Françoise-Thérèse addition, combined with Desméloïzes already mentioned, another daughter, Marie-Maleleine, marries, she joins Paul Le Moyne Maricourt, October 29, 1691 in Quebec City. (Campeau, Lucien, "Dictionary biographioque Canada," Vol. 2).