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Peter Archambo I (1699–1759), in his time Peter Archambo, was a Huguenot silver- and goldsmith. He was the English-born son of the Huguenot refugee Archambault family from France. In 1710 he was apprenticed to the notable Huguenot goldsmith Jacob Margas (1677 – c. 1750). [1]
Jean Hasbrouck House (1721) on Huguenot Street in New Paltz, New York. Huguenot immigrants settled throughout pre-colonial America, including in New Amsterdam (New York City), some 21 miles north of New York in a town which they named New Rochelle, and some further upstate in New Paltz.
The paper was founded by a Huguenot family, the de la Fonts, and passed into the hands of another Huguenot family, the Luzacs, in 1738. [3] [13] Sources vary on the exact date it was founded, suggesting 1660, [6] 1667 [5] [13] 1669 [1] or 1680; [2] they all agree the publication continued to 1798 (or 1811 under a different name).
Louis Du Bois (21 October 1626 – 1696) was a Huguenot colonist in New Netherland who, with two of his sons and nine other refugees, founded the town of New Paltz, New York. These Protestant refugees fled Catholic persecution in France, emigrating to the Rhenish Palatinate (in present-day Germany) and then to New Netherland, where they settled ...
The influx of Huguenot refugees to New York City, following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, soon made it clear that the projected settlement must be expanded to accommodate many other Huguenots and requiring much more land than was available on the narrow limits of the neck, so a contract to purchase six thousand acres, including the ...
Louis Dubois (1626–1696), colonist to New Netherland, co-founded New Paltz, New York, ancestor of Hollywood actors Marlon Brando and Joan Crawford, from Artois. [ 680 ] Pierre Du Gua, Sieur de Monts (1558–1628), French colonizer of Canada .
The first believed interaction between colonists and the Esopus people was recorded in 1609. Historian Herbert C. Kraft believes some Esopus joined with some Wappinger people after Kieft's War in 1643. [4] In 1652, the Esopus tribe sold 72 acres of land to European colonists through the Thomas Chambers land deed in Kingston, New York. It is ...
Manakin Huguenot Church Built in 1700 by French Huguenots, Protestant refugees. Burned down in the Revolutionary War, it was later rebuilt with parts of the original building. It is in what is called the Carpenter Gothic style. Abraham Salle was first in New York in 1700, when he petitioned for privileges of citizenship of the governor and ...