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- The Le Sueur Family has been well established in Normandy, France, for over seven centuries, and are well known in the cities of Paris, Dieppe and Rouen, and for four centuries were among the largest manufacturers of cloth in the latter city, where the business is conducted by their descendants. They were also well known in the liberal arts. Eustace Le Sueur the celebrated painter, born in Paris in 1617, and Jean F. Le Sueur, the composer of music born in Abbeville in 1763 were respectively brother and nephew of Francois Le Sueur, the Lozier ancestor who was born in Dieppe in 1625, and by profession was a civil engineer and surveyor, his name taking such forms with his descendants as Leseur, Lesier, Lazier and Lozier. He came from Dieppe to New Amsterdam in April, 1657, and was attended by his sister Jeanne, neither being married, but in 1659 Francois married Jannetie daughter of Hildebrandt Pietersen of Amsterdam, Holland. New Amsterdam was not to be the permanent home of Francois Le Sueur, he with about twenty others, mostly heads of families and freeholders, desiring to continue the language and customs of their mother country applied to the Director General and Council of New Netherlands for permission to purchase a tract of land adjoining the Great Kill or Harlem river. The number of applicants for the land being sufficient for a beginning, the Council granted their request. Ground was broken for the new settlement August 14, 1658, and it was named New Harlem by request of the Dutch Governor, Peter Stuyvesant.
In 1663 Francois, with several others, becoming dissatisfied, owing to the heavy taxation levied by the Dutch authorities, sold their property, and in the fall of that year went up the Hudson River to Esopus (now known as Kingston), but in the spring of 1669, Francois returned to New Harlem, now known as Harlem, a portion of the city of Greater New York.
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1625 - 1671 (46 ans)
