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Interesting. There was a Nutter family next door to my folks out by Leader, Minnesota, in the 1950s. I wonder if you are related.
There were a couple of branches to the Lavallée family in this country.
One group descended from Pierre Lavallée and Madeleine Dumesnil. Their two sons, Pierre and Jean Lavallée, were in Canada in 1659.
Another group descended from Jean Petit dit Lavallée (Petit Jean = "Little John"), whose paternity is in some doubt. Many believe that he was the son of Geoffroy Guillot dit Lavallée and Marie d'Abancourt.
Jean was a member of the Company of St Ours in the Carignan Regiment - a soldier defending the citizens of New France. His wife came to the new world as one of the "King's Daughters". The history of both of these groups is great reading.
There are several other lines of the family, including families in Spain and Ireland, but I get tired writing them all down.
One of the families mixed with this line is the Baillargeon family. A young girl in this family was captured by the Iroquois Indians on a raid. Her name was Anne Baillargeon. She found the Indian way of life so appealing, that when the French came to take her back to civilization, she hid from them in the woods. She was later sent to school with the Ursulines of Quebec.
My part of the Lavallée family was mostly farmers, but some members took part in trading with the Indians. They loved the trails and forests around the Great Lakes. You will find many of my cousins in Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
One descendant of the family was responsible for the settling of the town of Bourbonnais in Kankakee County, Illinois. His name is Noël LeVasseur. His story is also quite fascinating.
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