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lieutenant is believed that he may have come from some level of nobility in France and his family descended from a line of royal of municipal officials.
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Thomas Taschereau
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He arrived in New France in 1726 as a private secretary to the Intendant of New France, Claude-Thomas Dupuy. They returned briefly to France and then back to Canada in 1732. lieutenant was then that his most important contribution to the Taschereau family"s future took place, mainly establishing their seigneury of Sainte-Marie-de-la-Nouvelle-Beauce.
At his death, Taschereau"s seigneury was well established.
The youngest, Gabriel-Elzéar Taschereau, carried on the name and became the second seigneur of Sainte-Marie. One of Gabriel-Elzéar"s sisters, Marie-Anne-Louise Taschereau, joined the Ursuline order in Quebec and became superior of the convent.
