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Note: (From New Orleans Genesis Vol. XLV, July 2007 No. 179 page(203)
French colonist and fur trader who werved as governor of Acadia (Nova Scotia) under the French and the English. Hearing of the creation of the Company of New France, Charles De La Tour wrote in 1627 to King Louis XIII and to his minister, Cardinal Richelieu, telling them that Acadia was in danger, as England was making plans to seize the colony. Two years later , the Kirk Brothers, who were French Huguenots who had taken refuge in England where they became the most aggressive enemies of their native land, seized all the main ports of Acadia, including Port Royal, at about 200 kilometers from cape Sable. They were forwarded by William Alexander, the one who gave to Nova Scotia its name. This was taking place while Richelieu was answering the distress call from La Tour; but his convoy was intercepted by the Kirks. In 1631 the french King named de La Tour Lieutenant General and Governor of Acadia. The royal mind was not apparently sure, for the next year, Isaac de Razilly was named to the same post. Only de Razilly's death allowed de La Tour to remain. On January 15, 1635, Charles de Saint-Etienne de la tour was granted a large tract of land which included St. John harbor, and a bitter rivalry soon developed, with Charles D'Aulnay de Charnisay at Port Royal, for supreme authority in Acadia. The rivalry led to the recall of La Tour in 1641. D'Aulnay soon died and de la Tour married Jeanne Motin de Reux, the widow of his enemy d'Aulnay, as his third wife in February 1653 in Acadia. La Tour's marriage saved d'Aulnay's property from attack by Emmanuel Le Borgne, who had seized the estate to collect on the debts D'Aulnay had owed him. In 1654 Oliver Cromwell sent an English expedition to St. John harbor and called for de la Tour to surrender. The English took de la Tour prisoner and presented him harsh terms: English allegiance; and payment of the costs of the English garrison and Boston merchants (to whom he had to turn for supplies when d'Aulnay prevented the French court from sending shipments). De la Tour went into partnership with two Englishmen, William Crown and Thomas Temple, to raise the funds. In 1656 de la Tour sold his rights to his partners, and retired to his estates to live out the rest of his days. De La Tour's daugter Marie married Alexandre Le borgne, the son of that Emmanuel Le Borgne who had attacked the possessions of the widow d'Aulnay before she married De La Tour. Alexandre Le Borgne and his wife had a daughter Marie, who married Alexandre Girouard in 1694. It was their daughter Marie Girouard who married Jean Mouton in Jan 1711 in Acadia, Candad. This Jean Mouton (who was born in Marseilles, France) is the pioneer ancesto of the entire Mouton family so prominent in Lafayette, Louisiana today.
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