dec 14, 1739 - Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours

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Revolution, he, his two sons and their families immigrated to the United States.

His son Éleuthère Irénée du Pont was the founder of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. He was the patriarch and progenitor of one of the United States' most successful and wealthiest business dynasties of the 19th and 20th centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Samuel_du_Pont_de_Nemours

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