When the system of Militia Captaine was established, François Bélanger was designated to hold this office in the Seigniory of Beaupré. In 1677, in order to recognize the service given to his country, Mr. de Frontenac and Mr. Duchesneau, governor and steward of New France respectively, gave to François Bélanger, Militia Captain of the Beaupré coast, with title to fief and seigniory, the land a long the St. Lawrence river, on the south side between that land owned b;y Miss Geneviève Couillard and moving up this river to land of Miss Amiot, widow, containing about a league and a half by two leagues in depth. This land became known as the seigniory or domain Bélanger or Bonsecours, which forms actually a part of the parish of L'Islet.

Your ancestor was sixty-four years old. All his daughters, except one, have already married. Two sons were still living with him and they left home shortly thereafter. The first, Louis, to inhabite land where the actual church of L'Islet is at present; the second son to prepare a small domain more to the west. In 1681, the census tells us that the Lord of Bonsecours, François Bélanger had four servants: Jean de Lavoye, Barthélémy Gobeil, Pierre ...