Mathieu Amiot (sometimes Amyot; c.1629 - 18 November 1688 at

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) Sieur of Villeneuve, was the son of Philippe Amiot and Anne Couvent. He had acquired a number of properties In 1649, Governor Louis d'Ailleboust granted him land in Trois-Rivières he acquired land through his marriage to Marie Miville daughter of Pierre Miville and Charlotte Maugis. He built his home on a portion of land at Sillery, Quebec, while maintaining a town residence. He also acquired an estate on Pointe Villeneuve, near Saint-Augustin-de-Portneuf, Quebec, which he enlarged in 1677 and 1685. On November 3, 1672, Jean Talon, the first

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, granted to him a fief and seigniory in another domain at Pointe-aux-Bouleaux. In 1667 he had been granted letters of nobility, but failed to register them prior to

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abolishing all titles the following year that had not yet been registered . Despite all his accomplishment and wealth in land he left his heirs more debts than one would have imagined. In 1703 the debts encumbering the estate still amounted to 700 ''livres'', and Marie Miville, who had sold the lands for 1,500 ''livres'', had died (September 1702), probably the victim of the distress due to a lawsuit by her son Charles, the eldest of her 15 children, had brought against her.

Issue

His marriage to Marie on 22 November 1650

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bore them many children and from them many descendants. # Charles Amiot dit Villeneuve (1651–1711) # Pierre Amiot dit Villeneuve (1653–1714) # Anne-Marie Amiot (1654–1737) # Marguerite Amiot (1656–1724) # Jean-Baptiste Amiot of Neuville (1658–1685) # Françoise Amiot (1660–1736) # Jean Amiot (1662–) # Catherine Ursula Amiot (1664–1715) # Daniel-Joseph Amiot (1665–1725) # Mathieu Amiot (1667–1684) # Philippe Amiot of the Erpinière (1669–1722) # Jeanne Amiot (1670–1749) # Étienne Amiot dit Villeneuve (1672–1730) # Marie Amiot (1673–1714) # Marie-Françoise Amiot (1676–1758) # Geneviève Amiot (1678–1678), Sieur of Neuville (1658–1685)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Amiot, Mathieu History of Quebec Quebec society New France 1600s 1688 deaths Year of birth uncertain