Claude (Nicolas?) Turgis de Saint-Étienne de la Tour

The family of Claude TURGIS dit SAINT-ÉTIENNE and Marie de SALAZAR

[85396] TURGIS dit SAINT-ÉTIENNE, Claude (Guyon TURGIS & Marie CONDOT ou CONDOR [115538]), sieur de La Tour

• married about 1592, from .. (France)

SALAZAR (de), Marie (Hector & Antoinette de COURCELLES [129123])

     1) Charles Amador, administrator of Acadie (1623-1632), governor of Acadie (1636-1641, 1651-1654) (administrateur de l'Acadie (1623-1632), gouverneur de l'Acadie (1636-1641, 1651-1654)), born about 1593, married about 1625 .., married Fort Saint-Louis (Acadie) 1640 Françoise Marie JACQUELIN, married Rivière Saint-Jean (Acadie) 1652 Jeanne MOTIN

2) Louise, married about 1625 Charles SIMONY
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There was one of these Acadian families, about who PROTESTANT ANTECEDENTS there can be no question, and which was destined to take a prominent part in the history of the colony. Its founder was Claude de St. Elienne, sieur de la Tour. He is said to have been allied to the NOBLE HOUSE OF BOUILLON. About the year 1609 he came a widower, with his son Charles, then a boy of fourteen (14), to Port Royal, for purposes of trade, having lost the greater part of his estates in the WARS OF RELIGION. When that settlement was broken up, in 1613. La Tour removed to the coast of MAINE, and built a fort and trading house at the mouth of the PENOBSCOT RIVER, which was claimed by the FRENCH as within the limits of ACADIA. Here he continued for a number of years, until finally dispossessed by the ENGLISH OF PLYMOUTH.

Meanwhile, Charles de la Tour, now a bold and active youth, had formed a close friendship with young Biencourt, the son of Poutrincourt, the proprietor of PORT ROYAL. Biencourt had remained in ACADIA after the destruction of the settlement, at first seeking a home among the INDIANS, and then engaging, with a few companions, in the attempt to rebuild the trading post whose beginnings had been so unfortunate. The two friends, nearly of the same age, became inseparable; and when in the year 1623, Biencourt died, he appointed Charles his successor in the government of the colony, bequeathing to him all his rights in PORT ROYAL.