La Tour Claude De
A Huguenot gentleman; came to Port Royal in 1610
with Poutrincourt; in 1614 had a trading-post on the Penobscot. Sailed
for France in 1627, and on his return the following year, with supplies
for the defence of Acadia, captured by Kirke and carried to England.
There married one of the queen's French maids of honour, and was
persuaded to throw in his lot with the English. Promised to win over his
son Charles (q.v.), but the latter scornfully refused to change his
allegiance. Afterwards built a fort at the mouth of the St. John, for
the French, to whom he had once more transferred his services. =Index=:
(Samuel de Champlain era) Captured by Kirke, 177. =Bib.=: Parkman, Old Regime; Hannay,
History of Acadia; Kirke, The First English Conquest of Canada.