Alexandre
LENEUF
(b.
22 June 1666
,
Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
d.
September 1712
,
At Sea*
)
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Alexandre LENEUF was born 22 June 1666 in Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
Alexandre LENEUF was the child of Michel LENEUF and Marie-Marguerite DENIS (DENYS) and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jacques LENEUF DE LAPOTERIE and Marguerite LEGARDEUR dite REPENTIGNYAlexandre LENEUF died September 1712 in At Sea*.
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Alexandre LENEUF was a naval captain, knight of the order of Saint-Louis.
Alexandre LENEUF was a naval captain, knight of the order of Saint-Louis.
Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changesFrom its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.
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1666 Birth 22 June 1666
Trois-Rivières, Canada, New France
Biography
LENEUF DE LA VALLIÈRE DE BEAUBASSIN, ALEXANDRE, naval captain, knight of the order of Saint-Louis; b. 22 June 1666 and baptized 2 Feb. 1667 at Trois-Rivières, eldest son of Michel Leneuf de La Vallière de Beaubassin, governor of Acadia, and of Marie, daughter of Nicolas Denys*; d. 1712.
Like his father, he was a good sailor and became a daring sea-captain. In May 1685, in his father’s name, he arrested Bergier Des Ormeaux on Île Royale (Cape Breton Island) and seized his pelts; the latter was the son of Clerbaud Bergier*, the director of the Compagnie des Pêches sédentaire de l’Acadie.
Leneuf became a sub-lieutenant in 1690. In May 1691, on Buade* de Frontenac’s orders, he went by boat from Quebec to Beaubassin to take gifts to the Indians. This mission seems to have been criticized by the king in a memorandum of April 1693 addressed jointly to the governor and the intendant; the king accused the person responsible for distributing the gifts to the Indians in this region of...Read MORE...
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003
LENEUF DE LA VALLIÈRE DE BEAUBASSIN, ALEXANDRE, naval captain, knight of the order of Saint-Louis; b. 22 June 1666 and baptized 2 Feb. 1667 at Trois-Rivières, eldest son of Michel Leneuf de La Vallière de Beaubassin, governor of Acadia, and of Marie, daughter of Nicolas Denys*; d. 1712.
Like his father, he was a good sailor and became a daring sea-captain. In May 1685, in his father’s name, he arrested Bergier Des Ormeaux on Île Royale (Cape Breton Island) and seized his pelts; the latter was the son of Clerbaud Bergier*, the director of the Compagnie des Pêches sédentaire de l’Acadie.
Leneuf became a sub-lieutenant in 1690. In May 1691, on Buade* de Frontenac’s orders, he went by boat from Quebec to Beaubassin to take gifts to the Indians. This mission seems to have been criticized by the king in a memorandum of April 1693 addressed jointly to the governor and the intendant; the king accused the person responsible for distributing the gifts to the Indians in this region of...Read MORE...
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003
1712 Death September 1712
At Sea*
He died at the age of 46.
Added: 9/29/2015 10:12:23 AM
- Updated: 4/21/2016 4:42:46 PM
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