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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 amoung the largest manufactures of cloth in the latter city, where the business is conducted by their descendants.
Eustace Le Sueur brother of Francois born in Paris in 1617 was a celebrated painter. Jean F. Le Sueur nephew of Francois born in Abbeville in 1763 was a composer of music.
Francois Le Sueur came from Dieppe to New Amsterdam in April 1657.
Francois Le Sueur was a explorer of the Upper Mississipi, a civil engineer and surveyor. He came to America with his sister, Jeanne in 1657. They came to New Amsterdam (NYC), lived in Flatbush, Long Island; then moved to New Harlem in 1661. He had just completed the engineering work for the town site of Harlem at that time . Early in 1663 he left Harlem because of excessive taxation, going to Esopus, NY. Francois served as a soldier in the Esopus Indian War . Because of failing health, he returned to New Harlem with his famil y about 1670. He died the next year at New Harlem.
Francois Le Sueur died when Nicholas Lozier was about three years old . Nicholas was raised by his Dutch mother and her relatives who imparted Dutch customs to him. When Nicholas married, he moved from Harlem to Hackensack, NJ to farm. He purchased the farm from agents of King George of England. It remained in the Lozier family until 1930. It is shown on the Erskine maps used by Gen. Geo. Washington as "Lurziers" house and "Lurziers Hill"
from "Lozier Descendants of Francois Le Sueur" by Theodore Woodruff Lozier retired in Arkansas LDS Film 1321074
Footnote: Descendants of Francois Le Sueur LDS Film 1321074 Copies in Library of Congress, Allen County Library, and Bergen Co. Hist. Soc. Congress, Allen County Library, and Bergen Co. Hist. Soc.
BIRTH: Also shown as Born Normandy, France.
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1625 - 1671 (46 years)