Jacques Leneuf de La Poterie

Jacques Leneuf de La Poterie (November 7, 1604, in Caen, Normandy - died some time after November 4, 1687, in Canada)[1] was a fur merchant, businessman, seigneur, and co-founder and director of the Communauté des habitants, in the colony of Canada. He arrived in the colony in 1636 with the rest of his family, which included his elder brother Michel Leneuf, and together they, alongside their in-laws the Legardeurs, were the first of the French nobility to permanently settle in New France.[2]

He married Marguerite, the sister of Pierre Legardeur de Repentigny, while in France, and they were the parents of several children, including the future Governor of Acadia, Michel Leneuf de La Vallière et de Beaubassin.[2]

  1. ^ Jette, Rene; Gagne, Roland-Yves; Patrick, John P.; LePortier, Paul (October 2002). "The Leneuf Family: State of Knowledge part I of III". Michigan's Habitant Heritage. 23 (4): 152.
  2. ^ a b Lamontagne, Léopold (1979) [1966]. "Jacques Leneuf de La Poterie". In Brown, George Williams (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. I (1000–1700) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.