Joseph Beauchamp was a farmer and political figure in Lower Canada

Lower Canada

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. He represented Surrey in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada

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 from 1809 to 1810.

He was born in Lachenaie

Lachenaie, Quebec

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, the son of Joseph Beauchamp and Marie Martel. Beauchamp operated a farm at Varennes

Varennes, Quebec

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. He served as a lieutenant in the militia, later reaching the rank of captain. Beauchamp was married twice: first to Marie Girard in 1761 and then, in 1822, to Marie-Anne-Julie Rocbert de La Morandière, the widow of Joseph Crevier Duvernay, who was the mother of Ludger Duvernay

Ludger Duvernay

Ludger Duvernay was born in Verchères, Quebec, Canada.He was a printer by profession and published a number of newspapers including the Gazette des Trois-Rivières, the first newspaper in Lower Canada outside of Quebec City and Montreal, and also La Minerve, which supported the Parti patriote and...

. He did not run for reelection to the assembly in 1810. Beauchamp died in Varennes at the age of 86.