{{Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL}}{{Short description|Huguenot leader (1692–1764)}}'''Andrew Le Mercier''' (1692–1764) was a French-born Protestant Huguenot leader in Boston in the 18th century and author.
Le Mercier was born in Normandy, France in 1692,<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |url=http://www.westfield.ma.edu/mhj/pdfs/Huguenot%20Identity.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2019-09-19 |archive-date=2016-08-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804124502/http://www.westfield.ma.edu/mhj/pdfs/Huguenot%20Identity.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> completing clerical studies in Geneva at the then Geneva Academy in 1715 and arrived in Boston (then in the English colony of Province of Massachusetts Bay) in 1716 recruited by André Faneuil as pastor of the Boston French Church (now 24 School Street)<ref name="auto"/> and remained there until 1741 when the church closed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wsc.mass.edu/mhj/pdfs/Huguenot%20Identity.pdf |access-date=16 April 2023|website=mass.edu|title=Huguenot Identity}}</ref>
Le Mercier was a respected leader amongst the small Huguenot community that existed in New England for almost three decades.<ref name="auto"/>
==Personal== His son Andrew Le Mercier Jr would serve in the British colonial forces during the French and Indian War.<ref name="auto"/>
==Shipwreck Relief==
Sometime in 1737-1738 he built a house for the relief of shipwrecked mariners on Sable Island. There is belief that the Sable Island horses were introduced by him.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/edu/ViewLoitLo.do?method=preview&lang=EN&id=12223|title = Sable Island: Some of the First and Some of the Last Inhabitants}}</ref>
==Later years and death== Le Mercier retired after the closure of the Boston church to a farm in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and died there in 1764.
==Books== Le Mercier is credited to two books:<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mercier |first1=Andrew Le |isbn=978-1171106739|title=The church history of Geneva, in five books. As also a political and geographical account of that republick. By the Reverend, Mr. Andrew Le Mercier Pastor of the French church in Boston |date=24 June 2010 |publisher=BiblioBazaar }}</ref>
* "The Church History of Geneva, in Five Books, with a Political and Geographical Account of that Republic" (Boston, 1732) * "Treatise against Detraction" (1733)
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