John Joseph James 'Pepe' Benson and Almereine 'Meme' Patenaude were my grandparents. Pepe was born in Ontario, and Meme in Quebec. They came to Vermont in the early 1920s, and had four children grow to maturity, who presented them with 19 grandchildren. This book was produced for a family reunion, and includes all of their descendants and their known ancestors to the 14th generation, predominantly from France, Ireland, and England. Among their ancestors were fille-a-marier, fille-du-roi and soldiers in the Carignan-Salieres Regiment who came to New France in the mid-1600s.