Arafed man in a black vest and hat standing on a path

1800s person portrait of Earl Christophe Saintmont Long-standing patriarch of the venerable Saintmont family dynasty that has governed the fertile rolling plain and Lake Huron shoreline domain known as St. Clair County for over 80 years now Their ancestoral lineage traces back to early Quebec Marine armada officers who helped secure New France sovereignty in the frontier lands along the northern shores of the Great Lakes waterway passage Successive Earls Saintmont have commanded the Forte'detroit fortress presidio boasting thick limestone curtain walls and a strategic location along fertile embayment marshes teeming with waterfowl, quality timber oak stands destined for Detroit stockyard cobblestone paving material and merchant barquentine masts contract shipment distributed through Erie Canal transport access reaching as far eastern seaboard export clients as New York and Boston Earl Christophe maintains notoriously tedious record logs tracking all St. Clair County agricultural yields, cattle brandings, freight wagon tribute tolls, permitting petitions from cloistered order clergy enclaves and fur trappers ambitious river dam concepts likely to impact drain tributary creek downstream fish spawn gravel bed ecology